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Author: Heda Margolius Kovály Publisher: Soho Press ISBN: 1616954973 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 240
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This rediscovered masterpiece captures a chilling moment in the stifling early days of Communist Czechoslovakia. 1950s Prague is a city of numerous daily terrors, of political tyranny, corruption and surveillance. There is no way of knowing whether one’s neighbor is spying for the government, or what one’s supposed friend will say to a State Security agent under pressure. A loyal Party member might be imprisoned or executed as quickly as a traitor; innocence means nothing for a person caught in a government trap. When a little boy is murdered at the cinema, the ensuing investigation sheds a little too much light on the personal lives of the cinema’s female ushers, each of whom is hiding a dark secret of her own.
Author: Heda Margolius Kovály Publisher: Soho Press ISBN: 1616954973 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 240
Book Description
This rediscovered masterpiece captures a chilling moment in the stifling early days of Communist Czechoslovakia. 1950s Prague is a city of numerous daily terrors, of political tyranny, corruption and surveillance. There is no way of knowing whether one’s neighbor is spying for the government, or what one’s supposed friend will say to a State Security agent under pressure. A loyal Party member might be imprisoned or executed as quickly as a traitor; innocence means nothing for a person caught in a government trap. When a little boy is murdered at the cinema, the ensuing investigation sheds a little too much light on the personal lives of the cinema’s female ushers, each of whom is hiding a dark secret of her own.
Author: Patrick Mascola Publisher: Pgm Book Publishing, Incorporated ISBN: 9780988912823 Category : Guilt Languages : en Pages : 416
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The second novel of the -Hell- trilogy picks up where Hell on East Rock ended. In -The Hell of Innocence- Jennifer Kendal finds bliss in her marriage to Larry and her want for a baby at age 44. It all happens but the baby comes bundled in lace and ribbons from Hell. Jennifer's alternate personality, Bernadette Sheppard, also reappears to haunt Jennifer's life once again as the -Hell- seems to never go away.
Author: James Reston, Jr. Publisher: Three Rivers Press (CA) ISBN: 1400082447 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 274
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A personal memoir by the author of Warriors of God describes his own daughter Hillary's courageous battle with a devastating chronic illness, its impact on the entire family, and the daunting medical and social implications of such controversial issues as stem cell research, animal organ transplants, and reproductive and therapeutic cloning. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.
Author: Scott Burnside Publisher: Grand Central Publishing ISBN: 0446550353 Category : True Crime Languages : en Pages : 584
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Karla and Paul seemed like the picture-perfect newlyweds, but were really a pair of vicious killers who abducted, sexually tortured and murdered innocent schoolgirls, videotaping their evil acts in suburban Niagara Falls. Billed as the crime of the century in Canada, this case has received a great deal of media coverage on both sides of the border. Includes eight pages of photos.
Author: Alessandra Torre Publisher: HarperCollins Australia ISBN: 1488713812 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 304
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The man was sinful. It wasn't just the looks that made him dangerous, it was the cocky confidence that dominated every move, every touch. And the frustrating yet ecstatic fact about the whole package was that he could back it all up... Julia Campbell never knows what to expect with win–at–all–costs Brad De Luca. And she's starting to like it that way. She gave up safe, conventional relationships when she let the elite divorce attorney seduce her into his world. Now that he's determined to strip her naked of every inhibition, she's in danger of falling too deep and too fast. But their affair begins to feel even more dangerous when a murder leaves a trail of suspicion that points straight to the mob...and Brad. Trusting a man with a bad reputation and a past full of secrets seems like a mistake. But when she's forced to make a choice, the consequences will take her further than she could ever have imagined.
Author: Joel Kaplan Publisher: Crossroad Press ISBN: Category : True Crime Languages : en Pages : 374
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Early on a May morning in 1988, Laurie Dann, a thirty-year-old, profoundly unhappy product of the wealthy North Shore suburb of Chicago, loaded her father's car with a cache of handguns, incendiary chemicals, and arsenic-laced food. Driven by fear and hate, she was going to make something terrible happen. Before the end of the day, Dann had blazed a murderous trail of poison, fire, and bullets through the unsuspecting town of Winnetka, Illinois, and other North Shore suburbs. She murdered an eight-year-old boy and critically wounded 5 other children inside an elementary school. It finally took a massed force of armed police to end the killing. The shocking story of innocence destroyed by a rich young babysitter inexplicably gone mad made headlines all across the nation and inspired at least two psychotic killers to follow her example. What lead her to do it? Could she have been stopped? The case raised a host of agonizing questions that have remained unanswered—until now. In this book, three Chicago Tribune reporters who covered the Laurie Dann tragedy have pulled together all the available police evidence, unearthed valuable psychiatric information, and interviewed at length scores of people who knew Dann, many of whom had never before spoken to the media about this case. Despite clear and ominous warning signs, a young woman of beauty and privilege was allowed to deteriorate and go slowly berserk—and no one stopped her. Her parents, her doctors, and the police officers who knew her pathological behavior all failed her at critical times. By its passivity and silence, a community comfortable and quiet on the surface, yet reluctant to admit its underlying flaws, became an unwitting accomplice to the final rampage of Laurie Dann. MURDER OF INNOCENCE is a searing portrayal of a family—and a society—unable to cope, and of a young woman who wanted all too desperately only to be loved.
Author: Karen Novak Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA ISBN: 1582344353 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 334
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Leslie Stone, a P.I. specializing in missing children, is hired by her own thirteen-year-old daughter, Molly, to investigate the disappearance of one of her friends following a party at the missing girl's house that got out of hand, leading to charges of sexual assault against five young boys who attended, but Leslie discovers that the problem may have ties to the town's dark past. Reprint. 10,000 first printing.
Author: Chet Pleban Publisher: Gypsy Shadow Publishing ISBN: 161950359X Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 355
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Judge Joan Cardwell is back. As an assistant prosecutor many years ago, she prosecuted a black man for rape. After seventeen years in prison, Larry Jenkins contacts the Innocence Project proclaiming his innocence and seeking a DNA test. At the insistence of Cardwell, Karen Braxton, the elected prosecutor, resists the DNA test. Her resistance leads to an evidentiary hearing. As the evidence develops in the Jenkins case, the prior murder prosecution of Garner Lee, the son of Cassandra and Senator Winston Lee surfaces. Questions are raised as to whether that murder case was fixed by Braxton, Cardwell, Cassandra and Senator Lee to protect the senator’s gubernatorial candidacy. Did the senator put Cardwell on the bench and would the favorable resolution of the murder case be a payback? As the Innocence Project and Jonathan Felbin gather the evidence for a DNA test, Braxton becaomes concerned. Something may not be right with the way Cardwell handled the Jenkins case. Did she prosecute and convict an innocent man who had spent the last seventeen years in prison for personal political gain? Was perjured testimony used to obtain the rape conviction? Although not involved in the decision to prosecute Larry Jenkins, Braxton was involved in the Garner Lee murder prosecution. Will her role along with the involvement of the Lees and Judge Cardwell be uncovered? Will Garner Lee who has repeatedly denied killing his girlfriend, Amy Deland, be exonerated with the identification of the real killer? Will Larry Jenkins be freed? Will Garner Lee and Larry Jenkins be vindicated? Or will Joan Cardwell, Karen Braxton, Cassandra and Winston Lee be allowed to remain in their offices as though they did nothing wrong?
Author: Heda Margolius Kovály
Author: Heda Margolius Kovály
Author: Patrick Mascola
Author: James Reston, Jr.
Author: Scott Burnside
Author: Alessandra Torre
Author: William Blake
Author: Nicolas-François Dupré de Saint-Maur
Author: Joel Kaplan
Author: Karen Novak
Author: Chet Pleban