murder

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The sleepwalkers

2010
Willi Kraus, a Jewish detective in the Weimar Republic in 1932, begins investigating the disappearance of beautiful girls in Berlin, a case that leads him into the depraved upper echelons of the Nazi party.

Sleepless

2010
Terrified by the gruesome nightmares and unexplained bouts of sleepwalking that seem to be affecting her and many other students at Saint Opportuna High, Emma and her friends become even more unnerved when, after several deaths, they begin to suspect that something is causing them to kill in their sleep.

The likeness

2009
Detective Cassie Maddox is called back in to the murder squad by her lover Sam O'Neill to investigate the stabbing of a female graduate student who looks exactly like her, and when she goes undercover as the woman to draw out the killer, an old feud involving her new friends' comes to light and Cassie's involvement may become a liability.

Scattered graves

a Diane Fallon forensic investigation
2009
Diane Fallon is out of a job when the new mayor appoints one of his own friends as head of the crime lab, but when both the mayor and her replacement are murdered, Diane is pulled back on the job and into a web of corruption that threatens everyone in the town of Rosewood, Georgia, including her.

The brass verdict

a novel
2008
Attorney Mickey Haller, tapped to take over when his former colleage Jerry Vincent is murdered while in the middle of defending Hollywood producer Walter Elliot against a charge of killing his wife and her lover, scrambles to prepare a case while also working with LAPD detective Harry Bosch to find Vincent's killer who has apparently targeted Haller as his next victim.

Labyrinth

a detective investigates the murders of Tupac Shakur and Notorious B.I.G., the implication of Death Row Records' Suge Knight, and the origins of the Los Angeles Police scandal
2002

Only twice I've wished for heaven

a novel
1998
When the Saville family gains entrance to a new apartment building in Lakeland, they find out that life inside their gated apartment complex is much different from that on the outside.

Wolf rider

2000
After receiving an apparent crank call from a man claiming to have committed murder, fifteen-year-old Andy finds his close relationship with his father crumbling as he struggles to make everyone believe him.

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