Sarah Keith

Lucy Gaines

Lucy Gaines By: Brett Reetz A bizarre and inexplicable killing has occurred on the Peninsula. What remains of the body appears to have been devoured by animals, but this is impossible. There are no wild animals in the county capable of doing such a thing to a human body, no humans either. Lucy Gaines, a Sheriff’s Deputy working the case, is in the throes of a premature mid-life crisis. When isn’t she, she wonders? All she wants is to have a normal life with a husband, children, a dog and a picket fence in front of a modest home. She’s working on it but the killing isn’t stopping. There’s more. Something evil has arrived on the Peninsula and it wants Lucy. It knows her needs and makes Lucy a tempting offer. She needs to decide. Her life depends on it.

Portrait of Sarah Keith when a Young Child

Social Network Analysis

Social network analysis is used widely in the social and behavioral sciences, as well as in economics, marketing, and industrial engineering. The social network perspective focuses on relationships among social entities and is an important addition to standard social and behavioral research, which is primarily concerned with attributes of the social units. Social Network Analysis: Methods and Applications reviews and discusses methods for the analysis of social networks with a focus on applications of these methods to many substantive examples. It is a reference book that can be used by those who want a comprehensive review of network methods, or by researchers who have gathered network data and want to find the most appropriate method by which to analyze it. It is also intended for use as a textbook as it is the first book to provide comprehensive coverage of the methodology and applications of the field.