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81) Finding Dawn
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Dawn Crey. Ramona Wilson. Daleen Kay Bosse. These are just three of the estimated 500 Aboriginal women who have gone missing or been murdered in Canada over the past thirty years. Directed by acclaimed Métis filmmaker Christine Welsh, Finding Dawn is a compelling documentary that puts a human face to this national tragedy. This is an epic journey into the dark heart of Native women’s experience in Canada. From Vancouver’s skid row, where more...
Author
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Fans of Mindhunter and true crime podcasts will devour these chilling stories of serial killers from the so-called "surge" or epidemic years of serial murder. With books like Serial Killers, Female Serial Killers, and Sons of Cain, Peter Vronsky has established himself as the foremost expert on the history of serial killers. In this first definitive history of the worst decades of American serial murder, when the number and body count of serial killers...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"A biting novel from an electrifying new voice, Kristi DeMeester's Such a Pretty Smile is a heart-stopping tour-de-force about powerful women, angry men, and all the ways in which girls fight against the forces that try to silence them. There's something out there that's killing. Known only as The Cur, he leaves no traces, save for the torn bodies of girls, on the verge of becoming women, who are known as trouble-makers; those who refuse to conform,...
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
Devastated and suspected by the police after the brutal murder of his girlfriend, psychologist Jeremy Carrier finds himself engaged in a game of cat and mouse when additional murders take place and clues begin appearing in his mail.
Author
Series
Storytella volume 78
Publisher
Chun tian chu ban guo ji chu ban
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
The hunt for a serial killer in the 1800s in New York by Dr. Laszlo Kreizler, using the new science of forensic psychology. As with so many new sciences this one is ridiculed by law enforcement and civic leaders alike.
88) Charade
Author
Publisher
Warner Books
Pub. Date
©1994
Language
English
Description
Cat Delaney has it all: beauty, a glamorous career, and a man who cares for her. Unfortunately, Cat also has a bad heart and needs a transplant. After receiving her new heart Cat decides to give up her career and her boyfriend to move to Texas and start a program to help find adoptive parents for foster kids. Her life is complicated by her jealous secretary and a new man in her life.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
After a machine gun attack in the Washington, D.C., subway system leaves dozens of people dead, retired FBI document examiner Parker Kincaid must track down the assassin with the aid of only one clue--a ransom note demanding twenty million dollars to stop further massacres
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Co
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"In the late 1800s, the city of Austin, Texas was on the cusp of emerging from an isolated western outpost into a truly cosmopolitan metropolis. But beginning in December 1884, Austin was terrorized by someone equally as vicious and, in some ways, far more diabolical than London's infamous Jack the Ripper. For almost exactly one year, the Midnight Assassin crisscrossed the entire city, striking on moonlit nights, using axes, knives and long steel...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
Recounts a top mafia hitman's thirty-year career prior to landing in prison, describing his relationship with John Gotti, his assignments to kill more than two hundred victims, and his outside persona as a suburban family man.
92) Lost souls
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
True crime writer Kristi Benz, searching for the one case that will take her to the top, gets her wish when she enrolls at All Saints College to investigate the brutal murders of three troubled girls, all of whom were found with the blood drained from their bodies.
93) Wan mei xian fan
Author
Series
Publisher
Huang guan wen hua chu ban you xian gong si
Pub. Date
2010
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
Six shots. Five dead. One heartland city thrown into a state of terror. But within hours the cops have it solved: a slam-dunk case. Except for one thing. The accused man says: "You got the wrong guy". Then he says: "Get Reacher for me."
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
When Santosh Wagh isn't struggling out of a bottle of whisky he's head of Private India, the Mumbai branch of the world's finest PI agency. In a city of over thirteen million he has his work cut out at the best of times. But now someone is killing women--seemingly unconnected women murdered in a chilling ritual, with strange objects placed carefully at their death scenes. As Santosh and his team race to find the killer, an even greater danger faces...
95) Copycat
Author
Series
Kitt Lundgrean thrillers volume 1
Publisher
MIRA Books
Pub. Date
©2006
Language
English
Description
Kitt Lundgren and Mary Catherine "M.C." Riggio of the Rockford, Ill., VCB (Violent Crimes Bureau) hunt the Sleeping Angel Killer, a serial murderer targeting ten-year-old girls.
Author
Series
Connor Burke novels volume 1
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
98) The other woman
Author
Series
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Tracking down a candidate's secret mistress days before a pivotal Senate election, reporter Jane Ryland discovers links between her story and a serial killer investigation by detective Jake Brogan, with whom she partners to stop a killer in the face of dirty politics and betrayal.
100) The pledge
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
A veteran police detective, on the day of his retirement, handles the case of a seven-year-old girl who has been brutally murdered. When a mentally retarded man confesses to the murder and then kills himself, the detectives consider the case closed, but was he actually the murderer? Before long evidence is uncovered that suggests the girl was just one in a series of brutal killings involving young girls and a mysterious man.
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