The Secret Crown by Chris Kuzneski

Playing for the Ashes (Inspector Lynley Series, Book 7)

Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley, the 8th Earl of Asherton, and his companion, Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers, come upon what seems an ideal crime as they examine a deadly hearth at an fifteenth-century cottage.

From Publishers Weekly:

With a British cricket time period as its identify, the 7th crime novel (after lacking Joseph) that includes English Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley and Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers probes the proximity of affection and hate. After cricket superstar Kenneth Fleming is located asphyxiated in a burned cottage at the property of Miriam Whitelaw, his buyer, Lynley and Havers, with neighborhood Detective Inspector Isabelle Ardery, investigate the victim's tangled household affairs. Fleming, in the course of divorce lawsuits, used to be imagined to were in Greece; the lady renting the cottage is lacking. Lynley and Havers locate the patron's wayward daughter, Olivia, previously a drug person and prostitute, who, now stricken with ALS (Lou Gehrig's Disease--and Stephen Hawking's), resides on a barge with an animal-rights activist. Woven into the research are Olivia's bills of her mother's courting with the cricket big name and of her personal quest for her mother's love. Circumventing Ardery and utilizing the media in a manner discouraged via his superiors, Lynley places his activity in jeopardy.

The Fence: A Police Cover-up Along Boston's Racial Divide

A riveting, true-life account of violence, racial injustice, and betrayal in the ranks of the Boston Police Department

The Boston cops who brutally beat Michael Cox at a abandoned fence one icy evening in 1995 knew right now they'd made a poor mistake. The badge and handgun below Cox's bloodied parka proved it: He used to be now not a black gang member yet a plainclothes officer who were chasing an identical homicide suspect they were.

While Cox was once being overwhelmed, Officer Kenny Conley chased down and captured the suspect. later on, as Cox waited for an apology from his division, federal prosecutors accused Conley of mendacity while he denied witnessing Cox's beating. either Cox and Conley grew up in Boston and had devoted their lives to serving the Boston Police division, but if they wanted its aid, they have been abandoned.

A extraordinary paintings of investigative journalism, The Fence information the stunning tale of the assault, the tried cover-up by way of law enforcement officials beholden to a "blue wall of silence," and the sour repercussions at the lives of these concerned. It follows Cox's 1998 federal civil rights trial opposed to the Boston Police division and lines a various solid of characters, together with the sufferers, their households, the officials accused within the beating, urban officers, and the particular homicide suspect—all set opposed to the wealthy backdrop of Boston.

Like J. Anthony Lukas's 1985 Pulitzer Prize-winning vintage universal flooring, The Fence examines Boston's race kinfolk and the unwritten police code of protecting up during the intimate lens of these who skilled the crime at once. via coming to understand the officials and criminals introduced jointly that evening on the fence—and the households whose lives have been replaced endlessly as a result—we experience how deeply the traces of prejudice run during this urban nonetheless haunted via tribalism and racial tension.

Boston journalist Dick Lehr has written a gritty, desirable true-crime tale with strange depth—a chilling exploration of what occurs whilst worry of admitting error combines with a police tradition of mendacity to undermine justice.

Cain et Abel, le premier crime

Second Sight

He knew he was once going blind. whereas his sight slowly light, he entire graduate institution, grew to become a historical past professor, and wrote books in regards to the American West until eventually, approximately fifty years previous, Robert Hine misplaced his imaginative and prescient thoroughly. while, fifteen years later, a perilous eye operation restored partial imaginative and prescient and lower back Hine to the realm of the sighted, "the trauma appeared instructive sufficient" to advised him to start a magazine.