Provides information about crayfish including where they live and how they reproduce.

For their great commercial importance as a human food delicacy, crayfish are now becoming of wider interest to molecular biologists, and also to conservationists due to the fact that in some countries many of the native crayfish species are under threat from human activity, disease, and competition from other introduced crayfish species. Helmed by

This book is based on actual investigations I handled as a homicide detective. Follow the gripping life of a close knit, unstoppable squad of four detectives and their sergeant. Learn of the rarely told, unconventional methods of solving a murder. See how I delves into the dark side of the job that few cops dare to discuss. Watch how the job entangles a detective in unforeseen love and ignites his urge to revenge the deaths of his victims. This mystery is full of plot twists, sex, cop humor, drama and horrific violence. Drawing from memorable life experiences, I bring the reader intimately into investigations directly from the eyes of a cop who has witnessed the horrors of death.

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