Drawing together a diverse but focused group of international researchers for the first time in a single volume, The Language of Sexual Crime explores the role of language in the construction of identity of both perpetrators and victims of sexual violence, the ways in which language is used in the detection of sexually-motivated crime, and the articulation/manipulation of language in police interviews, the courtroom and the media.
AUDIOBOOK: Cleanskin
Cleanskin is a taut psychological thriller, from Val McDermid. Jack
Farrell, a 'cleanskin' (a known career criminal with no convictions)
disappears after his daughter is killed in a targeted arson attack.
When his body washes up on a Suffolk beach, the CID assume a
grief-stricken suicide, but then Farrell's enemies start to be murdered
in the most horriffic ways... Told from the perspective of the
investigating cop, Andy Martin, this is hard boiled crime fiction of
the highest order.
Synopsis
When career criminal Jack Farlowe's body is found washed-up on a
Suffolk shore, it looks to the police like a clear-cut case.
Broken-hearted at his daughter's death, he has drowned himself - good
riddance and one less crime to solve, according to CID.
Then again, maybe not. For, one by one, Farlowe's enemies are being
killed. And the horrific manner of their deaths makes drowning look
like a day at the beach
Edgar Rice Burroughs - Tarzan 07 - Tarzan, The Untamed
Seventh in the timeless series. Tarzan returns to his African estate and finds carnage and disaster. His home is burned, his farm in shambles, and his beloved wife is a charred corpse, identifiable only by her rings. Silently he buries the body while swearing a terrible vengeance. Then he sets out to track the marauders who perpetrated this crime. He tracks them through warring armies - across a vast desert that no man has ever crossed - finally into a strange valley where only madmen live!
This account intertwines Sir Leon’s personal narrative as a criminologist with the development of criminology itself. Drawing on his long career spanning seventy years, from the 1920s to the present day, he writes about fundamental changes which have affected our understanding of crime and criminals, of criminal justice and penal systems, and of the tensions and dilemmas these pose for democratic societies.
