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Author
Publisher
Suma de Letras
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Español
Description
Un asesino envuelto en sombras. Una rosa, una cadena de espinas. Un bosque flotante donde el miedo oculta terribles secretos. Isla de Cortegada, 1910. El hallazgo del cadáver de una niña el día de la matanza genera gran conmoción entre los habitantes de la ría por las circunstancias y la atrocidad del crimen. Un culpable: el poeta Guillermo de Foz. Una condena: la muerte por garrote. Monasterio de Armenteira, Pontevedra, 2002. Las obras de restauración...
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"To get what they want most, Zara and Jude search for Emer, an orphaned witch with dark and deadly powers, but when a serial killer targets Emer's clients, the three girls form an uneasy alliance to hunt the killer before they meet the same fate"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Mulholland Books, Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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Description
A serial killer who vanished 40 years prior emerges from hibernation and is being tracked by a retired LAPD officer, a teenager with a terminal disease and a genealogist trying to repair her marriage.
5) Thanksgiving
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
After a Black Friday riot ends in tragedy, a mysterious Thanksgiving-inspired killer terrorizes Plymouth, Massachusetts, the birthplace of the infamous holiday.
8) Halloween
Publisher
Shout! Factory
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Halloween night. A young Michael Myers butchers his older sister with a kitchen knife. Fifteen years later, he escapes from a mental institution only to return home and terrorize the town and babysitter Laurie.
In 1963, six-year-old Michael Myers brutally killed his older sister. The silent child was incarcerated in the Smith's Grove Sanitarium under the care of psychiatrist Sam Loomis. Michael's hometown of Haddonfield was slowly beginning to forget...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Claire, an aspiring artist and part-time serial killer, realizes someone is watching her -- someone who knows about her murderous hobby -- and she, while attending a weekly bereavement support group after losing her father, must finish off her blackmailer before they reveal all.
Author
Publisher
Union Square & Co
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
A fascinating pop-history dive into the stories behind the incredibly impactful crimes -- both infamous and little-known -- that have shaped the legal system as we know it. When asked why true crime is so in vogue, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and New York Times bestselling author Amber Hunt always has the same answer: it's no hotter than it's always been. Crimes and trials have captured American consciousness since the Salem Witch Trials in...
12) Womb city
Author
Publisher
Erewhon, an imprint of Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
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Description
This genre-bending Africanfuturist horror novel blends The Handmaid's Tale with Get Out in an adrenaline-packed, cyberpunk body-hopping ghost story exploring motherhood, memory, and a woman's right to her own body. Nelah seems to have it all: fame, wealth, and a long-awaited daughter growing in a government lab. But, trapped in a loveless marriage to a policeman who uses a microchip to monitor her every move, Nelah's perfect life is precarious. After...
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of If You Tell comes the chilling, unputdownable story of Sharon Nelson, the minister's wife whose two husbands mysteriously ended up dead. Colorado, 1976. When Reverend Mike Fuller and his beautiful wife Sharon arrive in the sleepy town of Rocky Ford, local residents think something's off about the new couple. The God-fearing minister is gruff and cold, while charismatic Sharon has her husband wrapped...
14) The blue bar
Author
Series
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
On the dark streets of Mumbai, the paths of a missing dancer, a serial killer, and an inspector with a haunted past converge in an evocative thriller about lost love and murderous obsession. After years of dancing in Mumbai's bars, Tara Mondal was desperate for a new start. So when a client offered her a life-changing payout to indulge a harmless, if odd, fantasy, she accepted. The setup was simple: wear a blue-sequined saree, enter a crowded railway...
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