homicide

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The cases that haunt us

from Jack the Ripper to JonBenet Ramsey, the FBI's legendary mindhunter sheds new light on the mysteries that won't go away
2000
FBI veteran John Douglas discusses how certain homicide cases have affected the American population and reexamines and reinterprets accepted facts in specific cases.

Susan Smith

victim or murderer
1996

Trial by journal

2002
In this illustrated novel told through journal entries, news clippings, and letters, twelve-year-old Lily finds herself on the jury of a murder trial while conducting her own undercover investigation of the case.

The square root of murder

2002
P.C. and Mackenzie investigate when a professor is murdered in the math department of Columbia Univeristy.

Iago

a novel
2011
Having escaped from Cyprus, accused of the murders of the governor, known as the Moor, and his lovely young wife, Iago is now locked in battle with Annibale Malipiero, known as Il Terribile, the chief inquisitor of Italy's greatest city.

Wilderness

1983
After witnessing a murder, Aaron Newman teams up with his neighbor, Chris Hood, to chase the killer through the woods of Maine.

At risk

2006
A Massachusetts district attorney running for governor decides to use a radical new DNA technology to solve a long-ago murder, but his efforts only result in another outbreak of violence.

Native son

1968
Trapped in the poverty-stricken ghetto of Chicago's South Side, a young black man finds release only in acts of violence.

I'll be seeing you

1993
Meghan Collins, a television news reporter, is covering a story in the emergency room of a large metropolitan hospital when a young woman is rushed in, victim of a stabbing. A chain of discovery begins that exposes the secret lives of the people closest to her.

The weed that strings the hangman's bag

2011
Flavia de Luce, an eleven-year-old sleuth, sets aside her chemistry experiments to solve the mystery behind the death of an unfortunate puppeteer--who was electrocuted--and attempts to discover how his death is connected to a cold case that the local constables have been unable to solve.

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