homicide

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homicide

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2022
Simon and Vicky couldn't seem more normal: a wealthy Chicago couple, he a respected law professor, she an advocate for domestic violence victims. A stable, if unexciting marriage. But one thing's for sure, absolutely nothing is what it seems. The pair are far from normal, and one of them just may be a killer. When the body of a beautiful socialite is found hanging in a mansion in a nearby suburb, Simon and Vicky's secrets begin to unravel. A secret whirlwind affair. A twenty-million-dollar trust fund about to come due. A decades-long grudge and obsession with revenge. These are just a few of the lies that make up the complex web and they will have devastating consequences. And while both Vicky and Simon are liars, just who exactly is conning who?.

I will find you

2023
An innocent father serving life for the murder of his own son receives evidence that his child may still be alive, and must break out of prison to find out the truth.

In the pines

2022
A national treasure hunt with a $2 million prize has driven obsessed fortune seekers to overrun the small town of Eagle?s Nest, Oregon. The hunt?s cryptic clues and the lure of wealth have exposed the desperate side of human greed: theft, fights, trespassing; and even the motive to kill. Police chief Truman Daly craves peace in his town but has a murder on his hands instead. Now the big prize isn?t the only thing hiding in the pines. So is a killer.

The first death

2023
Rowan Wolff was five years old when she, her brother, and their babysitter were kidnapped by a serial killer in the Pacific Northwest. The babysitter was murdered. Rowan was saved. Her brother was killed and buried in the forest, his remains never found. The convicted killer refuses to say where he buried the boy. Twenty-five years later, Rowan is committed to search and rescue with her faithful canine and is obsessed with finding her brother?s grave; and closure.

The silence

2020
A man is savagely murdered outside Portland, and Detective Mason Callahan finds blood-spatter evidence that tells a troubling story. Files reveal the murder victim, Reuben Braswell, was a radical conspiracist. In his home, investigators find pages of diatribes against law enforcement as well as ties to Mason?s fianc?e, FBI special agent Ava McLane. The victim was her informant, and had strong reasons to be paranoid.

Cross down

2023
When military-style attacks erupt, brutally sidelining Cross, Sampson is sent reeling. The patterns are too random; Sampson's friend, his partner, his brother; have told him. Don't trust anyone. As a shadow force advances on the nation's capital, Sampson alone must protect the Cross family, his own young daughter, and every American, including the president.

Graceling

la asesina y pr?ncipe
2022
In a world where some people are born with extreme and often-feared skills called Graces, Katsa struggles for redemption from her own horrifying Grace of killing and teams up with another young fighter to save their land from a corrupt king.

You're next

2021
Flora Calhoun, haunted by a history of finding dead bodies and the murder of her ex, Ava McQueen, uncovers a conspiracy, putting herself and all her loved ones in peril.

By any other name

2023
In London, 1593, sixteen-year-old Will Hughes makes his living on Shakespeare's stage, but after his mentor, the famous playwright Christopher Marlowe, is murdered, he teams up with young Lord James Bloomsbury, and together the two hunt the elusive assassin as their forbidden feelings for each other ignite.

Wander in the dark

2024
Two brothers must come together to solve the murder of the most popular girl in school after one of them is caught fleeing the scene of her death.

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