A quick search turns up a mountain of cash poorly hidden behind the wall paneling.
#Cara mckenna willing victim driver#
When the driver of the aging conversion van he just pulled over rabbits off into the brush, Texas State Trooper Dan Henning knows there must be something of value hidden in the vehicle. This is a clarion call to take a sharp look at one of the most striking human rights abuses, and one that is going on in our own backyard. Smith argues that these young women should be treated as victims by law enforcement, but that too often the criminal justice system lacks the resources and training to prevent the vicious cycle of prostitution. Her experience led her, two decades later, to become one of the foremost advocates for trafficking victims. A chance encounter with an older man led her to run away from home, and she soon found herself on the streets of Atlantic City.
Smith speaks from experience: Without consistent positive guidance or engagement, Holly was ripe for exploitation at age fourteen. In Walking Prey, advocate and former victim Holly Austin Smith shows how middle class suburban communities are fast becoming the new epicenter of sex trafficking in America. At the same time, thanks to social media, texting, and chatting services, predators are able to ferret out their victims more easily than ever before. Younger and younger girls are engaging in adult sexual attitudes and practices, and the pressure to conform means thousands have little self-worth and are vulnerable to exploitation. Today, two cultural forces are converging to make America's youth easy targets for sex traffickers. The characters are convincing, too.” -Publishers Weekly (starred review) “Wilson is as adroit at the straightforward mechanics of the crime mystery as she is at evocative prose shot through with a keen sense of the past.” -Independent Wilson convincingly evokes what it was like to sleep in a bomb shelter or stumble through shattered London streets in the dark. A terrific police procedural, a mesmerizing historical novel-few writers working today can deliver this kind one-two punch.” -Laura Lippman, New York Times bestselling author “Outstanding.
#Cara mckenna willing victim series#
Praise for the Inspector Stratton series “Laura Wilson is an exceptional talent. As well as a twisty murder mystery, A Willing Victim is a portrait of England in the mid-fifties and a meditation on the dangerous power of faith. Traveling to Suffolk to investigate, Inspector Stratton encounters a community of fervent believers led by an enigmatic, charismatic leader, and a femme fatale with a shady past. The murder victim is a young man in London whose bookshelves are filled with literature on spirituality and esoteric religions, and who had just recently left the Foundation for Spiritual Understanding, a New Age cult based in Suffolk.
The world is in turmoil-the Bikini Atoll, the Suez Crisis, the Hungarian Uprising-these are just some of the events Inspector Ted Stratton can’t help but think about as he makes his way through a murder investigation. It’s 1956 as the 4th Inspector Stratton mystery opens. a disquisition on the seductive attractions of unquestioning faith” from the author of The Wrong Man (Independent). “A slow-burning but accomplished murder mystery. But to be with Kate, Rachel first has to ditch Simon. But then she meets feisty and sexy Kate, who not only seduces Rachel at work but finally convinces her that being with another woman is just what she really craves. Instead of heeding warnings from her flat mate, she ignores Simon's behavior, determined that this time she will not be left with another failed relationship to her name. When she receives a flattering offer from an attractive man in a cafe, it sounds like the perfect antidote to her problems, and who knows, maybe going straight might not be so bad after all? Except Simons' idea of how a girlfriend should behave isn't quite what Rachel is expecting and she finds herself embedded in an escalating struggle of control, humiliation and terror. Twenty two year old Rachel Collins has given up on women following a series of disastrous relationships, never mind that fact that she is gay.
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