Forty years after the fact, Becky Cooper, a curious Harvard undergrad, first heard whispers of a murdered student, one bludgeoned to death by a professor to cover up an affair. Though that motive proved false, the story that unfolded,...
Murder victims
- Author:Cooper, BeckySummary:
- Author:Sterritt, AngelaSummary:
As a Gitxsan teenager navigating life on the streets, Angela Sterritt wrote in her journal to help her survive and find her place in the world. Now an acclaimed journalist, she writes for major news outlets to push for justice and to...
- Author:Whitney, Brian, Fehr, ReneeSummary:
Renee Fehr knew, without a single doubt, that Gregory Houser killed her sister. Yet for twenty-seven years Houser walked free. Renee wouldn't rest until he was convicted for murder.
- Author:GREGORY, PhilippaSummary:
Elizabeth I has acceded to the throne of England, a position she has waited and schemed for all her life. She is surrounded by advisers; all convinced that a young woman cannot form political judgements. Elizabeth feels that she can...
- Author:Zehanat Khan, AusmaSummary:
Despite their many differences, Detective Rachel Getty trusts her boss, Esa Khattak, implicitly. But she's still uneasy at Khattak's tight-lipped secrecy when he asks her to look into Christopher Drayton's death. Drayton...
- Author:Johnson, YvetteSummary:
Yvette Johnson travels to Mississippi to uncover the true story of her grandfather Booker Wright and why he was murdered.
- Author:Neuhaus, NeleSummary:
The body of a ninety-two-year-old Holocaust survivor is found shot to death in his house near Frankfurt. A five-digit number is scrawled in blood at the scene. The autopsy reveals an old tattoo on his arm--a blood type marker used by...
- Author:Kepler, LarsSummary:
A riveting new translation of the first installment in the #1 internationally bestselling Joona Linna series, The Hypnotist shows the lengths one determined detective is willing to go to solve a horrific crime. A gruesome triple...
- Author:Butala, SharonSummary:
In 1961, a country singer named Johnny Cash chose a beautiful young woman named Alexandra Wiwcharuk to be his "Girl in Saskatoon" and sang to her in front of a hometown crowd. A few months later she would be found brutally...
- Author:Rubenhold, HallieSummary:
A study of Jack the Ripper's victims: Mary Ann "Polly" Nichols, Annie Chapman, Elisabeth Stride, Catherine "Kate" Eddowes, and Mary Jane Kelly. Explores the lives they led and how they ended up living in Whitechapel, crossing paths with...
- Author:Donovan, KevinSummary:
A top journalist crosses the yellow tape to investigate a shocking high-society crime.
Billionaires, philanthropists, socialites . . . victims. Barry and Honey Sherman appeared to lead charmed lives. But the world was shocked in...
- 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:National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (Canada)Summary:
The National Inquiry’s Final Report reveals that persistent and deliberate human and Indigenous rights violations and abuses are the root cause behind Canada’s staggering rates of violence against Indigenous women, girls and 2SLGBTQQIA...
- Author:Cameron, StevieSummary:
Looks at a series of missing women cases in Vancouver in 1998, focusing on the victims' families' and friends' pleas to start criminal investigations and describing how they led to the arrest of Robert William Pickton.
- Author:Norman, Howard A.Summary:
Elizabeth Church has been murdered, but her husband, Sam Lattimore, still sees her. In fact, he holds conversations with her almost every evening and watches her line up books on a beach. What at first seems a hallucination born of...
- Author:Gould, TerrySummary:
Where do journalists find the guts to keep telling the truth in places where truth-telling will get them murdered? Since 1992 more than 730 journalists have been killed-nearly three-quarters of them targeted and murdered. Over 85% of...
- Author:Kepler, LarsSummary:
En dépit du "marchand de sable", ou à cause de lui : à ne pas fermer l'œil de la nuit... Dans la nuit glacée de Stockholm, un jeune homme, hébété, erre le long de la voie ferrée, tenant des propos incohérents sur...
- Author:Kepler, LarsSummary:
Dans une maison de la banlieue de Stockholm, une famille est sauvagement assassinée. Seul Josef, un adolescent, survit au massacre, mais il navigue entre la vie et la mort, en état de choc. L'inspecteur Joona Linna décide alors...
- Author:Summary:
In Keetsahnak / Our Murdered and Missing Indigenous Sisters, the tension between personal, political, and public action is brought home starkly. This important collective volume both witnesses the significance of the travelling...
- Author:Spindler, EricaSummary:
This is a chilling suspense novel about a woman who goes home ten years after her sister's murder to find the true killer. When seventeen-year-old Katherine McCall awakened one morning to find her beloved sister, Sara, brutally...