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Computer hacking

2008
This book describes the challenges involved in fighting cybercrime, discussing cyberterrorism, identity theft, malicious software attacks, and other crimes by hackers.

Higurashi when they cry

2009
Keiichi befriends the young Sakoto, whose older brother recently disappeared without a trace, and Keiichi fears he has vanished due to Oyashiro-sama's curse.

House rules

a novel
2010
Emma Hunt's son Jacob, who has Asperger's syndrome and occasionally tries helping the police with his unique forensic analysis abilities, falls under suspicion when a murder occurs in town, reminding Emma of society's--and the legal system's--misunderstanding with regard to the behavioral cues associated with Asperger's.

Bad things happen

2009
The man who calls himself David Loogan is leading a quiet, anonymous life in the college town of Ann Arbor, Michigan. He's hoping to escape a violent past he would rather forget. But his solitude is broken when he finds himself drawn into a friendship with Tom Kristoll, publisher of the mystery magazine Gray Streets--and into an affair with Laura, Tom's sleek blond wife. When Tom offers him a job as an editor, Loogan sees no harm in accepting. What he doesn't realize is that the stories in Gray Streets tend to follow a simple formula: Plans go wrong. Bad things happen. People die.--From publisher's description.

The city & the city

2009
Inspector Tyador Borlu of the Extreme Crime Squad in Beszel, a decaying city on the southeastern fringes of Europe, is assigned to investigate the murder of a young woman found by a group of teens, and his inquiry leads him into complicated negotiations with Ul Qoma, a city that shares the same physical area with Beszel, separated across time and space by the dreaded Breach.

The restless sleep

inside New York City's Cold Case Squad
2005
Presents an inside look at the New York City police department's Cold Case Squad, a group of detectives charged with trying to solve murders that are sometimes decades old, and follows them as they work to find answers to four unsolved murder cases going back as far as 1951.

The wrong man

the final verdict on the Dr. Sam Sheppard murder case
2001

Fingerprints

the origins of crime detection and the murder case that launched forensic science
2001
Tells the story of the discovery that fingerprints could be used to identify criminals, discussing the pioneering work of Dr. Henry Faulds, and reviews the 1905 murder case in which fingerprint evidence was first put to the test.

Agent Colt Shore

domino 29
2013
Fifteen-year-old Colt Shore's life is turned upside-down when he discovers he is the son of two top spies. He quickly becomes an active agent in F.A.L.C.O.N. (the Free Alliance for the Lasting Cooperation of Nations) and is put on a case to protect a famous rock band and find a missing journalist. Before he knows it, Colt is trying to stop a human trafficking ring and save a group of kidnapped teenage girls from their captors.

The Hardy boys, undercover brothers

2005
A graphic novel in which Frank and Joe Hardy, Callie, and Iola must recover the Ocean of Osyria, an art treasure taken from a Middle Eastern museum, in order to save their best friend, Chet, who has been accused of stealing it.

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