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Cheated

2009
Fifteen-year-old Mick recalls a series of betrayals and other life-changing events at home, school, and during the break-up with his girlfriend, and considers how those troubles led to his arrest for murder.

The blood confession

2006
Countess Erzebet Bizecka's blood ritual, in which she bathes in the blood of servant girls in order to achieve eternal youth and beauty, becomes dangerous when she meets a handsome stranger who shows her new ways to conduct the ceremony. Based on the life of Countess Erzs?bet B?thory who lived in Hungary in the sixteenth century.

Death by bikini

2008
Sixteen-year-old Aphra Behn Connolly investigates why her father let an unknown family stay at their exclusive tropical island resort, who strangled a famous rock star's girlfriend with her own bikini top, and what a smoldering teenaged guest is hiding.

When Dad killed Mom

2003
After their college psychologist father kills their artist mother, young Jenna and Jeremy struggle with the secret each of them keeps.

A pocket full of rye

2000
Spinster sleuth Miss Marple follows the clues to discover the murderer of wealthy Rex Fortescue who fell ill and died with a pocketful of rye after sipping a cup of tea.

The falconer's knot

2007
Silvano and Chiara, teens sent to live in a friary and a nunnery in Renaissance Italy, are drawn to one another and dream of a future together, but when murders are committed in the friary, they must discover who is behind the crimes before they can realize their love.

On the street where you live

2002
Feeling a need for stability after her divorce and pursuit by a stalker, criminal defense attorney Emily Graham accepts a job with a Manhattan law firm and buys the former family house in New Jersey. When the house is renovated, the corpse of a missing woman turns up along with evidence linked to a family disappearance in 1892.

The man in the brown suit

2001
After strangers pillage her cabin and try to strangle her, Anne must solve a mystery concerning a ballet dancer who is brutally murdered and a vanishing fortune in diamonds.

The gourmet zombie

2002
P.C. and Mac decide to investigate when they notice a bizarre connection between the seemingly accidental deaths of a number of famous chefs in New York City.

Death on the Amazon

2002
P.C. and his father go to Peru and end up on a boat going down the Amazon River with a killer on board.

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