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Gun control

Examines the two sides of the debate related to gun control including policies and practices throughout American history, gun laws and legislation, gun safety, and crime and law enforcement.

The antiquarian

A renowned psycholinguist delves into the confession of a once-dear friend, a rare book collector who is incarcerated in a mental institution for killing his fianc?e, told to him in bits of novels, fables, and historical allusions.

Sparkling cyanide

2013
The truth about Rosemary's death a year earlier is revealed as six characters find themselves remembering the night she died.

The peripheral

In a near-future America, jobs that don't involve illegal drug manufacturing are scares. Flynne Fisher makes some money at a 3-D printing shop, but her main source of income used to be professionally playing online shooter games. Seventy years in the future, Wilf Netherton lives in a London society where time travel, of a kind, to the past is commonplace. Wilf and Flynne meet each other when Flynne begins work in a virtual online world that looks much like London--both their worlds are altered, and secrets from Wilf's past and Flynne's future come to light.

Ghettoside

a true story of murder in America
2015
Using the story of homicide victim Bryant Tennelle in the Ghettoside, a word used to describe a South Central Los Angeles neighborhood, the author explores how gangs have taken over neighborhoods in the absence of a trusted legal authority.

Perfectionists: The Good girls

2015
When a rich bully and someone else dies, Mackenzie, Ava, Caitlin, Julie, and Parker wonder if they're being framed. Or are they about to become the killer's next targets?.

Portraits of Celina

2015
After her father's death sixteen-year-old Bayley and her family move out to the lake, to the house from which sixteen-year-old Celina O'Malley mysteriously disappeared nearly forty years before--but when she finds a trunk of Celina's clothes, her cousin's spirit starts reaching out to Bayley, and it seems that she wants her murder solved, even if her revenge costs Bayley her life.

Marry, kiss, kill

2015
"Movie stars are in Santa Barbara for the film festival, and powerful business interests are at stake. Detective Nola MacIntire and her partner, Tony, must untangle the complicated web behind three seemingly unrelated deaths in this idyllic beach town."--Back cover.

Deadly little sins

a Prep school confidential novel
After a summer of virtual house arrest in New York City, Anne Dowling finds herself back at Wheatley, where her favorite teacher and only adult ally, Ms. Cross, has disappeared and someone is determined to stop Anne from learning the truth about that and a gruesome murder.

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