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1) The stranger
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
A young Algerian, Meursault, afflicted with a sort of aimless inertia, becomes embroiled in the petty intrigues of a local pimp and, somewhat inexplicably, ends up killing a man. Once he's imprisoned and eventually brought to trial, his crime, it becomes apparent, is not so much the arguably defensible murder he has committed as it is his deficient character. In the story of an ordinary man who unwittingly gets drawn into a senseless murder on a sun-drenched...
2) Mud
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Two boys, Ellis and his best friend Neckbone, find a mysterious man named Mud hiding out on a deserted island in the Mississippi. Mud tells the boys fantastic stories about his life, including how he killed a man in Texas and vengeful bounty hunters are coming to get him. He says he is planning to meet and escape with the love of his life, Juniper. The boys agree to help him, but it isn't long until their small town is besieged by bounty hunters out...
3) True story
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
After journalist Michael Finkel is fired from The New York Times for embellishing a story, he learns that accused murderer Christian Longo has been claiming to be him. Hoping this story will save his career, Finkel begins interviewing Longo in prison. But soon, the men find themselves in an eerie game of cat and mouse in this psychological drama.
4) The paperboy
Publisher
Millennium
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
It takes audiences deep into the backwaters of steamy 1960s South Florida, as investigative reporter Ward Jansen and his partner Yardley Acheman chase a sensational, career-making story. With the help of Ward's younger brother Jack and sultry death-row groupie Charlotte Bless, the pair tries to prove violent swamp-dweller Hillary Van Wetter was framed for the murder of a corrupt local sheriff.
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
Cruise stars as a brash Navy lawyer who's teamed with a gung-ho litigator in a politically-explosive murder case. Charged with defending two Marines accused of killing a fellow soldier, they are confronted with complex issues of loyalty and honor - including its most sacred code and its most formidable warrior.
6) Let me in
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Abby, an eerily self-possessed young girl, emerges from her heavily curtained apartment only at night and always barefoot, seemingly immune to the bitter winter elements. Owen, an alienated 12-year-old boy, recognizes a fellow outcast and opens up to her, forming a unique bond. But as a string of grisly murders occupy his town, Owen has to confront the reality that this seemingly innocent girl might be hiding an unthinkable secret.
Author
Publisher
Literatura Random House
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
Español
Description
James Ellroy retoma la historia de Perfidia con esta nueva y brutal entrega del segundo. Cuarteto de Los Ángeles, durante los años de la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Enero de 1942. Los Ángeles se tambalea después del shock de Pearl Harbor. Lluvias torrenciales azotan la ciudad. Las autoridades detienen y confinan en campos de internamiento a los japoneses afincados en Estados Unidos. En Griffith Park un cadáver queda al descubierto tras un corrimiento...
8) Parkland
Publisher
Millennium Entertainment
Language
English
Formats
Description
November 22, 1963, is a day that changed the world forever when beloved American President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas. Parkland is the true story behind that tragic day, told from the vantage point of individuals who are forced to make split-second decisions after this incomprehensible event that will change the world's landscape forever.
9) Blood out
Publisher
Lions Gate Films
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
When big-city detectives refuse to further investigate his kid brother's gang-related murder, small-town Sheriff Michael Spencer drops the badge and goes undercover to find his brother's killer and avenge his death.
10) Alias Grace
Author
Publisher
Ediciones Salamandra
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
Español
Description
In 'Alias, Grace, ' bestselling author Margaret Atwood has written her most captivating, disturbing, and ultimately satisfying work since 'The Handmaid's Tale.' She takes us back in time and into the life of one of the most enigmatic and notorious women of the nineteenth century. Grace Marks has been convicted for her involvement in the vicious murders of her employer, Thomas Kinnear, and Nancy Montgomery, his housekeeper and mistress. Some believe...
Publisher
VCI Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
Español
Description
The story begins when an overindulged young boy of 'privilege' is shown a music box, which is a family air loom, alleged to cause the death of an enemy when played. The boy decides to test it out, setting his sights on his nanny, who'd recently offended him, wishing for her death. When moments later, a stray bullet from a revolutionary's gun sails through the window killing her, the twisted boy is convinced this was no accident and finds that he likes...
12) La buena hija
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Español
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
Español
Description
LA BUENA HIJA : Un thriller absorbente que mezcla el suspense psicológico con la investigación de un misterio sin resolver. Dos niñas son obligadas a internarse en el bosque a punta de pistola. Una huye para salvar su vida. La otra se queda atrás. Hace veintiocho años, un crimen horrendo sacudió la feliz vida familiar de Charlotte y Samantha Quinn ...
THE GOOD DAUGHTER: Twenty-eight years ago, Charlotte and Samantha Quinn's happy small-town...
14) Después
Author
Publisher
Vintage Español
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
Español
Description
Publisher Annotation: Part detective tale, part thriller touching and genuine. The New York Times #1 bestselling author Stephen King returns with a brand-new novel about the secrets we keep buried and the cost of unearthing them. #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER SOMETIMES GROWING UP MEANS FACING YOUR DEMONS The son of a struggling single mother, Jamie Conklin just wants an ordinary childhood. But Jamie is no ordinary child....
15) Mulholland Falls
Series
Publisher
Metro Goldwyn Mayer Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
A rough and vicious group of detectives stumble onto a conspiracy involving the murder of a general and a top secret nuclear program.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Ned is a lonely pie maker whose touch can reanimate the dead. Not bad, but there is a hitch. If Ned touches the person again, the miracle is reversed. If he does not touch them, than a bystander dies in that person's place. So, Ned teams with a private eye who brings murder victims back just long enough to discover whodunit, and collects the reward.
Author
Publisher
Grijalbo
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Español
Description
"Corre el año 1892. Argentina es una nación joven, pero se encuentra entre las más pujantes y desarrolladas del mundo. Dos misteriosos agentes de la policía federal llegan al pueblo de Quequén, en la costa atlántica, para ayudar a resolver un crimen. Dos niños han sido degollados y su madre, viva, aunque en estado catatónico, es la única testigo del hecho. Uno de los agentes es Juan Vucetich, un inmigrante de origen croata que concibe un...
Publisher
RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
A stunning New York socialite and a down-to-earth city cop are caught in a deadly web of illicit passion and heart-stopping suspense in this taut, stylilsh thriller. A detective finds his life turned upside down when he is assigned to protect a beautiful eyewitness to a brutal murder.
Author
Publisher
Salamandra
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
Español
Description
"Profundamente afectado por la muerte del joven François, y mientras intenta asimilar lo que esta pérdida significa para Livia y para él, Salvo Montalbano tiene que sobreponerse al cansancio y al desánimo antes de enfrentarse a un caso ligado a esa lacra que, por desgracia, tanto abunda en el mundo de hoy: la corrupción política en las adjudicaciones de obra pública. Como si el tiempo y el paisaje reflejaran ese estado de ánimo del comisario,...
20) Magnolia
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
In a single day, nine stories connect and disconnect through violence, love, Game Shows, Biblical Floods, coincidence, weather, sing-alongs, self-help seminars and quests for redemption. An imposing tapestry about the mysterious workings of fate and the need for interconnection and love interweaves.
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