homicide

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The city & the city

2009
Inspector Tyador Borlu of the Extreme Crime Squad in Beszel, a decaying city on the southeastern fringes of Europe, is assigned to investigate the murder of a young woman found by a group of teens, and his inquiry leads him into complicated negotiations with Ul Qoma, a city that shares the same physical area with Beszel, separated across time and space by the dreaded Breach.

Light in August

the corrected text
1990
Joe Christmas, who appears to be white but is part African-American, kills Joanna Burden, a spinster with whom he has had an affair. He is captured, castrated, and killed by outraged townspeople.

The Laramie project

2001
A play by Moises Kaufman which chronicles life in the town of Laramie, Wyoming, in the year following the brutal murder of Matthew Shepard, who was killed because he was gay.

The restless sleep

inside New York City's Cold Case Squad
2005
Presents an inside look at the New York City police department's Cold Case Squad, a group of detectives charged with trying to solve murders that are sometimes decades old, and follows them as they work to find answers to four unsolved murder cases going back as far as 1951.

The alienist

1998
In New York City in 1896 reporter John Moore, psychologist Dr. Laszlo Kreizler, and police secretary Susan Howard join forces to catch a serial murderer.

A death in Texas

a story of murder, race, and a small town's struggle for redemption
2002
Explores how the town of Jasper, Texas was forced to face its racist past after three white men chained a forty-nine-year-old African-American man named James Byrd Jr. to the bumper of a truck and dragged him three miles down a country road on June 7, 1998.

The wrong man

the final verdict on the Dr. Sam Sheppard murder case
2001

Motherless Brooklyn

1999
Lionel Essrog, a victim of Tourette's syndrome, is rescued from the St. Vincent's Home for Boys, along with three other boys, by local tough guy Frank Minna who molds the group into a fly-by-night detective agency, but when Frank is knifed and tossed in a dumpster, Lionel is forced to become a real detective in order to find the killer.

Anil's ghost

2000
Anil Tissera, a forensic anthropologist born in Sri Lanka and educated in England and America, finds herself in the midst of a complicated mystery when she is sent back to her home country by an international human rights group to discover the source of an organized campaign of murder on the island.

Alias Grace

1996
Fact-based story of Grace Marks, a sixteen-year-old girl who received a life sentence in 1843 for allegedly taking part in the murder of her employer and his lover, but whose case continued to stir debate throughout her prison stay, resulting in her release in 1872.

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