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

Whilst a tender woman vanishes in London and not using a 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 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 right here. Ten-year-old Charlotte, daughter of Conservative MP Eve Bowen, is kidnapped after leaving a weekly tune 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 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 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 classy research to its electrifying and fantastic end. This soaking up story, during which retribution for the sins of the fogeys is exacted from-and by-their youngsters, increases questions of parental love and accountability on numerous degrees. George's totally built characters will reside with the readers lengthy after the final web page is became.

Female Serial Killers: How and Why Women Become Monsters

The 1st publication 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 girls who kill-and the political, financial, 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 normal criteria of excellent and evil and defies the approved 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 fiscal constructions, and infrequently excluded from research within the fields of political technology and economics. A serious reconsideration of prepared crime unearths that the evolution of racketeering in structures of alternate can be understood as a usual phenomenon that may be expected with instruments from behavioral ecology initially built to version the dynamics of predator-prey kin.

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 sort of feels at the beginning that the incident could 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.