homicide

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When the wind blows

a novel
1998
Unconventional FBI agent Kit Harrison, determined to pursue a conspiracy of illegal human genetic experimentation, travels to Colorado where he and veterinarian Frannie O'Neill work together to save a group of children who can fly.

Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime & punishment

a graphic novel
2008
A graphic adaptation of the Russian novel, here set in twenty-first-century St. Petersburg, in which Raskolnikov murders a woman and is consumed by guilt.

In the woods

2008
Dublin detective Bob Ryan has never been able to recall what happened when as a child in 1984 he and two friends went into the woods and only he returned, but he sees a chance to solve the mystery of the past through his investigation of the murder of a twelve-year-old girl whose body has been found in the same woods.

Dearly devoted Dexter

a novel
2006
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.

Witness for the prosecution of Scott Peterson

2005
Amber Frey's story of her time with Scott, and her contribution to seek justice for Laci Peterson and her unborn child, Connor.

Hate crime

the story of a dragging in Jasper, Texas
2002
Examines the events surrounding the 1998 dragging and murder of a forty-nine-year-old African-American man in Jasper, Texas.

Big trouble

1999
Chaos reigns when a couple of hit men decide to make their strike against embezzler Arthur Herk at the same time that teenagers Matt and Andrew set out to "shoot" Arthur's stepdaughter Jenny in a high school squirtgun game called Killer.

Dark justice

1999
Tulsa attorney Ben Kincaid, hoping to get some rest and relaxation in the Pacific Northwest, instead becomes embroiled in the murderous conflict between the local logging industry in Magic Valley and a group of crusading conservationists.

The simple truth

1998
While Sara Evans is researching a murder case, she finds evidence that links the murderer to the Supreme Court, and soon she finds herself trying to save the escaped convict so that she can uncover the conspiracy that is killing some of the most influential people in the United States.

The trouble with a hot summer

a Simona Griffo mystery
1997
Advertising executive Simona Griffo has come to East Hampton in search of a week of rest and relaxation, but her peaceful vacation turns into a murder investigation when the body of fellow guest Bud Warren is found floating in the bay.

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