Download or read book Designer Crimes written by Lia Matera and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2021-06-15 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A high-profile San Francisco lawyer scrambles to save her career, her client, and her life in this mystery by the author of Face Value. When a cash-cow client bails, attorney Laura Di Palma is certain her old boss is out to ruin her. She visits labor lawyer Jocelyn Kinsley to sue the creep for slander, but their meeting is cut short when Jocelyn is shot by an intruder. As she lays dying, she whispers a cryptic clue to Laura: “Designer crimes.” Assisted by her friend and former flame, private detective Sandy Arkelett, Laura searches for the meaning behind Jocelyn’s last words. Meanwhile, she must defend her one remaining client, an old high school friend accused of murder. His girlfriend left town—a bucket of blood in her wake. Sandy wonders if the bullet that killed Jocelyn was meant for Laura, and when someone tries to shoot her, she begins to agree. Now, Laura must decipher who’s out to kill whom and why—before someone makes certain her only client is her last . . . “Complex and satisfying for Ms. Matera’s faithful readers, who have come to expect such brain-burners from her.” —The New York Times “[Matera’s] skill and literary flair are everywhere on display. Every word counts, and the pieces of the puzzle fit together with exhilarating precision.” —ABA Journal “Matera once again demonstrates her mastery of characterization, plotting, and pacing.” —Booklist

Download or read book Designer Knockoff written by Ellen Byerrum and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2004-08-03 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When fashion columnist Lacey Smithsonian learns that a new fashion museum will soon grace decidedly unfashionable D.C., it's more than a good story-it's a chance to show off her vintage Hugh Bentley suit. And it's not long before the dapper designer himself spots Lacey in the crowd. A reporter at heart, she manages to get all the juicy details about his past-including a long-unsolved mystery about a missing employee. Could it be linked to the disappearance of a Washington intern or the recent Bentley boutique robbery? Lacey sets out to unravel the murderous details in a fabric of lies, greed-and (gasp!) very bad taste...

Download or read book Designer Knockoff written by Ellen Byerrum and published by Lethal Black Dress Press. This book was released on 2016-06-02 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published: New York: Signet, 2004.

Download or read book Star Witness written by Lia Matera and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-02-26 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The sixth Willa Jansson mystery by Edgar-nominated author Lia Matera is “another winner in an outstanding series.” (Booklist). Just when attorney Willa Jansson is about to take a little time off from her job at a San Francisco multimedia firm, a friend calls in a favor. Suddenly Willa’s off to Santa Cruz to solve what she hopes will be a simple case of vehicular manslaughter and felony hit-and-run. But Willa is about to discover that nothing about this case—or the town where it occurred—is quite as it seems. Alan Miller’s sports car went over an embankment and onto the coastal highway below, landing atop another car and killing its driver. But there are no tire tracks, no witnesses, and Miller’s injuries aren’t consistent with a car crash. Unable to recall where he was just after the accident, Miller's memory is jogged under hypnosis—a recollection so far-fetched that Willa knows it will never stand up in court. All of a sudden, seemingly idyllic Santa Cruz is rife with dangerous secrets, and Willa must outrun helicopters, snipers, reporters, and her own interfering mother, all while trying to maintain her credibility and her career by making the jury buy her client’s out-of-this-world alibi—provided she can keep the witnesses alive long enough to testify.

Download or read book Face Value written by Lia Matera and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2021-06-15 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lawyer is drawn into a dangerous case after a love guru shakes up San Francisco in this mystery by the author of A Hard Bargain. Leaving an expensive firm and toxic work environment behind her, attorney Laura Di Palma has opened her own practice. She’s eager for business, and she’s not about to turn away fellow lawyer Margaret Lenin. Margaret had been struggling with a midlife crisis. Full of deep questions, she sought answers from a spiritual master, a guru by the name of Brother Mike. He led videotaped group therapy sessions to help his followers explore their spirituality and sexuality. The trouble is those tapes are now available in the XXX sections of video stores . . . Taking the case pushes Laura far out of her comfort zone. She needs help from her ex, PI Sandy Arkelett, and their investigation leads them from stuffy boardrooms to strip clubs, porno shops, a private fantasy island—and a grisly murder scene . . . “Absorbing . . . Multiple murders and delightfully complex characters help carry a plot that moves from a striptease bar to a guru’s mysterious island retreat. . . . A fine, intelligent story.” —USA Today “This latest Laura Di Palma adventure is no exception to the tight plotting, good characterizations, and page turning suspense that have typified the earlier entries in the series and that make Matera one of the best contemporary mystery novelists. . . . Highly recommend . . . Matera is too good to miss.”—Booklist

Download or read book Last Chants written by Lia Matera and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1997 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the way to her first day at a firm specializing in very-nineties multimedia law, attorney Willa Jansson is sidetracked by the spectacle of an old family friend brandishing a gun on the street. Knowing Arthur Kenna, mythology scholar, too well to believe he means any harm, Willa acts on instinct, engineering their getaway. As Arthur explains that a passerby pressed the gun into his hands, Willa knows the cops aren't going to believe him--especially now that she's his hostage. Now, they're both in trouble.

Download or read book InfoSecurity 2008 Threat Analysis written by Craig Schiller and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2011-04-18 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An all-star cast of authors analyze the top IT security threats for 2008 as selected by the editors and readers of Infosecurity Magazine. This book, compiled from the Syngress Security Library, is an essential reference for any IT professional managing enterprise security. It serves as an early warning system, allowing readers to assess vulnerabilities, design protection schemes and plan for disaster recovery should an attack occur. Topics include Botnets, Cross Site Scripting Attacks, Social Engineering, Physical and Logical Convergence, Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standards (DSS), Voice over IP (VoIP), and Asterisk Hacking. Each threat is fully defined, likely vulnerabilities are identified, and detection and prevention strategies are considered. Wherever possible, real-world examples are used to illustrate the threats and tools for specific solutions. * Provides IT Security Professionals with a first look at likely new threats to their enterprise * Includes real-world examples of system intrusions and compromised data * Provides techniques and strategies to detect, prevent, and recover * Includes coverage of PCI, VoIP, XSS, Asterisk, Social Engineering, Botnets, and Convergence

Download or read book Detective Agency written by Priscilla L. Walton and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1999-05-31 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fun book about genre fiction and the ways women have appropriated the hard-boiled tradition of Sam Spade, Philip Marlowe, and Mike Hammer and the writings of Hammet, Chandler, Spillane, and others. A story of texts, movies, TV shows, and publishing, it goes quite beyond textual analysis. A bit like Jan Radway's and Tania Modleski's analysis of culture in the making (and we'll probably have blurbs from both on the cover of our book).

Download or read book Botnets written by Craig Schiller and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2011-04-18 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book begins with real world cases of botnet attacks to underscore the need for action. Next the book will explain botnet fundamentals using real world examples. These chapters will cover what they are, how they operate, and the environment and technology that makes them possible. The following chapters will analyze botnets for opportunities to detect, track, and remove them. Then the book will describe intelligence gathering efforts and results obtained to date. Public domain tools like OurMon, developed by Jim Binkley of Portland State University, will be described in detail along with discussions of other tools and resources that are useful in the fight against Botnets. This is the first book to explain the newest internet threat - Botnets, zombie armies, bot herders, what is being done, and what you can do to protect your enterprise Botnets are the most complicated and difficult threat the hacker world has unleashed - read how to protect yourself

Download or read book Mystery Women Volume Two Revised written by Colleen Barnett and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2011-12-31 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many bibliographers focus on women who write. Lawyer Barnett looks at women who detect, at women as sleuths and at the evolving roles of women in professions and in society. Excellent for all women's studies programs as well as for the mystery hound. Look at the popularity of such reading guides as Willetta Heising's Detecting Women (3rd ed. 0-9644593-7-X) or Amanda Cross' fiction (Honest Doubt 0-345-44011-0 11/00).

Download or read book Terrorists in Designer Jeans II written by Harold Rochon and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-08-24 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Indigenous terrorists have infected our communities with a threat that rivals a nuclear or chemical detonation. This threat destroys the infrastructure and the very fabric of American life. These terrorists' acts are the most bedeviling that law enforcement faces today. There is no better illustration of effective terrorism than to see law enforcement and the citizenry scrambling to create a zone of public safety in the face of widespread fear. The words "terrorist" and "gang member" need to be synonymous in our perceptions. The terrorism I am writing about is essentially domestic and urban terrorism, fueled by narcotics. This type of terrorism is spread by our indigenous terrorists in designer jeans. These indigenous terrorists have names such as "Folks," "Bloods," "Crips," "People," and "Family." The casualties, both physical and mental, in this ongoing war surpass any other war that we have ever had. The destruction and disease have continued for years, with no apparent end in sight.

Download or read book We are the Intelligent Designer written by James A Martin and published by Outskirts Press. This book was released on 2024-06-18 with total page 485 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are multiple studies and writings on humans impact on the planet. Each focus is important but what is addressed here is how the silos cross influence. The impact may be by design or untended consequences of seemingly unrelated factors, but when mixed become a synthesis of actions beyond the original intent. Here the factors are featured and also the inter related results in the designed planet. And I look at what the form of hominin-like would be if designed for best function rather than the surviving elements (good and less than premium) of evolution.

Download or read book God Science and Designer Genes written by Spencer S. Stober and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biologist and a Christian theologian examine the scientific and philosophical implications and potential impacts of genetic technologies. God, Science, and Designer Genes: An Exploration of Emerging Technologies provides a unique approach to the central ethical dilemma in contemporary science, offering both an up-to-date account of the current state of genetic technologies and insightful discussions of the moral/theological questions these technologies raise. Coauthored by professors of biology and theology, God, Science, and Designer Genes examines a range of from-the-headlines issues, including the relationship between science and religion, "designing" our children, stem-cell research, cloning, genetics and behavior, genetics and privacy, and using genetic technologies for social justice. Who should benefit—personally and financially—from DNA technology? Who might be harmed? How do we protect individual rights and guard against discrimination? How will embryo modification affect the identity of those so modified? God, Science, and Designer Genes gives readers an eloquent, thoughtful, and objective foundation for considering these and other questions about the potential conflict between scientific achievement, personal faith, and social responsibility.

Download or read book Crimes of the Heart written by Claudia Reilly and published by Signet Book. This book was released on 1986 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book May the Farce be With You written by Pamela Sutter and published by See Sharp Press. This book was released on 2015-04-01 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This small book takes a brief, biting look at the many illogical reasons for belief in god. Its topics are illustrated by 23 line drawings and very funny cartoons.

Download or read book Traces Codes and Clues written by Maureen T. Reddy and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text explores the ways in which crime fiction manipulates cultural constructions such as race and gender to inscribe dominant cultural discourses. It notes that even those writers who set out to revise conventions repeatedly produce some of the genre's most conservative elements.

Download or read book The Children written by and published by Lia Matera. This book was released on with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: