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In this "true story that reads like a novel," the #1 New York Times -bestselling author reveals the facts behind a notorious Southern murder case ( Library Journal ). When North Carolina farmer Stuart Taylor died after a sudden illness, his forty-six-year-old fiancée, Velma Barfield, was overcome with grief. Taylor's family grieved with her-until the autopsy revealed traces of arsenic poisoning. Turned over to the authorities by her own son, Velma...
22) The murder book
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DI Tom Thorne volume 18
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English
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"Tom Thorne finally has it all. In Nicola Tanner and Phil Hendricks, Thorne has good friends by his side. His love life is newly reformed by a promising relationship and he is happy in the job he has devoted his life to. As he sets off hunting the woman responsible for a series of grisly murders, Thorne has no way of knowing that he will be plunged into a nightmare from which he may never wake. A nightmare that has a name. Thorne's past threatens...
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A decade after elderly multimillionaire Andrew Jakes is found murdered and his young wife raped and beaten, his estranged son Andres Jakes investigates, notices similar cases around the world, and finds evidence pointing to one woman, known by the police as the Angel of Death.
24) Mother's Day
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Open Road Media
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2015.
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English
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The gruesome true story of a murderous modern-day Medea In June of 1985, Theresa Cross Knorr, with the help of her teenage sons, dumped the body of her daughter Sheila in California's desolate High Sierra. Knorr had beaten Sheila unconscious 3 days earlier, then locked her in a closet to die. This unbelievable yet true tale of a monstrous, abusive mother murdering not 1 but 2 of her children is almost too horrific to describe. The previous summer,...
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Indiana University Press
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[2018]
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English
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"Minnie Wallace Walkup Ketcham's criminal career as an unsung triple murderess and black widow... is told in rich detail and with pleasingly dark wit." -- Keven McQueen, author of Louisville Murder & Mayhem What's a gal to do when her loaded lover is getting to be a nuisance? Why, just murder him and take all his money, of course. If you want to be fabulously single with tons of cash, just follow the lead of the beautiful and conniving Minnie Wallace...
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An “excellent true-crime study” of a female serial killer given the death penalty for poisoning at least three men between 1973 and 1989 ( Publishers Weekly ). Widowed Blanche Taylor Moore was about to lose her second spouse to symptoms that mysteriously mirrored those that killed her first husband--as well as her previous boyfriend. When an investigation reveals arsenic poisoning, the hideous truth about the wife and mother comes to light. Did...
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Pure Flix Entertainment
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[2010]
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English
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Based on a true story of love and forgiveness, Karla Faye Tucker, once a prostitute and pick-axe killer, becomes a media giant, a poster girl for Christian restoration, and Texas' worst nightmare as the first woman to be executed in over 100 years.
28) Flashpoint
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Police officer Sonora Blair becomes involved in a case thought to be arson but it soon escalates into murder and threats against her family and herself.
29) Alias Grace
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Nan A. Talese
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c1996
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English
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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.
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Open Road Media
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2015.
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English
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"A Hungarian-American journalist confronts the beauty and terror of his aristocratic heritage in this suspenseful chronicle of murder and eroticism Turmoil reigns in post-Soviet Hungary when journalist Drake Bathory-Kereshtur returns from America to grapple with his family history. He's haunted by the legacy of his ancestor, the notorious sixteenth-century Countess Elizabeth Bathory, who is said to have murdered more than 650 young virgins and bathed...
31) Trust me
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Forge
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2018.
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English
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An unlikely alliance between an accused killer who swears she is innocent and a grieving journalist trying to rebuild her shattered life leads to a dangerous game of cat-and-mouse.--
Ashlyn Bryant has been accused of killing her two-year-old daughter, but swears she is innocent. Mercer Hennessey is writing a book about the case, hoping it will help her overcome her own grief about the car accident that killed her own daughter and husband. After the...
32) Breaking Point
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Andrea Yates, a suburban Houston mother of five, horrified the nation on June 20, 2001, when she dialed 911 and said, "I killed my children." While her husband Rusty, a NASA engineer, was at work, Andrea filled the family bathtub with water and systematically drowned their children, ages six months to seven years. As her eldest child lay lifeless in the bathtub and the bodies of her four youngest rested in her bed, Andrea, a devoted Christian wife...
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Dover Publications
Pub. Date
[2017]
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English
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Edgar, the brooding young master of Ravenswood, retains none of his ancestral estates but a crumbling castle. Embittered by the lawsuits that have stripped him of his patrimony and shortened his despairing father's life, he determines to confront Sir William Ashton, the lawyer whose machinations led to the decline of Ravenswood's fortunes. But Edgar's plans take an abrupt turn upon meeting Sir William's lovely daughter, Lucy, and a romance blossoms...
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Pen & Sword History, an imprint of Pen & Sword Books Ltd
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2017.
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English
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"131 women were hanged in England and Wales between 1797 and 1837, executed for crimes including murder, baby-killing, theft, arson, sheep-stealing and passing forged bank notes. Most of them were extremely poor and living in desperate situations. Some were mentally ill. A few were innocent. And almost all are now forgotten, their voices unheard for generations. Mary Morgan - a teenager hanged as an example to others. Eliza Fenning - accused of adding...
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