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Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Provocative and emotionally intense storylines ripped straight from today's headlines. In the criminal justice system, sexually based crimes such as rape, torture, pedophilia, and child abuse are dealt with in New York City by the Special Victims Unit.
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Series
#MurderTrending volume 1
Publisher
Freeform Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
"WELCOME TO THE NEAR FUTURE, where good and honest citizens can enjoy watching the executions of society's most infamous convicted felons, streaming live on The Postman app from the suburbanized prison island Alcatraz 2.0. When seventeen-year-old Dee Guerrera wakes up in a haze, lying on the ground of a dimly lit warehouse, she realizes she's about to be the next victim of the app. Knowing hardened criminals are getting a taste of their own medicine...
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Series
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"PI Savannah Reid has delved into the ugly side of SoCal's celebrity culture more than once. But the Moonlight Magnolia Detective Agency may have bitten off more than they can chew when a Hollywood legend makes a deadly comeback... It will be a cold day in San Carmelita before Savannah skips over a high-profile homicide case, especially one attached to a tasty reward. But when 90-year-old former silver screen siren Lucinda Faraday is murdered inside...
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Hollywood, 1946. The war is over, and Clara Berg spends her days shelving reels as a vault girl at Silver Pacific Studios. All her dreams are pinned on getting a break in film editing. When she returns a reel of film to storage one night, Clara stumbles across the lifeless body of a woman in Vault 5. The costume, the makeup, the ash-blond hair are unmistakable: it's Babe Bannon, A-list star. And it looks like murder. As the Silver Blonde murder ignites...
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Series
Language
English
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Description
"PI Sunny Randall has often relied on her best friend, Spike, in times of need. When Spike's restaurant is taken over under a predatory loan agreement, Sunny has a chance to return the favor. At the same time, Sunny's cop contact Lee Farrell asks her to intervene with his niece, a college student who reported being the victim of a crime but seems to know more than she is telling police. Then, what appear to be two disparate cases are united by a common...
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Language
English
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Description
"Los Angeles, 1963: African American Korean War veteran Harry Ingram earns a living as a news photographer and occasional process server: chasing police radio calls and dodging baseball bats. With racial tensions running high on the eve of Martin Luther King's Freedom Rally, Ingram risks ending up one of the victims at every crime scene he photographs. When Ingram hears a call over the police scanner to the scene of a deadly automobile accident, he...
Author
Series
Gene Hammons novels volume 1
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Phoenix, 1933: A young city with big dreams and dark corners. Great War veteran and rising star Gene Hammons lost his job as a homicide detective when he tried to prove that a woman was wrongly convicted of murder to protect a well-connected man. Now a private investigator, Hammons makes his living looking for missing persons -- a plentiful caseload during the Great Depression, when people seem to disappear all the time. But his routine is disrupted...
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