Without a Body presents nine fascinating cases, spanning from the 1890s to the 21st century. How does an investigator capture a killer when the body’s not around for investigating? What clues can be gathered in the body’s absence? And how can a jury convict without that single most important piece of evidence?
When a “big box” hardware and home improvement store opened in northern Houston, only three and a half miles from Martin Hardware, local residents shook their heads and forecast the old store’s closure. After all, how could a 67-year-old hardware in an old converted barn compete in pricing and advertising against such a Goliath? But something funny happened on the way to the pity party…
The gorgeous woman leaned closer. “Do you believe in holiness?” NATO sapper Captain Kenneth Rutland needs something to believe in, and he’s easily sucked in when a beautiful stranger gives him a chance to escape his cynical, disappointing reality. But danger haunts Niviane’s world. Can Kennie fight through the savagery and disbelief, and let the Christmas star work its healing miracle?
Four true crime fingerprint cases pulled from history.
1. The first crimes solved through fingerprints… Francesca Rojas (1892), Harry Jackson (1902), and the Mask Murders (1905).
2. The Question Mark Burglar… an unbelievable case from 1920.
3. When the victim’s fingerprints count the most… the Urschel kidnapping case from 1933.
4. Beyond bizarre… the strange case of cop-killer George Ross (1951).
August 1940
He wasn’t supposed to be on the plane. Now Major Faust is a prisoner of the English and he must escape before they break him. But every time he gets away, a woman is raped and murdered. The English need someone to hang. He’s the hot suspect.
He’s got to catch the killer, even though he’s helping the enemy. It’s collaboration, almost treason. It’s making a Deal with the Devil.
There's a lot involved in firearms and ballistics. But with this handy primer in your e-reader, you'll be armed and ready to write before you can say "submachine gun."
Oh, and did I mention it's illustrated?
Captain Kelly Bonham, NATO electronics officer, adopts a war dog, but when Pojo arrives he’s not interested in rolling over for a tummy rub. This German Shepherd’s a working dog, a retired bomb sniffer. Now she’s shaking down a relationship with a dog whose behavior is puzzling and maybe even unhinged. Can she reach Pojo... or is there more to the situation than she’s seeing?
Carlyle Harris and Robert Buchanan had several things in common. Both worked in the medical field, with Harris a medical student and Buchanan a practicing physician. Both lived in New York City in the early 1890s. And both had wives they didn't want.
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Captain Charles Ellandun lives in two worlds: NATO’s Rapid Response team, and civilized Boston with his beloved Aunt Edith. Then the war implants a ferocious, repeating memory he can't shake. Then someone murders Aunt Edith. And then someone tries to run him over with a Suburban. Like it or not, Charles must dig into her past, even if it rips his world to shrapnel. Even if it costs him his life.