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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Phineas Redux	Anthony Trollope	The Palliser Novels, book 4: Phineas Redux	OL109870W
Ten second staircase	Christopher Fowler	It's a crime tailor-made for the Peculiar Crimes Unit: a controversial artist is murdered and displayed as part of her own outrageous installation. No suspects, no motive, no evidence--it's business …	OL11698217W
La pensée politique des génocidaires hutus	Nicolas Agostini	Genocide in Rwanda (Political thought/role of the media). How the Tutsi people and Hutu opponents were targeted and their physical elimination justified by the extremist "Hutu Power" regime.	OL11704828W
Whisper of fear	Rhonda B. Saunders	A California leading prosecutor shares the pivotal stories from her career, how she developed the legal weapons to fight stalking, and offers powerful insight into the minds and habits of stalkers, a…	OL11976800W
Deadly harvest	Heather Graham,Phil Gigante	When a young woman is found dead in a field, dressed up as a scarecrow with a slashed grin and a broken neck, the residents of Salem, Massachusetts, begin to fear that the infamous Harvest Man is mor…	OL121735W
The daughters of Juárez	Teresa Rodríguez	For more than twelve years the Mexican border city of Juárez has been the center of an epidemic of horrific crimes against women and girls: kidnappings, rape, mutilation, and murder, with most of th…	OL12281070W
A cold heart	Jonathan Kellerman	Jonathan Kellerman is a master at creating psychologically nuanced novels of suspense--an author whose name is synonymous with unrelenting action, intriguing plot twists, and penetrating insight into…	OL12703W
Dark Paradise	Tami Hoag	New Eden, Montana, is a piece of heaven on earth where one woman died in her own private hell. Now it’s up to ex-court reporter Marilee Jennings to decipher the puzzle of her best friend’s death. But…	OL134447W
Trial by fire	J. A. Jance	In the heat of the Arizona desert, a raging fire pushes temperatures to a deadly degree, and one woman is left to burn. Pulled naked and barely breathing from the fire, the victim has no idea who she…	OL13655W
Blood harvest	Brant Randall	"What drives a small town in 1929 New England to lynch a man? When immigrant Nick DeCosta elopes with the wild youngest daughter of the MacKay clan, the county's leading moonshiners, the stage is set…	OL13754557W
Simeon's story	Herb Boyd,Simeon Wright,Simeon Wright	A modern tragedy, this story has had a great impact on race relations in America. Emmett Till's kidnapping and murder, a grotesque crime in a Southern backwater that became the catalyst for the civil…	OL13852525W
Murder at Union Station	Margaret Truman	When Washington's splendid Union Station opened its doors in 1908, the glorious structure epitomized capital stylishness. Today, restored and refurbished, the station is again a hub of activity where…	OL14851975W
Murder at the Washington Tribune	Margaret Truman	From senators to summer interns, from all the president's men to all-powerful women, Margaret Truman captures the fascinating, high-wire drama of Washington, D.C., like no other writer. Now this mast…	OL14851994W
Skein of the crime	Maggie Sefton	The newest installment in the series, with knitting patterns and recipes included! Fall has come to Fort Connor, Colorado, and the cool air has inspired the knitters at the House of Lambspun to start…	OL14909493W
Dead on the dance floor	Heather Graham	New York Times bestselling author Heather Graham choreographs a sexy thriller of passion and murder...Accomplished dancer Lara Trudeau drops dead of a heart attack brought on by a lethal combination …	OL14911206W
Don't blink	Howard Roughan,James Patterson	The Lombardo Steak House in New York has three reasons why it's famous, the menu, the clientele and now the murder of an infamous mob lawyer. The assassin is able to slip through the police's fingers…	OL14920138W
Worst Case	James Patterson,Michael Ledwidge	Best case: survivalThe son of one of New York's wealthiest families is snatched off the street and held hostage. His parents can't save him, because this kidnapper isn't demanding money. Instead, he …	OL14920173W
The Lord of Death	Eliot Pattison	Shan Tao Yun is an exiled Chinese national and a former Beijing investigator on parole from the Tibetan gulag to which he had been consigned as punishment. He is ferrying a corpse on muleback over th…	OL14924899W
Dead man docking	Mary Daheim	Judith and Renie's dreams of R&R on a deluxe cruise ship are dry–docked when murder occurs at a pre–launch party. But the stabbing death of cruise line owner Magglio Cruz is only the first in a trio …	OL14937634W
Black Girl/White Girl	Joyce Carol Oates	Remembering Minette Swift, the talented, assertive, 19-year-old African-American girl enrolled as a scholarship student in an exclusive, mostly white liberal arts college near Philadelphia who died u…	OL14958451W