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Defending Jacob - 101 Amazing Facts You Didn't Know
Did you know William Landay got his inspiration for Defending Jacob from a 1997 story that delved into the idea of "murder gene", which later came to be known as "behavioral genetics"? Or, did you William Landay left his job of seven years as an Assistant DA in Boston to became a full-time author in the latter 90's? What are the amazing facts of Defending Jacob by William Landay? Do you want to know the golden nuggets of facts readers love? If you've enjoyed the book, then this will be a must read delight for you! Collected for readers everywhere are 101 book facts about the book & author that are fun, down-to-earth, and amazingly true to keep you laughing and learning as you read through th...
The Strangler
Boston, 1963. A city on the edge. The Boston Strangler has already claimed a dozen victims. For the three Daley brothers, crime is very much the family business but the Strangler's murderous spree is about to bring violent death a lot closer to home: Joe - tough-talking cop whose gambling habits - fast women, slow horses - drag him down into the city's gangland. Michael - Harvard-educated lawyer, tasked to bring the Strangler to justice. Ricky - expert burglar and the devil-may-care youngest son who is used to leading a charmed life. When the Strangler strikes, they will all be forced to look into their family's own lethal secrets and the one death in the past that has changed them forever...
Mission Flats
A Chief of Police who is looking for a way out...a retired cop...and a murder which reaches back 20 years... The brilliant, award-winning novel from the author of DEFENDING JACOB In a small town in Maine, nothing much happens. Even the Chief of Police, Ben Truman, is thinking about leaving. That is, until he discovers a body in a cabin up by the lake. The dead man turns out to be a Boston prosecutor who had been investigating a series of gang-related murders. When Truman heads to the city to follow the few leads he has on the case, he is not welcomed by the local police - after all, big city crime is not something he has had any experience with. But Truman refuses to let go of the case. With the help of a retired cop, he becomes embroiled in an investigation which reaches back to a killing 20 years ago...
All That is Mine I Carry With Me
A mother vanished. A father presumed guilty. There is no proof. There are no witnesses. For the children, there is only doubt. One afternoon in November 1975, ten-year-old Miranda Larkin comes home from school to find the house eerily quiet. Her mother is missing. Nothing else is out of place. There is no sign of struggle. Her mom's pocketbook remains in the front hall, in its usual spot. So begins a mystery that will span a lifetime. What happened to Jane Larkin? Investigators suspect Jane's husband. A criminal defense attorney, surely Dan Larkin would be an expert in outfoxing the police. But no evidence is found linking him to a crime, and the case fades from the public's memory, a simmer...
Defending Jacob
Andy Barber adalah seorang asisten jaksa wilayah di pinggiran Massachusetts selama lebih dari dua puluh tahun. Dia dihormati, hebat di ruang persidangan, dan hidup bahagia dengan Laurie, istrinya, juga Jacob, anaknya. Namun ketika sebuah peristiwa pembunuhan terjadi di taman Cold Spring, di dekat rumah mereka, hidup keluarga Andy pun berubah. Jacob dituduh sebagai pembunuh. Sebagai seorang ayah, naluri untuk membela putranya terus berkobar dalam diri Andy. Dia melakukan berbagai cara untuk menyelamatkan putranya, karena dia tahu bahwa Jacob tidak bersalah. Dia percaya pada putranya. Persidangan terus berlanjut, dan dampaknya memengaruhi kehidupan keluarga Barber. Fakta tersembunyi yang telah lama dikubur Andy malah terkuak, bahkan mengancam rumah tangganya.
Track Changes
The story of writing in the digital age is every bit as messy as the ink-stained rags that littered the floor of Gutenberg’s print shop or the hot molten lead of the Linotype machine. During the period of the pivotal growth and widespread adoption of word processing as a writing technology, some authors embraced it as a marvel while others decried it as the death of literature. The product of years of archival research and numerous interviews conducted by the author, Track Changes is the first literary history of word processing. Matthew Kirschenbaum examines how the interests and ideals of creative authorship came to coexist with the computer revolution. Who were the first adopters? What ...
The Practice of Critical Discourse Analysis: an Introduction
This book provides an introduction to the aims, theories and practices of critical discourse analysis (CDA). It is mainly concerned with the linguistic aspects of CDA. It provides an introduction to the different types of language analysis that are employed in CDA (frequency analysis, coversation, transitivity and reference, and figurative language, for example) and seeks to provide readers with the skills to apply them in different contexts to various types of texts: political speeches, marketing pieces, literary works, advertising, multimedia persuasive texts, discourses on race, gender, and politics.
I, The Judge
MOM MIGHT BE ALWAYS RIGHT. BUT WHAT IF SHE'S ALSO A KILLER? When PI Steve Jobz's aging mom's boyfriend is found murdered in his Anne Lee Home for the Aged bedroom, who becomes the prime suspect? Steve's own mother. For fans of Robert B. Parker, Michael Connelly, Charlie Houston, and more comes another killer thriller in the bestselling Steve Jobz PI series from New York Times and USA Today bestselling Thriller and Shamus Award winning author, Vincent Zandri. Nab yours now! . "Vincent Zandri is one of the most acclaimed thriller writers working today!" -- Publishers Weekly "The story of Vincent Zandri is the story of our times." --Business Insider "Vincent Zandri hails from the future." --The New York Times “Sensational . . . masterful . . . brilliant.” --New York Post
Truth in Advertising
“F. Scott Fitzgerald said that there are no second acts in American lives. I have no idea what that means but I believe that in quoting him I appear far more intelligent than I am. I don’t know about second acts, but I do think we get second chances, fifth chances, eighteenth chances. Every day we get a fresh chance to live the way we want.” FINBAR DOLAN is lost and lonely. Except he doesn’t know it. Despite escaping his blue-collar Boston upbringing to carve out a mildly successful career at a Madison Avenue ad agency, he’s a bit of a mess and closing in on forty. He’s recently called off a wedding. Now, a few days before Christmas, he’s forced to cancel a long-postponed vacat...
