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Raskolnikov, an impoverished Russian student, murders a despicable old pawnbroker, reasoning that his evil act is outweighed by humanitarian good, but he discovers the fault in his theory when he is plagued by horror and guilt over his actions.

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.

When privileged Ig, who comes from a prominent family, wakes up one morning with a terrible hangover after a night of drinking and doing terrible things, he discovers he has grown horns.

In the first chapter of this haunting novel, 14-year-old Susie Salmon looks down from heaven and describes the horrifying events of her murder.

In the aftermath of a brutal attack that left a woman in intensive care and her husband and young children dead, brash cop Scorcher Kennedy and his rookie partner, Richie, struggle with perplexing clues and Scorcher's haunting memories of a shattering incident from his childhood.

"A novel of psychological suspense about a pair of lovers with the best intentions and the worst luck: two people locked in a passionate yet uncompromising game of cat and mouse.

"Twenty-six-year-old Cat Kinsella overcame a troubled childhood to become a detective constable with the Metropolitan Police Force, but she's never been able to banish the ghosts of her past or reconcile with her estranged father.

Manhattan defense attorney Peter Caine is accused of the murder of his former lover, Charlie Doyle, the daughter of the Manhattan DA.

"When [nanny] Rowan Caine arrives at Heatherbrae House, she is smitten--by the luxurious 'smart' home fitted out with all modern conveniences, by the beautiful Scottish Highlands, and by this picture-perfect family.

"The bones of seven young girls, picked clean and carefully preserved, discovered years ago.

"During the languid days of the Christmas break, a group of friends from Oxford meet to welcome in the New Year together, a tradition they began as students ten years ago.

"On an island off the coast of Ireland, guests gather to celebrate two people joining their lives together as one.

Neighbors begin to turn on each other after a series of break-ins is followed by a murder.

"Nancy Luo, Krystal Choi, Akil Patel, and Alexander Lin, juniors at Manhattan's elite Sinclair Prep, are forced to confront their secrets after Jamie Ruan, once their closest friend, is found dead"--OCLC.

A teen boy in upstate New York begins breaking into homes and hacking the owners' computers to learn their secrets; sometimes he even shares the secrets in prank emails.