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

Whilst a tender woman vanishes in London with no hint, her MP mom turns into confident that the kidnapper is the child's father, till Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley and Sergeant Barbara Havers discover an online of deception, betrayal, and demise.

From Publishers Weekly:

After seven outings (the final was once taking part in 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 right here. Ten-year-old Charlotte, daughter of Conservative MP Eve Bowen, is kidnapped after leaving a weekly tune lesson no longer faraway from her London domestic. Dennis Luxford, editor for a tabloid-style, decidedly anti-Conservative newspaper, gets a message threatening Charlotte except he recognizes her paternity. Bowen, a emerging megastar in the house place of work, chooses to prevent utilizing the police, figuring out that disclosure of her short, long-ago fling with Luxford will break her politically. She concurs 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 unbelievable end. This soaking up story, during which retribution for the sins of the fogeys is exacted from-and by-their kids, increases questions of parental love and accountability on a number of degrees. George's totally constructed 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 booklet 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 booklet, Peter Vronsky exposes and investigates the phenomenon of ladies who kill-and the political, fiscal, social, and sexual implications.

From history's earliest recorded circumstances of homicidal women 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 standard criteria of excellent 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 financial constructions, and infrequently excluded from research within the fields of political technology and economics. A serious reconsideration of equipped crime unearths that the evolution of racketeering in platforms of trade could be understood as a typical phenomenon that may be envisioned with instruments from behavioral ecology initially constructed to version the dynamics of predator-prey kin.

An Instance of the Fingerpost

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