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

While a tender lady vanishes in London and not using a 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 internet of deception, betrayal, and demise.

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After seven outings (the final used to be taking part in for the Ashes), upper-crust Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley and his stubby, working-class sergeant, Barbara Havers, have shaped a snug operating dating, 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 except he recognizes her paternity. Bowen, a emerging big name in the house place of work, chooses to prevent utilizing the police, realizing that disclosure of her short, long-ago fling with Luxford will smash her politically. She concurs with Luxford to invite forensic scientist Simon St. James and his assistant girl Helen (who is Lynley's lover) to enquire undercover. yet quickly a homicide attracts in Scotland backyard, permitting Lynley and Havers to steer a classy research to its electrifying and wonderful end. This soaking up story, within which retribution for the sins of the fogeys is exacted from-and by-their young children, increases questions of parental love and accountability on numerous degrees. George's totally constructed characters will stay with the readers lengthy after the final web page is grew to become.

Female Serial Killers: How and Why Women Become Monsters

The 1st ebook of its kind-photographs included.

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

Society is conditioned to think about murderers and predators as males, yet during this attention-grabbing publication, Peter Vronsky exposes and investigates the phenomenon of ladies who kill-and the political, monetary, social, and sexual implications.

From history's earliest recorded situations 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 attractive femme fatale, Vronsky demanding situations the standard criteria of excellent and evil and defies the authorized perceptions of gender function 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 fiscal buildings, and sometimes excluded from research within the fields of political technology and economics. A severe reconsideration of prepared crime finds that the evolution of racketeering in platforms of trade might be understood as a average phenomenon that may be anticipated with instruments from behavioral ecology initially constructed to version the dynamics of predator-prey relatives.

An Instance of the Fingerpost

It's 1663, and England is wracked with intrique and civil strife. while an Oxford don is murdered, it sort of feels first and foremost 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 lady.