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Author
Publisher
Island Books
Pub. Date
1992, c1989
Language
English
Description
In Clanton, Mississippi, the life of a ten-year-old girl is shattered by two drunken and remorseless young men. The mostly white town reacts with shock and horror at the inhuman crime, until her black father acquires an assault rifle and takes justice into his own outraged hands.
3) Horns
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Ig has lived under a cloud of suspicion since his girlfriend Merrin was brutally murdered, and Ig feels everyone, including God, has abandoned him, so when Ig discovers a macabre new talent, he vows to use it to find the man responsible for Merrin's death, even if it means letting the devil within escape.
4) Alias Grace
Author
Publisher
Nan A. Talese
Pub. Date
c1996
Language
English
Description
Fact-based story of Grace Marks, a sixteen-year-old girl who received a life sentence in 1843 for allegedly taking part in the murder of her employer and his lover, but whose case continued to stir debate throughout her prison stay, resulting in her release in 1872.
5) Dark places
Author
Publisher
Shaye Areheart Books
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Libby Day, still haunted by the day she witnessed the murder of her family on their farm in Kinnakee, Kansas, and twenty-five-years after testifying that her fifteen-year-old brother Ben was the killer, Libby is contacted by the Kill Club and devises a money making scheme that leads her back into a killer's path.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Body language expert Kathryn Dance and deputy Michael O'Neil investigate attacks on and murders of individuals who have posted messages about the deaths of two high school students on a local blog and suspect the driver in the fatal accident may be leaving roadside crosses as warnings about who his next victim will be.
8) Shadows
Author
Publisher
Linda Grey Bantam Books
Pub. Date
c1992
Language
English
Description
The Academy is a school for special children, gifted or cursed with extraordinary minds. Josh tries to save the others from an evil intellect and death.
10) Tunnel vision
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
1994
Language
English
Description
V.I. Warshawski, a private investigator, is up against corrupt politicians, big government, political coverups, and the idle rich when she tries to solve the case of her community activist friend's murder.
11) Witch dreams
Author
Publisher
Marshall Cavendish
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Nyssa uses her ability to see into people's dreams to discover who murdered her parents six years ago.
13) The dance
Author
Publisher
Pocket
Pub. Date
c1988
Language
English
Description
A party ends with an apparent suicide and Michael knows it was murder. How can he prove it? Then the homecoming dance ends in horror--like the party.
15) Zombie
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
c1995
Language
English
Description
Quentin is a serial murderer who shares his thoughts and perverse desires in a sort of journal.
16) Mortal fear
Author
Publisher
Putnam
Pub. Date
1988
Language
English
Description
When an eminent biomolecular geneticist dies violently before his eyes, a doctor must use more than his medical knowledge to explain what he comes to believe is murder, and to stop a scientific breakthrough from becoming a curse.
18) The paperboy
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c1995
Language
English
Description
A young journalist investigates the case of a man awaiting execution for the revenge killing of a sheriff in Florida.
20) After dark
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
1995
Language
English
Description
Lawyer Tracy Cavanaugh is investigating two murder cases when she stumbles across information that uncovers a bizarre plot, and she no longer knows who she can trust.
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