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Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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"In one of the year's most anticipated debut psychological thrillers, a family made infamous by a true crime documentary is found dead, leaving their surviving son to uncover the truth about their final days. "They found the bodies on a Tuesday." So begins this twisty and breathtaking novel that traces the fate of the Pine family, a thriller that will both leave you on the edge of your seat and move you to tears. After a late night of partying, NYU...
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Series
Darling investigations volume 2
Publisher
Montlake Romance/Amazon
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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Summer Butler had no idea that Darling Investigations would be such a smash. But ratings don't lie-fans love watching the former star solve real-life crimes in her hometown. With the first season wrapped, the reality-show PI is feeling the pressure to make the next one an even bigger success. Though finding a new case won't be easy-it's not like another dead body will just fall in her lap-Summer's willing to give it a try. Besides, reconciling with...
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English
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"In a first-time collaboration, "Queen of Suspense" Mary Higgins Clark partners with bestselling author Alafair Burke to deliver a brand new suspense series about a television program featuring cold case murders. Television producer Laurie Moran is delighted when the pilot for her reality drama, Under Suspicion, is a success. Even more, the program--a cold case series that revisits unsolved crimes by recreating them with those affected--is off to...
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"In December 2003, Luke Ryder, the stepfather of acclaimed filmmaker Guy Howard, was found dead in the garden of their suburban family home. Guy was only a child, asleep upstairs at the time of the murder. His mother and two half sisters were also in the house that night -- but all swear they saw nothing. Despite a high-profile police investigation and endless media attention, no suspect was ever charged, and Guy's family has been haunted ever since....
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Publisher
University of Texas Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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"The book tracks the parallel rise, from 1986 to 1996, of gangsta rap--a subgenre some artists preferred to call "reality rap"--and "reality-based" television programming, especially shows such as "Cops," which frequently depicted young black men being arrested. The book also discusses how rap stars have used the media's obsession with their criminal pasts in their art, collapsing the distinction between performance and reality"--
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English
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Producer Jack Quick knows how to frame a story. So says Curtis Wade, the subject of Jack's new true crime docuseries, convicted of a young woman's murder four years prior. In the eyes of Jack's viewers, flimsy evidence and police bias influenced the final verdict...even though, off screen, Jack himself has his doubts. But when the series finale is wildly successful, a retrial sees Curtis walk free. And then another victim turns up dead. To set things...
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Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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"Sixteen-year-old Sara Parcell disappeared without a trace on a crisp April morning in Frederick, Maryland. Her tragic story was a national obsession and the centerpiece of a controversial TV docu-series that followed her disappearance in real time. But is it possible that everyone missed the biggest secret of all? Ten years after the events in question, the people who knew Sara best are finally ready to talk. In this genre-bending novel, Daniel Sweren-Becker...
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