As the world weighs on his shoulders, Detective Simms put everything on hold so he could catch a blood- thirsty serial killer who happened to be one of his own. He had to solve one of the worst crime that city could remember having in years. Every citizen was on the look out! He wouldn't leave the city until he knew the maniac was caught. Tim Goren was a ladies man who would stop at nothing when he was in the mood for a kill. He wore a cop's uniform but was on the other side of the law. He loved women but loved watching them suffer too. He married Jade Killjoy who was an attractive independent woman, and turned her wonderful life into a living hell! Marrying Tim was the biggest mistake she could have made. She paid a horrible price for loving someone who turned out to be her worst enemy!

This collection of poetry and art goes beyond introspection and takes it to the next level by illuminating the beauty in truth and taking a step back to get a better look. Featuring gritty language, raw emotion, and a close look at some of human nature's inner workings, Strangers with Familiar Faces is entertaining as well as eye-opening. This is definitely not your run-of-the-mill poetry collection. Instead, it's an adventurous journey through poetry, art, and imaginative assessment.

This classic by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author is her nonfiction masterpiece--a tale of life and death on Miami's streets, which she covered for 18 years for "The Miami Herald." Reissue.

This book traces the ups and downs in the regional history of California with particular focus on the Assyrian Immigrants who settled the area of Turlock-Modesto back in 1911. It tells the story of a people who dared to leave the familiar behind and embrace the unknown. Together with other early non-Assyrian pioneers, they developed the area from sand dunes to a town of vineyards and orchards. It is the story of ordinary people with extraordinary experiences. The detailed family histories take the reader to the world at large from where the members of this dispersed refugee nation have come together to form the Turlock-Modesto colony in the heartland of California. It contains poignant accounts of a people who started out with modest beginnings; but whether they came as penniless hopefuls in search of farmland, or traumatized refugees from the Middle East, they worked hard and were able to establish themselves as a stable and even well-to-do part of the Turlock-Modesto community. Changes in the history of this immigrant enclave are traced in the context of the economic and political upheavals in the Middle East where the refugees came from as well as the economic boom and bust cycles in the central California valley. This book records the mutual interaction between the region and its inhabitants. The town shaped the structure of the community as a whole as much as the community shaped the character of the town.

"MIAMI 1980, by journalist and author Nicholas Griffin, is a narrative of a pivotal but forgotten year in American history. With a cast that includes iconic characters such as Jimmy Carter, Fidel Castro, and Janet Reno, this slice of history is brought to life through fascinating, intertwining personal stories. At the core, there's Edna Buchanan, a beautiful reporter for the Miami Herald who breaks the story on the wrongful murder of a black man, and the resultant police cover-up; Captain Marshall Frank, the hardboiled homicide detective tasked with investigating the murder; and Mayor Maurice Ferre, the charismatic politician who watches the case, and the city, fall apart. A roller coaster of national politics and international diplomacy, these three figures cross paths and socio-economic lines as their city explodes in one of the worst race riots in American history; as over 120,000 Cuban refugees land on the Miami coast; and as foreign drug cartels flood the city with cocaine and infiltrate all levels of law enforcement and government. In a battle of wills, Buchanan has to keep up with the 150% uptick in murders; Captain Frank has to scrub and then rebuild his police department; and Mayor Ferre has to find a way to reconstruct his smoldering city. Against all odds, they persevere, and a stronger, more vibrant Miami is forged in the crucible. But the new Miami, literally built on corruption and drug money, will have severe ramifications for the rest of the country"--

An unstoppable game. One with deadly consequences. Jack Calloway, criminal profiler and private investigator is back. Jack has a new case—a trail of emails sent to him by a woman in fear for her life. A woman who is now missing. And a dead reporter who possessed information she desperately wanted Jack to have. When Seattle Police Detective Ed Halstead reaches out to Jack for a consultation on two dead people with missing organs, Ed’s case collides with Jack’s, and their investigation leads them down a dangerous path. It’s been five months since Jack last saw forensic investigator Sergeant Carla Briggs, the woman who begged Jack to let her go. No longer pining over the past and surrounded by new friends, Jack’s on solid ground. But this investigation has Jack confronting his feelings for Carla all over again. He let her go knowing she didn’t want to live in a world where vampires exist. Now, she’s carrying a secret. A secret Jack’s not sure he can ignore. As Jack searches for the person responsible for it all, he and his friends follow a bloody trail through a dark world of greed, power, and human depravity. Following the leads, Jack confronts a larger conspiracy. A conspiracy he didn’t see coming - one he doesn’t have control. Can Jack stop a sinister plan before it’s too late?

Single, independent—and sometimes lonely—Ms. Robyn McIntyre is an attractive, hardworking contractor who successfully buys and renovates homes built in the early 1900s. Each house provides a different challenge. Will this one be more than she can handle?

More than 700 films from the classic period of film noir (1940 to 1959) are presented in this exhaustive reference book--such films as The Accused, Among the Living, The Asphalt Jungle, Baby Face Nelson, Bait, The Beat Generation, Crossfire, Dark Passage, I Walk Alone, The Las Vegas Story, The Naked City, Strangers on a Train, White Heat, and The Window. For each film, the following information is provided: the title, release date, main performers, screenwriter(s), director(s), type of noir, thematic content, a rating based on the five-star system, and a plot synopsis that does not reveal the ending.

The streets of Victorian London are clothed in shadows and secrets in Tessa Harris’s gripping new mystery featuring flower seller Constance Piper ... London, July 1889. Eight months have passed since the horrific murder of Mary Jane Kelly. The residents of Whitechapel have begun breathing easy again—daring to leave windows open and walk about at twilight. But when old Alice McKenzie is found dead, throat slashed from ear to ear, the whispers begin once more: Jack the Ripper is back. Constance Piper, a flower seller with a psychic gift, was a friend to both women. With the supernatural help of her late mentor, Miss Emily Tindall, and her more grounded ally, police detective Thaddeus Hawkins, she uncovers links between the murders and a Fenian gang. The Fenians, committed to violence to further their goal of an independent Ireland, are also implicated in a vicious attack in which the Countess of Kildane’s uncle was killed. Could the Whitechapel murders be a ruse to make the British police look helpless? Soon, Constance is called upon for help. But there are spies everywhere in the city, and a bomb plot intended to incur devastating carnage. And as Constance is fast discovering, the greatest evil may not lurk in the grimy alleys of the East End, but in a conspiracy that runs from Whitechapel to the highest office in the land ...