Touching the Dark

Jane Adams. Severn House Publishers, $25.99 (256pp) ISBN 978-0-7278-5937-2

Blind ex-policewoman Naomi Blake tries to help the son of old friends who's become obsessed with his celebrity photographer ex-girlfriend.

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