Tell a friend about this book...
Friend's Email:
Subject: I have found a book that I think you would enjoy
Member $avings: $16,041,746.92
|
Books Available: 4,135,697
|
Members Online: 222
Your source for swapping books online - Read...Swap...Save!
How To Swap Books?
Sign Up
Search 
Kiosk
All Books
Book Browser
Advanced Search
Books Posted Today
Member Book Reviews
NYT Best Seller List
Newbery Medal Winners
Pulitzer Prize Winners
Most Traveled Copies
Club Wish List
Login
Community
Member Directory
Discussion Forums
Blog
Live Chat
Box-O-Books
Book Journal
Maps
The Eclectic Pen
Fun Stuff
Top 50s
Pulse of PBS
Spread The Word
Photo Gallery
Recipes
Club Tag Cloud
Member Testimonials
Friends of PBS
Help Center
Kiosk
Need Help?
Search - A Darker Place
|
A Darker Place Author: |
|
|||
Book Information
|
|||||
Other Versions of this Book: Hardcover, Hardcover
Book Description:
Called "one of the most original talents to emerge in the '90s" by Kirkus Reviews, award-winning author Laurie R. King delivers an intelligent, terrifying, engrossing drama of good and evil, unlike any she has written before....
A respected university professor, Anne Waverly has a past known to few: Years ago, her own unwitting act cost Anne her husband and daughter. Fewer still know that this history and her academic specialty--alternative religious movements--have made her a brilliant FBI operative. Four times she has infiltrated suspect communities, escaping her own memories of loss and carnage to find a measure of atonement. Now, as she begins to savor life once more, she has no intention of taking another assignment. Until she learns of more than one hundred children living in the Change movement's Arizona compound....
Anne soon realizes that Change is no ordinary community and hers is no ordinary mission. For, far from appeasing the demons of her past, this assignment is sweeping her back into their clutches...and to the razor's edge of danger.
A respected university professor, Anne Waverly has a past known to few: Years ago, her own unwitting act cost Anne her husband and daughter. Fewer still know that this history and her academic specialty--alternative religious movements--have made her a brilliant FBI operative. Four times she has infiltrated suspect communities, escaping her own memories of loss and carnage to find a measure of atonement. Now, as she begins to savor life once more, she has no intention of taking another assignment. Until she learns of more than one hundred children living in the Change movement's Arizona compound....
Anne soon realizes that Change is no ordinary community and hers is no ordinary mission. For, far from appeasing the demons of her past, this assignment is sweeping her back into their clutches...and to the razor's edge of danger.
Members who requested this book also requested:
Similar books to this author and title:
 |  |  |  |
Genres:
Top Member Book Reviews
DeAnna D. (
3 member(s) found this review helpful.
Very engaging. University Professor Anne Waverly investigates alternative religious movements ("cults"). Although she has vowed not to take another assignment, she learns of hundreds of children living in the Change Movements compound in Arizona. Now she decides to confront the demons of her past while trying to save the lives of innocent victims in this bizarre and dangerous religious cult.
Richard M. (
2 member(s) found this review helpful.
An excellent mystery with lots of suspense. Laurie King writes books like no one else. This book was first-class.
Susan M. (
2 member(s) found this review helpful.
Psychological terror-intelligent, good read-
2 member(s) found this review helpful.
Well-written suspense novel. Professor with knowledge of religious cults who serves as an FBI agent to infiltrate a suspected community.
1 member(s) found this review helpful.
I am a new reader of Lauri R king's work but this novel was very well written and the characters developed nicely, i would recommend this book to those interested in cults and how they affect us all.
1 member(s) found this review helpful.
Laurie King at her best.
Read All Book Reviews of "A Darker Place"
Please Rate these Book Reviews
A respected university professor, Anne Waverly has a past known to few. Yeras ago, her own unwitting act cost Anne her husband and daughter. Fewer still know that this history and her academic specialty, alternative religious movements, have made her a brilliant FBI operative.
First book I have tried by this author. Couldn't get with it.
Read All Book Reviews of "A Darker Place"
Book Wiki
Common Title
Series
Original Publication Date (YYYY-MM-DD)
People/Characters
Real Places
Fictional Places
Important Events
Awards and Honors