Child Crimes

For 500 years, the Cahills have been the most powerful family in the world. For 500 years, they've protected the source of their power - the 39 Clues. And for 500 years, they've kept their secrets silent. Until now. This extraordinary stand-alone novel cracks open the Cahill vault to tell the story of the most coveted piece of artwork in the world, a masterpiece that has been the target of seven separate theft attempts: Jan van Eyck’s altarpiece at Ghent.

As the daughter of a Colorado County coroner, 17-year-old Cameryn Mahoney is no stranger to death. In fact, shes always been fascinated by the science of it. so shes thrilled to finally get some hands-on experience in forensics working as her fathers assistant. but Cammie is in for more than she bargained for when the second case that she attends turns out to be someone she knows the latest victim of a serial killer known as the Christopher Killer.

New York Times best-selling author Joe Schreiber pens a funny, action-packed novel that is equal parts Ferris Bueller’s Day Off and La Femme Nikita. It’s prom night, and Perry is looking forward to playing a gig with his band in New York City. But when his mother makes him take their quiet and geeky Lithuanian exchange student to the dance, he finds himself on a reckless ride through Manhattan—in his dad’s red Jaguar—with a trained assassin.

Their eight-year-old son was kidnapped by an international human trafficking ring. The authorities cannot find him. Harry and Sharon will stop at nothing to find their son, even when their own lives are in danger as they get too close. Jamie was kidnapped from his school playground, drugged, and taken far away.

Take an adventure with three mischievous little dogs as they run through the neighborhood, having the time of their furry lives, and learning lessons along the way.

Police found the body of 16-year-old Calyx on her bed under a white blanket. They found her 13-year-old brother Beau in the family car covered up the same way. Both had two gunshots to the head. Both had been dead for hours. The only other person who had been in the home was their mother, Julie Schenecker. She told law enforcement that she could no longer tolerate her kids talking back to her. Was this a case of premeditated murder? Or a horrible tragedy fueled by a mental illness that had spun out of control?

Când Jack Reacher hotărăște să coboare din autobuz în Margrave, un orășel liniștit din Georgia, își închipuie că singurul lui motiv e să viziteze locul unde a murit marele chitarist de blues Blind Blake. E o zi ploioasă și tot ce vrea e să găsească un restaurant unde să mănânce și să bea o cafea. Dar în Margrave tocmai s a produs prima crimă din ultimii treizeci de ani. Iar Jack Reacher, străinul venit de curând în oraș, devine primul suspect. Așa că, la nici jumătate de oră de la sosire, este reținut și dus la închisoare.

As soon as Seneca Frazier sees the post on the Case Not Closed website about Helena Kelly, she's hooked. Helena's high-profile disappearance five years earlier is the one that originally got Seneca addicted to true crime. It's the reason she's a member of the site in the first place. So when Maddy Wright, her best friend from the CNC site, invites Seneca to spend spring break in Connecticut looking into the cold case, she immediately packs her bag.

Suffer the Children is very unique in its blend of science fiction, murder mystery, romance, and legal genres. The main character, Dusty Burch, is a former wrestler, now attorney, who finds himself deep in the middle of a psychic dream connection with a little girl who needs his help. He meets people around the country and world who share his same burdens. Together, they search for answers, but the secrets they uncover push them to the edge of morality in the name of justice.

On September 11, 2001, on a desolate beach on the outskirts of Copenhagen, police begin investigating the strange death of an unidentified woman. Surrounding the body are what appear to be offerings to the deceased: A book, a small noose, a dead golden canary, a linden tree branch, and a photo of the Kongslund Orphanage. As the police puzzle over their bizarre findings, the Twin Towers fall in walls of flame and the case is quickly overshadowed by the terror half a world away.

Arrested? For teaching? John Scopes’s crime riveted the world, and crowds flocked to the trial of the man who dared to tell students about a forbidden topic—evolution. The year was 1925, and discussing Darwin’s theory of evolution was illegal in Tennessee classrooms. Lawyers wanted to challenge the law, and businessmen smelled opportunity. But no one imagined the firestorm the Scopes Trial would ignite—or the media circus that would follow.

The book focuses on the 1978 disappearance of Genette Tate. The 13-year-old schoolgirl vanished while out delivering newspapers on her bicycle in the Exeter countryside; no trace of her was ever discovered. With new and rarely seen comments from family, police and inside the courtroom, the story links her case to the earlier abductions of April Fabb (also 13), Christine Markham (9) and Mary Boyle (6).

When the abduction of a nine-year-old child sends a small town into a frenzy, Detective Sally Lawson is tasked with finding the person responsible. But when evidence points to a janitor employed at the museum where the child was the last seen, Lawson isn’t sure they’ve caught the right man. Desperate to solve the case before another child disappears, Detective Lawson must uncover the truth before worried parents bring the town to the brink of chaos.

This is a summary with key takeaways and analysis of Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood, television star Trevor Noah's memoir about growing up as a mixed-race child.

Es el fin del verano y Jack Reacher planea hacer un viaje épico que lo lleve desde Maine, en el extremo noreste de Estados Unidos, en diagonal hasta el sur de California, siguiendo el sol. Pero no va a llegar lejos. Un cartel junto a un camino rural anuncia un nombre que Reacher conoce pero donde nunca ha estado: el lugar de nacimiento de su padre. ¿Qué le hace un día más al viaje? Reacher toma el desvío.

For more than 200 years, the wreck of the Whydah (and the riches that went down with it) eluded treasure seekers, until the ship was finally found in 1984 by marine archaeologists. The artifacts brought up from the ocean floor are priceless, both in value and in the picture they reveal of life in that much-mythologized era, changing much of what we know about pirates.

A young girl is found behind a dumpster and more have been found throughout the city, prompting a reformed hit-woman, who is seeking to redeem her soul after the bad deeds she has done, to find out why. She takes on the deepening mystery of who is doing this and why this keeps happening while no one is doing anything about it. Now, it is up to Layla Wilson, once known as the best hit woman ever to do the job, to now find out why the system failed these kids.

La sœur jumelle. Puis la mère. Puis la petite fille. Puis le fils adolescent, et enfin le père. Le 24 mars 2022 une famille française se jette du septième étage de son balcon, face au lac Léman, à Montreux, en Suisse. “Suicide collectif”, concluent presque aussitôt les enquêteurs, malgré la présence de deux enfants mineurs.

În "ținutul porumbului" din Nebraska există un mister sinistru… iar Jack Reacher se trezește direct implicat în el. Mai întâi, se pune rău cu clanul Duncan, care a terorizat și domină întregul ținut. Dar ceea ce nu-l lasă pe Reacher să plece este cazul nerezolvat, vechi de decenii, al unui copil dispărut. Cei din clanul Duncan vor ca Reacher să dispară – și nu încearcă să ascundă doar secretele din trecutul lor. Căci, oricât de periculoși ar fi, ei se află doar pe treapta de jos a unei adevărate rețele a criminalității, extinse pe o jumătate de glob.

După ce partenera lui dintr-o aventură mai veche îl abandonează într-o cameră de motel, Jack Reacher își reia călătoria fără o țintă anume și lasă norocul să-i aleagă calea. Ajunge astfel la un banal magazin de amanet unde îi atrage atenția un obiect ciudat: un inel de absolvent al Academiei Militare West Point – un trofeu greu de obținut și la care titularul n-ar renunța ușor. Și mai ciudat este că inelul descoperit de Reacher pare să fi aparținut unei femei.