Murder State

In the second half of the nineteenth century, the Euro-American citizenry of California carried out mass genocide against the Native population of their state, using the processes and mechanisms of de

This work for general readers tells the stories of 29 convicted murderers who were hanged in Ireland between 1923 and 1954, revealing the gruesome details of their crimes, their deaths, and the discov

In the second half of the nineteenth century, the Euro-American citizenry of California carried out mass genocide against the Native population of their state, using the processes and mechanisms of de

The founder of the Trial Lawyers College and attorney famed for his defenses of such clients as Karen Silkwood and Imelda Marcos identifies pervasive practices of lawbreaking and corruption in today's

"For decades following the Civil War, people used the expression “when Kentucky goes Republican” in the same way someone today might say “when hell freezes over” to indicate the improbability of

We all want to feel safe. But safe from what, and from whom?In his 60-plus years as a trial lawyer, Gerry Spence has never represented a person accused of a crime in which the police hadn't themselves

A college coed has been missing all winter and her remains have been discovered in the Siskiyous Mountains of Northern California. The case has gone cold and Mickey Dunn, new to private investigation

The author, personally aquainted with many of the individuals involved, chronicles the rise and fall of the State-Line Mob of the Tennessee-Mississippi border, known from the Walking Tall movies

An expert in memory must uncover the truth about her family’s wartime past in this dazzling psychological thriller from the #1 international bestselling author ofAnna O.Olivia Finn is a memory expert at Charing Cross Hospital in London. One night, she receives an urgent call from the police at the Hotel Lutetia on Paris’s famous Left Bank. Olivia’s French grandmother, Josephine Benoit, has appeared at the Lutetia in a distressed state claiming she once committed a murder in the hotel at the end of the Second World War.Traveling to Paris, Olivia finds her grandmother confused. But Josephine insists it is a recovered memory from the past. More disturbingly, hotel records show that a woman did die in that room of the Lutetia in 1945. Could her story really be true?As people start dying in the present day, Olivia is plunged into a race against time to uncover the truth about Josephine and what really happened all those years ago.Set among the glamorous streets of Paris, this addictive thri

A storm. A disappearance. A race against time . . . Mustique is in a state of breathless calm as tropical storm Cristobal edges towards it across the Atlantic. Most villa owners have escaped the isl

A storm. A disappearance. A race against time . . .Mustique is in a state of breathless calm as tropical storm Cristobal edges towards it across the Atlantic. Most villa owners have escaped the island

An Edgar Award–winning author’s true crime account of a grisly string of killings in Kentucky—and the shocking spectacle of greed that followed. Kentucky never deserved its Indian ap

Local artist and amateur sleuth Penny Brannigan has been spending her summer painting the exterior and views of the once-lovely Gwrych Castle, now in a heartbreaking state of disrepair. A privately ow

1909 – Deep in the hinterland of the Punjab, in the small princely state of Rajpore, the British Resident, Major William Russell, is found dead.The Maharaja of Rajpore, Sikander Singh, who has a keen

1909 – Deep in the hinterland of the Punjab, in the small princely state of Rajpore, the British Resident, Major William Russell, is found dead.The Maharaja of Rajpore, Sikander Singh, who has a keen

1909 – Deep in the hinterland of the Punjab, in the small princely state of Rajpore, the British Resident, Major William Russell, is found dead.The Maharaja of Rajpore, Sikander Singh, who has a keen

Private investigator Robert Brixton has always hated Washington. Against his better judgment, he decides to stick around and take a job as an agent in a new State Department security agency headed by

Whoever said libraries are quiet places never visited the small town library that sits on the grounds of the old state hospital. Creaks and groans echo through the stacks as the patrons peruse the she

" On Nov. 28, 1969, Betsy Aardsma, a 22-year-old graduate student in English at Penn State, was stabbed to death in the stacks of Pattee Library at the university's main campus in State College. For

Explores notorious incidents that occurred throughout the state of Missouri from the nineteenth century through the gangster era of the 1920s and 1930s.

Follow the transformation of Robert Augustus Alston from a nineteenth-century slave owner and white supremacist to crusader for reform in the treatment of mostly black convicts in post-war Georgia. In

The book explores the impact of professional gangsters in Richmond in the wake of a daylight robbery and brutal murder on a Richmond street in 1934. The city at the time was still a very Southern plac

Kenneth Salter, chairman of the math department at Marcus Rome State University, isn't a well-liked man; in fact, most people despise him. It's not surprising, therefore, when he ends up dead, slumped

From Amazon.com:Kenneth Salter, chairman of the math department at Marcus Rome State University, isn't a well-liked man; in fact, most people despise him. It's not surprising, therefore, when he ends