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Book cover for "Murder at Black Oaks".
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"In Phillip Margolin's Murder at Black Oaks, Attorney Robin Lockwood finds herself at an isolated retreat in the Oregon mountains, one with a tragic past and a legendary curse, and surrounded by many suspects and confronted with an impossible crime. Defense Attorney Robin Lockwood is summoned by retired District Attorney Francis Hardy to meet with him at Black Oaks, the manor he owns up in the Oregon mountains. The manor has an interesting history...
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English
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4 stars
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THE LANDMARK NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER, NOW A MAJOR MUSICAL COMING SOON TO BROADWAY • An enormously engaging portrait of a most beguiling Southern city: “Elegant and wicked.... [This] might be the first true-crime book that makes the reader want to book a bed and breakfast for an extended weekend at the scene of the crime." —The New York Times Book Review 30th Anniversary Edition...
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Publisher:
Melville House
Language:
English
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One of America's most acclaimed investigative journalists re-investigates some of the most notorious and mysterious crimes of the last 200 years

The beloved head of the UN dies in a tragic plane crash . . . witnesses unearthed years later suggest it wasn't an accident. Theories behind the mysterious death of Marilyn Monroe change yearly, and some believe Jack the Ripper was a member of the royal family. History books say Hitler...
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Publisher:
Curbstone Press
Pub. Date:
1992
Language:
English
Book cover for "Blood in the water".
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Publisher:
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date:
2025
Language:
English
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"Brooklyn girl Kaylani McKinnon is thrust into an intricate web of lies when a shocking murder on Martha's Vineyard threatens to expose dangerous secrets"--
Book cover for "A death in Live Oak".
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Jack Swyteck volume 14
Pub. Date:
2018
Language:
English
Average Rating:
5 stars
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"James Grippando delivers his most explosive and riveting suspense novel yet: a powerful and timely story of race, politics, injustice, and murder as shocking and incendiary as today’s headlines, in which Jack Swyteck defends a white college student charged with a heinous racial crime—the first lynching in Florida in more than a half century. When the body of Jamal Cousin, president of the preeminent black fraternity at Florida’s flagship university,...
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Publisher:
MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
Pub. Date:
2023
Language:
English
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Desire and deceit bring an American detective to colonial India, where the sweltering heat gives way to cold-hearted murder in this Golden Age mystery. William Shakespeare Gabriel once thought he would try and fulfill his middle name's potential, but he was whisked from journalism to the pursuit of crime. Now, the private detective is in India on the eve of World War II. He's been hired to find Fred Oaks, the black sheep son of an American sugar and...
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Publisher:
PDQ Audioworks
Pub. Date:
[2007]
Language:
English
Book cover for "The Homicidal Handyman of Oak Park: Morris Solomon Jr".
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Publisher:
AuthorHouse
Pub. Date:
2012
Language:
English
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AS FAR AS FITTING THE STEREOTYPES bestowed to infamous chain-link murderers that exist outside African American culture, there was a time when black serial killers were recognized, to some extent, implausible by purported experts who probably cared not to explore the primary nature of the slayers transgressions. Nevertheless, the obscured story of handyman Morris Solomon Jr. has to be one of the most interesting tales untold as it is one of the most...
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Publisher:
Lyrical Press
Pub. Date:
2015
Language:
English
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"Do you know what stories Sarah could tell you about the things that happened in these little cabins? They'd curl that pretty red hair of yours." Outside of Charleston, South Carolina, beyond hanging curtains of Spanish moss, at the end of a shaded tunnel of overarching oaks, stands the antebellum mansion of Peppernell Manor in all its faded grandeur. At the request of her friend Evie Peppernell, recently divorced Carleigh Warner and her young daughter...
Book cover for "Thoreau at Devil's Perch".
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Kensington Books
Pub. Date:
2013
Language:
English
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Henry David Thoreau leaves the seclusion of Walden Pond to help investigate a series of murders in the first in B. B. Oak's fascinating new historical mystery series, set against the bucolic backdrop of 19th century New England. The lush, overgrown banks of Massachusetts's Assabet river are the ideal place for Dr. Adam Walker to find coveted medicinal plants for his remedies. But on one balmy August morning he finds something very different. A stranger,...
Book cover for "Death on Daufuskie. Murder, Mystery and a Dash of Black Magic".
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Publisher:
Lucinda D. Davis
Pub. Date:
2020
Language:
English
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Island time is now murder time!Nobody can tame the enigmatic and mysterious Daufuskie Island. Many have tried; most have failed.Now a baffling murder can be added to the often-dark history of the small island between idyllic Hilton Head, South Carolina and historic Savannah, Georgia. The body of a local man has been found at the long-deserted undertaker's shanty along with a sole clue that few will understand.Detective Angela Morton once again joins...
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Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date:
2013
Lexile measure:
720L
Language:
English
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Haunted by history. Bound by mystery. Lori Chase doesn't know what to think about ghosts. She may have seen a few in the past, but those were just childish imaginings . . . right? Only now that she is living in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, spirits seem to be on everyone's mind. The town is obsessed with its bloody Civil War history, and the old inn that Lori's parent run is supposedly haunted by the souls of dead soldiers. Then Lori meets one such soldier...
Book cover for "Inner Sanctum Mysteries, Volume 1".
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Publisher:
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date:
2014
Language:
English
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Taking its name from a popular series of mystery novels, Inner Sanctum Mysteries debuted over NBC's Blue Network in January 1941. It featured one of the most memorable and atmospheric openings in radio history: an organist hit a dissonant chord, a doorknob turned, and the famous "creaking door" slowly began to open. Every week, Inner Sanctum Mysteries told stories of ghosts, murderers, and lunatics. Produced in New York, the cast usually consisted...
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"Austin, Texas, high school junior and talented runner Thea Soloman is still grieving after the murder of her cousin and best friend, Natalie. When Thea is invited to join a secret group called the Black Coats, she finds new meaning. Thea and her teammates are trained to take vengeance on men who have wronged women and gotten away with it, with the promise of exacting revenge of their own. Thea becomes consumed by the Black Coats and also finds love...
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Publisher:
Code Black Entertainment
Pub. Date:
[2007]
Language:
Other
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An April Fools' joke turns deadly when th eclass nerd is accidentally killed. One year later each of the teens are targeted and killed, and it's up to one police detective to stop them before his daughter, who was in on the joke, is next in line.
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Publisher:
Vision Films
Pub. Date:
[2015]
Language:
English
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This is the story of an African-American woman who in 1952 killed a prominent white man after being subjected to years of sexual abuse. It combines documentary footage with live action reenactments and exclusive interviews with surviving family members.
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Publisher:
Findaway Voices
Pub. Date:
2024
Language:
English
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A team of con artists travel the country, marrying rich, unsought women, only to clean them out on their wedding night. The only problem is their last mark's father happens to be a secret underworld kingpin now bent on avenging his homely daughter's broken heart. After Angie Robertson's new husband disappears with over $200,000 in wedding gifts and a brand new 911 Porsche convertible, her gangster father makes it his mission to seek retribution. Alongside...