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Thrill Kill

Author : Brian Thiem
Publisher : Crooked Lane Books
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2016-08-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781629537825

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Cops in Oakland seldom meet people whose lives are going well. That's certainly the case when homicide sergeant Matt Sinclair recognizes the dead woman hanging from a tree as a teenage runaway named Dawn he arrested ten years before. And as Sinclair and his partner, Cathy Braddock, soon learn, many of Dawn's clients, not to mention the local and federal officials who protect them, will go to any length to keep the police from digging too deep into her past. Then the killer goes public, and Sinclair and Braddock must race to uncover the secrets Dawn was killed to protect before the killer unleashes a major attack on a scale the city has never seen before. With Thrill Kill, Brian Thiem, a veteran of the Oakland Police Department and the Iraq war, has penned a nuanced police procedural that could only be written by a trained detective with years of hard-earned experience.

The Brooklyn Thrill-Kill Gang and the Great Comic Book Scare of the 1950s

Author : Mariah Adin
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2014-12-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9798216056461

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What caused four recently bar mitzvahed middle-class youths to go on a crime spree of assault and murder in 1954? This book provides a compelling narrative retelling of the boys, their crimes, and a U.S. culture obsessed with juvenile delinquency. After ongoing months of daily headlines about gang shootouts, stomp-killings, and millions of dollars worth of vandalism, by the summer of 1954, America had had enough of juvenile delinquency. It was in this environment that 18-year-old Jack Koslow and the other three teenage members of the Brooklyn Thrill Killers committed their heinous crimes and achieved notoriety. The Brooklyn Thrill-Kill Gang and the Great Comic Book Scare of the 1950s exposes the underbelly of America's mid-century, the terrible price of assimilation, the uncomfortable bedfellows of comic books and juvenile delinquency, and the dystopia already in bloom amongst American youth well before the 1960s. Readers will be engrossed and horrified by the tale of the Brooklyn Thrill-Kill Gang whose shocking, front-page story could easily have been copy-pasted from today's online news sites. Author Mariah Adin takes readers along for a breathtaking moment-by-moment retelling of the crime spree, the subsequent interrogations, and the dramatic courtroom showdown, interspersed with expository chapters on juvenile delinquency, America's Jewish community in the post-Holocaust period, and the anti-comics movement. This book serves to merge the history of juvenile delinquency with that of the Great Comic Book Scare, highlights the assimilation of immigrants into America's white mainstream gone wrong, and complicates our understanding of America's "Golden Age."

Stalk and Kill

Author : Adrian Gilbert
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1998-12-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0312968116

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From the sharpshooters of the American Revolution to the Marine snipers who dominated the streets of Mogadishu, a famed military historian puts you behind the crosshairs of the most adept killers in history. A sniper is more than a crack shot. He's a calm professional with the instincts and patients of a master huntsman. Intensive training leaves snipers razor-sharp, able to creep undetected within arm's reach of the enemy. The finest marksmen in the world, a sniper can place a bullet in an enemy's heart from a thousand yards away. Stalk and Kill puts you on the battlefield for the most daring missions in history. You'll duel a Nazi "super sniper" in Stalingrad, outfox the Viet Cong in Southeast Asia, and silence the enemies of U.S. troops in Beirut. And you'll never cease to marvel at the sniper's iron nerve and lethal precision. A main selection of the military book club with eight pages of fascinating photos!

Kill for the Thrill

Author : Michael W Sheetz
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2010-10-22
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9781614230809

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“The book recounts a brutal string of murders committed by John Lesko and Michael Travaglia, who face the death penalty.” —TribLIVE During the winter of 1979, southwestern Pennsylvania was rocked by a series of sensational murders, sparking a thirty-year criminal justice saga. A week of brutal, seemingly random killings culminated in the provocation and fatal shooting of Patrolman Leonard Miller, an officer new to the town of Apollo’s police force and only twenty-one years old. Little more than a year later, two men were convicted of the rash of homicides and sentenced to death—yet both are alive today. Incorporating details of the central characters’ personal lives as well as the state’s court system, criminologist Michael W. Sheetz here relays the awful story of the so-called “kill for thrill” crime spree with the drama of a novelist and the insight of an officer of the law.

No Kill No Thrill

Author : Darcy Henton,Greg Owens
Publisher : Calgary : Red Deer Press
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015050485609

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No Kill No Thrill by Darcy Henton,Greg Owens Pdf

More than a story about a cop, a killer and his confidante, No Kill, No Thrill draws upon meticulous research and far-ranging sources to tell the whole story of Charles Ngñfrom his childhood experiences in Hong Kong to his experience in the U.S. marines to his heinous killing spree and subsequent arrest, extradition, trial and conviction. Several books have previously been published on Charles Ng. None contains the full story, and none draws on sources so extensive nor provides a portrait so penetrating of the dark mind of a sociopathic killer.

For the Thrill of It

Author : Simon Baatz
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 845 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2009-10-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780061828843

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It was a crime that shocked the nation: the brutal murder in Chicago in 1924 of a child by two wealthy college students who killed solely for the thrill of the experience. Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb were intellectuals—too smart, they believed, for the police to catch them. When they were apprehended, state's attorney Robert Crowe was certain that no defense could save the ruthless killers from the gallows. But the families of the confessed murderers hired Clarence Darrow, entrusting the lives of their sons to the most famous lawyer in America in what would be one of the most sensational criminal trials in the history of American justice. Set against the backdrop of the 1920s—a time of prosperity, self-indulgence, and hedonistic excess in a lawless city on the brink of anarchy—For the Thrill of It draws the reader into a world of speakeasies and flappers, of gangsters and gin parties, with a spellbinding narrative of Jazz Age murder and mystery.

The Thrill Club

Author : R. L. Stine
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : English fiction
ISBN : 9780671785819

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Talia writes horror stories that everyone loves -until they start to come true.

Thrill Kill

Author : Don Bruns
Publisher : Severn House Publishers Ltd
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2017-06-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781780108650

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A New Orleans homicide detective investigates a rash of murders shaking up Mardi Gras in this mystery by the USA Today–bestselling author of Casting Bones. Three murders so far. No apparent motive; no link between the victims; none of them have been robbed. One item ties them together: a can of spray gas known as Chill has been left at the scene of each crime. Is someone killing for kicks? With no leads to pursue and no witnesses coming forward, all the cops can do is wait for murder number four. As rumors emerge, Archer realizes there’s a pattern taking shape. Could there be more to these seemingly random killings than meets the eye? Teaming up with voodoo queen Solange Cordray, Archer begins to uncover evidence of a shocking conspiracy. “Bruns brings the chaotic frenzy of Mardi Gras to life.”—Publishers Weekly “Thrill Kill explores gang turf wars, drug cartels and human trafficking as well as energy forces and the supernatural. If thrillers are your genre, this is a great one!”—Fresh Fiction

Places To Be, People To Kill

Author : Martin H. Greenberg,Brittiany A. Koren
Publisher : Astra Publishing House
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2007-06-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101218617

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Places To Be, People To Kill by Martin H. Greenberg,Brittiany A. Koren Pdf

Assassins--are they born or made? Do they choose this role out of necessity, because they are forced to, or because they enjoy killling? And what do they do in their spare time? These are just a few of the questions answered in this all-original collection of twelve tales by fantasy's finest-focusing on killers of all kinds. From Vree, Tanya Huff's well-known assassin from her Quarters novels, to a woman whose father's vengeful spirit forced her down dark magic's bloody path, to an assassin seeking to escape his Master's death spell, here are spellbinding stories of murder and mayhem, and the shadowy figures who sell death for a living.

Marry, Bang, Kill

Author : Andrew Battershill
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2018-03-06
Category : Ex-police officers
ISBN : 1773100025

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Tommy Marlo can't help trying to make the people he meets - even those he mugs - feel better about their situation. Unfortunately for Tommy, he rips off the daughter of a psychotic, high-ranking member of a notorious motorcycle gang. Even worse, the laptop that he pilfered contains proof of a few gruesome murders and the location of a huge stash of money. Flat broke and marked for death, his only shot at surviving is to rob the motorcycle gang, use the cash to get out of town, and hide out on the small island where his mother now lives. Residence: Vancouver, B.C.

The Thrill of the Kill...!

Author : Paul Weightman
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2020-01-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780244555931

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The Thrill of the Kill...! by Paul Weightman Pdf

Capital punishment in the United Kingdom was used from ancient times until the second half of the 20th century. The last executions in the United Kingdom were by hanging, and took place in 1964, prior to capital punishment being suspended for murder in 1965 and finally abolished in 1969 (1973 in Northern Ireland)...In 2010, The government at that time, who were totally supported by the Law Lords of the United Kingdom, re-introduced capital punishment (Hanging). This was done because of decades of escalating violence, by terrorist organisations, and an escalation of both knife and gun crime in this country. My name is Mr. Tarquin Theodore Gilberdyke-Blythe. I am a professor of criminology at the University of Yorkshire. My study of the two protagonists 'The Gormley brothers' in this book, is a literary record of their story.

Kill You Last

Author : Todd Strasser
Publisher : Egmont USA
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2011-11-08
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781606843185

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"They always agreed to meet me. Of course, I told them I was bringing them money. I said it was cash and I didn't want to send it through the mail. They might have hesitated at first about meeting me, but I never had to work very hard to convince them. Why?. . . It was the only way they could prolong their pathetic dreams of someday becoming rich, famous models." Shelby's life in Soundview has always been comfortable. Her dad provides a luxurious lifestyle for his family through his photography business. He makes a ton of money taking headshots of pretty young teens who are desperate to become models. Shelby has always enjoyed driving around town in a red sports car, shopping with her best friend at her side. And her Mom is laidback,so it's all good. However, as reports of girls disappearing from nearby towns start to appear on the news, Shelby's seemingly perfect life begins to fall apart. The three missing girls have one thing in common--they were all clients of her dad's photography business. Secrets begin to surface as the investigation continues. Shelby receives threatening e-mails, battles the nosy media, and tries to keep her family together. Now that her dad is implicated in the disappearances, can Shelby figure out a way to clear his name? Or is dad not as innocent as he seems? PRAISE FOR BLOOD ON MY HANDS: "[A] rare teen thriller with an actual mystery, this is as quickly paced as it is heart-wrenching." - Booklist "Author recognition, teen love of mystery, and a stellar cover will...make this a well-circulating title." - School Library Journal PRAISE FOR WISH YOU WERE DEAD: "Hits all the right notes of a teen thriller[...] his gripping plot will keep readers turning pages late into the night" - School Library Journal "Carefully plotted; this suspenseful novel blends the traditional with new tech details to successful end [...] will keep readers guessing right up to the satisfying conclusion." - Kirkus Reviews

Thrill In A Kill

Author : Uma Bokil
Publisher : Inkfeathers Publishing
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2021-03-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8195020577

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A passionate deed out of overflowing love.A heart corrupted by vengeance.Power, lust, greed.In short, a motive.Thirty carefully crafted murders guaranteed to keep your candle burning. Tales to haunt and mystify; borne of maverick minds, weaving through unfathomable realms of terror, always with fatal consequences. A jaw-dropping collection of mysteries filled with goosebumps, shivers, and screams. Stories that come alive right off the pages. Stories, which, with every read, will enthral you at every turn and keep you hanging off the edge of your seat, make you hold your breath and throw you off with a good twist- are you brave enough to lift the lid?

Thrill Kill

Author : Simon King
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2021-05-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1008913057

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Not for vengeance...nor for power. This killer murders for fun. When a body turns up at a Texas Uni Campus, police initially believe it's the result of an initiation gone wrong, the victim covered in graffiti while suspended above a fire pit. As more bodies are found, each the result of a sadistic game played by a vicious killer, it soon becomes clear that a new evil has risen. With the death toll mounting and the police left clueless, Sam is quickly dispatched to help locate the monster. But things take a turn when a student makes a confession so shocking, it leaves many questioning the very force meant to protect them. With the city in fear and a police force in disarray, has the killer created the perfect storm, or will Sam finally end his thirst for death?

Thrill Kill Jill

Author : P X Duke
Publisher : P X Duke
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2014-07-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780991998081

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Retired detective Jim Nash is headed for a much-needed vacation with the two favorite women in his life. When he pulls off the highway into a rest stop, his girlfriend disappears without leaving a trace. Left to his own devices when the local PD refuses to let him file a missing persons report, Nash pulls out all the stops in his attempt to find the missing woman all by himself. Keywords pulp hard boiled dark gritty police automatic pistol gun detective noir fiction best selling thrillers novels secret fugitive ops murder mag clip action adventure intrigue mystery suspense books novel series vigilante justice revenge vengeful