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3) Paranoid
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"Twenty years ago, Rachel Gaston accidentally shot and killed her brother in a teenage game that went horribly wrong. Today, Rachel is moving on and trying to put the guilt of what happened behind her. But then she receives a text on the anniversary of her brother's death: I forgive you. This text is the first of many, all seemingly from the beyond the grave, and at the same time she is receiving midnight phone calls from a blocked number. Are these...
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Paul Madriani novels volume 13
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"Defending an innocent young man, defense attorney Paul Madriani uncovers a morass of corruption and greed that leads to the highest levels of political power. One of the most successful lawyers in the country, Olinda Serna is a master at managing money as well as her influential clients. After years of fierce combat in the political trenches, Serna knows all the dirty secrets, where the bodies are buried, and how deeply they are stacked. When she's...
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"In the bestselling tradition of Jodi Picoult and Celeste Ng, a tightly wound and suspenseful novel about a blended family in crisis after a drunk driving accident leaves the daughter of one parent dead--and the son of the other parent charged with manslaughter." -- Publisher annotation.
6) 48 hrs
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48 hours: Hard-nosed cop Jack Cates reluctantly teams up with wise-cracking prison inmate Reggie Hammon (temporarily paroled to him for 48 hours) in order to track down the felon's ex-partners.
Another 48 hours: Hard-nosed cop Cates and ex-con Hammond team up together again--Cates to prove he's innocent of manslaughter in a drug bust gone wrong, and Hammond, who's just been released from prison, to fight those trying to take his life.
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Petula and Dorothy have one thing in common - rotten taste in men, but when they cover up the accidental murder of Petula's jerk boyfriend, they hatch a scheme to collect a huge ransom. Its a perfect plan until a corrupt detective and Dorothy's old boyfriend decide that they want to get involved with the money too.
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"The riveting untold story of the 1915 sinking of the SS Eastland, a Lake Michigan excursion boat, which rolled over while tied to its dock, within feet of one the busiest intersections in Chicago's famed Loop District. Horrified morning commuters watched it all unfold. The final death toll would not come for weeks but would be 835 people, including 21 entire families. The trial would make national headlines and cause public outrage; the effort to...
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"On May 30, 2020, in Omaha, Nebraska, amid the protests that rocked our nation after George Floyd's death at the hands of police, thirty-eight-year-old White bar owner and Marine veteran Jake Gardner fatally shot James Scurlock, a twenty-two-year-old Black protestor and young father. What followed were two investigations of Scurlock's death, one conducted by the White district attorney Don Kleine, who concluded that Gardner had legally acted in self-defense...
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Anna Gravess whole life has recently been turned upside down. A new mother, shes just gone back to her job as a radio presenter and is busy navigating a new schedule of late night feeding and early morning wake ups while also dealing with her newly separated husband. Then the worst happens. While Anna is walking on the beach with her daughter, shes attacked by a crazed teenager. Terrified, Anna reacts instinctively to protect her baby.But her life...
13) Next of kin
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When Leila Syed accidentally leaves her toddler nephew in her car, leading to tragedy, the tense, subsequent trial tears her family apart, but as the case progresses, it becomes clear there is more to the incident than meets the eye.
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"In this astonishingly accomplished, morally complicated, "exceptional and starkly beautiful debut" (Kevin Powers, National Book Award-nominated author of The Yellow Birds), a prideful electrician in 1920s rural Alabama struggles to overcome past sins and find peace after being sent to prison for manslaughter. Roscoe T Martin set his sights on a new type of power spreading at the start of the twentieth century: electricity. It became his training,...
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Harmony is a cosmetics sales lady whose life is shaped by an early encounter with the King himself. It all takes an ugly turn when she accidentally kills some Elvis impersonators and flees the scene. Running from the FBI, Harmony shows a knack for leaving Elvis impersonators in her wake. Let's hope luck improves when she hooks up with an executive whose wife also has Elvis issues.
16) Moonrise
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Criterion collection volume 921
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A small-town fable about violence and redemption, it is the final triumph of Frank Borzage, one of Hollywood's most neglected masters. Stigmatized from infancy by the fate of his criminal father, young Danny is bruised and bullied until one night, in a fit of rage, he kills his most persistent tormenter. As the police close in around him, Danny makes a desperate bid for the love of the dead man's fiancé, a schoolteacher who sees the wounded soul...
17) Pumpkinhead
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When a group of rambunctious teenagers inadvertently kills his only son, Ed Harley seeks the magic of a backwoods witch to bring the child back. Defying superstition, he and the witch invoke the Pumpkinhead, a monstrously clawed and fanged demon to kill the group. When he realizes he's gone too far, Harley attempts to save the kids, but is continually afflicted by visions of peoples' deaths through the eyes of the monster.
18) Blackmail
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Rebelling against the possessiveness of her police boyfriend, a young woman agrees to pose for an artist. Resisting his advances, she ends up murdering him in self-defense. Her boyfriend is assigned to the case, and soon learns the killer's identity, but so has someone else.
19) A killing fire
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"As a child forced to witness her father's crimes, homicide Detective Raven Burns dedicates every waking moment to proving that she is not her father's child. But when she shoots a suspect who has what turns out to be an unloaded weapon, Raven finds that she must confront both the demons of her past and the stains on her soul in order to stop a killer."--Provided by Publisher.
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"Lamb of God vocalist D. Randall Blythe finally tells the whole incredible story of his arrest, incarceration, trial, and acquittal for manslaughter in the Czech Republic over the tragic and accidental death of a concertgoer in this riveting, gripping, biting, bold, and brave memoir. On June 27, 2012, the long-running, hard-touring, and world-renowned metal band Lamb of God landed in Prague for their first concert there in two years. Vocalist D. Randall...
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