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Author | : Carla van der Spuy |
Publisher | : Penguin Random House South Africa |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 2015-08-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0799376663 |
What makes a woman kill? And how does it feel to share a cell with these murderers? Carla van der Spuy visits four female correctional facilities across South Africa and gets inside the heads of women who committed violent crimes. She visits the babies born behind bars, celebrates Christmas with the inmates and chats face to face with women who killed with knives, guns and hit men, as well as a kleptomaniac and a prostitute. Women with blood on their hands. What went so terribly wrong in their lives? And is there a person behind the criminal?
Author | : Tanya Farber |
Publisher | : Jonathan Ball Publishers |
Total Pages | : 234 |
Release | : 2019-06-24 |
Genre | : True Crime |
ISBN | : 186842927X |
Murder has always fascinated us, and when women are the masterminds, the intrigue grows exponentially. Not only are female murderers much rarer than male killers, but their crimes usually also involve a more sophisticated type of plotting. In Blood on her hands, award-winning journalist Tanya Farber investigates the lives, minds and motivations of some of South Africa's most notorious female murderers, from the poisonous nurse Daisy de Melker, to the privileged but deeply disturbed Najwa Petersen, to the mysterious Joey Harhoff who died before revealing where the bodies of her victims (including her own niece) were. Farber sets each case against the backdrop of the different eras and regions of 20th and early 21st century South Africa the women operated in. Her writing style is lighter than the subject matter might suggest and Blood on Her Hands will keep you reading until late at night – probably with your light on. The women featured also include: Dina Rodrigues, Phoenix Racing Cloud Theron, Marlene Lehnberg, Chane van Heerden and Celiwe Mbokazi.
Author | : Tom Eyen |
Publisher | : Samuel French, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 76 |
Release | : 1975 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9780573618130 |
"In this hilarious satire on B-movies of the 1950's, Mary Eleanor, an innocent duped into crime, lands in the Greenwich Village Woman's House of Detention, presided over by a massive matron with a taste for sadism and female flesh as our heroine, now Caged in the Big House, learns about life The Hard Way." -- Publisher's description
Author | : Carla van der Spuy |
Publisher | : Penguin Random House South Africa |
Total Pages | : 207 |
Release | : 2016-07-01 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0799376817 |
As a child Amor van der Westhuyzen was physically, verbally and emotionally battered by her mother, Joey Haarhoff (paedophile Gert van Rooyen’s girlfriend and accomplice) and sexually abused by her own father. She survived out of sheer willpower and tells her inspirational story.
Author | : |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 205 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : Female offenders |
ISBN | : 9780799374322 |
"What makes a woman commit murder? And what does it feel like to share a cell with murdererers? Carla van der Spuy visits four women's prisons across South africa and delves into the minds of women who've committed violent crimes. She spends time with babies behind bars, celebrates Christmas in prison, and chats face to face with a kleptomaniac, a prostitute, and women who killed with knives and guns or employed contract killers. Women with blood on their hands. What went so terribly wrong in their lives? And is there a human being hiding behind the criminal?" -- Back cover.
Author | : Helen Black |
Publisher | : C & R Crime |
Total Pages | : 283 |
Release | : 2011-04-21 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1849017794 |
The UK is gripped by the threat of gang violence - the media is building on that hysteria, convincing us that knife crime is rife and the streets are flooded with guns and drugs. So when a member of a notorious girl gang is charged with a brutal murder, sympathy is in short supply. Enter Lilly Valentine, a tough talking lawyer who is never prepared to take things at face value and is determined to uncover the truth, whatever the cost. A gripping crime novel that will force every reader to reassess what they think they know about society and gang culture. Praise for Helen Black: 'A dark and gripping read that will have you on the edge of your seat' Closer magazine 'A fantastic first novel [A Place of Safety].' Jane Elliott 'Terrific! A great read from start to finish.' [Dishonour] Jessie Keane author of Jail Bird. ''Unexpected and moving... A Place of Safety is written with sympathy and humour' EuroCrime
Author | : Jean Casella |
Publisher | : New Press, The |
Total Pages | : 241 |
Release | : 2014-11-11 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1620971380 |
“An unforgettable look at the peculiar horrors and humiliations involved in solitary confinement” from the prisoners who have survived it (New York Review of Books). On any given day, the United States holds more than eighty-thousand people in solitary confinement, a punishment that—beyond fifteen days—has been denounced as a form of cruel and degrading treatment by the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture. Now, in a book that will add a startling new dimension to the debates around human rights and prison reform, former and current prisoners describe the devastating effects of isolation on their minds and bodies, the solidarity expressed between individuals who live side by side for years without ever meeting one another face to face, the ever-present specters of madness and suicide, and the struggle to maintain hope and humanity. As Chelsea Manning wrote from her own solitary confinement cell, “The personal accounts by prisoners are some of the most disturbing that I have ever read.” These firsthand accounts are supplemented by the writing of noted experts, exploring the psychological, legal, ethical, and political dimensions of solitary confinement. “Do we really think it makes sense to lock so many people alone in tiny cells for twenty-three hours a day, for months, sometimes for years at a time? That is not going to make us safer. That’s not going to make us stronger.” —President Barack Obama “Elegant but harrowing.” —San Francisco Chronicle “A potent cry of anguish from men and women buried way down in the hole.” —Kirkus Reviews
Author | : Beth Grayson |
Publisher | : AuthorHouse |
Total Pages | : 92 |
Release | : 2022-06-19 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1665562935 |
In Nurses behind Bars, author Beth Grayson unveils the fascinating and unimaginable events, behaviors, and relationships occurring in a maximum security, all-female prison. Based on real observations, she journeys behind prison walls to share a nurse’s experiences and shocking revelations of prison life. Grayson narrates some of the inmates’ histories as they tell about their upbringing and living in severely dysfunctional families. Although many of the women found it difficult to discuss their backgrounds, private interviews reveal shocking recantations of violence, rape, and torture these women endured as young girls. Some were forced into prostitution, some by their own family members. She heard stories of young drug addicted girls involved in the cold-blooded murders of their own infant children and more. Nurses behind Bars discusses that the great power of drug addiction led these women down a hopeless and dangerous path of crime and murder to spend many years or life behind prison bars.
Author | : Mel Teshco |
Publisher | : Entangled: Scorched |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1640637796 |
EARTH, YEAR 2324 Melody Simmons desperately needs to fill her bank accounts with credits that could help her family climb out of near poverty. And in the Virgin Hunt Games, that means enticing as many hunters as possible to bed her. The downside? Billions of viewers from all parts of the galaxy would be watching her fall from virtue with avid interest. Alien Damon Banscott despises everything about the Virgin Hunt Games. Except the fact he can now legally destroy his enemy in the games. He is in this only for revenge. Then Damon sees one of the beautiful hunted and, for a moment, his heart stops beating. He’ll fight to the death before allowing another hunter to touch and deflower Melody. But while the hunters get more credits by pleasing their captive mate sexually, the hunted women received more by finding their pleasure with any of the hunters who weren’t their assigned mate. Let the games begin...
Author | : Ben Galley |
Publisher | : Ben Galley |
Total Pages | : 514 |
Release | : 2014-12-16 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0992787149 |
“Magick ain’t pretty, it ain’t stars and sparkles. Magick is dirty. It’s rough. Raw. It’s blood and guts and vomit. You hear me?” When Prime Lord Hark is found in a pool of his own blood on the steps of his halls, Tonmerion Hark finds his world not only turned upside down, but inside out. His father's last will and testament forces him west across the Iron Ocean, to the very brink of the Endless Land and all civilisation. They call it Wyoming. This is a story of murder and family. In the dusty frontier town of Fell Falls, there is no silverware, no servants, no plush velvet nor towering spires. Only dust, danger, and the railway. Tonmerion has only one friend to help him escape the torturous heat and unravel his father’s murder. A faerie named Rhin. A twelve-inch tall outcast of his own kind. This is a story of blood and magick. But there are darker things at work in Fell Falls, and not just the railwraiths or the savages. Secrets lurk in Tonmerion's bloodline. Secrets that will redefine this young Hark. This is a story of the edge of the world. ---------- WINNER OF THE LIBRARY JOURNAL'S INDIE EBOOK AWARDS 2016 BLOGGERS' FAVOURITE OF #SPFBO 2016 "Good, strong writing. A solid read." – Mark Lawrence, author of the Broken Empire Trilogy "Galley has this fantastic ability to bring you into it all so slowly, so carefully, that you don’t quite realize your view of the world is shifting until it’s shifted. [Bloodrush] is unique, it’s highly entertaining, the pacing is superb, and the characters varied and a lot of fun to read about... definitely worth paying attention to." – Bibliotropic ‘Hit all the right notes, with fantastic world building, a captivating story, unforgettable characters, and a plot that refused to fit in any molds. The cover art was amazing, the editing was obviously professionally done and the author has very evident talent’ – Bookworm Blues ‘An incredibly strong read that fans of fantasy and or westerns should check out. Will appeal a lot to fans of the likes of Neil Gaiman and Jim Butcher.’ – Fictional Hangout ----------- Find out more at and choose your shade at: www.bengalley.com.