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

While a tender woman 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 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 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 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 celebrity 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 wreck her politically. She has the same opinion 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 excellent end. This soaking up story, during which retribution for the sins of the oldsters is exacted from-and by-their little ones, 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 became.

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 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 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 normal criteria of fine and evil and defies the authorised perceptions of gender function and identity.

Gangster States: Organized Crime, Kleptocracy and Political Collapse

Gangsterism, extortion and racketeering are at present seen as deviant, pathological behaviors which are disconnected from formal political and monetary constructions, and infrequently excluded from research within the fields of political technological know-how and economics. A severe reconsideration of equipped crime unearths that the evolution of racketeering in structures of alternate could be understood as a ordinary phenomenon that may be envisioned with instruments from behavioral ecology initially built to version the dynamics of predator-prey kinfolk.

An Instance of the Fingerpost

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