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Pub. Date
2020
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A brilliant new thriller from the international bestselling author described by Dan Brown as "the modern master of the hook and twist" Thirty years ago, a child was found in the New Jersey backwoods. He had been living a feral existence, with no memory of how he got there or even who he is. Everyone just calls him Wilde. Now a former soldier and security expert, he lives off the grid, shunned by the community - until they need him. A child has gone...
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Thorpe
Pub. Date
2016
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There are three things no one can prepare you for when your daughter is murdered: you are haunted by her memory day and night; even close friends can't understand what you are going through; only in a group with mothers of other victims can you find real comfort. But as the bereaved parents gather to offer support in the wake of another killing, a crack appears in the group that threatens to rock their lives all over again. Welcome to the club no...
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Headline
Pub. Date
2019.
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'I have lived every parent's worst nightmare. On what would have been my daughter's 29th birthday, Detective Superintendent Stephen Fulcher knocked on the door and told me my beautiful Becky was dead. She had been found buried in a shallow grave in a remote field in the Gloucestershire countryside. Becky had been brutally murdered.' This is Karen's story of an unbreakable love for her daughter despite unimaginable tragedy: from her despair through...
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Michael O'Mara Books Limited
Pub. Date
2020
Description
Much has been written about the brutal crimes of Peter Sutcliffe, the Yorkshire Ripper. During the four decades of his imprisonment for the murder of thirteen women - before his death in November 2020 - scarcely a week went by without some mention of him in the British media. In any story featuring Sutcliffe, however, his victims are incidental, often reduced to a tableau of nameless faces. But each woman was much more than the manner of her death....
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Pub. Date
2017
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Haunting headlines about the missing schoolgirl splashed across front pages. The family's worst fears realised when her body was found months later. The years of waiting for the truth, only to learn that the killer, known to the police, lived just yards from where Milly had vanished. Here, Gemma Dowler shares the heartbreaking account of Milly's disappearance, the suspicions that fell on the family, the fatal errors made by the police and the media's...
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Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2024
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On the dawn of 16 July 1990, Liliana Rivera Garza, Cristina Rivera Garza's sister, was murdered by her ex-boyfriend and subsumed into Mexico's dark and relentless history of femicide. She was a 20-year-old architecture student who had been trying for years to end her relationship with a high school boyfriend who insisted on not letting her go. A few weeks before the tragedy, Liliana made a definitive decision: She would leave him behind and start...
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Publisher
Ad Lib
Pub. Date
2022
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Bekhal Mahmod was one of six siblings from a Sunni Muslim family in Iraqi Kurdistan who sought a new life as asylum seekers and arrived in London in 1998. When Bekhal's father tried to force her into an arranged marriage at 15, she ran away. This caused her father to 'lose respect' within the Kurdish community and Bekhal became the target of an honour killing and her younger sisters Banaz and Payzee were quickly married off to restore the family's...
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Publisher
ItBooks
Pub. Date
2013
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The brutal slaying of Sharon Tate by the Manson family is still etched in the public consciousness more than 40 years later. What few people know, however, is the role her father played in finding and prosecuting his daughter's killers, and the choices her family members made to cope with the realities of this tragedy.
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Jonathan Cape
Pub. Date
2011
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Lucie Blackman - tall, blonde and 21-years-old - stepped out into the vastness of Tokyo in the summer of 2000 and disappeared forever. The following winter, her dismembered remains were found buried in a seaside cave. This title provides a compelling account of the case.
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Vintage
Pub. Date
2012
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Lucie Blackman - tall, blonde and 21-years-old - stepped out into the vastness of Tokyo in the summer of 2000 and disappeared forever. The following winter, her dismembered remains were found buried in a seaside cave. This title provides a compelling account of the case.
12) Hamlet
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The 'Oxford School Shakespeare' series aims to help students to understand and enjoy Shakespeare's plays. Each play has an extensive range of students' notes, a plot synopsis, scene summaries and character notes.
13) Panic
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Publisher
Time Warner
Pub. Date
2006
Description
Things are going well for young film-maker Evan Casher - until he receives an urgent phonecall from his mother, summoning him home. He arrives to find her brutally murdered body on the kitchen floor and a hitman lying in wait for him. It is then he realises his whole life has been a lie.
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Faber and Faber
Pub. Date
2014.
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In an unnamed town in England, Jugnu and Chanda have disappeared. Rumours abound in the close-knit Pakistani community. Then, on a snow-covered January morning, Chanda's brothers are arrested for their murder. 'Maps for Lost Lovers' tells the story of the next twelve months.
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Mardle Books
Pub. Date
2022
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'End of Innocence' is the first in a non-fiction series ('Truly Unforgotten') exploring UK cold cases. The book focuses on the 1978 disappearance of Genette Tate. The 13-year-old schoolgirl vanished while out delivering newspapers on her bicycle in the Exeter countryside; no trace of her was ever discovered. With new and rarely seen comments from family, police and inside the courtroom, the story links her case to the earlier abductions of April Fabb...