Retired DI, Malcolm Bell, is bored. A chance meeting with a retired couple gives him the purpose he was looking for – investigating a cold case, which for him, is unfinished business. He sets out to uncover the truth behind the murder of a man supposedly killed by terrorists in Tyrone in 1988. The more he uncovers, the more dangerous life becomes for him and those closest to him. Aided by a host of unlikely allies, Malcolm must navigate the brutal complexities of the past and their impact on the present. But has he bitten off more than he can chew?

A strange epidemic of anger and violence has taken grip of world leaders. As their apparent insanity causes rapid loss of credibility and control, the world order sits on the verge of collapse. Jim Wagner and his friends are contacted by a frantic President to find the cause and eliminate it before anarchy becomes rampant. The ensuing race against time moves from the war torn countryside of Ireland to the ancient ruins of Belize's rainforests. Senseless murders, debilitating, agonizing pain and forays into the world of voodoo make this an unforgetable journey into a world of unimaginable scientific horrors.

Private investigator Jack McPhee has a two-word business philosophy: no partners. Rules are allegedly made to be broken, but Jack didn't expect that a contract to nab the so-called Calendar Burglar would force him to team up with a ten-pound, hyperactive Maltese. Or that as McPhee Investigations goes to the dogs, he'd fall deeply in-like with Dina Wexler, an undertall groomer, whose definition of a P.I. comes from watching w-a-a-y too many detective shows. Or that his absolutely genius idea to catch a thief would make him the prime—and only—suspect in a cold-blooded, diabolical homicide.

When the champion of Three Corners, the finest dog ever bred in Alisa Potts’ kennels, is found lying dead in the corner of his enclosure, it’s up to Simon Bognor, special investigator for the Board of Trade, to find out what happened. No dog lover, Bognor doesn’t relish the task. Somehow, the more absurd and low-key the assignment, the more trouble he tends to attract. This time, however, he’s really destined to go to the dogs.

From the internationally bestselling author of My Lovely Wife and For Your Own Good comes a twisted, entertaining novella about a dog walker swept into a criminal investigation when her client winds up dead. Shelby works as a dog walker in northern California, and she’s just finished up her bi-weekly trip to the park with a husky named Pluto. When she brings him back to his house, she finds his owner—Todd Burke, a well-known local businessman and founder of an organic supplements company—lying on the bathroom floor, dead. A detective arrives on the scene. As she interviews Shelby, the body is inspected by a medical examiner, and more cops search Todd’s home, it becomes clear that the victim’s life was less picture-perfect than his clean-cut persona might lead you to believe.

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Matilda Smithwick (Maddie to her friends) is the proud owner of Little Guys Pet Care, a small but steadily growing dog walking company on Chicago’s North Side. Maddie loves her job and her life. Sure—she doesn’t have a girlfriend. But her best friend Dottie and her grandmother, Granny Doyle, are far more bothered about her lack of a girlfriend than Maddie is. As long as she has her rescued mutt Bart to keep her company, Maddie is perfectly happy. That is until she returns from a walk to find one of her clients lying in a pool of his own blood. From there she finds herself thrown into a murder investigation filled with cantankerous purebred dog owners, her client’s bitter ex-wife, harassing phone calls and a police detective with no patience for Matilda’s helpful input. Throw in a lengthy hospital stay for Granny Doyle, a growing attraction for a possible murderer, and a depressed and ill-trained foster dog who refuses to eat, and Maddie’s easy, happy life seems to have fallen completely apart. Fortunately she has Granny Doyle and Dottie to help her figure out how to save her business and her home…and to help keep her out of jail.

Newspaper reporter Garth Ryland finds his dream car--a vintage 1936 Cadillac convertible--hidden in an abandoned barn. All it needs is an overhaul, but someone sabotages his mechanics with kidnapping and arson. Now Garth's running on empty to solve a classic case of vintage murder. Previous publisher: Dembner Books.

This book situates Ghana's truth-telling process, which took place from 2002 to 2004, within the discourse on the effectiveness of the different mechanisms used by post-conflict and post-dictatorship societies to address gross human rights violations. The National Reconciliation Commission was the most comprehensive transitional justice mechanism employed during Ghana's transitional process in addition to amnesties, reparations and minimal institutional reforms. Due to a blanket amnesty that derailed all prospects of resorting to judicial mechanisms to address gross human rights violations, the commission was established as an alternative to prosecutions. Against this background, the author undertakes a holistic assessment of the National Reconciliation Commission's features, mandate, procedure and aftermath to ascertain the loopholes in Ghana's transitional process. She defines criteria for the assessment, which can be utilised with some modifications to assess the impact of other transitional justice mechanisms. Furthermore, she also reflects on the options and possible setbacks for future attempts to address the gaps in the mechanisms utilised. With a detailed account of the human rights violations perpetrated in Ghana from 1957 to 1993, this volume of the International Criminal Justice Series provides a useful insight into the factors that shape the outcomes of transitional justice processes. Given its combination of normative, comparative and empirical approaches, the book will be useful to academics, students, practitioners and policy makers by fostering their understanding of the implications of the different features of truth commissions, the methods for assessing transitional justice mechanisms, and the different factors to consider when designing mechanisms to address gross human rights violations in the aftermath of a conflict or dictatorship. Marian Yankson-Mensah is a Researcher and Project Officer at the International Nuremberg Principles Academy in Nuremberg, Germany.