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Gold rush
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Miri Yū |
"Inspired by a 1997 real-life murder of an elementary school student by a 14-year-old boy, who displayed the murdered boy's head by the entrance of a junior high school, Gold Rush is the story of a 1… |
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Forgiving Troy
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Thom Bierdz |
It took me many years to write this book, and as painful as it was to revisit the past at times, it was important that I write it. It is important to me that I honor my mom. And it is important to me… |
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Expensive people
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Joyce Carol Oates |
Joyce Carol Oates’s Wonderland Quartet comprises four remarkable novels that explore social class in America and the inner lives of young Americans. In Expensive People, Oates takes a provocative and… |
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While They Slept
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Kathryn Harrison |
Early on an April morning, eighteen-year-old Billy Frank Gilley, Jr., killed his sleeping parents. Surprised in the act by his younger sister, Becky, he turned on her as well. Billy then climbed the … |
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Parricide in the United States, 1840-1899
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Kerry Segrave |
"This book examines 103 selected cases of individuals charged with parricide--the murder of a father or mother--in the United States in the last half of the 19th century, categorized here by their li… |
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Cruel doubt
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Joe McGinniss |
One hot summer night in 1988, Bonnie Von Stein's second husband was murdered in their bed, Bonnie herself stabbed, beaten, and left for dead beside him. It looked like a brutal but tragically typical… |
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While they slept
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Kathryn Harrison |
From the bestselling author of The Kiss comes a riveting account of true crime-- the murder of a family in a small Midwestern town-- and the gripping exploration of its haunting aftermath. The Gilley… |
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Malice
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Danielle Steel |
The compelling story of a woman who must struggle to overcome a shattering betrayal, and the cruellest kind of malice. At seventeen, on the night of her mother's funeral, Grace Adams is attacked. A y… |
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Running wild
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J. G. Ballard |
The thirty-two adult members of an exclusive residential community in West London are brutally murdered, and their children are abducted, leaving no trace. Through the forensic diary of Dr. Richard G… |
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The private diary of Lyle Menendez
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Lyle Menendez |
The personal story of Lyle Menendez is based on a four-and-a-half-year intimate correspondence with the author and covers the murders of Jose and Kitty Menendez by Lyle and his brother Erik and the c… |
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When a child kills
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Paul A. Mones |
An exploration of the world of parracide presents the stories of eight children accused of killing their parents, discussing the facts in their cases and the outcome of their trials. Reprint. AB. |
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Sudden fury
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Leslie Walker |
For years, Bob and Kay Swartz had yearned to have a family. Eleven years after adopting a son, they lay dead at his hands. What went wrong? Sudden Fury unearths the answers in a deeply moving narrati… |
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A deadly silence
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Dena Kleiman |
The Piersons. They were the family next door - picture-book America, close, loving, prosperous, observing conventions, upholding decent values. Then the father, James Pierson, was shot dead in the dr… |
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Blood games
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Jerry Bledsoe |
Relates how Bonnie Von Stein's well-loved son and his overprivileged friends, floating in a fantasy world of drugs, fast cars, and sex, bludgeoned her and killed her husband while they were sleeping … |
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The Society Murders
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Hilary Bonney |
The story of the 'society murders' that rocked a family, a class and a city to its very core.In April 2002, wealthy socialite Margaret Wales-King and her husband Paul King left their home in a leafy … |
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