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1) Blood sugar
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"'I could just kill you right now!' It's something we've all thought at one time or another. But Ruby has actually acted on it. Three times, to be exact. Though she may be a murderer, Ruby is not a sociopath. She is an animal-loving therapist with a thriving practice. She's felt empathy and sympathy. She's had long-lasting friendships and relationships, and has a husband, Jason, whom she adores. But the homicide detectives at Miami Beach PD are not...
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In every tragic story, men are expected to be the killers. There are countless studies and works of art made about male violence. However, when women are featured in stories about murder, they are rarely portrayed as predators. They're the prey. This common dynamic is one of the reasons that women are so enthralled by female murderers. They do the things that women aren't supposed to do and live the lives that women aren't supposed to want: lives...
3) My detective
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Sam Carver volume 1
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English
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Detective Sam Carver journeys through sins scattered across the City of Angels, where hipsters, homeless, immigrants, producers, politicians, movie stars, and cops collide in mysterious ways. Every move Carver makes is anticipated by the killer, Dylan Cross. She has hacked his computer and knows his diaries and secrets. She sees in him a kindred and damaged spirit, a man who can understand her crimes, heal her scars, and love her. Dylan is reclaiming...
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Publisher
Sekotia
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Español
Description
"Las mujeres, como los hombres, son también capaces de matar, de planificar el acto criminal por motivos tan emocionales como la venganza, la avaricia o los celos. Raramente el móvil es la agresión o la defensa propia: la inferioridad física coloca a la mujer en posición de desventaja en una situación de confrontación directa, lo que le lleva a usar formas más sibilinas y astutas. César Alcalá -biógrafo e historiador- y Alicia García -psiquiatra...
5) Mayday
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Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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Ana finds herself transported to a dreamlike and dangerous land where she joins an army of girls engaged in a never-ending war along a rugged coast where the women lure men to their deaths at sea via radio transmissions, like twentieth-century sirens. Though she finds strength in this exhilarating world, she comes to realize that she's not the killer they want her to be.
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Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"New Year's Eve, 1999. Seven women are gathered in a hotel room at midnight; a man's head sits in the center of the floor. They all had a motive to kill Jamie Spellman. They all swear they didn't. But in order to protect each other, they have to find out who did"--
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Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
2000.
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English
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Norah Larkin is a working girl who wakes up a murderess after passing out in the apartment of brutish playboy Harry Prebble. Branded "The Blue Gardenia" by a sensational columnist, Norah dodges dragnets, informants and the cruel hand of fate as she struggles to conceal her involvement with Prebble, and to remember the details of her ill-fated night. As her hopes for justice fade, she decides to gamble her future on the journalist who transformed her...
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"Meet twenty-six of history's most notorious women. Each bad girl has a rotten reputation, but there are two sides to every tale."--Amazon.com.
Harlot or hero? Liar or lady? There are two sides to every story. Meet twenty-six of history's most notorious women, and debate alongside authors Yolen and Stemple--who appear in the book as themselves in a series of comic panels--as to each girl's guilt or innocence.
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"Since childhood, Helene Stapinski heard lurid tales about her great-great-grandmother, Vita. In Southern Italy, she was a loose woman who had murdered someone. Immigrating to America with three children, she lost one along the way. Helene's youthful obsession with Vita deepened as she grew up, eventually propelling the journalist to Italy, where, with her own children in tow, she pursued the story, determined to set the record straight" -- provided...
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William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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"The angel makers is a true-crime story like no other-a 1920s midwife who may have been the century's most prolific killer, leading a murder ring of women responsible for the deaths of at least 160 men"--
12) Alias Grace
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English
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Takes readers into the life and mind of Grace Marks, one of the most notorious women of the 1840s, who is serving a life sentence for murders she claims she cannot remember. Y.
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Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2011]
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English
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Blanche Taylor Moore; grandmother, churchgoing pillar of her North Carolina small town, and serial murderer, in this riveting true story that leads to the gas chamber. Childhood memories of her womanizing and abusive father fill Moore with a hidden rage towards all men. Her former boyfriend, first husband, and father all died of arsenic poisoning. Now her fiance, the town's minister, is stricken the same way.
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"A deliciously dark, hilariously twisted story about friendship, love, and murder. Meet Kitty Collins. Friend. Lover. Killer. When a guy from a nightclub follows her home, and won't leave her alone-- she kills him. Not intentionally, of course. But she isn't sorry, and she appears to have got away with murder. That's where here addiction started. She's developed a taste for revenge"--
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Inspired by the true story of the last person to be executed in Iceland: a young woman accused of murder in 1829. Charged with the brutal murder of two men, Agnes Magnúsdóttir, has been removed to her homeland's farthest reaches, to an isolated farm to await execution. Horrified at the prospect of housing a convicted murderer, the family on the farm avoids Agnes. Her arrival threatens the peaceful rhythm of their way of life, while her stoic approach...
16) Las homicidas
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Series
Publisher
Lumen
Pub. Date
2020
Language
Español
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"Este provocador e inquietante libro es el resultado de años de investigación sobre los crímenes cometidos por cuatro mujeres chilenas (Corina Rojas, Rosa Faúndez, María Carolina Geel y María Teresa Alfaro), y sobre cómo la sociedad, los medios de comunicación y el poder reaccionaron frente a quienes transgredieron violentamente el espacio doméstico y pasivo que se les había asignado."--
"Finalist for the Man Booker Prize and one of the...
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Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
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English
Description
Lucy Harbin goes berserk when she finds her husband in bed with another woman. With her three-year-old daughter accidentally witnessing the grisly act, Lucy axes the couple to death, then spends twenty years in a mental institution for the double murder. After she is released, she moves in with her brother, his wife, and her own daughter, now age twenty-three. Her nightmare is over, or is it? When a series of axe murders suddenly occurs in the neighborhood,...
18) Perfect match
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"Whereas most parents lie awake at night vividly conjuring the worst scenarios that could befall their children in their absence. Nina lives the reality of such crisis-and it's her job to do something about them."--Jacket.
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Doubleday
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
"A sharp, biting, and irresistible debut about parties and ambition in New York City--introducing a talented Mr. Ripley for the digital age, with all the glitz and grit of Bright Lights, Big City. If you can make it here, you can make it anywhere. Louise Wilson is an expert at just barely making it. She's mastered the tricks and shortcuts that a penniless small-town girl needs to survive in New York City. When she meets the beautiful, wealthy, eccentric,...
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"All the world is a puzzle, and Mike Brink-a celebrated and ingenious puzzle constructor-understands its patterns like no one else. Once a promising Midwestern football star, Brink was transformed by a traumatic brain injury that caused a rare medical condition: Acquired Savant Syndrome. The injury left him with a mental superpower-he can solve puzzles, calculate equations, and see patterns in ways ordinary people can't. But his condition has also...
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