Jazz
A mysterious voice weaves the story of an African-American door-to-door salesman of beauty products who shoots his young lover, and his wife who tries to disfigure the corpse with a knife in the winter of 1926.
FIC
year: 1993
copies: 24
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 980
Paris Trout
Tells of the murder of a fourteen-year old African-American girl by a white man in a small town in Georgia just after World War II.
FIC
year: 1989
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
Alias Grace
Fact-based story of Grace Marks, a sixteen-year-old girl who received a life sentence in 1843 for allegedly taking part in the murder of her employer and his lover, but whose case continued to stir debate throughout her prison stay, resulting in her release in 1872.
FIC
year: 1997
copies: 15
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: marks, grace, murder [X], women murderers, trials (murder), homicide [X], trials (homicide)
Anil's Ghost
Anil Tissera, a forensic anthropologist born in Sri Lanka and educated in England and America, finds herself in the midst of a complicated mystery when she is sent back to her home country by an international human rights group to discover the source of an organized campaign of murder on the island.
FIC
year: 2001
copies: 3
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
Motherless Brooklyn
Lionel Essrog, a victim of Tourette's syndrome, is rescued from the St.
FIC
year: 2019
copies: 5
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: orphans, murder [X], detective and mystery stories, homicide [X], mystery fiction, detective and mystery fiction
The Wrong Man
345.73
year: 2001
copies: 1
call number/section: 345.73
lexile:
subjects: sheppard, sam, trials (murder), judicial error, murder [X], trials (homicide), homicide [X]
The Probable Future
Stella Sparrow, the latest in a long history of Sparrow women to have special gifts, discovers on her thirteenth birthday that she can see the future, an ability that has both positive and negative effects on her life and her family members.
FIC
year: 2004
copies: 4
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: women, mothers and daughters, grandmothers, clairvoyants, murder [X], new england, mother-daughter relationship, mystery fiction, psychics, homicide [X], domestic fiction, mystery fiction, domestic fiction
The Restless Sleep
Presents an inside look at the New York City police department's Cold Case Squad, a group of detectives charged with trying to solve murders that are sometimes decades old, and follows them as they work to find answers to four unsolved murder cases going back as far as 1951.
363.25
year: 2005
copies: 2
call number/section: 363.25
lexile:
Pain & Wastings
Fifteen-year-old Ethan faces the truth about his mother's murder.
FIC
year: 2008
copies: 18
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 680
The City & The City
Inspector Tyador Borlu of the Extreme Crime Squad in Beszel, a decaying city on the southeastern fringes of Europe, is assigned to investigate the murder of a young woman found by a group of teens, and his inquiry leads him into complicated negotiations with Ul Qoma, a city that shares the same physical area with Beszel, separated across time and space by the dreaded Breach.
FIC
year: 2010
copies: 3
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
Chronicle Of A Death Foretold
Studies a murder which takes place shortly after a wedding and explores the mass community complicity that allowed it to happen.
FIC
year: 1984
copies: 10
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 1270
The House Gun
The lives of upper-class professional Johannesburg couple Harald and Claudia Lindgard are shattered when their twenty-seven-year-old son Duncan shoots and kills one of his friends.
FIC
year: 1999
copies: 2
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: murder [X], parent and child, pistols, homicide [X], parent-child relationship, johannesburg (south africa)
In Odd We Trust
Nineteen-year-old Odd Thomas is able to see the lingering spirits of the dead, and when the sad spirit of a frightened child asks Odd for help, Odd finds himself facing a deadly stalker determined to kill again.
741.5
year: 2008
copies: 7
call number/section: 741.5
lexile: 440
Kiss Me Kill Me
Longing to be part of the in-crowd at her exclusive London school, orphaned, sixteen-year-old Scarlett, a trained gymnast, eagerly accepts an invitation to a party whose disastrous outcome changes her life forever.
FIC
year: 2008
copies: 15
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 930
subjects: murder [X], schools, mystery and detective stories, popularity, orphans, england, friendship, wealth, homicide [X]
Ruse
Collects chapters 1-6 of the comic-book mystery series "Ruse, " in which detective Simon Archard and his assistant, Emma Bishop, begin to suspect that Partington's newest resident, a mysterious baroness, may be responsible for a rash of serial killings.
741.5
year: 2002
copies: 4
call number/section: 741.5
lexile: