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1) Westport
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English
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"When she becomes the lead suspect in her coworker's murder, Nora Carleton calls in her old colleagues from the U.S. Attorney's Office, Mafia investigator Benny Dugan and lawyer Carmen Garcia, and as they hunt for the true killer's motive, Nora examines her history with the company to determine who framed her."--
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English
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"Olivia Andrews is locally famous for her blog and podcast, "Forget Me Not: A Crime Victim's Storyboard," which is dedicated to telling the stories of victims of crime. Now, she has a stunning story to tell about a decades-old murder mystery involving a prominent citizen of Pecan Springs-someone who isn't the man everybody thinks he is. But she is killed by a hit-and-run driver while she's out jogging early one morning. Was it an accident-or something...
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Publisher
Guy Saint-jean Editeur
Pub. Date
2024
Language
Français
Description
À 11 ans, Mary Bell imagine des jeux divertissants. Ce qui la fait bien rire? Étrangler les bambins du voisinage.
Le petit James, deux ans, échappe à la surveillance de sa mère. Il est retrouvé sans vie et affreusement mutilé sur une voie ferrée. Ses bourreaux? Deux gamins de 10 ans.
Lundi matin, 8 h 30. La cloche sonne à l'école. Pour Brenda Ann Spencer, 16 ans, c'est l'heure de tirer sur les élèves.
La jeune Wendy Gardner n'a que faire...
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The History Press
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
What is the connection between the number 13 and Jack the Ripper? Why was the number 18 crucial in catching Acid Bath murderer John George Haigh? And what is so puzzling about the number 340 in the chilling case of the Zodiac killer? The answers to all these questions and many more are revealed in a unique, number-crunching history of the ultimate crime. James Moore's Murder by Numbers tells the story of murder through the centuries in an entirely...
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Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"In 1910, Effie joins forces with an English newcomer to discover what lies behind the doors of the abandoned house on Predicament Avenue. In the present day, Norah reluctantly inherits the house turned bed and breakfast, where her first guest, a crime historian and podcaster, is set on uncovering the truth about what haunts this place"--
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English
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"Martha Ratliff conceded long ago that she'd likely spend her life alone. She was fine with it, happy with her solo existence, stimulated by her work as a librarian in Maine. But then she met Alan, a charming and sweet-natured salesman whose job took him on the road for half the year. When he asked her to marry him, she said yes, even though he still felt a little bit like a stranger. A year in and the marriage was good, except for that strange blood...
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Pub. Date
2024
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English
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"The police call him Merkury. He's a killer who chooses his victims seemingly at random. He leaves no evidence behind, and no witnesses. Except for one. When Kate Summerlin was eleven years old, she climbed out her bedroom window on a spring night, looking for a taste of freedom in the small college town where she was living with her parents. But what she found as she wandered in the woods near her house was something else: the body of a beautiful...
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Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"Klarke Ascher has a singular goal: to become an Ascenditure, a member of the kingdom's elite climbing team who scale the treacherous peaks of Miter's Backbone in search of an elusive medicine to treat the lung sickness that ails the populace. However, in a kingdom governed by centuries of tradition, where women are legally bound to home and hearth, owned by the men they are forced to marry, the Ascenditures have always been male. As the strongest...
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Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"If the dead can wake and walk among us, how can we know what is truly real? Roos Beckman has a spirit companion only she can see. Ruth-strange, corpse-like, and dead for centuries-is the light of Roos' life. That is, until the wealthy young widow Agnes Knoop visits one of Roos' backroom seances, and the two strike up a connection. Soon, Roos is whisked away to the crumbling estate Agnes inherited upon the death of her husband, where an ill woman...
10) Shadowheart
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Unsub novel ; 4
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English
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Two serial killers are locked in a twisted rivalry. To stop the brutal slayings, FBI profiler Caitlin Hendrix will risk everything to end their warped competition and bring an unstoppable killer to justice.
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Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
20240521
Language
English
Description
When reclusive, mysterious author Ginerva Ex takes her on a lavish trip on the newly renovated Orient Express, for helping craft her latest thriller, Rory discovers Ginerva has masterminded the ultimate real-life twisty plot with Rory as her main character, and as lies, deceptions and betrayals pile up, so do the bodies.
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Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"When a reproduction of a famous painting is stolen from a traveling show of impressionist art, librarian Lucy is painted into a corner when a murder occurs, while Louise Jane is captivated by handsome art dealer, who might be the killer-and the person threatening to break her heart."--
13) Perilous waters
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Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"Jessie Madison escaped to the Bahamas when she made a terrifying discovery at home and a bad decision got her dismissed from the FBI training program. Three months later, Jessie is ready to return to Virginia to pick up the pieces of her shattered life – until she and a friend are attacked during a boat ride and thrown overboard, with devastating consequences. Jessie is determined to bring their attackers to justice. Who are they? What were they...
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Publisher
Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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A woman who has been seeing spirits since childhood offers her assistance to the local police after a series of grisly child murders and becomes a suspect herself after uncovering an impossible piece of information from her ghost informants.
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Publisher
The History Press
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
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Some said that the killer couldn't be a local. Others claimed that he was the wealthy son of a prominent Morgantown family. Whispers spread that Mared and Karen were sacrificed by a satanic cult or had been victims of a madman poised to strike again. Then the handwritten letters began to arrive: "You will locate the bodies of the girls covered over with brush--look carefully. The animals are now on the move." Investigators didn't find too few suspects--they...
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Publisher
Oreon
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"In the desolate Yorkshire moors, a book may hold the key to a brutal murder. When a renowned American book collector is found dead at the foot of Harlesden Scar, it appears to be a tragic accident. But his nephew and Captain Mannering are convinced it's a mysterious and sinister homicide, potentially linked to a long-neglected tome in the doctor's possession. Determined to uncover the truth, the pair embark on a perilous chase, desperate to catch...
17) Blind spot
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Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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'How can you say things like this? How can you be so blind?' Since they were kids, Edie, Jake and Ryan have been the closest of friends. It's been the three of them against the world. Edie thought the bonds between them were unbreakable. So when Jake is brutally murdered and Ryan accused of the crime, her world is shattered. Edie is alone for the first time in years, living in the remote house that she and Jake shared. She is grief-stricken and afraid...
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Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
Vivian Lestrange--celebrated author of the popular mystery novel The Charterhouse Case and total recluse--has apparently dropped off the face of the Earth. After he was reported missing by his secretary Eleanor, whom Inspector Bond suspects to be the author herself, crime and murder are afoot when Lestrange's housekeeper is also found to have disappeared. Bond and Warner of Scotland Yard set to work to investigate a murder with no body and a potentially...
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Mariner Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Based on his own on-the-ground research and drawing on his 25-year career as an FBI special agent, the author takes us along America's highways and interstates where at least 850 homicides have been linked to long-haul truck drivers, which caused the FBI to open a special unit, the Highway Serial Killings initiative."--
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Hyperion Avenue, an imprint of Buena Vista Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
"Uvalde: 365 was a continuing ABC News series led by the network's Investigative Unit. As part of the initiative, ABC News opened a local satellite news bureau in Uvalde, Texas, in the aftermath of the tragic mass shooting at Robb Elementary School, that hosted a rotating crew of correspondents, producers, writers, and technical staff. Their gripping, vital reporting has been featured across all programs and platforms, from Good Morning America to...
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