New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From Blake Pub 08 Jan-March

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New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From Blake Pub JAN-MARCH 08

Christopher Berry Dee Murder.com Pbk published March 2008 by Blake Pub at Ł7.99 ISBN: 1844545172

Evil roams the internet just as it does even the most quiet of streets in the real world. World-renowned criminologist Christopher Berry-Dee takes an unflinching look into the darkest recesses of the world wide web and what he has unearthed will make you switch off your computer - for good. From cannibals ordering a human meal by email to mail-order brides whose quest for better lives end in grisly murder, this is the only guide you need to avoid the perils of the online world. With years of experience in understanding the criminal mind, Berry-Dee rigorously analyses how the ease of access to the most depraved of materials on the net has fed the imagination of the world's sickest fiends. From the bondage festishist who killed an innocent acquaintance, to the girl who learned how to commit suicide from the web, these all-true stories will shock you to your core.

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Kieran Crowley Dr Death Pbk published March 2008 by Blake Pub at Ł7.99 ISBN: 1844545407

In the summer of 1985, in his exclusive Manhattan apartment, Robert Bierenbaum, a reputable and widely respected surgeon, murdered his wife Gail. According to prosecutors, he then drove her body to an airstrip, and dumped it into the Atlantic Ocean from a single-engine private plane. The next day he reported her missing.Gail's parents had been thrilled to learn she was marrying Robert Bierenbaum. He seemed to be the perfect match for their daughter. He was from a well-to-do family, a medical student who spoke five languages fluently, a skier, and he even had a pilot's licence. But Gail soon came to learn of her husband's dark side. She filed a police report on one occasion, when Robert had tried to choke her because he caught her smoking. She also alleged that he had tried to kill her cat because he was jealous of it. For years, Gail's sister pleaded with her to run for her life. Even her therapist warned her that she could eventually die at the hands of the man she married.Fifteen years after this unspeakable, unfathomable crime, a jury found Robert Bierenbaum guilty of murder. This gripping account reveals the sinister hidden life of this privileged professional.

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Kat Kray Naughty Bastards Pbk published March 2008 by Blake Pub at Ł6.99 ISBN: 184454513X

There is a deadly code of conduct that operates beyond the boundaries of the everyday. It's a world where anger, strength and terrifying ferocity must be controlled with total precision and perfect timing. It is an art know to only a few.In this unique project, Kate Kray has met such men and talked to them on their own ground. They have opened up to her, told her their stories - the hunger and poverty they have endured as kids with crime and violence on every street corner, a world where it's a thin line between survival and the cold slab in the city mortuary.With integrated photographs, the portraits of these men reveal not only their awesome and terrifying presence, their power and brutal strength, but their underlying humanity and dignity too.The result of this collaboration is a revelation - portraits in words and pictures of tough guys who are smooth, loaded and hard as rock. Men who have gone to the brink, and have survived to turn their lives around to tell their tale…

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John McShane Nowhere to Hide Published March 2008 by Blake Pub at Ł17.99 ISBN: 1844544907

The revolutionary techniques of 'genetic fingerprinting' has meant convictions, long after they committed their crimes, for the evil men who mistakenly thought they had escaped detection. Cases that have ended with guilty men standing in the dock are chronicled in this fascinating examination of the past two decades of forensic crime-fighting and how it has finally put the villains where they belong - behind bars. From the sensational, groundbreaking case of bakery worker Colin Pitchfork who murdered two teenage girls near his Leicestershire home, to the historic conviction of teenage shop assistant Craig Harman - tracked down by his brother's DNA for slaying an innocent lorry driver by hurling a brick at him from a motorway bridge - this engrossing book details the crime, the criminals and the men and women who brought them to justice.Acclaimed author John McShane also analyses the hunt for and capture of the M25 rapist who carried out a series of terrifying attacks on young women. He traces the DNA trail that led from London to Korea and back to convict a bloodthirsty landlord who killed his female tenants and callously dumped their bodies in a cupboard and in a suitcase.
A catalogue of other gruesome cases where the DNA analysis caught the criminals involved are re-explained in a clear, jargon-free manner. This book also highlights and explains the astonishing future that lies ahead for DNA research. Every crime was unique. Each one looked unsolvable. Many remained so for years. These gripping accounts covering the past 20 years, at last reveal the true stories behind the headlines and send out a chilling message to the criminal underworld. Now there really is nowhere to hide.

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