Sex, Murder and a Double Latte

Sex, Murder and a Double Latte
Author: Kyra Davis
Publisher: Harlequin
Total Pages: 357
Release: 2012-06-15
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1459246322

When a mystery writer cries bloody murder, everyone blames her overactive imagination… Thriller scribe Sophie Katz is as hard-boiled as a woman who drinks Grande Caramel Brownie Frappuccinos can be. So Sophie knows it’s not paranoia or post-divorce, living-alone-again jitters, when she becomes convinced that a crazed reader is sneaking into her apartment to reenact scenes from her books. The police, however, can’t tell a good plot from an unmarked grave. When a filmmaker friend is brutally murdered in the manner of a death scene in one of his movies, Sophie becomes convinced that a copycat killer is on the loose —and that she’s the next target. If she doesn’t solve the mystery, her own bestseller will spell out her doom. Cursing her grisly imagination (why, oh, why did she have to pick the ax?), Sophie engages in some real-life gumshoe tactics. The man who swoops in to save her in dark alleys is mysterious new love interest Anatoly Darinsky. Of course, if this were fiction, Anatoly would be her prime suspect.…

Sex Money Murder: A Story of Crack, Blood, and Betrayal

Sex Money Murder: A Story of Crack, Blood, and Betrayal
Author: Jonathan Green
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 358
Release: 2018-05-15
Genre: True Crime
ISBN: 0393244504

Nominated for an Edgar Award “Exceptionally authentic.”—Jill Leovy, The New York Times Book Review In the late 1980s and early 1990s, the Bronx had one of the country’s highest per capita homicide rates. As crack cocaine use surged, dealers claimed territory through intimidation and murder, while families were fractured by crime and incarceration. Chronicling the rise and fall of Sex Money Murder, one of the era’s most notorious gangs, reporter Jonathan Green creates a visceral and devastating portrait of a New York City borough and the dedicated detectives and prosecutors struggling to stem the tide of violence. Drawing on years of research and extraordinary access to gang leaders, law enforcement, and federal prosecutors, Green delivers an engrossing work of gritty urban reportage. Magisterial in its scope, Sex Money Murder offers a unique perspective on the violence raging in modern-day America and the battle to end it.

Blood in the Low Country

Blood in the Low Country
Author: Paul Attaway
Publisher: Linksland Publishing
Total Pages: 268
Release: 2023-07-25
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

Blood in the Low Country, the first of the Atkins Family Low Country Sagas, tells the story of a southern family living in Charleston, South Carolina in 1973. The book follows the lives of Monty Atkins, his wife Rose, and their sons Eli and Walker. Rose’s childhood is plagued by poverty, abuse, and tragedy. Determined to prove she’s better than her past, she relentlessly pushes her sons to succeed in proper Charleston society. When Rose’s oldest son Eli, the product of her first, failed marriage, is accused of murdering his girlfriend Kimberly, Rose fears losing everything. Monty believes his son is innocent and hires a detective to find the killer. But when the murderer is revealed, Monty’s marriage and everything he holds true are tested. Can Monty and Rose save their family and confront Rose’s demons? Only time will tell. A story of love, faith, and redemption, Blood in the Low Country is a must-read for fans of Southern family sagas.

Sex and Murder.com

Sex and Murder.com
Author: Mark Richard Zubro
Publisher: Minotaur Books
Total Pages: 312
Release: 2002-07-10
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1429936495

Craig Lenzati, the rich and powerful CEO of Chicago's answer to Microsoft, is found brutally murdered with stab wounds all over his body. The murder is reported anonymously, and a quick and quiet resolution to the case is demanded by City Hall. Meanwhile, the list of suspects is almost endless and that along has the powers-that-be breathing down the necks of Chicago Police Detectives Paul Turner and Buck Fenwick. But as the two struggle to untangle the case and find the killer, they soon learn that the killer has only just begun. Mark Richard Zubro's wisecracking detectives are back and better than ever in Sex and Murder.com.

Sex, Money and Murder in Daytona Beach

Sex, Money and Murder in Daytona Beach
Author: Lee Butcher
Publisher: Pinnacle Books
Total Pages: 436
Release: 1999
Genre: True Crime
ISBN: 9780786006564

Featuring shocking new information. The beautiful heiress to her family's million dollar fortune, Lisa Paspalakis shocked Florida society when she married handsome waiter Kosta Fotopoulos. Once their honeymoon was over, Kosta grew cold and distant, obsessed with guns and spending Lisa's money. When rumors of his affair with Deirdre Hunt, a local party girl, exploded in scandal, Lisa confronted her husband. But by then, he and Hunt had laid their plans for murder. Photo insert.

Death Penalty and Sex Murder in Canadian History

Death Penalty and Sex Murder in Canadian History
Author: Carolyn Strange
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 382
Release: 2020
Genre: History
ISBN: 1487508379

This is the first historical study to examine changing perceptions of sexual murder and the treatment of sex killers while the death penalty was in effect in Canada.

Relating Rape and Murder

Relating Rape and Murder
Author: Jane Monckton-Smith
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 202
Release: 2010-08-16
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0230290663

This book is about relating the concepts of rape and murder in both senses of the term; that is the way rape and murder are linked and related and also how stories of rape and murder are related or told.

Sex, Murder & the Unwritten Law

Sex, Murder & the Unwritten Law
Author: Bill Neal
Publisher: American Liberty and Justice
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2009
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780896726628

"Six Texas trials from 1896 to 1968 illuminate how "unwritten law" permitted violence toward offenders of Southern notions of female virtue, male honor, or sanctity of marriage. Explores the maneuvers of defense lawyers who managed to extricate guilty clients when there appeared no legal basis for a defense"--Provided by publisher.

Sex and the Serial Killer

Sex and the Serial Killer
Author: William Steel
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 194
Release: 2018-10-09
Genre:
ISBN: 9781727241099

In the early 1980s, William Steel's life took a turn towards the macabre when he quite literally ran into Robert Durst in midtown Manhattan. Steel was attending a school for locksmithing and security systems at the time, and Durst -- the black sheep of a family that controls billions of dollars in New York real estate -- decided he could use a man of those specific talents. Little did Steel realize that his new acquaintance was not only the prime suspect in his first wife's mysterious disappearance but quite possibly the wealthiest serial killer in American history. For the better part of a decade, Steel and Durst maintained what has been called a friendship of mutual usury, as Durst paid Steel for use of his Brooklyn home to engage in drug- and fetish-fueled sex with a variety of prostitutes. As they got to know each other better, Durst boasted to Steel of darker deeds. Were they confessions of rape, torture and cold-blooded murder, or just the twisted fantasies of a maniacal multimillionaire? Steel didn't know for sure until years later. He's now convinced that Durst is, indeed, a murderous monster, and he remains haunted by thoughts that he should have done something to stop the fiend before he claimed more innocent lives. In his gripping memoir, Sex and the Serial Killer, My Bizarre Times with Robert Durst, Steel reveals the depths of the scion's depravity, and he demands justice for Durst's victims and their shattered families.NOTE: Parts of this book have been redacted for various legal and safety reasons.

Marilyn at Rainbow's End

Marilyn at Rainbow's End
Author: Darwin Porter
Publisher: Blood Moon Productions
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9781936003297

On the 50th anniversary of the murder of Marilyn Monroe, one of the most incisive journalists in Hollywood has compiled this intriguing roundup of the conspiracies and dark secrets behind Hollywood's most notorious mystery.