Based on the true story of notorious serial killer Peter Kürten and the unsolved murder of Düsseldorf prostitute Emma Gross…
Düsseldorf,
1st March 1929, the dying days of the Weimar Republic. A prostitute is
found dead in a cheap hotel room, brutally murdered. But her death is
soon forgotten as the city's police hunt a maniac attacking innocent
women and children. A killer the press has dubbed the Düsseldorf Ripper.
Detective
Thomas Klein's career is going nowhere until he gets a tip-off leading
to the Ripper's arrest. But the killer's confession to the hooker's
murder is full of holes, and Klein soon comes to believe this is one
murder the killer didn't commit. Motivated by spite, ambition, or maybe
even a long-buried sense of justice, finding out who really killed Emma
Gross becomes Klein's obsession.
Particularly when the evidence begins to point closer to home…
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FREE -- US & UK Kindle Edition -- The Killing Of Emma Gross by Damien Seaman
FREE -- US & UK Kindle Edition -- Stress proof your life (52 Brilliant Ideas) by Elisabeth Wilson
Elisabeth Wilson looks at the sources of stress – occupational, genetic
and environmental – and reveals 52 brilliant techniques for creating a
stress-free zone. When your batteries are blown and burnout is imminent
these top tips can help you regain control.
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FREE -- US & UK Kindle Edition -- A Proper Mistress (The "Proper" Series) by Shannon Donnelly
After a scandal gets his brother disinherited, Theodore Winslow plans to
get his brother back in their father's grace by getting himself into an
even worse scrape—he's bringing home a low-born strumpet for a bride.
But he's only hiring a girl to play the part, and his plans go awry when
his father refuses to act as he should. Theo soon finds he wants more
than he paid for, and his sweet Molly Sweet is far more than he ever
bargained for. His proper mistress is anything but...
A cook in a
bawdy house, and an orphan with a zest for live, Molly Sweet dreams of
one day owning her own inn. She'll do almost anything to achieve that,
including acting like a woman for sale and an intended bride. But
playing a hard-hearted jade proves more difficult than expected, and as
her feelings for Theo grow, the lines between pretending love and the
reality blur. She can't bring herself to sell her body, but she cannot
avoid giving away her heart. The only question now is will it land in
accepting hands?
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FREE -- US & UK Kindle Edition -- A Look of Love by Darlene Panzera
Noelle should have leapt for joy when Jack proposed. Instead she asked for time.
Why couldn’t she bring herself to say ‘yes?’
Too distracted to see the ice, her car slips off the road on the way to her brother’s wedding reception.
Can the handsome blue-eyed stranger who comes to her rescue provide an answer to her dilemma?
A Look of Love is a short story by the Debbie Macomber contest winning author, Darlene Panzera.
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FREE -- US & UK Kindle Edition -- Britain's Greatest Naval Battle: The Armada, Trafalgar, Jutland by Richard Freeman
Until the end of the First World War, Britain's wealth and power
depended crucially on her command of the sea through naval power. No
country could challenge Britain's power unless it first deprived her of
her capacity to rule the waves.
Philip II of Spain, Napoleon and
Kaiser Wilhelm all took up this challenge. On each occasion Britain
found herself on the verge of conquest. And yet each time the navy went
out to meet the foe and returned victorious. The Spanish invasion force
that accompanied the Armada perished in the Channel and the North Sea.
At Trafalgar Nelson destroyed Napoleon's capacity to mount an invasion.
And at Jutland, Jellicoe's fleet so terrified the German Kaiser that he
ordered his ships to remain in port.
Three great naval battles.
Each a decisive and overwhelming victory. Each forcing a turning point
in a war. Each, if lost, would have had disastrous consequences for
Britain.
But which was Britain's greatest victory?
This
brilliant short book by one the country's leading naval historians
examines each battle, placing the conflict in its historical context,
explaining how the battle came about and why the Royal Navy succeeded in
driving off the enemy fleet.
It provides a fresh perspective
for naval historians, and a brilliant concise introduction to the key
turning points in our naval history for the general reader.
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FREE -- US & UK Kindle Edition -- Broadmoor Revealed: Victorian Crime and the Lunatic Asylum by Mark Stevens
Broadmoor Revealed gives the reader a glimpse behind the walls of England’s first Criminal Lunatic Asylum.
Focused
on the Victorian period, the book tells the stories of some of the
hospital’s best-known patients. There is Edward Oxford, who shot at
Queen Victoria, and Richard Dadd, the brilliant artist and murderer of
his father. There is also William Chester Minor, the surgeon from
America who killed a stranger in London, and then played a key part in
creating the world's finest dictionary. Finally, there is Christiana
Edmunds, ‘The Chocolate Cream Poisoner’ and frustrated lover.
To
these four tales are added new ones, previously unknown. There were five
women who went on to become mothers in Broadmoor, giving birth to life
when three of them had previously taken it. Then there were the numerous
escapes, actual and attempted, as the first doctors tried to assert
control over their residents.
These are stories from the edge of
where true crime meets mental illness. Broadmoor Revealed recounts what
life was like for the criminally insane, over one hundred years ago.
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FREE -- US & UK Kindle Edition -- EVERY BREATH YOU TAKE by DEBBY CONRAD
Hollin Pierce’s past comes back to haunt her when she returns to Whisper
Lake, Pennsylvania. Trying to help her mother hang on to the home,
which has been in their family for generations, is an uphill battle, and
Hollin has no choice but to sell some of the surrounding land. But the
only man interested in buying is Griffin Wells, the man who was
convicted of raping Hollin thirteen years ago.
Griffin still
maintains his innocence to this day, claiming he was framed. And as
Hollin gets to know him again, the attraction and feelings she once had
for him return as she slowly realizes she made a grave mistake. She sent
the wrong man to prison.
She also realizes that if Griffin
wasn’t the one who raped her when she was a teenager, then someone else
did, and that someone is running around free. Now she can’t decide who
to trust, and when her sister ends up murdered, Hollin knows it’s only a
matter of time before someone comes after her.
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FREE -- US & UK Kindle Edition -- Nothing left to lose by Stuart Allison
When his wife walks out on him, middle-aged teacher Ian West comes close
to suicide. He is saved by an email from beautiful former student Lisa
Mann asking for his help in researching an historical documentary.
Together they uncover the story of William Miller, an enigmatic
Englishman who helped Hitler’s rise to power. Who was William Miller?
What did he have to do with the burning of the Reichstag?
In
their search for the truth about William Miller, Ian and Lisa embark on a
voyage of discovery that takes them from the atrocities of the Spanish
Civil War to the gates of Auschwitz and the Holocaust. But someone does
not want them to uncover Miller’s story and their discoveries about the
past have repercussions in the present. As an anonymous opponent becomes
increasingly intent on keeping Miller’s secrets, West and Mann find
that their very lives are at risk, but West has one advantage, he has
nothing left to lose.
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FREE -- US & UK Kindle Edition -- Riding the Wave by Frank Riemer
A little bit of sun, a little bit of sex, a little bit of blackmail . . .
Things can still work out cool, though, if you know how to ride the wave.
L.A. furniture designer and surfer Scott "Scuz" Kuzman is a world-class
dreamer who's got a theory about everything - from art to women, even
the "hereafter."
However, an invitation to house-sit his
friend's trailer in Paradise Cove is about to put his theories - and
Scott himself - to a test that even he couldn't have dreamed up.
So ride the wave of humor - from the soothing sands of Malibu to the back rooms of the Beverly Hills "art" scene.
Will Scuz make it wipe-out trying?
There's only one way to find out - by riding the wave.
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FREE -- US & UK Kindle Edition -- It's Not A Wonderful Life by Una Natalia Owen
It's Not A Wonderful Life is a romantic comedy about sex
and/or relationships, which is to say it is about sex without
relationships, sex within relationships and relationships without sex.
It's Not A Wonderful Life is
about the break-up and the break-down which follows it, it's about
getting closer to closure and using humor to glide through the difficult
periods in our lives which lie beyond our control.
It's Not A Wonderful Life
is concurrently reverently irreverent, unabashedly cerebral and
absurdly insightful. Rife with dialogue, with witty, punny banter and
perhaps wittier, punnier prose; It's Not A Wonderful Life is Sex and the City meets Seinfeld, Me Talk Pretty One Day meets Molecular Biology.
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FREE -- US & UK Kindle Edition -- Swan Song (Julie O'Hara Mystery Series) by Lee Hanson
As dawn breaks, the pale body of a beautiful, raven-haired young woman
is discovered in an errant swan boat, adrift on a small lake smack in
the middle of a jewel-like park in Downtown Orlando. It looks like a
suicide: Snow White in a fractured fairytale. Body language expert,
Julie O'Hara, isn't buying it. And that's a BIG problem, since Julie is
the one person most likely to figure it out.
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FREE -- US & UK Kindle Edition -- The Engagement Party by R J Gould
The Engagement Party is light-hearted contemporary fiction about family
relationships across gender, age and social class. The novel spans the
week leading up to and including a lunch party to celebrate the
engagement of Wayne and Clarissa, a young London couple.
From
the start considerable stress is evident with each of the eight parents,
step-parents and partners striving to make a success of their
post-first marriage relationships. The forthcoming engagement party is
bringing additional tension. Will the members of the family be robust
enough to survive the strain and will Wayne and Clarissa be sufficiently
mature to cope?
This humorous novel will strike a chord with
those who have struggled to make something of a broken family and have
felt guilty about the impact on their children.
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FREE -- US & UK Kindle Edition -- Gender Game by Fergus Harrison
A thriller.
Steve, having made a fortune from his high tech
business in California, decides to travel and enjoy his wealth and so he
gravitates to London where he meets and falls head over heels love with
Janie, an intelligent and beautiful young fund manager. Steve and Janie
seem to have it all; a deep love for one another, wealth, youth, talent
and good looks combine to offer them a perfect life. And that’s what
they seem destined for as they enjoy an idyllic few months together
until, following a trip back to California, opportunity, temptation, and
perhaps a little boredom too, lure Steve into an incredible secret life
which turns into an obsession. Janie’s suspicions about Steve’s
behaviour and his periodic disappearances, compounded by mounting
problems at work from a misogynistic boss and work colleague, cause her
to become increasingly unhappy so thank goodness for her friend and
confidante, Stella, who is there for her when Steve is not; but
unbeknownst to Janie, Stella has her own secret life.
With
hindsight, the crisis that causes everything to career out of control
seems inevitable and, although its impact is very different on Steve,
Janie and Stella, it is equally devastating for all three. And, of
course, when lives are shattered, equally inevitably, thoughts of
revenge soon follow. That revenge, when it comes, is as mind blowing as
it is terrible.
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FREE -- US & UK Kindle Edition -- A Fatal Verdict (The Trials of Sarah Newby) by Tim Vicary
A Fatal Verdict
What would you do if someone murdered your child, but the justice system let you down?
Kathryn
Walters is faced with this dreadful decision when her daughter,
Shelley, is found dead in a bath in her boyfriend’s flat. Despite the
best efforts of the Crown Prosecution barrister, Sarah Newby, it seems
likely that the boyfriend, David Kidd, will be acquitted. How can her
family tolerate this? And how should the investigating detective, Terry
Bateson, act when it seems that the murdered girl’s mother is seeking
revenge on the man he is certain killed Shelley in the first place?
As
the story unravels Sarah Newby is confronted with one of her toughest
defence cases yet, with a client who is not only reluctant to give
evidence on her own behalf, but also refuses to explain why she chose
Sarah to defend her in the first place ...
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FREE -- US & UK Kindle Edition -- For Services Rendered by Patricia Kay
A Cinderella story . . .
Claire Kendrick didn't know what to
think when she was summoned to the 50th floor to meet the president of
Callahan, International. As handsome, blue-eyed Nick Callahan explained
her special assignment --- writing an article about him for CEO Magazine
--- Claire's apprehensions grew. There was something he wasn't telling
her, something odd that she couldn't put her finger on. What did he
really want from her?
Her green eyes, golden hair, and striking
beauty were the first things that had caught Nick's attention. Then he
had her background checked out, and he was doubly impressed. Claire
Kendrick was a smart, hard-working, loyal employee. She was also
supporting her mother, who needed expensive full-time medical care. All
in all, Claire was the perfect candidate for the position Nick needed to
fill.
While researching the article on Nick, Claire found
herself awed by the success story of the man who'd made his first
million before he was thirty. His brilliant blue eyes were mesmerizing,
his sexy smile distracting, his hidden, kind nature surprising and
admirable. And then, out of the blue, Nick offered her a startling
proposition. He would support Claire and her mother in exchange for
services rendered --- as a wife and mother to his children!
It
would have been a fantasy, a dream come true, a Cinderella story ---
except for one oversight. Could Claire exist in a marriage of
convenience? What kind of marriage would it be . . . without love?
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FREE -- US & UK Kindle Edition -- EYE OF THE RAVEN (Dr Steven Dunbar 5) by Ken McClure
Ex-Special Forces medic, Dr Steven Dunbar, now works for the Sci-Med
Inspectorate, a small unit based in the UK Home Office whose job it is
to investigate crime in the Hi-Tec areas of science and medicine. Steven
is therefore surprised when he is asked to investigate the deathbed
confession of convicted psychopath, Hector Combe. Combe, confined to the
State Mental Hospital in central Scotland, claims to have raped and
murdered a young girl in a village outside Edinburgh some years before –
a particularly brutal killing for which another man has been convicted
and has languished in prison for over nine years. Steven begins to
understand the request for his involvement when it emerges that the
prisoner, Dr David Little, was an outstanding medical researcher before
the murder and has always maintained his innocence. His conviction
however, was based on indisputable DNA evidence, a perfect match and
completely beyond doubt. Understandably, the local police resent Steven
questioning anything at all about such an open and shut case but, as he
begins to find his life in danger, Steven realises that the police are
not the only ones objecting to his involvement.
This title was
first published by Allison & Busby in the UK in 2005. It was the
fifth thriller to feature Steven Dunbar, a series which will extend to
nine when LOST CAUSES is published by Birlinn/Polygon in the UK in May
2011.
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FREE -- US & UK Kindle Edition -- LEFT Field by Fergus Harrison
A Thriller
After a devastating childhood took her temporarily
along the wrong path, Jolanda Adamcikova, or Jo Adams as she now prefers
to be known, has managed to forge a new life for herself as an officer
in the Metropolitan Police. But her promising career is threatened with
derailment when she is suspended after assaulting a suspect during an
arrest. Jo is thrown a lifeline in the form of an offer to join LEFT
Field, a private investigator run by the charismatic and blue-blooded
Peter Lampton. She is soon drawn into a complex case of political
intrigue, child sex trafficking and, inevitably, money. It is the
British Foreign Secretary who is under suspicion, so any investigation
must be discreet, and discretion is something in which LEFT Field
excels. Jo’s initial euphoria at being given another chance is soon
dissipated by concerns about the motive behind her recruitment. Jo’s
beauty and chequered past seem to make her ideally qualified to
insinuate herself into the affections of the target of their
investigation but this is precisely the sort of thing from which Jo has
been trying to escape. Her woes are compounded by the growing attraction
between her and Peter Lampton. Peter has his own tragic past, his wife
and young child having disappeared without trace some years before,
which prompts him to respond to his attraction to Jo with ambivalence.
Jo
and Peter, each torn by conflicting emotions that threaten to break
them both, must make some hard choices and the choices they make take
them on a dangerous journey culminating in tragedy and death.
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FREE -- US & UK Kindle Edition -- Always a Bridesmaid by Carol Grace
Two short stories guaranteed to put a smile on your face. Rx For
Happiness starts as a classic doctor-nurse romance until the nurse finds
out the doc is married. In Always a Bridesmaid Mary Ann's roommates
keep getting married. What's a girl to do? Her new roommate is a guy,
someone who works all the time. How hard can it be to keep her distance
from the hunky geologist?
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FREE -- US & UK Kindle Edition -- Actions Speak Louder by Rosemarie Naramore
When Marcia Elton got married, she’d signed up for the forty-year plan.
Unfortunately, her husband Jay had other ideas. At thirty-two, Marcia is
divorced and starting a new life. An interest in home renovation and
repair has prompted her to purchase a hardware store, and she sets about
trying to achieve business success.
When Ethan Winslow moves
into the bungalow next door and begins renovating it, she’s not entirely
pleased. He is sweet, attentive, and easy on the eyes. But Marcia isn’t
looking for a relationship. She’s skittish, thanks to her ex, who did a
number on her self-esteem.
Can Ethan persuade Marcia he’s
nothing like her ex? Can he prove to her that she can trust him? And
most important, can he win her love?
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FREE -- US & UK Kindle Edition -- BACKPACKING WITH BRIAN by Bryn M Parry
This is a salutary tale of the 'adventures' of a pair of extremely
innocent backpackers (one a debutante in this form of vacational
masochism) as they embark on two, climatically very different, trips on
the near continent. Seeking shelter each night sometimes in their tiny
tent and at other times in accommodation of a very dubious kind (the
names of these establishments have been changed to protect the guilty)
they set about exploring some of Western Europe's major cities. Their
routes take in the delights, and dangers, to be found in, amongst
others- Barcelona, Madrid, Paris, Lisbon, Bordeaux, Amsterdam, Lyon,
Salamanca, Geneva etc. You name it... and they had a traumatic
'arthropod-related experience' there. They also managed to be the
victims of two successful robberies in the space of one, extremely
uncomfortable, evening and also contracted most of the holiday ailments
known to modern medicine...Oh yes, and they had to witness a totally
gratuitous display of 'fancy dress nudity' which would have broken
lesser men! Were these two 'adherents of the pack' hapless or unlucky in
befalling these tribulations? Well, I'm still not sure..... but I do
know that they did survive to tell the tale in all its grimy, in need of
a proper wash, detail.
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FREE -- US & UK Kindle Edition -- I'd Sooner Starve! by Mark Sinclair
Have you ever eaten in a restaurant? Have you ever wondered why the
waiter was surly? Why the salad was limp? The Soup cold? Ever thought
the owners looked like they didn’t know what they were doing? Ever
thought you could do better ... ever wanted to quit your job...?
‘I’d
Sooner Starve’ is the amazing true story of one man's quest to escape
his monotonous nine-to-five existence and open a charming delicatessen
and restaurant in a delightful market town.
With honesty, humour
and breathtaking naïveté, it records his steep learning curve, radical
lifestyle change and the immediate revelation that the customer is not
always right!
Amidst tales of bulimia, public menstruation,
endless abuse and hilarious customer encounters, this eye-opening story
unveils what happens after you walk into the boss and say: “I quit!”
‘I’d
Sooner Starve’ is a shockingly comical tale of culinary highs, customer
lows and one woman's unhealthy fixation with thigh-warmed Stilton…
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FREE -- US & UK Kindle Edition -- Keeping Murder in the Family by John Osipowicz
Elissa Ruster is dead, and it’s an open and shut case. That is, until detective Millard Whitney begins nosing around.
The essential facts were simple: Elissa was kidnapped by Armando Lopez,
who raped and killed her. But when Millard looks more closely at these
“facts,” it wasn’t rape and it wasn’t murder—at least not by Armando.
The problem is Armando’s already been convicted of the crime, and
Millard will have to come up with some pretty strong evidence to change
anyone’s mind.
Millard has no reason to even be on the case. It was
way out of his territory, in fact, as far out as Cincinnati is from
Philadelphia. Millard was at a regional crime conference, where instead
of discussing murder someone was actually doing it—three of them in that
week. The last person to be killed was one of Millard’s police friends,
which pushes Millard into the case.
Relocating to Cincinnati,
Millard finds that all three people murdered at the crime conference
were connected to the solved Elissa Ruster murder case. As Millard jumps
in, feet first, he discovers that Elissa’s dysfunctional family may be
death-functional—any one of them may be a killer. For instance, there’s
the Shakespearean actor of a husband, who’s currently playing Brutus and
maybe taking killing a little too seriously. Also sibling rivalry comes
to the front, with the victim’s own sister courting jealousy, and their
mother’s brother and sister each having a strangely reclusive
existence.
It seemed also that Elissa was quite liberal with her
sexual favors, inviting her boss and her psychiatrist to the party,
among others. Millard has to unlearn some of the values he has always
thought about families. Along the way, Millard runs into a shark, Iraqi
insurgents, and a mountain blizzard. If that wasn’t enough he is thrown
into the Ohio River and later stabbed on a Nashville riverboat. Should
he just stay away from water?
Traumatic childhood events begin
working their way into the case, and Millard gets a first-hand look at
abuse. The case finally hinges on the word, “Pookie,” but what does it
mean? In the end, Millard learns that there’s no freedom in
Philadelphia’s Independence Hall, as he has to partake in a bizarre
trial there, where the verdict is death.
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