Stephen Mendel
1) The blinds
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Guilt, memory, and redemption swirl through this inventive science-fiction-based thriller from Edgar-finalist Sternbergh (Shovel Ready). In Caesura, an isolated Texas town that's part penal colony, part rehabilitation experiment, Sheriff Calvin Cooper keeps the peace in a community that mixes the most savage of criminals with the victims of horrible crimes. What allows the two groups to coexist is that all their memories have been selectively edited...
2) The cutting
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Detective Sergeant Michael McCabe moved from New York City to Portland, Maine, to escape a dark past: both the ex-wife who'd left him for an investment banker, and the tragic death of his brother, a hero cop gone bad. He sought to raise his young daughter away from the violence of the big city. So he's unprepared for the horrific killer he discovers, whose bloody trail may lead to Portland's social elite.--From publisher's description.