Ergebnis für "A Taste for Monsters" in Krimis & Thriller

More money, more murder... Heidi Waters, CEO of billion-dollar startup Vitality+, is all the rage in Silicon Valley. Her company's promises to roll out a neurochemical cure for caffeine-related anxiety are set to change the game, a godsend for anyone who's ever got the jitters from upsizing...

Ein Anschlag auf die Organisation, eine entführte Hackerin und eine weiße Lilie. Hätte ich gewusst, wohin mich meine Vergangenheit führen würde, hätte ich mich damals wohl für den Tod entschieden. Die Vorkommnisse im Bostoner Untergrund häufen sich. Ghost, Kill und Stone versuchen mit aller Macht, ihr Imperium zu verteidigen.

Quinn: After Rowan and I escape Mercer’s hold, we have to get the pack somewhere safe, but my only option is a pride run by a controlling alpha. With everyone safely inside the walls of Winterhaven, Rowan and I attempt to search for the truth, but we’re being hunted and driven further from the answers we need. I want to do everything to protect my mate, but as I learn more about his past, I realize that I might need to protect him from more than just Mercer.

January, 1145. Godfrey Bowyer, the best but least likeable bow maker in Worcester, dies an agonising death by poisoning. Although similarly struck down after the same meal, his wife, Blanche, survives. The number of people who could have administered the poison should mean a very short investigation for the sheriff’s men, Hugh Bradecote, Serjeant Catchpoll and Underserjeant Walkelin, but perhaps someone was pulling the strings, and that widens the net considerably.

Criminal profiling—the delicate art of collecting and deciphering the psychological “fingerprints” of the monsters among us—holds an almost mythological status in pop culture. But what exactly is it, does it work, and why is the American public so entranced by it? What do we gain, and endanger, from studying why people commit murder? In The Monsters We Make, author Rachel Corbett explores how criminal profiling became one of society’s most seductive and quixotic undertakings through five significant moments in its history.

This program includes an epilogue and acknowledgements read by the author “A fascinating tale of poisons and poisonous deeds which both educates and entertains.” --Kathy Reichs As any reader or listener of murder mysteries can tell you, poison is one of the most enduring—and...