Trials of Passion

Trials of Passion

Author: Lisa Appignanesi

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2015-07-15

Total Pages: 370

ISBN-13: 1605988154

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A journey into the heart of dark passions and the crimes they impel. When passion is in the picture, what is criminal, what is sane, what is mad or simply bad? Through court and asylum records, letters and newspaper accounts, this book brings to life some sensational trials between 1870 and 1914, a period when the psychiatric professions were consolidating their hold on our understanding of what is human. Outside fiction, individual emotions and the inner life had rarely been publicly discussed: now, in an increasingly popular press and its courtroom reports, people avidly consumed accounts of transgressive sexuality, savage jealousy and forbidden desires. These stood revealed as aspects not only of those labelled mad, but potentially, of everyone. With great story-telling flair and a wealth of historical detail, Lisa Appignanesi teases out the vagaries of passion and the clashes between the law and the clinic as they stumble towards a (sometimes reviled) collaboration. Sexual etiquette and class roles, attitudes to love, madness and gender, notions of respectability and honor, insanity and lunacy, all are at play in that vital forum in which public opinion is shaped—the theater of the courtroom.


A Crime of Passion

A Crime of Passion

Author: Scott Pratt

Publisher:

Published: 2021-05-19

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9781944083151

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An Amazon Top 30 bestseller.***Each Joe Dillard novel can be read as a standalone.***A beautiful, young, rising star in the country music world is found dead in a Nashville hotel room.The owner of her record company is charged with murder.In the seventh installment of Scott Pratt's best-selling Joe Dillard series, Dillard is hired to travel to Tennessee's capital city to defend Paul Milius, a record company baron accused of strangling Kasey Cartwright, his label's young star. Dillard navigates Nashville's unfamiliar legal system and the world of country music in search of the truth, but he soon finds himself confronted with a web of lies so masterfully woven that he fears he may never find any answers. As the trial begins and the tension mounts, Dillard fears that not only will his client be wrongfully convicted, but that Dillard himself may not survive."Pratt's richly developed characters are vivid and believable, especially the strong Southern women who fight their male-dominated culture from behind a facade of vulnerability." -Publisher's Weekly


The World's Greatest Crimes of Passion

The World's Greatest Crimes of Passion

Author: Tim Healey

Publisher: Bounty Books

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13: 9781851528684

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This book tells the stories of crimes committed in the frenzies and frustrations of love - violent and tragic endings to a love story that has gone wrong. Passion, jealousy, revenge, and despair are the themes, and the eternal triangle is often the pattern. Here are true-life tales of romance, mystery and horror!


A Passion for Crime

A Passion for Crime

Author: Stephen M. Kahn

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2007-12

Total Pages: 176

ISBN-13: 0595470807

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A Passion for Crime is a fictional composite of a career lawbreaker, his accomplices, and the many types of crimes they commit. The novel describes the development of criminal anti social behavior from early years to adulthood and reveals the thinking errors that provide justification for continually committing deviant acts. It also depicts his numerous contacts with the law and correctional systems and illustrates how lies and mockery are used to skirt responsibility. Reading the novel will provide a better understanding of the rationale utilized by these people as they commit the many crimes reported daily in the media.


Crime of Passion

Crime of Passion

Author: Roy Glenn

Publisher: Aphrodisia

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 308

ISBN-13: 9781599830056

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When the man who murdered her sister is acquitted, model Carmen Taylor launches her own investigation, with the help of attorney Marcus Douglas, that leads her into a dark underworld of prostitution, money laundering and drugs that the police and District Attorney choose to ignore.


True Crime of Love and Passion

True Crime of Love and Passion

Author: D.L. Hynes

Publisher: AuthorHouse

Published: 2019-07-08

Total Pages: 153

ISBN-13: 1728317819

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True Crime of Love and Passion is the first book of three novels that tells the story of three different ordinary women who finds themselves after experiencing the harshness of a man’s world. Their stories will shine the light on their tormented hearts, with them experiencing abuse and rape—finding themselves through it all. Each choice they make leads them closer to the love they so crave and the life they wish for. True Crime of Love and Passion is the firsthand account of a young woman who grew up sheltered by her loving parents. They put her though medical school and taught her how to take care of herself in the real world. After graduating, she finds a little house and job just outside of the city. There she finds herself alone for the first time in her life. After meeting a strange man in her home one evening and waking up to her father’s voice, she thinks she is going mad. She is embarrassed and afraid to know the truth behind her mystery man, who is somehow able to take control of her and enter her home without a trace. She learns that the crime of love and passion comes at a cost when her life is turned upside down as she is forced to follow a dark path of death and pain. She wonders who she can trust, and if the man she finds she can’t live without, who shows her a love like she has never known before, can handle her betrayal when she finds out she is with a child but doesn’t know who the father is—the ghost of a man or her first real love.


DC's Crimes of Passion (2020-) #1

DC's Crimes of Passion (2020-) #1

Author: Liz Erickson

Publisher: DC Comics

Published: 2020-02-05

Total Pages: 84

ISBN-13:

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Passion. Betrayal. Murder. When you’re a private investigator, these are things you experience daily. But when you add capes to the mix-like Batman, Catwoman, and Harley Quinn? Things get even messier. The name’s Slam Bradley, and I’m telling you that this year’s Valentine’s Day special has more intrigue than you can shake a stick at. Ten tales of love-the kind of love that can push people over the edge. Don’t miss it...or I’ll make you pay.


A Passion for Killing

A Passion for Killing

Author: Barbara Nadel

Publisher: Headline Book Publishing

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780755337521

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A serial killer is stalking the streets of Istanbul, seemingly targeting gay men.


Notorious San Francisco

Notorious San Francisco

Author: Rj Parker

Publisher:

Published: 2019-05-03

Total Pages: 226

ISBN-13: 9781987902556

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San Francisco, a city founded in part by criminals, was once one of the most dangerous cities in America. Its Barbary coast was called "a unique criminal district that was the scene of more viciousness and depravity, but it possessed more glamour, than any other area on the American continent." "San Francisco Notorious" brings back the glamorous depravity and noir atmosphere that made it the premier location for murder thrillers like "The Maltese Falcon," "Vertigo," and "Zodiac." This book contains more than 20 compelling tales of serial killers, deadly women, con-men, masters of escape, and unsolved mysteries. San Franciscan criminals were as colorful as the city they inhabited. Take William Thoreson, a murderous millionaire who hid the nation's largest private armory in his Pacific Heights mansion. Then there's Isabella Martin, the murderous "Queen of Grudges" who tried to poison an entire town, or Ethan McNabb and Lloyd Sampsell, the "Yacht Bandits," who used a luxurious sloop as a getaway vehicle for their dozens of bank robberies. Most of these unusual cases are largely unknown and have never appeared in book form. Included are cases that are still mysteries today, including the mysterious tale of the Zodiac Killer, complete with a new analysis and a startling new theory on the murder.


World's Greatest Crimes of Passion

World's Greatest Crimes of Passion

Author: Tim Healey

Publisher: Berkley

Published: 1990-03-01

Total Pages: 226

ISBN-13: 9780425120606

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Profiles a variety of murders and other crimes committed by women and men under the force of passion, from the Middle Ages through the nineteenth century to the present day