Deep in Derbyshire, a young girl disappears while walking her dog in the woods. A rookie detective is assigned to the case, and must ferret out the truth in a small, inbred, closely guarded community.
Pretending to be the son of a rich family in order to escape his father's life of crime, Cameron Miller faces a difficult choice when he is blackmailed into sharing the family wealth with an evil man. Reprint.
A chilling acount of the Thomas Capano affair takes readers into the mind of a successful lawyer and political advisor who murdered his lover--the secretary to the governor of Delaware. Reissue. (A CBS-TV miniseries, airing February 2001) (True Crime)
Critical acclaim ranks THE SKULL MANTRA with Gorky Park and Smilla's Sense of Snow as a novel as much about a people and a place--the Tibetans of the high Himalayas--as it is a gripping thriller. Winner of the Edgar Award for Best First Novel, author Eliot Pattison masterfully scales the heights of ...
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When his young daughter is abducted by a bloodthirsty, devil-worshiping cult called "The Left-Handed Path," a desperate father joins forces with a vengeful young woman, a survivor of the cult, on a quest through a brutal world of child pornography, murder, and drugs to save his daughter. A first nov ...
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St. Paul, Minnesota, 1939. The body of a beautiful dime-a-dance girl is found on a hillside, and Police Lieutenant Wesley Horner, struggling and alone after his wife's recent death, heads the investigation into her murder. His chief suspect is Herbert White, an eccentric recluse and hobby photogra ...
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Baby boomer humorist Dave Barry, famous for his droll observations about aging and the human condition in general, makes his fiction debut with this hilarious novel.
When young Harry Crane stumbles upon a mutilated body in the local river bottoms, the region beomes trapped in a nightmare of fear and racial tension, as a vicious serial killer stalks the town, a man is lynched, and local law enforcement races against time to find the murderer, in a suspenseful tal ...
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It is 1980, and Vince Camden, a New York thief previously known as Marty Hagen, now resides in Spokane, Washington--courtesy of the Witness Protection Program--where he flourishes as a doughnut-maker, a dealer in marijuana, and trafficker in stolen credit cards. Mere days remain before the Carter/Re ...
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Benjamin Weaver, a Jew and an ex-boxer, is an outsider in eighteenth-century London, tracking down debtors and felons for aristocratic clients. The son of a wealthy stock trader, he lives estranged from his family—until he is asked to investigate his father’s sudden death. Thus Weaver de ...
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Provides interviews and accounts of the experiences, techniques, and occasional adventures of women private investigators working in Great Britain and the United States.
Pete Earley, author of "The Hot House," visits Monroeville, Alabama, which Harper Lee fictionalized into the setting for "To Kill A Mockingbird." However, it seems that racial tensions have not died down much in the town since the publication of Lee's novel. In 1986, an 18-year-old white woman was s ...
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Howard Mpofu, the director of hospitals for the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Zimbabwe, liked the new doctor the minute he met him, in November 1994, when he picked him up at the Bulawayo city airport. Michael Swango looked like the American athletes Mpofu had seen on television. He was blond and b ...
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Surveys detective fiction from the Civil War to World War II, describes how women writers created a form of domestic mystery that offered a critical view of the condition of women, and discusses works based on the Lizzie Borden case.
The ship-building city of Quincy, bordering Boston to the south, was a perfect location for the kind of meeting the agent had in mind. The roadway along the beach, Quincy Shore Drive, ran right into the Southeast Expressway. Heading north, any of the expressway's next few exits led smack into South ...
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