Suffer the Children
- 304 pages
- 11 hours of reading
Cleveland forensics expert Maggie Gardiner and her partner, Jack Renner, investigate after two young people turn up dead at a secure facility for juvenile offenders.
Lisa Black crafts compelling crime fiction, drawing heavily on her extensive background as a forensic scientist. Her writing is marked by a keen eye for the minute details of criminal investigation and the psychology of perpetrators, offering readers an authentic and chilling glimpse into the world of forensics. Black masterfully blends suspense with scientific accuracy, creating works that linger in the reader's mind long after the final page.



Cleveland forensics expert Maggie Gardiner and her partner, Jack Renner, investigate after two young people turn up dead at a secure facility for juvenile offenders.
“A taut and haunting story that will stay with you long after you finish reading it.” —Jeff Lindsay, creator of the DEXTER series For Cleveland forensic investigator Maggie Gardiner, dead bodies are part of the job. It’s the mind of a killer that keeps her awake at night . . . When Maggie Gardiner notices a connection between the battered body of a young girl left in a cemetery and a career criminal shot in an alley, she must follow a trail no one else wants to see, picking up crumbs of evidence that no one else notices. Jack Renner is accustomed to being the hunter, not the hunted. He kills to make the world a safer place—even if that makes it a more dangerous one for Maggie. He will not let her stop him. One body at a time, Maggie circles in on a killer. But it’s what she find inside herself that will bring the terrible truth to light . . .
Over one-tenth of Australians suffer from an anxiety-related condition. Elisa Black is one of them - and her story could make life better for those millions of other people just like her.