Love's Blood

Love's Blood
Author: Clark Howard
Publisher: Open Road Media
Total Pages: 615
Release: 2020-05-26
Genre: True Crime
ISBN: 150406206X

“[This] deeply engaging tale of a teenager who may—or may not—have helped kill her parents [is] a model of evenhanded true-crime writing.” —Kirkus Reviews Sixteen-year-old Patricia Columbo began working for pharmacist Frank DeLuca, a married father of five, in the 1970s, and the two soon entered into a sexual relationship. Against her father’s wishes, Patricia and Frank moved in together. Then, in Elk Grove Village, Illinois, Patricia’s father was brutally murdered, along with her mother and thirteen-year-old brother. Police were suspicious of Patricia’s strange behavior after the bodies were discovered, and following their investigation, they arrested both Patricia and Frank. The details revealed during their trial would horrify the residents of Chicago’s middle-class suburbs. This book—informed by extensive interviews with Patricia Columbo in prison—tells the haunting story. “A vivid, captivating, exhaustively researched case history.” —Publishers Weekly “An unsettling trip into a world of kinky sex, devotion and love gone wrong . . . stays with you long after the final page.” —Ridley Pearson, New York Times–bestselling author

Love of Blood - The True Story of Notorious Serial Killer Joanne Dennehy

Love of Blood - The True Story of Notorious Serial Killer Joanne Dennehy
Author: Christopher Berry-Dee
Publisher: Kings Road Publishing
Total Pages: 247
Release: 2015-01-08
Genre: True Crime
ISBN: 1784182885

A man alone in a bedsit with a young woman friend, who suddenly unleashes a deadly onslaught, without warning or reason. The stabs don't hurt. They seem more like punches. Then he realises that the red liquid pumping out of his body and on to the floor is his blood. He doesn't realise, as he drifts into unconsciousness before death supervenes, that he'll never wake up again... In March 2013, Joanne Dennehy stabbed three Peterborough men to death within the space of a few days. One was her landlord, Kevin Lee. Dennehy and her sidekick, Gary Stretch, put the body into a wheelie bin and dumped his corpse in a ditch close to White Post Road in the Parish of Newborough. Lukasz Slaboszewski and John Chapman were stabbed to death and disposed of in a farmland ditch several miles away. She then attempted to murder two other men. By the grace of God they survived. Jo Dennehy is unique, for she now ranks alongside Myra Hindley and Rosemary West as one of the most heinous female serial killers in British criminal history. Only her death will bring about her release from prison. This book, by a leading criminologist and expert on serial killers, has been written with the full cooperation of the police involved in the case, and many of those who knew Joanne Dennehy and her victims.

A Love Like Blood

A Love Like Blood
Author: Marcus Sedgwick
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 327
Release: 2015-02-15
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 160598745X

In 1944, just days after the liberation of Paris, Charles Jackson sees something horrific: a man in a dark tunnel, apparently drinking the blood of a murdered woman. Terrified, he does nothing, telling himself afterward that worse tragedies happen during war.Seven years later he returns to the city—and sees the same man dining in the company of a fascinating, beautiful young woman. When they leave the restaurant, Charles decides to follow . . .A Love Like Blood is a dark, compelling thriller about how a man's life can change in a moment and about where the desire for truth—and revenge—can lead.

One Blood

One Blood
Author: Spencie Love
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Total Pages: 398
Release: 2000-11-09
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0807863068

One Blood traces both the life of the famous black surgeon and blood plasma pioneer Dr. Charles Drew and the well-known legend about his death. On April 1, 1950, Drew died after an auto accident in rural North Carolina. Within hours, rumors spread: the man who helped create the first American Red Cross blood bank had bled to death because a whites-only hospital refused to treat him. Drew was in fact treated in the emergency room of the small, segregated Alamance General Hospital. Two white surgeons worked hard to save him, but he died after about an hour. In her compelling chronicle of Drew's life and death, Spencie Love shows that in a generic sense, the Drew legend is true: throughout the segregated era, African Americans were turned away at hospital doors, either because the hospitals were whites-only or because the 'black beds' were full. Love describes the fate of a young black World War II veteran who died after being turned away from Duke Hospital following an auto accident that occurred in the same year and the same county as Drew's. African Americans are shown to have figuratively 'bled to death' at white hands from the time they were first brought to this country as slaves. By preserving their own stories, Love says, they have proven the enduring value of oral history. General Interest/Race Relations

The Blood is Love

The Blood is Love
Author: Karina Halle
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2022-08-02
Genre:
ISBN: 9781088048931

From the fog-shrouded bay of San Francisco to the dark cobblestone streets of Helsinki and all the hidden places in-between, The Blood is Love takes the reader on a sensual and twisted journey deep into Lenore and Solon's lush vampire world in this thrilling sequel to Black Sunshine. When Lenore Warwick turned twenty-one, she expected lots of bar-hopping, parties with friends, and the occasional hookup. What she got was the realization that she's both a witch and a vampire, and that there are things in this world that want her dead. Thank god she has her enigmatic vampire lover, Absolon Stavig, to help show her the ropes. But while Lenore struggles to fit into her new topsy turvy world, full of blood, sex, and magic, she also has to contend with her messy and complicated love for a vampire who isn't always what he seems. To make matters worse, her real father, Jeremias, a powerful warlock from the dark side, has professed an interest in her, while Solon's father, the depraved vampire king Skarde, is intent on destroying everything she loves. When Solon and Lenore have to travel to Finland to work alongside Solon's charming and vicious brother, Kaleid, in an attempt to defeat Skarde once and for all, the two of them enter a bloody new world that neither of them are prepared for. Even if their love survives the carnage to come, the chances of them getting out of there alive are slim. Good thing they like to take their chances.

Blood Spell

Blood Spell
Author: Janice Harrell
Publisher: Open Road Media
Total Pages: 141
Release: 2023-11-21
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 1504089103

He’s the still-human half of the once-perfect couple—for now—in this sequel in the undead high school horror Vampire’s Love series. James Ryder just learned that his girlfriend, Chelsea, has turned into a vampire, and now she’s out for blood—his. Thought missing, she returns home claiming she has amnesia. Being dead shouldn’t interfere with her social life, so she heads back to school. Now James’s only hope to stay human is to hook up with Rina Cargiale, the new girl, who’s also a two-hundred-year-old vampire. James dumps Chelsea when she’s down, and his reputation takes a hit. But he would rather be a living bad boy than a dead good guy. Plus, he has his hands full with Rina, who’s been tracked down by her ex, the Romanian vampire who turned her. Chelsea’s not the only one with unfinished business to take care of. The only safe move for James and Rina is to get out of town, but it’s not so easy leaving behind two vampires hungry for blood and revenge . . .

Love, Blood, and Sanctuary

Love, Blood, and Sanctuary
Author: Brenda Murphy
Publisher: NineStar Press
Total Pages: 386
Release: 2021-06-07
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1648903037

Haunted? Hunted? When you need a safe place from disaster, heartbreak, or gods trying to break you and drain your blood… come to Sanctuary. It’s New York’s most exclusive club for magical beings and the backdrop of three sexy stories from three award winning authors. We Choose to Be by Megan Hart Love is in the air…and the blood. When hemomancer Hadassah meets the woman of her dreams, she has no idea that Yael is actually a blood demon. Is it only the draw of Hadassah’s talents that brings Yael into her bed? Or is there something more. Something that could last. What is love, after all, unless it’s bound by blood? Sanguine Faith by Brenda Murphy After a messy break-up leaves Laurel homeless and unemployed, she accepts her great-uncle’s offer of a townhouse and a job. When a seductive spirit trapped in the town house offers Laurel a means of escaping the life her uncle has planned for her, she learns that free does not mean without cost. Promises Made by Starlight by Fiona Zedde Abandoned by her wife years before and left devastated, Izzy has recently lost nearly everything else. Her credit is abysmal, she’s underemployed, and her successful best friend treats her like a charity case. But when her wife reappears, breaking her heart all over again, Izzy finds that not everything is as it seems. Blood gods walk the earth, and the one she once welcomed into her bed is back—ready to reclaim what’s hers.

Lies, Love, Blood

Lies, Love, Blood
Author: Bill Fairbairn
Publisher: Austin Macauley Publishers
Total Pages: 227
Release: 2023-07-21
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 168562636X

Lies, Love, Blood is living proof of duplicity craving wrath. Heed this cautionary tale as we track rascal and scholar Daiga, his loyal, faithful bride-in-waiting Mungwi, and his duped and deserted wife Monica in their three-ring circus of intrigue, passion and despair along Cameroon and Germany’s cultural crossroads. It drives home with a vengeance this timeless truth of war and wedlock: “We must love one another or die.” W.H. Auden

Dreya Love Blood and Fire

Dreya Love Blood and Fire
Author: Dana Lyons
Publisher: Dana Lyons
Total Pages: 160
Release: 2018-03-31
Genre:
ISBN:

Inhuman? Exceptional? Noble? They seek their maker. FBI Special Agent Dreya Love has questions for Dr. Anthony Lazar, creator of Nobility. But first, she and her exceptional team, Rhys, and Quinn have a killer to catch. On Draco Station, an ultra-secret government/corporate installation over the planet Draco Prime, mining Vulkillium is a mega billion-dollar business for those in profit sharing. But to work the planet's surface you need a special kind of human—a Draco Demon. When bodies start turning up on the space station, Dreya and her team leave Earth. Dr. Anthony Lazar is brilliant. Unfortunately for humanity, he’s quite insane. He has his own vision about what the human race should be like, and he has the tools to implement his ideals. After all, he is smarter than God. A madman, a dragon with dreams of blood and fire, and a sheriff with a grudge complicate Dreya, Rhys, and Quinn’s search for answers on the backside of hell, Draco Station.

All the Blood Involved in Love

All the Blood Involved in Love
Author: Maya Marshall
Publisher: Haymarket Books
Total Pages: 92
Release: 2022-06-28
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 1642597228

Marshall’s poems traverse familial mythography to investigate contemporary politics, Blackness, reproductive justice, and the stakes of race and interracial partnership, queerness, and love. With an unflinching seriousness she interrogates womanhood, meditates on race and queerness, and considers the monetary, mental, and physical costs of adopting or birthing a Black child.