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1) Mothers who kill their children: understanding the acts of moms from Susan Smith to the "Prom Mom"
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An inside look into patterns and potential prevention plans for one of the most hotly sensationalized crimes
A special kind of horror is reserved for mothers who kill their children. Cases such as those of Susan Smith, who drowned her two young sons by driving her car into a lake, and Melissa Drexler, who disposed of her newborn baby in a restroom at her prom, become media sensations. Unfortunately, in addition to these high-profile cases, hundreds...
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The killer collection. Fourteen stories. Fourteen crimes of passion. Meet Manuela Garcia, who hacked her husband to death in a bid to return to her native Germany, Donna Yaklich, who killed her abusove police officer husband and laid the blame on drug dealers, and Dora Cisneros, a doctor's wife who ordered a hit on her teenage daughter's ex-boyfriend.
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The killer collection. Thirteen stories. Thirteen crimes of passion. Meet Amy DeChant, a sexy Las Vegas vixen with a taste for rich men, who snares a wealthy sports bookie, kills him for his cash, dumps him in the desert, and gets away with it! And Dionne Baugh, who bashes her boyfriend's head in because she want to end their affair. True stories, full of scandal and intrigue, that are guaranteed to grip and shock, sending the viewer into a world...
4) Cally's war
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For as long as Cally O'Neal could remember, she had lived in danger. She had been raised by her grandfather, practically on the frontlines of a war. In the final stages of the war she had officially died and had been recruited into the ranks of the Bane Sidhe, a group of warriors dedicated to breaking the stranglehold of the elf-like Darhel.
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Based on the true story of 44 year-old Clara Harris, a successful Texas dentist and mother of 4 year-old twins who hired a private investigator to spy on her cheating orthodontist husband. Instead, the investigator ends up videotaping her client running over her husband three times with her Mercedes-Benz in the posh parking lot of an upscale hotel and killing him. During the trial, Clara's in-laws came to her defense while her stepdaughter testified...
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"When elderly multimillionaire art dealer, Andrew Jakes, is found brutally murdered in his ransacked Hollywood home, his young wife raped and beaten, and his art and jewels stolen, the motive seems pretty clear. But when the investigation doesn't turn up a single, solid lead, the case is closed and his stunning young widow vanishes. A decade passes before Andrew Jakes' estranged son, Matt Daley, does a little digging of his own, only to find that...
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In every tragic story, men are expected to be the killers. There are countless studies and works of art made about male violence. However, when women are featured in stories about murder, they are rarely portrayed as predators. They're the prey. This common dynamic is one of the reasons that women are so enthralled by female murderers. They do the things that women aren't supposed to do and live the lives that women aren't supposed to want: lives...
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A Hungarian-American journalist confronts the beauty and terror of his aristocratic heritage in this suspenseful chronicle of murder and eroticism Turmoil reigns in post-Soviet Hungary when journalist Drake Bathory-Kereshtur returns from America to grapple with his family history. He's haunted by the legacy of his ancestor, the notorious sixteenth-century Countess Elizabeth Bathory, who is said to have murdered more than 650 young virgins and bathed...
12) Mrs. Harris
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The Scarsdale diet doctor, famed cardiologist Herman Tarnower, meets a brutal end at the hands of his jilted lover, Jean Harris.
13) Burial rites
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Set against Iceland's stark landscape, Hannah Kent brings to vivid life the story of Agnes, who, charged with the brutal murder of her former master, is sent to an isolated farm to await execution. Horrified at the prospect of housing a convicted murderer, the family at first avoids Agnes. Only Tóti, a priest Agnes has mysteriously chosen to be her spiritual guardian, seeks to understand her. But as Agnes's death looms, the farmer's wife and their...
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Chicago, 1924. For intrepid "girl reporter" Maurine Watkins, a minister's daughter from Indiana, big-city life offered unimaginable excitement. Newspaperwomen were supposed to write about clubs, cooking, and clothes. But within weeks of starting at the Chicago Tribune, Watkins found herself embroiled in the scandalous, sex-fueled murder cases of Belva Gaertner and Beulah Annan, who had gunned down their lovers in mysterious circumstances.
15) Alias Grace
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A fictionalized account of Grace Marks, a maid who murdered her employer and his mistress in Canada in 1843. A stablehand who was her accomplice and who claimed she put him up to it was hung for the crime, while she ended up in a lunatic asylum. The novel analyzes the question: was she actually less guilty, crazy, or smarter?
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"All the world is a puzzle, and Mike Brink--a celebrated and ingenious puzzle constructor--understands its patterns like no one else. Once a promising Midwestern football star, Brink was transformed by a traumatic brain injury that caused a rare medical condition: Acquired Savant Syndrome. The injury left him with a mental superpower--he can solve puzzles, calculate equations, and see patterns in ways ordinary people can't. But his condition has also...
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If you sense someone's watching you from afar, or if you feel a shadow other than your own at your back. Follow your instincts ... your're in danger. It's a job that makes a killing. Effeicient, professional, and without apology, Lily Mansfield is a hired assassin, working as a contract agent for the CIA. Her targets are the powerful and corrupt, those who can't be touched by the law.
18) Nightlife
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Thomas Perry’s novels of suspense have been celebrated for their “dazzling ingenuity” (The New York Times Book Review) and for writing that is “as sharp as a sushi knife” (Los Angeles Times). By turns horrifying and erotic, Perry’s new thriller takes us on a dangerous cat-and-mouse game that pits two women against each other: a beautiful serial killer and the detective who is determined to stop...
19) Gods in Alabama
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"When Arlene Fleet heads up north for college, she makes three promises to God: She will stop fornicating with every boy who crosses her path; never tell another lie; and never, ever go back to the 'fourth rack of hell, ' her hometown of Possett, Alabama. All she wants from Him is one little miracle: make sure the body is never found. Ten years later, God has broken His end of the deal. Alabama has landed on Arlene's Chicago doorstep in the form of...
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"Meet twenty-six of history's most notorious women. Each bad girl has a rotten reputation, but there are two sides to every tale."--Amazon.com.
Harlot or hero? Liar or lady? There are two sides to every story. Meet twenty-six of history's most notorious women, and debate alongside authors Yolen and Stemple--who appear in the book as themselves in a series of comic panels--as to each girl's guilt or innocence.