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Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
The nurse from hell: Always cheerful, helpful, and sweet, nurse Jane Toppan was the last person you would suspect to administer a dose of death. When countless patients sought treatment for minor ailments and ended up dead, it was often thought accidental, due to the shortcomings of medicine in the late 1800s. But behind the jolly mask, there was a monster that was years in the making. America's First Female Serial Killer is an imagined retelling...
Series
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
"Americans have had an uneasy fascination with crime since the earliest European settlements in the New World, and right from the start true crime became a dominant genre in American writing. True Crime: An American Anthology offers the first comprehensive look at the many ways in which American writers have explored crime in a multitude of aspects: the dark motives that spur it, the shock of its impact on society, the effort to make sense of the...
Author
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
For the author, physical fitness is only a small part of overall strength. More important is building mental toughness. In this book, she shows how she reached elite levels by focusing on her "why." By always having a clear picture of her purpose she can push through the toughest challenges. She also reveals the secrets, struggles, and successes that have made her a killer competitor. She hopes to show you how to build your own unstoppable mindset....
Author
Pub. Date
[2023].
Language
English
Description
Live Ready is a book about dangerous people - about predators who live in our midst and who violate our social contract with impunity. It's also a book about navigating a world filled with such people. It shows you how to recognize them, how to understand their methods and motivations, how to keep them at a safe remove from yourself and your loved ones (and when that's not possible, how to defeat them). --
Pub. Date
©2008
Language
English
Description
In this season, when Judge Advocate General lawyer "Harm" Rabb travels to Russia, he receives shocking news-- he has a younger brother. Meanwhile, back in Washington, "Mac" MacKenzie becomes engaged and plans her wedding, until Harm boldly makes a confession, forcing her to question her decision. And, sadly, tragedy strikes Bud and Harriet, but then Admiral Chegwidden delivers news about Harm that shakes the entire JAG office.
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Charlton Heston plays a cop in this science-fiction horror story. The setting is New York in the year 2022, teeming with 40 million citizens, most of whom are out of work. Environmental erosion is almost complete and voluntary death is encouraged by government-sponsored clinics. For their food, the people have grown to rely on a wafer-like substance called soylent. As Heston investigates the murder of a magnate in the dictatorial Soylent Company,...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"The epic history of the AR-15 rifle, America's most controversial weapon"--
In the 1950s an obsessive firearms designer named Eugene Stoner invented the AR-15 rifle in a California garage. He sought to devise a lightweight, easy-to-use weapon that could replace the M1s touted by soldiers in World War II. What he did create was a lethal handheld icon of the American century. McWhirter and Elinson track the AR-15 from inception to ubiquity. How did...
10) Dawn girl
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"FBI Special Agent Tess Winnett searches for answers relentlessly. With each step, each new finding, she uncovers unsettling facts leading to a single possible conclusion: Dawn Girl is not the only victim. Her killer has killed before. The rules of the game have changed. So has the textbook definition of a serial killer."--Back cover
Author
Series
Castle Knoll files volume 1
Language
English
Description
It's 1965 and teenage Frances Adams is at an English country fair with her two best friends. But Frances's night takes a hairpin turn when a fortune-teller makes a bone-chilling prediction: One day, Frances will be murdered. Frances spends a lifetime trying to solve a crime that hasn't happened yet, compiling dirt on every person who crosses her path in an effort to prevent her own demise. For decades, no one takes Frances seriously, until nearly...
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"The cult Japanese bestseller about a female gourmet cook and serial killer and the journalist intent on cracking her case, inspired by a true story. There are two things that I can simply not tolerate: feminists and margarine. Gourmet cook Manako Kajii sits in Tokyo Detention Center convicted of the serial murders of lonely businessmen, who she is said to have seduced with her delicious home cooking. The case has captured the nation's imagination...
Author
Series
Big shots volume 1
Language
English
Description
"Wells Whitaker was once golf's hottest rising star, but lately, all he has to show for his "promising" career is a killer hangover, a collection of broken clubs, and one remaining supporter. No matter how bad he plays, the beautiful, sunny redhead is always on the sidelines. He curses, she cheers. He scowls, she smiles. But when Wells quits in a blaze of glory and his fangirl finally goes home, he knows he made the greatest mistake of his life. Josephine...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"In a historical mystery, a serial killer is on the loose in Jazz Age Philadelphia. Philadelphia, 1921. When Edie Shippen returns home after spending years in California recovering from Influenza, she's shocked to discover her childhood sweetheart is engaged to her twin sister. Heartbroken and adrift, Edie vows to begin living her life as a modern woman--and to hell with anyone who gets in her way. But as young women start to disappear from the city,...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"When a psychic fair arrives in West London, Gemma Doyle, owner of the Sherlock Holmes Bookshop and Emporium, wants nothing to do with it. But somehow, at the urging of Donald Morris, an enthusiastic Sherlockian, she finds herself talked into attending a séance, along with baker and best friend Jayne Wilson, store assistant, Ashleigh, and former pop star Bunny Leigh. But to her surprise, Gemma finds herself banned from the séance and shown the door....
16) Lines of inquiry
Author
Series
DCI Evan Warlow crime thriller volume 10
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
A police officer is shot at a peaceful beach and DCI Evan Warlow is called in and finds betrayal, gang conflict, money and a killer.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
'Whodunnit' doesn't matter so much, not to a forensic psychiatrist. We're more interested in the 'why'. In his 26 years in the field, Richard Taylor has worked on well over a hundred murder cases, with victims and perpetrators from all walks of life. In this fascinating memoir, Taylor draws on some of the most tragic, horrific and illuminating of these cases - as well as dark secrets from his own family's past - to explore some of the questions he...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Parisian private investigator Aimée Leduc has been framed for the murder of her daughter's father--now she's on the lam, and must find the real killer to clear her name in this thrilling 21st installment of Cara Black's New York Times bestselling mystery series. Aimée Leduc's ex Melac, her daughter's father, has been hounding her for weeks, pressuring her to move little Chloe to Brittany, threatening to take her to court for custody--all but stalking...
20) Mine to possess
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
A powerful DarkRiver sentinel tormented by his brutal past, Clay Bennett finds redemption in Talin McKade, an advocate for the street children, who needs his help in catching a killer and unlocks the darkest secrets of his heart.
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