In the Presence of the Enemy (Inspector Lynley Series, Book 8)

While a tender lady vanishes in London with no hint, her MP mom turns into confident that the kidnapper is the child's father, until eventually Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley and Sergeant Barbara Havers discover an internet of deception, betrayal, and dying.

From Publishers Weekly:

After seven outings (the final was once enjoying for the Ashes), upper-crust Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley and his stubby, working-class sergeant, Barbara Havers, have shaped a comfy operating courting, which George performs to perfection the following. Ten-year-old Charlotte, daughter of Conservative MP Eve Bowen, is kidnapped after leaving a weekly song lesson now not faraway from her London domestic. Dennis Luxford, editor for a tabloid-style, decidedly anti-Conservative newspaper, gets a message threatening Charlotte until he recognizes her paternity. Bowen, a emerging megastar in the house workplace, chooses to prevent utilizing the police, realizing that disclosure of her short, long-ago fling with Luxford will break her politically. She is of the same opinion with Luxford to invite forensic scientist Simon St. James and his assistant woman Helen (who is Lynley's lover) to enquire undercover. yet quickly a homicide attracts in Scotland backyard, permitting Lynley and Havers to steer a sophisticated research to its electrifying and awesome end. This soaking up story, within which retribution for the sins of the fogeys is exacted from-and by-their teenagers, increases questions of parental love and accountability on a number of degrees. George's absolutely built characters will dwell with the readers lengthy after the final web page is grew to become.

Female Serial Killers: How and Why Women Become Monsters

The 1st e-book of its kind-photographs included.

moms, daughters, sisters and grandmothers-fiendish killers all.

Society is conditioned to consider murderers and predators as males, yet during this attention-grabbing ebook, Peter Vronsky exposes and investigates the phenomenon of girls who kill-and the political, fiscal, social, and sexual implications.

From history's earliest recorded instances of homicidal adult females to Irma Grese, the Nazi Beast of Belsen, from Britain's infamous child-slayer Myra Hindley to 'Honeymoon Killer' Martha Beck, from the sensational murder-spree of Aileen Wournos, to cult killers, homicidal missionaries, and the horny femme fatale, Vronsky demanding situations the normal criteria of fine and evil and defies the authorized perceptions of gender position and identity.

Gangster States: Organized Crime, Kleptocracy and Political Collapse

Gangsterism, extortion and racketeering are presently seen as deviant, pathological behaviors which are disconnected from formal political and monetary buildings, and infrequently excluded from research within the fields of political technological know-how and economics. A severe reconsideration of prepared crime finds that the evolution of racketeering in structures of trade can be understood as a normal phenomenon that may be anticipated with instruments from behavioral ecology initially built to version the dynamics of predator-prey kinfolk.

An Instance of the Fingerpost

It's 1663, and England is wracked with intrique and civil strife. whilst an Oxford don is murdered, it kind of feels firstly that the incident may have not anything to do with nice issues of church and country. Who poured the arsenic into the victim's brandy? The facts issues to Sarah Blundy, a servant lady.