Poor Ted Gray: Nothing ever seems to go his way, from an unhappy childhood to a loveless marriage to a lackluster career. His luck doesn't improve when he stumbles across the brutally strangled body of a local schoolgirl. Now Ted is a murder suspect, and Charmian Daniels must get to the bottom of a case that grows stranger with every clue---and seems to implicate a surprising number of people. What haunts young Pix, a schoolboy who saw too much? What possesses Una Gray, the missing suspect's sad little wife? What drives the headmaster to desperate measures to save his school? And how much does Charmian's friend Mary, a beautiful socialite with a nose for gossip, really know? The answers are as elusive as they are shocking in this riveting, compelling mystery by one of the genre's most accomplished writers.
A beautiful crystal color directory and crystal gallery profile over one hundred of these extraordinary works of nature. Detailed information on the effect each crystal has on mind, body, and spirit is combined with practical advice on crystal healing
In To Save Heaven and Earth, Jennie E. Burnet considers people who risked their lives in the 1994 Rwandan genocide of Tutsi to try and save those targeted for killing. Many genocide perpetrators were not motivated by political ideology, ethnic hatred, or prejudice. By shifting away from these classic typologies of genocide studies and focusing instead on hundreds of thousands of discrete acts that unfold over time, Burnet highlights the ways that complex decisions and behaviors emerge in the social, political, and economic processes that constitute a genocide. To Save Heaven and Earth explores external factors, such as geography, local power dynamics, and genocide timelines, as well as the internal states of mind and motivations of those who effected rescues. Framed within the interdisciplinary scholarship of genocide studies and rooted in cultural anthropology methodologies, this book presents stories of heroism and of the good done amid the evil of a genocide that nearly annihilated Rwandan Tutsi and decimated the Hutu and Twa who were opposed to the slaughter.
Chicago real estate agent Laurie Atkins is gardening beneath the relentless August sun when her dog's frantic barks divert her to a dead body sprawled on the front acreage of her Wisconsin summer home. She rushes inside to phone the police, but the body disappears. Laurie begins to doubt her own sanity. Then the unidentified body turns up on the driveway of Helga Beckermann, her devious neighbor. When her emotionally withdrawn husband skips town on the holiest day on the Jewish calendar, Laurie uncovers truths she'd rather deny. Her family in peril, Laurie enlists the help of two women she thinks she can trust: former Chicago Tribune investigative reporter Mitzy Maven, and tough-talking CPD detective Maggie O'Connor. "A brilliantly crafted story of what happens when life insurance companies play God, and how the dark desires of deceit and greed come home to roost." --R.P.Dahlke, author of A Dead Red Heart and A Dead Red Cadillac "A dramatic, fictional portrayal of the issues health insurance claimants face when confronted by fraudulent claims handling practices." -- Robert A. Shipley, AV Rated Trial Attorney
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