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Author
Publisher
Andrews McMeel Publishing
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Why is it so much fun to read about death and dismemberment? Lifelong true-crime obsessive and New Yorker cartoonist Campbell tries to puzzle out the answer. An unconventional graphic exploration of a lifetime of Ann Rule super-fandom, amateur armchair sleuthing, and a deep dive into the high-profile murders that have fascinated the author for decades, this is a funny, thoughtful, and highly personal blend of memoir, cultural criticism, and true crime...
2) Velvet
Author
Series
Velvet (Graphic novels) volume 3
Publisher
Image Comics, Inc
Pub. Date
[2014]-
Language
English
Description
When the world's greatest secret agent is killed, all evidence points to Velvet Templeton, the personal secretary to the Director of the Agency. But Velvet has a dark secret buried in her past...a secret that's about to tear her whole world apart.
Author
Series
Southern bastards volume 4
Publisher
Image Comics, Inc
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
Eules Boss is a high school football coach with no more room in his office for trophies and no more room underneath the bleachers for burying bodies. And they're just two of the folks you'll meet in Craw County, Alabama, home of Boss BBQ, the state champion Runnin' Rebs and more bastards than you've ever seen.
Author
Publisher
Dark Horse Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"A locked-room murder mystery puzzles paranormal detective Sarah Jewell and her associate Marie Therése when a weekend trip on a private island off the coast of Washington goes awry. Trapped by a storm and surrounded by myriad suspects who have gathered for an auction of occult items, the intrepid duo must unravel the supernatural mysteries surrounding the guests in the hopes of uncovering the murderer! But all the while bodies keep piling up, and...
Author
Series
Vindication volume 1
Publisher
Image Comics
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"As a homicide detective, Chip Christopher often walks the blurred blue line between racism and due diligence. His newest case requires him to investigate Turn, a young black man whose conviction for a similar murder was recently overturned. And when another victim is murdered, Detective Christopher is determined to put in him away for good this time. But Turn is older and wiser now, and determined to never go back to prison." -- from publisher.
Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"As our story begins, we meet Annie Hannigan, an out-of-control teenager, jitterbugging in the 1930s. Annie dreams of offing her mother, Elsie, whom she blames for abandoning her for a job soon after her husband, a cop, is shot and killed. Now, employed by her husband's best friend--an over-the-hill and perpetually soused private eye--Elsie finds herself covering up his missteps as she is drawn into a case of a mysterious client, who leads her into...
Author
Publisher
IDW Publishing
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Meet Syd Sh*t-Talk Homes, a disgraced ex-cop turned bitter stand-up comic turned ... possible felon? Carl Dixon is on the verge of comedy superstardom and he got there the dirty way: by stealing jokes. He's got a killer act, an ugly past, and more enemies than punchlines. So when someone asks Syd Homes how much it would cost to have Dixon killed, Syd isn't surprised in the slightest. But, once he's accused, he's on the run and it's going to take...
8) Dark ride
Author
Publisher
Image Comics
Pub. Date
[2023]-
Language
English
Description
"Devil Land has been the world's premiere horror-themed amusement park for over 50 years, home to the scariest ride ever created- The Devil's Due. But behind it lies a deadly truth about reclusive founder Arthur Dante and the choices he made to ensure his success. Now his children- Samhain and Halloween- will discover the true horror behind their family legacy, and that all their dreams may be founded on the stuff of nightmares..." --
Author
Publisher
Tuttle Publishing
Pub. Date
[2022].
Language
English
Description
"Manila--the walled city recently freed from a dictator's iron-fisted rule--is a magical metropolis where monsters roam the neon-lit streets. In this noir-tinged graphic novel, the capital exists in an alternate reality where myth and fantasy collide. Tensions between the human and nonhuman realms are about to hit a breaking point in a city now governed by the mysterious Societies. Who will prevail?"--Back cover.
11) Cosmic detective
Author
Publisher
Image Comics
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Enter our detective. The murder of a god threatens to tear apart the very fabric of our reality, and only he stands in the way of utter destruction. Will the mystery he uncovers be worse than the disaster he's trying to avert? And will his mind crack under the revelations he's about to uncover before he can do anything about it?"--Amazon.
12) Abbott
Author
Publisher
Boom! Studios, a division of Boom Entertainment
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
While investigating police brutality and corruption in 1970s Detroit, journalist Elena Abbott uncovers supernatural forces being controlled by a secret society of the city's elite. In the uncertain social and political climate of 1972 Detroit, hard-nosed, chain-smoking tabloid reporter Elena Abbott investigates a series of grisly crimes that the police have ignored. Crimes she knows to be the work of dark occult forces. Forces that took her husband...
13) Let me out
Author
Publisher
Oni-Lion Forge Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2023]-
Language
English
Description
"When Pastor Holley's wife, Kelly, is found murdered, FBI agent Garrett takes on the case with local New Jersey Sheriff Mullen. Together they start drumming up a convenient satanic-flavored scapegoat to cover up their own crimes of murder and experimentation. That scapegoat comes in the form of four friends: Mitch, Terri, Lupe, and Jackson. The punks, the queers, and the outcasts. Soon the group becomes the prime suspects of Kelly's murder. Now on...
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
The day his mother dies, Meursault notices that it is very hot on the bus that is taking him from Algiers to the retirement home where his mother lived; so hot that he falls asleep. Later, while waiting for the wake to begin, the harsh electric lights in the room make him extremely uncomfortable, so he gratefully accepts the coffee the caretaker offers him and smokes a cigarette. The same burning sun that so oppresses him during the funeral walk will...
Author
Publisher
Dark Horse Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"This supernatural mystery set in the world of Sherlock Holmes and Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos features a brilliant detective and his partner as they try to solve a horrific murder. The complex investigation takes the Baker Street investigators from the slums of Whitechapel all the way to the Queen's Palace as they attempt to find the answers to this bizarre murder of cosmic horror! From the Hugo, Bram Stoker, Locus, World Fantasy, Nebula award-winning,...
16) Two dead
Author
Publisher
Gallery 13
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"After World War II, tensions rise in a Southern city ruled by organized crime, touching countless residents as they struggle to make sense of the new world. A sudden act of violence sets off a series of bloody events between the police and mafia as they lash out against each other. As the violence worsens, desperation grows to stop it by any means necessary. Told in multiple perspectives--from a seemingly untouchable mafia don, to a gun-happy seasoned...
Author
Series
My favorite thing is monsters volume 1
Publisher
Fantagraphics Books
Pub. Date
2017-
Language
English
Description
"Set against the tumultuous political backdrop of late '60s Chicago, and narrated by 10-year-old Karen Reyes, Monsters is told is told through a fictional graphic diary employing the iconography of B-movie horror imagery and pulp monster magazines. As the precocious Karen Reyes tries to solve the murder of her beautiful and enigmatic upstairs neighbor, Anka Silverberg, a holocaust survivor, we watch the interconnected and fascinating stories of those...
Author
Publisher
DC Comics
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"In this graphic novel adaptation of Stieg Larrson's THE GIRL WHO PLAYED WITH FIRE, Mikael Blomkvist, crusading publisher of the magazine Millennium, has decided to run a story that will expose an extensive sex trafficking operation. On the eve of its publication, the two reporters responsible for the article are murdered, and the fingerprints found on the murder weapon belong to his friend, the troubled genius hacker Lisbeth Salander. Blomkvist,...
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