Crime

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Always Outnumbered Always Outgunned

Socrates Fortlow has lived a long, evil life — mostly behind bars. Now he is out of prison and Socrates has sworn to cease his evil ways, not to hurt anyone, but to do good where he can. Socrates, who can kill a man with his bare hands, goes to work helping the downtrodden and oppressed of his Los Angeles ghetto. Whether running a killer out of town or helping a boy away from crime, Socrates always tries to find meaning in his world and find the moral way forward. This is a crime story, a penetrating picture of depressed ghetto life, a touching portrait of human dignity, a story of fundamental moral choices.(195 pages)
Level: B

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American Psycho

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Author: Brett Easton Ellis (382 pages)
Level: B/A

0330448013

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Bitter Medicine

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Sara Paretsky can write a book that is exciting — and gives your pupils lots to talk about. While looking into the death of one of her friends, Chicago private eye Vic Warshawski comes to grips with the street gangs, fanatical anti-abortionists and the greed behind the polished surface of American private medicine. Lots of good insights into American society.“ den giver masser af stof at tale om” SHP News and Views(259 pages).
Level: B

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Postman Always Rings Twice

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One of the most famous crime novels ever written, which also inspired a film that helped to define the genre of film noir. It is the story of Frank Chambers, the amoral drifter, Cora, the sullen and brooding wife, and Nick Papadakis, the amiable but inconvenient husband — a story told through the eyes of Frank, the perpetrator of the crime. This novel won for its author a reputation for bleak, masterful realism, spare prose and raw speech right out of the mouths of the people Author: James M. Cain. (116 pages)
Level: C-B

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Stone Cold

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Link, 17 years old and driven from his parental home, has drifted to London, jobless and friendless. He is befriended by streetwise Ginger, who suddenly disappears. He meets Deb, a homeless girl, who gives him some meaning in life. He doesn't realize that Deb is a journalist hunting a serial killer who preys on the homeless ... and other street kids are vanishing. Author: Robert Swindells. (132 pages)
Level: C

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Time to Kill

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John Grisham’s story of a black father’s killing of two white thugs who have raped his little daughter — and the resulting turmoil in a small Mississippi town. Popular with students writing papers. (510 pages).
Level: B

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