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A young Algerian, Meursault, afflicted with a sort of aimless inertia, becomes embroiled in the petty intrigues of a local pimp and, somewhat inexplicably, ends up killing a man. Once he's imprisoned and eventually brought to trial, his crime, it becomes apparent, is not so much the arguably defensible murder he has committed as it is his deficient character. In the story of an ordinary man who unwittingly gets drawn into a senseless murder on a sun-drenched...

Set in a beautiful but economically devastated Pennsylvania steel town, a lush landscape as deceptively promising as the edifices of the abandoned steel mills, "American Rust" is a novel of the lost American dream and the desperation that arises in its absence. Left alone to care for his aging father after his mother commits suicide and his sister escapes to Yale, Isaac English longs for a life beyond his hometown. But when he finally sets out to...

Using the story of homicide victim Bryant Tennelle in the Ghettoside, a word used to describe a South Central Los Angeles neighborhood, the author explores how gangs have taken over neighborhoods in the absence of a trusted legal authority.

Can homicide detective Scott Whelan choose where his loyalties lie? With his brotherhood in blue or his attractive neighbor, who needs someone on her side.

For a price Libby Day will reconnect with the players that murdered her mother and two sisters in "The Satan Sacrifice of Kinnakee, Kansas." Having testified that her brother Ben was the murderer on that fateful night twenty-five years ago, now she is not so sure as, piece by piece, the unimaginable truth emerges, and Libby finds herself right back where she started--on the run from a killer.

It is Samhain, the Blood Harvest. Nonbelievers call it Hallowe'en. The night when eight Nashville teenagers are found dead, with occu

A party ends with an apparent suicide and Michael knows it was murder. How can he prove it? Then the homecoming dance ends in horror--like the party.

In 1954, Ishmael Chambers, a local reporter who lost an arm in the war, covers the murder trial of a Japanese American fisherman, whose wife had been Ishmael's childhood sweetheart

What's wrong, killer got your tongue? It's DC Sean Blake's first week on the job, but already he faces a series of brutal and bizarre killings: women are being strangled in their homes, each with a mobile phone forced down their throat. There are never any signs of a struggle or forced entry. The Greater Manchester Police have no leads. Blake can't afford to waste any time - even as he picks apart the disturbing motive behind the murders, the case...

Julian survived at the Iron Mountain Home for Boys only because his older brother, Michael, was fearless and fiercely protective. When tensions boiled over and a boy was brutally killed, Michael fled the orphanage. Now, two decades later, Michael is an enforcer in New York's world of organized crime, but the life he's fought to build unravels when he meets Elena. He wants a fresh start with her, but someone else is holding the strings and escape is...