murder

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

Presents a historical mystery based on real events and features Oscar Wilde, Arthur Conan Doyle, and Robert Sherard as they investigate the murder of a young artist's model.

When rookie police constable Nicole Patterson discovers a body on the edge of town, she is drawn into a murder investigation that is well beyond her experience and expertise.

Amanda Moss always knew she was adopted, but it wasn't until a friend of her birth mother called her and told Amanda her mother just died from cancer, Amanda sets out to learn the truth about her biological parents.

Bianca is drawn into a web of deception and long-held secrets after stumbling upon the body of an unknown woman on the grounds of her new boarding school.

Donald, Jason, Hootie, and Lee, all devoted to charismatic campus guru Spencer Mallon while at college in the 1960s, are haunted by their participation in one of Mallon's secret rituals that ended in a gruesome murder, and they are forced to confront questions about the nature of evil when Lee's husband starts trying to figure out what happened that so changed the lives of the four friends.

A thirteen-year-old girl in Portland, Oregon, loses all self-doubt when she is zapped by lightning and uses her newfound courage to solve a murder mystery.

Shy and unremarkable, seventeen-year-old Matt Lathrop is surprised and flattered to find himself singled out for the sexual attentions of the alluring Skye Colby, until he discovers the evil purpose behind her actions.

Twenty-seven-year-old Jason Talley impulsively decides to travel to India to pay homage to his friends Sriram and Vidya who have died in what police are calling a murder/suicide, and to deliver a scarf Sriram had purchased for his mother, but Jason soon learns that Sriram had a secret life that apparently got him killed, and is now endangering Jason.

After Midge's death, Al Murphy wandered around for years, a hollowed-out man who had turned to alcohol until it started to eat away his stomach, the same way grief had eaten away his heart. Murphy thought life had no value to him--until he stumbled upon the tail end of a murder outside Turrett. The killers, fearing that Murphy could identify them, turned their guns on him--and Murphy quickly decided he wasn't ready to die.