The Possible Police

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Reducere. This book takes a look the origin of policing in the United States, and its possible roots in the Slave Patrols of the south during slavery. It loo...

Reducere. Could it be possible that just one man is responsible for modernising the British Police service and transforming it from its Victorian era, firmly...

Reducere. An informed, provocative, astute consideration of salvific alternatives to contemporary policing and imprisonment. -- Starred Review, Kirkus With d...

A riveting investigation into how a restive region of China became the site of a nightmare Orwellian social experiment--the definitive police state...

Shaun O'Gorman knows what it's like to suffer from PTSD, depression and to battle with suicide. He served a 13-year career as a Police Officer incl...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Michael BroxMichael Brox pens his memoir of the triumph and tragedies he experienced while serving thirty-five years as a B...

In 1950s America, it was remarkably easy for police to arrest almost anyone for almost any reason. The criminal justice system-and especially the a...

A mutilated body is found on a windswept fishing boat, the possible calling card of a five pound note down the deceased's throat, sending Gilchrist...

One-handed ex-jockey Sid Halley works as a private detective, using his racing knowledge to solve crimes that baffle the police. In Whip Hand, Sid ...

Reducere. It was in Manchester, England in 1965, when the police were called to a possible crime scene at the residence of Ian Brady and girlfriend Myra Hind...

As police racism unsettles Britain's tolerant self-image, Black resistance to British policing details the activism that made movements like Black ...

K9 units are on the front line for every dangerous and in progress call, and it's up to the unit manager to ensure officers have the best possible ...

DescriptionA highly effective police officer, albeit one who keeps her past carefully hidden, Eve West is suspended from duty after a police operat...

DescriptionA highly effective police officer, albeit one who keeps her past carefully hidden, Eve West is suspended from duty after a police operat...

Reducere. An anonymous skull, an unsolved murder, sinister rumors from the Cold War era of espionage--Bruno's investigation into a long-standing cold case fi...

Reducere. Award-winning screenwriter Malla Nunn delivers a stunning and darkly romantic crime novel set in 1950s apartheid South Africa, featuring Detective ...

Donna Marie Gentile was an informant for the San Diego Police Dept. Larry Avrech, who was a young officer at the time, stumbled across Donna and th...

Reducere. There's no doubt that law enforcement comes with its immense stress. Sometimes it feels like our world is nothing but chaos; chaos at home due to s...

Reducere. When Skeeter Ellington doesn't show up for happy hour one Friday afternoon, his drinking buddies fear something is wrong. Skeeter never misses Frid...

Reducere. It's a basic human right to feel and be safe in your community--where you live, work and play. But, few people know or understand everything it tak...

Reducere. DescriptionTrue story of an African-American female whose LAPD career spanned twenty years under the command of police chiefs Daryl Gates, Willie W...

Reducere. In a time of social and ecological crises, people everywhere are looking for solutions. States and capitalism, rather than providing them, only mak...

Reducere. When Stella, a young M tis mother, looks out her window one evening and spots someone in trouble on the Break -- a barren field on an isolated stri...

Reducere. "Andi Grace is adorable, resilient, and has a doggedly curious need to solve a murder. A pleasure to read." -C. Hope Clark, award winning author of...

DescriptionDetective Inspector Sep Black finds himself investigating two connected cold cases in the second of this exhilarating series of hard-hit...

Reducere. Is it possible to achieve peak physical health without a gym, workout equipment, or even space to run? If the exercise plan in 1945's Return to Lif...

Reducere. Is it possible to achieve peak physical health without a gym, workout equipment, or even space to run? If the exercise plan in 1945's Return to Lif...

Reducere. Para-Investigators resolve mysteries and crimes using paranormal abilities. Para-Investigators are police officers, civilian investigators, psychic...

Reducere. Jennifer Shannon notices a familiar-looking woman at a garage sale. But who is she? How is it possible that, even after her death, this woman conti...

Reducere. "NEW YORK TIMES "BESTSELLER Karin Slaughter, author of thebestselling Will Trent novels, is widely acclaimed as one of the best crime novelists in ...

Reducere. Gregor Slavinsky went overboard. Or did he? He was murdered. Or was he? It's up to Detective Heath Barrington and his partner, police officer Alan ...

Reducere. Contained in this book are 50+ stories of actual events told exactly how they happened to the author. The stories span more than 30 years in the fi...

Reducere. Her biggest dream was to become a mail jumper, not the key witness to a crime...All Bailey wants is to join the elite crew of mail jumpers, fleet-f...

Reducere. Halloween is just around the corner and the goblins are out in force in Juniper Junction. A crotchety merchant, a malicious next-door neighbor, and...

DescriptionAunt Bessie solves murders with alarming regularity.Elizabeth Cubbon, known as Bessie to nearly everyone, has been caught up in far too ...

The latest case for Brock & Poole leads to a trip abroad . . . and tragedy at home. When Richard Cooper is found shot to death in his luxury apartm...

"Hillerman continues to dazzle. . . . A standout." -- Washington Book WorldThe fourteenth novel featuring Leaphorn and Chee by New York Times bests...

Hopefully, you've already met Larry the Leaf and his friends in the original story Larry the Leaf. In this episode of Larry's life high atop Max, t...

Reducere. In the late hours of July 22, 1991, Detective Patrick "Pat" Kennedy of the Milwaukee Police Department was asked to respond to a possible homicide....

Reducere. The Canopy is a cop bar, like no other. Here officers and detectives share stories, heartache and dreams. It is a safe place away from the harsh re...

Reducere. In the late hours of July 22, 1991, Detective Patrick "Pat" Kennedy of the Milwaukee Police Department was asked to respond to a possible homicide....

Reducere. Truman Readers AwardThe Hunger Games author Suzanne Collins says this paranormal action-adventure "breathes new life into the zombie genre" and has...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: K. Patrick DonoghueFor fans of Dan Brown's Robert Langdon novels, a riveting archaeological mystery.World-renowned scientis...

One missing boy. Four possible suspects.When young Leo disappears after leaving school, it sets a chain of events in motion that will change the li...

Reducere. Who or What is Behind the Cattle Mutilations? The cattle mutilation phenomenon is an ongoing mystery that has endured for almost 50 years. What hav...

DescriptionIt was the mystery that gripped the nation during the summer of 2001: the sudden disappearance of Chandra Levy, a young, promising inter...

Reducere. It's spring in England, and location scout Kate Sharp has returned to the quaint village of Nether Woodsmoor with its lush gardens, budding hedgero...

Reducere. The turmoil that we see in the Catholic Church today begins to unravel in an idyllic Polish Catholic Church in Detroit, Michigan in the 1950's. A p...

Reducere. At Balaclava Agricultural College, a kidnapping and pig-napping are followed by murderNewlyweds Peter and Helen Shandy are picking out flatware whe...

From the award-winning historian of the Holocaust, Europe Against the Jews, 1880-1945 is the first book to move beyond Germany's singular crime to ...

Reducere. An event-by-event look at how institutionalized racism harms the health of African Americans in the twenty-first century A crucial component of ant...

The Fight for China's Future throws light on the quintessence of 21st century Chinese politics through the prism of the struggle between the Chines...

Reducere. The chilling third -- and breakthrough -- novel in the Martin Beck mystery series by the internationally renowned crime writing duo, finds Martin B...

Gus Lynch is directing the Youth Theatre through a rehearsal. The cast is in place but the female lead, Gabriella Paston, is missing. Later that ev...

Shortly after her brother, Stormy, is convicted of the brutal murder of a classmate, seventeen-year-old Lizzy Greiner is found dead in an abandoned...

Reducere. INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERAs Europe buckles under Nazi occupation, Maisie Dobbs investigates a possible murder that threatens devastating re...

Reducere. As Europe buckles under Nazi occupation, Maisie Dobbs investigates a possible murder that threatens devastating repercussions for Britain's war eff...

Reducere. Secret police agencies such as the East German Ministry for State Security kept enormous quantities of secrets about their own citizens, relying he...

DescriptionAt an elite private school in Massachusetts, a wide circle of lives will be forever changed by a devastating series of events in Daniell...

Contributor(s): Author: Rene DenfeldA haunting, richly atmospheric, and deeply suspenseful novel from the acclaimed author of The Enchanted about a...

The eighth entry in Maurizio de Giovanni's internationally bestselling Commissario Ricciardi series. In the abyss of a profound personal crisis, Co...

Reducere. DescriptionShe can handle wedding day jitters or even a runaway bride. But a kidnapped bride is another matter. Wedding planner Annabelle Archer ha...

Reducere. It's not "just one more thing" ... it's the first in a series of new books on "Columbo" starring Peter Falk - perhaps the best known, and certainly...

DescriptionKate O'Donnell and her police sergeant partner, Harry Barnard enter dangerous waters when they uncover evidence of a top-level conspirac...

Reducere. Drawing Conclusions or Drafting Disaster?Other than harboring a somewhat obsessive fondness for Crispix and completely swearing-off boys after a ba...

Contributor(s): Author: Roger JohnsWhen a controversial politician is murdered in cold blood, Baton Rouge Police Detective Wallace Hartman struggle...

Reducere. Ellery Page is back--and poking his elegant nose into trouble again Unlike everyone else in Pirate's Cove, Ellery Page, aspiring screenwriter, reig...

DescriptionThe sleepy coastal towns along the southern Oregon coast are awakened when a young woman is found slain in her home, followed by the mur...

DescriptionAn English cottage to die for . . .It's spring in England, and location scout Kate Sharp has returned to the quaint village of Nether Wo...