Archive for the ‘crime’ Category
In November 2006, O.J. Simpson attempted to release ‘If I Did It’ – a book in which he details a purportedly hypothetical account of the murders of his ex-wife Nicole and her friend Ronald Goldman. Read the rest of this entry »
What would you do for love? Would you die? Would you kill? Mitch Rafferty would…and now he’s going to have to.
As a hard-up landscape gardener, Mitch struggles to believe a phone call he gets, demanding two million dollars for the safe return of his beloved (and pregnant) wife, Holly. He starts to believe, however, when the kidnappers blow the head off a man walking a dog across the street and leave him to it with a final warning; if he goes to the police, they’ll cut out her eyes and tongue, then leave her to die. So begins his nightmare journey to find two million dollars in a matter of days…
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It’s America, post industrial revolution and a corrupt extreme left-wing government is causing an economic crisis. Funded by the steel industry, the government is not best pleased when Hank Rearden discovers a new alloy that is both stronger and cheaper than steel; so they use scientists to prevent him from bringing it to market, setting the scene for some hard-hitting anti-establishment fiction.
The last we saw of Lisbeth Salander, she was clinging to life. In The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest she is still in hospital, but is now also the victim of a conspiracy to charge her for two murders and the attempted murder of her own father! With only her doctor and Mikael Blomkvist, editor of Millennium Magazine on her side, Lisbeth’s future looks bleak – especially with a policeman in the hospital room with them at all times!
