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Janina has a reputation for being a crank and a recluse who has a preference for the company of animals over humans. When people start turning up dead in the remote Polish villiage, Janina believes she knows who did it, if only people would listen to her.

"When five colleagues are forced to go on a corporate retreat in the wilderness, they reluctantly pick up their backpacks and start walking down the muddy path. But one of the women doesn't come out of the woods. And each of her companions tells a slightly different story about what happened. Federal Police Agent Aaron Falk has a keen interest in the whereabouts of the missing hiker. In an investigation that takes him deep into isolated forest, Falk discovers secrets lurking in the mountains, and a tangled web of personal and professional friendship, suspicion, and betrayal among the hikers. But did that lead to murder?"--OCLC.

"Reverend Willie Maxwell was a rural preacher accused of murdering five of his family members for insurance money in the 1970s. With the help of a savvy lawyer, he escaped justice for years until a relative shot him dead at the funeral of his last victim. Despite hundreds of witnesses, Maxwell's murderer was acquitted--thanks to the same attorney who had previously defended the Reverend"--Back cover.

Presents an account of the evensts leading up to the discovery of a murdered fourteen-year-old girl in a small town in Victoria, British Columbia.

In the aftermath of a brutal attack that left a woman in intensive care and her husband and young children dead, brash cop Scorcher Kennedy and his rookie partner, Richie, struggle with perplexing clues and Scorcher's haunting memories of a shattering incident from his childhood.

Detective Stephen Moran investigates the murder of a boy found at a girls' boarding school when a photo arives with a caption that says "I know who killed him.".

"FBI Agent Atlee Pine's search for her sister Mercy clashes with military investigator John Puller's high-stakes case, leading them both deep into a global conspiracy -- from which neither of them will escape unscathed"--provided by publisher.

"Mystery and danger lurk for Holmes and Watson... A series of murders and a set of mysterious symbols spell out danger for Sherlock and John in their latest case... This manga adapts "The Blind Banker", the second episode of the smash-hit Hartswood Films TV show"--Back cover.

Six-year-old Aoife doesn't understand what happened to her big brother Theo and why her mama is in the hospital. The problem is, no one wants to talk about Theo because he was murdered. With her imaginary friend and her neighbor's detecting skills, Aoife sets out to uncover the truth about her family.

"Offers a kaleidoscopic view of a sexual assault on a college campus that will leave readers thinking about how memory and identity, what's at stake, and who sits in judgment shape what we all decide to believe about the truth"--Provided by publisher.