"Oh what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive."
Sir Walter Scott
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"Oh what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive." |
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The Unknown Darkness: Profiling the Predators Among Us "In
a book that combines engrossing writing with seasoned insight, McCrary,
a 25-year veteran of the FBI and a former criminal profiler in the bureau's
renowned behavioral science unit, has teamed up with Ramsland, a forensic
psychologist and writer, to produce a detailed account of criminal investigative
analysis." |
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| Dr. Katherine Ramsland teaches forensic psychology at DeSales University. She has published twenty books, including The Forensic Science of CSI and The Criminal Mind: A Writer’s Guide to Forensic Psychology. She writes for Court TV’s Crime Library and co-wrote The Unknown Darkness: Profiling the Predators Among Us with Gregg McCrary. Dr. Ramsland's article "Psychological Detectives, Past and Present" appears in the Fall 2003 issue of Web Mystery Magazine. | 384
pages $20.76 HarperCollins 0-0605-0957-0 September 2003 |
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The
German Money "Lev Raphael writes with the precision of a neurosurgeon, the warmth of an ancient storyteller, and the soul of a people that has known the extremes of joy and sorrow, hope and despair, love and hate more than almost any other." The
Jewish Bulletin
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Lev Raphael
is the mysteries columnist for the Detroit Free Press and
prize-winning author of 14 books including the critically acclaimed Nick
Hoffman series, Let's Get Criminal, The Edith Wharton
Murders, The Death of a Constant Lover, Little
Miss Evil, and Burning Down the House. His latest
novel is The German Money. Lev Raphael's review of The Devil in the White City appears in the Fall 2003 issue of Web Mystery Magazine. |
| Lucrezia Borgia and The Mother of Poisons | |
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Lucrezia Borgia, daughter of Pope Alexander VI and sister of Cesare Borgia, agreed to a loveless third marriage only to escape from Rome. There the machinations of her father and brother had so damaged her reputation that it was whispered behind her back that she was incestuous with both her male relatives and a murderess beside. It was said that those invited to dine at Lucrezia's table made out their wills before they left home. In Ferrara, however, she was greeted with joy–by everyone except her husband–and regarded as beautiful, innocent, and virtuous. And then one of her ladies-in-waiting died ... of poison. |
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Borgia and The Mother of Poisons by Roberta Gellis Forge September 2003 0-7653-0020-6 $24.95 |
Since 1964, Ms. Gellis has published about 25 meticulously researched historical novels. The recipient of many awards (including the Silver and Gold Medal Porgy for historical novels from West Coast Review of Books, and The Romantic Times Award for Best Novel in the Medieval Period and Lifetime Achievement Award for Historical Fantasy), Roberta Gellis holds master's degrees in medieval literature and biochemistry. Ms. Gellis' article on historical research techniques will appear in the Winter 2003 issue of Web Mystery Magazine -- look for it 21 December. |
Fitted In: The Cardiff 3 and the Lynette White Inquiry On St Valentine's Day 1988 Lynette White, 20, was horrifically murdered in Cardiff. South Wales Police issued photofits of two white men but never traced them. Ten months later, ignoring a stronger case against a white pedophile, police arrested five black men. None of the forensic evidence related them to the victim. The longest murder trial in British history ended, despite no credible evidence, with three men convicted on unlawful verdicts In 1992 the Court of Appeal quashed the convictions. Satish Sekar, a member of the NUJ's London Freelance Branch, has devoted much of his working life to an expose of this shocking case. |
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| Contact Satish Sekar to order Fitted In: The Cardiff 3 and the Lynette White Inquiry | |
| Satish Sekar holds a BA Hons. degree in Sociology. A freelance journalist since 1990, his work has appeared in The Guardian and The Independent and has been used by television and radio stations throughout England and Wales. The Lynette White/Cardiff Three case was the first case he worked on. Mr. Sekar's article "The Cellophane Man" appears in the Fall 2003 issue of Web Mystery Magazine. | Fitted
In: The Cardiff 3 and the Lynette White Inquiry 0-9527-3250-5 |
| Death's Acre: Inside the Legendary Forensic Lab, the Body Farm, Where the Dead Do Tell Tales | |
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"If you’ve ever read Patricia Cornwell’s novel or seen gruesome footage of this place, you may (or not, depending on your nerve) be thrilled to know that there’s finally a book about that strange area in Tennessee known fondly as the Body Farm. Founder Bill Bass has at last organized his notes and teamed up with writer Jon Jefferson to present a definitive history in Death’s Acre: Inside the Legendary Forensic Lab, the Body Farm, Where the Dead Do Tell Tales. "As Bass tells the history and development of this one-of-a-kind place, he utilizes cases that taught him something new or put his acquired knowledge to the test, so the book sometimes has the quality of a detective novel. The stories of the Zoo Man, a serial killer, and the slaughtered Perry family stand out as Bass’s best work, but there are lesser known tales as well that engage the reader with a fine balance between science and gore. [I]f you’re interested in forensic pathology and anthropology ... you’ll come away with knowledge about teeth, insects, adipocere, and time of death that you won’t get anywhere else." |
G.P. Putnam's Sons, November 2003; $24.95; photographs |
Katherine Ramsland, Ph.D.author of twenty books, teaches forensic psychology at DeSales University, and writes forensic science articles for Court TV’s Crime Library. Dr. Ramsland's review of Death's Acre appears in the Fall 2003 issue of Web Mystery Magazine. |
| Blackwater Tango ... Gena Hollender has a new life. She is in private practice as a psychologist, is renovating an old brownstone in Manhattan, and is becoming an expert on raising exotic plants. But an innocent question – "how do you feel?" – can send her into mind-numbing shock. And now she's been having visions of a dark-haired young woman who is slowly dying. After an exhausting five-year chase, Trikonis eluded capture. | |||
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Gena learns that the body of a young woman has been found folded into a
submerged lobster trap off Monhegan Island in Maine. The details –
no clothing from the waist down and no evidence of sexual assault –
is Victor’s signature. Gena goes to an emergency meeting of the old
team in Portland only to find that each participant was actually called
by Trikonis – a brilliant psychologist expert at the manipulation
of his subjects. Gena's dread is palpable. She wavers between instincts
of fight or flight. But when bodies start turning up with alarming frequency,
she decides she must end Trikonis' reign of terror even if her own life
is the prize he seeks.
Blackwater Tango is an intense, edge-of-your-seat thriller. |
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| $27.95 Hilliard and Harris 1-5913301-3 |
Lisa Polisar is a writer and a musician from New Mexico. Her debut thriller Blackwater Tango was published in hardcover in November of 2002, and her second mystery Knee Deep will be published December, 2003. Miss Polisar's review of The Resurrectionists appears in the Summer 2003 issue of Web Mystery Magazine. |
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| Atomic Renaissance: Women Mystery Writers of the 1940s and 1950s | |
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This book looks at the lives and work of seven women -- Margaret Millar, Patricia Highsmith, Leslie Ford, Charlotte Armstrong, Dorothy B. Hughes, Mignon Eberhart, and Phoebe Atwood Taylor -- who helped changed the hyper-masculine world of spy fiction and Mickey Spillane to what it is today. Atomic Renaissance includes a bibliography for each author along with a list of current authors who write in a similar vein today. |
Delphi
Books September 2003 0-9663-3977-0 $21.95 |
Jeff Barnes has been nominated for an Edgar award. His article on historical research techniques will appear in the Winter issue of Web Mystery Magazine. |
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what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive."
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