homicide

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Hallowe'en party

A thirteen-year-old girl is found drowned at a Halloween party after she boasted of seeing a murder.

The ex

a novel
"...a woman agrees to help an old boyfriend who has been framed for murder--but begins to suspect that she is the one being manipulated"--Front flap.

The Bear House

"In a medieval world where the ruling houses are based on the constellations, betrayal, intrigue, and a king's murder force the royal sisters of the Bear House on the run"--Provided by publisher.

One by one

A team of coworkers are invited by the cofounder of Snoop--a popular, trending, London-based tech start up--to spend a week at a ski chalet in the French Alps. The corporate retreat starts out like any other, but then one shareholder decides to upend everything with a contentious buying offer, an avalanche traps some of the team inside while one was caught outside skiing, and one by one the team loses access to the outside world.

Gun control

Today, Americans own more than 360 million guns, and many view firearms as a symbol of self-reliance and a critical defense against the threat of government tyranny.

Wanted!

Alice suspects something is wrong when she gets a call from her father insisting she drive his precious Corvette to meet him, even though she does not have a driver's license, but she realizes someone has set her up when she learns that her father is dead and she is the number one suspect.

The fatal gift of beauty

the trials of Amanda Knox
Details the murder of twenty-one-year-old Meredith Kercher and the subsequent investigation and trial of American Amanda Knox for the crime.

Who is Casey Anthony?

understanding the motherly motivation to murder
Though Casey Anthony was found not guilty of murdering her daughter, the author looks at the guilty side of the coin to try and understand what would motivate a mother to kill.

Midnight assassin

a murder in America's heartland
Presents an account of the murder of Iowa farmer John Hossack in December 1900, drawing from newspaper accounts, government documents, unpublished memoirs, and the legal record to retrace the subsequent investigation, and the arrest and trial of his wife, Margaret.

The murder game

When someone attempts to frame his best friend for murder at St. Benedict's boarding school, junior Luke Chase starts investigating on his own and discovers multiple suspects with darks secrets in their past.

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