The spirit of fourteen-year-old Susie Salmon describes her murder, her surprise at her new home in heaven, and her witness to her family's grief, efforts to find the killer, and attempts to come to terms with what has happened.
how the murder of a young Englishwoman haunted the last days of old China
French, Paul
2012
Chronicles the efforts of two detectives--one British and one Chinese--as they raced to find an Englishwoman's killer in 1937 before the Japanese invasion of Peking.
Having experienced compulsive behavior all her life, Lo's symptoms are getting her into trouble when she witnesses a murder while wandering dangerous quarters of Cleveland, Ohio, collecting things that do not belong to her, obsessing about her brother's death.
Refusing to believe that her pregnant, mercurial, artist sister committed suicide, Beatrice begins an obsessive search for the truth and is dismissed by her family and authorities until she closes in on a murderous predator.
the Gilded Age crime that scandalized a city and sparked the tabloid wars
Collins, Paul
2011
Traces the 1897 murder that initiated a tabloid war between media moguls Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst, chronicling the efforts of an anxious police officer, a cub reporter, and an eccentric professor to solve the crime.
Animal psychic and behaviorist Pru Marlowe investigates after one of clients is killed and the prime suspect is the victim's dog, a pitbull named Lily.
Veteran Interpol agent Henri Poincar?'s investigation of the murder of mathematician James Fenster just before Fenster's scheduled speech at a World Trade Organization meeting, leads him to America where he is making progress when he is called back to Europe to face unfinished business from a former genocide case, and comes to the realization the his two cases are related and he is the link.
Rachel Benjamin finds her fiance, Richard, floating facedown in the pool on the day of their wedding and sets out to investigate the crime; however, Peter Forrest, the best man and soon-to-be love interest, turns out to be her number-one suspect.
Keiichi befriends the young Sakoto, whose older brother recently disappeared without a trace, and Keiichi fears he has vanished due to Oyashiro-sama's curse.
