homicide

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Majestic descending

2007
While on a European cruise, Atlanta lawyer Katherine Adams meets former New York detective John Delaney, and together, they investigate the death of a fellow passenger.

Smuggler

2006
A graphic novel in which struggling actor Ryosuke Kinuta is forced to work as a carrier for a vicious loan shark, hiding the bodies of murdered victims in order to pay off his loan.

Homicide by the rich and famous

a century of prominent killers
2005
Profiles nineteen murders committed by the rich and famous during the twentieth century, exploring the motives, response of the community and local law enforcement, the media coverage, and the final outcome of each case.

Trail of blood

a father, a son and a tell-tale crime scene investigation
2005
Jim Dunn tells the story of his experiences after receiving a midnight phone call in 1991 informing him that his twenty-four-year-old son Scott was missing, describing how he pushed for six years to find proof of what had really happened to Scott, and discussing the help he received from the mysterious Vidocq Society.

The house gun

1999
The lives of upper-class professional Johannesburg couple Harald and Claudia Lindgard are shattered when their twenty-seven-year-old son Duncan shoots and kills one of his friends.

Homicide

a year on the killing streets
1991
Tells the true story of a year on the violent streets of an American city, focusing on three detectives, each driven in his own way to find out how and why the bodies fall.

Rules of ascension

2002
The magically gifted Qirsi, having been defeated generations earlier by the Eandi, make a new bid for power by framing Tavis, the heir to the Kingdom of Curgh, for the murder of his intended bride, setting in motion events that lead to civil war.

The condemnation of Little B

2002
Investigates the case of Michael Lewis, known as "Little B," who was convicted and sentenced to life in prison at the age of fourteen for shooting a man to death in "The Bluff" neighborhood of Atlanta, Georgia, and attempts to understand why the city, and especially its African-American population, rushed to condemn the young man.

Crime and punishment

1994
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.

Losing Matt Shepard

life and politics in the aftermath of anti-gay murder
2000
Explores why the murder of twenty-one-year-old gay University of Wyoming student Matt Shepard ignited a media frenzy and struck a cord with American society.

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