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Investigating a series of brutal killings by an assailant who calls himself the Teacher and targets wealthy and arrogant victims, detective Mike Bennett finds himself racing against time to save New York from a deadly plot, in a case that is further complicated when Mike's ten children simultaneously contract the flu.

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A groundbreaking account of the decline of Naples under the rule of the Camorra describes how this murderous organized crime network and its international associates have gained control of the Neapolitan region in such areas as construction, high fashion, illegal drug trafficking, and toxic waste disposal and its influence on every aspect of Neopolitan life. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.

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When one of the Women's Murder Club members is left struggling to survive after a brutal attack, her three companions work to keep her attacker behind bars, while new San Francisco police department partner Lindsay Boxer investigates a series of kidnappings in which children and their nannies are being abducted without ransom demands. Reprint.

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Hiding a secret life as an assassin while working as a murder analyst for the Miami police, Dexter Morgan is intrigued by the work of a new serial killer whose style mimics his own and who Morgan realizes is inviting him into a deadly competition. Reprint. 15,000 first printing. (A Showtime series, premiering Fall 2006, starring Michael C. Hall, Jennifer Carpenter, and others) (Suspense)

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A continuation of the best-selling series that inspired the popular Dexter television series and includes Darkly Dreaming Dexter finds newlywed blood-spatter analyst Dexter Morgan investigating the work of a Miami-area serial killer who has disguised a latest victim as a sunbather on the beach. TV tie-in.

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Two award-winning reporters present this disturbing true story of Altemio Sanchez, a family man and machinist from Buffalo, New York, who brutally raped and murdered sixteen women, eluding the police for fourteen years until he was finally captured and brought to justice. Original.

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Spurning the advances of a mysterious man, Tran Hoang, an Asian mafia crime lord, Las Vegas casino security expert Crystal Debrowski finds herself the target of harassment and framed for a crime she did not commit, and enlists the aid of Black Ops agent Johnny Reed to help clear her name and free her from the vengeful Tran Hoang. Original.

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In her role as consort of Jean-Claude, the seductive Master Vampire of the City, Anita Blake is faced with a dangerous conflict of interest--and her struggle to control her fierce desires--when she is called in to assist with the search for a vampire serial killer preying on strippers. Reprint.

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A retired Los Angeles homicide detective living in the rural Wisconsin hamlet of Tamarack, Jack Sawyer is called in to assist the local police chief in solving a gruesome series of murders that causes Jack to experience inexplicable waking nightmares and draws him back to the Territories and an encounter with his own hidden past, in the long-awaited sequel to The Talisman. Reprint.

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Describes the brutal 1993 torture, rape, and murder of Jennifer Ertman and Elizabeth Pena, two innocent teenagers, whose bodies were discovered in a Houston park, and the gang of six young men who were arrested, tried, and convicted of the crime. Original.

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A secret assassin working as a blood spatter analyst for the Miami Police Department, Dexter Morgan finds his efforts to seek domestic tranquility with his girlfriend, Rita, and her children undermined by a nasty psychopath terrorizing the city, a case complicated by the kidnapping of Dexter's nemesis, Sergeant Doakes. By the author of Darkly Dreaming Dexter. Reprint.

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Staring unflinchingly into the abyss of slavery, this spellbinding novel transforms history into a story as powerful as Exodus and as intimate as a lullaby. Sethe, its protagonist, was born a slave and escaped to Ohio, but eighteen years later she is still not free. She has too many memories of Sweet Home, the beautiful farm where so many hideous things happened. And Sethe’s new home is haunted by the ghost of her baby, who died nameless and whose tombstone is engraved with a single word: Beloved. Filled with bitter poetry and suspense as taut as a rope, Beloved is a towering achievement.

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With the publication of this book, Capote permanently ripped through the barrier separating crime reportage from serious literature. As he reconstructs the 1959 murder of a Kansas farm family and the investigation that led to the capture, trial, and execution of the killers, Capote generates suspense and empathy.

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A comprehensive analysis that explores how American authors have written on crime in its various incarnations is a compendium of excerpts from the past three hundred years, in an anthology that includes literary evaluations of pieces on some of history's most notorious cases. 30,000 first printing.

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