homicide

Nancy Drew must use clues in a dead man's letters to find some unpublished musical manuscripts that will save an old man and his granddaughter from financial ruin.

Brother William turns detective in medieval Italy when seven bizarre deaths take place in seven days and nights.

Dr. Kay Scarpetta becomes both investigator and victim when she is contacted over the Internet by a murderer who is threatening to loose a deadly virus on the world.

Four teenage girls living in the suburbs of Tokyo, Toshi, Terauchi, Yuzan, and Kirarin, are doing their best to focus on summer school classes, in preparation for college, but when Toshi's neighbor is found murdered the girls suspect his son, a high school classmate they nicknamed "Worm.".

Freelance gunslingers Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch find Allie French working in a brothel and relocate with her to Brimstone where they are hired as deputy sheriffs, but a string of murders and frequent disagreements between the local saloon owner and preacher make it difficult for Cole and Hitch to keep the peace.

Ramon, a drifter who escaped the poverty of the Third World by joining an expedition to the distant planet of Sao Paulo, is forced to escape into the wilderness after he commits a high-profile murder, and stumbles upon a highly evolved alien race also trying to hide from the rest of the world.

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

Presents a historical mystery based on real events and features Oscar Wilde, Arthur Conan Doyle, and Robert Sherard as they investigate the murder of a young artist's model.

Twenty-seven-year-old Jason Talley impulsively decides to travel to India to pay homage to his friends Sriram and Vidya who have died in what police are calling a murder/suicide, and to deliver a scarf Sriram had purchased for his mother, but Jason soon learns that Sriram had a secret life that apparently got him killed, and is now endangering Jason.

After Midge's death, Al Murphy wandered around for years, a hollowed-out man who had turned to alcohol until it started to eat away his stomach, the same way grief had eaten away his heart. Murphy thought life had no value to him--until he stumbled upon the tail end of a murder outside Turrett. The killers, fearing that Murphy could identify them, turned their guns on him--and Murphy quickly decided he wasn't ready to die.