Heartstopper

Publisher Marketing: Welcome to Torrance, Florida. Population: 4,160. As Sheriff John Weber would attest, the deadliest predators to date in his tiny hamlet were the alligators lurking in the nearby swamps. But that was before someone abducted and murdered a runaway teenage girl and before the disappearance of popular and pretty Liana Martin. The pattern is chilling to Sandy Crosbie, the town s new high school English teacher. With a marriage on the rocks, thanks to her husband s online affairs, and a beautiful teenage daughter to protect, Sandy wishes she d never come to the seemingly quiet town with shocking depths of scandal, sex, and brutality roiling beneath its surface. And as Sheriff Weber digs up more questions than answers in a dead-end investigation, one truth emerges: the prettiest ones are being targeted, the heartstoppers. And this killer intends to give them their due. Alternating between the chilling journal entries of a cold-blooded murderer and the sizzling scandals of small-town life, "Heartstopper" is Joy Fielding s most exciting novel of suspense yet." Review Citations: Kirkus Reviews 02/15/2007 pg. 140 (EAN 9781423325444, Compact Disc) Kirkus Reviews 02/15/2007 pg. 140 (EAN 9781423325420, Analog Audio Cassette) Kirkus Reviews 02/15/2007 pg. 140 (EAN 9780743296380, Hardcover) Library Journal Prepub Alert 12/01/2006 pg. 88 (EAN 9780743295987, Hardcover) Booklist 01/01/2007 pg. 23 (EAN 9780743295987, Hardcover) Kirkus Reviews 02/15/2007 pg. 140 (EAN 9780743295987, Hardcover) Publishers Weekly 02/19/2007 pg. 149 (EAN 9780743295987, Hardcover) People Weekly 04/16/2007 pg. 57 (EAN 9780743295987, Hardcover) Wilson Fiction Catalog 01/01/2008 pg. 29 (EAN 9780743295987, Hardcover) Wilson Fiction Catalog 01/01/2010 pg. 221 (EAN 9780743295987, Hardcover) Wilson Fiction Catalog 01/01/2014 pg. 282 (EAN 9780743295987, Hardcover) Contributor Bio:  Fielding, Joy Joy Fielding is the author of the New York Times bestsellers Heartstopper, Mad River Road, See Jane Run, and other acclaimed novels. She divides her time between Toronto and Palm Beach, Florida. Visit her website at www. JoyFielding.com. Contributor Bio:  West, Judith JUDITH WEST has amused, informed, thrilled, and otherwise entertained via stage and studio for more than 20 years. A narrator, director, and writer for audiobooks since 1999, she also coaches narrators and has taught performance and directed at leading Chicago universities, and has extensive experience in print publishing as a writer, editor, and researcher. Judith lives with her rescued cats in a vintage Chicago bungalow off Devon Avenue, the nation's most ethnically diverse street. Fittingly, she counts ethnic cooking, travel, and antiques among her pleasures.