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Murder | Murder

david-henry-sterry's picture
Jul.17.2008
The year was 1985.  Smack dab in the middle of the cash happy/coke crazy, when it was raining men and girls just wanted to have fun on ladies night, that’s when David Henry Sterry became the Master of Ceremonies at Chippendales, the hottest show in the city that never sleeps.  And he did it all in...
tananarive-due's picture
Jul.15.2008
In this hot and steamy mystery Publishers Weekly called "seamlessly entertaining," actor Tennyson Hardwick struggles to hang on to his acting career and redeem his sex-for-pay history, which estranged him from his father--a decorated LAPD captain who raised Tennyson to call him "sir...
heywood-gould's picture
Jun.17.2008
A super-charged story full of bad guys, a lot badder guys (among them rogue Feds, Russian and Albanian mobsters and locally-grown mafiosi) and a not-that-bad bad guy you can come to love and root for. Jerry Lang, by name. Lang, a thief practically from when he was a toddler, usually...
bill-loehfelm's picture
Jun.08.2008
In Fresh Kills, the murder of John Sanders, Sr. on a New York street corner reunites his estranged and abused children, John, Jr. and Julia. While Julia struggles to keep things together on the home front, Junior, unhinged by his father's death, searches for the killer across the bleak, haunted...
lois-duncan's picture
May.23.2008
The plan was only to scare their English teacher. They never actually intended for him to die. But sometimes plans go wrong. NBC “Movie of the Week”; ALA Best Book; NY Times “Best Book for Children”; Readers Awards: Massachusetts, Alabama
lois-duncan's picture
May.23.2008
Last summer, four terrified friends made a desperate pact to conceal a shocking secret. But now someone has learned the truth, and the horror is starting again. There is an unknown avenger out there who is stalking them in a deadly game. Will he stop at terror, or is he out for revenge?, Mandalay...
steven-e-browne's picture
Apr.18.2008
Dorky New England teenager Holly Baker meets fashionable Stacy Goldfarb and is invited to New York City. Their unique friendship results in a wildly successful fashion company allowing them access to “A” list actors and directors. The lucky streak ends when they borrow production money from Stacy’s...
craig-mcdonald's picture
Apr.10.2008
  Hector Lassiter is a legendary crime novelist who writes what he lives and lives what he writes. But Hector frequently goes a step beyond, drawing friends and lovers into the tawdry and turbulent territory of his fiction. Now, the large-living pulp author has at last met his match in the...
ellen-r-sheeley's picture
Apr.07.2008
Nothing But Red is the anthology of literary and visual arts inspired by the impassioned plea of Buffy the Vampire Slayer creator Joss Whedon in response to the dishonor killing of 17-year-old Du’a Khalil Aswad. Sales of the anthology benefit the international human rights organization Equality Now...
ellen-r-sheeley's picture
Apr.01.2008
In early 2003, Ellen R. Sheeley began to educate herself about "honor" killings, particularly those that take place in Jordan. That summer she journeyed from her home in San Francisco, California, USA to Amman, Jordan, where she learned of the needs for empirical, objective, baseline data...