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The night bell
The Night Bell moves between the past and the present in Port Dundas, Ontario, as two mysteries converge. A discovery of the bones of murdered children is made on land that was once a county foster home. Now it's being developed as a brand new subdivision whose first residents are already railing against broken promises and corruption. But when three of these residents are murdered after the discovery of the children's bones, frustration turns to terror. While trying to stem the panic and solve two crimes at once, Hazel Micallef finds her memory stirred back to the fall of 1959, when the disappearance of a girl from town was blamed on her adopted brother. Although he is long dead, she begins to see the present case as a chance to clear her brother's name, something that drives Hazel beyond her own considerable limits and right into the sights of an angry killer.\"
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Die Wahrheit über den Fall Harry Quebert von Joël Dicker (Lektürehilfe)
Die Wahrheit über den Fall Harry Quebert von Joël Dicker – Endlich verständlich mit der Lektürehilfe von derQuerleser.de! Diese klare und zuverlässige Analyse von Joël Dickers Die Wahrheit über den Fall Harry Quebert aus dem Jahre 2012 hilft Dir dabei, den Bestseller schnell in seinen wichtigsten Punkten zu erfassen. Der Schriftsteller Marcus Goldman stellt auf eigene Faust Nachforschungen über den Mord eines jungen Mädchens an, für den sein Universitätsprofessor und Freund Harry Quebert angeklagt ist, der zudem eine Affäre mit dem minderjährigen Opfer hatte. Für den über 700 Seiten langen Krimiroman mit gesellschaftskritischen Zügen erhielt der Schweizer Autor unter anderem den Literaturpreis Grand Prix du Roman der renommierten Académie Française. In dieser Lektürehilfe sind enthalten: •Eine vollständige Inhaltsangabe •Eine übersichtliche Analyse der Hauptfiguren mit interessanten Details •Eine leicht verständliche Interpretation der wesentlichen Themen •Fragen zur Vertiefung Warum derQuerleser.de? Egal ob Du Literaturliebhaber mit wenig Zeit zum Lesen, Lesemuffel oder Schüler in der Prüfungsvorbereitung bist, die Analysereihe derQuerleser.de bietet Dir sofort zugängliches Wissen über literarische Werke – ganz klassisch als Buch oder natürlich auf Deinem Computer, Tablet oder Smartphone! Viele unserer Lektürehilfen enthalten zudem Verweise auf Sekundärliteratur und Adaptionen, die die Übersicht sinnvoll ergänzen. Literatur auf den Punkt gebracht mit derQuerleser.de!
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She lies in wait
\"One night during the scorching summer of 1983, a group of teenagers go camping in the forest. The evening starts like any other--they drink, they dance, they fight, they kiss. Some of them slip off into the woods in pairs, others are left jealous and heartbroken. But in the morning, the youngest in the group, Aurora, has disappeared. Her friends claim that she was safe the last time they saw her, right before she went to sleep. An exhaustive investigation is launched but no trace of the teenager is found. The search is eventually called off. Thirty years later Aurora's body is unearthed and Jonah Sheens is the detective put in charge of solving the long-cold case. Back in 1983, he had played a part in the search as a young cop, and their small-town community meant he had known the teenagers--including Aurora--personally. Now, he's determined to finally get to the truth of what happened that night. His investigation brings the members of the camping party back to the forest, where they will be confronted once again with the events of that night--events that left one of them dead, and all of them profoundly and forever changed\"-- Provided by publisher.
The skeleton road
Val McDermid newest masterpiece of suspense begins in Edinburgh with the discovery of a skeleton. Investigators are shocked to find this is not the result of a recent crime but in fact a death that has remained hidden and unknown for several decades. The stakes rise when unexpected connections to the Croatian military are uncovered. When evil has no borders and the past refuses to stay in the past, everyone involved is placed into new and unforeseen danger.\"
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The awkward squad
\"Suspended from her job as a promising police officer for firing 'one bullet too many', Anne Capestan is expecting the worst when she is summoned to H.Q. to learn her fate. Instead, she is surprised to be told that she is to head up a new police squad, working on solving old cold cases. Though relived to still have a job, Capestan is not overjoyed by the prospect of her new role. Even less so when she meets her new team: a crowd of misfits, troublemakers and problem cases, none of whom are fit for purpose and yet none of whom can be fired. But from this inauspicious start, investigating the cold cases throws up a number a number of strange mysteries for Capestan and her team: was the old lady murdered seven years ago really just the victim of a botched robbery? Who was behind the dead sailor discovered in the Seine with three gunshot wounds? And why does there seem to be a curious link with a ferry that was shipwrecked off the Florida coast many years previously?\"-- Provided by publisher.
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The book of mirrors : a novel
When literary agent Peter Katz receives a partial book submission entitled The Book of Mirrors , he is intrigued by its promise and original voice. The author, Richard Flynn, has written a memoir about his time as an English student at Princeton in the late 1980s, documenting his relationship with the protégée of the famous Professor Joseph Wieder. One night just before Christmas 1987, Wieder was brutally murdered in his home. The case was never solved. Now, twenty-five years later, Katz suspects that Richard Flynn is either using his book to confess to the murder, or to finally reveal who committed the violent crime. But the manuscript ends abruptly--and its author is dying in the hospital with the missing pages nowhere to be found. Hell-bent on getting to the bottom of the story, Katz hires investigative journalist John Keller to research the murder and reconstruct the events for a true crime version of the memoir. Keller tracks down several of the mysterious key players, including retired police detective Roy Freeman, one of the original investigators assigned to the murder case, but he has just been diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer's. Inspired by John Keller's investigation, he decides to try and solve the case once and for all, before he starts losing control of his mind. A trip to the Potosi Correctional Centre in Missouri, several interviews, and some ingenious police work finally lead him to a truth that has been buried for over two decades...or has it?
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The Truth Will Set You Free: Erle Stanley Gardner and the Innocence Plot
This essay examines how literature shaped popular ideas about the criminal justice system over the course of the twentieth century by considering Erle Stanley Gardner's bestselling Perry Mason series, published between 1933 and 1973. Despite their formulaic nature, the novels offer valuable insight about the inconsistencies of the courts in three distinct historical eras: public skepticism regarding the legal profession in the 1930s, the championing of the justice system as key to a democratic society in the 1940s and 50s, and the concerns over due process in the 1960s. Across these periods, Gardner's fiction advocated to a mass market readership for faith in justice, despite the series's fundamental premise that an unjust state was a constant threat to innocent civilians.
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