Aric Davis Livres

With the boys' new fort finally finished, everything that summer was going great. And then the killer showed up. During the summer of 1987, from their tree house fort in the woods, neighborhood boys Tim, Scott, and Luke spot a man holding a gun to missing sixteen-year-old Molly Peterson's back. The problem is, nobody believes their story, not even the police. As search efforts to find Molly dwindle, the boys know that she, and the man with the gun, are nearby -- and that they must now find and save Molly themselves. A growing sense of honor and urgency forces the boys to take action -- to find Molly, to protect themselves, and to stand guard for the last long days of summer.

Mike is a tattoo artist running his own shop, and Deb is the piercing artist he hires to round out his studio's motley crew of four. The last either expects is romance, but that's what they get as they follow their off-kilter careers and love lives into complete and total disaster. When Mike follows a growing trend and tattoos the ashes of deceased loved ones into several customers' tattoos, he has no idea that it will one day provide the solution -- and solace -- he will sorely need. And when the life of a serial killer tragically collides with the lives in the tattoo shop, Mike and Deb will stop at nothing in their quest for revenge, even if it means stepping outside the known boundaries of life and death. Ink that is full of crematory ashes, a sociopathic killer, and pain in its rawest form...this is going to hurt. When the hope of redemption runs headlong into the dark side of life's chaos, we are left with one of the most haunting thrillers in recent memory. A Good and Useful Hurt delivers the bittersweet essence of life with the sting of a needle in skin.

Some mysteries are better left unsolved. It's been fifteen years since Mandy Reasoner was murdered--a crime for which her boyfriend, Duke, was convicted. But when high school students and best friends Betty and June discover that Mandy was June's long-forgotten aunt, they decide to pursue the mystery. Galvanized by the growing community who doubts the evidence against Duke and is rallying to free him, the two girls start on a path that will bring them not only to Duke himself but smack into Nickel, a canny, tough-as-nails teenage P.I. attempting to keep his own life together. They make a good team, but Nickel is on his own mission of revenge, and the web of lies surrounding Mandy's murder is growing ever thicker. The closer they get to the truth, the less clear the path becomes. Will they survive the fight to bring Mandy's killer to justice? Award-winning author Aric Davis brings back his captivating anti-hero, Nickel, in Tunnel Vision, a work of edgy noir about unlikely friendship and long-overdue justice.

Nickel ist hart im Nehmen. Aufgewachsen in staatlicher Obhut, flüchtet er im Alter von zehn Jahren, um sein Leben zu leben, wie es sein Vater wollte: nicht als Zivilist, sondern als Krieger. Nickel kommt für seinen Lebensunterhalt auf, indem er Pädophile erpresst, die er online aufspürt, Marihuana an Gymnasiasten verkauft und zwischendurch als Privatdetektiv arbeitet. Geld regiert die Welt, aber für Kinder arbeitet Nickel kostenlos. Dieses Mal braucht Arrow, ein hübsches High-School-Mädchen, seine Hilfe. Sie glaubt, dass ihre Schwester Shelby entführt wurde, obwohl ihre Eltern und die Polizei sie bereits als Ausreißerin abgeschrieben haben. Nickel übernimmt den Fall, recherchiert im Internet und in den noblen Vorortstraßen, um das verschwundene Mädchen zu finden. Was er findet, sind Kinder, die zum Verkauf stehen, und Erwachsene mit Seelen so schwarz wie die des Teufels. Bald merkt Nickel: Shelby zu finden ist eine Sache, aber zu überleben eine ganz andere.