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| Author | : Laurie Nalepa |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
| Total Pages | : 193 |
| Release | : 2013-02-07 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 0313380112 |
Although they account for only ten percent of all murders, those attributed to women seem especially likely to captivate the public. This absorbing book examines why that is true and how some women, literally, get away with murder. Combining compelling storytelling with insightful observations, the book invites readers to take a close look at ten high-profile killings committed by American women. The work exposes the forces that underlie the public's fascination with female killers and determine why these women so often become instant celebrities. Cases are paired by motive—love, money, revenge, self-defense, and psychopathology. Through them, the authors examine the appeal of women who commit murders and show how perceptions of their crimes are shaped. The book details both the crimes and the criminals as it explores how pop culture treats stereotypes of female murderers in film and print. True crime aficionados will be fascinated by the minute descriptions of what happened and why, while pop culture enthusiasts will appreciate the lens of societal norms through which these cases are examined.
| Author | : Laurie Nalepa (Pfefferman, Richard) |
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| Total Pages | : 0 |
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Although they account for only ten percent of all murders, those attributed to women seem especially likely to captivate the public. This absorbing book examines why that is true and how some women, literally, get away with murder. Combining compelling storytelling with insightful observations, the book invites readers to take a close look at ten high-profile killings committed by American women. The work exposes the forces that underlie the public's fascination with female killers and determine why these women so often become instant celebrities. Cases are paired by motive--love, money, revenge, self-defense, and psychopathology. Through them, the authors examine the appeal of women who commit murders and show how perceptions of their crimes are shaped. The book details both the crimes and the criminals as it explores how pop culture treats stereotypes of female murderers in film and print. True crime aficionados will be fascinated by the minute descriptions of what happened and why, while pop culture enthusiasts will appreciate the lens of societal norms through which these cases are examined.
| Author | : Lucy Freeman |
| Publisher | : Burns & Oates |
| Total Pages | : 140 |
| Release | : 1982 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 9780804461627 |
Mystery writers describe their writing techniques and examine the history of fiction concerning crime
| Author | : Lucy Freeman |
| Publisher | : Frederick Ungar |
| Total Pages | : 164 |
| Release | : 1982 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
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| Author | : Amanda Quick |
| Publisher | : Bantam |
| Total Pages | : 354 |
| Release | : 2009-12-23 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0307575675 |
A tantalizing tale of a legendary knight and a headstrong lady whose daring quest for a mysterious crystal will draw them into a whirlwind of treachery–and desire. When the fearsome knight called Hugh the Relentless swept into Lingwood Manor like a storm, everyone cowered–except Lady Alice. Sharp-tongued and unrepentant, the flame haired beauty believed Sir Hugh was not someone to dread but the answer to her dreams. She knew he had come for the dazzling green crystal, knew he would be displeased to find that it was no longer in her possession. Yet Alice had a proposition for the dark and forbidding knight: In return for a dowry that would free Alice and her brother from their uncle's grasp, she would lend her powers of detection to his warrior's skills and together they would recover his treasured stone. But even as Hugh accepted her terms, he added a condition of his own: Lady Alice must agree to a temporary betrothal–one that would soon draw her deep into Hugh's great stone fortress, and into a battle that could threaten their lives...and their only chance at love.
| Author | : Jean A. House |
| Publisher | : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
| Total Pages | : 242 |
| Release | : 2016-01-23 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9781523670383 |
On her first day at Frontier Church, Michelle Nader finds it more challenging and exciting than she expected. While learning more about the founder of the church who died over 150 years ago, Michelle is thrown into a web of lies, manipulation and murder and soon discovers that not all churches are created equal.
| Author | : Anne Glenconner |
| Publisher | : Hodder & Stoughton |
| Total Pages | : 352 |
| Release | : 2020-11-12 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1529336368 |
A storm. A disappearance. A race against time . . . Mustique is in a state of breathless calm as tropical storm Cristobal edges towards it across the Atlantic. Most villa owners have escaped the island but a few young socialites remain, unwilling to let summer's partying end. American heiress Amanda Fortini is one such thrill-seeker - until she heads out for a morning swim and doesn't return. Detective Sergeant Solomon Nile is just 28 years old and the island's only fully trained police officer. He quickly realises he needs to contact Lord and Lady Blake, who bought the island decades ago and have invested time, money and love creating a paradise. Jasper is in St Lucia designing a new village of luxury villas but Lady Veronica (Vee to her friends) catches a plane immediately. Her beloved god-daughter, Lily, is on the island and this disappearance has alarming echoes of what happened to Lily's mother many years ago. Lady Vee would never desert a friend in need, and she can keep a cool head in a crisis. When Amanda's body is found, a murder investigation begins. Nile knows the killer must be an islander because flights and ferry crossings have stopped due to the storm warning, but the local community isn't co-operating. And then the storm hits, and someone else disappears . . .
| Author | : Alan Graham |
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| Total Pages | : |
| Release | : 2021-06-07 |
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| ISBN | : 9781736318423 |
| Author | : Vicky Moon |
| Publisher | : Capital Books |
| Total Pages | : 244 |
| Release | : 2002-07 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 9781931868020 |
The Middleburg Mystique has it all: gardening, history, Hollywood actors, local hunks who make off with married women, murders of passion. Complete with photos and recipes from the heart of horse country. - In and Around Horse Country
| Author | : David Roche |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 363 |
| Release | : 2020-02-20 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1350115614 |
Women Who Kill explores several lines of inquiry: the female murderer as a figure that destabilizes order; the tension between criminal and victim; the relationship between crime and expression (or the lack thereof); and the paradox whereby a crime can be both an act of destruction and a creative assertion of agency. In doing so, the contributors assess the influence of feminist, queer and gender studies on mainstream television and cinema, notably in the genres (film noir, horror, melodrama) that have received the most critical attention from this perspective. They also analyse the politics of representation by considering these works of fiction in their contexts and addressing some of the ambiguities raised by postfeminism. The book is structured in three parts: Neo-femmes Fatales; Action Babes and Monstrous Women. Films and series examined include White Men Are Cracking Up (1994); Hit & Miss (2012); Gone Girl (2014); Terminator (1984); The Walking Dead (2010); Mad Max: Fury Road (2015); Contagion (2011) and Ex Machina (2015) among others.
