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"After years working in homicide, retired Toronto detective Steve Ryan reflects on six cases he will never forget. Retired detective Steve Ryan worked in Toronto's homicide squad for over a decade. For him, the stories of Toronto's most infamous crimes were more than just a headline read over morning coffee -- they were his everyday life. After investigating over one hundred homicides, the tragedies Steve saw will never leave him and he'll never forget...
3) Graceling
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In a world where some people are born with extreme and often-feared skills called Graces, Katsa struggles for redemption from her own horrifying Grace, the Grace of killing, and teams up with another young fighter to save their land from a corrupt king.
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"Accidental injury is the leading cause of death for Americans under forty-five. Those who have caused accidents walk among us. They are us. Episcopal priest David W. Peters unintentionally killed someone in a traffic accident as a young man, and in Accidental, he guides readers through the aftermath of these tragedies toward healing and recovery"--
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Fearing for the safety of her young child's life, a young slave called Roxy swaps her light-skinned baby with that of her master. Her master's child grows up as a slave, while Roxy's child grows up as a white man called "Tom" who becomes cruel and ends up leading a life crime. The book is a cutting indictment of a society based on racial prejudice and slavery brimming with Twain's characteristic wit and irony. Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835—1910),...
6) Wicked game
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Twenty years after the disappearance of Jessie Brentwood, Detective "Mac" McNally reopens the case when bones are unearthed at Jessie's old school, and soon after Jessie's friends begin to die under suspicious circumstances.
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Single father Remi Bone knows that his daughter’s Ivy League education will cost an arm and a leg . . . or a few bodies
Remi Bone is a good guy. He’s a hardworking mechanic, a single father raising his late wife’s daughter, and now, he’s dying of heart failure. But his daughter Kayla was just admitted to the college of her dreams. How will she afford college with two dead parents?
Before he dies, Remi decides to stockpile as much money as...
8) Dangerous
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A merciless man with a haunted past, FBI agent Kilraven can't help being attracted to Winnie Sinclair, a shy 911 operator. When he makes the disturbing discovery that her family's unsavory past might have a bearing on his cold case, Winnie is determined to help him crack it--and the ice around this Texan's heart.
9) Fatal beauty
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Provides a detailed account of the events surrounding the shooting of Jimmy Joste, a man who had achieved success in the oil and gas industry, and the trial of his longtime lover, Rhonda Glover, who was accused of ending her fifteen-year relationship with Joste with murder.
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True-crime author Philip Carlo reflects on his time spent with serial killers, interviewing them and gaining their trust, and discusses his internal killer, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, also known as ALS or Lou Gehrig's disease, and all he went through dealing with this disease before his death in 2010.
11) Hit list
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A New York hit man named Keller becomes the target of a hit himself, a dilemma he is not accustomed to.
12) Killer triggers
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"The most common triggers for homicide are fear, rage, revenge, money, lust, and, more rarely, sheer madness. This isn't an exact science, of course. Any given murder can have multiple triggers. Sex and revenge seem to be common partners in crime. Rage, money, and revenge make for a dangerous trifecta of triggers, as well. This book offers my memories of homicide cases that I investigated or oversaw. In each case, I examine the trigger that led to...
14) Hard luck money
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Katherine Lupo believes her murdered criminal father was set up for a train robbery, and she and a Texas Ranger persuade the Loner to track down the one responsible.
15) The last fix
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An intricate psychological thriller from the master of Norwegian crime writing. When the corpse of Katrine, a recovering drug addict, is discovered, an intricate plot is exposed, juxtaposing the self-delusion of drug addicts with the more complex self-delusions of the well-respected middle-class people treating them.
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While traveling on a stagecoach in southern Arizona, Falcon MacCallister is ambushed but the only people who die are the shotgun guard and a young Indian woman who is the daughter of a powerful chief and now Falcon must find the murderers before innocent people are killed due to the chief's vengeace.
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When murder is your business, solving the case is personal …
The Homicide Hunter's riveting debut novel proves that fiction really can be stranger than truth …
All Is Not Forgiven is the debut crime novel by Investigation Discovery star Joe Kenda, a former homicide detective, whose hit series Homicide Hunter and American Detective have been watched by as many as 3.8 million viewers in 186 countries.
In this first novel, the rookie Det. Kenda...
18) The guardian
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U.S. Marshal Marcus O'Malley is called in to protect a young woman who witnessed the murder of a Supreme Court justice, but Marcus finds his ability to do his job compromised when he falls in love with the woman.
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The year is 1869. After a brutal triple murder in a remote community in the Scottish Highlands, a young man by the name of Roderick Macrae is arrested for the crime. A memoir written by the accused makes it clear that he is guilty, but the police and the courts must decide what drove him to murder the local village constable. And why did he kill his other two victims? Was he insane? Or was this the act of a man in possession of his senses? Only the...
20) Our little secret: the true story of a teenage killer and the silence of a small New England town
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The true story of a teenage killer and the silence of a small New England town.
For twenty years Daniel Paquette's murder in New Hampshire went unsolved. It remained a secret between two high school friends until Eric Windhurst's arrest in 2005. What was revealed was a crime born of adolescent passion between Eric and Daniel's stepdaughter, Melanie- redefining the meaning of loyalty, justice, and revenge. Kevin Flynn is the coauthor of several books,...
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