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Case closed

A treasure hunt Doc Agasa sets up for Conan and the Junior Detective League becomes a mystery investigation when a box full of smashed toys and a violently stabbed teddy bear is found.

Case closed

During a summer visit to Serena's beach house, Conan witnesses a murder, but the culprit is one of three identical triplets, one of whom is Serena's sister's fiance, leaving Conan to wonder who the real killer is.

The shining mark

2010
Tony, having lost his best friend to violence the year before, puts his own life at risk to find a killer when friendly Mr. Jefferson is murdered.

The third twin

Ava and Lexi, high school seniors and identical twins, created an imaginary triplet, Alicia, to date and dump boys but now they are being stalked and impersonated by the sister they invented and their former dates are turning up dead.

Coping with gun violence

2019
This comprehensive yet compassionate text offers an in-depth look at how gun violence impacts different communities and provides advice for coping with the indelible mark it leaves.

Murder in Mississippi

United States v. Price and the struggle for civil rights
2004
Recounts the story of the three Civil Rights workers murdered in Mississippi in the summer of 1964 and examines the struggle for racial equality in that part of the south.

Up close and dangerous

a novel
2007
After her small plane crashes, nearly killing her and her pilot and leaving them stranded in the wilderness and dependent on each other for survival, a wealthy young widow begins to suspect that the crash was no accident.

Every dead thing

2000
Former NYPD detective Charlie Parker, teetering on the verge of madness after the unsolved slayings of his wife and daughter, finds his old instincts for survival, compassion, love, and killing reawakening when he agrees to help his old partner track down a missing girl.

Curious toys

a novel
2019
"In the sweltering summer of 1915, Pin, the fourteen-year-old daughter of a carnival fortune-teller, dresses as a boy and joins a teenage gang that roams the famous Riverview amusement park, looking for trouble. Unbeknownst to the well-heeled city-dwellers and visitors who come to enjoy the midway, the park is also host to a ruthless killer who uses the shadows of the dark carnival attractions to conduct his crimes.

Inside the mind of Scott Peterson

2005
Dr. Keith Ablow, a forensic psychiatrist, examines the psyche of Scott Peterson, explaining how a man with no known history of violent crime or mental illness could brutally murder his wife and unborn son.

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