title: Kidnapped: A Novel (Irene Kelly Mysteries)
author:  Jan Burke 
description: At the start of Edgar-winner Burke's well-crafted 10th novel of suspense (after 2005's <i>Bloodlines</i>), sociopathic killer Cleo Smith has just murdered a graphic artist, Richard Fletcher, who was a member of a large, bizarre California family, but Smith's motive for the killing remains obscure. Five years later, Fletcher's adopted son has been wrongfully convicted of the crime, and Burke's resourceful and compassionate reporter heroine, Irene Kelly, has written a story about missing children that has prompted a host of inquiries from desperate relatives who have lost their own children. When more bodies turn up and further clues point to involvement of Fletcher family members, Kelly, aided by her police detective husband, Frank Harriman, puts her life on the line to exonerate the innocent prisoner and uncover the disturbing secrets at the heart of the Fletcher clan. The many plot twists should keep readers turning the pages, even if the windup is a little improbable. <i>(Oct.)</i> <br />Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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  Irene Kelly is a reporter with a fierce integrity. Detective Frank Harriman is
  her lover and friend. Now they’re both about to be plunged into political
  hellfire when a ruthless politician rocks a race for district attorney with a
  stunning allegation: his opponent’s son is in the clutches of a satanic cult.
  The charge takes a fatal turn when a local woman is brutally murdered, and the
  grisly crime scene bears unholy implications. Tracking the clues takes Irene
  behind the closed doors of an isolated home for troubled youths, where
  obscuring the truth is only part of a stranger’s diabolic game. To win it,
  Irene will have the devil to pay.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  ## Sweet Dreams, Irene
  
  
  ## Jan Burke
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ##### The second book in the Irene Kelly series
  
  
  ##### Copyright © 1994 by Jan Burke
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  To John F. Fischer,  
  
  
  who can do _anything,_  
  
  
  but is especially good at being Dad.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  **F** RANK SCARED THE HELL o