Download or read book Murder in Baker Company written by Cilla McCain and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 2010-01-04 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: &“Created with an insightful heart and an activist's drive. Cilla's writing denotes a deep sense of personal responsibility for the veterans of the Iraq War.&” —Paul Haggis, Writer/Director, In the Valley of Elah, Crash, Quantom of Solace, Million Dollar Baby &“Fascinating . . . vividly recounts one of the most tragic true stories to emerge from the Iraq War . . . eloquent, disturbing, and haunting.&” —Mark Boal, journalist and screenwriter of The Hurt Locker and In the Valley of Elah Upon returning to the United States after surviving one of the Iraq War's bloodiest battles, Army Specialist Richard T. Davis was reported AWOL. But Richard was not AWOL; he was dead. On July 14, 2003, within hours of his return to Fort Benning, he was mercilessly tortured and murdered. Four members of his own platoon were arrested for the crime. In Murder in Baker Company Cilla McCain retraces the events of the case, providing a disturbing, eye-opening look at the problems within today's military. Not only an exploration of a heinous murder, the book is also a warning and a call to action for U.S. citizens.

Download or read book Murder in Baker Street written by Martin Harry Greenberg and published by Osprey Publishing (UK). This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eleven stories celebrate the keen mind of the Great Detective, Sherlock Holmes himself. This collection contains stories by some of the finest talents at work in crime fiction today, including Anne Perry, Gillian Linscott, Stuart Kaminsky, Bill Crider, Carolyn Wheat and L.B. Greenwood.

Download or read book To Poison a Nation written by Andrew Baker and published by The New Press. This book was released on 2021-06-15 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An explosive, long-forgotten story of police violence that exposes the historical roots of today's criminal justice crisis "A deeply researched and propulsively written story of corrupt governance, police brutality, Black resistance, and violent white reaction in turn-of-the-century New Orleans that holds up a dark mirror to our own times."—Walter Johnson, author of River of Dark Dreams On a steamy Monday evening in 1900, New Orleans police officers confronted a black man named Robert Charles as he sat on a doorstep in a working-class neighborhood where racial tensions were running high. What happened next would trigger the largest manhunt in the city's history, while white mobs took to the streets, attacking and murdering innocent black residents during three days of bloody rioting. Finally cornered, Charles exchanged gunfire with the police in a spectacular gun battle witnessed by thousands. Building outwards from these dramatic events, To Poison a Nation connects one city's troubled past to the modern crisis of white supremacy and police brutality. Historian Andrew Baker immerses readers in a boisterous world of disgruntled laborers, crooked machine bosses, scheming businessmen, and the black radical who tossed a flaming torch into the powder keg. Baker recreates a city that was home to the nation's largest African American community, a place where racial antagonism was hardly a foregone conclusion—but which ultimately became the crucible of a novel form of racialized violence: modern policing. A major new work of history, To Poison a Nation reveals disturbing connections between the Jim Crow past and police violence in our own times.

Download or read book Deadly Little Secrets written by Kathryn Casey and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2012-07-31 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ann Rule says, "Kathryn Casey is one of the best true crime writers today"—high praise indeed from the author of a host of nonfiction New York Times bestsellers including Green River and The Stranger Beside Me, the story of serial killer Ted Bundy. With Deadly Little Secrets, Casey once again explores the dark side of the Lone Star State, offering a riveting true story of a murderous Texas preacher responsible for the cold-blooded slaying of the mother of his children. Meticulously researched and spellbindingly told, Deadly Little Secrets pulls back the curtain on the horrific crimes of a supposed man of God who was more devoted to the Devil, and it demonstrates why such true crime luminaries as Edgar® Award winner Carleton Stowers and Gregg Olsen are confirmed Kathryn Casey fans. And don't miss Kathryn Casey's latest book, Deliver Us, a riveting account of the brutal murders of young women in the I-45/Texas Killing Fields.

Download or read book Murder Takes the Cake written by Gayle Trent and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-03-29 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cake decorator and amateur sleuth Daphne Reynolds must clear her name after a routine cake delivery ends with one of her clients dead.

Download or read book Death Gone A Rye written by Winnie Archer and published by Bread Shop Mystery. This book was released on 2022 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "n the Northern California seaside town of Santa Sofia, a killer is trying to get a rise out of baker's apprentice Ivy Culpepper . . . Vincent van Dough focaccia is being touted on Instagram as the best thing since sliced bread. By strategically placing chives, olives, and yellow peppers to look like poppies and sunflowers, bakers create a mouthwatering masterpiece in the style of the great postimpressionist painter. At Yeast of Eden, where bread making has always been an art, they're baking their own version for the school district's Spring Fling. But one person won't be tasting the Mexican bakery's latest specialty. Ambitious school board president Nessa Renchrik has been murdered. Like the rest of this close-knit community, Ivy is shocked. But she's just as surprised to discover her beau-restaurateur Miguel Baptista-had his own fling with Nessa back in the day and now the police have this half-baked notion he might have killed her. It's up to Ivy, her boss Olaya Solis, and eighty-six-years-young Penelope Branford to separate the wheat from the chaff to determine who the real culprit is . . "--

Download or read book Bootleg Boxing written by Joseph Baker and published by Bookbaby. This book was released on 2021-11-26 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eddie, a winner of three amateur Army titles as a Soldier, wanted to leap from amateur boxer to professional fighter. Throughout life, within the ring and outside of it, he's always been a fighter with a burning desire to become the most successful boxer of all time. He's always possessed extraordinary fighting prowess, but discontinued his boxing career at his wife's insistence. After years away from boxing, Eddie makes an extraordinary comeback. And then tragedy strikes, putting much more than his boxing career into question. Like many other people, Eddie's life is also full of victories, challenges, and failures. People around him admire his strong, energetic personality, and oftentimes he's seen as heroic. His life is unpredictable and tumultuous, but he has the inner-resilience to stay strong and determined in the face of adversity. Get ready to experience a rollercoaster ride of emotions as the story unwinds in front of you. Bootleg Boxing is an unforgettable masterpiece of fiction filled with emotion, passion, and intrigue.

Download or read book Humane Insight written by Courtney R. Baker and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2015-08-30 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the history of black America, the image of the mortal, wounded, and dead black body has long been looked at by others from a safe distance. Courtney Baker questions the relationship between the spectator and victim and urges viewers to move beyond the safety of the "gaze" to cultivate a capacity for humane insight toward representations of human suffering. Utilizing the visual studies concept termed the "look," Baker interrogates how the notion of humanity was articulated and recognized in oft-referenced moments within the African American experience: the graphic brutality of the 1834 Lalaurie affair; the photographic exhibition of lynching, Without Sanctuary ; Emmett Till's murder and funeral; and the devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina. Contemplating these and other episodes, Baker traces how proponents of black freedom and dignity used the visual display of violence against the black body to galvanize action against racial injustice. An innovative cultural study that connects visual theory to African American history, Humane Insight asserts the importance of ethics in our analysis of race and visual culture, and reveals how representations of pain can become the currency of black liberation from injustice.

Download or read book Sprinkle with Murder written by Jenn McKinlay and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2010-03-02 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Melanie Cooper and Angie DeLaura are finally living out their dream as the proud owners of the Fairy Tale Cupcakes bakery. But their first big client is a nightmare. She's a bridezilla who wants 500 custom cupcakes for her wedding. When Mel stumbles upon the bride-to-be dead-by-cupcake, she becomes the prime suspect. To save themselves and their business, the ladies need to find the real murderer, before the cupcake killer ices someone else.

Download or read book Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder written by Joanne Fluke and published by Kensington Books. This book was released on 2013-04-11 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First in the New York Times-bestselling mystery series: “A cleverly plotted cozy full of appealing characters and delicious cookie recipes.”—Publishers Weekly Take one amateur sleuth. Mix in some eccentric Minnesota locals. Add a generous dollop of crackling suspense, and you've got the recipe for this mystery series featuring Hannah Swensen, the red-haired, cookie-baking heroine whose gingersnaps are almost as tart as her comments and whose penchant for solving crime is definitely stirring things up. While dodging her mother’s attempts to marry her off, Hannah runs The Cookie Jar, Lake Eden’s most popular bakery. But after Ron LaSalle, the beloved deliveryman from the Cozy Cow Dairy, is found murdered behind her bakery—with Hannah’s famous Chocolate Chip Crunchies scattered around him—she’s determined not to let her cookies get a bad reputation, so she sets out to track down a killer. But if she doesn’t watch her back, Hannah’s sweet life may get burned to a crisp. “Culinary cozies don’t get any tastier than this winning series.”—Library Journal

Download or read book Ice Cream Murder written by Leighann Dobbs and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2014-04-19 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When millionaire Regis Banks drops dead at his own party, everyone assumes it was from natural causes - after all, the man was celebrating his one-hundredth birthday. ... Everyone except Lexy Baker's amateur sleuth grandmother, Nans, and her three friends, that is. When it turns out that Regis' death might have been caused by more than just old age, Nans refuses to let the trail grow cold - especially after a local reporter trying to get a scoop threatens to write an article blaming the death on Lexy. It doesn't take long before Nans and Lexy are up to their eyeballs in suspects. And when those suspects start dropping like flies, Lexy and Nans have to step up their game before the killer claims their next victim.

Download or read book Sage written by Anita Powell and published by Book 1. This book was released on 2021-12-28 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Sage awakens next to her murdered husband, everything she believed about herself, and their relationship came crashing down around her. On the run and in hiding, she's searching for answers--about the killer, about her late husband, and most importantly, about herself. The child of devout evangelical parents, Sage was born a boy but always knew there was something about her that was different and unacceptable in her father's eyes. When the first boy she ever loved rescues her from her abusive family, she believes that this is the beginning of the life she has always dreamed of. Little did she know that not only would this relationship introduce her to the world of trans women, but that the young boy she had loved would become a controlling and angry young man with too many secrets. Told in a series of journal entries and therapy sessions as Sage seeks to both heal and solve the mystery of her life and her husband's murder, Sage: A Murder Mystery Book 1 is a story of growth and self-acceptance. Sage is a dark transg, coming of age romantic murder mystery. Sage'story is told from birth to present.

Download or read book Murder in Battle Creek written by Blaine L. Pardoe and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2013-06-18 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1963, Daisy Zick was stabbed twenty-seven times at her home in Battle Creek, Michigan—and locals are still talking about the unsolved case today. On a bitterly cold morning in January 1963, Daisy Zick was brutally murdered in her Battle Creek, Michigan, home. No fewer than three witnesses caught a glimpse of the killer, yet today, it remains one of the state’s most sensational unsolved crimes. The act of pure savagery rocked the community, as well as the Kellogg Company where Zick worked. Here, Blaine Pardoe offers a detailed chronicle of this shocking and mysterious crime. With long-sealed police files and interviews with the surviving investigators, the true story of the investigation can finally be told. Who were the key suspects? What evidence do the police still have on this cold case more than fifty years later? Just how close did this murder come to being solved? Is the killer still alive? These questions and more are masterfully brought to the forefront for true crime fans and armchair detectives.

Download or read book Baker s Burden written by Jessica Beck and published by Donut Mysteries. This book was released on 2020-07-30 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: JESSICA BECK THE DONUT MYSTERIES, BOOK 50 BAKER'S BURDEN When a wicked landlord is murdered during a going-out-of-business sale in April Springs, everyone who runs a business in the strip mall he owns is a suspect, including one of Suzanne's good friends. Not only that, but there are even more folks from town who are under scrutiny as well. As Suzanne and Grace dig into the murder, they must do their best not to be the killer's next victims, too. Jessica Beck is the New York Times Bestselling Author of the Donut Mysteries, the Cast Iron Cooking Mysteries, the Classic Diner Mysteries, the Ghost Cat Cozy Mysteries, and more.

Download or read book Austin Murder Mayhem written by Richard Zelade and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2015-11-09 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Austin’s past is as weird as its present—including murderous neighbors, deadly political antics, and a serial killer suspected to be Jack the Ripper. Beneath Austin’s shiny veneer lies a dark past, filled with murder, lechery and deceit. Legislators, lawmen and lawyers killed, robbed and lied just as well and just as often as the drifters and grifters preying on newcomers. The nation’s first known serial killer made his debut in Austin in the form of the Servant Girl Annihilator, who is still rumored to be Jack the Ripper. After the Willis brothers murdered their neighbors over rumored buried gold, a lynch mob hanged the boys from live oaks on present-day Sixth Street. Freshman representative Louis Franke died after he was robbed and beaten on the steps of the statehouse. Author Richard Zelade delivers a fascinating look at the seedier side of Austin history. Includes photos!

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Download or read book Butcher Baker written by Walter Gilmour and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2016-10-25 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The horrific true story of serial kidnapper, rapist, and killer Robert Hansen’s reign of terror As oil-boom money poured into Anchorage, Alaska the city quickly became a prime destination for the seedier elements of society: prostitutes, pimps, con men, and criminals of all breeds looking to cash in. However, something even worse lurked in their midst. To all who knew him, Robert Hansen was a typical hardworking businessman, husband, and father. But hidden beneath the veneer of mild respectability was a monster whose depraved appetites could not be sated. From 1971 to 1983, Hansen was a human predator, stalking women on the edges of Anchorage society—women whose disappearances would cause scant outcry, but whose gruesome fates would shock the nation. After his arrest, Hansen confessed to seventeen brutal murders, though authorities suspect there were more than thirty victims. Alaska State Trooper Walter Gilmour and writer Leland E. Hale tell the story of Hansen’s twisted depredations—from the dark urges that drove his madness to the women who died at his hand and finally to the authorities who captured and convicted the killer who came to be known as the “Butcher Baker.”