Suffer the Children

Maggie Gardiner, forensics expert for the Cleveland police department, and Jack Renner, a homicide detective with a killer secret, confront the darkest threat yet to their careers--and their lives.

The body of fifteen-year-old Rachael Donahue--raised in foster homes and violently unapproachable--has been discovered at the bottom of a stairwell at Firebird, the secure facility for juvenile offenders. The girl's death comes with a disturbing twist--she may have been involved with a much older man. But Rachael's not the only resident to come to a dead end.

Firebird's ten-year-old "wild child" has overdosed in the infirmary--back-to-back tragedies that appear to be terrible accidents. But Maggie and Jack suspect a cold-blooded murderer with an agenda. And as Maggie's ex-husband gets nearer to uncovering secrets that Maggie and Jack must hide, it becomes increasingly hard for them to protect a new and vulnerable victim ...

Maggie Gardiner, expert criminalistica pentru departamentul de politie din Cleveland, si Jack Renner, un detectiv de omucidere cu un secret criminal, se confrunta cu cea mai intunecata amenintare de pana acum pentru cariera lor - si pentru viata lor. Corpul lui Rachael Donahue, in varsta de cincisprezece ani, a crescut in casele de plasament si inabordabil in mod violent - a fost descoperit in partea de jos a unei case de scari de la Firebird, facilitatea sigura pentru infractorii minori.