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In the #1 New York Times bestselling thriller that inspired the TV series King & Maxwell, two private investigators dig into a killer's past—but when their search threatens powerful enemies, it could cost them their lives.
Edgar Roy—an alleged serial killer—is awaiting trial. He faces almost certain conviction. Sean King and Michelle Maxwell are called in by Roy's attorney, Sean's old friend and mentor Ted Bergin, to...
Edgar Roy—an alleged serial killer—is awaiting trial. He faces almost certain conviction. Sean King and Michelle Maxwell are called in by Roy's attorney, Sean's old friend and mentor Ted Bergin, to...
2) Woman 99
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English
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Going undercover to rescue her wrongly committed sister from a notorious asylum, Charlotte uncovers a dangerous secret about the institution and why their fellow inmates were put away.
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2022.
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English
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Raising fundamental questions about how we understand ourselves in periods of crisis and distress, the author draws on deep, original reporting as well as unpublished journals and memoirs to write about people who have come up against the limits of psychiatric explanations for who they are.
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2012
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English
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Arrested and declared insane for seeking justice for her plantation owner husband's slaves at the height of the Civil War, Iris Dunleavy endures a lengthy institutional "rehabilitation" under the eye of a pompous superintendent.
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Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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A ward attendant at Paris’s Salpêtrière asylum assigned to care for Josephine, Doctor Jean-Martin Charcot’s famous patient, Laure, to save her from spiraling into seeming insanity, plots their escape, but must first confirm whether she is truly a madwoman or a murderer—or something even darker.
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English
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A memoir of a young marriage that is defined by mental illness describes how the author's wife suffered mysterious psychotic breaks before and after having a child, examining how the challenges of mental illness raise profound questions about love and responsibility.
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