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Kiss in the dark

2010
After coping with a murder, Scarlett makes a fresh start at the elite boarding school run by her grandmother. But when her old archenemy Plum shows up, Scarlett must fight for her reputation, her friendship with Taylor, and her boyfriend, Jase. When a death occurs on the school's campus, Scarlett investigates and uncovers answers to tragedies in her past.

The probable future

2004
Elinor, her daughter, and her granddaughter use their clairvoyant gifts together to predict the future in their small New England town.

Angels fall

2007
Reece Gilmore checks into a psychiatric ward after witnessing a brutal murder scene in the diner where she works. To overcome her post-traumatic stress, Reece moves from Boston to the hills of Wyoming and witnesses another murder while hiking through the woods. Reece and another hiker, Brody, report the incident and suddenly find themselves the target of a dangerous man.

Me & Emma

2004
Carrie Parker, an imaginative eight-year-old, struggles to make the best of things for herself and her sister Emma after their father is murdered, and their mother marries an abusive drunk, but one particular act of cruelty pushes Carrie beyond what she can endure.

Lizzie

1984
A reexamination of the Lizzie Borden affair based on trial transcripts, newspaper accounts, interviews, and statements of living witnesses.

Murder & witchcraft in England, 1550-1640

as recounted in pamphlets, ballads, broadsides, & plays
1972

The crime of the century

the Leopold and Loeb case
1975

Voltage

a novel
1996
Agents Mulder and Scully are sent to investigate freak electrical storms killing off residents in a small Oklahoma town. The victims happen to be the enemies of a local video game whiz who seems to be able to create his own electricity, and Mulder and Scully have to find out how he does it before anyone else turns up dead.

X marks the spot

a novel
1995
FBI agent Fox Mulder, nicknamed "Spooky" for his belief in aliens and other unidentified phenomena, is teamed with Dana Scully, a no-nonsense agent who is supposed to keep Mulder in line, but what she sees when they set out to investigate a series of otherworldly murders, could make her a believer too.

Trial by jury journal

2002
Twelve-year-old Lily finds herself on the jury of a murder trial while conducting her own undercover investigation of the case.

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