homicide

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homicide

At risk

A Massachusetts district attorney running for governor wants to use some radical new DNA technology to solve a long-ago murder. The result? A new round of violence.
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White heat

In his last role as a heartless gangster, James Cagney embarks on the prison break of a lifetime in this chilling tale that features one of the most riveting finales in movie history.
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Monsieur Verdoux

Henri Vedoux, supports his family by first marrying, and then killing wealthy widows.
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White oleander

Astrid, the only child of a single mother, struggles to find a place for herself in a world full of foster homes and impossible circumstances, after her mother is jailed for murder.
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Memento

Leonard's wife has been killed, and he doesn't know by whom. A head injury during the assault has left him unable to form any new memories from after the time of the attack. He uses photographs and tattooed messages to himself to help him piece together the facts of the case.
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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.
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Unanswered cries

a true story of friends, neighbors, and murder in a small town
Explores the 1984 Florida rape-murder of artist Karen Gregory and the ensuing events, including the effects on her family and boyfriend, and the investigation by one police detective.
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#Static

"When Curtis Brooks starts receiving phone calls from his older brother Wilt, who's been dead for a week...Curtis embarks on a dangerous plan to find the killer..."--Front flap.
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Jim Butcher's The Dresden files

fool moon
When Harry Desden, Chicago's wizard-for-hire, gets a call from Lt. Karin Murphy, he finds himself drawn into a case involving murder, mobsters, and werewolves.
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Portrait of a monster

Joran van der Sloot, a murder in Peru, and the Natalee Holloway mystery
A study of Joran van der Sloot, the man suspected in the deaths of Natalee Holloway, who disappeared from a high school trip to Aruba in May 2005, and Stephany Flores, founddead in a hotel room in Peru registered to Van der Sloot in 2010, featuring interviews with his family, as well as those of the victims, and sharing information from police files and official communications.
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