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THE MANOR HOUSE MURDER MYSTERY AS YOU’VE NEVER SEEN IT . . . DETECTIVE ROGER LECARRE IS BACK!!!
’What’s better than a good crime novel? I’ll tell you – a spoof crime novel, by the absurdly funny and clever Fergus Craig’MIRANDA HART
’We all need more laughs like…
1978 and two 14-year-old white boys are creating dubious art by using a hacksaw to cut multiple quarters into pieces. A child who’s just bought ice cream from a Mr. Softee truck witnesses a daylight sidewalk shooting in 1979. At another time, a couple of blocks over, a kid gets caught trying to shoplift an adult…
Kategorier: Brottslighet och kriminologi Organiserad brottslighet Samhälle och samhällsvetenskap Socialtjänst, välfärd och kriminologi
’Reads like a thriller… These stories are amazing.’–Michael Lewis, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Big Short
’A master-class in the tactics and countertactics of financial cyberwarfare, laid out in a tense, exciting technothriller.’–Cory Doctorow, author of Little…
Kategorier: Barn och ungdom: biografier Barn och ungdom: polis, lag och brott Barn och ungdom: samhälle och arbete Barnböcker, ungdomsböcker och läromedel Faktaböcker barn och ungdom
Berättelser om brott som har hänt på riktigt!
True crime är ständigt populärt. I poddar, serier, filmer och böcker grävs nya fall upp i ljuset. Men det är nästan alltid för vuxna. Här finns spänning för barn med tio berättelser om verkliga brott, och om hur det gick till när de löstes.
Läs om tolvåriga Jessica som…
Written like a series of thrillers – the crimes detailed are eye-popping in their brazenness, shocking in their success
On the streets of 1970s Brooklyn, a daily ritual goes down: the dance. Money is exchanged, belongings surrendered, power asserted. The promise of violence lies everywhere, a currency itself. For these children, Black, brown, and white, the street is a stage in shadow; some days it may seem that no one knows what…
Kategorier: Bankväsen Ekonomi, finansväsen, näringsliv och management Finansväsen Finansväsen och redovisning
Veteran journalist Danny Schechter investigates a complex web of fraud and crime that he shows played a major–if largely unreported–role in bringing the economy down. His four-year investigation focuses on three interconnected cesspools of corruption: what the FBI calls an ”epidemic of mortgage…
Kategorier: Alternativa terapier, healing och hälsa Ande, kropp och själ Hälsa, relationer och personlig utveckling
Harry Hoxsey claimed to cure cancer using herbal remedies, and thousands of patients swore that he healed them. His Texas clinic became the world’s largest privately owned cancer center with branches in seventeen states, and the value of its therapeutic treatments was upheld by two federal courts.” Even his…
An all-new collection of autumn-themed mysteries from the master of the genre.
Autumn is the season of misty mornings and cosy nights in, but as the leaves begin to fall the nights get longer and the shadows grow darker…
Secluded cottages, eerie manors and ghostly hauntings and cursed tombs abound in this…
An all-new collection of spring-themed mysteries from the master of the genre.
Kategorier: Barn och ungdom: biografier Barn och ungdom: polis, lag och brott Barn och ungdom: samhälle och arbete Barnböcker, ungdomsböcker och läromedel Faktaböcker barn och ungdom
Här finns historier om ökända gangstrar som Bonnie och Clyde, och den hjältemodiga brottslingen Sali Hafiz som rånade en bank för att rädda sin sjuka syster. Läs om mördaren The Blackout Ripper som satte skräck i ett nedsläckt London under andra världskriget, men också om björnen som dömdes i domstol för att ha stulit…
An all-new collection of winter-themed mysteries from the master of the genre, just in time for the festive period.
There’s a chill in the air and the days are growing shorter… It’s the perfect time to curl up in front of a crackling fireplace with this winter-themed collection from legendary mystery…
ONE KILLER. AND NO ESCAPE . . . Journalist Cecily Wong is offered the chance of a lifetime: to join an elite team on one of the world’s tallest mountains. But things quickly start to fall apart. An unexplained theft. A horrible accident. A terrifying note:There’s a murderer on the mountain. Six strangers…
It’s only the afternoon, but dusk is already falling and a log fire burning in the grate. Outside, frost coats the tree branches and snow sparkles on the ground. And somewhere in the darkness, a murderer is making plans …
Here are ten classic crime stories for the winter months, from the greatest minds of…
Baltimore, 2015. Riots were erupting across the city. Drug and violent crime were surging, with homicides reaching their highest level in over two decades.
For years, Sgt Wayne Jenkins and his elite team of plain-clothed officers – the Gun Trace Task Force – had been the city’s lauded heroes, working…
Kategorier: Hälsa, relationer och personlig utveckling Karriär och framgång Självhjälp och praktiska råd
A humorous graphic investigation of the author’s obsession with true crime, the murders that have most captivated her throughout her life, and a love letter to her fellow true-crime fanatics.
A collection of darkly compelling tales that force us to confront, one by one, the demons within.
.it wasn’t a human being I killed, it was a principle!’A troubled young man commits the perfect crime – the murder of a vile pawnbroker whom no one will miss.
Kategorier: Historia och arkeologi
Discover the most notorious criminals and crimes in Chicago’s history. Meet psychopath and criminal mastermind Silas Jayne, a stone-cold killer even the mob seemed to fear. Read about the ”Trial of the Century,” the case that made the names Leopold and Loeb famous, and legendary lawyer Clarence Darrow…
From international award-winning author Craig Russell comes another dark thriller, for readers of Neil Gaiman, Caleb Carr and Stephen King.
Throughout its long history, Freetown, Massachusetts, has been a hotbed of criminal and supernatural occurrences in the towns State Forest. This is the first account of how its darker side connects hauntings with violent crime and local cults. Native American ghosts roam here and evil lurks, making the forest a haven…
THE BIGGEST MYSTERY CAN BE MURDER TO SOLVE . . . DISCOVER THE YEAR’S MOST ORIGINAL CRIME NOVEL’One of the year’s most entertaining crime novels’ SUNDAY TIMES, CRIME BOOK OF THE MONTH’When did you last read a genuinely original thriller? The wait is over’ A. J. FINN’An…
In the early hours of Saturday 17 December 2011, Zoe Nolan, a nineteen-year-old Manchester University student, walked out of a party taking place in the shared accommodation where she had been living for three months. She was never seen again. Seven years after her disappearance, struggling writer Evelyn Mitchell finds…
The Complete Hard Case Crime Stephen King Collection, featuring the bestselling titles The Colorado Kid and Joyland, and his newest novel, Later, plus exclusive art cards.
Kategorier: Samhälle och samhällsvetenskap
The founders of the Washington-based intelligence firm Fusion GPS Glenn Simpson and Peter Fritsch were the first to uncover Trump's disturbing ties to the Kremlin and the crimes that have since plagued his presidency. Working with British former MI6 agent and Russia expert Christopher Steele, they produced the…
Kategorier: Diskriminering och jämlikhet Juridik Kriminologi: juridiska aspekter Rättsvetenskap och allmänna rättsfrågor Samhälle och kultur: allmänt Samhälle och samhällsvetenskap Sociala och etiska frågor
In this study, questions of crime are used as a means to explore the relation between race and the social order. The aim is to empirically and theoretically expand the criminological understanding of racism as a structural phenomenon. Anchored in critical criminology, and particularly the work of cultural theorist…
Revolutionary essays on design, aesthetics and materialism – from one of the great masters of modern architecture
Adolf Loos, the great Viennese pioneer of modern architecture, was a hater of the fake, the fussy and the lavishly decorated, and a lover of stripped down, clean simplicity. He was also a writer of…
År 2006 fick Finland sin första dom i ett människohandelsfall där en ung, estnisk kvinna utnyttjats sexuellt. Under de veckor hon såldes i Helsingfors betalade hundratals män för henne, trots att det var uppenbart att hon låg efter i sin psykiska utveckling.
Den fällande domen har följts av fler, men på det hela taget…
Kategorier: Biografier och litteraturvetenskap Biografier, sanna berättelser, essäer etc. Blåljus-yrken Human trafficking Polis och väktare Samhälle och kultur: allmänt Samhälle och samhällsvetenskap Sanna berättelser Sanna berättelser: brott Sociala och etiska frågor Socialtjänst och social omsorg Socialtjänst, välfärd och kriminologi
År 2006 fick Finland sin första dom i ett människohandelsfall där en ung, estnisk kvinna utnyttjats sexuellt. Under de veckor hon såldes i Helsingfors betalade hundratals män för henne, trots att det var uppenbart att hon låg efter i sin psykiska utveckling.
Den fällande domen har följts av fler, men på det hela taget…
Kategorier: Samhälle och samhällsvetenskap
The never-before-told inside story of the Steele Dossier and the Trump-Russia investigationIn the autumn of 2015, the founders of the Washington-based intelligence firm Fusion GPS, Glenn Simpson and Peter Fritsch, were hired by a republican client to look into the records of Donald Trump. What began as a march through…
Kategorier: Juridik
Malmö and its inhabitants are living in a historical era and in a changing environment – in a city that has grown with 43 percent since 1990. Crime, Victimization and Vulnerability in Malmö presents a selection of current research, and the impact that crime, victimization and vulnerability have had on Malmö since the…
Stephen Berry is about to jump off a bridge until a suicide prevention counsellor stops him. A week later, Stephen is dead. Found at the bottom of a cliff, DI Luc Callanach and DCI Ava Turner are drafted in to investigate whether he jumped or whether he was pushed.
As they dig deeper, more would-be suicides roll in: a…
Kategorier: Biografier och litteraturvetenskap Litteraturvetenskap och litteraturkritik Litteraturvetenskap: allmänt Livsstil, hobby och fritid Människor och platser Resor och platser
Sweden a haven of tranquility and benevolence or a cesspit of corruption and dastardly deeds? Whatever we think of this small Nordic country, one thing s for sure: it has captured the imagination of crime fiction enthusiasts around the world. From the pretty little coastal villages in the south to the wide open…
Arne Hildeng is found dead on his luxury Storebro yacht docked at the harbor in Skärhamn. Also on board is Andrea, his wife. Did she murder her husband? Or could the murderer be someone else in the Hildeng family? And Chief Inspector Greger Thulin didn’t expect to see yet another Storebro dock at the wharf. Arne…
This thesis examines how the first 10 seasons of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (CBS, 2000-) engage with discourses on science. Investigating CSI’s representation of scientific practices and knowledge, it explicitly attempts to look beyond the generic assumption that forensic crime dramas simply…
On the west coast of Sweden, in Skärhamn on Tjörn, Chief Inspector Greger Thulin thinks he lives at an idyllic spot. But even the most beautiful painting can have a faulty stroke of the brush. Hiding behind the walls of Bleket School, are bullying and drug addicted students. Homeroom teacher, Jonas Blomgren, lives on…
The principal objective of drug treatment programs is usually to reduce drug use. But do such programs also reduce crime? What does the research tell us?
The Swedish National Council for Crime Prevention (Brå) has initiated the publication of a series of systematic reviews, in the context of which internationally…
Kategorier: Samhälle och samhällsvetenskap
This Ph.D. thesis in Economics consists of four self-contained essays investigating the importance of the early life environment for long-run outcomes and the consequence of immigration for income inequality.
Multigenerational Effects of the 1918-19 Influenza Pandemic on Educational Attainment: Evidence from Sweden…
Kriminalantologi i Göteborgsmiljö, signerad Mats Ahlstedt med flera.
När Göteborgsförfattaren Mats Ahlstedt, som är välkänd för sina många kriminalromaner, hösten 2017 ledde kursen Skriva deckare på Folkuniversitetets Skrivarakademi visste han inte att det var startskottet till Crime Göteborg. Hans sju elever, i alla…
Kategorier: Brottslighet och kriminologi Samhälle och samhällsvetenskap Socialtjänst, välfärd och kriminologi
This thesis explores the connection between neighborhoods and crime from a perspective of both opportunity theories and social disorganization theory. It consists of four papers primarily connected to two research questions with corresponding methods- and results sections.
First, it considers how a neighborhood should…
During the past few decades the situation of crime victims has increasingly come into the spotlight, partly as a result of the work of the womens movement in drawing attention to mens violence towards women. Many European countries have taken action and implemented reforms to improve the provision of support,…