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Union Square & Co
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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A lyrical and emotionally engaging novel infused with mystery and wisdom about love, friendship, and the power of forgiveness. Florrie Butterfield--eighty-seven, one-legged, and of cheerful disposition--believes there can't be any more adventures or surprises in life to experience. Yet one midsummer’s evening, there’s an accident at Babbington Hall--the adult residence where she lives--so shocking and strange that Florrie is suspicious; is this...
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18 Truly Horrific Murder Cases, including; Wife, Mother, Murderess: Two children lay gravely wounded, another is D.O.A. Could their young mother really be the shooter?A Japanese Cannibal in Paris: A brilliant Japanese student develops a taste for Western women while studying in France. A Passion for Evil: When Snuff movie aficionado, John Maden, decides to indulge his darkest fantasy, no one is safe – not even his 12-year-old niece. Teenage...
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18 Truly Horrific Murder Cases, including; In Plain Sight: A young woman is brutally murdered in front of 38 witnesses. So why didn't anyone call the police?Bad Chemistry: John Balaban had a problem with women, one that he resolved at the end of a sharp blade. Fox on the Run: A young mother is found shot to death and the clues point to the unlikeliest of suspects – a gorgeous ex-cop and playboy bunny. Weeds: The Major enjoyed an orderly existence,...
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Fresh from the crypt with another dose of the deadly. While slashers and creeps haunt city alleyways and town streets, Fear Box investigates the deathly side of crime and true stories. The Dossier of Death includes Fear Box's investigations into the death of rumored half-alien secret agent Jeffrey Alan Lash, as well as Granny the Ripper, Michelle the Suicide Temptress, the Satanic Panic, and much more.If you're feeling groggy, I implore you to stay...
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18 Truly Horrific Murder Cases, including; Dark Water: The frantic young woman claimed that her young sons had been abducted by a gunman. The truth was rather more sinister.The Brighton Trunk Murders: Two female corpses are found crammed into luggage trunks. But are the murders related? And if so, how? Death in the Badlands: When an America student goes missing south of the border, suspicion falls on a drug dealer with links to human sacrifice...
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18 Shocking True Crime Murder Cases From Around The World, including;The Girl in the Basement: A 16-year-old girl is kept in a basement and systematically tortured to death by a gang of neighborhood children.Secret Sauce: Omaima Nelson had a unique way of getting rid of her husband's corpse. She cooked and ate it.Murder in the Clouds: United Airlines flight 629 explodes soon after take-off. But did someone deliberately plant a bomb on board? And if...
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Peer into the minds of teen killers like Pearl, Mississippi school shooter Luke Woodham with researcher Phil Chalmers as your guide to understand the motives behind, and possibly prevent, their horrifying violence. Luke Woodham, a pudgy 16-year-old, woke up one day, slit his mother's throat, and then drove to school, where he shot 9 people, including his girlfriend. Why? In Inside the Mind of a Teen Killer, Chalmers, who has been interviewing teen...
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Bloodhound Books
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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The first three “warm, cozy crime capers” in the witty series starring a librarian turned detective by the author of the Constable Mavis Upton novels ( Jill’s Book Cafe ). This three-in-one volume includes: Murders at the Winterbottom Women’s Institute Librarian Prunella Pearce has begun a new life in the village of Winterbottom, where there’s little social life to be had aside from the meetings of the Winterbottom Women’s Institute. But...
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The lives and dreadful deeds of 20 horrific medical serial killers, including:Genene Jones: a truly monstrous paediatric nurse who murdered as many as 47 babies and children entrusted to her care.Glennon Engleman:a rather unconventional dentist who moonlighted as a hitman and murder-for-profit killer.Michael Swango: a deadly doctor who took genuine pleasure in poisoning his patients and colleagues. Killed at least 60 in an intercontinental murder...
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Sinister Script - How Handwriting Exposes Evil is a 127 page eBook (27,849) written by Charles T. Richardson, a certified handwriting analyst with nearly 50 years of experience in graphology. The book contains four chapters and footnotes, detailed endnotes, a glossary of handwriting analysis terms, an extensive bibliography and a thorough index. Many samples of handwriting, along with photos, are used to explain the text. The first two chapters introduce...
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18 Shocking True Crime Stories of the World's Worst Serial Killers. Included in this volume;David Carpenter: Known as the Trailside Killer, Carpenter turned the hiking trails and beauty spots around San Francisco into his personal killing fields.Catherine Wilson: This Victorian poisoner might have gotten away with four murders, had she not decided to change her venom of choice – to sulphuric acid!Kieran Kelly: A deadly tramp, Kelly employed a unique...
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18 Shocking True Crime Stories of the World's Worst Serial Killers. Included in this volume;John Eric Armstrong: A psychopathic sailor who traveled the world with the US Navy, racking up kills in every port he visited, from Hawaii to Hong Kong.George Joseph Smith: This truly heartless killer who preyed on lonely spinsters, killing them by an ingeniously original method.Faryion Wardrip: He was considered a pillar of the community in Wichita Falls,...
13) The Deadly Dozen
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The Shocking True Crime Stories of the 12 Worst Serial Killers in American HistoryDavid Berkowitz: Known as the "Son of Sam," Berkowitz was a deeply disturbed young man who prowled the streets of New York dispensing death with his .44 caliber revolver.William Bonin: One of a trio of deadly psychopaths who trawled the freeways of Southern California during the late 70's and early 80's. Bonin was a depraved child killer who abducted, raped and tortured...
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As idyllic as eastern Pennsylvania's Lehigh Valley may be, there's an unexpected dark side. Serial killers, mass murderers, violent gangs and outright hit men have all operated here, along with high-profile family killers. Even before these incidents, there were several Indian massacres and some homicides that made forensic history. In these pages Katherine, in collaboration with Northampton County coroner Zachary Lysek, looks at historical and contemporary...
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From award-winning journalists John Quiñones and María Elena Salinas comes One Year in Uvalde, a narrative that builds on year-long ABC News reporting from Uvalde, Texas, chronicling how the community is forging on through grief with hope and activism in the shadow of tragedy.
Uvalde: 365 was a continuing ABC News series led by the network's Investigative Unit. As part of the initiative, ABC opened a local satellite news bureau in Uvalde, Texas,...
16) Such a Good Man
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Joe Burgess mystery volume 8
Publisher
ePublishing Works!
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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Behind the Veneer of Success Lies a Sinister Secret in Such a Good Man, a Detective Joe Burgess Murder Mystery Thriller from Kate Flora
-Portland, Maine-
When Dr. Eliot Spence is found dead in his pristine condo, Detective Joe Burgess and his team must delve behind his glossy façade to reveal the doctor's insatiable desires, his wife's mysterious death, and a cache of compromising photos.
As Burgess and his colleagues strive to uncover the truth...
17) The Moon Rock
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MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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A classic locked room mystery from the genre's Golden Age by the renowned Australian author of the Chief Inspector Luckraft series.
On the day of his wife's funeral, Robert Turold reveals that he has completed his lifelong quest to prove his family's noble blood and restore its barony title. His brother and nephew will be his heirs, skipping over his daughter who he believes is illegitimate due to a deathbed confession from his wife. With the...
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Harlequin
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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He'll do anything to prove his suspicions.
She'll risk everything for the truth.
Ryder Lewis is sure his sister knew her killer ten years ago-and that her roommate gave the prime suspect a false alibi. But he is stunned to discover that Kristy Kendall can't remember all of that night…and is desperate for answers. Will their tentative trust finally uncover the truth-or prove an insidious murderer's deadliest weapon?
19) The Kitchen
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Orenda Books
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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Hamburg State Prosecutor Chastity Riley and her colleagues investigate the murders of men with a history of abuse towards women ... as a startling, horrifying series of revelations emerge.
When neatly packed male body parts wash up by the River Elbe, Hamburg State Prosecutor Chastity Riley and her colleagues begin a perplexing investigation.
As the murdered men are identified, it becomes clear that they all had a history of abuse towards...
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Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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One woman's trash is another woman's--lost Chagall masterpiece?!?
Expat Zoe Barlow has settled well into her artist's life among the Lost Generation in 1920s Paris. When a too-tipsy guest at her weekly poker game breaks Zoe's favorite clock, she's off to a Montparnasse flea market to bargain with the vendor Laurette for a replacement. What Zoe didn't bargain for was the lost Chagall painting that's been used like a rag to wrap her purchases! Eager...
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