Download or read book The Nanny Murders written by Merry Jones and published by Merry Jones. This book was released on 2011-06-13 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this exhilarating page-turner, divorced single mom zoe hayes works for an institute for the seriously mentally deranged in philadelphia. she lives in queen village, a close-knit but transitional neighborhood where nannies have been disappearing, one by one. outside playing, her daughter molly makes a grisly discovery. a piece of litter turns out to be a human finger. one of her neighbors seems to be a serial killer, but which one? zoe helps mysteriously scarred and intriguing detective nick stiles in his investigation. and before she knows it, she unwittingly becomes prey...
Download or read book The Nanny Murder Case written by Jim Claunch and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2004-03 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Nanny Murder Case lawyer Jake Carter defends his client, Rosa Mendez, when she is charged with murdering the baby left in her care. The prosecution team appears to have a perfect case against Rosa. Jake has to turn to his lawyer friend, Boomer Grogan, for help in finding a needed expert witness. The two try a hard case in defending Rosa. The Nanny Murder Case also involves Fransisco Herrera, Jake's law partner, who is called on to save his old friend, Billy Bob Bradford, from a trip to the penitentiary for assault with a deadly weapon, his fists. Big Lou, Billy Bob's secretary, provides some startling information to aid Fransisco. Charlie Smith, the cowboy lawyer, a friend of Jake's also helps Jake settle a divorce case involving a million dollar racehorse. Charlie provides Jake with information about the race horse which is vital to the case. Jake's wife, Anna, has to contend with the attempts of Heather Alexander, a wealthy young widow, who is seeking to win the love of Jake. He must make a choice between the two women.
Download or read book The Nanny Murder Trial written by Don Davis and published by St Martins Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An account of the murder of Bill and Denise Fischer's infant girl describes how the baby's nanny, a young woman from Switzerland, was accused of the baby's murder and recounts the evidence that acquitted her. Original.
Download or read book Circle of Fire written by Joyce Egginton and published by William Morrow. This book was released on 1994 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An account of how a skillful defense attorney changed the public image of Oliva Riner from probable murderer to innocent victim--and did it so effectively that most of the suspicion fell instead upon a friend of the Fischer family.
Download or read book The Way We Really Are written by Stephanie Coontz and published by . This book was released on 2008-08-06 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stephanie Coontz, the author of The Way We Never Were, now turns her attention to the mythology that surrounds today’s family—the demonizing of “untraditional” family forms and marriage and parenting issues. She argues that while it’s not crazy to miss the more hopeful economic trends of the 1950s and 1960s, few would want to go back to the gender roles and race relations of those years. Mothers are going to remain in the workforce, family diversity is here to stay, and the nuclear family can no longer handle all the responsibilities of elder care and childrearing.Coontz gives a balanced account of how these changes affect families, both positively and negatively, but she rejects the notion that the new diversity is a sentence of doom. Every family has distinctive resources and special vulnerabilities, and there are ways to help each one build on its strengths and minimize its weaknesses.The book provides a meticulously researched, balanced account showing why a historically informed perspective on family life can be as much help to people in sorting through family issues as going into therapy—and much more help than listening to today’s political debates.
Download or read book Lullaby written by Leïla Slimani and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "When Myriam, a French-Moroccan lawyer, decides to return to work after having children, she and her husband look for the perfect caretaker for their two young children. They never dreamed they would find Louise: a quiet, polite and devoted woman who sings to their children, cleans the family's chic apartment in Paris's upscale 10th arrondissement, stays late without complaint and is able to host enviable birthday parties. The couple and nanny become more dependent on each other. But as jealousy, resentment and suspicions increase, Myriam and Paul's idyllic tableau is shattered." -- Publisher's description.
Download or read book The Babysitter written by Liza Rodman and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-06-28 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Growing up on Cape Cod in the 1960s, Liza Rodman was a lonely little girl. During the summers, while her mother worked days in a local motel and danced most nights in the Provincetown bars, her babysitter--the kind, handsome handyman at the motel where her mother worked--took her and her sister on adventures in his truck. He bought them popsicles and together, they visited his 'secret garden' in the Truro woods ... Everyone thought he was just a 'great guy.' But there was one thing she didn't know: their babysitter was a serial killer. Some of his victims were buried--in pieces--right there, in his garden in the woods"--
Download or read book A Different Class of Murder written by Laura Thompson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-02-08 with total page 595 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Sensational. The most minutely researched and brilliantly told account ever' MAIL ON SUNDAY. Laura Thompson re-examines the truths behind one of post-war Britain's most notorious murders: the bludgeoning to death of nanny Sandra Rivett in a Belgravia basement on 7 November 1974. Lord Lucan, found guilty of the murder, was only granted a death certificate in 2016. His wife Veronica – last surviving participant in this dark episode – died in September 2017. In this revised edition, Laura Thompson sheds new light on the volatile mental state of Veronica Lucan, and on the theories surrounding the murder, to which she adds a new, extraordinary and shocking possibility.
Download or read book The Woodchipper Murder written by Arthur Herzog III and published by Arthur Herzog III. This book was released on 2001-05-06 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Even though the Newtown, Connecticut, police listed Helle Crafts' disappearance as a routine missing person case, Keith Mayo, a private investigator, knew the Danish-born mother of three hadn't skipped town nine days before Thanksgiving.. Rita Buonanno remembers the words exactly: "If anything happens to me don't think it was an accident." Helle Crafts was last seen on November 18, 1986. In the style of a brilliant detective novel, Arthur Herzog skillfully re-creates the hour-by-hour circumstantial details that inform this grisly true-crime narrative. We observe dispassionate Richard Crafts as he buys a truck with a pintle hook for towing heavy equipment, promised for delivery before November 18. A day later he reserves a Badger Brush Bandit woodchipper.
Download or read book I Killed Zoe Spanos written by Kit Frick and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-06-08 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Working as a nanny in the Hamptons before starting college, Anna learns of her weird connection to a missing girl, but after she confesses to manslaughter a podcast producer helps reveal life-changing truths.
Download or read book I Know You Know written by Gilly Macmillan and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2018-09-18 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From New York Times bestselling author Gilly Macmillan comes this original, chilling and twisty mystery about two shocking murder cases twenty years apart, and the threads that bind them. Twenty years ago, eleven-year-olds Charlie Paige and Scott Ashby were murdered in the city of Bristol, their bodies dumped near a dog racing track. A man was convicted of the brutal crime, but decades later, questions still linger. For his whole life, filmmaker Cody Swift has been haunted by the deaths of his childhood best friends. The loose ends of the police investigation consume him so much that he decides to return to Bristol in search of answers. Hoping to uncover new evidence, and to encourage those who may be keeping long-buried secrets to speak up, Cody starts a podcast to record his findings. But there are many people who don’t want the case—along with old wounds—reopened so many years after the tragedy, especially Charlie’s mother, Jess, who decides to take matters into her own hands. When a long-dead body is found in the same location the boys were left decades before, the disturbing discovery launches another murder investigation. Now Detective John Fletcher, the investigator on the original case, must reopen his dusty files and decide if the two murders are linked. With his career at risk, the clock is ticking and lives are in jeopardy…
Download or read book Nursery Crimes written by David Finkelhor and published by SAGE Publications, Incorporated. This book was released on 1988-11 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The problem of sexual abuse in day care has increasingly come to the attention of both the public and child abuse researchers during the last few years. Nursery Crimes: Sexual Abuse in Day Care is the result of a two year nationwide investigation of sexual abuse in day care, conducted in an attempt.
Download or read book Sleeping Murder written by Agatha Christie and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2011-04-12 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Soon after Gwenda moved into her new home, odd things started to happen. Despite her best efforts to modernize the house, she only succeeded in dredging up its past. Worse, she felt an irrational sense of terror every time she climbed the stairs. In fear, Gwenda turned to Miss Marple to exorcise her ghosts. Between them, they were to solve a “perfect” crime committed many years before.
Download or read book The Gamblers written by John Pearson and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-08-31 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Britain's foremost writer on crime turns to the disappearance of Lord Lucan. The basis of the upcoming ITV drama, Lucan, starring Rory Kinnear and Christopher Eccleston For over thirty years, John Pearson has provided us with literary exposures of some of the most enigmatic people and underground organisations of our modern world. The Gamblers follows the fortunes of five men at the centre of the ultra-fashionable Clermont Set: the Clermont Club's eccentric founder John Aspinall; Dominic Elwes, who was to betray the Set's code of silence; the socialite owner of Annabel's, Mark Birley; the womanising, multi millionaire James Goldsmith; and the infamous Lord 'Lucky' Lucan. At the heart of the Set lay a belief that risk-takers are the people who make civilisation tick.Cruel, heartless and snobbish, they gambled with their fortunes and kept a stiff upper lip when they lost.This and a loyalty to each other that transcended everything else enabled them to rise above crises such as the long affair between Birley's wife and James Goldsmith, and the facial mutilation of the Birley's son by one of Aspinall's tigers.Pearson revels in the charisma, charm and wit of these dastardly but debonair millionaires, and reveals how their code led to one of the great unsolved mysteries of the twentieth century.
Download or read book Deliberate Intent written by Rodney A. Smolla and published by Crown Publishing Group (NY). This book was released on 1999 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The riveting account of the landmark "Hit Man Case"--involving a man who hired a contract killer to execute his ex-wife, his severely brain-damaged son, and the boy's nurse--written by a noted First Amendment attorney who risked his reputation and career to take on the case.
Download or read book The Lindbergh Nanny written by Mariah Fredericks and published by Minotaur Books. This book was released on 2022-11-15 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mariah Fredericks's The Lindbergh Nanny is powerful, propulsive novel about America’s most notorious kidnapping through the eyes of the woman who found herself at the heart of this deadly crime. "A masterful blending of fact and fiction that is as compelling as it is entertaining."—Nelson DeMille When the most famous toddler in America, Charles Lindbergh, Jr., is kidnapped from his family home in New Jersey in 1932, the case makes international headlines. Already celebrated for his flight across the Atlantic, his father, Charles, Sr., is the country’s golden boy, with his wealthy, lovely wife, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, by his side. But there’s someone else in their household—Betty Gow, a formerly obscure young woman, now known around the world by another name: the Lindbergh Nanny. A Scottish immigrant deciphering the rules of her new homeland and its East Coast elite, Betty finds Colonel Lindbergh eccentric and often odd, Mrs. Lindbergh kind yet nervous, and Charlie simply a darling. Far from home and bruised from a love affair gone horribly wrong, Betty finds comfort in caring for the child, and warms to the attentions of handsome sailor Henrik, sometimes known as Red. Then, Charlie disappears. Suddenly a suspect in the eyes of both the media and the public, Betty must find the truth about what really happened that night, in order to clear her own name—and to find justice for the child she loves. "Gripping and elegant, The Lindbergh Nanny brings readers into the interior of the twentieth century’s most infamous crime."—Nina de Gramont, New York Times bestselling author of The Christie Affair
Download or read book Details Are Unprintable written by Allan Levine and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-10-01 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The narrative of Details Are Unprintable primarily unfolds over a seven-month period from October 1943 to April 1944—from the moment the body of twenty-two-year old Patricia Burton Lonergan is discovered in the bedroom of her New York City Beekman Hill apartment, to the arrest of her husband of two years, Wayne Lonergan, for her murder, and his subsequent trial and conviction. But this story goes back in time to the 1920s, when Wayne Lonergan grew up in Toronto and then forward to his post-prison life following his deportation to Canada. It is the chronicle of Lonergan in denial as a bisexual or gay man living in an intolerant and morally superior heterosexual world; and of Patricia, rich and entitled, a seeker of attention, who loved a night out on the town—all set against the fast pace of New York’s ostentatious café society. Part True Crime and part a social history of New York City in the 1940s, this book transports readers to the New York World’s Fair of 1939 when Patricia’s father William Burton first encountered Lonergan; the Stork Club, 21 Club, and El Morocco to experience with Patricia a night of drinking champagne cocktails and dancing; and the muggy New York courtroom where Lonergan’s fate was decided. What truly happened on that tragic night in October 24, 1943? Should we accept Lonergan’s confession at face value as the jury did? Or was he indeed a victim of physical and mental abuse by the state prosecutors and the police, as he maintained for the rest of his life? This book considers these, and other, key questions.
