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"A masterful true crime account of the Golden State Killer-- the elusive serial rapist turned murderer who terrorized California for over a decade-- from Michelle McNamara, the gifted journalist who died tragically while investigating the case. For more than ten years, a mysterious and violent predator committed fifty sexual assaults in Northern California before moving south, where he perpetrated ten sadistic murders. Then he disappeared, eluding...
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[2014]
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Hollywood chronicler William J. Mann draws on a rich host of sources, including recently released FBI files, to unpack the story of the enigmatic William Desmond Taylor, the popular president of the Motion Picture Directors Association, and the diverse cast that surrounded him before he was murdered in 1922-- including three beautiful, ambitious actresses, the ruthless founder of Paramount locked in a struggle for control of the film industry, a grasping...
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Two true-crime tales relate the stories of a married woman who suspects her husband isn't who he says he is and a teenage girl who moves to Arizona and finds her perfect life is about to turn on its head.
Till murder do us part: Kathi Spiars can't believe she's found such a good man to marry as Stephen Marcum. Twelve years later, she starts to suspect that he isn't who he says he is. As she digs into his past, she doesn't realize that learning the...
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Ballantine Books
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[2023]
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English
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"The amateur DNA sleuth who solved one of the most infamous cold cases in American history-the Golden State Killer crime spree-tells the incredible true story of how she did it, and explains how her methods have forever changed criminal investigations. In the span of just a few years, Barbara Rae-Venter went from researching her family history as a retiree to finding a serial killer who had baffled law enforcement for decades. I Know Who You Are tracks...
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Henry Holt and Company
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2019.
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English
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A deeply-reported, riveting account of a cold case murder in Los Angeles, unsolved until DNA evidence implicated a shocking suspect – a female detective within the LAPD's own ranks.
On February 24, 1986, 29-year-old newlywed Sherri Rasmussen was murdered in the home she shared with her husband, John. The crime scene suggested a ferocious struggle, and police initially assumed it was a burglary gone awry. Before her death, Sherri
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2011.
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When Lucie Montgomery finds the body of prominent wine merchant Paul Noble hanging from a beam in his art studio near her Virginia vineyard, she is unwittingly dragged into Noble's murky past. Once a member of the secret "Mandrake Society," Noble might have aided in a cover-up of the deaths of a disabled man and a beautiful young biochemist involved in classified government research forty years ago. A seemingly innocent favor for an old friend of...
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Harlequin Books
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2016.
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English
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Working in a morgue, medical examiner Kristin Alberghetti hardly expects a living, breathing man to walk through the door and make her heart pound. So she's floored when gorgeous playboy Malloy Cavanaugh is her partner on a new case. The cold-case detective has a rep for charming the clothes off every woman...except her. And it's tough to keep her eyes on the prize as the two investigate recently excavated, long-buried bodies at a cacti nursery. ...
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Universal Pictures
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[2007]
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English
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Made famous as Superman on television, George Reeves finds it hard to not be typecast because of it. When he is found dead of a gunshot wound, rumors begin to run rampant. Based on Hollywood's most notorious unsolved mystery.
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Severn House Large Print
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2014.
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English
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"Bones in a backyard bomb shelter reactivate a San Francisco cold case and a painful connection for Raveneau after missing Ann Coryell?s desperate call for help a decade ago. But he sees something much darker in threats made by online followers of historian Coryell?s writings on genocide. Nothing pieces together, but all the pieces fit ... Raveneau edges closer to a core group who are certain the time for retribution is now, but will he be able to...
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In 1946, Elizabeth Short traveled to Hollywood to become famous and see her name up in lights. Instead, the dark-haired beauty became immortalized in the headlines as the "Black Dahlia" when her nude and bisected body was discovered in the weeds of a vacant lot. Despite the efforts of more than four hundred police officers and homicide investigators, the heinous crime was never solved. Now, after endless speculation and false claims, bestselling author...
11) Hollywoodland
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Universal Pictures
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2007.
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English
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Made famous as Superman on television, George Reeves finds it hard to not be typecast because of it. When he is found dead of a gunshot wound, rumors begin to run rampant. Based on Hollywood's most notorious unsolved mystery.
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Lionsgate
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[2007]
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English
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Inspired by the true story of the serial killer who terrorized northern California during the sixties and seventies. His use of cryptic symbols and coded messages fueled the police and media in making him America's most notorious unsolved case.
13) Bad memory
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Thomas & Mercer
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[2019]
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English
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"Private investigator Jessica Shaw is leading a quiet life in a Californian desert community, where she spends her days working low-level cases. But when a former resident asks Jessica to help her sister, Rue Hunter, a convicted murderer whose execution is days away, Jessica can't resist the offer. Rue doesn't remember what happened the night two high school students were killed thirty years ago, but everybody in town is certain she's guilty. As Jessica...
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