Unnatural Causes

P.D. James - Unnatural Causes

Superintendent Adam Dalgliesh was looking forward to a quiet holiday at his aunt's cottage on Monksmere Head. There would be long walks, tea in front of the fire, and, best of all, no corpses. But he reckoned without the discovery of crime-writer Maurice Seton's mutilated body.

Spectacles of Death in Ancient Rome

The elaborate and inventive slaughter of humans and animals in the arena fed an insatiable desire for violent spectacle among the Roman people.

Donald G. Kylecombines the words of ancient authors with current scholarly research and cross-cultural perspectives, as he explores

* the origins and historical development of the games

* who the victims were and why they were chosen

* how the Romans disposed of the thousands of resulting corpses

* the complex religious and ritual aspects of institutionalised violence

* the particularly savage treatment given to defiant Christians.

In Wellington's energetic horror debut, the first of a promised trilogy, Manhattan has become Monster Island after a plague has turned all its denizens into shambling, rotting animated corpses, except for a couple who have kept their intelligence and also acquired psychic powers. 

AUDIOBOOK: The Corpse's Tale
Dai Morgan has the body of a man and the mind of a child. He lived with his mother in the Mid Wales village of Llan, next door to bright, beautiful 19 year old Anna Harris.
The vicar found Anna's naked, battered body in the churchyard one morning. The police discovered Anna's bloodstained earring in Dai's pocket. The judge gave Dai life.
After ten years in gaol Dai appealed against his sentence and was freed. Sergeants Trevor Joseph and Peter Collins are sent to Llan to reopen the case. But the villagers refuse to believe Dai innocent.
The Llan police do not make mistakes or allow murderers to walk free.
Do they?

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