Tender Mercies: Inside the World of a Child Abuse Investigator, by Keith N. Richards (TPB, 1998, $3)
"Somewhere a child will be crying, and I'll have to find out why. I'll arrive on someone's doorstep, brandishing my Excalibur clip-board, my white steed parked at the curb, my vested authority representing either a knight's shining armor or the cloak of doom to whoever answers the door."
This is the job no one wants to know about, but it is also the job that we need to know about. Look for it on the new non-fiction table, avail. 11/29.
