homicide

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homicide

The s?ance

2009
Constance Langton inherits a mysterious Tudor estate, Wraxford Hall, where she is drawn into the home's chilling history and finds an almost supernatural link with the missing daughter of Wraxford Hall's former owner.

A shot in the dark

2006
Don tries to help the police solve a murder when his brother Julio is shot and killed in their own neighborhood.

Three bags full

a sheep detective story
2006
A flock of sheep living on a hillside near the Irish village of Glennkill, regularly exposed to literature by their shepherd George, feel well-equipped to investigate murder after they find George dead--pinned to the ground with a spade.

Sophocles' Oedipus the King

2004
Presents a retelling of the classic Greek tragedy of Oedipus, who unknowingly murdered his father and married his mother and then puts out his own eyes when he discovers the truth.

Jazz

a novel
2004
A mysterious voice weaves the story of an African-American door-to-door salesman of beauty products who shoots his young lover, and his wife who tries to disfigure the corpse with a knife in the winter of 1926.

Dearly devoted Dexter

a novel
2005
Dexter, a serial killer who limits his victims to other killers, bides his time between murders by working as a blood splatter analyst for the Miami Police Department, and dating Rita, the single mother of two children, but he is faced with a challenge when a psychopath arrives in town and his sister, a newly-minted Miami detective, becomes involved in the case.

Angel's rest

2006
Eleven-year-old Charlie York's idyllic life in Sunnyside, Virginia, is shattered in 1967 when his father is killed by a shotgun blast and his mother is arrested for murder, and he becomes even more confused when his caretaker, Lacy Albert Coe, is victimized by townspeople who are offended that the elderly African-American storyteller has been left in charge of a white child.

Roadsong

2006
Two runaway boys form the ultimate bond as they run from their pasts, forging a new friendship through their love of music.

Crime and punishment

1993
Raskolnikov, a former Russian student, murders an old pawnbroker and her sister. The subsequent guilt with which he struggles results in a tragedy of tension and terror.

Children who kill

profiles of pre-teen and teenage killers
2003
Uses in-depth case studies of thirteen killers aged between ten and seventeen to explore the reasons some children choose to kill.

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