It's bad publicity for the city when the businesswoman of the year is murdered execution style. Officials want the case solved fast.Reinstated after a suspension for a fast trigger, Beaudry teams up with a new recruit. She's smart, full of Irish wit and has a smile warm enough to melt titanium.As the April weather heats up so does the chemistry between the partners. Beaudry's no rulebook tactics get them in the cross-hairs of a hit squad as the body count multiplies and the...

It's bad publicity for the city when the businesswoman of the year is murdered execution style. Officials want the case solved fast.Reinstated after a suspension for a fast trigger, Beaudry teams up with a new recruit. She's smart, full of Irish wit and has a smile warm enough to melt titanium. As the April weather heats up so does the chemistry between the partners. Beaudry's no rulebook tactics gets them in the cross-hairs of a hit squad as the body count multiplies and the case ...

The world doesn't stop when you're on vacation. It's back to cold case files, a murder in the family of his best friend, an international assassin doing business in town, and Pat the love of his life is strangely sullen. Everything is layered and nothing is as it seems.

Lieutenant Beaudry inherits a blood-bath in upper Westmount. The richest postal code in Canada. A prominent lawyer was beaten and shot, his bodyguard hacked to death. A Russian money laundering, a Vietnamese playboy, a sleazy private eye are somehow all connected. Meanwhile, his ex-wife has run off with his vintage car and Internal Affairs is poking around. In other words, he's having a normal week.

A biker finds the body of a woman jogger on a mountain trail. Easy first clues point to her boyfriend.When a ten-year-old girl is abducted, Beaudry's case turns into something far uglier. He's about to break a detective's first rule. Never get involved with the victims.

A serial killer on the loose in Montreal's gay village and a deadly blend of ecstasy put Beaudry and his narcotics squad buddy on the same trail and on the same bratva hi list.Filled with twisty plotting and Lt Beaudry's snarky hallmark comments, this is another of Kent's can't put down novels.

Based on the popular podcast The Internet Says It's True, this book is packed with 50+ bite-sized tales that are so bizarre, ironic, or hilarious, you'll want to read them aloud at the dinner table-or in the bathroom. Perfect for trivia lovers, history buffs, or anyone who enjoys a weird fact and a good laugh, Michael Kent delivers a light, witty collection of stories that you truly have to read to believe.Whether you're a longtime fan of the podcast or just someone who loves stran...

Beaudry's reputation's faltering, he can't connect the dots. He's assigned to a case that has neither rhyme nor reason. As in a sandstorm, clues swirl around him, carrying only bad memories of his murdered mother. Pat's unhappy that he's paired with an ex-lover. The big guy has never been so vulnerable, and it's about to get much— much worse.

This second edition of Food & Fitness: A Dictionary of Diet & Exercise provides more than 1,800 entries on all matters relating to diet and exercise. Subject areas covered include diet methods, food supplements, exercise, sports injuries, anatomy, energy-related terms, exercises for improving strength, flexibility, stamina, weight control, training methods and principles, calorie requirements of different activities, and other related topics. For this update all entries have been ...

A street gang murder is the snowflake that sets off an avalanche of tortures, assassinations, and a horrific hostage situation.As usual,Lieutenant Beaudry is at the center of the mayhem, and of difficult explanations to his significant other of a prior romance.It's a double jeopardy adventure.

He has landed a journalistic job at the Universal Press Agency in Washington (not state), but the graveyard shift and a strange roommate fail to boost Albert Nostrans morale. A big news event would improve matters, but then it is his worst nightmare: JOHN LENNON IS SHOT. Not sufficiently trained, more a litterateur than a reporter, his dispatches fail to elicit unadulterated praise. A ray of hope, however, materializes in the presence of an iconoclastic copy girl. Charming, but. A series o...

“The book is carefully organized and well written, and it deals with a question that is still of great importance—what is the relationship of the Bill of Rights to the states.”—Journal of American History“Curtis effectively settles a serious legal debate: whether the framers of the 14th Amendment intended to incorporate the Bill of Rights guarantees and thereby inhibit state action. Taking on a formidable array of constitutional scholars, . . . he rebuts their argument wit...