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Halloween night

Brenda hates her cousin Halley and she isn't the only one, given Halley's habit of stealing other people's boyfriends. So Brenda and her friends plan the perfect murder--and one of them isn't joking.

The boy next door

Scott, the new star of Shadyside High's football team, hasmoved in right next door to Lauren and Crystal, and both girls will try anything to get the chance to go out with him, but that is all Scott's last girlfriend wanted, too--and now she is dead.

One of us

Derrick Shaw witnesses a murder on the way home from his after-school job and promises the killer he will not reveal his identity, but his vow of silence begins to weigh heavily on Derrick's mind.

Alguien est? mintiendo

2017
"When the creator of a high school gossip app mysteriously dies in front of four high-profile students all four become suspects. It's up to them to solve the case"--.
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Killers of the Flower Moon

the Osage murders and the birth of the FBI
2018
"Presents a true account of the early twentieth-century murders of dozens of wealthy Osage and law-enforcement officials, citing the contributions and missteps of a fledgling FBI that eventually uncovered one of the most chilling conspiracies in American history"--OCLC.
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In cold blood

2009
Examines the lives and deaths of four members of the Clutter family of Holcomb, Kansas, and the two men who murdered them on November 15, 1959.

Scythe

2017
"In a world where disease has been eliminated, the only way to die is to be randomly killed ('gleaned') by professional reapers ('scythes'). Two teens must compete with each other to become a scythe--a position neither of them wants. The one who becomes a scythe must kill the one who doesn't"--Provided by publisher.

The case of the dead duck

2017
Young real estate agent Ben Stephens tries to move on with his life after his younger brother winds up on death row, but when his mother implores him to consider the possibility that Roy is innocent, he decides to look into the case himself.

The case of the cursed chalet

2017
Nina's job as assistant manager at a ski lodge is threatened when strange incidents keep driving guests away from Chalet 17, the site of a long-ago murder.

When sleeping dogs awaken

2017
Twenty-one-year-old Tanner Brice stirs up a lot of old trouble when he begins to suspect his stepfather murdered his father sixteen years earlier and goes to his father's former boss for help investigating the crime.

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