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 demise.

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 dating, which George performs to perfection the following. Ten-year-old Charlotte, daughter of Conservative MP Eve Bowen, is kidnapped after leaving a weekly track 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 big name 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 destroy her politically. She has 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 guide a classy research to its electrifying and excellent end. This soaking up story, during which retribution for the sins of the fogeys is exacted from-and by-their young children, increases questions of parental love and accountability on a number of degrees. George's absolutely constructed characters will dwell with the readers lengthy after the final web page is became.

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 think about murderers and predators as males, yet during this interesting 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 ladies 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 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 considered as deviant, pathological behaviors which are disconnected from formal political and financial constructions, and sometimes excluded from research within the fields of political technological know-how and economics. A serious reconsideration of equipped crime unearths that the evolution of racketeering in structures of trade can be understood as a traditional phenomenon that may be estimated 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 kind of feels first and foremost that the incident may have not anything to do with nice issues of church and nation. Who poured the arsenic into the victim's brandy? The proof issues to Sarah Blundy, a servant lady.