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- We were once a family : a story of love, death, and child removal in America / by Asgarian, Roxanna,1987-author.;
- Includes bibliographical references."The shocking, deeply reported story of a murder-suicide that claimed the lives of six children-and a searing indictment of the American foster care system"--
- Subjects: True crime stories.; Adopted children; Adopted children; Children; Children; Murder-suicide;
- Nothing to see here / by Lewis, Susan,1956-author.;
- A triple murder. A mother, her daughter and a family friend, are brutally killed at Kellon Manse one quiet summer's day. A young girl disappears and has not been seen since. One suspect. All fingers point to the husband of one of the victims. Yet he still walks free. An unsolvable crime. Cristy Ward has discovered the perfect next feature for her true crime podcast. Who really killed the three women at Kellon Manse? And is there a chance the missing girl is still alive?
- Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Psychological fiction.; Novels.; Missing children; Murder; Murder; Podcasters; Women;
- Between two evils / by Dolan, Eva,author.;
- As the country bakes under the relentless summer sun, a young doctor is found brutally murdered at his home in a picturesque Cambridgeshire village. Is his death connected to his private life - or his professional one? Dr. Joshua Ainsworth worked at an all-female detention centre, one still recovering from a major scandal a few years before. Was he the whistle-blower - or an instigator? As Detective Sergeant Ferreira and Detective Inspector Zigic begin to painstakingly reconstruct Dr. Ainsworth's last days, they uncover yet more secrets and more suspects. But this isn't the only case that's demanding their attention - a violent criminal has been released on a technicality and the police force know he will strike again: the only question is who will his first victim be?
- Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Police; Murder; Physicians;
- NOS4A2 : a novel / by Hill, Joe.; Rodrg̕uez, Gabriel,1974-;
- Victoria McQueen has a secret gift for finding things: a misplaced bracelet, a missing photography, answers to unanswerable questions. On her Raleigh Tuff Burner bike, she makes her way to a rickety covered bridge that, within moments, takes her wherever she needs to go, whether it's across Massachusetts or across the country. Charles Talent Manx has a way with children. He likes to take them for rides in his 1938 Rolls-Royce Wraith with the NOS4A2 vanity plate. With his old car, he can slip right out of the everyday world, and onto the hidden roads that transport them to an astonishing--and terrifying--playground of amusements he calls "Christmasland." Then, one day, Vic goes looking for trouble--and finds Manx. That was a lifetime ago. Now Vic, the only kid to ever escape Manx's unmitigated evil, is all grown up and desperate to forget. But Charlie Manx never stopped thinking about Victoria McQueen. He's on the road again and he's picked up a new passenger: Vic's own son.
- Subjects: Horror tales.; Suspense fiction.; Children; Good and evil; Missing children; Psychic ability;
- © c2013., William Morrow,
- Wild hearts / by Sala, Sharon.;
- Subjects: Romantic suspense fiction.; Detective and mystery stories.; Fathers; Suicide; Police chiefs; Amnesiacs;
- A killing at Cotton Hill : a Samuel Craddock mystery / by Shames, Terry.;
- "The chief of police of Jarrett Creek, Texas, doubles as the town drunk. So when Dora Lee Parjeter is murdered, her old friend and former police chief Samuel Craddock steps in. He discovers that a lot of people had it in for Dora Lee. Will Craddock have what it takes to find the killer?"--
- Subjects: Mystery fiction.; Ex-police officers; Women; Mystery & Detective.;
- © 2013., Seventh Street Books, an imprint of Prometheus Books,
- Someone is watching : a novel / by Fielding, Joy,author.;
- Subjects: Suspense fiction.; Mystery fiction.; Rapists; Voyeurism; Women private investigators; Women; Women;
- After Anna / by Scottoline, Lisa,author.;
- "Nobody cuts deeper than family ... Noah Alderman, a doctor and a widower, has remarried a wonderful woman, Maggie, and for the first time in a long time he and his son are happy. But their lives are turned upside down when Maggie's daughter Anna moves in with them. Anna is a gorgeous seventeen-year-old who balks at living under their rules though Maggie, ecstatic to have her daughter back, ignores the red flags that hint at the trouble that is brewing. Events take a deadly turn when Anna is murdered and Noah is accused of the crime. Maggie must face not only the devastation of losing her only daughter, but the realization that her daughter's murder was at the hands of a husband she loves. New information sends Maggie searching for the truth, leading her to discover something darker than she could have ever imagined."--
- Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Families; Murder; Stepfamilies; Teenage girls;
- After Anna [sound recording] / by Scottoline, Lisa,author.; Marno, Mozhan,narrator.; Bobb, Jeremy,narrator.; Macmillan Audio (Firm),publisher.;
- Read by Mozhan Marnò and Jeremy Bobb."Nobody cuts deeper than family ... Noah Alderman, a doctor and a widower, has remarried a wonderful woman, Maggie, and for the first time in a long time he and his son are happy. But their lives are turned upside down when Maggie's daughter Anna moves in with them. Anna is a gorgeous seventeen-year-old who balks at living under their rules though Maggie, ecstatic to have her daughter back, ignores the red flags that hint at the trouble that is brewing. Events take a deadly turn when Anna is murdered and Noah is accused of the crime. Maggie must face not only the devastation of losing her only daughter, but the realization that her daughter's murder was at the hands of a husband she loves. New information sends Maggie searching for the truth, leading her to discover something darker than she could have ever imagined."--
- Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Audiobooks.; Families; Murder; Stepfamilies; Teenage girls;
- Killing the mob : the fight against organized crime in America / by O'Reilly, Bill,author.; Dugard, Martin,author.;
- Includes bibliographical references and index."The true history of organized crime"--O'Reilly and co-author Martin Dugard trace the brutal history of 20th century organized crime in the United States, and expertly plumb the history of this nation's most notorious serial robbers, conmen, murderers, and especially, mob family bosses. Covering the period from the 1930s to the 1980s, they trace the prohibition-busting bank robbers of the Depression Era, such as John Dillinger, Bonnie & Clyde, Pretty Boy Floyd and Baby-Face Nelson. In addition, the authors highlight the creation of the Mafia Commission, the power struggles within the "Five Families", the growth of the FBI under J. Edgar Hoover, the mob battles to control Cuba, Las Vegas and Hollywood, as well as the personal war between the U.S. Attorney General Bobby Kennedy and legendary Teamsters boss Jimmy Hoffa. The stories of these legendary criminals and their true-life escapades make for riveting reading.
- Subjects: True crime stories.; Organized crime; Mafia;
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