Recounts the story of Dorothea Puente, a grandmotherly Sacramento woman who gained a reputation as a Good Samaritan by running a boarding house for the indigent and infirm, only to be convicted of murdering them. Reprint.

Disturbed Ground

Biographies & Memoirs

Norton, Carla

True Crime

Avon/Books

“True crime at its most shocking, most harrowing, and . . . most thought-provoking.”—Booklist In 1997 twenty-year-old Colleen Stan left home to hitchhike from Oregon to California. Seven years later she emerged from hell, the victim of a bizarre and extraordinary crime. This is Colleen's incredible true story, told by the determined young district attorney who prosecuted the man who had forced her to endure years of sexual perversion . . . and held her captive in a coffin-like box under his and his wife's bed. A story of riveting psychological intensity and gripping courtroom drama, Perfect Victim reveals the whole truth about Collen Stan's real-life nightmare . . . and the psychopath who enslaved her body and her mind. “Horrifying!”—The Cincinnati Post “Hard to put down!”—Chicago Tribune “A gripping and disturbing story of the secret life of apparently normal people. At once, horrific and engrossing.”—Vincent Bugliosi, author of Helter Skelter

Perfect Victim: The True Story of the Girl in the Box

McGuire, Christine

Professionals & Academics

Dell

The author of Perfect Victim reveals the truth behind the shocking case of Dorothea Puente, the genial Sacramento landlady who was actually a psychopathic killer who buried the corpses of her indigent and homeless victims in her lovingly tended garden.

History

Americas

Harpercollins

Recounts the ordeal of Colleen Stan during her seven-year captivity and sexual slavary in the hands of Cameron and Janice Hooker and details the court case that followed

Perfect Victim

Rules & Procedures

Arbor House Pub. Co

''Norton has given us living, breathing characters that we know and understand . . . and who inhabit our imaginations after we've finished this book." ―Jeffery Deaver
In many ways, Reeve LeClaire looks like a typical twenty-two year old girl. She's finally landed her own apartment, she waitresses to pay the bills, and she wishes she wasn't so nervous around new people. She thinks of herself as agile, not skittish. As serious, not grim. But Reeve is anything but normal. Ten years ago, she was kidnapped and held captive. After a lucky escape, she's spent the last six years trying to rebuild her life, a recovery thanks in large part to her indispensable therapist Dr. Ezra Lerner. But when he asks her to help another girl rescued from a similar situation, Reeve realizes she may not simply need to mentor this young victim―she may be the only one who can protect her from a cunning predator who is still out there, watching every move.
From the author of the #1 non-fiction bestseller Perfect Victim: The True Story of the Girl in the Box comes a novel that draws you into a chilling and engrossing world. With masterful plot twists and shifting points of view that make it as irresistible as Gone Girl, Carla Norton's The Edge of Normal is a stunning debut thriller.

The Edge of Normal: A Novel (Reeve LeClaire Series)

Literature & Fiction

United States

Minotaur Books

With a fiercely original heroine and a plot that will keep you guessing until the very last page, Carla Norton's The Edge of Normal is an "impressive mystery...with psychological depth (Booklist, starred review)" that no reader will soon forget.
In many ways, Reeve LeClaire seems like a typical twenty-something woman: She has her own place in San Francisco, waitresses to pay the bills, and lives a pleasant, structured life. But Reeve is anything but normal. Ten years ago, she was kidnapped and held captive for four years. Her lucky escape made headlines-and since then, she's managed to rebuild her life, thanks in part to her brilliant psychiatrist, Ezra Lerner. "A nail-biter." -People An expert in captivity syndromes, Dr. Lerner asks Reeve to help a young girl, Tilly, who has suffered a similar ordeal. But soon everything Reeve has worked so hard to achieve-independence, anonymity, a normal life-comes crashing down. As she tries to help Tilly, she finds herself involved in a deadly game of cat-and-mouse with a ruthless predator who always manages to be one step ahead of her. . . and is watching her every move. . . "A perfect blend of literary style, psychological insight, and edge-of-the-seat thriller."-Jeffery Deaver

The Edge of Normal (Reeve LeClaire Series, 1)

Reeve LeClaire is a college student, dammit, not Daryl Wayne Flint's victim. Not anymore-not when Reeve is finally recovering a life of her own after four years of captivity.
Flint is safely locked up in Olshaker Psychiatric Hospital, where he belongs. He is walking the grounds of the forensic unit, performing his strange but apparently harmless rituals. It seems that he is still suffering the effects of the head injury he suffered in the car crash that freed Reeve seven years ago. Post-concussive syndrome, they call it.
For all that Flint seems like a model patient, he has long been planning his next move. When the moment arrives, he gets clean away from the hospital before the alarm even sounds. And Reeve is shocked out of her new life by her worst nightmare: Her kidnapper has escaped. Less than 24 hours later, Flint kills someone from his past--and Reeve's blocked memories jolt back into consciousness. As much as she would like to forget him, she knows this criminal better than anyone else. When Flint evades capture, baffling authorities and leaving a bloody trail from the psychiatric lock-up to the forests of Washington state, Reeve suddenly realizes that she is the only one who can stop him.
Reeve is an irresistibly brave and believable heroine in Carla Norton's heart-stopping new thriller, What Doesn't Kill Her, about a young woman who learns to fight back.

What Doesn't Kill Her: A Novel (Reeve LeClaire Series)

What Doesn't Kill Her: A Novel (Reeve LeClaire Series, 2)

St. Martin's Paperbacks

Struggling to live a normal life a decade after escaping her kidnappers, Reeve LeClaire agrees to help her therapist throughout the rehabilitation of another rescued abductee only to discover that the girl is still being pursued by a ruthless predator. (suspense).

The Edge Of Normal (Thorndike Press Large Print Reviewers' Choice)

Thorndike Press

''Norton has given us living, breathing characters that we know and understand . . . and who inhabit our imaginations after we've finished this book." ―Jeffery Deaver In many ways, Reeve LeClaire looks like a typical twenty-two year old girl. She's finally landed her own apartment, she waitresses to pay the bills, and she wishes she wasn't so nervous around new people. She thinks of herself as agile, not skittish. As serious, not grim. But Reeve is anything but normal. 
Ten years ago, she was kidnapped and held captive. After a lucky escape, she's spent the last six years trying to rebuild her life, a recovery thanks in large part to her indispensable therapist Dr. Ezra Lerner. But when he asks her to help another girl rescued from a similar situation, Reeve realizes she may not simply need to mentor this young victim―she may be the only one who can protect her from a cunning predator who is still out there, watching every move.
From the author of the #1 non-fiction bestseller Perfect Victim: The True Story of the Girl in the Box comes a novel that draws you into a chilling and engrossing world. With powerfully gripping characters and an ending that is a masterpiece of deception, Carla Norton's The Edge of Normal is a stunning debut thriller.

MacMillan Audio

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Disturbed Ground

Perfect Victim: The True Story of the Girl in the Box

Disturbed Ground

Perfect Victim

The Edge of Normal: A Novel (Reeve LeClaire Series)

The Edge of Normal (Reeve LeClaire Series, 1)

What Doesn't Kill Her: A Novel (Reeve LeClaire Series)

What Doesn't Kill Her: A Novel (Reeve LeClaire Series, 2)

The Edge Of Normal (Thorndike Press Large Print Reviewers' Choice)

The Edge of Normal (Reeve LeClaire Series, 1)