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Publisher
Universal Home Video
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
When a Southern white woman accuses a black man of rape, the outcome of the trial is a foregone conclusion and no lawyer except Peck will defend him. Peck's defense costs him friendships but earns him the respect of his two children. Includes extra interview footage.
Author
Series
Brigid Quinn novels volume 1
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
"Keeping secrets, telling lies, they require the same skill. Both become a habit, almost an addiction, that's hard to break even with the people closest to you, out of the business. For example, they say never trust a woman who tells you her age; if she can't keep that secret, she can't keep yours. I'm fifty-nine." Brigid Quinn's experiences in hunting sexual predators for the FBI have left her with memories she wishes she didn't have and lethal skills...
Author
Publisher
Knopf : distributed by Random House
Pub. Date
1977
Language
English
Description
Charlotte Emory's long-awaited departure from the town she has lived in for thirty-five years culminates her eccentric past life and trapped marriage to a local preacher and begins her future with jail escapee and demolition-derby driver Jake Simms, Jr
6) The spire
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
To repay a debt to an old professor, Mark Darrow reluctantly becomes president of his former university in an attempt to save it from an embezzlement scandal. However, haunting memories of a twenty-year-old murder and the conviction of his best friend lead Mark to re-examine the case. After another murder takes place on campus, Mark becomes convinced that the actual killer is still at large.
Author
Series
Sigma Force novels volume 14
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Author
Series
Troy Chance novels volume 1
Publisher
Crown Publishers
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Witnessing a small boy being thrown into the middle of Lake Champlain, Troy Chance rescues the child only to discover that he had been kidnapped and is at the center of a bizarre and violent plot.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
After surviving a brutal attack, Joan Lurie, who exposed a famous newspaper tycoon as a sexual predator, moves to a highly secured apartment building where she meets a ninety-six-year-old woman who witnessed an incident long ago that may be linked to the book she is writing.
Author
Series
Bryant and May mysteries volume 4
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"When fifteen-year-old Lucinda Hayes is found dead in her sleepy Colorado suburb, the secret lives of three people connected to her are revealed: the social outcast who loved her from afar, the jaded girl who despised her, and the policeman investigating her death"--
14) Spiral
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
A look at the rise of anti-Semitism and assaults against Jews in present-day France.
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Having transitioned from a promising minor-league baseball career into sports radio after the hit-and-run accident that killed his beloved wife and rendered him a single parent, Ryan James receives an anonymous tip that his wife was actually murdered.
16) The Janus stone
Author
Series
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Ruth Galloway is called in to investigate when builders, demolishing a large old house in Norwich to make way for a housing development, uncover the bones of a child beneath a doorway -- minus the skull. Is it some ritual sacrifice or just plain straightforward murder? DCI Harry Nelson would like to find out -- and fast. It turns out the house was once a children's home. Nelson traces the Catholic priest who used to run the home. Father Hennessey...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
When a drunken stranger confides in him that he had killed a young woman some three months earlier, Tim Wallace, already suspected of having murdered his wife, suddenly finds his life put under a microscope by the police.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
The Dictator in the Dock short film series brings viewers into the courtroom as former dictator General Efraín Ríos Montt stands trial for genocide and crimes against humanity in Guatemala. This historic case marked the first time, anywhere in the world, that a former head of state was tried for genocide in a national court, in the country where the crimes were committed. It is also the first time in the history of South or North America, that...
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