Homicide: The Movie. Poster of the 2000 movie and cover of the 1991 book, Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets
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Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets
David Simon, 1991
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Jean de Segonzac, 2000

David Simon, a reporter for The Baltimore Sun, spent four years on the police beat before taking a leave of absence to write this book. He had persuaded the Baltimore Police Department to allow him access to the city’s Homicide Unit for calendar year 1988, and throughout that year he shadowed one shift of detectives as they investigated cases, conducted interrogations, executed search and arrest warrants, and testified at trials.


Sole Survivor. Poster of the 2000 movie and cover of the 1997 book
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Sole Survivor
Dean Koontz, 1997
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Mikael Salomon, 2000

Reporter Joe Carpenter loses his wife and daughter in a plane crash. As he grieves, Rose, the sole survivor of the crash, appears, suggesting that it was no accident at all, and perhaps part of a conspiracy related to scientific experiments done on children. What follows is a compelling story involving children with mysterious powers, dangerous killers and people who are not what they seem. Newly remastered.


Midnight Bayou. Poster of the 2009 movie and cover of the 2001 book
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Midnight Bayou
Nora Roberts, 2001
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Ralph Hemecker, 2009

Harvard-educated lawyer Declan Fitzpatrick impulsively gives up his settled life to buy Manet Hall, a newly restored plantation manor near New Orleans, which he has always been drawn to. Local legends claim that the house is haunted, and shortly after Declan moves in, he begins hearing voices and seeing things. Declan is also distracted by an undeniable attraction to Cajun local, Lena Simone.