Author: B.R. Stateham Publisher: Next Chapter ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 330
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Homicide detectives Turner Hahn and Frank Morales are at it again. This time they have two homicide cases, which may or may not wind up being connected. One case involves the death of a university professor, murdered in a highly secure computer complex. No one knows what happened, or has a clue as of who the killer might be. The second case involves the murder of a gigolo, with a seemingly endless number of suspects. Soon, the detectives discover they are being followed. With the FBI interested in the case, Mossad agents in town and members of a secretive organisation known as Odessa also involved, Turner and Frank have their hands full. Filled with murder, mayhem, twists and turns, A Taste for Old Revenge is the second book in B.R. Stateham's Turner Hahn And Frank Morales Crime Mysteries series.
Author: Mary Ellis Publisher: Severn House Publishers Ltd ISBN: 1448301696 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 210
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Private investigator Kate Weller must confront her troubled past and clear her brother’s name in the second gripping Marked for Retribution mystery. When a wealthy socialite is found dead on her luxury yacht, her daughter Lainey hires Kate Weller to investigate. Agnes Westin created plenty of enemies during her climb to the top of society, many with a taste for revenge – but did any of them feel strongly enough to kill her? But Kate has another reason altogether for returning to Pensacola, Florida, the only town she has ever called home. Her brother Liam has spent the past sixteen years in jail for his part in a robbery homicide – and unless Kate uncovers the truth of what really happened that day, she will never be safe. Now someone wants to make sure her repressed memories stay buried. Can Kate clear her brother’s name before the real killer silences them both forever?
Author: Mercy Jane Ballesteros Publisher: ISBN: 9781549988042 Category : Languages : en Pages : 196
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I was sure it was mine, it was nearly perfect. Twenty-nine-year-old, Maria Mercedes Castrillon has the world on the palm of her hand. A successful business, a man she loves she thought she had everything a woman could ever had. Just like the speed of the light, without any notice she lost it all by a snake that poisons its prey. A mere jealousy, a heart full of envy will cause her betrayal. Thus begins, a story of a woman who will take vengeance and makes sure to have them experience the taste of her revenge.
Author: Martin Walker Publisher: Vintage ISBN: 0525519971 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 315
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Another delightful installment in the internationally acclaimed series featuring Chief of Police Bruno: When a British tourist fails to turn up for a luxurious cooking vacation in the idyllic village in the south of France that Bruno Courrèges calls home, the chief of police is quickly on the case. Monika Felder is nowhere to be found, and her husband, a retired British general, is unreachable. Not long after Bruno discovers that Monika was traveling with a mysterious Irishman with a background in intelligence, the two turn up dead. Was she running away? How much does her husband really know? Meanwhile, the star of the girls’ rugby team is pregnant, jeopardizing her chances of being named to the French national squad. Bruno’s search for the truth in both cases leads him in some unexpected directions—but as ever, he and his friends find time along the way to savor the culinary delights of the region.
Author: Andrew Westmont Publisher: AuthorHouse ISBN: 1468541803 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 120
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This psychological thriller deals with the emotions of the protagonist to the project that he has spent years developing in his laboratory and protecting its outcome due to his own personal conflicts.
Author: Laura Blumenfeld Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 0743463390 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 386
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"But ultimately it is a journey that leads her back home - where she is forced to confront her childhood dreams, her parents' failed marriage, and her ideas about family. In the end, her target turns out to be more complex - and in some ways more threatening - than the stereotypical terrorist she'd long imagined."--BOOK JACKET.
Author: Thane Rosenbaum Publisher: University of Chicago Press ISBN: 0226726614 Category : Law Languages : en Pages : 325
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We call it justice—the assassination of Osama bin Laden, the incarceration of corrupt politicians or financiers like Rod Blagojevich and Bernard Madoff, and the climactic slaying of cinema-screen villains by superheroes. But could we not also call it revenge? We are told that revenge is uncivilized and immoral, an impulse that individuals and societies should actively repress and replace with the order and codes of courtroom justice. What, if anything, distinguishes punishment at the hands of the government from a victim’s individual desire for retribution? Are vengeance and justice really so very different? No, answers legal scholar and novelist Thane Rosenbaum in Payback: The Case for Revenge—revenge is, in fact, indistinguishable from justice. Revenge, Rosenbaum argues, is not the problem. It is, in fact, a perfectly healthy emotion. Instead, the problem is the inadequacy of lawful outlets through which to express it. He mounts a case for legal systems to punish the guilty commensurate with their crimes as part of a societal moral duty to satisfy the needs of victims to feel avenged. Indeed, the legal system would better serve the public if it gave victims the sense that vengeance was being done on their behalf. Drawing on a wide range of support, from recent studies in behavioral psychology and neuroeconomics, to stories of vengeance and justice denied, to revenge practices from around the world, to the way in which revenge tales have permeated popular culture—including Hamlet, The Godfather, and Braveheart—Rosenbaum demonstrates that vengeance needs to be more openly and honestly discussed and lawfully practiced. Fiercely argued and highly engaging, Payback is a provocative and eye-opening cultural tour of revenge and its rewards—from Shakespeare to The Sopranos. It liberates revenge from its social stigma and proves that vengeance is indeed ours, a perfectly human and acceptable response to moral injury. Rosenbaum deftly persuades us to reconsider a misunderstood subject and, along the way, reinvigorates the debate on the shape of justice in the modern world.
Author: B.R. Stateham
Author: B. R. Stateham
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Author: Mercy Jane Ballesteros
Author: Martin Walker
Author: Andrew Westmont
Author: Joe Schrantz
Author: Mardy Royale
Author: Laura Blumenfeld
Author: Thane Rosenbaum