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An unbelievable but true white-collar crime story told by an average family man, Rick Norton. He gives a rare look into his own life as a young businessman in San Diego working as a financial planner, then falling into the life of being a business manager for professional athletes and gaining a front-row seat to their huge money and frequently dirty world. Used as a pawn by a powerful Fortune 500 company and exploited by the very professionals he was paying to help him, he tells of the difficult lessons learned along the way of meeting ignorance, greed, revenge, fear, and corruption.

It has been the public's perception that Madoff investors were all extremely wealthy and all belonged to exclusive clubs. This perception has been reinforced by the media and the powers that be. The truth is, with very few exceptions, such as Steven Spielberg, Jeffrey Picower and Stanley Chais, most were average, small time investors. This is their story.

La noche de Halloween de 2017, un enigmático artículo de un periódico japonés anunció la detención de un sospechoso tras encontrarse nueve cadáveres en su apartamento a las afueras de Tokio. El detenido era un joven con una vida relativamente normal, por lo que nadie advirtió que pudiera haber restos humanos descomponiéndose en el edificio. Ninguno de los vecinos se quejó a la policía ni al portero del extraño olor.

Nu i ny uppläsning av Reine Brynolfsson! Gotland upplever en rekordartad värmebölja som dröjer sig kvar långt in i september. Men det är inte den kvava hettan som håller tjugofyraåriga Jenny Lundgren vaken om nätterna, utan de mörka minnena från barndomen. De envist återkommande mardrömmarna tvingar henne att fatta ett drastiskt beslut: att polisanmäla sin egen pappa. För mord.

Between them, Bernard and Melody Earls have looks, charm, brains...everything but money. That's why they steal from the rich and give to themselves. So when Alexander Hamilton Plaskett hires them to nick a silver statuette of a pine marten from his brother Paul Revere Plaskett, they're happy to oblige. But it won't be as easy as it looks.

Nora Feller har brutit helt med Sektion M och Charlotte Victorin. I Malmö hoppas hon få en nystart, såväl privat som i jobbet. Hon blir tilldelad ett uppmärksammat mordfall, där offret tillhör den innersta, rika kretsen i en välbärgad ort söder om stan. Men det är något med fallet som inte stämmer, Nora får en kuslig känsla av att en mäktig hand styr allt. Och snart får hon veta att Sektion M ska ta över utredningen. Mot chefens uttryckliga order börjar hon göra egna efterforskningar. Men Charlotte kommer knappast tyst se på när Nora sabbar för henne.

Sometimes, crime is good in small doses. The Killing Words is 17 small doses. For most of the Crime Writers of South Australia, these are first published works. Among them, Nigel Ford's The Hitch, about a serial predator trawling truck stops for another perfect-victim, stands out for wicked quirkiness. Reece Pocock's The Girl in the Red Beret shivers the spine. Unwelcome Message by James Hardiman is decidedly lateral, since it is about the murder of a whale. Stephen J. Lord's Feminine Endings is fast and filmic and keeps one on one's toes while Michael Gamtcheff s The Collector has a ...

These reflections by male inmates, recorded by a prison psychologist, are brief, sometimes only a few lines, but they offer profound insights into the realities of prison life. Some of the inmates are still bewildered that they gave up good opportunities and turned to crime; some fear that they may really like being in prison; others hope they will never return after being released, although they have not kept that vow in the past. Some come from families that abused or neglected them, and others had their every whim indulged.

A pulse-pounding mystery of one man's undoing. You just might not know which man. Still mourning the death of his wife, private investigator Mark Novak accepts a case that may be his undoing. On same day his wife died, the body of a teenage girl was pulled from the extensive and perilous cave system beneath Southern Indiana. Now the man who rescued the girl, who was believed to be her killer, begs Novak to uncover what really happened.

Many books have been written about the assassination of JFK. However, virtually all of these books are written around a central theory that is often nonsensical and even bizarre. To support that theory, the authors pick and choose the evidence that supports their theory and then ignore or debunk the remaining evidence.

Why did she do it? After a day of simmering tension, Júlía snaps and abandons her husband Gíó on an uninhabited island in a freezing fjord in the depths of the Icelandic winter. When she returns the next morning, he is nowhere to be found. The police launch a manhunt, but soon their suspicion falls on Júlía. She spins them a story to hide her involvement, but she can feel the net closing in. Is Gíó alive or dead? In hiding or hunting her down? And can Júlía get to the truth before it destroys her?

When 15-year-old Anabelle King was assaulted on her way home, she thought she had done everything right. But a vital piece of evidence meant that the jury let her attacker go. Eighteen years later, Anabelle King is now Ava Knight, a successful barrister who always follows the rules. But that all changes when, one day at court, she reads a familiar name in the file: Michael Osborne. But this time he is the victim of an attack, and in the dock is a young girl: Lily Hawthorne, who pleads guilty without hesitation.

A pensioner is found drowned on a beach used by naturists. An autopsy shows his death was violent, that he'd been sexually molested. Detective Chief Inspector Neil Kettle is a grieving widower of three years. The last time he visited this beach was with his wife. Already running investigations into human trafficking and the smuggling of drugs and weapons, Neil's enquiries into the victim's life reveal links to a shady millionaire car dealer, Rupert Mansard, a man who's risen from nowhere to prosperity.

Eighteen-year-old Cheng Jinxi is accused of brutally murdering a dozen of his relatives in just one night. Despite police officer Liang Yuanfeng doing everything he could to find evidence of his innocence, Cheng Jinxi confesses to the crime and is sent away to prison. Seven years later, a series of bizarre supernatural murders occur, and Liang Yuanfeng is given permission to bring Cheng Jinxi out of prison as a backup to help solve them.

When top defense attorney Remo Cobb decides to double-cross the most violent, ruthless clients he's ever known, he hopes his good deed goes unpunished. He's wrong. Dead wrong. The clients in question are the psychopathic Mashburn Brothers, and they have just gotten free. Now they will stop at nothing to take back their hard-earned money and make Remo suffer for wronging them.

Vissa människor förtjänar att straffas, andra förtjänar att dö. Sektion M är en specialenhet inom polisen, skapad för att lösa speciellt komplicerade mord. Då Nora Feller tvingas lämna sitt arbete som polis i Katrineholm söker hon en tjänst hos Sektion M, och till sin egen förvåning får hon den. Mottagandet i teamet är kärvt, men hon känner ändå en viss närhet med profileraren och befälet Charlotte Victorin. Noras första fall med enheten är ytterst exceptionellt.

Smögen är täckt av snö och is. Den kallaste vintern på många år har lagt sig över det vackra kustlandskapet. På myren uppe i bergen där barnen brukar åka skridskor, hittar två pojkar en död kvinna till hälften fastfrusen i isen. Bredvid henne ligger ett mycket gammalt föremål. Det är bara några dagar kvar till julafton. Precis när Dennis och Sandra börjat hitta lugnet inför julledigheten landar ärendet på deras bord.

¡Finalista del Premio Literario de Amazon 2018! La vida de Caballero está a punto de cambiar. Alguien se está haciendo pasar por él para arruinarle la vida. Encontrar a esa persona será su única salida. La condesa de Torrevella es una de las mujeres más poderosas de Alicante. Una fuente anónima ha filtrado a la prensa información que pone en riesgo a su familia. Todos los medios apuntan a Gabriel Caballero. Pero alguien está actuando en su nombre. De nuevo, Caballero se enfrenta a un gran desafío: engañar a alguien que piensa como él. Lo que no sabe es que hay más gente interesada en verlo entre rejas.

Vissa människor förtjänar att straffas, andra förtjänar att dö. När Louise Brobacke hittas död i sin swimmingpool, med händer och fötter bakbundna med buntband, kopplas Sektion M in på fallet. Det visar sig att Louise var involverad i flera stora affärsprojekt och man misstänker att mordet kan ha en koppling till dem. Nora Feller lyckas inte riktigt sätta fingret på den märkliga, hotfulla stämningen i sektionen. Alla har en hållhake på varandra, och hon kan inte lita på någon av kollegorna.

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