murderers

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McTeague

a story of San Francisco
2003
Nineteenth-century American realist Frank Norris's brutal story of a San Francisco dentist and his greedy wife, two people doomed to lives of violence by their respective obsessions.

Silverfish

2007
Mia Fleming untwists her stepmother's double life only to find she has phoned a killer who believes he has a demonic fish living in his ear. Includes adult content.

Homicide by the rich and famous

a century of prominent killers
2005
Profiles nineteen murders committed by the rich and famous during the twentieth century, exploring the motives, response of the community and local law enforcement, the media coverage, and the final outcome of each case.

Pursuit

a novel
2001
When thirteen bodies are discovered inside a small Louisville restaurant just after closing time, criminology professor Daniel Millikan is called in to make a profile of the killer, but soon Daniel finds himself more involved in the case than he wants to be.

Mainline

1997
An unknown alien force gives Reva the ability to see and select different lines of reality, allowing her to work almost undetected as an assassin, until a series of events leave her longing to live a normal life on one Mainline.

The lost get-back boogie

a novel
2004
Iry Paret, just freed from prison in Louisiana, makes his way to Montana where he becomes involved with the family of one of his ex-jail mates and their fight against a local pulp mill.

True story

murder, memoir, mea culpa
2005
The author tells the true story of Christian Michael Longo, his arrest for murdering his family, and how he fled to Mexico and assumed Michael Finkel's identity; and relates his own firing from the New York Times magazine.

Lethal passage

the story of a gun
1995
Traces the history of the Cobray M-11/9 semiautomatic pistol used by sixteen-year-old Nicholas Elliot in his 1988 assault on teachers and students at his Virginia school, questions the political and economic forces that allowed the gun to be marketed, and charges that society and culture promote guns and violence as an answer to problems.

Lizzie

a novel
1984

Fatal vision

1983
A documented book on a doctor in the Green Berets who was convicted of the slaying of his pregnant wife and two small daughters.

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