Orem Library

Confronted by the first murder suspect of his early career while visiting his hometown, FBI detective Amos Decker reexamines startling connections to another crime that make him question if he arrested the wrong man years earlier.

David and Cheryl Burroughs were living the dream life when tragedy struck. Now, five years after that terrible night, Cheryl is remarried. And David is serving a life sentence in a maximum-security prison for the brutal murder of their son. Then Cheryl's sister, Rachel, arrives unexpectedly during visiting hours and drops a bombshell. She's come with a photograph that a friend took on vacation at a theme park with a boy in the background who has a...

You never meant to kill him.One night, Matt Hunter innocently tried to break up a fightand ended up a killer. Now, nine years later, hes an ex-con who takes nothing for granted. His wife, Olivia, is pregnant, and the two of them are closing on their dream house. But all it will take is one shocking, inexplicable call from Olivias phone to shatter Matts life a second time. An electrifying thrill ride...

"Tessa Jamison couldn't have imagined anything worse than losing her beloved twin girls and husband--until she was convicted of their murder. For ten years, she has counted off the days in Florida's Correctional Center for Women, fully expecting to die behind bars. Fighting to prove her innocence holds little appeal now that her family's gone. But on one extraordinary day, her lawyers announce that Tessa's conviction has been overturned due to a technicality,...

When the body of nine-year old Thuy Sen is found in the San Francisco Bay, the police quickly charge Rennell and Payton Price with her grisly murder. A twelve-person jury, abetted by an incompetent defense lawyer, is nearly as quick to find the brothers guilty, and to sentence them both to die for their crimes. Fifteen years later, overworked pro bono laywer Teresa Peralta Paget, her husband Chris, and stepson Carlo, a recent Harvard law graduate,...

Ten years after serving time at Rikers Island for assault, Joe King Oliver, an ex-NYPD investigator working as a private detective, receives a note from a woman who admits she was paid to frame him, compelling him to find out who on the police force wanted him out. He also agrees to help a radical black journalist accused of killing two on-duty police officers who had been abusing their badges to traffic in drugs and prostitutes in the city's poorest...

While writing letters to Innocence X, a justice-seeking project, asking them to help her father, an innocent black man on death row, teenaged Tracy takes on another case when her brother is accused of killing his white girlfriend.

In 1970, twenty-year-old mentally-disabled Howard Stamp was convicted on disputed evidence of brutality murdering his grandmother in her home. George Gardener teams up with anthropologist Jonathan Hughes, who has reexamined Stamp's case for a book on injustice. Is a dangerous killer still at large?

Ten years earlier eight year-old Aubree Lansing testified against Stone Lansing--a man she called "daddy"--in a murder trial that led to a hefty prison sentence for Lansing. Now Lansing is out of prison, and he's looking for the daughter whose words sent him there.

Frank Corso has moved to Seattle after "allegedly making up 'facts' on a major crime story" at the New York Times, and now Leanne Samples, victim number nine, asks for him personally when she seeks to derail the execution of "the Trashman," a killer on death row.--Jacket.