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The frozen face

1997
When Laura is haunted by a ghost, she wonders why the spirit has chosen her to help set him free.

The s?ance

2009
Constance Langton inherits a mysterious Tudor estate, Wraxford Hall, where she is drawn into the home's chilling history and finds an almost supernatural link with the missing daughter of Wraxford Hall's former owner.

A shot in the dark

2006
Don tries to help the police solve a murder when his brother Julio is shot and killed in their own neighborhood.

Black and white and dead all over

2008
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.

Three bags full

a sheep detective story
2006
A flock of sheep living on a hillside near the Irish village of Glennkill, regularly exposed to literature by their shepherd George, feel well-equipped to investigate murder after they find George dead--pinned to the ground with a spade.

Jazz

a novel
2004
A mysterious voice weaves the story of an African-American door-to-door salesman of beauty products who shoots his young lover, and his wife who tries to disfigure the corpse with a knife in the winter of 1926.

Roadsong

2006
Two runaway boys form the ultimate bond as they run from their pasts, forging a new friendship through their love of music.

The affair of the poisons

murder, infanticide and Satanism at the court of Louis XIV
2004
Chronicles the events surrounding the black magic and poisoning scandal that enveloped France during the reign of Louis XIV, describing how high-standing members of society were tried and executed for witchcraft during the late seventeenth century.

Crime and punishment

1993
Raskolnikov, a former Russian student, murders an old pawnbroker and her sister. The subsequent guilt with which he struggles results in a tragedy of tension and terror.

The cases that haunt us

from Jack the Ripper to JonBenet Ramsey, the FBI's legendary mindhunter sheds new light on the mysteries that won't go away
2000
FBI veteran John Douglas discusses how certain homicide cases have affected the American population and reexamines and reinterprets accepted facts in specific cases.

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