A catalogue of crime

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Corba Sunman

"Deputy Sheriff Lew Kennett is up against it: the Hap Ivy gang are on the prowl, rustlers are at work and a thief is making himself extremely busy in town. When he sets out to capture an outlaw the situation gets wildly out of hand and whilst surviving an ambush and preventing a lynching, he is caught up in another facet of local crime and has to kill a townsman. He has survived a knife attack and is hoping that this is the end of his run of troubles, but in this town the sheriff's life is always on the line, and he is determined to beat the odds and stay alive ..."--Publisher description.

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Faye Kellerman

Once Dr. Emil Euler Ganz was a preeminent astrophysicist with a world-renowned reputation. But then he vanished without any warning to his family or colleagues. Fifteen years later, he reappeared as "Father Jupiter," the founder and charismatic leader of the scientific cult, The Order of the Rings. And now he's dead--a vial of sleeping pills and an empty bottle of vodka standing near his lifeless body.Was Ganz's death an accident? Suicide? Or did someone hasten Jupiter prematurely out of this world? These are the questions LAPD Lieutenant Peter Decker and his Homicide team are determined to answer as they enter the cult's fortresslike compound. But the dead leader's four "privileged" attendants make it clear that the police are not welcome there--and the mysterious disappearance of two of the Order's members, including a child, turns an already uncomfortable situation even uglier and more incendiary. Decker will need more than the wisdom and support of his wife, Rina Lazarus, to defuse a ticking time bomb of jealousy, greed, bizarre hidden pasts, and deadly secrets--one that could explode at any time into mayhem so pernicious that it threatens to destroy a multitude of misguided lives--and scores of helpless, innocent children as well.

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Wilfredo Mattos Cintrón

Novel. Wilfredo Mattos Cintrón (1940) is the creator of the pólice novel series which features the inspector Isabelo Andújar. The novels in this series include El cerro de los buitres (1984), El cuerpo bajo el puente (1989), Las dos caras de Jano (1995), Las puertas de San Juan (1997), El colapso (2000) y Desamores (2001). Several of his literary works have been awarded prizes by the Instituto de Literatura Puertorriqueña and the PEN Club. Of the police novel series the title Desamores has been made into a film. Mattos Cintrón has also published the novels Bailando al derecho y al revés (2007) and Letramuerto: asesinato en La Tertulia (2010).

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Lia Matera

A collection of stories on personal violence. The protagonists are mainly spouses settling scores, but one story, Joyce Carol Oates' Tusk, features a revengeful boy in school, armed with a knife.