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Boy in the box

the unsolved case of America's unknown child
Recounts the events surrounding the fifty-year-long investigation into the unsolved murder of a young boy whose body was found in a cardboard box in 1957.

One by one

A team of coworkers are invited by the cofounder of Snoop--a popular, trending, London-based tech start up--to spend a week at a ski chalet in the French Alps. The corporate retreat starts out like any other, but then one shareholder decides to upend everything with a contentious buying offer, an avalanche traps some of the team inside while one was caught outside skiing, and one by one the team loses access to the outside world.

The Menendez murders

the shocking untold story of the Menendez family and the killings that stunned the nation
Explores the arrests and trials of Erik and Lyle Menendez who were convicted of the killing of their parents Kitty and Jose Menendez in Beverly Hills, California in 1989.

Wanted!

Alice suspects something is wrong when she gets a call from her father insisting she drive his precious Corvette to meet him, even though she does not have a driver's license, but she realizes someone has set her up when she learns that her father is dead and she is the number one suspect.

The fatal gift of beauty

the trials of Amanda Knox
Details the murder of twenty-one-year-old Meredith Kercher and the subsequent investigation and trial of American Amanda Knox for the crime.

Who is Casey Anthony?

understanding the motherly motivation to murder
Though Casey Anthony was found not guilty of murdering her daughter, the author looks at the guilty side of the coin to try and understand what would motivate a mother to kill.

Midnight assassin

a murder in America's heartland
Presents an account of the murder of Iowa farmer John Hossack in December 1900, drawing from newspaper accounts, government documents, unpublished memoirs, and the legal record to retrace the subsequent investigation, and the arrest and trial of his wife, Margaret.

Crime and punishment

Raskolnikov, an impoverished Russian student, murders a despicable old pawnbroker, reasoning that his evil act is outweighed by humanitarian good, but he discovers the fault in his theory when he is plagued by horror and guilt over his actions.

The murder game

When someone attempts to frame his best friend for murder at St. Benedict's boarding school, junior Luke Chase starts investigating on his own and discovers multiple suspects with darks secrets in their past.

Family of liars

Carrie Sinclair tells the ghost of her son Johnny about the summer of 1987, when "the boys" arrive on Beechwood Island, setting off events that will haunt her for years to come.

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