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Book Synopsis Girl Found Dead by : Michael Underwood
Download or read book Girl Found Dead written by Michael Underwood and published by Murder Room. This book was released on 2013-05-14 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Her scarf had been knotted tightly around her neck and it was obvious she had been killed with great determination ...' Susan Andrews has been murdered and her body found near a disused airfield. The case is now in the hands of Detective-Superintendent Simon Manton, but Susan's father, a former detective-inspector, decides to investigate himself. Important questions soon emerge - what part has a philandering salesman with a scratched cheek, or the dreamy undergraduate son of the local gentry played in Susan's final hours? And, how much evidence must you have against a suspect before you can charge them with murder?
Book Synopsis Dispatches from the Village by : Munyaradzi Mabeza
Download or read book Dispatches from the Village written by Munyaradzi Mabeza and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2019-01-07 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Chris Mabeza takes the reader through a breath taking journey of the vicissitudes of village life in Zimbabwe from the colonial days to the present. This, at a time when telling African stories is enjoying a Risorgimento. Thus, in essence Mabeza throws his fingers in the wind and catches the zeitgeist of African storytelling. The stories leave the reader spellbound. Dispatches from the village has its finger on the pulse of the people. This gorgeous collection of short stories is a product of immersive thick descriptions of rural life as it intersects with urban life. The author grapples with the effects of what has generally been observed as the brutish and nasty new normal. The rural landscape has not been spared the vagaries of this new normal. However, when overwhelmed by the tsunami of negative news that permeate our media, pick-up Dispatches from the village to soothe yourself.
Download or read book Rumours written by Freya North and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2012-06-21 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everybody’s talking – but what’s really going on?
Download or read book Village Rumours written by Rebecca Shaw and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2014-08-28 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Rebecca Shaw's latest scintillating tale of village life, hearts will be broken, families reunited and long-hidden secrets will finally come to light. You can't escape your past. At least that's what the residents of Turnham Malpas would say . . . While clearing out the rectory's loft, Reverend Peter Harris makes an unsettling discovery and a dark secret is exposed that soon sets tongues wagging in the village. Having received a letter from the sons she hasn't heard from in 15 years, local gossip Greta Jones is delighted at the prospect of seeing them after all this time - despite her husband's misgivings. And Craddock Fitch's unruly grandchildren, newly arrived in the village, are causing not a little trouble for the townsfolk. Meanwhile Fran Charter-Plackett has a difficult decision to make. Her parents would like to see her settled with kind and reliable Alex Harris. But when Chris Templeton, the man whom Fran once lost her heart to, returns to the village, it seems he is all set to steal her affections once more. Is Chris really a changed man? And will Fran finally go with her heart or her head?
Book Synopsis Not Safe After Dark, and Other Stories by : Peter Robinson
Download or read book Not Safe After Dark, and Other Stories written by Peter Robinson and published by McClelland & Stewart. This book was released on 2009-02-24 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peter Robinson’s first collection of short crime fiction to be published in Canada spans his writing career and reveals his impeccable grasp of both mystery and suspense writing. The sixteen stories are set in places as far flung as Inspector Alan Banks’s turf in Yorkshire, Robinson’s own neighbourhood in Toronto, and in Los Angeles and Florida. They also reach back in time: to 1873 to an utopian milltown in northern England, to Thomas Hardy country in 1939, and to a small Yorkshire town during the Second World War. The collection also includes a novella, featuring Robinson’ s celebrated sleuth Inspector Banks. Going Home is a chilling yet profoundly moving tale of just how hard it can be to visit one’s elderly parents, even for only a few days. Four of the stories have won awards: ‘Innocence” won the Crime Writers of Canada Best Short Story Award in 1991, and “The Two Ladies of Rose Cottage” won the Mystery Readers International’s Macavity Award in 1998 and was nominated for both the Agatha and Arthur Ellis awards. “Murder in Utopia” won Robinson his fifth Arthur Ellis Award in 2001, the same year that “Missing in Action” won the Edgar Award.
Book Synopsis Village Diary of a Heretic Banker by : Moin Qazi
Download or read book Village Diary of a Heretic Banker written by Moin Qazi and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2014-06-06 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "VILLAGE DIARY OF A HERETIC BANKER is more a diary than an instructive guide. The diary provides the flavour of the author’s personal experiences as a rural banker and his engagement with the poor in the remote crannies of India. The seed around which the book crystallises is the intrinsic tenacity and grit of poor rural women that can be harnessed into energetic powerhouses to drive our rural society onto the road to prosperity. The book carries in its pages the poignant nostalgia of the author for villages but it is also tinged at places with rage and despair. The message in this book is that there is no grand, universal formula for poverty reduction. The battle has to be fought on several fronts and what works in one place does not necessarily work everywhere. The way forward lies in grassroots field experiments for understanding the causal relationships in poor people’s behaviour and in learning by doing. The author’s faith in poor people’s ability to climb out of the rut is unshakeable and his core belief is gradualism. The author believes that lasting social change most often—and perhaps always—comes slowly rather than in a burst of revolutionary fervour. It is this belief that has shaped his work. He also believes that lasting change can be effected only when women are given equal opportunities for financial empowerment The author firmly believes that it is possible to eliminate poverty in our country—provided we re-examine the received wisdom of our assumptions. The poor are poor not because they are unskilled or illiterate but because they cannot retain the returns of their labour. They neither own capital, nor does anyone give them access to credit, except on the most unreasonable terms. They live on the edge, in constant fear of a catastrophe or tragedy, but they have no insurance because insurance companies consider them a losing proposition. And the State’s social safety nets are not only grossly inadequate but mired in corruption and bureaucratic red tape. During his efforts in development finance and rural development work for over three decades, the author has seen projects and strategies succeed as well as fail. He has seen misguided project designs, poor implementation and squandering of large sums of money. But he also witnessed incredible achievements. When development works well, he argues, it can transform lives by providing the underprivileged the capital and knowledge that can open up opportunities for them and reduce their poverty. "
Download or read book Kudankulam written by Raminder Kaur and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-02-14 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the 1980s, the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant in the south Indian state of Tamil Nadu has faced multiple forms of resistance. Women and men from different walks of life—fishers, farmers, environmentalists, activists, writers, scholars, teachers, journalists, doctors, and lawyers among many others—have come together to combat the deadly radioactive repercussions and repression that come with the development of a high-security nuclear installation. Drawing upon their experiences, this historical and ethnographic study accounts for the anti-nuclear campaign’s part in ‘right-to-lives’ movements while engaging with the (re)production of knowledge and ignorance in the understanding of radiation, and efforts to create an evidence base in response to the otherwise unavailable or insufficient data on the environment and public health in India. Tracing the grassroots struggle for ‘energy justice’ off- and on-line, the author looks into the larger questions of development, democracy, and nationalism. These have marked not just parts of India identified for large-scale constructions, but also other regions of the world where state functionaries have much to gain from corporate collaborations at the cost of local residents who lose their livelihoods, and are forcibly displaced, persecuted, or even killed in order to execute governmental designs in the name of the nation.
Download or read book Kural written by Tiruvalluvar and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2005-03-04 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A celebrated work by the greatest poet of classical Tamil literature Tiruvalluvar probably lived and wrote between the second century BC and the eighth century AD though his dates have not been conclusively established. The work by which he is known, the Kural, comprises 1,330 couplets and is divided into three sections—Virtue, Wealth and Love—and is based on the first three of the four supreme aims prescribed by Hindu tradition: dharma (virtue), artha (wealth), kama (love) and moksha (salvation). Taken together, the three books of the Kural inform, criticize and teach the reader, in brilliantly styled and pithy verse, about life, love and the ways of the world. Translated and edited with an introduction by P.S. Sundaram
Book Synopsis The Killing in the Café by : Simon Brett
Download or read book The Killing in the Café written by Simon Brett and published by Severn House Publishers Ltd. This book was released on 2016-03-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The wickedly entertaining new Fethering mystery featuring chalk-and-cheese detective duo Carole and Jude Polly’s Cake Shop has been a feature of the shopping parade for many years, but when its owner announces her retirement, the Fethering residents start to worry about the loss of this popular amenity. Alarmed by rumours that the café might become a Starbucks, a group clubs together to form the Save Polly’s Cake Shop Action Committee. The plan is that Polly’s should become a community venture, managed and run by volunteers from the village. Roped in to help, Jude finds the committee meetings fraught with petty power struggles, clashing personalities and monstrous egos. Matters take a turn for the worse when she and Carole come across a badly-decomposed body on Fethering beach – and uncover a link to Polly’s. Not only do the two neighbours have to find out whodunit, they are also faced with the thorny question: is it possible to run a business on that most volatile of commodities - goodwill?
Download or read book The Deadly Echoes written by MJ White and published by Hera books Ltd. This book was released on 2024-06-06 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Four murder victims. One silent survivor. Can Cora hear the secrets he’s hiding? When a terrified, bloodied man staggers from a boarded-up shop in broad daylight in the small Suffolk village of Evernam, police are called to the scene. What they find inside the derelict building sends the community into shock: four bodies, their throats savagely cut, arranged in a bizarre formation with objects surrounding them. The survivor, Mark Lingham, insists that the deaths are his fault and is immediately arrested for murder. But police specialist Dr Cora Lael – a woman with the ability to sense emotional echoes from objects – hears a different story from the belongings placed around the bodies... Working with DS Rob Minshull and the South Suffolk CID team, Cora is plunged into a deeply twisted case with more questions than answers. With a rural community in disarray, a horrific murder scene that shocks even the hardened detectives of South Suffolk CID and a suspect suddenly changing his story, can Cora unravel the secrets and lies to track down a brutal killer? A twisty, shocking and atmospheric detective novel that readers of Ann Cleeves and Elly Griffiths won’t be able to put down. Praise for the Cora Lael Mysteries series: ‘One of the most striking crime novels of the year.’ Daily Mail ‘BLOODY BRILLIANT. If you like your crime dark and twisty...The Secret Voices is all this and more.’ Joanna Cannon ‘An unusual premise and an engaging cast of characters. What more could you want from a crime debut? I flew through it.’ Mari Hannah ‘I was well and truly hooked...The writing was well researched, the storyline gripping, and the characters were spot on!...Would definitely recommend!’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Reader Review ‘This was excellent...There were many twists and I loved the plot development...I will pick up anything by this author in the future!’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Reader Review ‘Truly could not put this down...so many twists and turns...Great characters which are also believable’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Reader Review ‘Dr Cora Lael is such an interesting character...a unique crime thriller which I would definitely recommend!’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Reader Review ‘The perfect mix of suspense, mystery and interesting plot...Gripping from the first page to the last...This is a brilliant book!!’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐Reader Review ‘Fast paced, cleverly thought out and gripping to the very end, if you want a police procedural crime read with that added something extra, then I would definitely recommend this!’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Reader Review
Book Synopsis These Hills Called Home by : Temsula Ao
Download or read book These Hills Called Home written by Temsula Ao and published by Zubaan. This book was released on 2006 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More Than Half A Century Of Bloodshed Has Marked The History Of The Naga People Who Live In The Troubled Northeastern Region Of India. Their Struggle For An Independent Nagaland And Their Continuing Search For Identity Provides The Backdrop For The Stories That Make Up This Unusual Collection. Describing How Ordinary People Cope With Violence, How They Negotiate Power And Force, How They Seek And Find Safe Spaces And Enjoyment In The Midst Of Terror, The Author Details A Way Of Life Under Threat From The Forces Of Modernization And War. No One The Young, The Old, The Ordinary Housewife, The Willing Partner, The Militant Who Takes To The Gun, And The Young Woman Who Sings Even As She Is Being Raped Is Untouched By The Violence. Theirs Are The Stories That Form The Subtext Of The Struggles That Lie At The Internal Faultlines Of The Indian Nation-State. These Are Stories That Speak Movingly Of Home, Country, Nation, Nationality, Identity, And Direct The Reader To The Urgency Of The Issues That Lie At Their Heart.
Download or read book The Lives of Extraction written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-11-13 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The frontiers of extraction are expanding rapidly, driven by a growing demand for minerals and metals that is often motivated by sustainability considerations. Two volumes of International Development Policy are dedicated to the paradoxes and futures of green extractivism, with analyses of experiences from five continents. In this, the first of these two volumes, 16 authors offer a critical and nuanced understanding of the social, cultural and political dimensions of extraction. The experiences of communities, indigenous peoples and workers in extractive contexts are deeply shaped by narratives, imaginaries and the complexity of social contexts. These dimensions are crucial to making extraction possible and to sustaining its expansion, but also to identifying possibilities for resistance, and to paving the way for alternative, post-extractive economies. This volume is accompanied by IDP 16, The Afterlives of Extraction: Alternatives and Sustainable Futures.
Download or read book Hogg's Weekly Instructor written by and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Hogg's Weekly Instructor by : James Hogg
Download or read book Hogg's Weekly Instructor written by James Hogg and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Fields Of Lies by : Sabina Gabrielli Carrara
Download or read book Fields Of Lies written by Sabina Gabrielli Carrara and published by Sabina Gabrielli Carrara. This book was released on 2019-02-08 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michael and Bernadette are living a perfect life in the dormant little Irish village of Seacross, but things are not always as they look. Husband and wife are actually living parallel lives. Michael had embarked on a dangerous affair and Bernadette had let the past back in her life. A past she cannot make amend with without endangering the present. Bernadette knows the path she had taken had no coming back and that it will change things forever, but it is her only chance to start a new chapter with Shane, her long-lost lover. But is Shane Flynn back for love or revenge? Soon they will be all trapped in a spiral of lies, secrets and lust, and when someone goes as far as murder the castle of lies built in the last twenty-four years is destined to collapse with devastating consequences.
Book Synopsis Murder in the Mill-Race by : E.C.R. Lorac
Download or read book Murder in the Mill-Race written by E.C.R. Lorac and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2019-08-06 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the captivating treasures buried in the British Library's archives. Largely inaccessible to the public until now, these enduring crime classics were written in the golden age of detective fiction. "Never make trouble in the village" is an unspoken law, but it's a binding law. You may know about your neighbor's sins and shortcomings, but you must never name them aloud. It'd make trouble, and small societies want to avoid trouble. When Dr Raymond Ferens moves to a practice at Milham in the Moor in North Devon, he and his wife are enchanted with the beautiful hilltop village lying so close to moor and sky. At first, they see only its charm, but soon they begin to uncover its secrets—envy, hatred, and malice. Everyone says that Sister Monica, warden of a children's home, is a saint—but is she? A few months after the Ferens' arrival her body is found drowned in the mill-race. Chief Inspector Macdonald faces one of his most difficult cases in a village determined not to betray its dark secrets to a stranger. Also in the British Library Crime Classics: Smallbone Deceased The Body in the Dumb River Blood on the Tracks Surfeit of Suspects Death Has Deep Roots Checkmate to Murder
Download or read book Lake of Echoes written by Liza Perrat and published by Perrat Publishing. This book was released on 2022-10-19 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A vanished daughter. A failing marriage. A mother’s life in ruins. 1969. As France seethes in the wake of social unrest, eight-year-old Juliette is caught up in the turmoil of her parents’ fragmenting marriage. Unable to bear another argument, she flees her home. Neighbours joining the search for Juliette are stunned that such a harrowing thing could happen in their tranquil lakeside village. But this is nothing compared to her mother, Lea’s torment, imagining what has befallen her daughter. Léa, though, must remain strong to run her auberge and as the seasons pass with no news from the gendarmes, she is forced to accept she may never know her daughter’s fate. Despite the villagers’ scepticism, Léa’s only hope remains with a clairvoyant who believes Juliette is alive. But will mother and daughter ever be reunited? Steeped in centuries-old tradition, against an enchanting French countryside backdrop, Lake of Echoes will delight your senses and captivate your heart. Compelling blend of historical fiction, mystery and women’s fiction for Kelly Rimmer and Kristin Hannah fans. “A testament to female resilience, depth and strength, this is a universal story set in a changing world.” JJ Marsh, author of The Beatrice Stubbs Series.
