The Price Of Innocence

Author : Iain McKie
Publisher : Birlinn
ISBN 13 : 0857905473
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shirley McKie written by Iain McKie and published by Birlinn. This book was released on 2012-12-10 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ayrshire policewoman Shirley McKie suffered the loss of her job, a trial for perjury, a breakdown in her health and had to undertake a nine-year campaign before she cleared her name and triumphed over a supposedly infallible science. Her crime - to speak the truth and refuse to accept the mis-identification of her fingerprint, allegedly found at a murder scene she should not have entered. During those nine years, her case became an international cause celebre during which she gained the support of the world fingerprint experts community and much of the world's press whilst at home being persecuted by government ministers, smeared by senior police officers and having her integrity traduced by Scottish forensic experts and Scottish politicians. Now, for the first time the true and authorized story of the Shirley McKie case is told by her father Iain - her strongest champion - and former MSP Michael Russell who has worked alongside the McKie family for over seven years.

Author : Vicki Hopkins
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780983295907
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Price of Innocence written by Vicki Hopkins and published by . This book was released on 2011-02-03 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following the unexpected death of her father, Suzette Rousseau finds struggling to survive on the streets of Paris. A job as a laundress takes her to the doors of the most opulent brothel in Paris, where her fearful acceptance of the mistress' offer of beauty, comfort, and shelter and an encounter with a handsome English Lord change her life forever.

Author : Lisa Black
Publisher : Severn House Publishers Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1780104456
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Price of Innocence written by Lisa Black and published by Severn House Publishers Ltd. This book was released on 2013-11-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Called out to investigate a suspected suicide in a luxury high-rise apartment, forensic scientist Theresa MacLean only just escapes with her life when the building is blown to smithereens. An accident – or something more sinister? A mostly empty block of trendy apartments in downtown Cleveland seems an unlikely terrorist target. The following day, Theresa is examining another suspected suicide in a wealthy neighbourhood when the cop accompanying her is shot dead by an unseen assailant. Could the two events be connected? As Theresa painstakingly pieces the clues she uncovers evidence of a dark secret in the murdered cop’s past.

Author : Gil Howard
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1434383261
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Price of Innocence written by Gil Howard and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2008-06 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The PRICE OF INNOCENCE is a thought-provoking mystery thriller. It has been said that the sword of justice has no scabbard. Unfortunately, true justice is obscure. Legal systems can merely offer an opportunity for justice. No system designed by man can ever guarantee it. Sadly, the legal systems designed to protect us can be distorted and corrupted by malevolent human beings who misuse it not only to perpetrate the worst injustices, but also to create the illusion that they, the bad guys, hold the moral high ground. The PRICE OF INNOCENCE is the story of a prominent respectable man falsely accused of a monstrous crime by a group that calls itself Traction. Traction claims to be governed by a fearsome "green lady" who came from another universe. She allegedly possesses bizarre powers. Traction's purpose is to spread fear and destroy this man and others like him in order to annihilate the economic, legal and social system that they represent so that Traction can exhume wealth and power from the ashes of anarchy. There are a precious few willing to recognize the seriousness of their threat or to challenge it. Murdock McCabe, a station chief for Veritus Investigations International, wades into the maelstrom. He learns to his dismay that even innocence exacts its penalty.

Author : Vicki Hopkins
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780983295914
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Price of Deception written by Vicki Hopkins and published by . This book was released on 2011-10 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Five years after releasing the love of his life to another man, Duke Robert Holland struggles with deep remorse over his past decisions. Chained in a loveless marriage of convenience and strangled by duty, he wallows in regret and drink. Everything in life changes in Paris when he suddenly finds himself drawn into a whirlwind of lies and deceit as he searches for truth and love.

Author : Dana Grigorcea
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781803090054
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Instinctive Feeling of Innocence written by Dana Grigorcea and published by . This book was released on 2022-03-22 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in paperback, a haunting story of trauma, memory, and healing in post-Cold War Romania. Victoria has just recently moved from Zurich back to her hometown of Bucharest when the bank where she works is robbed. Put on leave so that she can process the trauma of the robbery, Victoria strolls around town. Each street triggers sudden visions as memories from her childhood under the Ceausescu regime begin to mix with the radically changed city and the strange world in which she now finds herself. As the walls of reality begin to crumble, Victoria and her former self cross paths with the bank robber and a rich cast of characters, weaving a vivid portrait of Romania and one woman's self-discovery. In her stunning second novel, Swiss-Romanian writer Dana Grigorcea paints a series of extraordinarily colourful pictures. With humor and wit, she describes a world full of myriad surprises where new and old cultures weave together--a world bursting with character and spirit.

Author : Patricia McLinn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781944126339
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Price of Innocence written by Patricia McLinn and published by . This book was released on 2021-11-15 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Price of Innocence will entertain fans of stories that swirl suspense and romance with an ongoing murder investigation in a historic Virginia setting.

Author : David Ignatius
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393066711
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Agents of Innocence: A Novel written by David Ignatius and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2011-02-14 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A "superlative spy novel" (New York Times) by the author of the bestselling espionage thrillers Body of Lies and The Director. Agents of Innocence is the book that established David Ignatius's reputation as a master of the novel of contemporary espionage. Into the treacherous world of shifting alliances and arcane subterfuge comes idealistic CIA man Tom Rogers. Posted in Beirut to penetrate the PLO and recruit a high-level operative, he soon learns the heavy price of innocence in a time and place that has no use for it.

Author : Dorothy Cummings McLean
Publisher : Ignatius Press
ISBN 13 : 1586177311
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ceremony of Innocence written by Dorothy Cummings McLean and published by Ignatius Press. This book was released on 2013-10-14 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Riots. Terrorist attacks. Neo-Nazi violence. In modern-day Germany, journalist Catriona McClelland has seen it all while covering the contemporary European scene for a Catholic news organization. Keeping herself above the political fray in her professional life, she has also managed to keep herself from personal entanglements-still hurt from the wounds of a broken relationship. Things come to a head when her boyfriend Dennis, frustrated with a lack of commitment, leaves her for Suzy Davis, an idealistic young Canadian who is involved with a left-wing protest movement. But when Suzy is murdered... who is complicit and who is innocent? Ripped from the headlines, Ceremony of Innocence is a very contemporary novel of Europe on the edge of social breakdown. Train stations are bombed and migrants targeted for violence as journalists and other tastemakers watch from their positions of privilege. Dorothy Cummings McLean's realistic narrative does not describe the feats of heroes. Rather, it unnervingly lays bare the way religious faith and moral reasoning can be easily manipulated and compromised.

Author : Jenny Torres Sanchez
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1524737755
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Fall of Innocence written by Jenny Torres Sanchez and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2018-06-12 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Lovely Bones meets Celeste Ng for teens in this gorgeous, haunting, and tragic novel that examines the crippling--and far-reaching--effects of one person's trauma on her family, her community, and herself. For the past eight years, sixteen-year-old Emilia DeJesus has done her best to move on from the traumatic attack she suffered in the woods behind her elementary school. She's forced down the memories--the feeling of the twigs cracking beneath her, choking on her own blood, unable to scream. Most of all, she's tried to forget about Jeremy Lance, the boy responsible, the boy who caused her such pain. Emilia believes that the crows who watched over her that day, who helped her survive, are still on her side, encouraging her to live fully. And with the love and support of her mother, brother, and her caring boyfriend, Emilia is doing just that. But when a startling discovery about her attacker's identity comes to light, and the memories of that day break through the mental box in which she'd shut them away, Emilia is forced to confront her new reality and make sense of shifting truths about her past, her family, and herself. A compulsively-readable tragedy that reminds us of the fragility of human nature. Praise for The Fall of Innocence * "Sanchez deftly shows the long-lasting impact of the assault. . . . An intimate and tragic look at how traumatic incidents affect individuals, their families, and others around them." --Kirkus Reviews, STARRED REVIEW * "Sanchez writes with stunning detail, showcasing the beauty that can be found in small moments, in family interactions, in nature, and in seemingly everyday objects. . . and illustrates how a trauma like Emilia's has widespread effects." --School Library Journal, STARRED REVIEW * "It is hard to imagine a more beautifully told, more moving, or more authentic story of one family’s journey through unbearable pain." --VOYA, STARRED REVIEW "Beautifully written but ineffably sad, Emilia's story is a case study of trauma and its aftermath." --BCCB "Emilia's inner world both captivates and devastates." --Publishers Weekly "Internal and contemplative, [this novel's] haunting quality lingers." --Booklist