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Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2013.
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Set against Iceland's stark landscape, Hannah Kent brings to vivid life the story of Agnes, who, charged with the brutal murder of her former master, is sent to an isolated farm to await execution. Horrified at the prospect of housing a convicted murderer, the family at first avoids Agnes. Only Tóti, a priest Agnes has mysteriously chosen to be her spiritual guardian, seeks to understand her. But as Agnes's death looms, the farmer's wife and their...
2) You know her
Author
Publisher
MCD, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
354 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"Killing Eve meets My Sister the Serial Killer in this lush, savage Southern Gothic about two women: a burgeoning murderer and the cop hell-bent on catching her"--
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"An accused killer insists she's innocent of a heinous murder. A grieving journalist surfaces from the wreckage of her shattered life. Their unlikely alliance leads to a dangerous cat and mouse game that will leave you breathless. Who can you trust when you can't trust yourself?"--Dust jacket.
5) My detective
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"Los Angeles is booming. Money is pouring in. Buildings are going up. But someone is killing architects. Detective Sam Carver journeys through sins scattered across the City of Angels, where hipsters, homeless, immigrants, producers, politicians, movie stars, and cops collide in mysterious ways. Every move Carver makes is anticipated by the killer, Dylan Cross. She has hacked his computer and knows his diaries and secrets. She sees in him a kindred...
Author
Publisher
Dey St., an imprint of William Morrow
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
xv, 300 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"Since childhood, Helene Stapinski heard lurid tales about her great-great-grandmother, Vita. In Southern Italy, she was a loose woman who had murdered someone. Immigrating to America with three children, she lost one along the way. Helene?s youthful obsession with Vita deepened as she grew up, eventually propelling the journalist to Italy, where, with her own children in tow, she pursued the story, determined to set the record straight. Weaving Helene?s...
Author
Publisher
JABberwocky Literary Agency, Inc
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
163 unnumbered pages ; 21 cm
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"Principal Anne DeWitt knew her past could catch up with her, but she didn't expect it would make her late for school. Killing a man does take time though; so does disposing the body...if you do it right. After three relatively quiet years at Travis High School, it seems Anne is in danger of being exposed--even the baseball coach knows more about her former life than she ever imagined. Now, she must find out who else holds her secrets and who wants...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
xi, 304 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., map ; 24 cm.
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"The true story of the murderesses who became media sensations and inspired the musical Chicago. There was nothing surprising about men turning up dead in Jazz Age Chicago. Life was cheaper than a quart of illicit gin in the gangland capital of the world. But two murders that spring were special, or so believed Maurine Watkins, a 'girl reporter' for the Chicago Tribune, the city's 'hanging paper.' Newspaperwomen were supposed to write about clubs,...
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Series
John Medina series volume 3
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After eighteen years as a hired assassin working for the CIA, Lily Mansfield risks everything to pursue her own quest for vengeance, compromising her cover, endangering her own life, and drawing unwanted attention in her pursuit.
Author
Publisher
Ecco
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
389 p. ; 24 cm.
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Fleeing the law in 1903 after killing her husband, Mary Boulton races toward the mountains while being tormented by visions of the cold-blooded brothers-in-law who pursue her, forcing her to retreat deeper into the wilds of the West and her own imagination.
13) Mayday
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Ana finds herself transported to a dreamlike and dangerous land where she joins an army of girls engaged in a never-ending war along a rugged coast where the women lure men to their deaths at sea via radio transmissions, like twentieth-century sirens. Though she finds strength in this exhilarating world, she comes to realize that she's not the killer they want her to be.
16) Alias Grace
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The bestselling author of The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments reveals the life of one of the most notorious women of the nineteenth century in this "shadowy, fascinating novel" (Time). • A Netflix original miniseries.
It's 1843, and Grace Marks has been convicted for her involvement in the vicious murders of her employer and his housekeeper and mistress.
Some believe Grace is innocent; others think...
It's 1843, and Grace Marks has been convicted for her involvement in the vicious murders of her employer and his housekeeper and mistress.
Some believe Grace is innocent; others think...
Publisher
British Broadcasting Corporation
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (240 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When the beautiful and innocent Tess Durbeyfield is driven by family poverty to claim kinship with the wealthy D'Urbervilles and seek a portion of their family fortune, meeting the manipulative Alec proves to be her downfall.
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Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Pub. Date
c2013
Physical Desc
xxi, 204 p., [10] p. of plates : ill. ; 23 cm.
Description
Barbara Graham might have been a diabolical dame in a hard-boiled detective story-beautiful, sexy, and deadly. Charged alongside two male friends in the murder of an elderly widow during a botched robbery attempt, "Bloody Babs" became the third woman executed in California-after a 1953 trial that played out before standing-room-only crowds captured the imaginations of journalists, filmmakers, and death penalty opponents. Why, Kathleen A. Cairns asks,...
19) The blondes
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Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
384 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"Hazel Hayes is a grad student living in New York City. As the novel opens, she learns she is pregnant (from an affair with her married professor) at an apocalyptically bad time: random but deadly attacks on passersby, all by blonde women, are terrorizing New Yorkers. Soon it becomes clear that the attacks are symptoms of a strange illness that is transforming blondes--whether CEOs, flight attendants, students, or accountants--into rabid killers"--...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
ix, 418 pages ; 25 cm
Description
"Lacey Spears made international headlines in January 2015 when she was charged with the "depraved mind" murder of her five-year-old son Garnett. Prosecutors alleged that the 27-year old mother had poisoned him with high concentrations of salt through hisstomach tube. To the outside world Lacey had seemed like the perfect mother, regularly posting dramatic updates on her son's harrowing medical problems. But in reality, Lacey was a text book case...
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