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[2024]
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A fascinating pop-history dive into the stories behind the incredibly impactful crimes--both infamous and little-known--that have shaped the legal system as we know it. When asked why true crime is so in vogue, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and New York Times bestselling author Amber Hunt always has the same answer: it's no hotter than it's always been. Crimes and trials have captured American consciousness since the Salem Witch Trials in the...
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"It's been twelve long years since Detective Kawika Wong was tasked with solving the brutal murder of the infamous real-estate developer Ralph Fortunato-a case that led to more bodies than answers and a slew of complicated and ancient secrets, a case that made his career. Now, the once rookie detective is next in line to be Honolulu's next Chief of Police. But all is not well on Oʻahu or the Big Island. For weeks, Kawika and his team have failed...
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2024.
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Hired by the daughters of local writer Melody Chambers to investigate her death, believing she was murdered, Natalka and Edwin go undercover at a creative writing weekend at isolated Battle House where another murder occurs and by the time Edwin infiltrates a sinister book group, he finds himself in danger.
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"Meghan Michaels is trying to find balance between being a single mom and working as a full-time nurse. While on duty at the hospital, a patient named Caitlin arrives in a coma with a traumatic brain injury, having jumped from a bridge and plunging to the train tracks below. But when a witness comes forward with shocking details about the fall, it calls everything they know into question. Was Caitlin pushed and if so, by whom and why? Meghan mistakenly...
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2024.
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Claire, an aspiring artist and part-time serial killer, realizes someone is watching her—someone who knows about her murderous hobby—and she, while attending a weekly bereavement support group after losing her father, must finish off her blackmailer before they reveal all.
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2023.
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Español
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"Nuestra historia de amor es sencilla. Conocí a una mujer extraordinaria. Nos enamoramos. Tuvimos niños. Nos mudamos a las afueras. Nos contamos nuestros grandes sueños y nuestros secretos más oscuros. Y después comenzamos a aburrirnos. En apariencia somos una pareja normal. Como tus vecinos, los padres del mejor amigo de tu hijo, los conocidos con los que cenas de vez en cuando. Todos tenemos nuestros pequeños secretos para mantener vivo...
11) Random in death
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"In the new crime thriller from #1 New York Times-bestselling J.D. Robb, a small and easily concealed weapon wreaks havoc, and the killer is just a face in the crowd. Jenna's parents had finally given in, and there she was, at a New York club with her best friends, watching the legendary band Avenue A, carrying her demo in hopes of slipping it to the guitarist, Jake Kincade. Then, from the stage, Jake catches her eye, and smiles. It's the best night...
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2024.
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"After a high-profile kidnapping case goes wrong, criminal inspector Leonore Asker is relegated to the so-called Department of Lost Souls where she, drawn into a peculiar case, one possibly linked to the kidnapping, is led to the darkest recesses of the city where an unusual kind of evil lurks in the shadows"--
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