"The year is 1869. A brutal triple murder in a remote community in the Scottish Highlands leads to the arrest of a young man by the name of Roderick Macrae. A memoir written by the accused makes it clear that he is guilty, but it falls to the country's finest legal and psychiatric minds to uncover what drove him to commit such merciless acts of violence. Was he mad? Only the persuasive powers of his advocate stand between Macrae and the gallows."--Amazon.com.
War Crimes & Terror
Unhappily for all concerned ( though presumably luckily for the Zolas and Hogarths ) , Julian Hall had arrived ahead of him . Hall opened the proceedings by swigging down a magnum of champagne and loosing off a few random shots around ...
Note de l'éditeur : "First published in 1967, Death Kit -- Susan Sontag's second novel -- is a classic of modern fiction. Blending realism and dream, it offers a passionate exploration of the recesses of the American conscience."
La otra cara del diablo
The master storyteller's legacy continues. An elusive and shadowy killer is on the prowl, codenamed the Angel of Death.
People came to Goldstone to forget, but when Sheriff Tyler Braxton is roped into investigating his brother-in-law's suspected affair, and then a murder, he finds himself questioning if this little town is perfect after all. Original.
This deputy was looking for redemption from a mysterious beauty.
Considered in turn a Gothic novel, a psychological case study of an unreliable narrator, and an examination of totalitarian thought, the ultimately unclassifiable novel, set in a pseudo-Christian world of angels, devils, and demonic ...
The Dark Fountain: A Novel of Horror
She became the last woman to be hanged in Britain, and her execution is the most notorious of hangman Albert Pierrepoint's 'duties'. Despite Ruth's infamy, the story of her life has never been fully told.