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Beautiful Death
From the seedy underbelly of London's back streets and New Scotland Yard to the dangerous frontiers of modern medicine, this is a gripping crime thriller by million-copy bestselling author Fiona McIntosh A calculating serial killer, who ′trophies′ the faces of his victims, is targeting Londoners and committing the most gruesome of murders. With each new atrocity, the public and the police are getting more desperate for results. Under enormous pressure, DCI Jack Hawksworth and his team begin their investigation and soon find it taking them into the murky world of illegal immigrants and human organ trading. But when the murderer strikes closer to home than Jack could ever have imagined possible, the case becomes a personal crusade – and a race against time.
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Discourse, Knowledge, and Power in Apuleius’ Metamorphoses
In ancient Rome, where literacy was limited and speech was the main medium used to communicate status and identity face-to-face in daily life, an education in rhetoric was a valuable form of cultural capital and a key signifier of elite male identity. To lose the ability to speak would have caused one to be viewed as no longer elite, no longer a man, and perhaps even no longer human. We see such a fantasy horror story played out in the Metamorphoses or The Golden Ass, written by Roman North African author, orator, and philosopher Apuleius of Madauros—the only novel in Latin to survive in its entirety from antiquity. In the novel’s first-person narrative as well as its famous inset tales ...
ROH
Drei Ereignisse, die scheinbar nichts miteinander zu tun haben: Bei dem Einsatz im Kölner Zeusstraßenviertel, einer türkisch-islamischen No-Go-Area, wird dem Streifenpolizisten Carl Gruber der Mord an einem türkischen Jungen in die Schuhe geschoben. Er verliert seinen Job, seine Frau verlässt ihn, sein Leben ist ein Scherbenhaufen. Die Mörder sind Handlanger des islamistischen Predigers Meti Arslan. Warum musste der Junge sterben? Der achtzehnjährigen Sara gelingt die Flucht aus einem von drakonischen Erniedrigungen und Missbrauch geprägtem Klosterinternat in den Bayerischen Alpen. Sie schlägt sich nach Köln durch. In North Carolina bereitet der Ex-CIA-Agent Newt Andersen, ein beso...
Mirror Man
The third novel featuring DCI Jack Hawksworth, million-copy bestselling author Fiona McIntosh questions: is one life worth more than another? Police are baffled by several deaths, each unique and bizarre in their own way – and shockingly brutal. Scotland Yard sends in its crack DCI, the enigmatic Jack Hawksworth, who wastes no time in setting up Operation Mirror. His chief wants him to dismiss any possibility of a serial killer before the media gets on the trail. With his best investigative team around him, Jack resorts to some unconventional methods to disprove or find a link between the gruesome deaths. One involves a notorious serial killer from his past, and the other, a smart and seductive young journalist who'll do anything to catch her big break. Discovering he's following the footsteps of a vigilante and in a race against time, Jack will do everything it takes to stop another killing – but at what personal cost for those he holds nearest and dearest?
