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1161) Sinister
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Ten years ago, true crime writer Ellison Oswald made his reputation with a best-selling account of a notorious murder. Now, desperate to replicate success of his first book, he moves his family into a home where the previous occupants were brutally executed and a child disappeared, hoping to find inspiration in the crime scene. In the home, Ellison discovers a cache of terrifying home movies, unwittingly opening the door into a nightmarish mystery....
1162) No Safe Place
1163) You don't own me
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"'Queen of Suspense' Mary Higgins Clark and Alafair Burke are back with their fifth enthralling mystery in the New York Times bestselling Under Suspicion series; You Don't Own Me finds television producer Laurie Moran stopping at nothing to solve the murder of a celebrity doctor--even as she finds herself in grave danger as a mysterious stalker plots his next move. When we last saw Laurie Moran, she had recently become engaged to her show's former...
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"Autumn, 1565: When an actor's daughter is murdered on the banks of Kyoto's Kamo River, master ninja Hiro Hattori and Portuguese Jesuit Father Mateo are the victim's only hope for justice. As political tensions rise in the wake of the shogun's recent death, and rival warlords threaten war, the Kyoto police forbid an investigation of the killing, to keep the peace--but Hiro has a personal connection to the girl, and must avenge her. The secret investigation...
1165) Freaky green eyes
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Fifteen-year-old Frankie relates the events of the year leading up to her mother's mysterious disappearance and her own struggle to discover and accept the truth about her parents' relationship.
1166) Burn
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At last, Detective Michael Bennett and his family are coming home to New York City. Thanks to Bennett, the ruthless crime lord whose vengeful mission forced the Bennett family into hiding has been brought down for good. Back in the city that never sleeps, Bennett takes over a chaotic Outreach Squad in Harlem, where he receives an unusual call: a man claims to have seen a group of well-dressed men holding a bizarre party in a condemned building. With...
1167) All I want to do is kill
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Details the horrifying true account of teenager Holly Harvey, who, along with her lesbian lover Sandy Ketchum, savagely murdered her grandparents, in a fit of unstoppable rage, because they wanted to keep the girls apart.
1168) Anne Freaks: 1
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A beautiful assassin named Anna, Yuri, who has killed his mother, and Mitsuba, who seeks vengence for his dead sister, find themselves working together to stop a terrorist organization while searching for the truth that binds them to one another.
1169) Valentine
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A group of young women who rejected a classmate at a middle school Valentine's Day dance thirteen years ago are being stalked and murdered.
1170) Unforgiven
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The town of Big Whisky people try to lead a quiet life. Sheriff 'Little Bill' keeps heavy-handed order. Then a couple of cowboys cut up a whore. Unsatisfied with Bill's justice, the prostitutes put a bounty on the cowboys. The bounty attracts a young gun billing himself as 'The Schofield Kid, ' and aging killer William Munny. Munny is a widower trying to raise his two young children. Farm life is hard and Munny is no good at it. He calls on his old...
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The guilty verdicts handed out to three Arkansas teens in a horrific capital murder case were popular in their home state ? even upheld on appeal. But after two HBO documentaries called attention to the witch-hunt atmosphere at the trials, artists and other supporters raised concerns about the accompanying lack of evidence. Now, award-winning journalist Mara Leveritt provides the most comprehensive look yet into this endlessly shocking case. --Publisher....
1172) The long goodbye
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A story of Philip Marlowe, private eye: an unromanticized snoop for hire in an unromanticized Los Angeles. The police dismiss the case as a murder-suicide. Marlowe wishes the answer were that easy. His going rate buys a lot of intrigue, and there are always folks who have something to hide. Not that Marlowe has ever been in the business for the money.
1173) Appaloosa
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1880s, the American West. Randall Bragg is a rich landowner who is wanted for murdering the town marshal. Lawman Virgil Cole and his deputy Everett Hitch are two friends who are hired to defend a lawless town from the murderous rancher. Their efforts become complicated and their friendship is tested when a young widow arrives in town.
1175) The messengers
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A Chicago family tries to put the hard times behind them with a move to a remote sunflower farm in North Dakota not knowing that it had been the scene of a triple homicide. Sixteen year-old Jess and her 3 year-old brother begin to see nightmarish apparitions throughout their new home which no one else can see.
1176) True grit
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Mattie Ross is determined to avenge her father's blood by capturing Tom Chaney, the man who shot and killed him for two pieces of gold. Just fourteen, she enlists the help of Rooster Cogburn, a one-eyed, trigger-happy U.S. Marshal with an affinity for drinking, and hardened Texas Ranger LaBoeuf to track the fleeing Chaney. Despite their differences, their ruthless determination leads them on a perilous adventure that can only have one outcome: retribution....
1177) Road to perdition
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Michael Sullivan works as an enforcer for his adopted father, Irish gangster John Rooney. When Sullivan's son, Mike Jr., witnesses one of his father's killings on Rooney's behalf, the gangster decides that his ward and his family are liabilities that must be removed. Sullivan tries to safeguard his son and get even with the man who betrayed him, while his son focuses on bonding with his emotionally distant father.
1178) Slow death
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Describes how David Parker Ray, a sadistic Satanist, and his girlfriend, Cynthia Hendy, kidnapped, brutally tortured, raped, and murdered more than thirty women while making "snuff" films.
1179) Sudden impact
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Detective "Dirty" Harry Callahan is forced to take time off, but pursues a murder case on his own.
1180) The Dante Club: a novel
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In 1865 Boston, an elite group of American Dante scholars, including Oliver Wendell Holmes and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, is called upon to solve a series of murders inspired by scenes in Dante's "Inferno."
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