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Murder
Murder, as defined in common law countries, is the unlawful killing of another human being with intent (or malice aforethought), and generally this state of mind distinguishes murder from other forms of unlawful homicide (such as manslaughter). As the loss of a human being inflicts enormous grief...
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The Stranger
The Stranger or The Outsider, (L’Étranger) is a novel by Albert Camus, published in 1942. Camus' first novel, it is perhaps his best-known work, and a key text of twentieth-century philosophy. Its theme and outlook are often cited as examples of...
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The Tell-Tale Heart
"The Tell-Tale Heart" is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe first published in 1843. It follows an unnamed narrator who insists on his sanity after murdering an old man with a "vulture eye". The murder is carefully calculated, and the murderer hides...
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- Jan 1843
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In Cold Blood
In Cold Blood is a 1966 book by American author Truman Capote.
The book details the brutal 1959 murders of Herbert Clutter, a wealthy farmer from Holcomb, Kansas, and his wife and two of their children. When Capote learned of the quadruple murder...
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- 1966
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Murder on the Links
The Murder on the Links is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie and first published in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company in 1923 and in the UK by The Bodley Head in May of the same year. It features Hercule Poirot and Arthur Hastings. The...
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Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil is a work by John Berendt. The book was Berendt's first, and became a The New York Times bestseller for 216 weeks following its debut.
The book was subsequently made into a 1997 movie directed by Clint...
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The Black Dahlia
The Black Dahlia is a neo-noir crime novel by American author James Ellroy, taking inspiration from the true story of the murder of Elizabeth Short. It is widely considered to be the book that elevated Ellroy out of typical genre fiction status, and...
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- Sep 1987
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A Simple Plan
A Simple Plan is a novel by American author Scott Smith that was published in 1993. A movie based on the novel, directed by Sam Raimi, was released in 1998. A Simple Plan is predominantly a moral tale which deals with issues of greed, the American...
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- 1993
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- Aug 31, 1993
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Helter Skelter
Helter Skelter is a true crime book by Vincent Bugliosi and Curt Gentry. The subject of the book is the 1969 Manson Family murders and Bugliosi's own prosecution of Charles Manson and his followers.
Helter Skelter was first published in the United...
The Client
The Client (1994) is a legal thriller written by American author John Grisham, set mostly in Memphis, Tennessee and New Orleans, Louisiana. It is a mix with various legal elements and suspense.
The Client begins with eleven-year old boy, Mark Sway...
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A Time to Kill
A Time to Kill is a 1989 legal suspense thriller by John Grisham. Grisham's first novel, it was rejected by many publishers before Wynwood Press eventually gave it a modest 5,000-copy printing. After The Firm, The Pelican Brief, and The Client...
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- Aug 2004
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- 1989
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- 152440
The Marble Faun
The Marble Faun (1860) was the last of the four major romances by Nathaniel Hawthorne. After writing The Blithedale Romance in 1852, Hawthorne, approaching fifty, turned away from publication and obtained a political appointment as American Consul...
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- 1860
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The Third Policeman
The Third Policeman is a novel by Irish author Brian O'Nolan, writing under the pseudonym Flann O'Brien. It was written between 1939 and 1940, but after it initially failed to find a publisher, the author withdrew the manuscript from circulation and...
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- 1967
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- 1967
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- 866523
My Dark Places
My Dark Places: An L.A. Crime Memoir is a 1996 book, part investigative journalism and part memoir, by American crime-fiction writer James Ellroy. Ellroy's mother was murdered in 1958, when he was 10 years old, and the killer was never identified....
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- Oct 1996
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Alias Grace
Alias Grace is a historical fiction novel by Canadian writer Margaret Atwood. First published in 1996 by McClelland & Stewart, it won the Canadian Giller Prize and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize.
The story is about the notorious 1843 murders...
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- Sep 1996
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Voices: A Thriller
Röddin is a book by Arnaldur Indriðason.
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- Oct 2006
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Death Wish
Death Wish is a 1972 novel by Brian Garfield.
Paul Benjamin is a CPA in New York and lifelong liberal. However, his staid life is overturned when his daughter, Carol, and spouse, Esther, are attacked by muggers. His wife does not survive the attack,...
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- 1972
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The Lovely Bones
The Lovely Bones is a 2002 novel by Alice Sebold. It is the story of a teenage girl who, after being brutally raped and murdered, watches from heaven as her family and friends go on with their lives, while she herself comes to terms with her own...
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- 2001
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- 2002
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- 33307
The Grass Is Singing
The Grass Is Singing is the first novel, published in 1950, by British Nobel Prize-winning author Doris Lessing. It takes place in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), in southern Africa, during the late 1940s and deals with the racial politics between whites...
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- 1950
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The Secret History
The Secret History, the first novel by Mississippi-born writer Donna Tartt, was published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1992. A 75,000 print order was made for the first edition (as opposed to the usual 10,000 order for a debut novel), and the book became a...
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- 1992
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The Onion Field
The Onion Field is a 1973 nonfiction book by Joseph Wambaugh, a sergeant for the Los Angeles Police Department, chronicling the kidnapping of two plainclothes LAPD officers by a pair of criminals during an evening traffic stop and the subsequent...
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The Way Some People Die
The Way Some People Die is a detective mystery written in 1951 by Ross Macdonald, the third book featuring his private eye, Lew Archer.
Mrs. Samuel Lawrence gives Lew Archer fifty dollars for one day of his time to find her daughter Galatea (a.k.a....
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- 1951
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The Gun Seller
The Gun Seller (1996) is Hugh Laurie's first novel. It concerns former Scots Guards officer Thomas Lang and his reluctant involvement in a conspiracy involving international arms dealers, terrorists, the CIA, the MoD, beautiful women and fast...
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Zodiac
Zodiac is a non-fiction book written by Robert Graysmith about the unsolved serial murders committed by the "Zodiac Killer" in San Francisco in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Since its initial release in 1986, Zodiac has sold 4 million copies...
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- 1986
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The Pale Horse
The Pale Horse is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie and first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club on November 6 1961 and in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company the following year. The UK edition retailed at fifteen shillings (15/...
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An Instance of the Fingerpost
An Instance of the Fingerpost is a 1997 historical mystery novel by Iain Pears.
A murder in 17th-century Oxford is related from the contradictory points of view of four of the characters, all of them unreliable narrators. The setting of the novel is...
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- 1997
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Cause for Alarm
Cause for Alarm is a novel by Eric Ambler first published in 1938. Set in Fascist Italy in that year, the book is one of Ambler's classic spy thrillers.
Nicholas Marlow, an English engineer engaged to a young doctor, one day, out of the blue, loses...
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Waterland
Waterland is a 1983 novel by Graham Swift, made into a 1992 movie starring Jeremy Irons. It is considered to be the author's premier novel and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize (a prize Swift finally achieved with Last Orders).
Waterland follows...
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- 1983
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Roseanna
Roseanna (1965) by Sjöwall and Wahlöö is the first novel in their detective series revolving around Martin Beck and his team.
A young woman is found dead in a canal, molested and murdered. The case is almost instantly cold. Nobody can identify her...
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- 1965
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While I Was Gone: A Novel
While I Was Gone is the 1999 novel by Sue Miller, and was chosen as an Oprah's Book Club selection in May 2000.
While I Was Gone was a TV movie for CBS in 2004 based on the novel.
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- 1999
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The Treatment
The Treatment is a 2001 novel by British crime-writer Mo Hayder. The novel is based around the theme of pedophilia and it won the WH Smith Thumping Great Read Award in 2002. It features her protagonist DI Jack Caffery.
A husband and wife are...
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- Jun 4, 2001
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Deep Water
Deep Water is a suspense novel by Patricia Highsmith, first published in 1957 by Harper & Row.
In the small town of Little Wesley, intellectual publisher Victor Van Allen decides to discourage his wife Melinda’s many lovers by hinting to them that...
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Divorcing Jack
Divorcing Jack is a 1995 novel by Colin Bateman.
Set in Belfast, Northern Ireland, the novel's events follow a turbulent period in the life of married, cynical and usually drunk journalist Dan Starkey.
The novel was awarded the 1994 Betty Trask...
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- 1995
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Bad for Business
Bad for Business is a mystery novel by Rex Stout starring his detective Tecumseh Fox, first published in 1940. Private investigator Tecumseh Fox was the protagonist of three mysteries published by Stout between 1939 and 1941.
Bad For Business was...
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The Door to December
The Door to December is a novel by the best-selling author Dean Koontz, released in 1985. It was originally released under the pseudonym Richard Paige.
Melanie was three when she was kidnapped. She was found when she was nine, wandering the streets...
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- 1985
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- 1985
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- 4032
The Bad Place
The Bad Place is a novel written by the best-selling author Dean Koontz, released in 1990. It includes elements of horror, suspense, and mystery, and is presented partially as a twist on the private eye drama.
Frank Pollard wakes up in an alley at...
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- 1990
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- 2391
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The Rag and Bone Shop
The Rag and Bone Shop (2001) is a book written by Robert Cormier. The book was published posthumously in 2001; Cormier died in 2000. The novel takes its name from the final line of William Butler Yeats's poem "The Circus Animals' Desertion" .
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- Oct 9, 2001
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The Cat Who Came to Breakfast
The Cat Who Came to Breakfast (1994) is the sixteenth mystery novel by Lilian Jackson Braun, one of the Cat Who series.
Qwilleran and his cats solve another mystery, this time at the newly sprouted Breakfast Island, a resort hot spot with an...
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- 1994
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- 1994
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- 183513
Being Dead
Being Dead is a novel by the English writer Jim Crace, published in 1999.
Its principal characters are married zoologists Joseph and Celice and their daughter Syl. The story tells of how Joseph and Celice, on a day trip to the dunes where they met...
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- 1999
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Road Rage
Road Rage is a novel by British crime-writer Ruth Rendell. It features her popular protagonist Inspector Wexford, and is the 17th entry in the series. The novel's main themes are the environment and environmental activism.
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- Sep 4, 1997
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Have Mercy on Us All
Have Mercy on Us All (French: Pars vite et reviens tard, lit. "Leave quickly and come back late") is a 2001 novel by French author Fred Vargas. The novel was her first to be translated into English in 2003 by David Bellos. It was made into a film...
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- 2001
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Seven Jersey Murders
Seven Jersey Murders is a book by Gerald Tomlinson. It recounts the following murders in New Jersey:
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The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town
The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town is the first nonfiction book written by John Grisham which was released by Doubleday Publishing on October 10, 2006.
The book details the story of former minor league baseball aspirant Ronald ...
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- Oct 10, 2006
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Haunted
Haunted is a fantasy novel by written by Kelley Armstrong
Haunted, the fifth in the Women of the Otherworld series, is a novel written by Kelley Armstrong featuring Eve Levine. Half-demon, black witch and devoted mother, Eve has been dead for three...
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- May 2005
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- 2005
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- 167783
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The Lazarus Heart
The Lazarus Heart is an original novel by Poppy Z. Brite based on the world and thematic concerns of The Crow and published in 1998 by Harper Prism. Like the majority of Brite's fiction, The Lazarus Heart is set in New Orleans.
Wrongly executed for...
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- Apr 1998
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- 12503
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King, Queen, Knave
King, Queen, Knave is a novel written by Vladimir Nabokov (under his pen name V. Sirin), while living in Berlin and sojourning at resorts in the Baltic in 1928. It was published as Король, дама, валет (Korol', dama, valet) in Russian in October of...
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- Oct 1928
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Blood Done Sign My Name
Blood Done Sign My Name is an autobiographical work of history written by Timothy B. Tyson while he was a professor of Afro-American studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. The book, published in 2004 and based in part on an M.A. thesis...
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- May 18, 2004
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The Black Prince
The Black Prince is Iris Murdoch's 15th novel, first published in 1973. The name of the novel alludes mainly to Hamlet.
The Black Prince is remarkable for the structure of its narrative, consisting of a central story bookended by forewords and post...
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- 1973
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The Sculptress
The Sculptress (1993) is a crime novel by English writer Minette Walters. She won an Edgar and a Macavity Award for the book, and the story was also made into a BBC series in 1996, starring Pauline Quirke as Olive Martin.
Olive Martin - a 28 year...
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- Jul 23, 1993
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George and Rue
George and Rue (ISBN 978-0-00-225539-4 / ISBN 978-0-00-648569-8) is a novel by George Elliott Clarke, published in 2005 by HarperCollins Canada.
The novel is based on the true story of George and Rufus Hamilton, two Black Canadian brothers who...
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With Red Hands
With Red Hands is the second science-fiction alternate history novel by Stephen Woodworth featuring the "Violet" detective Natalie Lindstrom. It was written in 2004.
Society has accepted the idea that death is not the end, and courtrooms regularly...
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- Dec 28, 2004
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- Dec 28, 2004
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- 358381
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The Last Mystery of Edgar Allan Poe: The Troy Dossier
The Last Mystery of Edgar Allan Poe: The Troy Dossier, is a novel written by Manny Meyers, first published in 1978 by the J.B. Lippencotte Company. It was released as a mass market paperback under the title The Troy Dossier by BMI books in 1986.
The...
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- 1978
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If I Did It
If I Did It is a book by O. J. Simpson, in which he puts forth a hypothetical description of the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman, for which Simpson was tried and acquitted in a criminal trial but later found financially liable in...
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- Sep 13, 2007
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Bimbos of the Death Sun
Bimbos of the Death Sun is a 1988 mystery novel by Sharyn McCrumb. It won the 1988 Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Original Paperback Mystery.
ISBN 978-0-3454-8302-7
The novel takes place at Rubicon, a fictional science fiction convention taking...
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- 1987
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- 16444
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The Cat Who Ate Danish Modern
The Cat Who Ate Danish Modern is the second novel in Lilian Jackson Braun's "The Cat Who..." series, published in 1967. This book introduces Yum Yum, who will become a permanent character in the series.
Qwilleran, a reporter for the Daily Fluxion,...
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- 1967
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- Jun 1967
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- 183505
The Breaker
For the novel about Breaker Morant, see Kit Denton.
'The Breaker' (1998) is a crime novel by Minette Walters.
Twelve hours after the broken body of Kate Sumner washes up on a south England beach, her traumatised three-year-old daughter is found...
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- Oct 9, 1998
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Disordered Minds
Disordered Minds (2003) is a crime novel by English writer Minette Walters.
In 1970 Harold Stump, a mentally challenged young man, was arrested for the murder of his grandmother - the only person who ever understood him - based on scant evidence and...
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- Nov 7, 2003
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Wisconsin Murders
Wisconsin Murders is a collection of true crime accounts written by author August Derleth. It was released in 1968 by Mycroft & Moran in an edition of 1,958 copies. The stories detail sixteen cases of sudden death in Wisconsin for 1842 to 1926....
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- 1968
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Medusa
Medusa is a novel by Michael Dibdin, and is the ninth entry in the popular Aurelio Zen series.
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- 1986
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- Aug 7, 2003
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- 29498
And the Sea Will Tell
And the Sea Will Tell (ISBN 0-393-02919-0) is a true crime book by Vincent Bugliosi and Bruce B. Henderson. It recounts a double murder on Palmyra Atoll and the subsequent arrest, trial and acquittal of a suspected conspirator whom Bugliosi and...
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Top Ten Ways to Die
Top Ten Ways to Die is the 8th book in The Hardy Boys Undercover Brothers series. It was first published in February 2006 by Aladdin Paperbacks an imprint of Simon & Schuster
Someone is suspected of trying to murder young rock star Madison Vee. ATAC...
