New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From Gill & Macmillan 2003 April-June

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New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From Gill & Macmillan APRIL-JUNE 2003

Barry Cummins Missing!: Missing Without Trace in Ireland Pbk published June 2003 by Gill & Macmillan at Ł7.99 ISBN: 0717132900

Barry Cummins examines the cases of Ireland's women and children who have vanished in sinister and mysterious circumstances. "Missing" looks at who may be responsible for these disappearances. This title outlines, in clear and disturbing detail, the fact that some of Ireland's most cold and calculating killers have not been caught. They are some of Ireland's most famous names, for all the wrong reasons. They are Ireland's missing women, many of them murdered and their bodies hidden by evil killers who remain at large. They include American woman Annie McCarrick who was murdered in the Dublin-Wicklow mountains; Jo Jo Dullard who was abducted and murdered while hitching a lift in County Kildare; and former model Fiona Pender who was seven months pregnant when she and her unborn child were murdered and hidden at an unknown location in the Midlands. And then there are Ireland's two long-term missing children. What ever happened to little Mary Boyle, the seven-year old County Donegal girl last seen walking near her grandparents home over a quarter of a century ago? And where is Philip Cairns, who was only thirteen years old when he was abducted from a Dublin roadside while walking to school in 1986? With the assistance of the Gardai, and the families concerned, Missing tells the stories of seven missing people - five women and two children - who had so much to live for, but were never given the chance. Missing is a disturbing book. It is also a tribute to the remarkable bravery of ordinary families who have lost a loved one in the most cruel and unexplained of circumstances. It is due to the collective strength of these families that their missing loved ones will never be forgotten.

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A J Davidson Kidnapped: The Stories of Twelve Irish Hostages Pbk published April 2003 by Gill & Macmillan at Ł7.99 ISBN: 0717135721

Kidnapping is a particularly heartless crime. Not only is the victim held in conditions of physical and psychological stress, his or her family suffer the trauma of knowing that their loved one has been taken by force and that they are powerless to help. A.J. Davidson's Kidnapped is an account of 12 Irish kidnappings since the 1970s. It starts in 1972 with the family of Noel Curran, held hostage by the Littlejohn brothers who were MI6 agents, leading to Ireland's largest bank robbery. It then tells of Thomas Niedermeyer, a German industrialist in Belfast kidnapped and murdered by the IRA. In the Republic, the case of Dr Tiede Herrema in 1975 was one of the most sensational criminal episodes in the history of the state. Other famous names recalled in "Kidnapped" are Don Tidey, Jennifer Guinness, Ben Dunne and Brian Keenan. Not to mention Shergar, the 1982 Epsom Derby winner for whom a ransom of Ł2m. was demanded. This contrasts with ponies from Fossett's circus for whom ransom demands of 200 are par for the course.

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David M. Kiely Bloody Women; Ireland's Female Killers Pbk published April 2003 by Gill & Macmillan at Ł7.99 ISBN: 0717136132

Bloody Women tells the stories of 17 Irish murders, all committed by women. Some are notorious, some less well known: all reveal that the dark forces which drive men to murder are fully shared by women. Murder by a female hand can be just as brutal as by a man's. "Bloody Women" contains drownings, shootings, stabbings and savage clubbings - as well as highlighting the ingenious methods by which some of Ireland's female killers disposed of their victims' corpses. Here are women who murdered their lovers; or who murdered relations in disputes over land and inheritance; here is Mamie Cadden, the Hume Street abortionist; Jane O'Brien from County Wexford who shot her own nephew in order to get possession of a farm; and Hannah O'Leary who killed and dismembered one of her elder brothers in County Cork. With murder sites from London to Donegal, from Down to Limerick this book offers a chilling read.

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