In The Collectors, the second novel of the series, Annabelle stole forty million dollars from casino king Jerry Bagger, the man who murdered her mother.

Casino king Jerry Bagger is hunting Annabelle Conroy, the elite con-artist who cheated him out of millions. First, Link's rejection of the (likely left-leaning) investigative journalist who is, in fact, out there to help him and raise awarenessof youth homelessness.The story is told in alternating chapters, one by Link and the next by an ex-military mass murderer who preys on the homeless.

Anyway i think you should read it and find out if there is murder in it because i swear there was and we never actually finished this so i wouldn't remeber anyway. One night, when Link and Gail sleep in each other’s arms in a doorway, Link tells readers he’s sorry to report that nothing happened between them. My sister was talking about this book along with others she had done for her GCSE English and English Language course, among the books she had, this appeared to interest me most. Shelter develops an elaborate plan for luring young homeless people to his house, killing them, dressing them up as his own private army and burying them beneath the floorboards.With her help Link discovered that Shelter is responsible for Ginger's dead plus 7 other homeless people.

Brianna and Andrew Lincoln are middle-aged thrill killers, independently wealthy from a patent Andrew obtained for an optical scanner he invented while practicing medicine. Adventure and courage are both shown when Link is on the street and has to stand up for himself and only survives on what he gets from begging. It’s a very easy read, written in stereotypical British dialect, but that made it even more interesting.Mum lives with a domineering drunk named Vince whom Link suspects made a pass at his sister, or worse.

Most of us can’t relate to the characters as we are not homeless but they did a very good job of portraying the way that homeless people are thought of in society and how they are treated. She also has a cameraman with her, and Link quickly learns she’s a reporter who has been working undercover. Alternatively, Link's rejection of Gail/Louise can be seen as the character feeling such a degree of betrayal that he brazenly pushes aside help in a rash act of naive and youth-driven emotion over brains.That it was set back in time was cool as well along with the british slang which aren't really seen in literature nowadays. It's supposed to be aimed at kids in their early teens and, as you'll probably know, by that age kids tend to want to read books that explore 'darker' themes (well.