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Cry Baby by Fay Cunningham, 2nd in her Gina Crosse series mystery/thriller series starring the eponymous forensic artist, originally out from UK publisher Robert Hale in 2010.
Gina Cross is a forensic artist. She puts the flesh back on the bones of the dead. She is concerned by the death of a teenager who recently gave birth, but who is the girl and where is her baby? Then another pregnant young woman goes missing.
The clues lead to an upmarket fertility clinic and Gina’s worst fears are confirmed – something terrible is happening in the clinic’s back rooms. With time running out to find the missing girl, Gina enlists the help of investigative journalist Adam Shaw. They will have to expose the clinic’s deadly secret before more innocent lives are taken.
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Blood of the Lamb by Michael Lister (
SYKM), 2nd in his John Jordan Mystery series starring the eponymous Florida prison chaplain, originally out from Bleak House Books in 2004. We've previously received others in the series free in recent months.
Florida prison chaplain John Jordan’s search for the peace that has so long eluded him is interrupted by an unimaginable murder. Attempting to be a good man in a very bad place while also maintaining his shaky sobriety, John investigates the murder of the seven year-old adopted daughter of ex-con turned televangelist, Bobby Earl Caldwell, a murder committed in John’s own locked office when Bobby Earl conducts a service in the Potter Correctional Institution chapel.
This unspeakable act, and the investigation that follows, will force John to confront his own fears and beliefs, causing this man of mercy to thirst for justice. Torn between the seemingly conflicting roles he’s asked to assume—cop and cleric—John must struggle to figure out his identity as well as that of the killer’s, but his past continues to haunt him in the form of troubling thoughts of failure and the resurfacing of his ex-wife, Susan.
Putting aside his distrust of the slick televangelist and his seductive wife, John must ignore intimidation and resist manipulation to find a killer among some very unusual suspects—including two murderers, a child molester, a teacher with something to hide, and Bobby Earl Caldwell himself whose very act of exposing his daughter to such risk causes John to suspect him from the very beginning.
Amid private crises and the torturous experiences of a thoughtful, sensitive man working in such a pitiless place, nothing short of death will end John’s search for the person who killed little Nicole Caldwell. Uncovering the guilt, restoring the balance, John seeks pardon from the self-inflicted life sentence he’s serving and exoneration from the burden of regret he bears.
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The Selby Printout by Ruth Benjamin, a Jewish techno-thriller originally out from Jerusalem-based Targum Press in 1998. Benjamin also offers some thriller-y looking hidden-secrets-of-the-past self-discovery backlist novels with Jewish themes as well, if you're interested.