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Swiss Vendetta

Author : Tracee de Hahn
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1250110009
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Swiss Vendetta written by Tracee de Hahn and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2017-02-07 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Swiss Vendetta, Tracee de Hahn's mesmerizing debut, is an emotionally complex, brilliantly plotted mystery set against the beautiful but harsh backdrop of a Swiss winter. Inspector Agnes Lüthi, a Swiss-American police officer in Lausanne, Switzerland, has just transferred to the Violent Crimes unit from Financial Crimes to try to shed all reminders of her old life following her husband's death. Now, on the eve of the worst blizzard Lausanne has seen in centuries, Agnes has been called to investigate her very first homicide case. On the lawn of the grand Château Vallotton, at the edge of Lac Léman, a young woman has been found stabbed to death. The woman, an appraiser for a London auction house, had been taking inventory at the château, a medieval fortress dripping in priceless works of art and historical treasures. Agnes finds it difficult to draw answers out of anyone—the tight-lipped Swiss family living in the château, the servants who have been loyal to the family for generations, the aging WWII survivor who lives in the neighboring mansion, even the American history student studying at the Vallotton château's library. As the storm rages on, roads become impassible, the power goes out around Lausanne, and Agnes finds herself trapped in the candlelit halls of the château with all the players of the mystery, out of her depth in her first murder case and still struggling to stay afloat after the death of her husband.

Swiss Vendetta

Author : Tracee De Hahn
Publisher : Agnes Luthi Mysteries
ISBN 13 : 9781432841669
Total Pages : 487 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (416 download)

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Download or read book Swiss Vendetta written by Tracee De Hahn and published by Agnes Luthi Mysteries. This book was released on 2017 with total page 487 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Agnes Luthi MysteriesInspector Agnes Lüthi, a recently widowed Swiss-American police officer in Lausanne, Switzerland, investigates her very first homicide case in Tracee de Hahn's mesmerizing debut. Swiss Vendetta is an emotionally complex, brilliantly plotted mystery set against the beautiful but harsh backdrop of a Swiss winter.

Direct Democracy in Switzerland

Author : Gregory A. Fossedal
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781412821742
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (217 download)

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Download or read book Direct Democracy in Switzerland written by Gregory A. Fossedal and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Only one country in the world--Switzerland--is a direct democracy, in which, to an extent, the people pass their own laws, judge the constitutionality of statutes, and even have written, in effect, their own constitution. In this propitious volume, Gregory Fossedal reports on the politics and social fabric of what James Bryce has called "the nation that has taken the democratic idea to its furthest extent." The lessons Fossedal presents, at a time of dissatisfaction with the role of money and privileged elites in many Western democracies, are at once timely and urgent. In Direct Democracy in Switzerland, Fossedal has developed a shrewd, sensitive overview of Switzerland's high notion of statecraft. He details the reasons for studying Switzerland's distinctive institutions, and explores the origins and development of the ancient Swiss democracy, which reaches back a thousand years. He shows how Switzerland handles the political questions common to all modern societies, such as education, taxes, crime, welfare, the Holocaust. He concludes with the ongoing debate over two very different visions of democracy, direct versus representative. Paolo Dardenelli in Regional and Federal Studies described the book in its cloth edition as offering "many valuable insights into Swiss political life and written in a light, refreshing journalistic style." Amity Shlaes of the Financial Times commented that "Fossedal shines a brilliant spotlight on a form of governancewith lessons for the rest of us. His review of the referendum process there is required reading for lawmakers, political consultants and voters." Gregory A. Fossedal is chairman of the Alexis de Tocqueville Institution, a research foundation based near Washington, DC. He is also president and chief investment officer of the Democratic Century Fund and its management company, the Emerging Markets Group. He is author of The Democratic Imperative. Alfred R. Berkeley III is president of the Nasdaq stock market.

A Well-Timed Murder

Author : Tracee de Hahn
Publisher : Minotaur Books
ISBN 13 : 1250110025
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book A Well-Timed Murder written by Tracee de Hahn and published by Minotaur Books. This book was released on 2018-02-06 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A true page turner...I found the plot fascinating, and de Hahn builds the tension and suspense perfectly to a satisfying conclusion. I was left wanting to read more about Agnes, and I am looking forward to her next adventure!"—Charles Todd on Swiss Vendetta Swiss-American police officer Agnes Lüthi is on leave in Lausanne, Switzerland, recovering from injuries she sustained in her last case, when an old colleague invites her to the world’s premier watch and jewelry trade show at the grand Messe Basel Exhibition Hall. Little does Agnes know, another friend of hers, Julien Vallotton, is at the same trade show—and he’s looking for Agnes. Julien Vallotton was friends with Guy Chavanon, a master of one of Switzerland’s oldest arts: watchmaking. Chavanon died a week ago, and his daughter doesn’t believe his death was accidental. Shortly before he died, Chavanon boasted that he’d discovered a new technique that would revolutionize the watchmaking industry, and she believes he may have been killed for it. Reluctantly, Agnes agrees to investigate his death. But the world of Swiss watchmaking is guarded and secretive, and before she realizes it, Agnes may be walking straight into the path of a killer. Tracee de Hahn's next mystery, A Well-Timed Murder, is another magnetic mystery that will engross readers from the opening page to the stunning conclusion.

Rossini's Opera William Tell

Author : Gioacchino Rossini
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (985 download)

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Download or read book Rossini's Opera William Tell written by Gioacchino Rossini and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Swiss Monthly

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Swiss Monthly written by and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Cesare Borgia

Author : Sarah Bradford
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0241958768
Total Pages : 451 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (419 download)

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Download or read book Cesare Borgia written by Sarah Bradford and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2011-07-18 with total page 451 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE FULL STORY BEHIND THE BORGIAS, NOW A MAJOR TV DRAMA STARRING JEREMY IRONS 'Either Caesar or nothing' was the motto of Cesare Borgia, whose name has long been synonymous with evil. Almost five centuries have passed since his death, yet his reputation still casts a sinister shadow. He stands accused of treachery, cruelty, rape, incest and, especially, murder - assassination by poison, the deadly white powder concealed in the jewelled ring, or by the midnight band of bravos lurking in the alleys of Renaissance Rome. This classic book by acclaimed historian and biographer Sarah Bradford (author of Lucrezia Borgia and Diana), is the drama of a man of exceptional gifts and a driving lust for power. Cesare Borgia dared fortune for the highest goals and when fate turned against him he fell like Lucifer. Set against the brilliant backcloth of High Renaissance Italy, his life had the perfect proportions of a Greek tragedy.

The Swiss Monthly

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 892 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Swiss Monthly written by and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 892 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Vendetta

Author : Michael Dibdin
Publisher : Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
ISBN 13 : 0307822508
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Vendetta written by Michael Dibdin and published by Vintage Crime/Black Lizard. This book was released on 2012-06-06 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Italian police inspector Aurelio Zen, Michael Dibdin has given the mystery one of its most complex and compelling protagonists: a man wearily trying to enforce the law in a society where the law is constantly being bent. In this, the first novel he appears in, Zen himself has been assigned to do some law bending. Officials in a high government ministry want him to finger someone--anyone--for the murder of an eccentric billionaire, whose corrupt dealings enriched some of the most exalted figures in Italian politics.But Oscar Burolo's murder would seem to be not just unsolvable but impossible. The magnate was killed on a heavily fortified Sardinian estate, where every room was monitored by video cameras. Those cameras captured Burolo's grisly death, but not the face of his killer. And that same killer, elusive, implacable, and deranged, may now be stalking Zen. Inexorable in its suspense, superbly atmospheric, Vendetta is further proof of Dibdin's mastery of the crime novel.

The Vendetta

Author : Alston Purvis
Publisher : PublicAffairs
ISBN 13 : 0786746661
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (867 download)

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Download or read book The Vendetta written by Alston Purvis and published by PublicAffairs. This book was released on 2009-05-05 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Vendetta, author Alston Purvis recounts the story of his father, Melvin Purvis, the iconic G-man and public hero made famous by his remarkable sweep of the great Public Enemies of the American Depression—John Dillinger; Pretty Boy Floyd, and Baby Face Nelson. Purvis’s successes led FBI boss J. Edgar Hoover to grow increasingly jealous, to the point where he vowed to bring down Purvis. Hoover smeared Purvis’s reputation, and tried to erase his name from all records of the FBI's greatest triumphs. This book sets the record straight, and provides a grippingly authentic new telling of the gangster era, seen from the perspective of the pursuers.

The Man Who Stopped the Trains to Auschwitz

Author : David Kranzler
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780815628736
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (287 download)

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Download or read book The Man Who Stopped the Trains to Auschwitz written by David Kranzler and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2000-10-01 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George Mantello, First Secretary of the El Salvador Consulate in Geneva from 1942 to 1945, defied strict censorship to launch a press campaign against the daily deportation of 12,000 Hungarian Jews to Auschwitz. This is the true story of one man’s efforts to bring horrific news of the Nazi genocide to the Swiss public and to the rest of the world. Armed with this information, prominent Swiss church leaders and theologians condemned the unfolding Holocaust from their pulpits, spurring large public demonstrations. In 400 articles appearing in 120 newspapers, Mantello reached opinion makers throughout the world community. International pressure halted the Hungarian deportations, and Mantello distributed thousands of Salvadoran citizenship papers to Jews in Nazi-occupied territories. In addition to Mantello’s role, Kranzler shows how Swiss theologians such as karl barth and paul Vogt mobilized thousands of Christians against the Germans and against the indifference of the Swiss government and the International Red Cross. This fresh look at the intersection of politics and religion also allows for a new assessment of Swiss complicity in the crimes of the Nazi Third Reich.

Congressional Record

Author : United States. Congress
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1406 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (129 download)

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Download or read book Congressional Record written by United States. Congress and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 1406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Vengeance

Author : George Jonas
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0743291646
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (432 download)

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Download or read book Vengeance written by George Jonas and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2005-12 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discloses the Israeli plan to assassinate the known terrorist leaders responsible for the Munich massacre of Israeli athletes and chronicles the story of the hit-squad's leader, a man morally destroyed by his mission.

Angels & Demons

Author : Dan Brown
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 074349346X
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (434 download)

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Download or read book Angels & Demons written by Dan Brown and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2006-05-23 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The murder of a world-famous physicist raises fears that the Illuminati are operating again after centuries of silence, and religion professor Robert Langdon is called in to assist with the case.

The Business of War

Author : David Parrott
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521514835
Total Pages : 449 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (215 download)

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Download or read book The Business of War written by David Parrott and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-03-08 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a substantial reconsideration of early modern warfare and its relationship to the power of the state.

Cat in a Vegas Gold Vendetta

Author : Carole Nelson Douglas
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 9780765365927
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (659 download)

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Download or read book Cat in a Vegas Gold Vendetta written by Carole Nelson Douglas and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2012-06-26 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Entreated by a B-movie actress to investigate the suspicious death of a handyman, Temple Barr discovers that the actress's wealthy aunt is planning to leave her estate to her resident cats, much to the chagrin of greedy humans.

The Soviets' Greatest Gambit

Author : Alan J. Levine
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1793629501
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (936 download)

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Download or read book The Soviets' Greatest Gambit written by Alan J. Levine and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-08-19 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adam J. Levine analyzes the origins of the Cuban Missile Crisis, with a particular focus on Nikita Khrushchev’s motives and the response of the Kennedy administration. Levine’s account presents a different portrayal of the events than popularly told, shedding light on John F. Kennedy’s decision-making practices and personal behavior while out of public eye.