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A kiss before dying

2003
Presents the classic suspense drama about a young man who will stop at nothing in order to gain wealth and fame, even if it means doing away with his pregnant girlfriend.

Heat wave

2009
Tough and sexy New York police detective Nikki Heat leads the investigation into the death of a New York real estate tycoon who plunged to his death on a Manhattan sidewalk. She's hit with an unexpected challenge when the commissioner assigns superstar magazine journalist Jameson Rook to ride along with her to research an article on New York's Finest.

Die softly

1991
Herb sets up a hidden camera in the girls locker room hoping to get some nude photographs of cheerleaders, and instead captures a scene that puts his own life in danger.

Eden

a zombie novel
2008
Overnight the world transforms into a barren wasteland revaged by plague and overrun by hordes of flesh-eating zombies. A small band of desperate men and women stand their ground in a fortified compound in what had once been Queens, New York. They've named their sanctuary Eden"--cover.

Velocity

2006

Black and white and dead all over

2009
When a powerful editor is found murdered in the newsroom at the struggling "New York Globe, " an ambitious female NYPD detective, who teams up with Jude Hurley, a reporter, is assigned to the case and must contend with pressure from the mayor and the problem of too many suspects as more people turn up dead.

Out

2005
Masako Katori has spent years searching for a way out of her dead-end life, until one night when she snaps, strangling her dead-beat husband and seeks her fellow employees' assistance in disposing of the body.

The brass verdict

2009
Attorney Mickey Haller, tapped to take over when his former colleague 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.

The boys in the trees

a novel
2008
Members of a small Canadian town are left to wonder if they might have been able to prevent the tragedy when William Heath, an apparently devoted husband and father, kills his wife and daughters after being accused of embezzlement by his employer.

American rust

2009
Billy Poe and Isaac English, two friends in Buell, a struggling steel town in Pennsylvania, plan to escape to California, but when Isaac accidentally kills a transient, other complications arise that strain their friendship while Poe's mother, Grace, pines for the local sheriff.

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