homicide

Amateur investigator Alden Ross thinks he witnessed a murder, but when the victim shows up alive, he must figure out what he could have seen and what the school's most popular couple is hiding.

"While true-crime afficionado Ellery and her twin brother are staying with their grandmother in a Vermont community known for murder, a new friend goes missing and Ellery may be next"--Provided by publisher.

Toby works as a publicist in an art gallery and comes from a well-to-do family. One night, he comes home to find two burglars who beat him nearly to death, leaving him with severe physical and mental trauma, including holes in his memory. After a hospital stay, and unable to live on his own anymore due to his disabilities, Toby moves in to Ivy House--the family estate--to recuperate and care for an uncle dying of brain cancer. One day, he finds a skull in an old Witch Elm, and the investigation into who the skull belongs to prompts a mystery that reaches back into Toby's childhood. But with his brain damage, spotty memory, and poor sense of self, he begins to question the events of his childhood that may have involved murder, and his current situation as a victim of violent crime.

"Thorn, a boy sold into slavery who must serve the royalty of Castle Gloom for a year and a day to earn his freedom, and Lilith Shadow, the 13-year-old ruler of Gehenna, who is forbidden to practice the magic that is her heritage, join forces to solve the murders taking place in Gehenna"--Provided by publisher.

The author describes her upbringing in Pakistan where her father refused to give her as a child bride and instead insisted on her education. Recounts the author's pride in her culture that was shaken when her cousin was murdered by her uncle in an honor killing, and relates how the death inspired the author to start a Facebook campaign that went viral, and later as an adult, to create a foundation that empowers women in rural communities through education and employment.

In present day London, archivist Elodie discovers a satchel with contents that send her on a journey of discovery with characters whose stories interweave in a mysterious house, Birchwood Manor on the Upper Thames. In addition to the residents from 1862 through the present, the house is also haunted by a specter that traverses the house over the years and chronicles what she sees. Elodie lands upon the mystery of a girl's disappearance in the nineteenth century--and her connection to the artist--and through her research, comes to learn of how the lives of all the house's residents intertwine.

Memoir of Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich about her days as a young law student and the summer internship in Louisiana that confronted her with the case of convicted murderer Ricky Langley, whose face and voice triggered in her an emotional wish for his death. Surprised, because she had been staunchly against the death penalty, she investigated Langley's case, and unearthed long-buried family secrets of her own and discovered that her past could color her view of her legal cases.

Addie is obsessed with a series of mystery novels, even writing fan fiction based on them, but when a similar murder happens in her own town, she is not prepared.

"While true-crime afficionado Ellery and her twin brother are staying with their grandmother in a Vermont community known for murder, a new friend goes missing and Ellery may be next"--Provided by publisher.

Brothers Dean and Sam Winchester take a trip to the Grand Canyon to investigate a series of murders committed by paranormal beings.