homicide

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When the wind blows

2000
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.

Jack and Jill

a novel
1996
A series of murders leaves homicide detective Alex Cross looking for clues as to the killer's motives and next victim.

Promise not to tell

a novel
2007
Soon after returning to her childhood home in Vermont to care for her mother who suffers from Alzheimer's disease, Kate Cypher learns about a recent murder that is similar to one thirty-one years earlier in which her friend Del was the victim, and as she investigates, surprising details about the community begin to unfold.

On the street where you live

2001
Feeling a need for stability after her divorce and pursuit by a stalker, criminal defense attorney Emily Graham accepts a job with a Manhattan law firm and buys the former family house in New Jersey. When the house is renovated, the corpse of a missing woman turns up along with evidence linked to a family disappearance in 1892.

The Yiddish policemen's union

a novel
2007
An alternate history novel in which Alaska was established as the Jewish homeland after World War II and fifty years later the inhabitants are being forced to leave their neighborhoods, but before moving, detective Meyer Landsman is determined to find his neighbor's murderer and uncover the truth behind his sister's accidental death.

Me & Emma

2004
Carrie Parker, an imaginative eight-year-old, struggles to make the best of things for herself and her sister Emma after their father is murdered, and their mother marries an abusive drunk, but one particular act of cruelty pushes Carrie beyond what she can endure.

Torso

the story of Eliot Ness and the search for a psychopathic killer
1989
The story of one of America's first serial killers and the investigative team led by Eliot Ness who tried to solve the murders.

Voltage

a novel
1996
Agents Mulder and Scully are sent to investigate freak electrical storms killing off residents in a small Oklahoma town. The victims happen to be the enemies of a local video game whiz who seems to be able to create his own electricity, and Mulder and Scully have to find out how he does it before anyone else turns up dead.

X marks the spot

a novel
1995
FBI agent Fox Mulder, nicknamed "Spooky" for his belief in aliens and other unidentified phenomena, is teamed with Dana Scully, a no-nonsense agent who is supposed to keep Mulder in line, but what she sees when they set out to investigate a series of otherworldly murders, could make her a believer too.

Death comes as the end

1992
In Egypt about 2,000 B.C., the concubine of a ka-priest is murdered just before her marriage to her master.

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