Author: Bernard Schaffer
Publisher: Kensington Books
ISBN: 1496717260
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
“The most engaging pair of detectives I’ve seen in a long while.” —David Morrell SOME SECRETS WILL NOT DIE For three agonizing decades, seasoned manhunter Jacob Rein has been consumed by one case—a missing girl never found and two cops dead, one murdered, the other a suicide. Rein’s protégé, Detective Carrie Santero, shares an equal fascination with the twisted patterns of murder. But when the discovery of a small human foot unearthed in the Pennsylvania woods leads her to a decades-old cold case, she is not prepared for the secrets she will unravel—and their connection to her mentor’s dark and buried past . . . Praise for Berard Schaffer’s The Thief of All Light “Tense, fast, and excellent—I loved this book.” —Lee Child “Schaffer writes about cops with the assurance of a seasoned police veteran.” —Lisa Scottoline “Schaffer presents a thriller that is both gruesome in content and honest in its portrayal of police procedures.” —Booklist “Schaffer is the real deal. His writing will knock you out.” —J.A. Konrath
An Unsettled Grave
Author: Bernard Schaffer
Publisher: Kensington Books
ISBN: 1496717260
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
“The most engaging pair of detectives I’ve seen in a long while.” —David Morrell SOME SECRETS WILL NOT DIE For three agonizing decades, seasoned manhunter Jacob Rein has been consumed by one case—a missing girl never found and two cops dead, one murdered, the other a suicide. Rein’s protégé, Detective Carrie Santero, shares an equal fascination with the twisted patterns of murder. But when the discovery of a small human foot unearthed in the Pennsylvania woods leads her to a decades-old cold case, she is not prepared for the secrets she will unravel—and their connection to her mentor’s dark and buried past . . . Praise for Berard Schaffer’s The Thief of All Light “Tense, fast, and excellent—I loved this book.” —Lee Child “Schaffer writes about cops with the assurance of a seasoned police veteran.” —Lisa Scottoline “Schaffer presents a thriller that is both gruesome in content and honest in its portrayal of police procedures.” —Booklist “Schaffer is the real deal. His writing will knock you out.” —J.A. Konrath
Publisher: Kensington Books
ISBN: 1496717260
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
“The most engaging pair of detectives I’ve seen in a long while.” —David Morrell SOME SECRETS WILL NOT DIE For three agonizing decades, seasoned manhunter Jacob Rein has been consumed by one case—a missing girl never found and two cops dead, one murdered, the other a suicide. Rein’s protégé, Detective Carrie Santero, shares an equal fascination with the twisted patterns of murder. But when the discovery of a small human foot unearthed in the Pennsylvania woods leads her to a decades-old cold case, she is not prepared for the secrets she will unravel—and their connection to her mentor’s dark and buried past . . . Praise for Berard Schaffer’s The Thief of All Light “Tense, fast, and excellent—I loved this book.” —Lee Child “Schaffer writes about cops with the assurance of a seasoned police veteran.” —Lisa Scottoline “Schaffer presents a thriller that is both gruesome in content and honest in its portrayal of police procedures.” —Booklist “Schaffer is the real deal. His writing will knock you out.” —J.A. Konrath
Blood Angel
Author: Bernard Schaffer
Publisher: Kensington Books
ISBN: 1496727630
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
In the third Santero and Rein thriller, Carrie and Jacob must stop a lunatic who calls himself The Master, as he sends out letters to his potential victims. Fifteen years ago, Herbert Presley Tanner abducted teenager Brenda Drake in order to commit a ritual purification of the flesh demanded by his fanatical beliefs. He doused her in gasoline and was about to light a match when detectives Jacob Rein and Bill Waylon intercepted him and brought him to justice. Now Brenda Drake has been reported as a suicide. Arriving at the death scene, detective Carrie Santero finds a letter Brenda had received from someone who signed himself as "The Master." Bill Waylon, Carrie's boss, calls on her help after receiving a letter threatening the lives of his two daughters. Again, the signature is "The Master." Waylon recognizes the demented signature. Herbert Presley Tanner, he explains, was sentenced as a juvenile and committed to a mental health facility where he has been held indefinitely. Now, the state is trying to offload him. He has a hearing coming up. Bill needs Carrie to make sure Tanner isn't released. But when Tanner comes before the court, with the support of his parents and his prison doctor, the judge releases him. A woman who has been close to Rein is murdered, as is a female cousin whom Tanner had tortured as a teen. The threats intensify to include Carrie, Rein, and all who are dear to them. Carrie must delve into the deep secrets of Jacob Rein's past - and into the dark abyss of a psychopath's homicidal impulses - to stop "The Master" from destroying more lives.
Publisher: Kensington Books
ISBN: 1496727630
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
In the third Santero and Rein thriller, Carrie and Jacob must stop a lunatic who calls himself The Master, as he sends out letters to his potential victims. Fifteen years ago, Herbert Presley Tanner abducted teenager Brenda Drake in order to commit a ritual purification of the flesh demanded by his fanatical beliefs. He doused her in gasoline and was about to light a match when detectives Jacob Rein and Bill Waylon intercepted him and brought him to justice. Now Brenda Drake has been reported as a suicide. Arriving at the death scene, detective Carrie Santero finds a letter Brenda had received from someone who signed himself as "The Master." Bill Waylon, Carrie's boss, calls on her help after receiving a letter threatening the lives of his two daughters. Again, the signature is "The Master." Waylon recognizes the demented signature. Herbert Presley Tanner, he explains, was sentenced as a juvenile and committed to a mental health facility where he has been held indefinitely. Now, the state is trying to offload him. He has a hearing coming up. Bill needs Carrie to make sure Tanner isn't released. But when Tanner comes before the court, with the support of his parents and his prison doctor, the judge releases him. A woman who has been close to Rein is murdered, as is a female cousin whom Tanner had tortured as a teen. The threats intensify to include Carrie, Rein, and all who are dear to them. Carrie must delve into the deep secrets of Jacob Rein's past - and into the dark abyss of a psychopath's homicidal impulses - to stop "The Master" from destroying more lives.
Is the Rectum a Grave?
Author: Leo Bersani
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226043444
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
Over the course of a distinguished career, critic Leo Bersani has tackled a range of issues in his writing, and this collection gathers together some of his finest work. Beginning with one of the foundations of queer theory—his famous meditation on how sex leads to a shattering of the self, “Is the Rectum a Grave?”—this volume charts the inspired connections Bersani has made between sexuality, psychoanalysis, and aesthetics. Over the course of these essays, Bersani grapples with thinkers ranging from Plato to Descartes to Georg Simmel. Foucault and Freud recur as key figures, and although Foucault rejected psychoanalysis, Bersani contends that by considering his ideas alongside Freud’s, one gains a clearer understanding of human identity and how we relate to one another. For Bersani, art represents a crucial guide for conceiving new ways of connecting to the world, and so, in many of these essays, he stresses the importance of aesthetics, analyzing works by Genet, Caravaggio, Proust, Almodóvar, and Godard. Documenting over two decades in the life of one of the best minds working in the humanities today, Is the Rectum a Grave? and Other Essays is a unique opportunity to explore the fruitful career of a formidable intellect.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226043444
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
Over the course of a distinguished career, critic Leo Bersani has tackled a range of issues in his writing, and this collection gathers together some of his finest work. Beginning with one of the foundations of queer theory—his famous meditation on how sex leads to a shattering of the self, “Is the Rectum a Grave?”—this volume charts the inspired connections Bersani has made between sexuality, psychoanalysis, and aesthetics. Over the course of these essays, Bersani grapples with thinkers ranging from Plato to Descartes to Georg Simmel. Foucault and Freud recur as key figures, and although Foucault rejected psychoanalysis, Bersani contends that by considering his ideas alongside Freud’s, one gains a clearer understanding of human identity and how we relate to one another. For Bersani, art represents a crucial guide for conceiving new ways of connecting to the world, and so, in many of these essays, he stresses the importance of aesthetics, analyzing works by Genet, Caravaggio, Proust, Almodóvar, and Godard. Documenting over two decades in the life of one of the best minds working in the humanities today, Is the Rectum a Grave? and Other Essays is a unique opportunity to explore the fruitful career of a formidable intellect.
The Unquiet Grave
Author: Sharyn McCrumb
Publisher: Pocket Books
ISBN: 1982136413
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
From the New York Times bestselling author of Prayers the Devil Answers and The Ballad of Tom Dooley, a “fascinating historical fiction novel you won’t be able to put down” (Bustle) based on one of the strangest murder trials in American history—the case of the Greenbrier Ghost. Lakin, West Virginia, 1930: Following a suicide attempt and consigned to a segregated insane asylum, attorney James P.D. Gardner finds himself under the care of Dr. James Boozer. Testing a new talking cure for insanity, Boozer encourages his elderly patient to share his experiences as the first black attorney to practice law in 19th-century West Virginia. His memorable case: defending a white man on trial for the murder of his young bride—a case that the prosecution based on the testimony of a ghost. Greenbrier, West Virginia, 1897: Beautiful, willful Zona Heaster has always lived in the mountains. Despite her mother’s misgivings, Zona marries the handsome Erasmus Trout Shue, Greenbrier’s newest resident and blacksmith. Her mother learns of her daughter’s death weeks later. A month after the funeral, Zona’s mother makes a chilling claim to the county prosecutor: her daughter was murdered, and she was told this by none other than Zona’s ghost... With her unique and “real knack for crafting full-bodied characters and using folklore to construct compelling plots” (Booklist), Sharyn McCrumb effortlessly demonstrates her place among the finest Southern writers at work today.
Publisher: Pocket Books
ISBN: 1982136413
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
From the New York Times bestselling author of Prayers the Devil Answers and The Ballad of Tom Dooley, a “fascinating historical fiction novel you won’t be able to put down” (Bustle) based on one of the strangest murder trials in American history—the case of the Greenbrier Ghost. Lakin, West Virginia, 1930: Following a suicide attempt and consigned to a segregated insane asylum, attorney James P.D. Gardner finds himself under the care of Dr. James Boozer. Testing a new talking cure for insanity, Boozer encourages his elderly patient to share his experiences as the first black attorney to practice law in 19th-century West Virginia. His memorable case: defending a white man on trial for the murder of his young bride—a case that the prosecution based on the testimony of a ghost. Greenbrier, West Virginia, 1897: Beautiful, willful Zona Heaster has always lived in the mountains. Despite her mother’s misgivings, Zona marries the handsome Erasmus Trout Shue, Greenbrier’s newest resident and blacksmith. Her mother learns of her daughter’s death weeks later. A month after the funeral, Zona’s mother makes a chilling claim to the county prosecutor: her daughter was murdered, and she was told this by none other than Zona’s ghost... With her unique and “real knack for crafting full-bodied characters and using folklore to construct compelling plots” (Booklist), Sharyn McCrumb effortlessly demonstrates her place among the finest Southern writers at work today.
Fritz
Author: Rodney Wetzel
Publisher: Archway Publishing
ISBN: 1480853100
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 189
Book Description
It is 1987 in the college town of Parksville. Professor Phillip Parker is doing his best to muddle through what has become a very mundane life. But as he dismisses his class for another day, Parker has no idea that his childhood friend and local police captain, Kip Gillmore, is witnessing a scene unlike anything he has ever seen in his fifteen years in law enforcement. Two high school students have sadly become victims of a satanic sacrifice inside the gates of the Parksville cemetery. Soon, Gillmore and Parker decide to partner to investigate the crime and confront an evil entity that has made its home in Parksville. With help from a priest and a studentboth connected to the town through long heritagethey work to banish the evil. But as voices urge a psychopath to continue killing, the men realize that Parkvilles past may hide too many dark secrets. While the body count and danger continue to grow, Parker and Gillmore cannot help but wonder if they are too late to stop an evil one with an unrelenting need to feed. In this terrifying tale of horror, a police captain and college professor work together to eliminate an evil presence from their town before it murders more innocent victims.
Publisher: Archway Publishing
ISBN: 1480853100
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 189
Book Description
It is 1987 in the college town of Parksville. Professor Phillip Parker is doing his best to muddle through what has become a very mundane life. But as he dismisses his class for another day, Parker has no idea that his childhood friend and local police captain, Kip Gillmore, is witnessing a scene unlike anything he has ever seen in his fifteen years in law enforcement. Two high school students have sadly become victims of a satanic sacrifice inside the gates of the Parksville cemetery. Soon, Gillmore and Parker decide to partner to investigate the crime and confront an evil entity that has made its home in Parksville. With help from a priest and a studentboth connected to the town through long heritagethey work to banish the evil. But as voices urge a psychopath to continue killing, the men realize that Parkvilles past may hide too many dark secrets. While the body count and danger continue to grow, Parker and Gillmore cannot help but wonder if they are too late to stop an evil one with an unrelenting need to feed. In this terrifying tale of horror, a police captain and college professor work together to eliminate an evil presence from their town before it murders more innocent victims.
The Works of Charles Dickens
Author: Charles Dickens
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 798
Book Description
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Languages : en
Pages : 798
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Lockwood & Co.: The Empty Grave
Author: Jonathan Stroud
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 1484798570
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 600
Book Description
*NOW A NETFLIX SERIES* In this spine-tingling next book of the Lockwood & Co series, the ghost-hunting gang take on terrifying new challenges. Five months after the events in The Creeping Shadow, we join Lockwood, Lucy, George, Holly, and their associate Quill Kipps on a perilous night mission: they have broken into the booby-trapped Fittes Mausoleum, where the body of the legendary psychic heroine Marissa Fittes lies. Or does it? This is just one of the many questions to be answered in Book 5 of the Lockwood & Co. series. Will Lockwood ever reveal more about his family's past to Lucy? Will their trip to the Other Side leave Lucy and Lockwood forever changed? Will Penelope Fittes succeed in shutting down their agency forever? The young agents must survive attacks from foes both spectral and human before they can take on their greatest enemy in a climactic and chaotic battle. And to prevail they will have to rely on help from some surprising--and shadowy--allies. Jonathan Stroud once again delivers a rousing adventure full of danger, laughs, twists, and frights. The revelations will send readers back to Book 1 to start the series all over again. Exclusive to this paperback edition: a Lockwood & Co. short story, "The Dagger in the Desk," and an illustrated ghost guide.
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 1484798570
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 600
Book Description
*NOW A NETFLIX SERIES* In this spine-tingling next book of the Lockwood & Co series, the ghost-hunting gang take on terrifying new challenges. Five months after the events in The Creeping Shadow, we join Lockwood, Lucy, George, Holly, and their associate Quill Kipps on a perilous night mission: they have broken into the booby-trapped Fittes Mausoleum, where the body of the legendary psychic heroine Marissa Fittes lies. Or does it? This is just one of the many questions to be answered in Book 5 of the Lockwood & Co. series. Will Lockwood ever reveal more about his family's past to Lucy? Will their trip to the Other Side leave Lucy and Lockwood forever changed? Will Penelope Fittes succeed in shutting down their agency forever? The young agents must survive attacks from foes both spectral and human before they can take on their greatest enemy in a climactic and chaotic battle. And to prevail they will have to rely on help from some surprising--and shadowy--allies. Jonathan Stroud once again delivers a rousing adventure full of danger, laughs, twists, and frights. The revelations will send readers back to Book 1 to start the series all over again. Exclusive to this paperback edition: a Lockwood & Co. short story, "The Dagger in the Desk," and an illustrated ghost guide.
The Ravine
Author: Wendy Lower
Publisher: Mariner Books
ISBN: 0544828690
Category : HISTORY
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
A single photograph--an exceptionally rare "action shot" documenting the horrific murder of a Jewish family--drives a riveting forensic investigation by a gifted Holocaust scholar.
Publisher: Mariner Books
ISBN: 0544828690
Category : HISTORY
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
A single photograph--an exceptionally rare "action shot" documenting the horrific murder of a Jewish family--drives a riveting forensic investigation by a gifted Holocaust scholar.
Unsettled Ground
Author: Claire Fuller
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0241457475
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
WINNER OF THE COSTA NOVEL AWARD 2021 SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE 2021 'Her strongest yet... a powerful, beautiful novel that shows us our land as it really is: a place of shelter and cruelty, innocence and experience' THE TIMES __________________________________________________________________________ When you live on the edge of society, it only takes one step to fall between the cracks Twins Jeanie and Julius have always been different from other people. At 51 years old, they still live with their mother, Dot, in rural isolation and poverty. Inside the walls of their old cottage they make music, and in the garden they grow (and sometimes kill) everything they need for sustenance. But when Dot dies suddenly, threats to their livelihood start raining down. Jeanie and Julius would do anything to preserve their small sanctuary against the perils of the outside world, even as their mother's secrets begin to unravel, putting everything they thought they knew about their lives at stake. Unsettled Ground is a powerful novel of betrayal and resilience, love and survival. It is a portrait of life on the fringes of society that explores with dazzling emotional power how we can build our lives on broken foundations, and spin light from darkness. ____________________________________________________________________ 'The way she writes (with empathy but never sentimentality) moves my heart' ELIZABETH DAY, author of Magpie 'A relevant and powerful exploration of isolation and life on the fringes of society' CLARE MACKINTOSH, author of Hostage 'An atmospheric thriller that's both heartbreaking and heartwarming' RED
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0241457475
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
WINNER OF THE COSTA NOVEL AWARD 2021 SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE 2021 'Her strongest yet... a powerful, beautiful novel that shows us our land as it really is: a place of shelter and cruelty, innocence and experience' THE TIMES __________________________________________________________________________ When you live on the edge of society, it only takes one step to fall between the cracks Twins Jeanie and Julius have always been different from other people. At 51 years old, they still live with their mother, Dot, in rural isolation and poverty. Inside the walls of their old cottage they make music, and in the garden they grow (and sometimes kill) everything they need for sustenance. But when Dot dies suddenly, threats to their livelihood start raining down. Jeanie and Julius would do anything to preserve their small sanctuary against the perils of the outside world, even as their mother's secrets begin to unravel, putting everything they thought they knew about their lives at stake. Unsettled Ground is a powerful novel of betrayal and resilience, love and survival. It is a portrait of life on the fringes of society that explores with dazzling emotional power how we can build our lives on broken foundations, and spin light from darkness. ____________________________________________________________________ 'The way she writes (with empathy but never sentimentality) moves my heart' ELIZABETH DAY, author of Magpie 'A relevant and powerful exploration of isolation and life on the fringes of society' CLARE MACKINTOSH, author of Hostage 'An atmospheric thriller that's both heartbreaking and heartwarming' RED
The Accidental Afterlife of Thomas Marsden
Author: Emma Trevayne
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 144249882X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
At age twelve, grave robber Thomas Marsden discovers a boy who looks just like him in an unmarked grave and begins a journey of discovery as he learns of faeries trapped in London and their hope that he can return them to their realm.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 144249882X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
At age twelve, grave robber Thomas Marsden discovers a boy who looks just like him in an unmarked grave and begins a journey of discovery as he learns of faeries trapped in London and their hope that he can return them to their realm.