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Author
Publisher
PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"A shocking and deeply reported account of the persistent plague of institutional racism and junk forensic science in our criminal justice system, and its devastating effect on innocent lives. After two three-year-old girls were raped and murdered in rural Mississippi, law enforcement pursued and convicted two innocent men: Kennedy Brewer and Levon Brooks. Together they spent a combined thirty years in prison before finally being exonerated in 2008....
Author
Publisher
Picador
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Prince Edward famously abdicated his crown over his love for American divorcée Wallis Simpson. But two decades earlier, he was an inexperienced young man, stationed behind the lines during World War I, socializing with the aristocracy of Europe while fellow soldiers were being shelled in the trenches. Marguerite Alibert was a beautiful but tough Parisian who had fought her way up from street gamine to the highest-ranking courtesan in Paris. She entertained...
5123) Death of a dancing queen
Author
Publisher
Datura Books, an imprint of Watkins Media Ltd
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"After her mother's Alzheimer's diagnosis, Billie Levine revamped her grandfather's private investigation firm and set up shop in the corner booth of her favorite North Jersey deli hoping the free pickles and flexible hours would allow her to take care of her mom and pay the bills. So when Tommy Russo, a rich kid with a nasty drug habit, offers her a stack of cash to find his missing girlfriend, how can she refuse? At first, Billie thinks this will...
5124) A very expensive poison: the assassination of Alexander Litvinenko and Putin's war with the West
Author
Publisher
Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
5125) Dangerous to know
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Recovering at her mother-in-law's estate in Normandy after a brush with death, Lady Emily Hargreaves discovers a murder victim whose death looks like the act of Jack the Ripper, a killing that compels her to follow clues to the medieval city of Rouen in search of a lost child.
5126) The murder of the century: the gilded age crime that scandalized a city & sparked the tabloid wars
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
On Long Island, a farmer finds a duck pond turned red with blood. On the Lower East Side, two boys playing at a pier discover a floating human torso wrapped tightly in oilcloth. Blueberry pickers near Harlem stumble upon neatly severed limbs in an overgrown ditch. Clues to a horrifying crime are turning up all over New York, but the police are baffled: There are no witnesses, no motives, no suspects. The grisly finds that began on the afternoon of...
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
Reexamines the relationship between Mary, Queen of Scots, and her ambitious second husband, Lord Darnley, and investigates Darnley's 1567 murder to assess Mary's possible involvement and to solve this four-hundred-year-old mystery.
Series
Criterion collection volume 380
Publisher
Distributed by Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Jean Dexter is an attractive blonde model who is murdered in her New York City apartment. Homicide detectives Dan Muldoon and Jimmy Halloran investigate. Suspicion falls on various shifty people who all prove to have some connection with a string of apartment burglaries. Then a burglar is found dead who once had an elusive partner named Willie.
5130) Winter of despair
Author
Series
Gaslight mysteries (Cora Harrison) volume 2
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"November, 1853. Inspector Field has summoned his friends Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins to examine a body found in an attic studio, its throat cut. Around the body lie the lacerated fragments of canvas of a painting titled A Winter of Despair. On closer examination, Wilkie realizes he recognizes the victim, for he had been due to dine with him that very evening. The dead man is Edwin Milton-Hayes, one of Wilkie's brother Charley's artist friends....
5131) Indulgence in death
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the wake of a series of murders, including those of a limousine driver and a high-priced escort, an infuriated NYPSD Lieutenant Eve Dallas enters her husband's rarified circle to prevent the imminent killing of another victim.
Author
Series
Mr. and Mrs. Darcy mysteries volume 4
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Following the birth of their first child, Elizabeth and Fitzwilliam Darcy are looking forward to enjoying life at Pemberley, but family commitments draw them away to Mansfield Park. While there, the Darcys get involved with marriage arrangements, star-crossed lovers, deceit, mistaken identity, and even murder.
5133) Spectacle
Author
Series
Spectacle series volume 1
Publisher
Tor Teen
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Nathalie Baudin's column for Le Petit Journal summarize new arrivals at the morgue, a task she finds both fascinating and routine. When she has a vision of the newest body, a young woman, being murdered-- from the perspective of the murderer himself-- her search for answers eventually sends her into the Parisian Catacombs. Nathalie's psychic ability may make her the only one who can discover the killer's identity-- and she'll have to do it before...
5134) Season of darkness
Author
Series
Gaslight mysteries (Cora Harrison) volume 1
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"When Inspector Field shows his friend Charles Dickens the body of a young woman dragged from the River Thames, he cannot have foreseen that the famous author would immediately recognize the victim as Isabella Gordon, a housemaid he had tried to help through his charity. Nor that Dickens and his fellow writer Wilkie Collins would determine to find out who killed her. Who was Isabella blackmailing, and why? Led on by fragments of a journal discovered...
5136) Shadow of Spain
Author
Series
Ursula Blanchard mysteries volume 20
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
March, 1588. With England in a state of high alert as King Philip of Spain amasses a vast fleet of warships ready to invade, Queen Elizabeth and her advisors seek a possible alliance with the Duke of Parma, Governor of the Netherlands. But their plans suffer a major setback when one of their most reliable spies is found murdered in the Hertfordshire countryside, shot dead by a crossbow bolt as he was transporting secret correspondence between the...
5137) Idle gossip
Author
Series
Lillian Frost & Edith Head mysteries volume 5
Lillian Frost and Edith Head novel volume 5
Lillian Frost and Edith Head mysteries volume 5
Lillian Frost and Edith Head novel volume 5
Lillian Frost and Edith Head mysteries volume 5
Publisher
Severn House, an imprint of Canongate Books Ltd
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Gossip columnist Lorna Whitcomb knows every dirty secret in Hollywood . . . except who killed her tipster. Sleuthing duo Lillian Frost and Edith Head investigate in this head-turning mystery. 1940, Los Angeles. Hollywood's famous gossip columnist, Lorna Whitcomb, has summoned Lillian Frost and her sleuthing partner, costume designer extraordinaire Edith Head, to her office. Lorna's 'leg man' Sam Simcoe - the man who finds the scandalous material...
5138) Southland
Author
Publisher
Akashic
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
Jackie Ishida, a young Japanese American woman living in Los Angeles, learns of the deaths of four young men in her grandfather's store during the 1965 Watts riot, and sets out to discover the truth about their deaths, along the way uncovering some long-buried family secrets as well.
Author
Series
Publisher
Ballantine Books, an imprint of Random House
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"As Charlotte Pitt's grandmother Mariah Ellison finds herself investigating a long-unsolved slaying, it becomes clear that grappling with intrigue and foul play runs in the family. A festive Christmas package left on Mariah's doorstep contains an ominous present, sparking memories of a twenty-year-old murder that shattered her friendship with the victim's widow. Though the gift is a bitter reminder of that tragic time, in the spirit of the season...
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