A HORSE RACING OWNERSHIP THRILLERThe future looks bleak for Mary Romano. She’s just lost her husband, her savings are used up, and her brother-in-law is showing a less than healthy attitude toward her. However, an unexpected windfall allows Mary some respite and she decides to spend some of the money on a totally frivolous and fun activity; owning a racehorse.Mary soon realises that buying her racehorse may have been a mistake as dangerous people start to t...

A FAST-PACED HORSE RACING THRILLER SET IN THE UKHow far would you go to keep a promise? When a young woman working in the pressroom at Ripon Races jumps off the top of the grandstand in the middle of a Saturday afternoon race meeting, unsuspecting race commentator and part-time actor, Joe Lawlor, is drawn into his own race; to uncover a plot to defraud the UK's biggest betting exchange of millions of pounds. By promising to protect a friend, Joe becomes embroiled i...

CAUSING INTERFERENCE - A HORSERACING OWNERSHIP THRILLERSophie Falworth was married for less than a day before her husband ran off with another woman. So when an invitation to meet his wife and distinctly odd family arrives seventeen years later, Sophie quickly disregards the request to meet in Alnwick, Northumberland. However, when it emerges that the invite is actually to the reading of her ex-husband's will, she takes a chance... and is immediately plunged headlo...

HOW DO YOU FIX A HORSE RACE?Life is passing Holly Grant by. She had dreams of being a journalist. Now in her late twenties, she's a bored office worker. But on her train home, Holly has eight thousand pounds drop into her lap, along with a curious note. Does she get off the north-bound train, as normal, and pop the money into the local police station on the way home to her scatter-brained mother, or does she stay on the train until it reaches Newcastle and take the...

The infamous unsolved Ebor Murder of 2002 - was the victim killed because he was a CHEAT?Policemen arrive at Will Payne's door with the news that his father, a racehorse trainer, has been attacked and is seriously ill. Despite having not spoken to his father for two years, Will learns that he is the number one suspect. Dragged back to his hometown of Malton in North Yorkshire, Will is cajoled into taking charge of the racing yard, only to discover the business is o...

THE MURDER OF A STABLE LASS IS CAUGHT ON VIDEO. STRAIGHT-FORWARD THEN? FOR GRANT AND BAINBRIDGE, IT JUST GOT COMPLICATED...A York tourist happens on a young apprentice jockey in the process of being murdered on the bankside path of the River Ouse. It's too late to save the girl, so instead the tourist gets his camera out and videos the scene... complete with the murderer, finishing the deed, knife in hand, and covered in blood.Holly Grant and Eugene Bainbri...

Most forensic psychologists, psychiatrists and social workers involved in the assessment of sex offenders today have a good grasp of where the field stands. Many of their colleagues do not have an appreciation of why we are where we are. This book is an attempt to bridge that gap, to provide some historical background of sex offender assessment from 1830 to the present.Topics covered in this book include early efforts to identify and describe criminal populations statistically; the...

This book surveys the history, current status, and critical issues regarding the various mechanisms designed to control sex offenders. It shows that the social problem of sex offending is not apparently resolvable by any of the means currently employed.A large array of procedures are used in the attempt to control the difficult population of sex offenders, including: imprisonment, institutional and community treatment, community monitoring by probation and parole, electronic monito...

This book offers a fresh perspective on treating a population that is often demonized by policymakers, the public, and even clinicians. The authors argue that most sex offenders are "people like us," with the potential to lead meaningful, law-abiding lives—if given a chance and appropriate support. They describe an empirically and theoretically grounded rehabilitation approach, the Good Lives Model, which can be integrated with the assessment and intervention approaches that clinicians alr...

A Dictionary of Chemistry is a popular and authoritative guide to all aspects of its discipline. With over 5,000 entries, its broad coverage includes physical chemistry and biochemistry, and is heavily informed by the most current research. For this eighth edition, the Dictionary has been fully revised, making it the most up-to-date reference work of its kind. Almost 200 entirely new entries have been added, including bioethanol, genome, m...

This rigorous survey offers a comprehensive rethinking of the assessment and treatment of sexual offenders for a bold challenge to practitioners. It critiques what we understand about offenders and the mechanisms of offending behaviors, and examines how this knowledge can best be used to reduce offending and relapses.To this end, experts weigh the efficacy of common assessment methods and interventions, the value of prevention programs, and the validity of the DSM’s classifications...

Computer simulation techniques are now having a major impact on almost all areas of the physical and biological sciences. This book concentrates on the application of these methods to inorganic materials, including topical and industrially relevant systems including zeolites and high Tc superconductors. The central theme of the book is the use of modern simulation techniques as a structural tool in solid state science. Computer Modelling in Inorganic Crystallography describes the current r...