Rooted In Evil

Author : Ann Granger
Publisher : Canelo
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2018-05-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781788631051

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A team of police detectives investigate the murder of man with a complicated family history in the English countryside. When the body of a man killed by a point blank shot to the head is found in Crooked Man Woods, it appears to be a suicide. But when Inspector Jess Campbell and Superintendent Ian Carter begin to investigate, it soon becomes clear that not all is as it seems. The victim, Carl Finch, had been causing quite a stir in the small-town community. With rising debts and complicated relationships, the suspects are beginning to mount up . . . Fans of Midsomer Murders, T. E. Kinsey, and M. C. Beaton will love Rooted in Evil. Praise for the writing of Ann Granger: “Characterisation, as ever with Granger, is sharp and astringent.” —The Times “Set in the familiar more of traditional country crime stories, there is nothing old-fashioned about the characters . . . Granger is bang up to date.” —The Oxford Times “Lovely characterisation and a neat plot.” —The Yorkshire Post

Author : Susan Kesegich
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2018-09-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1723781827

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Twisted Roots of Evil by Susan Kesegich Pdf

A true story of incest, physical abuse and mental torment and how one young girl fought back! For 17 years Louise was married to this man she had come to hate. Along with her were her five innocent children. For every year of their lives they watched their father brutally batter their mother. Each of the children were subjected to one or more of the following types of abuse. Incest. Physical Beatings. Mental Abuse. Deprivation. Rape. For years this family lived in fear and in 1977 they were failed by the judicial system when they tried to escape. They were able to get away but he only got a slap on the wrist. In 1994, seventeen years later he would not walk away. During that seventeen year period he married a severely mentally handicapped cousin and raised five more children. This second family was more severely abused. Learn from this story how a police captain from a small southern town finally brought about justice for all these victims and touched the lives of both families. This is a story of survival and strength and a story for survivors everywhere.

Author : John Kekes
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2014-02-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780801471308

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"Evil is the most serious of our moral problems. All over the world cruelty, greed, prejudice, and fanaticism ruin the lives of countless victims. Outrage provokes outrage. Millions nurture seething hatred of real or imagined enemies, revealing savage and destructive tendencies in human nature. Understanding this challenges our optimistic illusions about the effectiveness of reason and morality in bettering human lives. But abandoning these illusions is vitally important because they are obstacles to countering the threat of evil. The aim of this book is to explain why people act in these ways and what can be done about it."—John Kekes The first part of this book is a detailed discussion of six horrible cases of evil: the Albigensian Crusade of about 1210; Robespierre's Terror of 1793–94; Franz Stangl, who commanded a Nazi death camp in 1943–44; the 1969 murders committed by Charles Manson and his "family"; the "dirty war" conducted by the Argentinean military dictatorship of the late 1970s; and the activities of a psychopath named John Allen, who recorded reminiscences in 1975. John Kekes includes these examples not out of sensationalism, but rather to underline the need to hold vividly in our minds just what evil is. The second part shows why, in Kekes's view, explanations of evil inspired by Christianity and the Enlightenment fail to account for these cases and then provides an original explanation of evil in general and of these instances of it in particular.

Author : Ervin Staub
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1992-07-31
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781107717206

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How can human beings kill or brutalise multitudes of other human beings? Focusing particularly on genocide, Erwin Staub explores the psychology of group aggression. He sketches a conceptual framework for the many influences on one group's desire to harm another and within this framework, considers four historical examples of genocide.

Author : Roberto Costantini
Publisher : Quercus
Page : 617 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2016-01-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781623658823

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The Root of All Evil by Roberto Costantini Pdf

In the 1960s, post-colonial Libya fell prey to the sprawling industrial greed of the West, driven by the discovery of oil. While the modern quarter of Tripoli, built by the Italians, was small and affluent, the rest of the city--like the rest of the nation--was left to fend for itself amid the arid, sandy stretches of North Africa. As tensions mounted between eastern and western ideals, terror began to supplant justice, and acts of religiously motivated violence began to fill some of Tripoli's darkest corners. Against this backdrop, the teenaged Michele Balistreri--a smart young man plagued by thuggish tendencies and a youthful attraction to Fascism--suffered a succession of personal blows that would scar him for life: the death of his mother; a terrible tragedy that befell his best friend's family; and the consequences of his father's role in Gaddafi's rise to power. Worst of all, an innocent blood pact he made as a teenager would come to haunt him as an adult. Four decades later, journalist Linda Nardi is hard at work investigating the shadowy history of the Vatican Bank's involvement in Libya when she suddenly finds her attention diverted to an irresistible story assignment: covering the collapse of Colonel Gaddafi's forty-two year dictatorship. It is only a matter of time before Nardi's research and Balistreri's investigative work as a police commissario bring them into contact. Together they unearth a deadly conspiracy that goes to the top of Rome's power structure that neither of them will ever be able to forget.

Author : Sarah Rayne
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2008-11-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781847396631

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Roots of Evil by Sarah Rayne Pdf

'She has a crisp and intelligent style, and a real way with tension' MO HAYDER When schoolteacher Trixie Smith turns up asking questions about legendary film actress Lucretia von Wolff, Lucy Trent is not unduly alarmed. She rather enjoys the notoriety surrounding her glamorous but infamous grandmother, whose lovers were legion, whose scandals were numerous, whose life ended abruptly in a bizarre double murder and suicide at the Ashwood film studios in 1952. Trixie Smith has uncovered information which she believes throws new light on the Ashwood case. In particular, she wants to know more about Alraune, the illegitimate child Lucretia was alleged to have borne at the outbreak of WWII. The child whose existence is surrounded in mystery. The child who may never have existed at all. But Trixie Smith's enquiries are brought to an untimely end. Some days later, her mutilated corpse is discovered at the derelict site of the old Ashwood studios. In the ensuing murder investigation, Lucy is to discover disturbing facts about her family's poignant and often tragic history - a history which stretches from the glittering concert halls of 1920s Vienna to the bleak environs of wartime Auschwitz - and at the heart of it all lies the shocking truth about the mysterious child called Alraune.

Author : Håkan Nesser
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 531 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2018-11-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781509809400

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The Root of Evil by Håkan Nesser Pdf

Håkan Nesser, 'the Godfather of Swedish Crime' (Metro), is back with the second installment in the Inspector Barbarotti series, The Root of Evil. *Shortlisted for the Crime Writers' Association's International Dagger* July 2007. A letter arrives on Inspector Barbarotti’s doorstep detailing a murder that is about to take place in his quiet Swedish town. By the time the police track down the subject of the letter, he is already dead. So when a second letter arrives, then a third, and a fourth, it’s a game of cat and mouse to stop the killer before he can make good on all of his promises. Meanwhile, an anonymous diary is unearthed depicting the incidents of a two week holiday in France five years earlier, and it doesn’t take Barbarotti long to realize the people populating the diary are the ones whose lives are now in the balance . . . Continue the thrilling investigative series with The Secret Life of Mr Roos. 'One of the best of the Nordic Noir writers' - Guardian

Author : Sharon Grace Mijares
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : UOM:39015067651177

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The authors of this book are a Muslim from Egypt, a Christian mystic from America, a Jew from the US, and a Jew from Israel (living in the US). They write about gender imbalances in different world religions and cultures, about the politics of governments, global and local conflicts and fundamentalist movements. They search for common ground and the possibilities to improve women's rights.

Author : David Ashby Farrow
Publisher : Wyrick
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0941711366

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The Root of All Evil by David Ashby Farrow Pdf

In Charleston, North Carolina, black police officer Harry Holmes investigates the voodoo murders of tourists. The suspect--white--is a writer possessed by the devil and he enters the bodies of his victims.

Author : Thomas R. Dixon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1919
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:315908197

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Author : Ray Keating
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2020-01-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 166028614X

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Root of All Evil? by Ray Keating Pdf

Do God, politics and money mix? In ROOT OF ALL EVIL? A PASTOR STEPHEN GRANT NOVEL by Ray Keating, the combination can turn out quite deadly. Keating introduced readers to Stephen Grant, a former CIA operative and current parish pastor, in the fun and highly praised WARRIOR MONK. Grant returns in ROOT OF ALL EVIL? - a breathtaking thriller involving drug traffickers, politicians, the CIA and FBI, a shadowy foreign regime, the Church, and money. Charity, envy and greed are on display, with the action running high. In this second edition of ROOT OF ALL EVIL? A PASTOR STEPHEN GRANT NOVEL, Ray Keating has written an author introduction focused on some of the challenges of penning a political thriller, including maintaining an edge-of-your-seat feel while not annoying the reader with the petty real world of politics. Keating also talks about how some key characters fit into ROOT OF ALL EVIL, as well as how his own experiences fed into the story?

Author : Joylynn M. Jossel
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2004-06-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781429976534

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The Root of All Evil by Joylynn M. Jossel Pdf

Joylynn M. Jossel's The Root of All Evil is a sexy, drama-filled, roller coaster of a ride about a woman's pursuit of the perfect man to provide all her needs. THE ALMIGHTY $. SOME PEOPLE PRAY FOR IT. SOME PEOPLE PRAY TO IT. Thirty-four-year-old Klarke Taylor has two children, a pile of bills and creditors who won't leave her alone. And she's had just about enough. So Klarke and her confidants, Breezy and Jeva, resort to devising a shady plan to snag her a man who will make all her monetary dreams come true. Reo Laroque, is a bestselling author and is right where he always dreamed of being in life. He has it all, including women who come out in droves for this high-ticketed bachelor. But all Reo wants is a virtuous woman to claim as his own. Now Klarke has him in her sights and he soon becomes entangled in a twisted pursuit or love, lust and the almighty dollar.

Author : Christopher Hibbert
Publisher : Sutton Pub Limited
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 0750933348

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The Roots of Evil by Christopher Hibbert Pdf

Here is the lurid story of crime, detection, conviction, and punishment, murder as a lust and murder as a trade and more.

Author : Quintin Jardine
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2021-06-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1472255925

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The Roots of Evil by Quintin Jardine Pdf

Author : Bill McBride
Publisher : Booktrail Publishing
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2021-08-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1637673213

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The Root of All EVIL by Bill McBride Pdf

The ROOT of all E V I L. - is a nonfiction A to Z book about the awfulness of Evil as we experience it in our world today. This is not a Self-Help or a Do It Yourself book. Nope, this is an informative entertaining book designed for readers who enjoy a thought-provoking fast read. I call it a Bathroom.Reader book. Going from Abortion Rights to Democrats to Homosexuality to Witchcraft to Zeno-phobia, this is an A to Z book which lists over 250 different types of evil here in the second decade of the 21st Century. You'll be able to find The Root of All Evil on Amazon, at your local library, at the airport and at the hospital gift shop.