Bøker av Erika Strauss

Where does evil come from? For the last ten years, Angela Thompson has been living a nightmare. While motherhood was never her goal, she has tried everything to connect with her son, Max. It was supposed to be two of them against the world until Max's behavior grew increasingly disturbing. The missing items, lost pets, and strange drawings she could handle but now, the murder of little Tommy Marshall has the entire town of Oregon, Ohio on edge. Beaten with a large rock and left to die in the woods, the police search frantically for a sadistic child killer. Unfortunately, all of the evidence points to Angela as she begins to doubt everything and everyone around her. She swears that she would never hurt a child, but has her troubled son and loneliness pushed her too far? Her gut tells her that Max is involved but authorities find it hard to believe that a ten-year-old boy could pull off the perfect murder and put his mother on death row. In fact, nobody believes her! But they don't know Max like she does. They don't know how sick and depraved her angelic little boy can be.Unfortunately, everyone is about to find out the hard way.

Something is wrong with the city of Toledo, Ohio-it brings out the worst in people and keeps them trapped. So, how does anyone survive?Emerson Waverly and Detective Jennifer Milner are complete strangers but have much more in common than either of them know. They are both single and stuck in Toledo, living unfulfilling lives. Emerson has worked tooth and nail to get where she is and make the most of surviving on her own. But she never thought she would end up thirty and single, ready to do anything to get her boyfriend, Xavior, back. After suffering from her fourth miscarriage in four years, Xavior had left her to deal with the heartbreak of losing another child on her own. Four months later, however, Emerson discovers that Xavior has been living a secret life on the other side of town, and all she can think about is making him pay.Meanwhile, Detective Milner is a single mom trying to break the cycle of neglect with her teenage daughter. Every day is a challenge but now she must navigate a new reality when her daughter's father shows up after ten years and demands to be a part of her life. On the force, Jennifer has her own secrets to deal with which threaten her reputation. The pressure is on as she juggles her family and career and it becomes even harder to keep her head in the game when one gruesome murder after another shakes the town.But when the killer makes a crucial mistake, will Jennifer Milner be able to solve the case through an objective lens, or is she doomed to be a broken cog in a failing system?

Something is wrong with the city of Toledo, Ohio-it brings out the worst in people and keeps them trapped. So, how does anyone survive? Emerson Waverly and Detective Jennifer Milner are complete strangers but have much more in common than either of them know. They are both single and stuck in Toledo, living unfulfilling lives. Emerson has worked tooth and nail to get where she is and make the most of surviving on her own. But she never thought she would end up thirty and single, ready to do anything to get her boyfriend, Xavior, back. After suffering from her fourth miscarriage in four years, Xavior had left her to deal with the heartbreak of losing another child on her own. Four months later, however, Emerson discovers that Xavior has been living a secret life on the other side of town, and all she can think about is making him pay. Meanwhile, Detective Milner is a single mom trying to break the cycle of neglect with her teenage daughter. Every day is a challenge but now she must navigate a new reality when her daughter's father shows up after ten years and demands to be a part of her life. On the force, Jennifer has her own secrets to deal with which threaten her reputation. The pressure is on as she juggles her family and career and it becomes even harder to keep her head in the game when one gruesome murder after another shakes the town. But when the killer makes a crucial mistake, will Jennifer Milner be able to solve the case through an objective lens, or is she doomed to be a broken cog in a failing system?