When career criminal Terry Greene is sentenced to life for a murder he didn't commit, his wife has two choices. To walk away from the criminal empire he'd built up, or to take it over. To become as big a gangster as her husband ever was. So far as Samantha "Sam" Greene was concerned, there is no choice. All the family's assets are tied up in the business, and family means more to her than anything else in the world. But being a gangboss doesn't come easily to Sam, not when other criminals are trying to take over what's left of her husband's empire and she's not even sure which of his friends and associates she can trust.
Faye Kellerman - The Garden of Eden and Other Criminal Delights
A must-have book for Faye Kellerman's many fans. The collection contains: One never-before-published short mystery, THE GARDEN OF EDEN, featuring Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus, who investigate the death of a next-door neighbour
When her boyfriend is injured under mysterious circumstances during a trip to Yellowstone National Park, Nancy arrives on the scene and uncovers a criminal plan to steal the park's native animals.
Historic U.S. Court Cases - An Encyclopedia 2nd Ed.
Historic U.S. Court Cases offers 201 signed essays by political scientists, historians, and legal scholars that highlight major legal issues in five thematic areas: crime and criminal law; governmental organization, power, and procedure; economics and economic regulation; race, gender, sexual orientation, and disability; and civil liberties. Essays generally focus on one or two U.S. Supreme Court cases, although influential cases decided by lower federal courts, the colonial courts, and state courts are also covered. These range from the 1692 Salem witchcraft trials to the O.J. Simpson criminal and civil trials in California state court in the mid-1990s.
This book draws together a wide range of material from statutes, cases, reports, professional codes and academic commentaries.The topics covered include sources of law; the civil courts; the criminal courts; the judiciary; case and statute law; the legal profession and legal services; legal aid and advice; the civil process; the criminal process; the jury; arbitration and alternative dispute resolution; and the theory of the system. This book aims to help the reader to develop a sound understanding of each topic and the theory which underlies the legal system. Each theme is given an introduction in which the outlines and issues are made clear.
