A true crime anthology exploring the dangerous side of romance—with couples who bonded over murder, mayhem and more. What brings criminal couples together? And what drives them apart? This volume of The Best New True Crime Stories attempts to answer these questions with a deep dive into true tales of lawless love. Everyone’s heard of Bonnie and Clyde, but the annals of crime history are full of dysfunctional duos whose deadly escapades are equally enthralling. Featuring contributions from an international list of award-winning crime writers, journalists, and experts in the dark crimes field, The Best New True Crime Stories: Partners in Crime is a must-read for any true crime afficionado. Because when love goes wrong, there’s never a dull moment.
"Did you really love her?" There was a cold silence for a few seconds. ******** Shanthi was not just Bhuvan’s lover, she was his equal. She did not have the brute force that he did. But she made up for it with her extraordinary stubbornness. She was a woman who knew what to do at any time, and she could follow it to whatever end it took her. ******* Shankar was determined to find the answers. ******* Two untold love stories Stories of Sthapan Formerly published as 'Once Upon Two Love Stories'
Jane Dexter is in need of a criminal. After her brother is killed in a car accident, the secret formula that had been his life’s work is about to be auctioned to the highest bidder, a fact that Jane knows would make her brother roll over in his grave. With no legal recourse, Jane has decided that her only option is to burn down the lab where her brother worked and destroy the formula in the process, so she approaches long-time criminal, Jimmy (the Stoolie) Calvin and asks him to help her commit arson. At least she thinks she does. Thanks to a typo in the newspaper, the man Jane believes is Jimmy the Stoolie is actually his high-powered attorney, Alexander Caldicott. Alexander (Sandy) Caldicott is bored. Everything about his life is predictable until Jane Dexter appears at his door asking him to commit arson. Sandy goes along with her plan, telling himself that pretending to be the seasoned criminal is the only way to prevent Jane from committing a felony. Together the unlikely partners work to discover a way to keep the formula from falling into the wrong hands, all the while trying to stay one step ahead from a dangerous man who may be willing to kill to get the formula for himself. With danger lurking around every corner, Jane and Sandy have no where to turn but to each other.
This is an anthology comprising of * * co-authors. It includes feelings and love for friends. Friends are like magicians who has the power to change our every mood, so for their love and magic, our co-authors have tried to carve out their respect and love for their friends. Everyone has worked hard to bring out this masterpiece on the eve of International Friendship Day.
This volume contains all six books in the Partners in Crime series. Dead & Buried Detectives Kennedy and Donovan were partners for years. Then one of them died. And yet, they're still partners. Kennedy has to solve Donovan's death while his partner's ghost helps him. Sort of. How do you explain where you got the tips? How do you avoid showing them that you're speaking to thin air and no, you haven't lost your mind? Kennedy has to hide how he's figuring it all out so he can keep his badge and solve the murder - before he ends up dead and buried too. Dead Wrong A teenage boy is murdered and it's up to Jamie and Jack to solve the case. Well, okay - Jamie, Jack, and the ghost of Michael Donovan. Jack left her last job under peculiar circumstances and now she's doing her best to hold on to her new job without it all blowing up in her face. What are the odds that the only person that could possibly understand her situation would end up being her new partner? How do the two of them explain where some of their information comes from, when the person giving it to them is the murder victim? They'd better be right when they finally find the answers because it's fatal to be dead wrong. Dead to Rights Someone had killed Melly Warren. Melly herself had let them know when Mike brought her to meet Jack & Jamie. She knew that her killer had most likely been her husband. Seemed like a simple case, right? Domestic violence, arrest the husband, case closed. Not so much. When Jack and Jamie think they’ve got the case in the bag, everything gets upended with a twist even Mike didn’t see coming. Just when you think you’ve got the killer dead to rights, you find out there’s a whole lot more going on and the list of dead - and killers - gets a whole lot longer. Dead Reckoning They'd been warned. Jack and Jamie knew that being a voice for the dead, finding justice for those who died too soon, was risky. People were asking questions that they couldn't answer - not truthfully. Then the wrong people started asking questions and everything Jack and Jamie had worked so hard to set up was about to come tumbling down. Enemies and allies can change sides, leaving a person feeling lost at sea. Then again, when one is navigating uncharted territory, there's always a chance for a dead reckoning. Dead Ringer Jack and Jamie are called to a hundred-year-old murder scene where they find two skeletons, and one ghost-Patrick Kennedy. Talk about a cold case! But this one hits a little close to home. Patrick was Jamie's great-great-grandfather's twin, and some say they're dead ringers for each other. When a second case lands in their lap, with another ghost seeking justice, the complications add up. A murdered young woman needs answers that Jack, Jamie, Mike, and the rest of the team are determined to find. Families, chosen and blood, can bring out the best - and the worst - in people. A ring stolen from a dead woman's hand, a family curse, corruption of power, and mounting injustice bind two opposing forces across a century. Now, the team has to find answers, for themselves and for the dead, before the killer strikes again. Dead Heat When the team is called to a scene outside the high school with multiple deaths, they knew it was going to be bad. Truck versus protest never came out in favor of the protestors. When the driver is the cousin of your Lieutenant's wife, you hustle to the scene. Then he tells you a 'shadow man' made him do it, and things get -very- interesting. A dark entity is stirring up trouble in Harbor, and it's going to take everything the team's got to take this one down and keep the supernatural from becoming public. The race against time is a dead heat between the team and the entity - and there's no guarantee the team will win.
Federal Piracy Interdiction Capt. John Peterson once again teams-up agents: Alex Bach and Zach Szarbino to infiltrate a piracy ring in the Bahama’s. Though it’s 2021, the marauders are staged as pirates of the 1800’s. Bach & Szarbino, who are more like oil and water together, are true to form in pursuing justice. Problems arise when the lawmen decide they may enjoy the pirate lifestyle. Tables are turned when Bach and Szarbino are no longer the hunters, but the hunted. But, while they’re running for their lives are they also, in their own way...running from God? Only time will tell.
The first comprehensive interpretation of the work of a major figure in Chicano literature, Klaus Zilles's study of the fourteen novels in Rolando Hinojosa's Klail City Death Trip series will appeal equally to the specialist, to the student, and to the interested reader of Hinojosa's intriguing and innovative "Tejano" novels. The series is dedicated to revealing the suppressed oral history of Mexican Texas and to making the reader a companion on a quest for this elusive history. Published between 1973 and 1998, the Klail City series ranges in historical time from the mid-1700s to the end of the twentieth century, attesting to 250 years of Spanish-Mexican presence in the Lower Río Grande Valley of Texas. The main body of Hinojosa's series, however, is set in fictitious Belken County, located on the U.S./Mexico border, and charts the lives of Hinojosa's two protagonists, Rafe Buenrostro and his cousin, Jehú Malacara, two men raised in the rigidly segregated world of a South Texas farming community. The Klail City series constitutes a truly "novel" approach to the novel: each installment in the cycle differs from the one before it in genre (the adult Buenrostro becomes a police detective and appears in several mystery novels), in narrative style (one novel is written entirely in verse, while another takes epistolary form), or in language (Hinojosa writes in Spanish, in English, in Chicano idiom, and in mixtures of all three). Zilles accomplishment is to provide a critical guide to the complicated fictional world that Hinojosa creates. By showing the profusion of forms and styles Hinojosa deploys, Zilles reveals the true dimensions of Hinojosa's design. "What makes Zilles so refreshing is his style. . . . He writes in a language accessible to the average reader. His work is solid, informative, thoughtful, and useful. I recommend it highly."--Juan Bruce-Novoa, Harvard University
This all-new 20-minutes-a-day study of Nehemiah reminds readers that with God’s help, one person who is ready to do the impossible can change the world. Hope is not wishful thinking. It is a confident expectation for the future. Nehemiah knew how to live with true hope. After boldly requesting permission from the king to rebuild the walls of Jerusalem after the Babylonian exile, he restored the city and called his people back to God. Despite opposition on all sides, Nehemiah saw God transform a cup-bearer into a contractor, ruins into a city, and a wayward people into followers of God. As Bible teacher Lenya Heitzig reminds readers in this new Fresh Life study, God calls them to live boldly with a hope that only He can give.
