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1. The Boyfriend (2014)
Jack Till, who has retired from the LAPD after a respected career as a homicide detective, now works as a private investigator, comfortable chasing down routine cases while visiting his 24-year-old daughter, Holly, who has Down Syndrome. But when the parents of a recently murdered young girl, about Holly’s age, ask for his help when the police come up empty, Till reluctantly takes the case.It was discovered after her death that the victim had been working as a high-class prostitute, and the police are content to assume she was killed by a client, common in…
2. The Old Man (2018)
Edgar Award-winning author Thomas Perry writes thrillers that move “almost faster than a speeding bullet” (Wall Street Journal). The Old Man is his latest whip-smart standalone novel.To all appearances, Dan Chase is a harmless retiree in Vermont with two big mutts and a grown daughter he keeps in touch with by phone. But most sixty-year-old widowers don’t have multiple driver’s licenses, savings stockpiled in banks across the country, and a bugout kit with two Beretta Nanos stashed in the spare bedroom closet. Most have not…
3. The Cater Street Hangman: The First Charlotte and Thomas Pitt Novel (2008)
"An ingenious mystery and an excellent example of manners and caste systems of the Victorian era."THE CHATTANOOGA TIMESWhile the Ellison girls were out paying calls and drinking tea like proper Victorian ladies, a maid in their household was strangled to death. The quiet and young Inspector Pitt investigates the scene and finds no one above suspicion. As his intense questioning causes many a composed facade to crumble, Pitt finds himself couriously drawn to pretty Charlotte Ellison. Yet, a romance between a society girl and so unsuitable…
4. The Bomb Maker (2019)
A bomb is more than a weapon. A bomb is an expression of the bomber’s predictions of human behavior―a performance designed to fool you into making one fatally wrong move. In The Bomb Maker, Thomas Perry introduces us to the dark corners of a mind intent on transforming a simple machine into an act of murder―and to those committed to preventing that outcome at any cost. A threat is called into the LAPD Bomb Squad and when tragedy ensues, the fragmented unit turns to Dick Stahl, a former Bomb Squad commander who now operates his own private security…
5. Pursuit: A Novel (2006)
“Perry is the best suspense writer in the business. . . . Pursuit is relentless, filled with twists and turns, that rare page-turner that keeps one reading late into the night to finish.”–The Boston GlobeThirteen bodies are found in a Louisville restaurant. When the police can find no suspect or motive, a victim’s family seeks the services of the enigmatic and solitary specialist Roy Prescott, known for his ability to find people who don’t want to be found. Working outside the law and willing to do what the police can’t, Prescott hunts the killer, an elusive…
6. The Informant (Butcher’s Boy, Book 3) (Butcher’s Boy Novel) (2012)
“Perry’s novels—the best ones—are a master class in thriller writing. The Informant should be the newest addition to that syllabus, read for devouring first, and analysis thereafter.”—Los Angeles Times The Butcher’s Boy is back. Thomas Perry’s vengeful assassin has returned to play a deadly psychological game with Elizabeth Waring, the only Justice Department official who ever believed he existed. The Butcher’s Boy knows Waring can help him hunt down the Mafia boss who sent a team of hit men to kill him—and in return he offers her key information that will help her crack an…
7. Paragon Walk: A Charlotte and Thomas Pitt Novel (2009)
In the posh London street of Paragon Walk, an unspeakable crime is committed: A young woman is brutally raped and murdered.Once again, that incomparable team of sleuths Inspector Thomas Pitt and his young wife, Charlotte, set themselves against a vicious murderer. As the elegant masks of the wellborn suspects slip, it becomes appallingly clear that something ugly lurks behind the handsome façades of Paragon Walk–something that may lead to more scandal, and more murder….
8. Callander Square: A Charlotte and Thomas Pitt Novel (2009)
Murders just don’t happen in fashionable areas like Callander Square–but these two have. The police are totally baffled. Pretty, young Charlotte Ellison Pitt, however, is curious.Inspector Pitt’s well-bred wife doesn’t often meddle in her husband’s business, but something about this case intrigues her–to the point that staid Charlotte Pitt is suddenly rattling the closets of the very rich, seeking out backstairs gossip that would shock a barmaid, and unearthing truths that could push even the most proper aristocrat to murder….
9. Dance for the Dead , A Jane Whitefield Novel (1997)
Jane Whitefield is the patron saint of the pursued, a Native American “guide” who specializes in making victims vanish. Calling on the ancient wisdom of the Seneca tribe and her own razor-sharp cunning, she conjures up new identities for people with nowhere left to run. She’s as quick and quiet as freshly fallen show, and she covers a trail just as completely. But when a calculating killer stalks an innocent eight-year-old boy, Jane faces dangerous obstacles that will put her powers—and her life—to a terrifying test. . . . “Spellbinding . . . Terrific . . . Jane Whitefield may be the most…
10. Resurrection Row: A Charlotte and Thomas Pitt Novel (2009)
It is a most incredible sight: a corpse sitting at the reins of a hansom cab–and not just any corpse, but the body of a peer of the realm. To Inspector Thomas Pitt and his wife, Charlotte, this macabre apparition seems like sheer lunacy. Who would ever want to exhume a decently buried old chap like Lord Augustus Fitzroy-Hammond?A doctor insists that Lord Augustus’s death was natural. But as far as the police are concerned, there’s certainly nothing natural about any of this gristly aftermath. Inspector Pitt is determined to unearth the truth–even if the digging puts his own life at perilous risk….
11. Poison Flower (Jane Whitefield) (2013)
Poison Flower, the seventh novel in Thomas Perry’s celebrated Jane Whitefield series, opens as Jane spirits James Shelby, a man unjustly convicted of his wife’s murder, out of the heavily guarded criminal court building in downtown Los Angeles. But the price of Shelby’s freedom is high. Within minutes, men posing as police officers kidnap Jane and, when she tries to escape, shoot her.Jane’s captors are employees of the man who really killed Shelby’s wife. He believes he won’t be safe until Shelby is dead, and his men will do anything to…
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Participation, Citizenship and Intergenerational Relations in Children and Young People’s Lives: Children and Adults in Conversation
Author(s): Joanne Westwood, Cath Larkins, Dan Moxon, Yasmin Perry, Nigel Thomas (eds.)
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK, Year: 2014, Size: 1 Mb, Download: pdf
ID: 1702649
To Protect and To Serve: Policing in an Age of Terrorism
Author(s): David Weisburd, Thomas E. Feucht, Idit Hakimi, Lois Felson Mock , David Weisburd, Thomas Feucht, Idit Hakimi, Lois Mock, Simon Perry (eds.)
Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York, Year: 2011, Size: 2 Mb, Download: pdf
ID: 657203
Perry's Chemical Engineers' Handbook. Section 8
Author(s): Cecil L. Smith, F. Greg Shinskey, George W. Gassman, Andrew W. R. Waite, Thomas J. McAvoy, Dale E. Seborg Thomas F. Edgar
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional, Year: 2007, Size: 4 Mb, Download: pdf
ID: 138428
Quick Hits for Educating Citizens
Author(s): Thomas Ehrlich, James L.. Perry, Steven G. Jones
Publisher: , Year: 2006, Size: 2 Mb, Download: pdf
ID: 554893
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