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Motion To Suppress left attorney Nina Reilly physically and emotionally depleted. Recovering at her home in Tahoe, she resolves to avoid stressful cases. When filmmaker Terry London asks Reilly to defend her documentary against charges of invasion of privacy, Reilly takes the case, not realizing that London, and the murderous secret her work holds, will endanger Reilly's life once again.
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A middle-school girl, Carmen Acosta, is beaten unconscious and stabbed in the ear with a hatpin. Undersheriff Estelle Reyes-Guzman thinks it unlikely that Carmen's fellow student Deena was strong enough to have administered the beating; but the two girls had been fighting yesterday over a boy...and Deena had a hatpin sewn to her jeans. Is Deena the culprit--or is it someone in Carmen's abusive family? And why has the Acostas' next-door neighbor, the Posadas County Manager, disappeared? This is the 12th mystery set in Posadas County, New Mexico.
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This 1866 novel is Dostoevsky's great fictional study of the criminal mind, in the character of the student Raskolnikov, who murders an aged pawnbroker. Initially, Raskolnikov believes that the killing was entirely justified, but as the novel proceeds he becomes tortured by his guilt, and begins to question all his most passionately held beliefs. Eventually, while the wily police inspector Porfiry Petrovich simply waits, Raskolnikov--prompted by Sonia, a prostitute who is devoted to him--breaks down and confesses. Despite its bleak subject matter, the novel holds out the possibility of redemption; it is also an indictment of the social conditions in which the action unfolds.
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Winner of the 2005 Edgar Award for best novel, this mystery views the turbulent `60s through the lens of a murder case. The Becker brothers have always hated the Vonn boys. But in 1968, it`s one of the Vonn sisters, the beautiful Janelle, whose brutal killing becomes something of a touchstone for the Beckers. David Becker, a minister, tried to help Janelle when she showed up at a service with a black eye, strung out on marijuana and pills. Janelle gave the smitten Andy, an ambitious reporter, her phone number, but he never called. And Nick, a rookie detective, is assigned Janelle`s case, and must comb through many suspects, and ultimately, wait many years, before he truly understands how Janelle met her death.
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