The Shards Author Surname:Easton tracing his steps from an

tracing his steps from an illustrious brothel to an Englishman's mansion

As the city's rescue services and media outlets respond

Her death was ruled a suicide after a slapdash investigation

But he's just met a woman and wants to claw his way out of the pit

one of the guards is convicted of murder and sent to prison

The Shards Author Surname:Easton tracing his steps from anLA, 1981. Buckley College in heat. 17 year old Bret is a senior at the exclusive Buckley prep school when a new student arrives with a mysterious past. Robert Mallory is bright, handsome, charismatic, and shielding a secret from Bret and his friends, even as he becomes a part of their tightly knit circle. Bret's obsession with Mallory is equalled only by his increasingly unsettling preoccupation with The Trawler, a serial killer on the loose who seems