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1) Peril
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
A mobster sends his bagman to track down his runaway daughter-in-law in this novel by "one of the most accomplished writers in the crime/thriller genre" (Financial Times).
Sara Labriola is certain that if she stays in her marriage, someone is going to wind up dead-and it'll probably be her. So she flees her coastal Long Island home for New York City, where she changes her identity and finds work singing at a bar.
Her husband is upset, of course....
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Meghan Michaels is trying to find balance between being a single mom and working full time as an ICU nurse, when a patient named Caitlin arrives in her ward with a traumatic brain injury. They say she jumped from a bridge and plunged over twenty feet to the train tracks below. When a witness comes forward with new details about Caitlin's fall, it calls everything they know into question. Was a crime committed? Did someone actually push Caitlin, and...
Publisher
Vertical
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Based on true events, in 1963, Trish Weir is sexually assaulted and her assailant is caught and tried. But after he confesses without legal aid and is granted a retrial, it triggers a legal proceeding that forever alters the nation's justice system."
Language
English
Description
Sarah is in a coma. Her memory is gone - she doesn't know how she got there. And she doesn't know how she might get out. But then she discovers that her injury wasn't an accident. And that the assailant hasn't been caught. Unable to speak, see or move, Sarah must use every clue that she overhears to piece together her own past. And work out who it is that keeps coming into her room.
Publisher
Vertical
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"In 1963, Trish Weir is sexually assaulted and her assailant is caught and tried. But after he confesses without legal aid and is granted a retrial, it triggers a legal proceeding that forever alters the nation's justice system." --container.
Author
Publisher
Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
The riveting New York Times bestseller and Stonewall Book Award winner that will make you rethink all you know about race, class, gender, crime, and punishment. Artfully, compassionately, and expertly told, Dashka Slater's The 57 Bus is a must-read nonfiction book for teens that chronicles the true story of an agender teen who was set on fire by another teen while riding a bus in Oakland, California. Two ends of the same line. Two sides of the same...
7) Saw trilogy
Publisher
Lions Gate Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
Saw: Obsessed with teaching his victims the value of life, a deranged, sadistic serial killer is abducting morally wayward people and forcing them to play horrific games for their own survival. Faced with impossible choices, each victim must struggle to win back his or her life, or else die trying. Saw II: Jigsaw ... returns in this ... bloody sequel. Eric Matthews (Donnie Wahlberg) is a police detective who, after discovering the aftermath of a particularly...