Set in Whitechapel in 1888. Fiona Finnegan is the spirited, ambitious daughter of an Irish dock worker. She longs to break free from the squalid lanes and alleys of Whitechapel, where she has a job in a tea factory. With the love of her...
Murder victims' families
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Author:DONNELLY, JenniferSummary: -
Author:L'Amour, LouisSummary:William Tell Sackett finds strength in the Sackett clan who've come from near and far to settle the score with the "Lazy A" boys, out for Sackett's life in the canyon country of Arizona.
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Author:Eldridge, ToriSummary:After her sister is raped and murdered, Lily Wong dedicates her life and ninja skills to the protection of women. She has to hide her true self from her Hong Kong tiger mom, who is already disappointed at her less-than-feminine ways,...
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Author:SEBOLD, AliceSummary:This is the tale of family, memory, love, and living told by 14-year-old Susie Salmon, who is already in heaven. Through the voice of a precocious teenage girl, Susie relates the awful events of her death and builds out of her family...
- Author:Cook, Thomas H.Summary:
A floundering middle-aged historian reluctantly sits down with the woman he suspects was responsible for his father's murder decades before. As they drink, they open up about this seminal event and he discovers much of what he thought...
- Author:Hart, JohnSummary:
When Work Pickens finds his father murdered, the investigation pushes a repressed family history to the surface and he sees his own carefully constructed façade begin to crack. Work's troubled sister, her combative girlfriend, his gold...
- Author:Lee, Carol Ann.Summary:
Much has been written about the brutal crimes of Peter Sutcliffe, the Yorkshire Ripper, and - thirty-five years after he was sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of thirteen women - scarcely a week goes by without some mention...
- Author:Slaughter, KarinSummary:
Lee Child says it's "stunning... certain to be a book of the year." Kathy Reichs calls it "extraordinary... a major achievement." Gillian Flynn says of Karin Slaughter: "I'd follow her anywhere."...
- Author:Abbott, JeffSummary:
Abbott's go-for-broke style is on full display in Panic, the tale of a man dodging threats on his life after his world is turned upside down. Evan Casher discovers his mother's murdered corpse and is then rescued from certain death by a...
- Author:Rivera Garza, CristinaSummary:
NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST - A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK - "A searing account of grief and the quest to bring her sister's murderer to justice years after the fact" (The Boston Globe), from "one of Mexico's...
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Author:Shakespeare, WilliamSummary:After seeing the ghost of his murdered father, Hamlet realizes that his new stepfather was the killer and plots revenge and ponders the value of life.
- Author:Freedman, J. F.Summary:
When the husband and wife team of Walt and Jocelyn Gaines travel to South America to contribute their archaeological expertise at a newly uncovered Mayan site, no one could predict what happens next. Fallen Idols is a riveting novel of...
- Author:Bowen, RhysSummary:
When Constable Evan Evans and his new fiancée decide to travel south from home in Llanfair, Wales, to visit his mother in Swansea, they’re not expecting the disturbing news that greets them on their arrival: the young thug convicted of...
- Author:Kane, AndreaSummary:
Seventeen years ago Morgan Winter arrived home to find her parents brutally slain on Christmas Eve. A man was convicted of the crime, but new evidence has surfaced to prove his innocence. Now Morgan must face the truth that her parents...
- Author:Box, Dan.Summary:
A true crime story cannot often be believed, at least at the beginning. In Bowraville, all three of the victims were Aboriginal. All three were killed within five months, between 1990 and 1991. The same white man was linked to each, but...
- Author:Krentz, Jayne AnnSummary:
Shy, studious Irene Stenson and wild, privileged Pamela Webb had been the best of friends for one short high school summer. Their friendship ended the night Pamela dropped Irene off at home- and Irene walked in to discover her parents'...
- Author:Edwards, YvvetteSummary:
Fourteen years ago, Jinx's mother was brutally stabbed to death in their East London home. Haunted by this tragedy, Jinx is surprised one day when her mother's friend Lemon appears at her door. Over a tension-filled weekend, the two...
