murder victims

America's murder laws--Murder statistics--The chronology of headline murders--Murder ink.

Sharon Rocha, mother of Laci Peterson, describes her daughter's relationship with Scott Peterson and chronicles Scott's trial for murdering Laci and their unborn son, Conner.

Discusses the impact on a community's race relations when a young African-American is found murdered near a river which separates two Michigan towns; one predominantly white and prosperous and the other African-American and impoverished.

Fourteen-year-old Susie Salmon, the victim of a sexual assault and murder, looks on from the afterlife as her family deals with their grief, and waits for her killer to be brought to some type of justice.

Detective inspector Joona Linna investigates a triple homicide in Tumba, Sweden, where the only surviving witness is the young boy who watched his family get killed, and in an effort to obtain information from him, Linna seeks out Dr. Erik Maria Bark to hypnotize the boy, an act which Bark had vowed never to do again, which reveals a unsettling chain of events.

After working one of the worst mass killings in U.S. history, Scarpetta returns home to Cambridge, Massachusetts. Exhausted and ill, she's recovering at home when she receives an unsettling call. The body of a young woman has been discovered on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's rugby field. The victim, a graduate student named Gail Shipman, is oddly draped in ivory linen and posed in a way that is too deliberate to be the killer's first strike. A preliminary examination in the sea of red mud where the body has been left also reveals a bizarre residue that fluoresces blood red, emerald green and sapphire blue. Physical evidence links the case to a series of uniquely weird homicides in Washington, D.C., where Scarpetta's FBI husband has been deployed to help capture a serial killer dubbed the Capital Murderer. The cases all connect and yet seem to conflict. Gail Shipman was murdered for financial gain--or was she? It will require the usual ensemble of characters to find out the truth, including Scarpetta's sidekick Pete Marino, who has undergone a drastic change in his life that places him center stage in a Cambridge investigation that puts everyone at risk" --.

Danny McCoyne, a minor bureaucrat in an English city, struggles to keep his family safe when an unexplained upsurge in violence in which ordinary people mysteriously turn on each other, sweeps the country.

In nineteenth-century London, artist Henry Chester falls in love with the delicate child beauty Effie, and makes her his bride, but Henry soon learns that the woman he wanted Effie to be is very different from the woman she is.