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Stop Me
Leo Sharpe's life is shattered when his wife Laura suddenly disappears. His desperate need to find her turns to obsession when he becomes convinced she's the latest victim of The Vacation Killer who has claimed eleven lives already - is Laura going to be the twelfth? The MO is the same every time - a woman disappears and within hours inboxes around the world receive a threatening email. A few days later, grim evidence of the victim's death is delivered to the police. But in Laura's case, nothing is sent. Has the killer spared her life? Why? And for how long? For Leo, the clock is ticking.he needs to do everything in his power to stop the killer before it's too late.
The Strange Incident at Quail Center
Gulf War veteran Raymond (Kit) Carson is a survivor. Now immersed in civilian life as the owner of an airfield on his inherited land, Kit enjoys instructing his student pilots, especially the lovely Lisa Morgan who is learning to fly to surprise her boyfriend. but when a wounded pilot crash lands on his airfield, everything changes for Kit and his once tranquil operation. After the medics discover the pilot has been mortally wounded prior to the crash, it spurs an investigation by the sheriff's department that calls on Kit for his expert advice. Although Kit attempts to continue with his business as usual and let the investigation take its course, a new student reveals a surprising story that ties the pilots murder to a past crime. Kit now harbors a lethal secret and tries to distract himself by instructing and romancing Lisa-until fate leads the killer straight to his airfield. The Strange Incident at Quail Center is an exciting tale of murder and intrigue in a place where fledglings earn their wings and romance abounds as a serial killer waits to strike again.
Stalking the Evil Eye
Charlie Zorn, a new age private investigator, arrives upon the scene in the pages of Stalking the Evil Eye. Zorn has two cases to resolve: In one, he has armed conflicts with Ojo, the Evil Eye, a Colombian killer who aims to harm Zorn's attractive client.In his other case, Zorn encounters lethal resistance from the mob, while he probes for the method used that enables corporate securities fraud. A feverish pace keeps the reader on edge as P.I. Zorn presses forward to resolve these deadly cases. The expected thrilling climax does not disappoint.
Not in Our Back Yard
This book sets out the strategies which work when fighting decisions by councils and big business which disrupt the community, from school closures and new bypasses to telephone masts and green field developments. It shows how to create a well organised civil protest to overturn these decisions and save the neighbourhood.
Remediation
A new framework for considering how all media constantly borrow from and refashion other media. Media critics remain captivated by the modernist myth of the new: they assume that digital technologies such as the World Wide Web, virtual reality, and computer graphics must divorce themselves from earlier media for a new set of aesthetic and cultural principles. In this richly illustrated study, Jay David Bolter and Richard Grusin offer a theory of mediation for our digital age that challenges this assumption. They argue that new visual media achieve their cultural significance precisely by paying homage to, rivaling, and refashioning such earlier media as perspective painting, photography, film, and television. They call this process of refashioning "remediation," and they note that earlier media have also refashioned one another: photography remediated painting, film remediated stage production and photography, and television remediated film, vaudeville, and radio.
Lady Bane
Enter first, Dr. Arnold Baumcort interviewing three Ladies of the Evening as research for a magazine article. His purpose is not to create prurient interest but to tell of the humor and pathos found in their unusual work and of their plans for retirement when age calls their number. Shortly after publishing his article on the lovely Cheryl, Gypsy, and Mitzi, Arnold is called upon to rescue Gypsy from a knife-wielding attacker. She has temporarily escaped and turned to Dr. Baumcort rather than the police. Involving the police would produce harmful publicity. Arnold takes her in for a time and promises to keep her safe. Before long, Arnold feels that the three ladies must live under a dark clo...
