books about: murderers     books:       Batman: Bruce Wayne - Murderer?14 reviews Ed Brubaker, Greg Rucka DC Comics, 2002 Did he do it? How's this for a captivating premise for a Batman story? How can Bruce Wayne prove his innocence of a murder in Wayne Manor when his only alibi is that he was out on patrol as Batman? To add to the predicament, he was accompanied by one Sasha Bordeaux, who is also under suspicion and, due to their mutually confidential relationship, cannot defend herself or Bruce either. Then throw in Bruce's ...             The Murderer Vine (Hard Case Crime)6 reviews Shepard Rifkin Hard Case Crime, 2008 Non-Political Pleasing Pulp As one reviewer already stated, this is not a political novel. This is not a novel about the civil rights movement in the South in the 1960s. The fact is Joe Dunne is a unique private detective, someone who is willing to be hired to stop bad things from happening to good people by decidedly evil people. He'll allow himself to be hired out to destroy a drug ringleader in a high school in order ...             Enter A Murderer (Roderick Alleyn Mysteries)3 reviews Ngaio Marsh St. Martin's Dead Letter, 1998 Superb narration brings this great mystery novel to life! Nagaio Marsh's Enter A Murderer appears unabridged, with James Saxon narrating the story of a theater murder and an actor. It's up to Inspector Roderick Alleyn to sort out whodunit. The narration brings the story to life, with all its strengths.             Perfume: The Story of a Murderer401 reviews Patrick Suskind Vintage, 2001 Chillingly brilliant It's been a while since I read a book that has truly shocked me: 'Perfume' by Patrick Suskind is a disturbing and original novel. Set in 18th century France, this is the story of Jean-Baptiste Grunouille, who has a super-human sense of smell but no natural body-odour of his own. He obsessively murders beautiful virgins (whose scent he finds appealing) in order to create the perfect perfume. The ...             The Murderers: Badge of Honor 06 (Badge of Honor)5 reviews W. E. B. Griffin Jove, 1995 If You Lived In Philly in the 70's This book reveals a few things about what went on with Rizzo's Gang             Serial Murderers And Their Victims (The Wadsworth Contemporary Issues in Crime and Justice Series)14 reviews Eric W. Hickey Wadsworth Pub Co, 2005 Know what you are looking at I am a graduate student of Dr. Hickey's at California State University, Fresno. I came to this institution specifically as a matter of curricula, and I must say that after a review of the literature both broad and exhaustive Dr. Hickey's book is the closest thing we have to the reality of our special killers' doctrine. What is most compelling about this piece of literature is the open mentality ...             The Poet and the Murderer47 reviews Simon Worrall Plume, 2003 Excellent piece of writing This book goes beyond the usual anti-Mormon quasi-historical documentary/docudrama. As Mormon history is often documented despite unsure, poorly substantiated, and conflicting facts, this book is convincing based on the writer's sharp research and study of sciences such as forgery, art dealing, and the New England rural lifestyle. I could barely put it down.             The Lost Prophecies (Medieval Murderers) The Medieval Murderers Simon & Schuster UK, 2008 575 AD: A baby is washed up on the Irish coast and is taken to the nearest abbey. He grows up to become a scholar and a monk, but, in early adulthood, he appears to have become possessed, scribbling endless strange verses in Latin. When the Abbott tries to have him drowned, he disappears. Later, his scribblings turn up as the Book of Bran, his writings translated as portents of the future. Violence and untimely death befall all who come into the ...             The Journalist and the Murderer10 reviews Janet Malcolm Vintage, 1990 Looking at the murky world of journalistic ethics. In 1970, a respected army physician named Dr. Jeffrey MacDonald claimed that four strangers broke into his home in Fort Bragg, North Carolina, and killed his wife and two daughters. Although an army tribunal tried Dr. MacDonald and cleared him, years later the case was reopened. This time, MacDonald was convicted and sent to prison, where he still is today. Janet Malcolm does not reopen the ...             Am I A Murderer?: Testament of a Jewish Ghetto Policeman6 reviews Calel Perechodnik Westview Press, 1996 Author Was Forced to Choose Among the Lesser of Evils Calel Perechodnik personally experienced very little anti-Semitism previous to the Nazi invasion of Poland. He and his wife had an opportunity to move to Palestine, but opted to remain in the country of their birth. The young engineer lived a low profile life in his hometown of Otwock, and expected the lives of Jews to only improve as the overall Polish culture turned more secular. Calel ...             Death of a Murderer (Vintage International)9 reviews Rupert Thomson Vintage, 2008 Entirely credible portrait of a life This could have been a very different sort of a book, given the set-up. Britain's most notorious criminal is a woman, never named, who together with her lover tortured and killed a number of children in the 1960s. After some thirty years in prison she has finally died of natural causes. The news of her death reopens old wounds: people revile her as much as they ever did, if not more. Her corpse, ...             Murderer in the Mikdash4 reviews Gidon Rothstein BookSurge Publishing, 2005 Engaging and Informing Read! Do you believe that the Messiah will come? Can you picture it? What will life be like in the Messianic Era? How will a monarchy/theocracy function in the modern world? How will the Temple work in a world with advanced telecommunications and complex securities markets? It's hard to visualize it. R. Dr. Gidon Rothstein does us all a favor in presenting his vision of the transitional period at ...             Montmorency On The Rocks: Doctor, Aristocrat, Murderer? (Montmorency)5 reviews Eleanor Updale Scholastic Paperbacks, 2006 Thrilling Victorian Mystery This is the sequel to "Montmorency: Thief, Liar, Gentleman", which I found necessary to read before I started on this one. Actually, I listened to it on tape and it was excellent. I never would have picked up either volume because the covers did not appeal to me, but as you read the story it becomes clear what is trying to be conveyed. This volume picks up 5 years after the first one ends and it ...             Dynamite Fiend : The Chilling Tale of a Confederate Spy, Con Artist, and Mass Murderer4 reviews Ann Larabee Palgrave Macmillan, 2005 Fiendishly Good Read Wow! What a read: I couldn't put it down once I started it! It's obviously well-researched, but it read like a novel. I never knew what historical figure I would meet on the next page, Keith crossed so many paths. Larabee has done an excellent job bringing to light little-known aspects of wanton terrorism, with its roots in the U.S. Civil War and extending to the Continent.             Bad Girls Do It! an Encyclopedia of Female Murderers4 reviews Michael Newton Loompanics Unlimited, 1993 GRISLY GIRLIES! Learn about Elizabeth Bathory, Carpathian countess who bathed in blood to stay young! Or about Mary Bell, 11 year old murderess! Read the unbelievable exploits of Martha Beck, who went from washing corpses to making them! If you're at all interested in this kind of stuff (my cotton candy) then this is surely the book for you. Very thorough and entertaining.             The Murderer Next Door: Why the Mind Is Designed to Kill21 reviews David M. Buss Penguin (Non-Classics), 2006 Book Review The Murderer Next Door by David Buss not only opens a new way to look at evolutionary psychology, but also explains with reasonable details, how the human mind branches out in different categories through its evolutionary state. He explains the modules that suppress us to kill and to not kill and provides a lot of research on subjects and his findings. For example people have there reasons for ...             The Marshal and the Murderer1 review Magdalen Nabb Soho Crime, 2002 The potters Tale SoHo continue to delight by re-issuing Nabb's superlative Florentine novels ( although why they aren't being put out in chronological order defeats me ). The story revolves around Guarnaccia's gradual unravelling of a decades old feud and it's tragic echo in the present. As ever with Ms. Nabb the story is told with wit and compassion , there are no car chases ( there is a bus ride in the rain ), ...             The Maze Murderer (The Twisted Killer Series) Charles Pero Pero Thrillers, 2007 To say that there's a brutal serial killer on the loose is putting it mildly; this killer is just plain twisted. Murdering women across the South, the killer leaves only one clue: a blood-soaked puzzle-maze inserted inside each victim's dead body. Frank Logan, Senior Director of the FBI's Special Circumstances Unit, and Vinny Smalldeano, a smart, eager rookie, work feverishly to crack the case as the body count continues to grow. When Vinny ...             Serial Killers and Mass Murderers: Profiles of the World's Most Barbaric Criminals2 reviews Nigel Cawthorne Ulysses Press, 2007 one of the best books written on serial killers Vronsky book is one of the best books written on the subject. Vronsky deal with the phenomena in a uniq way by telling the history of serial killers since ancient Europe untill today. Vronsky is summing up the theoretical knoeledge about the causes and classifues of serial murders, and makes it more easy to deal with the different sights that different writters has on the subject.              search for books aristocrat, barbaric, chilling, confederate, contemporary, criminals, designed, dynamite, encyclopedia, international, journalist, justice, killers, marshal, medieval, mikdash, montmorency, murderer, murderers, mysteries, perfume, policeman, profiles, prophecies, roderick, testament, twisted, victims, vintage, wadsworth books:    Kindle - Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device This is the future of book reading. I have used it and love it! randomly chosen book: Laws of Seeing leave a comment home  impressum - about us