The Murder of Sonia Raikkonen: Killing is a contact sport, by Salil Desai

By Salil Desai

Overdue one November evening, the mutilated corpse of a tender Finnish vacationer is located in a public backyard in Pune. It seems like a case of brutal rape and homicide, yet Senior Inspector Saralkar and PSI Motkar locate themselves probing additional delving deeper.

Standing nearly clueless, apart from a unmarried white sandal chanced on at the scene of the crime, the policemen duo commence searching for suspects. issues get murkier whilst Saralkar's previous good friend and colleague, Inspector Patange, seeks his aid to set up the id of one other homicide sufferer - an previous guy came upon via a wooded hillside at the outskirts of Pune. not just do the previous man's stab accidents fit the injuries inflicted at the Finnish lady, yet he's additionally chanced on donning the opposite white sandal. As Saralkar and Motkar fight to discover the hyperlink that connects the 2 murders, not anything is what it sort of feels. The rising fact turns out way more harmful and the purpose way more weird and wonderful. Who murdered Sonia, and why? the reality will sit back you to the bone!

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City Primeval by Elmore Leonard

By Elmore Leonard

Clement Mansell is familiar with how effortless it truly is to escape with homicide. The heavily crazed killer is already again at the Detroit streets -- because of a few nifty court strikes via his artful looker of a attorney -- and he's feeling invincible sufficient to execute a crooked Motown pass judgement on on a whim. murder Detective Raymond Cruz thinks the "Oklahoma Wildman" crossed the road lengthy sooner than this newest outrage, and he's decided to determine that the hayseed psycho doesn't slip in the course of the felony system's loopholes a moment time. yet that implies a great cop goes to need to play slightly quickly and unfastened with the principles -- so one can maneuver Mansell right into a wild Midwest showdown that he won't be jogging clear of.

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The Island of Lost Maps: A True Story of Cartographic Crime by Miles Harvey

By Miles Harvey

Book Details:

ASIN: B004478ATI
Publisher: Broadway Books
Publication Date: 2010-10-06
Number of Pages: 432
Website: Amazon, LibraryThing, Google Books

Synopsis from Amazon:

The Island of misplaced Maps tells the tale of a curious crime spree: the robbery of ratings of useful centuries-old maps from probably the most favourite study libraries within the usa and Canada. The offender was once Gilbert Joseph Bland, Jr., an enigmatic antiques broker from South Florida, whose cross-country slash-and-dash operation had long past almost undetected till he was once stuck in 1995–and was once unmasked because the so much prolific American map thief in background. As Miles Harvey unravels the secret of Bland's existence, he maps out the realm of cartography and cartographic crime, weaving jointly a desirable tale of exploration, craftsmanship, villainy, and the trap of the unknown.

From the exchange Paperback edition.

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Phoenix Noir (Akashic Noir) by Patrick Millikin

By Patrick Millikin

"Patrick Millikin...as if to turn out his witty declare that 'sunshine is the recent noir,' bargains one terrific specimen, 'Whiteout on Van Buren,' during which [author] Don Winslow makes skillful use of a urban road at excessive midday to supply the appropriate metaphor for all times and death."—New York occasions booklet Review

Brand-new tales by way of: Diana Gabaldon, Lee baby, James Sallis, Luis Alberto Urrea, Jon Talton, Megan Abbott, Charles Kelly, Robert Anglen, Patrick Millikin, Laura Tohe, Kurt Reichenbaugh, Gary Phillips, David Corbett, Don Winslow, Dogo Barry Graham, and Stella Pope Duarte.

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A Criminal History of Mankind by Colin Wilson

By Colin Wilson

Colin Wilson tells the tale of human violence from Peking guy to the Mafia - taking into consideration the calculated sadism of the Assyrians, the opportunism of the Greek pirates, the brutality that made Rome the ‘razor king of the Mediterranean’, the senseless destruction of the Vandals, the mass slaughter of Genghis Khan, Tamurlane, Ivan the negative, Vlad the Impaler and extra. each one age has a special attribute trend of crime. long ago 3 centuries crime has replaced and developed until eventually the intercourse killer and the mass assassin became symbols of all that's worst approximately our civilization. yet this isn't only a examine in human depravity; it's an try and position crime in viewpoint opposed to human discovery, exploration and invention. the result's a totally new method of the background and psychology of human violence.

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Taking Eve (Eve Duncan, Book 16) by Iris Johansen

By Iris Johansen

#1 New York Times bestselling writer Iris Johansen is again with the 1st e-book in a chilling new Eve Duncan trilogy that asks the query: will Eve live to tell the tale what lies ahead?

Forensic sculptor Eve Duncan’s venture is to convey closure to the households whose household have vanished.  She is aware their anguish—her personal cherished daughter, Bonnie, used to be taken from her while Bonnie was once simply seven years old.  it's only lately that this secret was once resolved and Eve may well start her trip to peace.  Now, Jim Doane desires an analogous type of solutions that Eve regularly longed for.  His twenty-five-year previous son may possibly or is probably not lifeless and he has basically burned cranium fragments as attainable evidence.  yet he can't visit the police for solutions with out risking his personal secrets and techniques and darkish previous, so as an alternative he chooses a daring step to discover the truth—a fact that takes Eve down a twisted course of insanity and evil and into the darkest center of her personal history.  Doane wishes Eve Duncan’s talents and he’ll do something to get them. 

Even if it skill taking Eve.

 

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A Cure for All Diseases (Dalziel and Pascoe, Book 23) by Reginald Hill

By Reginald Hill

The hugely expected go back of Dalziel and Pascoe, the highly renowned police duo and stars of the long-running BBC television sequence, in a brand new mental thriller.

Some say that Andy Dalziel wasn't prepared for God, others that God wasn't prepared for Dalziel. both method, regardless of his contemporary proximity to a terrorist blast, the Superintendent continues to be firmly of this global. And, whereas demise could be the medication for all ailments, Dalziel is excited to accept a number of weeks' care lower than a young nurse. recuperating in Sandytown, a quiet beach hotel dedicated to therapeutic, Dalziel befriends Charlotte Heywood, a fellow newcomer and psychologist, who's learning some great benefits of replacement remedy. With a lot in universal, the 2 quickly locate themselves in league whilst difficulty involves city. Sandytown's central landowners have grandiose plans for the inn – none of which they could agree on. considered one of them has to move, and whilst certainly one of them does, in spectacularly ugly type, DCI Peter Pascoe is named in to enquire – with Dalziel and Charlotte supplying unwelcome aid. yet Pascoe reveals darkish forces at paintings in a spot the place medication and holistic treatments aren't any fit for the oldest medication of all...

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Serial Murderers and their Victims (5th Edition) by Eric W. Hickey

By Eric W. Hickey

This article offers an in-depth, scholarly, and broad-based exam of serial murderers and their sufferers. The assurance is supported by way of huge info and examine, and it profiles the most trendy murderers of our time. writer Eric Hickey examines the lives of over four hundred serial murderers, interpreting the cultural, old, and spiritual components that effect our myths and stereotypes of those contributors. He then describes the organic, mental, and sociological purposes for serial homicide, delivering his personal Trauma-Control version for explaining serial homicide habit.

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Case Histories by Kate Atkinson

By Kate Atkinson

Case one: a bit lady is going lacking within the evening.

Case two: a gorgeous younger place of work employee falls sufferer to a maniac's it sounds as if random assault.

Case three: a brand new mom unearths herself trapped in a hell of her personal making - with a truly needy child and a really tough husband - until eventually a healthy of rage creates a grisly, bloody escape.

Thirty years after the 1st incident, as inner most investigator Jackson Brodie starts off investigating all 3 circumstances, startling connections and discoveries emerge . . .

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