Violent Cases

Reducere. Pennsylvania may have been founded by peaceful Quakers, but the sect's pacifist ways didn't dampen the state's enthusiasm for violent scandals-or c...

Cases of child homicide are rare but they are especially horrific. The author goes behind the sensationalist headlines to investigate why these cri...

The thrilling career of ATF agent Cynthia Beebe is told through the lens of six-high profile cases involving bombings, arson, and the Hell's Angels...

A reign of terror swept the streets of Birmingham in the 1920s. Criminals armed with small axes attacked immigrant merchants and interracial couple...

In these beautifully told cases we find compulsive liars, deceived spouses, violent children and delusional adults but we also find ourselves and i...

The discovery of a human foot in an Edinburgh park, the inexplicable circumstances of a dying woman, and the missing daughter of Jenny's violent ex...

It’s May and the snow has hardly melted in Göteborg, Sweden, but things are heating up quickly for Detective Inspector Irene Huss in the Violent Cr...

A collection of the most famous cases faced by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's peerless creation, now in a beautiful hardcover edition designed by Coralie...

This book discusses examples of crime scenes in the archaeological past, their detection and interpretation with the help of modern science; reader...

Reducere. Today's religious violence challenges our understanding of religion. Do we need special notions such as 'cult' and 'fundamentalism' to come to term...

Reducere. Children who claim to remember a previous life have been found in many parts of the world, particularly in the Buddhist and Hindu countries of Sout...

Reducere. With an Updated Epilogue by the Author"A compelling portrait of seasoned homicide cops at work. This is L.A.'s darkest side: ironic, heart-breaking...

Reducere. A USA TODAY BESTSELLNG SERIESThree sisters are brutally murdered in a small town in Indiana.Michael Tallon receives a call from a fellow former Spe...

"Propulsive... Not only is the book difficult to put down, it's also an adroit exploration of the ethical quandaries of true-crime storytelling, pa...

Violent crime in New York City had grown too much for the state's criminal justice system to follow through with death penalties bogged down by the...

Reducere. ``When we talk of marriage counseling we think immediately of the extreme cases, of threats to seek divorce, of couples in violent disputes who fre...

Reducere. From Atlantis to the Third Reich and beyond, these thirteen original cerebral tales of science fiction and horror explore the evils that abound whe...

DescriptionFor Dorothea Cassidy, Thursdays were special. Every week she would look forward to the one day she could call her own, and would plan to...

Influenced by news reports of young children brutalized by their parents, most of us see the role of child services as the prevention of severe phy...

For more than 30 years, retired Ontario Provincial Police Sergeant Barry Ruhl has believed that a criminal with whom he had a violent encounter ear...

Going beyond the popular TV show, this is the true story of forensic science from those who solve crimes without witnesses.How do you identify a se...

Reducere. DescriptionCrimes that captivated attention in the Charlotte area over the years run the gamut from missing people to the wrongly accused. This col...

Reducere. DescriptionA true story of one of the most gruesome mass murders in Los Angeles history. This incredible twenty-year saga includes brutal murder, v...

Reducere.  Images from movies and film have had a powerful influence in how Native Americans are seen. In many cases, they have been represented as violent,...

After the conquest of Mexico by Hernan Cortes in the sixteenth century, conquistadors and explorers poured into the territory of Nueva Espana. The ...

Reducere. A houseful of people he loathes is not Sir Arthur's worst problem...It should have been a lovely English country-house weekend. But the unfortunate...

For Dorothea Cassidy Thursdays were special. Every week she would look forward to the one day she could call her own, and would plan to visit peopl...

Reducere. One of the worst cases of sex slavery happened during the most violent time in modern history....Japan during the Second World War. The Rape of Nan...

Reducere. Where Evil Lies Buried1896: Sherlock Holmes has once again hit the headlines, solving mysteries for the cream of aristocracy. But among the workhou...

Reducere. The "Great Magness Trial" was one of the most celebrated murder cases in early Tennessee history. David Magness shot and killed Major Patton Anders...

Reducere. DescriptionE. Fuller Torrey, the author of the definitive guides to schizophrenia and manic depression, chronicles a disastrous swing in the balanc...

DescriptionThrough an original and close reading of the key literature regarding both revolutionary violence and nonviolence, this book collapses t...

Reducere. Five years after escaping into the mountains of North Carolina, Eric Rudolph was becoming a figure of folk legend. The FBI had long since abandoned...

Reducere. Oppositional and defiant children present a major challenge for teachers and other educators. Students with serious behavior disorders can become a...

Reducere. In his #1 New York Times bestseller Memory Man, David Baldacci introduced the extraordinary detective Amos Decker-the man who can forget nothing. N...

Reducere. In his #1 New York Times bestseller Memory Man, David Baldacci introduced the extraordinary detective Amos Decker-the man who can forget nothing. N...

Reducere. In his #1 New York Times bestseller Memory Man, David Baldacci introduced the extraordinary detective Amos Decker-the man who can forget nothing. N...

Reducere. Harold Schechter, who delivers "must reading for true crime buffs" (Ann Rule), unravels one of the most gruesome and historically significant cases...

Reducere. This vivid book retells the story of Captain Cook's great voyages in the South Seas, focusing on the encounters between the explorers and the islan...

Reducere. VBI (Vermont Bureau of Investigation) head Joe Gunther and his team are called in to investigate a series of violent deaths that appear unrelated u...

Reducere. DescriptionIncarceration, including the pre- and post-confinement periods, is devastating for the physical, emotional and spiritual health - of any...

Reducere. The Final Volume in a Must-Have Trilogy of the Best Closing Arguments in American Legal History In The Devil's Advocates, Michael S. Lief and H. Mi...

This book offers a therapeutic approach to a problem that many families and mental health institutions face: a growing number of adult children who...

TRUE CRIME THRILLER with a twist. Written first-hand by the actual investigator in DEFENSE of real people charged with murder. A criminal justice s...

A shocking murder carries echoes of the past for a psychologist in a startling novel of suspense by a Washington Post and Amazon Charts bestselling...

Reducere. Inflation is as violent as a mugger, as frightening as an armed robber and as deadly as a hit man.This quote, by a popular former US President, ref...

Reducere. "I don't care who you hire, or what the company has to pay him ... so long as he's the best there is."This anguished cry from the wife of murder vi...

Reducere. Be the FBI Agent in training under J. Edgar Hoover and run the gauntlet of Machine Gun Kelly, Baby Face Nelson and the Barker Karpis Gang. Step bac...

"A compelling narrative of survival and redemption." --Robert Lindsey, author of The Falcon and the SnowmanForty years before the names Snowden and...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: James PattersonAuthor: Maxine PaetroIt's finally timeDetective Lindsay Boxer is in labor--while two killers are on the loos...

Sharon Marshall was a brilliant and beautiful student whose future was filled with promise--until her murderous, fugitive father drew her into a li...

Reducere. Description..".Invaluable as a quick reference for the dozens of terms, case names, and criminal concepts buzzing back and forth in (New York) cour...

Reducere. In August of 1975, two talented and popular teenagers, Myron Parsons and Lori Leigh Cole, decide one night to go parking. They find a secluded spot...

Reducere. 9 square miles. 10, 000 criminals. 130 cops.Compton: the most violent and crime-ridden city in America. What had been a semirural suburb of Los Ang...

"We all have to face our demons at some point." Psychic Surveys - specialists in domestic spiritual clearance - have never been busier. Although ex...

Reducere. "No one can thoroughly chill the blood the way Karin Fossum can." --Los Angeles Times Eva Magnus and her daughter are out walking by the river when...

Reducere. A Steve Jackson True Crime ClassicA little before midnight on May 30, 1997, fourteen-year-old Brandy DuVall waited at a bus stop in the Denver area...

Reducere. - A police officer kills a twelve-year-old boy. It's caught on video. The officer gets off.- A police officer strangles a man selling cigarettes. I...

On 6 December 1886, Arthur Foster leaves the Queens Theatre, Manchester with a pocket full of gold and a lady bedecked with diamonds on his arm. He...

In this chilling tale from the bestselling author of Wall of Silence, a spark of malice ignites into an inferno of violence. Can one woman uncover ...

Reducere. Dr. Peter S. Murphy needs fifteen thousand dollars by the end of the day, or the city of Los Angeles can say goodbye to the El Healtho clinic. A re...

Reducere. He was a pioneer in modern law enforcement, a trailblazing leader in the hunt for serial killers. But after decades of staring deep into the darkne...