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Requiem for a nun

1975
Presents a sequel to "Sanctuary," in which Temple Drake, now married to Gowan Stevens, decides to confess her own guilt after the nurse Nancy is sentenced to death for the murder of Temple and Gowan's child.

Tenderness

2004
A psychological thriller told from the points of view of a teenage serial killer and the runaway girl who falls in love with him.

Shot in the heart

1994
Mikal Gilmore, brother of murderer Gary Gilmore, documents the origins of Gary's violence with the true story of their family.

Bully

a true story of high school revenge
1998
Details a Florida murder case in which seven high school teenagers, led by Marty Puccio, plotted and carried out the killing of Bobby Kent, a so-called bully who had been friends with Marty since childhood.

Waiting to be heard

a memoir
2013
Amanda Knox relates her trial and time spent in jail for the accused murder of her roommate Meredith Kercher in Perugia, Italy, and her subsequent acquittal.

Higurashi when they cry

2011
Shion, running out of patience because of the inability of the police to find Satoshi or the person who killed his aunt, continues to dress as both Shion and Mion and hopes by getting closer to Keiichi, who Shion believes will be the next victim, she will be able to catch the murderer when he or she attacks.

Higurashi when they cry

2008
When Keiichi Maebara moves to a quiet town where nothing happens and all of his classmates in the small one-room schoolhouse are cute girls, he suddenly falls upon a story about a gruesome murder that soon involves his friends and his own safety.

Unsolved crimes

1993
Examines unsolved crimes such as the Zodiac murders, who killed crime kingpin Arnold Rothstein, and others.

The back door of midnight

Dark Secrets, Book 5
2010
Anna struggles to maintain a sense of normalcy while staying with her eccentric aunt for the summer, but when her uncle's charred body is discovered and her aunt's grief exaggerates her psychic abilities, Anna wonders who she can trust and if her family's supernatural abilities might help her find her uncle's killer.

The boy in the burning house

2003
Trying to solve the mystery of his father's disappearance from their rural Canadian community, fourteen-year-old Jim gets help from the disturbed Ruth Rose, who suspects her stepfather, a local pastor.

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