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Georgia, Charlie and Alice each arrive at Harvard with hopeful visions of what the future will hold. But when, just before graduation, a classmate is found murdered on campus, they find themselves facing a cruel and unanticipated new reality. Moreover, a charismatic professor who has loomed large in their lives is suspected of the crime. Though his guilt or innocence remains uncertain, the unsettling questions raised by the case force the three friends...
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David Loogan mysteries volume Prequel
Publisher
Amy Einhorn Books
Pub. Date
©2014.
Language
English
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Falling in love with a beautiful young law student after a chance encounter on a rainy April night, David is discouraged by a bruise on April's cheek that she refuses to explain and is horrified when he is declared a prime suspect in her subsequent murder.
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Anna Curtis novels volume 5
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English
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"Emma, a freshman at a Michigan university, has gone missing. She was last seen leaving a bar near the prestigious and secretive fraternity known on campus as "the rape factory." The main suspect is Dylan Brooks, the son of one of the most powerful politicians in the state. But so far the only clues are pieced-together surveillance footage of Emma leaving the bar that night and Dylan running down the street after her. When Anna discovers the video...
4) Therapy
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Alex Delaware novels volume 18
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
Behind the yellow crime-scene tape, a brutal tableau awaits. On a lonely lovers’ lane in the hills of Los Angeles, a young couple lies murdered in a car. Each victim bears a single gunshot wound to the head. Though the female remains unidentified, her male companion has a name—Gavin Quick—and a troubled past that had landed him on a therapist’s couch.
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Behind the yellow crime-scene tape, a brutal tableau awaits. On a lonely lovers’ lane in the hills of Los Angeles, a young couple lies murdered in a car. Each victim bears a single gunshot wound to the head. Though the female remains unidentified, her male companion has a name—Gavin Quick—and a troubled past that had landed him on a therapist’s couch.
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5) Run on red
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Publisher
Dynamite Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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"A rural country road. No cell signal for miles. A terrifying game of cat-and-mouse. By the time Laura and Olivia notice the headlights tailing them through the hills, it's too late. What seems, at first, like a case of road rage quickly unfolds into a heart-pounding chase--and a battle for survival. Who are the men in the truck? What do they want? And can Laura and Olivia outrun--and outsmart--them long enough to call for help, even if it means taking...
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Highway 59 volume 3
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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"In this ... culmination of the award-winning Highway 59 trilogy, Detective Darren Mathews is pulled out of an early retirement to investigate the case of a missing Black college student from an all-white sorority and soon finds a town that will stop at nothing to keep its secrets hidden."--
8) The enforcer
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Series
Games people play volume 2
Publisher
Avon Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
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English
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Series
Knitting mystery volume 8
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Kelly Flynn unravels the murder of a college student who was attending her knitting classes at the House of Lambspun.
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Augusta Goodnight mysteries volume 6
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2006
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English
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Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"Emily Hunt went missing from her affluent liberal arts school on graduation weekend. Her body was found floating in a river, and a quiet loner who most people on campus really didn't know died by suicide. A tenuous link--one text--bound the two dead students together and was enough for law enforcement to close the case. But they got it wrong and now someone is determined to set it right. Twelve years later, college friends gather to celebrate an...
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Heather Wells mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Avon Trade
Pub. Date
c2006
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IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 13
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English
14) Criminal
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Will Trent series volume 6
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English
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Karin Slaughter's new novel is an epic tale of love, loyalty, and murder that encompasses forty years, two chillingly similar murder cases, and a good man's deepest secrets. Will Trent is a brilliant agent with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation. Newly in love, he is beginning to put a difficult past behind him. Then a local college student goes missing, and Will is inexplicably kept off the case by his supervisor and mentor, deputy director Amanda...
15) 212: a novel
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Ellie Hatcher novels volume 3
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English
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When a student is murdered following a series of threatening messages posted on a college gossip site, NYPD detectives Ellie Hatcher and J.J. Rogan are assigned the case. As they dig deeper, however, they discover the victim was only one of many--and the killer isn't finished.
16) Cold case
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Series
Barbara Holloway novels volume 11
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
Attorney Barbara Holloway defends controversial author and scholar David Etheridge who is accused of murdering a state senator and a young coed who was the subject of a cold case investigation some twenty years ago at the University of Oregon.
17) Flames of wrath
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Publisher
Black Odyssey Media
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Nearly beaten to death by a group of people she thought were her friends, Alexia Leighton survives, recovers and watches her attackers become victims themselves of mysterious acts of violence, leaving the authorities stumped.
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Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
When private detective Dana Cutler is hired by an attorney with powerful political connections, the assignment seems simple enough: follow a pretty college student named Charlotte Walsh and report on where she goes and whom she sees. But then the unexpected happens. One night, Cutler follows Walsh to a secret meeting with Christopher Farrington, the president of the United States. The following morning, Walsh's dead body shows up and Cutler has to...
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Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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Decades after the murder of nineteen-year-old college student Karlie Richards, her former roommate, now middle-aged and divorced, becomes obsessed with uncovering the truth amidst online conspiracy theories, speculation and the lingering shadows of the past.
Days after the dawn of Y2K, beautiful, charismatic twenty-year-old Karlie Richards is found brutally murdered in her campus apartment. Two decades later, those who knew Karlie, and those who...
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Publisher
Arcade Publishing
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Laurelie, a young art student who suffers in the aftermath of a sexual assault, has grown progressively more isolated and fearful. She transfers from her busy city university to a small college in rural Vermont, where she retreats into her vivid imagination, experiencing the world through her art. Most comfortable in the company of the child for whom she babysits, and most at ease in the woods, Laurelie has shunned any connection with her peers....
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