Gregor Demarkian Series

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Mark DeAvecca is a brilliant fifteen-year-old in his first year at the exclusive private academy, Windsor School. Mark, the son of noted commentator Liz Tolliver, grew up in very different circumstances and could not fit in less well. With its hundred-year-old history, Windsor is rife with tradition, nasty rumors, petty jealousies and long buried resentments. The most savage of those unpleasant undercurrents swirl around the headmaster's wife - currently rumored, with good reason, to be having an affair with Mark's roommate, a street-tough scholarship student. Mark, however, has his own problems - he feels himself slowly losing his grip on reality and the staff widely believes him to be just another prep school burnout headed for an unpleasant end. So when Mark returns from a late-winter ramble about the campus to find his roommate dead, hanging from the ceiling of their room, he's reached the end of his own metaphorical rope. Even though he's no longer sure about the line between fantasy and reality, Mark is fairly certain that something is going on at the school and there's more to the death than the official declaration of suicide. With nowhere else to turn, Mark calls retired FBI agent Gregor Demarkian to ask for help. Sensing the crisis in Mark's dulled voice, Demarkian arrives to find Mark in dire physical and mental state, and a school only too eager to sweep his roommate's death under the rug. In what quickly becomes one of the most complex and challenging cases in his career, Demarkian must untangle truth from fiction, fantasy from reality, before another life is lost.

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Hardscrabble Road

by Jane Haddam

Published 1 March 2006

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Flowering Judas

by Jane Haddam

Published 2 August 2011

"Twelve years ago, Chester Morton disappeared from his hometown in Mattuck, New York, leaving no trace and never to be heard from again. For the past twelve years, his mother has kept the search for her son alive--paying for a billboard overlooking the local community college, putting up new flyers every week, hounding every law enforcement agency she can get to listen. Her determination has made his disappearance very high profile but it's also been damaging to her family, her children and to herself. Now, Chester's body is finally found--hanging from the very billboard that has been advertising his disappearance. Chester's corpse, however, is recent--meaning that Chester had been alive, somewhere, until very recently. Under pressure and with limited resources, the local police turn to Gregor Demarkian--a former FBI agent and a frequent consultant on such cases--to try and unravel the truth buried within this very complex and tragic case and find out once and for all what really happened all those years ago"--

Book 28

Hearts of Sand

by Jane Haddam

Published 3 September 2013

When a notorious former member of an elite Connecticut beach community is found murdered, retired FBI profiler Gregor Demarkian is called in to solve the crime and uncover mysterious events from the victim's past.

Book 29

Fighting Chance

by Jane Haddam

Published 9 September 2014

When his best friend, parish priest Tibor Kasparian, is wrongly arrested for murder, a distraught Gregor Demarkian breaks his personal rules about consulting in his determination to uncover the truth.

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Wanting Sheila Dead

by Jane Haddam

Published 20 July 2010

Sheila Dunham is a gossip columnist's dream - she is famous, loud, and, to almost everyone who has met or seen her, deeply, spectacularly offensive. Fired from every TV job she's ever had, she's now producing and hosting her own reality show, where thousands of women compete for a spot in the house where it will be filmed. On the first day of shooting, though, someone fires a gun at - and misses - Sheila Dunham.

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