An amnesiac attempts to reconstruct her past by keeping a journal and discovers the dangerous inconsistencies in the stories of her husband and her secret doctor.

"You've lost your daughter. She's addicted to drugs and to an abusive boyfriend. And she's made it clear that she doesn't want to be found. Then, quite by chance, you see her busking, playing guitar, in New York's Central Park. But she's not the girl you remember. This woman is wasted, frightened, and clearly in trouble. You don't stop to think. You approach her, beg her to come home. She runs. And you follow her into a dark and dangerous world you...

Trying to discover why a Harlem high school student is being targeted for murder, quadriplegic detective Lincoln Rhyme and his protegee, Amelia Sachs, look for answers in the student's term paper about her civil rights activist ancestor.

"Marianna de Greville is only twenty years old. But she has been given a life sentence in prison for murder. After an outbreak of uncontrollable rage. Yet, one day, the unimaginable occurs. A door opens. She is offered a conditional release ... but the price to be paid ,atonement, is terrifying." --

"Just one look: An ordinary snapshot causes a mother's world to unravel in an instant. After picking up her two young children from school, Grace Lawson looks through a newly developed set of photographs. She finds an odd one in the pack: a mysterious picture from perhaps twenty years ago, showing four strangers she can't identify. But there is one face she recognizes - that of her husband, from before she knew him. When her husband sees the photo...