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61) Slow burn
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2007
Description
Ford Cole is a big-city district attorney with his eye on the mayor's office and a big problem on his hands. One of his deputies, the beautiful assistant district attorney, Nora Timmer, has just confessed to killing a man in what she claims was self-defense. A bad situation gets worse when a stranger named Luther turns up at the police station to contradict Nora's story and paints a very different picture of Ford's talented colleague. With his career...
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Series
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
"Jane and William are enjoying their honeymoon at an exclusive couples-only resort until Jane receives a chilling note warning her to "Beware of the couple at the table nearest to yours." At dinner that night, five other couples are present, and none of their tables is any nearer or farther away than any of the others. It’s almost as if someone has set the scene in order to make the warning note meaningless-but why would anyone do that? Jane has...
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Formats
Description
After losing her husband, Derrick, in what appears to have been a random street crime, thirtysomething Emma has built a new life with widower Tom, who is kind, and successful. Emma is finally able to feel safe again, both in her relationship with Tom and in the home they've made together on the Connecticut shore. Then one day a homicide detective shows up at Emma and Tom's door asking questions. Though Emma had been cleared of her husband's murder,...
64) The confessor
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Description
Catholic priest Daniel Clemens defies the church to investigate murder charges against a fellow priest. He is assisted by a local reporter and a church lawyer in this psychological thriller.
65) Don't look back
Author
Publisher
Harvest
Pub. Date
2005
Description
"In an idyllic Norwegian village, neighbors know neighbors and children play happily in the streets. But then the naked body of a teenage girl is found. Annie was strong, intelligent, and loved by everyone. What went so terribly wrong? Called in to investigate, Inspector Sejer uncovers layer upon layer of distrust and lies beneath the towns seemingly perfect facade"-- Cover verso.
66) Rope
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2006, 1948
Description
Two thrill-seeking friends strangle a classmate and then hold a party for their victim's family and friends, serving refreshments on a buffet table fashioned from a trunk containing the lifeless body. When dinner conversation revolves around talk of "the perfect murder," their former teacher becomes increasingly suspicious that his proteges have turned his intellectual theories into brutal reality.
67) Regrets only
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
"Paige Lancaster, single mom and prodigal daughter, has returned to the East Coast from her prestigious, well-paid job in LA, writing for the smartest detective series on television. Something terrible happened to her back in Hollywood. Okay, two terrible things, one featuring a misplaced tire iron -- and now she's broke and homeless and living with her widowed mother and eight year old daughter, Izzy, in her hometown of Piermont, Connecticut: land...
68) Chain reaction
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Description
"Two scientists find themselves caught in a maze of secret government cover-ups, high-tech espionage and murder after working on a groundbreaking scientific experiment. Their only hope lies with a powerful and mysterious bureacrat who may or may not be on their side"--Container.
69) The Colorado kid
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Audio
Pub. Date
©2005
Description
On an island off the coast of Maine, a man is found dead. There's no identification on the body. Only the dogged work of a pair of local newspapermen and a graduate student in forensics turns up any clues. But that's just the beginning of the mystery. Because the more they learn about the man and the baffling circumstances of his death, the less they understand. Was it an impossible crime? Or something stranger still...? No one but Stephen King could...
70) The Raven
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012
Description
Baltimore 1849. While investigating a horrific double murder, police detective Emmett Fields makes a startling discovery: the killer's methods mirror the twisted writings of Edgar Allan Poe. Suspecting Poe at first, Fields ultimately enlists his help to stop future attacks. But in this deadly game of cat and mouse, the stakes are raised with each gruesome slaying as the pair races to catch a madman before he brings every one of Poe's shocking stories...
73) End of watch
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Formats
Description
Two young officers are marked for death after confiscating a small cache of money and firearms from the members of a notorious cartel, during a routine traffic stop.
74) Border crossing
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
Pub. Date
2001
Description
Set in the north of England, Pat Barker's Border Crossing portrays a child psychiatrist who rescues a man from drowning one day while walking on a beach in Northumberland. Uncannily, he recognizes the man; it's Danny Miller, a child murderer at whose trial he once gave evidence. Since the trial, he has reconsidered that evidence and found it lacking. Now he confronts the man whose altered fate may be his responsibility.
Now a Major Motion Picture...
75) Child 44
Publisher
Summit Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
In 1953 Soviet Russia, secret police agent Leo Demidov loses status, power, and home when he refuses to denounce his own wife, Raisa, as a traitor. Exiled from Moscow to a grim provincial outpost, Leo and Raisa join forces with General Mikhail Nesterov to track down a serial killer who preys on young boys. Their quest for justice threatens a system-wide cover-up by Leo's psychopathic rival Vasili, who insists there is no crime in paradise.
78) Memento
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
Description
An intricate crime story about a man who has lost his short term memory due to a rare brain disorder. Now he is out to catch his wife's murderer, whose identity he cannot ever know for sure. The more he tries to figure out what is true and real, the more he sinks deeper into a multi-layered abyss of uncertainty and surprises.
79) Snuffed out
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Series
Publisher
Crooked Lane Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
30-year-old twins Tabby and Sage Winslow own the Book and Candle Shop in Savannah. Sage is hotheaded and impulsive, while Tabby is calm and collected, making them the perfect partnership. When one of their customers is found murdered, that partnership is put to the test. Blithe McAdam had been seen in a heated argument with shop clerk Gerard, which immediately makes him suspect number one. The twins are convinced of Gerard's innocence and start digging...
Author
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
When a local teenager discovers a severed hand and foot washed up on the shore of the small town of Point Mettier, Alaska, Cara Kennedy is on the case. A detective from Anchorage, she has her own motives for investigating the possible murder in this isolated place, which can be accessed only by a tunnel. After a blizzard causes the tunnel to close indefinitely, Cara is stuck among the odd and suspicious residents of the town - all 205 of whom live...
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