Ripped from the head..lines, Deadline for Murder, tells the story of John Kendrick, a prominent Beverly HIlls defense attorney who is discovered shot to death, gangland-style inside his Cadillac sedan. LAPD's Homicide Detective Joe Kellermann, is assigned to investigate the case. Initially suspected as a Mob hit, the detective soon finds himself immersed in a web of suspects including Kendrick's wife, his law partner, a felon accused of rape and a rogue cop. The case covers lust, j...

On Friday night, July 15, 1994, a double homicide occurs at the opulent Malibu beach house of screenwriter, John Mallory. Mallory's wife Dianne and actor Derek Ramsey, are making love, when suddenly an unidentified intruder enters the Master bedroom and both are shot to death. An intense police investigation follows, led by Detective Lt. Joe Kellermann and his partner, Tony Rodriguez. The prime suspects include John Mallory, who has no substantial alibi for his whereabouts on the n...

Inspired by three true-life SoCal homicide cases, Anatomy of a Killer becomes a labyrinth of shocking crime stories beginning with the disappearance of an Afghanistan Army veteran and the murder of his fiance. This is foillowed by the cold-case tale of an :LAPD lady-cop who brutally murders her lover's wife. The trilogy is completed when a leading movie actor is bludgeoned to death by a pair of hustler-brothers in his Hollywood Hills mansion. Compelling---intriguing---a rich police procedu...

Dimitri Kosloff, an emigre from Budapest, Hungary, and now a famous Hollywood film director is discovered brutally mutilated and murdered in his penthouse hotel apartment. The evidence points to a young sailor, who was last seen with the victim. However, LAPD's Detective Joe Kellermann is not totally convinced--did they arrest the wrong man? Stripping away the City of Angels' glittering facade, the detective is drawn into a dark web of lies, lust, greed, extortion--and murder...

In L. E. Modesitt, Jr.'s The Magic Engineer, Dorrin, a young scion of Order magicians, is interested in forbidden knowledge—the working of machines.He is the Leonardo da Vinci of his age, but his insights violate the rules of the Order magic of Recluce, and in order to pursue his invention he must go into exile—in the lands of Chaos.Tortured by the knowledge that to preserve Order he must create new devices for war, Dorrin stands between Recluce and the forces of the Chaos ...

This new edition includes the latest advances and developments in computational probability involving A Probability Programming Language (APPL). The book examines and presents, in a systematic manner, computational probability methods that encompass data structures and algorithms. The developed techniques address problems that require exact probability calculations, many of which have been considered intractable in the past. The book addresses the plight of the probabilist by providing alg...

An archaeologically rich region, in advance of impending disturbanceThis volume stands as a key general resource for archaeologists working in the region extending from Louisiana through Mississippi north to Missouri and Kentucky, and it represents an opportunity to influence for decades a large part of the archaeological work to take place in the Southeast.The book responds to a need for a comprehensive archaeological overview of the Lower Mississ...

As accountability in education has become an increasingly prominent topic, teacher preparation programs are being asked to provide credible evidence that their teacher candidates can impact student learning.Teacher Work Samples, first developed 30 years ago, have emerged as an effective method of quantifying the complex set of tasks that comprise effective teaching and documenting the effectiveness of preservice teachers' impact on student learning. Hilda Rosselli, Mark Girod, and ...

15 Stories 15 AuthorsDown another forgotten hallway lie more unexplored rooms.Each room contains another world waiting to be discovered.Some are wonderful and beautiful, others are dark and terrible.You won't know which until you step inside.So take a deep breath, and open the door...Particular Passages 2: East WingFeaturing stories by:Edward Ahern - John T. Biggs - Dave D'Alessio - CJ Erick - J.T. Evans - Eric Fritz - Katie K...

On the heels of the advance since the twentieth-century of wholly physicalist accounts of human persons, the influence of materialist ontology is increasingly evident in Christian theologizing. To date, the contemporary literature has tended to focus on anthropological issues (e.g., whether the traditional soul / body distinction is viable), with occasional articles treating physicalist accounts of such doctrines as the Incarnation and Resurrection of Jesus cropping up, as well. Interestin...

This horror anthology contains seven stories, each written by different authors: John Cassian, Tom Conyers, D.Z.C., Danielle Tara Evans, L.K. Evans, Chance Maree, and Thaddeus White.A longhorn rancher gets more than he bargained for...A mythical bird becomes all too real...The ghost of a cat enacts a nasty revenge...And a bear becomes a weapon just as dangerous to its wielder...These are some of the tales in this anthology of animal mayhem by excitin...

There are many books on aspects of plant invasions, but none that focus on the key role of species interactions in mediating invasions. This book reviews exciting new findings and explores how new methods and tools are shedding new light on crucial processes in plant invasions. In 23 chapters, with contributions from 51 authors, the book addresses: · the main theories and hypotheses in plant invasion ecology that invoke species interactions; · plant invasions that are facilitated by, or be...