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Cam Richter novels volume 1
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Lieutenant Cam Richter searches for vigilantes who have executed a killer in a homemade electric chair. The search leads to a remote mountain area in western North Carolina where the suspects, who call themselves "cat dancers," have tracked the last wild mountain lions in the region.
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1648, a small village in the Alps: In the thick of a blizzard, a town priest discovers hes been poisoned. As numbness creeps up his body, he summons the last of his strength and scratches a sign in the frost that will lead the town hangman, his daughter, and the town physician in pursuit of a treasure of the Knights Templar. But the priests murderer is already on their trail, and hes not the only one after the legendary fortune: a dark monk is not...
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2007
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Twenty years after helping to convict a man for the heinous murder of her sister, an adult Tessa DeGraff learns that DNA evidence may have exonerated the original suspect, a possibility that forces Tessa to return to the New Hampshire town where her sister died to reconstruct key evidence.
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Hangman's daughter tales volume 3
Pub. Date
2013
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1662. Alpine village hangman Jakob Kuisl receives a letter from his sister calling him to the imperial city of Regensburg, where a gruesome sight awaits him: her throat has been slit. Arrested and framed for the murder, Kuisl faces first-hand the torture he's administered himself for years. Jakob's daughter, Magdalena, and a young medicus named Simon hasten to his aid. With the help of an underground network of beggars, a beer-brewing monk, and an...
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[2006]
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IL: UG - BL: 9.4 - AR Pts: 33
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Jennet Stearne's father hangs witches for a living in Restoration England. But when this precocious child witnesses the horrifying death of her beloved Aunt Isobel, unjustly executed as a sorceress, she makes it her life's mission to bring down the Parliamentary Witchcraft Act. A self-educated "natural philosopher," Jennet is inspired in her quest by a single sentence in a cryptic letter from Isaac Newton: "It so happens that in the Investigations...
29) Nefarious
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[2023]
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On the day of his scheduled execution, a convicted serial killer gets a psychiatric evaluation during which he claims he is a demon, and further claims that before their time is over, the psychiatrist will commit three murders of his own
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2015.
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IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 1
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"From the walls of the Shaanxi Province in China to the murky red waters of Ireland's peat bogs, scientists and archaeologists have found spine-chilling evidence of scary sacrifices and rituals. Throughout history, cultures have found some very creative ways of torturing their enemies and pleasing the powers that be. But some of these ghastly practices happened far more recently than we would like to think! This riveting volume offers age-appropriate...
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Jack Swyteck novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2011, c1994
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In Florida, a man plans a series of murders to frame the son of the state governor. The purpose of his diabolical scheme is to put the governor, a law and order man, in a position where he will be forced to sign his son's death warrant. The motive is revenge, pay back the governor for sending a man to death, despite evidence that the man was innocent. A first novel.