Murder She Spoke

Policewoman Laryn Scott is on the force in Mount Vernon, Washington. She works out at a Health Club run by hunky, Quinn Madden. A missing Latina girl involves Laryn in the case to help the grieving father find her. Many other cases are solved before this case comes to a head. She learns to handle blood and guts without throwing up. Laryn talks her cases over with Quinn. As they get to know each other, Quinn learns about family life from Sunday dinners at her folks home, complete with boyfriends hed rather not know. To Laryn, Quinns bulging muscles are to die for, although die is a dirty word in police lingo. Gulp!

This book explores the exponential growth of true crime podcasting and its effects on the growth of criminal justice reform advocacy in the United States. Sherrill argues that true crime podcasts exist as hybrid organizations with multiple goals, including entertainment, criminal justice reform advocacy, and journalistic inquiry.

Cyrus is a genius child brimming with talent with a bright future, loving parents, and a younger sister he adores. But on his thirteenth birthday, everything changed. Emerging from a coma, he finds the world irrevocably altered, haunted by the memory of his parents' murder. His screams for his sister are met with confinement, and the boy he once was faded to grey, replaced by someone cold, consumed with revenge. This book is a raw, visceral journey through the eyes of a psychopath serial killer, an exploration of the darkest corners of human nature where the thrill of the hunt and the complexity of the human mind are laid bare in their most primal ways. Cyrus is a creature carved from vengeance and pain. His life, a relentless quest for retribution, blurs the lines between justice and brutality. Each step he takes is an opus of violence, pulling him deeper into a world where the lines between predator and prey are erased. This book invites readers to a chilling realm where psychopathy and serial killings are not just actions but reflections of the soul's deepest, most hidden fissures. It's a world where the quest for vengeance becomes a labyrinth of moral ambiguity, and the possibility of redemption is as elusive as the darkness in which Cyrus dwells. This is more than a tale of revenge; it's a haunting portrait of humanity's most profound dilemmas, painted in shades as dark as the night itself.

Based on actual events, Anna Dotson is a passionate modern woman of the 1900s who finds herself stifled by the lingering outdated rules of Victorian society. When her every attempt to rekindle romance and affection with her husband -- a prominent local doctor -- fails, she finds herself turning to the friendship of Charlie Cobb, a new man in town. But as their relationship becomes more intimate, small-town tongues start wagging, and their star-crossed affair leads to a shocking public murder.

BRYAN IS A WEREWOLF AND THE NORTHRIDGE PACK ALPHA. He has led his people since his previous alphas death. He searches for his friend that has been lost to him for fi fteen years. When Willow is rescued he helps her fi nd peace while trying to keep her safe from the man that hurt her. Can Bryan help Willow overcome her past and accept him as her mate or will he lose her to the man he has hated all his life. Willow was captured fi fteen years ago and tortured. Now that she has been rescued she struggles with overcoming all that has been done to her. Will Willows captor fi nd her again or will she fi nd peace and happiness with the love she has always longed for.

Scenes of Crime Officer Marcie Kelshaw didn't like her colleague, Ben Drummond. Nobody did, really. Nevertheless, when she stumbles across a clue to his murder, she thinks it should be followed up. Even without any official backing. Even when it strains her friendships, risks her career, and endangers her family. The trail of clues leads to some dark and terrifying places, a murderous climax, and the truth about Ben’s murder – which was not at all what it seemed. Along the way, she’ll open more than one can of worms. This is CSI UK. Less glossy, more gritty. A fast paced crime mystery, told with an in-depth and authentic knowledge of forensic crime scene examinations.

Practitioners of psychoanalysis find three central themes to be recurrent and ubiquitous in every analysis; firstly, issues around identity, the struggle to know the self, to understand the self and to be the self in an authentic way. Intricately entangled with self-identity is the problem of narcissism, essentially viewed as a defensive retreat to a mental state characterized by an unconscious belief in the special value of the self and the diminution of the Other. However, there are a multitude of inherent anxieties involved in close and intimate relationships. As Freud pointed out, even in our most intimate relationships there is an element of hostility. Threats to both the self and other, and various anxieties around libidinal contact, will be examined in this book using case material, and the relationship between these three important themes, identity, narcissism and the other, separate but interconnected, will be explored.