Author: Martin van Beynen
Publisher: Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited
ISBN: 0143775278
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
This is the story of a mass-murder that divided a nation. It's a story that began in a rickety old home on a cold June morning in 1994, where five members of a seemingly ordinary New Zealand family were gunned down. There were two suspects. One lay dead from a single bullet to the head. The other was the only survivor: David Bain. Since then the country has asked: Who killed the Bain family? David, or his father Robin? And why? Award-winning journalist Martin van Beynen has covered the Bain story closely for decades. His 2017 Stuff podcast, Black Hands - based on the manuscript for this book - was a runaway success in New Zealand and overseas, downloaded more than 4 million times and topping the charts in New Zealand and around the world. Now, van Beynen brings the story up to date for 2020, exploring the case from start to finish, picking through evidence old and new, plumbing the mysteries and motives, interviewing never-before-spoken-to witnesses and laying out the complex police investigation and judicial processes, seeking to finally answer the question: Who was the killer? Black Hands is a riveting read from the first word to the last, by a skilled writer who knows his subject inside out. “If anyone can pass judgement it can only be those who sat through the whole trial.” - David Bain in New Idea
Black Hands
The Mask of Sanity
Author: James McNeish
Publisher: David Ling Publishing
ISBN: 9780908990467
Category : Criminal law
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
A cause celebre in the annals of N.Z. crime, the story of a man accused of murdering his family in 1994; goes behind the evidence to show how the life of this family founded on Christian religion becomes distorted into a cult, a sealed unit, a secret society of six.
Publisher: David Ling Publishing
ISBN: 9780908990467
Category : Criminal law
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
A cause celebre in the annals of N.Z. crime, the story of a man accused of murdering his family in 1994; goes behind the evidence to show how the life of this family founded on Christian religion becomes distorted into a cult, a sealed unit, a secret society of six.
Murder, She Wrote: The Fine Art of Murder
Author: Jessica Fletcher
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101544627
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
FRAMED? Jessica’s art-viewing Italian vacation is interrupted by a pair of gunmen who steal a painting and kill a retired police officer in the process. Agreeing to help identify the crooks should they be caught, Jessica returns to Cabot Cove and puts the shocking experience behind her. Months later, Wayne Simsbury, the stepson of an old friend, comes to her for help. Wayne’s father has been shot to death. Not only has Wayne’s stepmother, Marlise, been charged with the murder, but Wayne himself claims to have witnessed the crime. Unsure what to do, he has sought out Jessica—the one person his stepmother had always claimed could help with any problem. Now, on top of a seemingly open-and-shut murder case to crack in Chicago, Jessica finds herself back in Italy helping the police make their case against the art thieves—and she faces a looming danger that may connect the Italian killers to the fate of her old friend....
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101544627
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
FRAMED? Jessica’s art-viewing Italian vacation is interrupted by a pair of gunmen who steal a painting and kill a retired police officer in the process. Agreeing to help identify the crooks should they be caught, Jessica returns to Cabot Cove and puts the shocking experience behind her. Months later, Wayne Simsbury, the stepson of an old friend, comes to her for help. Wayne’s father has been shot to death. Not only has Wayne’s stepmother, Marlise, been charged with the murder, but Wayne himself claims to have witnessed the crime. Unsure what to do, he has sought out Jessica—the one person his stepmother had always claimed could help with any problem. Now, on top of a seemingly open-and-shut murder case to crack in Chicago, Jessica finds herself back in Italy helping the police make their case against the art thieves—and she faces a looming danger that may connect the Italian killers to the fate of her old friend....
The Bain Killings
Author: Michael Sharp
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780473372842
Category : Evidence (Law)
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780473372842
Category : Evidence (Law)
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
Margaret Truman's Undiplomatic Murder
Author: Donald Bain
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0765333678
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
After a suicide bomber kills his youngest daughter at an outdoor cafe in Washington, D.C., private investigator Robert Brixton seeks revenge and answers.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0765333678
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
After a suicide bomber kills his youngest daughter at an outdoor cafe in Washington, D.C., private investigator Robert Brixton seeks revenge and answers.
Splinters of Scarlet
Author: Emily Bain Murphy
Publisher: Clarion Books
ISBN: 0358142733
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 405
Book Description
"In nineteenth-century Copenhagen, an orphaned seamstress goes to work for a retired ballerina and uses her magic to investigate her father's mysterious death while working for the same family years ago"--
Publisher: Clarion Books
ISBN: 0358142733
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 405
Book Description
"In nineteenth-century Copenhagen, an orphaned seamstress goes to work for a retired ballerina and uses her magic to investigate her father's mysterious death while working for the same family years ago"--
The Founder's Mentality
Author: Chris Zook
Publisher: Harvard Business Review Press
ISBN: 1633691179
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 223
Book Description
A Washington Post Bestseller Three Principles for Managing—and Avoiding—the Problems of Growth Why is profitable growth so hard to achieve and sustain? Most executives manage their companies as if the solution to that problem lies in the external environment: find an attractive market, formulate the right strategy, win new customers. But when Bain & Company’s Chris Zook and James Allen, authors of the bestselling Profit from the Core, researched this question, they found that when companies fail to achieve their growth targets, 90 percent of the time the root causes are internal, not external—increasing distance from the front lines, loss of accountability, proliferating processes and bureaucracy, to name only a few. What’s more, companies experience a set of predictable internal crises, at predictable stages, as they grow. Even for healthy companies, these crises, if not managed properly, stifle the ability to grow further—and can actively lead to decline. The key insight from Zook and Allen’s research is that managing these choke points requires a “founder’s mentality”—behaviors typically embodied by a bold, ambitious founder—to restore speed, focus, and connection to customers: • An insurgent’s clear mission and purpose • An unambiguous owner mindset • A relentless obsession with the front line Based on the authors’ decade-long study of companies in more than forty countries, The Founder’s Mentality demonstrates the strong relationship between these three traits in companies of all kinds—not just start-ups—and their ability to sustain performance. Through rich analysis and inspiring examples, this book shows how any leader—not only a founder—can instill and leverage a founder’s mentality throughout their organization and find lasting, profitable growth.
Publisher: Harvard Business Review Press
ISBN: 1633691179
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 223
Book Description
A Washington Post Bestseller Three Principles for Managing—and Avoiding—the Problems of Growth Why is profitable growth so hard to achieve and sustain? Most executives manage their companies as if the solution to that problem lies in the external environment: find an attractive market, formulate the right strategy, win new customers. But when Bain & Company’s Chris Zook and James Allen, authors of the bestselling Profit from the Core, researched this question, they found that when companies fail to achieve their growth targets, 90 percent of the time the root causes are internal, not external—increasing distance from the front lines, loss of accountability, proliferating processes and bureaucracy, to name only a few. What’s more, companies experience a set of predictable internal crises, at predictable stages, as they grow. Even for healthy companies, these crises, if not managed properly, stifle the ability to grow further—and can actively lead to decline. The key insight from Zook and Allen’s research is that managing these choke points requires a “founder’s mentality”—behaviors typically embodied by a bold, ambitious founder—to restore speed, focus, and connection to customers: • An insurgent’s clear mission and purpose • An unambiguous owner mindset • A relentless obsession with the front line Based on the authors’ decade-long study of companies in more than forty countries, The Founder’s Mentality demonstrates the strong relationship between these three traits in companies of all kinds—not just start-ups—and their ability to sustain performance. Through rich analysis and inspiring examples, this book shows how any leader—not only a founder—can instill and leverage a founder’s mentality throughout their organization and find lasting, profitable growth.
Trial by Ambush
Author: Joe Karam
Publisher: HarperCollins (New Zealand)
ISBN: 9781869508340
Category : Evidence (Law)
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
May 2007, after twelve years of public controversy, inquiries and appeals, the Privy Council concluded that a substantial miscarriage of justice had occurred in the David Bain trial and accordingly quashed the convictions and ordered a retrial. This new book explores why the miscarriage happened and why it took years to right this wrong.
Publisher: HarperCollins (New Zealand)
ISBN: 9781869508340
Category : Evidence (Law)
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
May 2007, after twelve years of public controversy, inquiries and appeals, the Privy Council concluded that a substantial miscarriage of justice had occurred in the David Bain trial and accordingly quashed the convictions and ordered a retrial. This new book explores why the miscarriage happened and why it took years to right this wrong.
Murder, She Wrote: Murder on the QE2
Author: Jessica Fletcher
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 0451192915
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Bestselling mystery writer and amateur sleuth Jessica Fletcher is invited to travel to London on the grand dame of ocean liners, the Queen Elizabeth II, as one of seven guest lecturers. The night they set sail, a fellow speaker is found brutally murdered. Now Jessica has just four days at sea to find the killer...before she finds more of her colleagues, or even herself, dead in the water!
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 0451192915
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Bestselling mystery writer and amateur sleuth Jessica Fletcher is invited to travel to London on the grand dame of ocean liners, the Queen Elizabeth II, as one of seven guest lecturers. The night they set sail, a fellow speaker is found brutally murdered. Now Jessica has just four days at sea to find the killer...before she finds more of her colleagues, or even herself, dead in the water!
A Coroner Speaks For the Dead to Protect the Living
Author: Wallace Bain
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780473549992
Category : Coroners
Languages : en
Pages : 269
Book Description
Wallace Bain retired in early 2020 after 28 distinguished years as a Coroner, most recently in Rotorua. During these years Mr Bain developed a national reputation for his sensitivity and compassion in dealing with difficult cases such as those of Nia Glassie and Moko Rangitoheriri. That a child is killed in New Zealand as a result of abuse every five weeks he finds "unacceptable". He has also developed a reputation for being "a Coroner on the warpath" for his forthright demands from time to time that New Zealand's laws and regulations be changed to protect ordinary citizens. His work as a Coroner, says Wallace Bain, has been to speak for the dead to take care of the living. "After climbing the mountain I can finally enjoy the view."
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780473549992
Category : Coroners
Languages : en
Pages : 269
Book Description
Wallace Bain retired in early 2020 after 28 distinguished years as a Coroner, most recently in Rotorua. During these years Mr Bain developed a national reputation for his sensitivity and compassion in dealing with difficult cases such as those of Nia Glassie and Moko Rangitoheriri. That a child is killed in New Zealand as a result of abuse every five weeks he finds "unacceptable". He has also developed a reputation for being "a Coroner on the warpath" for his forthright demands from time to time that New Zealand's laws and regulations be changed to protect ordinary citizens. His work as a Coroner, says Wallace Bain, has been to speak for the dead to take care of the living. "After climbing the mountain I can finally enjoy the view."