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Publisher
HQ
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Are you ready to start this conversation? Kamran Hadid feels invincible. He attends Hampton school, an elite all-boys boarding school in London, he comes from a wealthy family and he has a place at Oxford next year. The world is at his feet. And then a night of revelry leads to a drunken encounter, and he must ask himself a horrific question. With the help of assault counsellor Zara Kaleel, Kamran reports the incident in the hopes that will be the...
Author
Series
Arthur Beauchamp mysteries volume 1
Publisher
ECW Press
Language
English
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Description
Arthur Beauchamp, one of Vancouver’s most heralded criminal lawyers, has moved to a quiet island off the British Columbia coast. He’s trying to recover from a marriage gone sour, but his retirement is interrupted by his former law partners — they want Arthur to take charge of the defence trial of Jonathan O’Donnell, the acting dean of the law school. O’Donnell has been accused of rape by one of his students, Kimberley Martin, a smart but...
4) Fury
Author
Series
Butch Karp and Marlene Ciampi thrillers volume 17
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
New York District Attorney Butch Karp and his wife, Marlene, find themselves embroiled in corruption when they set out to bring a group of Brooklyn rapists to justice.
5) The do-right
Author
Series
Delpha Wade and Tom Phelan novels volume 1
Publisher
Cinco Puntos Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Delpha Wade killed a man who was raping her. Now, after fourteen years in prison nobody's rushing to hire a parolee. But persistence and smarts land her a secretarial job with with an ex-roughneck turned private eye.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2013].
Language
English
Description
When a brutal rape case is thrown out due to a procedural technicality and the suspect goes free, disgraced Detective Eli Nahum, after another rape occurs in a quiet Tel Aviv neighborhood, is determined to find the truth at any cost.
Author
Publisher
Park Row Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Jessica, Stephanie and Priyanka are complete strangers, but they have one thing in common: they've each received a letter accusing their husbands of committing a sexual assault more than two decades prior. Is the accusation true or is there more to the story? It was a secret that remained buried for years. With their worlds suddenly turned upside down, they don't know who to trust...The three women come together to embark on a hunt for the truth,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Severn House Publishers
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"After ten years' absence and a spell in prison, Carl Burns has returned to his hometown of Rose City to offer support to his estranged daughter Kate, currently one of four witnesses testifying against former Mayor Joseph Sanderson III, who stands accused of multiple counts of underage rape. Carl is determined to get justice for Kate, whatever it takes. But with his former sister-in-law Frances his only ally, he finds himself incurring the wrath of...
9) Lacuna
Author
Publisher
Europa Editions
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"A cry for reparations for Lucy Lurie. She is the victim of an act of terrible sexual violence that devastes her life. Afterwards, she becomes obsessed with the author John Coetzee, the man who wrote the scene of violence in which she was attacked. Withdrawn and fearful of crowds, Lucy nonetheless makes occasional forays into the world of men in her search for Coetzee himself. She means to confront him. The Lucy in his novel, Disgrace, is passive...
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
At twenty-four, Katie Gregory feels like life is looking up: shes snagged a great job in New York City and is falling for a captivating artistand memories of her traumatic past are finally fading. Katies life fell apart almost a decade earlier, during an idyllic summer at her familys cabin on Eagle Lake when her best friend accused her father of sexual assault. Throughout his trial and imprisonment, Katie insisted on his innocence, dodging reporters...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"...On Christmas Eve 2012, in Paris, the novelist Édouard Louis was raped and almost murdered by a man he had just met. This act of violence left Louis shattered; its aftermath made him a stranger to himself and sent him back to the village, the family, and the past he had sworn to leave behind. A bestseller in France--challenged and vindicated in the courts--History of Violence is a short nonfiction novel in the tradition of Truman Capote's In Cold...
Author
Series
Thomas and Charlotte Pitt mysteries volume 28
Charlotte and Thomas Pitt volume 028
Charlotte and Thomas Pitt novel volume 28
Charlotte and Thomas Pitt volume 028
Charlotte and Thomas Pitt novel volume 28
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Formats
Description
When the bodies of two high-profile women are discovered, bearing signs of rape, and an innocent man is accused of the crime, Thomas Pitt's quest for the truth forces him to play a dangerous game of international politics and murder.
Author
Series
Publisher
Brash Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
After Blanch White returns to Farleigh, North Carolina to help a friend, she investigates a young woman's murder and recognizes the suspect as her rapist from years ago who was able to escape prosecution, but this time she is determined that he will not get away.
"Blanche White returns to Farleigh, North Carolina for the summer to help her best friend with her catering business. It's a homecoming rich with the potential for new romance and fraught...
14) The Violated
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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Description
In Echo Park, in the small town of Santa Rita, California, the mutilated body of Martin Torrey is found by two passersby. A registered sex offender, Torrey has been a suspect in a string of recent rapes, and instant suspicion for his murder falls on the relatives and friends of the women attacked. Police chief Griffin Kells and detective Robert Ortiz are under increasing pressure from the public and from a mayor demanding results in a case that has...
15) Disobedient
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
"A riveting novel based on the life of Artemisia Gentileschi—the greatest female painter of the Renaissance—as she forges her own destiny in a world dominated by the will of men. This is the ring that you gave me, and these are your promises. A young woman is put on trial. She has accused her painting teacher of the darkest betrayal - he accuses her of being an immoral liar. What really happened, and why will this trial scandalise seventeenth-century...
Author
Series
Whiskey Creek novels volume 4
Publisher
Harlequin Mira
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Adelaide Davies, who's been living in Sacramento, returns to Whiskey Creek, the place she once called home. She's there to take care of her aging grandmother and to help with Gran's restaurant, Just Like Mom's. But Adelaide isn't happy to be back. There are too many people here she'd rather avoid, people who were involved in that terrible June night fifteen years ago. Ever since the graduation party that changed her life, she's wanted to go to the...
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Language
English
Description
When Dr. Alex Taylor opens her eyes, she is hooked up to an IV, restrained to an operating table, her legs raised in stirrups. Disoriented and alarmed, she assumes she's been anesthetized and brought to surgery after being in an accident. But the man standing over her, with his face hidden behind a surgical mask and wielding instruments, is no doctor she recognizes at the hospital where she works as a successful and respected physician. He's a strangerand...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
For Dr. David Beck, the loss was shattering. And every day for the past eight years, he has relived the horror of what happened. The gleaming lake. The pale moonlight. The piercing screams. The night his wife was taken. The last night he saw her alive.Everyone tells him it's time to move on, to forget the past once and for all. But for David Beck, there can be no closure. A message has appeared on his computer, a phrase only he and his dead wife know....
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English
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"A psychological suspense novel of obsession and dangerous love. The new, updated edition of Too Late from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Verity. Sloan will go through hell and back for those she loves. And she does so, every single day. Caught up with the alluring Asa Jackson, a notorious drug trafficker, Sloan has finally found a lifeline to cling to, even if it’s meant compromising her morals. She was in dire straits trying to pay...
20) Salem Falls
Author
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Description
Robbed of his teaching career and reputation by a student's false accusations, Jack St. Bride is struggling to rebuild his life, but fresh accusations of rape by teenage girls from his former school threaten to destroy him once again.
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