murder

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murder

Sudden death

1997
Sara Howell is alarmed when her friend is found dead and the police call it an accident, but her life is turned around when she finds reason to believe it was murder and decides to uncover the killer's identity and motive.

Yesterday's child

1998
After her mother's sudden death, high school student Laura starts hunting for information about her mother's mysterious past, and in searching, uncovers some terrible secrets.

Death in the afternoon

1996
Sara Howell launches her own investigation after her father is killed by a hit-and-run driver and the police are unable to come up with any clues. When someone starts following Sara and her brother Steve begins receiving threats, she realizes her dad's death was no accident.

The mind reader

1994
Ellie's visions have led her to the body of a murdered girl. The visions may also lead her to the murderer, unless he finds her first.

Fables

2002
In Fabletown, where fairy tale legends live alongside regular New Yorkers, everyone wants to know who killed Rose Red, and the community is soon taking sides against one another.

The unspoken

2008
Six teens are drawn back to the small, North Carolina town where they once lived and, one by one, begin to die of their worst fears, as prophesied by the cult leader they killed five years earlier, and who they believe poisoned their parents.

Hamlet

2008
A graphic novel adaptation of William Shakespeare's tragedy in which a Danish prince seeks vengeance for his father's murder after being visited by his ghost.

Killing Britney

2005
Britney Johnson, a high school student in Madison, Wisconsin, makes a transformation from ugly duckling to beautiful blond, but her newfound popularity comes at a price when it appears that a jealous classmate has decided to kill off everyone Britney loves.

Crusader

2007
After a violent virtual-reality game arrives at the mall arcade where she works, fifteen-year-old Roberta finds the courage to search out the person who murdered her mother.

Chronicle of a death foretold

1984
Studies a murder which takes place shortly after a wedding and explores the mass community complicity that allowed it to happen.

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