Download or read book Sun Sand Murder written by John Keyse-Walker and published by Minotaur Books. This book was released on 2016-09-13 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written with a wry, witty narrative voice and a plot full of twists and turns, John Keyse-Walker’s Minotaur Books/Mystery Writers of America First Crime Novel Award-winning debut is a pure delight. As a Special Constable, Teddy Creque is the only police presence on the remote, sun-drenched island of Anegada, nestled in the heart of the British Virgin Islands. In all his years on the job, Teddy has never considered the possibility that he might have to address an actual crime on his peaceful island. That is, until he receives a hysterical call about a dead man on the beach. Indeed, Teddy is shocked to discover Paul Kelliher, a biologist who traveled to the island every winter for research, lying dead on the sands of the island’s most remote beach, killed by a single shot to the head. And when the BVI’s “real police” task Teddy with informing Kelliher’s nearest kin of his death, Teddy makes an even more surprising discovery: there’s no record that Paul Kelliher ever existed. Suddenly Teddy’s routine life is thrown into tumult as he tries to track a killer—against his boss’s wishes—while balancing his complicated family life, three other jobs, and the colorful characters populating the island around him.

Download or read book Vanishing Sands written by Orrin H. Pilkey and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2022-09-12 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a time of accelerating sea level rise and increasingly intensifying storms, the world’s sandy beaches and dunes have never been more crucial to protecting coastal environments. Yet, in order to meet the demands of large-scale construction projects, sand mining is stripping beaches and dunes, destroying environments, and exploiting labor in the process. The authors of Vanishing Sands track the devastating impact of legal and illegal sand mining over the past twenty years, ranging from Africa, Asia, and the Caribbean to South America and the eastern United States. They show how sand mining has reached crisis levels: beach, dune, and river ecosystems are in danger of being lost forever, while organized crime groups use deadly force to protect their illegal mining operations. Calling for immediate and widespread resistance to sand mining, the authors demonstrate that its cessation is paramount for saving not only beaches, dunes, and associated environments but also lives and tourism economies everywhere.

Download or read book Dead in Vineyard Sand written by Philip R. Craig and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2006 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the body of a radical environmentalist is discovered in a golf course sandtrap, J. W. Jackson finds himself named a prime suspect and sets about identifying the killer from among a horde of developers, golfers, and other potential culprits.

Download or read book Murder in Hollywood written by Charles Higham and published by Terrace Books. This book was released on 2004 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Charles Higham presents the most plausible and convincing solution to the mystery yet. In the process he paints a vivid portrait of Hollywood in the 1920s - from its major stars to its bisexual sub-culture. The result is an answer to a long-standing mystery and a study of a place and an industry that, as today, let people reinvent themselves."--BOOK JACKET.

Download or read book Gunmen of the Desert Sands written by Ralph Cotton and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a Mexican girl saves his life during a gunfight, Fast Larry Shaw returns the favor by rescuing her from a gang of outlaws, which plunges him in the middle of a war between the federales and banditos. Original.

Download or read book Sand Creek and the Tragic End of a Lifeway written by Louis Kraft and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2020-03-12 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Western Heritage Award, Best Western Nonfiction Book, National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum Nothing can change the terrible facts of the Sand Creek Massacre. The human toll of this horrific event and the ensuing loss of a way of life have never been fully recounted until now. In Sand Creek and the Tragic End of a Lifeway, Louis Kraft tells this story, drawing on the words and actions of those who participated in the events at this critical time. The history that culminated in the end of a lifeway begins with the arrival of Algonquin-speaking peoples in North America, proceeds through the emergence of the Cheyennes and Arapahos on the Central Plains, and ends with the incursion of white people seeking land and gold. Beginning in the earliest days of the Southern Cheyennes, Kraft brings the voices of the past to bear on the events leading to the brutal murder of people and its disastrous aftermath. Through their testimony and their deeds as reported by contemporaries, major and supporting players give us a broad and nuanced view of the discovery of gold on Cheyenne and Arapaho land in the 1850s, followed by the land theft condoned by the U.S. government. The peace treaties and perfidy, the unfolding massacre and the investigations that followed, the devastating end of the Indians’ already-circumscribed freedom—all are revealed through the eyes of government officials, newspapers, and the military; Cheyennes and Arapahos who sought peace with or who fought Anglo-Americans; whites and Indians who intermarried and their offspring; and whites who dared to question what they considered heinous actions. As instructive as it is harrowing, the history recounted here lives on in the telling, along with a way of life destroyed in all but cultural memory. To that memory this book gives eloquent, resonating voice.

Download or read book Daytona Massacre written by Gary Fidel and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2009-06-20 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Daytona Massacre is a courtroom drama set in Daytona Beach, Florida in 1997 that centers on a capital murder trial. On a June morning three black women are found brutally slain in a house on a quiet street on the mainland side of Daytona Beach. Rick Sands, Chief of the elite Homicide Trials Bureau is asked by the State Attorney to handle the case himself. Three lives intersect in the capital murder trial: Michelle Charles, the sole survivor of the massacre, an eighteen year old black woman who must find the strength to overcome her fear and despair to obtain justice for her slain friends; Craig Washington, a twenty six year black man determined to escape justice but who finds that he would rather be put to death than face the truth about his own childhood; and Rick Sands himself, who discovers that in seeking justice for the slain victims, victory must be redefined as something more than obtaining the ultimate verdict he seeks.

Download or read book Badlands written by Liam Houlihan and published by Victory Books. This book was released on 2011 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Melding exclusive interviews with scrupulous research, this account covers the compelling psychological riddles, inspired investigations, and sensational plot twists of 13 intriguing contemporary homicides in Australia. From an elderly father and son’s demise by being chopped to pieces by a tomahawk in Tasmania to the deaths of two Thai prostitutes bound and thrown into a Northern Territory river teeming with crocodiles, this riveting record chronicles baffling, bizarre, and brutal murders. Bumbling junkies, rich white rappers, illustrious art critics, deranged killers, and tenacious cops all play key roles in the events that made Australian headlines.

Download or read book The Good Son written by Stella Sands and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2011-02 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Filled with manipulation, scheming, and murder, "The Good Son" details one son's greed, his girlfriend's murderous desires, and the plot to kill Rick and Suzanna Wamsley. photos. Original.

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Download or read book The Ratline written by Philippe Sands and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2022-03-15 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A tale of Nazi lives, mass murder, love, Cold War espionage, a mysterious death in the Vatican, and the Nazi escape route to Perón's Argentina,"the Ratline"—from the author of the internationally acclaimed, award-winning East West Street. "Hypnotic, shocking, and unputdownable." —John le Carré, internationally renowned bestselling author Baron Otto von Wächter, a lawyer, husband, and father, was also a senior SS officer and war criminal, indicted for the murder of more than a hundred thousand Poles and Jews. Although he was given a new identity and life via “the Ratline” to Argentina, the escape route taken by thousands of other Nazis, Wächter and his plan were cut short by his mysterious, shocking death in Rome. In the midst of the burgeoning Cold War, was he being recruited by the Americans or by the Soviets—or perhaps both? Or was he poisoned by one side or the other, as his son believes—or by both? With the cooperation of Wächter’s son Horst, who believes his father to have been “a good man,” award-winning author Philippe Sands draws on a trove of family correspondence to piece together Wächter’s extraordinary life before and during the war, his years evading justice, and his sudden, puzzling death. A riveting work of history, The Ratline is part historical detective story, part love story, part family memoir, and part Cold War espionage thriller.

Download or read book The Devil s Punchbowl written by Greg Iles and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-12-06 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lawyer Penn Cage goes up against a mix of murder, racial tension, double-crosses, illicit sex ... and all of the ensuing violent consequences in the kudzu-strangled, snake- rat- and armadillo-infested hole of the Devil's Punchbowl.

Download or read book A Death Under Sand written by Christopher Stimpson and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2021-10-28 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peter and Robert have been fast friends for years. Nobody gets between them, and nobody gets to tell them whom they can hang out with. They probably wouldn’t listen anyway; they’re too busy having fun in each other’s company. So it’s really not too surprising that they’re together when they discover something really unusual and, as Peter put it, “weird...like seeing something really ordinary in a place where it absolutely and completely does not belong, and that’s just the start of a whole chain of events that sucks you in deeper and deeper and nearly drives you crazy...” Well, Peter, maybe not crazy, more like nearly dead a couple of times. Neither you nor Robert would have thought that finding a car buried in the town dump would have led to such desperate days, which forced you to locate a killer before you became another of his victims. Nor would you have imagined that there are more ways of saving a friend’s life than you might think.

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Download or read book Mayes Midwifery E Book written by Sue Macdonald and published by Elsevier Health Sciences. This book was released on 2017-06-03 with total page 1221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new edition of a classic textbook fully updated to meet the needs of today's midwifery student. Now available for the first time in full color, the 15th edition of Mayes Midwifery has an enhanced artwork program and comes with an extensive website which provides 600 MCQs and wide selection of case studies and reflective activities; a downloadable image bank assists with essay and assignment preparation. - New edition of a classic textbook updated and designed for today's midwifery student! - Chapters authored by experts in their field, including midwifery academics and clinicians as well as allied professionals such as researchers, physiotherapists, neonatal nurse specialists, social scientists and legal experts - Evidence and research based throughout to help facilitate safe clinical practice - Learning outcomes and key points help readers structure their study and recap on what they have learned - Reflective activities encourage the application of theory to practice - Contains practice based tools and checklists - Presents and discusses the latest national and international guidelines - Associated website with over 600 MCQs, reflective activities to encourage the application of theory to practice, case studies and additional learning tools - Downloadable image bank to assist readers with essay preparation and other assignments - Suitable for use in normal community and midwife led arenas, high tech environments and more rural areas of clinical practice - Brand new design - incorporating helpful learning features - aids reader engagement and retention of facts - Updated artwork program helps clarify complex physiological processes and other challenging concepts

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