Title: Transgressions (The Things They Left Behind / Ransom Women)
Description: The Ransome Women by John Farris: A psychological thriller that questions the role beauty plays in society and the cult of celebrity. A young and beautiful, starving artist catches a break when her idol, the reclusive portraitist John Ransome offers her a lucrative modeling contract. But how long will her excitement last when she discovers the fate shared by all Ransome's past subjects?

[The Things They Left Behind][1] by Stephen King: A hauntingly moving tale of survival guilt in New York City after 9/11. Scott Staley called in sick for his job at the World Trade Center that Tuesday morning. Now in the aftermath of 9/11, he must face his guilty conscience as he begins to find the things his deceased coworkers left behind.


  [1]: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL19651736W/The_Things_They_Left_Behind
Subjects: survivor's guilt, Artists, Fiction, Guilt, Suspense fiction, Psychological fiction, American detective and mystery stories, Fiction, mystery & detective, general
Places: New York City, World Trade Center
People: Scott Staley, Paula
Time periods: 2001, 2002