Author: Gillian Slovo
Publisher: Doubleday Books
ISBN: 9780385246095
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Death Comes Staccato
Author: Gillian Slovo
Publisher: Doubleday Books
ISBN: 9780385246095
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Publisher: Doubleday Books
ISBN: 9780385246095
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Ten Days
Author: Gillian Slovo
Publisher: Canongate Books
ISBN: 178211792X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
It's 4 a.m. and Cathy Mason is watching dawn break over the Lovelace estate. By the end of the day, her community will be a crime scene. By the end of the week, her city will be on fire. In this gripping thriller, a death at police hands has repercussions far beyond one family plunged into grief. When violence grips Cathy's estate, the dead man becomes a useful tactic (or an urgent threat) in political games at the highest level. So while lives are at risk on Cathy Mason's estate, across London in Westminster, careers are being made, or ruined. From a Home Secretary's attempts to unseat a Prime Minister, to a new Met Police Commissioner fighting for his job, to families torn apart, Ten Days shows what happens when politics, policing and the hard realities of living in London explosively collide.
Publisher: Canongate Books
ISBN: 178211792X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
It's 4 a.m. and Cathy Mason is watching dawn break over the Lovelace estate. By the end of the day, her community will be a crime scene. By the end of the week, her city will be on fire. In this gripping thriller, a death at police hands has repercussions far beyond one family plunged into grief. When violence grips Cathy's estate, the dead man becomes a useful tactic (or an urgent threat) in political games at the highest level. So while lives are at risk on Cathy Mason's estate, across London in Westminster, careers are being made, or ruined. From a Home Secretary's attempts to unseat a Prime Minister, to a new Met Police Commissioner fighting for his job, to families torn apart, Ten Days shows what happens when politics, policing and the hard realities of living in London explosively collide.
Death Comes Knocking
Author: Graham Bartlett
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
ISBN: 1509810498
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Fans of Peter James and his bestselling Roy Grace series of crime novels know that his books draw on in-depth research into the lives of Brighton and Hove police and are set in a world every bit as gritty as the real thing. His friend Graham Bartlett was a long-serving detective in the city once described as Britain's 'crime capital'. Together, in Death Comes Knocking, they have written a gripping account of the city's most challenging cases, taking the reader from crime scenes and incident rooms to the morgue, and introducing some of the real-life detectives who inspired Peter James's characters. Whether it's the murder of a dodgy nightclub owner and his family in Sussex's worst non-terrorist mass murder or the race to find the abductor of a young girl, tracking down the antique trade's most notorious 'knocker boys' or nailing an audacious ring of forgers, hunting for a cold-blooded killer who executed a surfer or catching a pair who kidnapped a businessman, leaving him severely beaten, to die on a hillside, the authors skilfully evoke the dangerous inside story of policing, the personal toll it takes and the dedication of those who risk their lives to keep the public safe.
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
ISBN: 1509810498
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Fans of Peter James and his bestselling Roy Grace series of crime novels know that his books draw on in-depth research into the lives of Brighton and Hove police and are set in a world every bit as gritty as the real thing. His friend Graham Bartlett was a long-serving detective in the city once described as Britain's 'crime capital'. Together, in Death Comes Knocking, they have written a gripping account of the city's most challenging cases, taking the reader from crime scenes and incident rooms to the morgue, and introducing some of the real-life detectives who inspired Peter James's characters. Whether it's the murder of a dodgy nightclub owner and his family in Sussex's worst non-terrorist mass murder or the race to find the abductor of a young girl, tracking down the antique trade's most notorious 'knocker boys' or nailing an audacious ring of forgers, hunting for a cold-blooded killer who executed a surfer or catching a pair who kidnapped a businessman, leaving him severely beaten, to die on a hillside, the authors skilfully evoke the dangerous inside story of policing, the personal toll it takes and the dedication of those who risk their lives to keep the public safe.
The Woman Detective
Author: Kathleen Gregory Klein
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252064630
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Kathleen Gregory Klein traces female paid, professional private investigators in British, Canadian, and American novels, revealing that the detective novel is both a reflection of and potential barrier to social change for women. This edition adds sixty new female private eyes to the roster and includes an afterword that assesses the current state of the genre's new and old novels. A comprehensive bibliography and a character list update the field through mid-1994.
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252064630
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Kathleen Gregory Klein traces female paid, professional private investigators in British, Canadian, and American novels, revealing that the detective novel is both a reflection of and potential barrier to social change for women. This edition adds sixty new female private eyes to the roster and includes an afterword that assesses the current state of the genre's new and old novels. A comprehensive bibliography and a character list update the field through mid-1994.
Watching the Detectives
Author: Ian F. A. Bell
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349105910
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 207
Book Description
In this collection of essays, a number of critics offer commentary on the crime fiction genre, exploring the kinds of pleasure it offers. Looking under the attractive surface of these books, the contributors discover a number of complex issues.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349105910
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 207
Book Description
In this collection of essays, a number of critics offer commentary on the crime fiction genre, exploring the kinds of pleasure it offers. Looking under the attractive surface of these books, the contributors discover a number of complex issues.
Death Comes for You
Author: J.J. Vega
Publisher: The Giant Coffee Blunderbuss
ISBN: 1943474087
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 86
Book Description
Death has come to Bule. Jack and Corva do their best to defend themselves (and each other), but Jack's history could threaten the fragile trust that they've started to make between each other. At the same time, Corva learns more of her own story and it's a lot more than she's bargained for.
Publisher: The Giant Coffee Blunderbuss
ISBN: 1943474087
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 86
Book Description
Death has come to Bule. Jack and Corva do their best to defend themselves (and each other), but Jack's history could threaten the fragile trust that they've started to make between each other. At the same time, Corva learns more of her own story and it's a lot more than she's bargained for.
Murder by the Book?
Author: Sally Rowena Munt
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134838425
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Murder by the Book? is a thorough - and thoroughly enjoyable - look at the blossoming genre of the feminist crime novel in Britain and the United States. Sally Munt asks why the form has proved so attractive as a vehicle for oppositional politics; whether the pleasures of detective fiction can be truly transgressive; and when exactly it was that the dyke detective appeared as the new super-hero for today. Along the way Munt poses some critical questions about the relations between fiction and activism, politics and representations, the writer and the reader. This will be an enticing book both for addicts of the genre and for teachers and their students.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134838425
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Murder by the Book? is a thorough - and thoroughly enjoyable - look at the blossoming genre of the feminist crime novel in Britain and the United States. Sally Munt asks why the form has proved so attractive as a vehicle for oppositional politics; whether the pleasures of detective fiction can be truly transgressive; and when exactly it was that the dyke detective appeared as the new super-hero for today. Along the way Munt poses some critical questions about the relations between fiction and activism, politics and representations, the writer and the reader. This will be an enticing book both for addicts of the genre and for teachers and their students.
Death by Analysis
Author: Gillian Slovo
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780704345560
Category : Baeier, Kate (Fictitious character)
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780704345560
Category : Baeier, Kate (Fictitious character)
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
Feminist Popular Fiction
Author: M. Makinen
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230511783
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 207
Book Description
An examination of feminist writers' appropriation of a range of popular genres: detective fiction, science fiction, romance and the fairy tale. The author argues that feminists can successfully appropriate all four genres because genres, as cultural productions, have accommodated the cultural changes brought about by second-wave feminism. The book provides a history of each of the genres, reinstating women's contributions in those histories, and a comprehensive review of the feminist critical debates on each of the genres.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230511783
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 207
Book Description
An examination of feminist writers' appropriation of a range of popular genres: detective fiction, science fiction, romance and the fairy tale. The author argues that feminists can successfully appropriate all four genres because genres, as cultural productions, have accommodated the cultural changes brought about by second-wave feminism. The book provides a history of each of the genres, reinstating women's contributions in those histories, and a comprehensive review of the feminist critical debates on each of the genres.
Mystery Women, Volume Two (Revised)
Author: Colleen Barnett
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
ISBN: 1615950095
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 514
Book Description
Many bibliographers focus on women who write. Lawyer Barnett looks at women who detect, at women as sleuths and at the evolving roles of women in professions and in society. Excellent for all women's studies programs as well as for the mystery hound. Look at the popularity of such reading guides as Willetta Heising's Detecting Women (3rd ed. 0-9644593-7-X) or Amanda Cross' fiction (Honest Doubt 0-345-44011-0 11/00).
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
ISBN: 1615950095
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 514
Book Description
Many bibliographers focus on women who write. Lawyer Barnett looks at women who detect, at women as sleuths and at the evolving roles of women in professions and in society. Excellent for all women's studies programs as well as for the mystery hound. Look at the popularity of such reading guides as Willetta Heising's Detecting Women (3rd ed. 0-9644593-7-X) or Amanda Cross' fiction (Honest Doubt 0-345-44011-0 11/00).