The Scuttlers

The Scuttlers
Author: Malcolm Archibald
Publisher: Next Chapter
Total Pages: 361
Release: 2022-02-24
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

When Sergeant George Watters is assigned to a scuttling case, he thinks he can solve it in a few days. Instead, he discovers a connection to a string of burglaries of high-value shops and hotels across Dundee. Things take a turn for the worse when one of Watters' informants tells him that someone from the police force is involved in the burglaries. Soon, George realizes that the mystery runs deeper than he expected. Can Watters solve the case and bring the burglars, and their accomplices, to justice? Set in Scotland's fourth-largest city in the 1860s, The Scuttlers is the fourth book in Malcolm Archibald's Detective Watters Mysteries series.

The Scuttlers

The Scuttlers
Author: Arthur Catherall
Publisher:
Total Pages: 216
Release: 1955
Genre: Sea stories
ISBN:

The Subcultures Reader

The Subcultures Reader
Author: Ken Gelder
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 616
Release: 1997
Genre: Group identity
ISBN: 9780415127271

The only collected work of its kind in the field, The Subcultures Readerbrings together the most valuable and stimulating writings on subcultures from the Chicago School to the present day. All the articles have been specially selected and edited for inclusion in the Readerand are grouped in sections, each with an editor's introduction. There is also a general introduction to the collection, which maps out the field of subcultural studies. Providing an essential guide to the subject, it enables students and teachers to understand how subcultural studies developed, the range of work it encompasses, and provides potential future directions of study throughout the field.

Prison Gangs Behind Bars and Beyond

Prison Gangs Behind Bars and Beyond
Author: Dev Rup Maitra
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2023-06-19
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 3031317815

This book draws on a four-year ethnographic study conducted in the prisons and on the streets of Greater Manchester, England, to examine gangs and organised crime in the North of England. It includes the personal testimonies of active prison gang members and major organised crime figures, many of whom are behind bars, and some active street gang members. It presents an holistic account by exploring the linkages that exist between prisons and the streets, including the lines of continuity between gangs on both sides of the prison walls and how gang affiliation straddles this divide. It offers data on the region’s drug market (specifically Class A drugs) as this market is the lynchpin of the underworld, both within and without prison. It also includes the perspectives and insights of prison officers, police detectives, youth workers, active and former street gang members and the parents of deceased gang members. This is a ground-breaking, contemporary study, analysing English gang compositions and activities, with its findings and results based on qualitative interviews and ethnographic research.

Absolution Gap

Absolution Gap
Author: Alastair Reynolds
Publisher: Orbit
Total Pages: 807
Release: 2020-04-21
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0316462659

In the third book of the legendary Revelation Space trilogy, the last remnants of humanity realize that forging an alliance with a greater and even more mysterious alien force may be their only chance for survival. The Inhibitors were designed to eliminate any life form reaching a certain level of intelligence -- and they've targeted Humanity. War veteran Clavain and a ragtag group of refugees have fled into hiding. Their leadership is faltering, and their situation is growing more desperate. But their little colony has just received an unexpected visitor: an avenging angel with the power to lead mankind to safety -- or draw down its darkest enemy. And as she leads them to an apparently insignificant moon light-years away, it begins to dawn on Clavain and his companions that to beat one enemy, it may be necessary to forge an alliance with something much worse . . . "Absolution Gap is a good as it gets, and should solidify Alastair Reynolds' reputation as one of the best hard SF writers in the field." -- SF Site

We Were Gods (Omnibus Edition)

We Were Gods (Omnibus Edition)
Author: Alex Feinman
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 437
Release: 2015-01-27
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 131279870X

Don Lucas Ferez, captain of the Border Guard, is tasked with keeping the ancient evils out of the peaceful South. When the Four Old Gods reappear, and slaughter his companion, he is first to sound the alarm. In the real world, Luke Green is at his wit's end. The Four are the main programmers of the world spanning game Luke helped create-and they've found a way to subvert the players rich enough to have an interface implanted in their skulls. Things get real very fast for Luke. He must confront the collision of in-Game politics and real world criminal activity. Entanglements continue as he meets Toni, a hacker in her own right. With her help they take a good look at his relationships, past and present, and start to figure out who they are, and who they want to be. Assuming they survive.

Scuttler's Cove

Scuttler's Cove
Author: David Barnett
Publisher: Canelo
Total Pages: 387
Release: 2025-02-13
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1804367583

The sea never forgets. The sea never forgives... Scuttler’s Cove is a working village, nestling in dramatic coastal scenery in Cornwall, where life has gone on uninterrupted for centuries... until this seaside idyll was discovered by the rich. Now the quaint harbour-front cottages have been snapped up by second-homers and rental companies, and the locals can barely afford to live in their own town. It is a very different place for Merrin Moon, who left for university at the age of eighteen and never looked back. Now in her thirties, she returns to the Cove for the first time since, after the death of her mother. She soon discovers that there are forces at play in the village that she could never have imagined. Is someone trying to drive out the second homers? And has their arrival started a chain of events none of them will be able to stop? For something old and terrible is awakening beneath the town’s hallowed ground. And with it comes a horror that the residents have fought for generations to keep a secret. A dark and mysterious folk horror of the sea, and a timely exploration of the displacement of our modern moment, with a twist that will leave you reeling.

Bloody British History: Manchester

Bloody British History: Manchester
Author: Michala Hulme
Publisher: The History Press
Total Pages: 156
Release: 2016-09-07
Genre: History
ISBN: 075097897X

Manchester has one of the darkest histories in Britain. From the Screaming Skull of Wardley Hall to an epidemic of deadly factory fires in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, you will find all manner of horrible events inside this book. With coffins washed from their graves and swept away into the city after the River Medlock burst its banks, and the streets of Salford, Gorton and Openshaw overrun by gangs in the latter quarter of the nineteenth century, as well as murders, riots, battles and plagues, the grimmest events in Manchester's history are all here for you to explore. Read this gory and glorious book ... if you dare!