Down on his luck and hard up for cash, Carl works in the kitchen of a seedy rock 'n' roll joint in ethnically diverse Brunswick. The bouncers and bosses terrify him, he's desperately in love with a much younger Greek waitress, and to make matters worse his mother has come down from Sydney to stay with him. Then a dead body turns up.

A collection of essays by various Australian and European authors on a wide range of Australian cultural topics, this is a story of struggle and achievement and occasional failure. Departures deals with innovation and transgression in Australian literature and history and brings out the vitality of Australian culture as it meets new challenges.

A young police woman was found shot to death on exclusive Bald Head Island off North Carolina. The local DA ruled it a suicide but the evidence said otherwise. Who killed her and why did they go so far to cover it up? Read for yourself and decide what you think took place and who did it.

Murder or Justifiable Homicide? Life Sentence or Death Sentence? Lethal Gas or Injection? From the beginning, Brunswick County has seen evil epitomized through horrendous murders. U. S. Marshal Samuel Lilly and Detective Leon George were gunned down trying to shut down a still in 1924...just one of several murdered law enforcement officers. A plane crash in Bolivia killed all on board and was deemed deliberate... Nearly every community has seen the love triangle that ended in death... The violence in Southeastern North Carolina has never been told in such a forthright manner...case by case. Beware of the depraved that walk among us. They may live next door.