A gripping British Christmas cold case mystery featuring exhumed skeletal remains, long-buried family secrets, and a retired detective forced to make a devastating choice.Would you confront a past that could be deadly?As Christmas approaches, murder is the last thing on Kent Fisher's mind.When contractors uncover the remains of a woman on the site of Kent's original animal sanctuary, long-buried family secrets surface. Secrets that threaten those cl...

A gripping British coastal murder mystery featuring a framed investigator, a trail of suspicious suicides, and a ruthless killer with a dark agenda.How far would you go to correct a past injustice?Did highway inspector Derek Forster take his own life after the death of his wife? If so, why had he booked his dog for grooming the following week?Was restaurateur Samson Capote, brutally attacked and left to die in his deep freezer, the victim of too man...

The Oxford Textbook of Clinical Research Ethics is the first comprehensive and systematic reference on clinical research ethics. Under the editorship of experts from the U.S. National Institutes of Health of the United States, the book's 73 chapters offer a wide-ranging and systematic examination of all aspects of research with human beings. Considering the historical triumphs of research as well as its tragedies, the textbook provides a framework for analyzing the ethical aspects of resea...

Malcolm Dowd is almost positive he recognizes the freshman who shows up for a session at his office in Baxter College’s Center for Behavioral Health—he just can’t place her. When suddenly she stands, takes off her wig, and reveals herself as Noah, the young man Malcolm had been treating months earlier, it marks the start of a relationship that will change them both. After losing his wife at a young age, Malcolm dedicated himself to giving his two daughters the stable, predictable childhood...

This is the story of the infamous nineteenth-century Scottish grave robbers who weren’t Scottish and didn’t rob graves. They were actually Irish, and as robbing graves to supply the needs of Edinburgh’s anatomists proved to be rather hard work, they just took to murdering people—usually their neighbors—for profit. In collaboration with their common-law wives, they set about supplying corpses for Dr. John Knox, an eminent Scottish surgeon, with considerable enthusiasm and gusto. The play fo...

Three full-length Downland Murder Mysteries in one collection.Imagine a perfect murder, an investigation where there are no bodies, and a killer whose crimes were perpetrated so long ago there’s no trace of them.You don’t need to imagine when you can read all about them in the first three Downland Murder Mysteries, brought together in this collection.Neither a police officer nor a private investigator, Kent Fisher is an environmenta...

A gripping British investigative mystery featuring a targeted conspiracy against journalists, a cryptic digital trail, and an amateur detective defying police orders.When the truth puts everything at risk, who can you trust?When rescuers pull journalist Harry Lawson from a private swimming pool, his death looks like a tragic accident. Except for one troubling detail. Harry knew someone was going to kill him.The three text messages he sent to an old ...

My practice life has spanned 36 years and during that time I have been involved in untangling countless mysterious maladies-or at least trying to do so. All of these efforts were without the benefit of any formal training about family systems. I am greatly encouraged by this book because it first draws attention to the intricate web that mankind has woven for itself. The family physician has often been caught up in this web, and therefore rendered impotent. Efforts to understand all of thi...

From the author of the "wrenching and exhilarating" All Things Cease to Appear comes a gripping literary thriller about a man reckoning with the mysterious death of his former roommate (Wall Street Journal).Julian Ladd and Rye Adler cross paths as photography students in the exclusive Brodsky Workshop. When Rye needs a roommate, Julian moves in, and a quiet, compulsive envy takes root, assuring, at least in his own mind, that he will never achieve...

A dark and gripping British cold case mystery featuring a thirty-year-old historic cover-up, a desperate race against time, and a family secret that threatens to destroy everything.Can the wounds left by the past ever heal?The decomposed remains of a murdered woman are discovered in a bedsit. Forced to confront a past he has tried to forget, Kent Fisher uncovers crimes that were brushed aside and concealed almost thirty years ago. Crimes that could destroy ...

A gripping 20-year British cold case mystery featuring a vanished mother, a dark family secret, and an amateur detective who becomes the target.Are family secrets best left unspoken?One Friday afternoon, twenty years ago, Helen Cassidy left her office and never returned. Did she escape an abusive husband, or was she abducted and murdered?Now Mandy Paige wants environmental health officer Kent Fisher to find the mother who abandoned her as a baby. Wi...

A heart-breaking British suspense mystery featuring a missing honeymooner, the disturbing discovery of a burned-out car, and a devastating past secret that threatens to destroy everything.How can one reckless moment cost so many lives?As her honeymoon ends, Gemma Dean goes missing one chilly October morning, leaving behind her phone. Texts hint at secrets darker than Kent Fisher could imagine.When authorities find a body in a burned-out car more tha...