Author: Deborah Ellis Publisher: Groundwood Books Ltd ISBN: 0888999747 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 210
Book Description
Fifteen-year-old Abdul, having lost everyone he loves, journeys from Baghdad to a migrant community in Calais where he sneaks aboard a boat bound for England, not knowing it carries a cargo of heroin, and when the vessel is involved in a skirmish and the pilot killed, it is up to Abdul and three other young stowaways to complete the journey.
Author: Patricia Gibney Publisher: Sphere ISBN: 9780751574913 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 448
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There's nothing more dangerous than a familiar face . . . As funeral mourners stand in silence at Ragmullin cemetery, a deafening cry cuts through the air. Lying crumpled at the bottom of an open grave is the bloodied body of a young woman, and Detective Lottie Parker is called in to investigate. Knowing the body can't have been there long, Lottie wonders if it could be Elizabeth Bryne, a young woman who vanished without trace just days earlier. And with a new boss who seems to have it in for her, Lottie is under pressure to solve both cases quickly. As two more women go missing from Ragmullin, Lottie and her team fear there is a serial killer on the loose. And the disappearances are strikingly similar to a cold case from ten years earlier. Could history be repeating itself? As journalists begin to interfere with Lottie's investigation, she fears the killer is about to strike again. Lottie is in a race against time to find the missing women, but the killer is closer than she thinks. Could Lottie be his next target? If you love Helen Field, Karin Slaughter and Rachel Abbott, you'll love the latest pulse-pounding thriller from Patricia Gibney. No Safe Place will keep you guessing until the very last page.
Author: Bill G. Cox Publisher: Pinnacle Books ISBN: 9780786021475 Category : True Crime Languages : en Pages : 340
Book Description
He Abused Her Body... Everyone who knew them thought stunning Farah Fratta and her husband Robert, a firefighter and public safety officer, had it all--a solid, nine-year marriage, three beautiful children, and a comfortable house in a middle class Houston suburb. But behind closed doors, Robert's deviant sexual appetites trapped Farah in a world of sick perversity...until she filed for divorce in 1992. Her Terrorized Her In Her Own Home... During a bitter custody suit, Farah bravely recounted--in graphic detail--her husband's bizarre sexual demands, which the presiding judge called the most depraved behavior he'd ever heard. Then Fratt'a behavior turned violent. Hoping to intimate his wife into dropping the proceedings against him, he hired an ex-con to brutally rape and torture her with a stun gun. Two years after the case began, the court was about to rule in Farah's favor...and seal her fate. Then He Took Her Life... On the night of November 9, 1994, as an unsuspecting Farah stepped out of her car, a man wearing a black ski mask emerged from the backyard and pumped two lethal bullets into her head. Charged with Farah's murder, Fratta tried to use a visit with his children as an alibi. Instead, he and two others were convicted of the bloody plot and sentenced to die by lethal injection.
Author: Phil Brown Publisher: Univ of California Press ISBN: 0520212487 Category : Health & Fitness Languages : en Pages : 288
Book Description
"An excellent and readable account of the toxic waste crisis in Woburn, Massachusetts, and the courageous efforts by local citizens to protect their community. The Woburn story is an inspiring lesson for citizens across the country struggling to protect the environment from polluters and unresponsive government officials."—Senator Edward Kennedy
Author: Christina Crawford Publisher: ISBN: Category : Family & Relationships Languages : en Pages : 200
Book Description
From the Publisher: Christina Crawford's devastating memoir Mommie Dearest (over 5,000,000 sold), first as book and later as Hollywood film, made the American public aware of violence in the family. In No Safe Place, drawing further on her personal story, but adding sociological research and case histories, the author shows how family violence is responsible for addictive behavior, depression, sleep disorders, chronic illness, suicide, delinquency, homelessness, and apparently "mindless" violent crime. A call to action, this impassioned book offers the hope that in facing the truth about our families we can save our society and ourselves.
Author: Kim Reid Publisher: Dafina Books ISBN: 9780758220523 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 324
Book Description
In this powerful and compelling memoir, Kim Reid shares the extraordinary story of growing up in the shadow of a serial killer who terrorised Atlanta, murdering 29 black children from 1979-81. Kim's mother was the first female African-American detective assigned to the investigation, and as she became more preoccupied with finding the killer, a 13-year-old Kim felt her life unravelling around her. An unforgettable story of innocence lost, and of a heartbreaking and controversial case that captivated the world.
Author: Tania Unsworth Publisher: Hachette UK ISBN: 1616204044 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 274
Book Description
When his grandfather dies, Devin goes to the city. There, he finds children, just like him, living on the streets. An act of kindness earns Devin an invitation to a home for abandoned children, but it’s soon clear that it’s no paradise. A zombie-like sickness that afflicts some children, and soon Devin discovers the home’s horrific true mission.
Author: Richard North Patterson Publisher: Ballantine Books ISBN: 0345469798 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 560
Book Description
In the high-stakes, high-pressure world of presidential politics, where predators carry microphones and one misstep can savage a lifetime of achievement, Kerry Kilcannon is the rarest player of all. Kilcannon believes he can make the system work. And he just may die trying. Driven by the violent nightmare of his childhood, fueled by forces that few could understand, and burdened by secrets no one must know, Kilcannon is running for President—and entering the crucial battleground of California with seven days to go. But for Kilcannon, there are hurdles that his courage, charisma, and compassion may not overcome: the network correspondent he still loves; the reporter bent on their exposure; the rival who’ll do anything to win; and the fanatic who believes that he must murder Kilcannon to protect the right to life. . . .
Author: Emily Christie Publisher: Penguin UK ISBN: 0141040890 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 252
Book Description
Emily Christie grew up surrounded by relatives whose job it was to protect her. Her father was a hard-working policeman, her grandad was a respected paramedic; they were the perfect family. Evil lurked beneath the surface. When she was just five years old, Emily's beloved grandad started grooming her, calling her his 'special little girl'.
Author: JoAnn Ross Publisher: ISBN: 9780739479315 Category : Missing persons Languages : en Pages : 402
Book Description
Chicago homicide detective Kate Delaney is a by the book cop who goes to New Orleans to look for her estranged sister. With the help of PI Nick Broussard, an ex-cop from New Orleans who has a total disregard for the rules, she searches the criminal underworld of New Orleans.
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