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Suffer the children

Title:

Suffer the children

Author:

Black, Lisa, 1963- author.

ISBN:

9781496713575

Edition:

1st Kensington hardcover ed.

Physical Description:

304 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.

Series:

Gardiner and Renner thriller ;

Personal Subject:

Gardiner, Maggie (Fictitious character)-Fiction.

Renner, Jack (Fictitious character)-Fiction.

Subject Term:

Forensic scientists -- Fiction.

Murder -- Investigation -- Fiction.

Foster children -- Fiction.

Geographic Term:

Cleveland (Ohio) -- Fiction.

Genre:

Suspense fiction.

Summary:

The body of fifteen-year-old Rachael Donahue, abandoned by society, raised in foster homes, and violently unapproachable, has been discovered at the bottom of a stairwell at Firebird, the secure facility for juvenile offenders in Cleveland. For Maggie and Jack, Rachael's death comes with a disturbing twist, the girl may have been involved with a much older man. But Rachael's not the only resident at the center to come to a dead end. Firebird's ten-year-old "wild child" has overdosed in the infirmary, back-to-back tragedies that appear to be terrible accidents. As a forensic investigator, Maggie knows appearances can be deceiving. And Jack knows all about deceit. That's why they both suspect a cold-blooded murderer is carrying out a deadly agenda. As Maggie's ex-husband gets nearer to uncovering the secrets that Maggie and Jack must hide, it becomes increasingly harder for them to protect a new and vulnerable victim from a killer with unfathomable demons.

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Maggie Gardiner, forensics expert for the Cleveland police department, and Jack Renner, a homicide detective with a killer secret, return in bestselling author Lisa Black's new thriller as they confront the darkest threat yet to their careers -- and their lives.

The body of fifteen-year-old Rachael Donahue--abandoned by society, raised in foster homes, and violently unapproachable--has been discovered at the bottom of a stairwell at Firebird, the secure facility for juvenile offenders in Cleveland. For Maggie and Jack, Rachael's death comes with a disturbing twist--the girl may have been involved with a much older man.

But Rachael's not the only resident at the center to come to a dead end. Firebird's ten-year-old "wild child" has overdosed in the infirmary--back-to-back tragedies that appear to be terrible accidents. As a forensic investigator, Maggie knows appearances can be deceiving. And Jack knows all about deceit. That's why they both suspect a cold-blooded murderer is carrying out a deadly agenda.

As Maggie's ex-husband gets nearer to uncovering the secrets that Maggie and Jack must hide, it becomes increasingly harder for them to protect a new and vulnerable victim from a killer with unfathomable demons.

Author Notes

New York Times bestselling author Lisa Black introduced the characters of Maggie Gardiner and Jack Renner in her acclaimed suspense novel That Darkness and continued their story in Unpunished, Perish, and Suffer the Children. As a forensic scientist at the Cuyahoga County Coroner's Office, she analyzed gunshot residue on hands and clothing, hairs, fibers, paint, glass, DNA, blood and many other forms of trace evidence, as well as crime scenes. Now she is a latent print examiner and CSI for the Cape Coral Police Department in Florida, working mostly with fingerprints and crime scenes.

Lisa is a member of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences, the International Association for Identification, and the International Association of Bloodstain Pattern Analysts, and she is a Certified Crime Scene Analyst and Certified Latent Print Examiner. She has testified in court as an expert witness more than sixty-five times. Her books have been translated into six languages. She lives near Fort Myers, Florida. Visit her on Facebook, Twitter, or at www.lisa-black.com.

Reviews (2)

Publisher's Weekly Review

The death of 15-year-old Rachel Donahue, a recalcitrant resident at a Cleveland juvenile detention facility, kick starts bestseller Black's well-crafted fourth thriller featuring forensic expert Maggie Gardiner (after Perish). Rachel fell three floors to the bottom of a stairwell, but whether she was pushed is unclear. As more residents die under suspicious circumstances, Maggie and homicide detective Jack Renner realize that a murderer is loose in the locked facility, where groups of children are carefully segregated and access to them is strictly supervised and limited. That the potential victims can be as lethal as the hunter stalking them complicates the case, as do Maggie's fears that Jack is hiding a terrible secret. The pressure on Maggie only increases when her ex-husband, Det. Rick Gardiner, is assigned to investigate Jack's past-something neither Maggie nor Jack can afford to have revealed. Black keeps the suspense high throughout. Agent: Vicky Bijur, Vicky Bijur Agency. (Sept.) © Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.

Booklist Review

Children are dying at a Cleveland juvenile detention facility, many of whom have suffered horrible abuse or neglect and, in turn, have committed dreadful crimes. An apparent suicide of a teenage boy is followed by what seems the accidental death of a 15-year-old girl in a fall, but then a 10-year-old mute boy dies abruptly of what turns out to be a poisoning. Forensic investigator Maggie Gardiner, working with Detective Jack Renner and his partner, eventually spots the pattern and the perpetrator but not before the trio spends enough time at the facility to be the subjects themselves of attacks, as the fatalities of young people continue to increase. At the same time, homicide detective Rick Gardiner, Maggie's ex, is searching for a vigilante killer and begins to eye Renner as a suspect. With its solid grounding of information about child development, this fourth entry in the Gardiner and Renner series (after Perish, 2018) is instructional as well as being a well-plotted and -paced thriller with a pair of intriguing protagonists.--Leber, Michele Copyright 2018 Booklist

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