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A missing lawyer. A strangled nurse. A killer that DI Joanna Piercy must track down before they strike again.Jonathan Selkirk is a ruthless, powerful lawyer. He thinks he's untouchable. Until he receives a letter.'JONATHAN SELKIRK, MAKE YOUR WILL.'It's a threat.Hours later, Selkirk is recovering in Leek Cottage Hospital from a suspected heart attack.But the next morning his bed is empty. And there's a trail of blood down the corridor. DI Joanna Piercy can't believe Selkirk left under his own steam.Then a body turns up in Gallows Wood. Pyjama-clad, hands bound, a bullet hole in the back of the neck.And one of the nurses from the hospital is found strangled to death with her own nylon stocking.With a ruthless killer in their midst, Piercy will be pushed to her limits to keep the town safe.
A dead farmer.His son killed too.A massive search to find the missing daughter.There's a sweltering heatwave in Staffordshire. DI Joanna Piercy arrives at a quiet stone farmhouse on the highest, most remote part of the moor to find a gruesome scene.Aaron Hardacre and his son Jack have huge holes blasted through their chests. A shotgun is left, propped up by the door.But Aaron's daughter Ruthie is nowhere to be found. Is she also dead? Or is she the killer?DI Joanna Piercy knows she must find the missing girl before it's too late.
It's the milkman who notices something is wrong at Nan Lawrence's house. The old lady always leaves her empties on the step.Peeking through the curtains, he sees Nan's body on the floor. There's blood spatter all over the tapestry she was embroidering.DI Joanna Piercy is rushed off her feet investigating a spate of robberies. A gang of youths is targeting elderly women - and their attacks are becoming increasingly violent. But have they resorted to murder?Then a pair of stolen candlesticks turns up in Nan's wardrobe. What are they doing in a dead woman's house?DI Piercy realises she must untangle a complicated web of lies to find the truth - and the killer.
Something is amiss at the local village school.A man is seen lingering outside the gates - and parents and teachers are getting worried . . .Joshua Baldwin doesn't think he's doing any harm. With no family of his own, he just gets a bit lonely.Piercy tracks him down and warns him off. He's definitely weird. But harmful? She doesn't think so.Then five-year-old Madeleine Wiltshaw goes missing.It's the last day of term before Easter. No one saw her disappear in the playground at the end of the day. What if Baldwin was a threat after all?The team start up a desperate search for the little girl, but Madeleine could be hidden anywhere on these moors.The clock is ticking. Can Detective Piercy find Maddie before it's too late?
A missing woman.A jilted lover.A baffling murder. Beatrice Pennington lives a seemingly quiet life. Married and middle-aged, she's a part-time librarian and an enthusiastic member of Leek's cycling club.So when her husband Arthur turns up at the police station, frantically claiming Beatrice is missing, Detective Joanna Piercy can't help but think the woman probably just got bored with her own life.Maybe she ran off with another man? Certainly nothing serious could have happened to her.But as the days pass there is still no trace of Beatrice. DI Piercy begins to worry - could there have been foul play after all . . . ?Then a body is found. Strangled and dumped under a hedge on a moorland road.As DI Piercy investigates she unearths a dangerous web of lies. When does unrequited love become stalking? And when does stalking end in murder?
Bountiful Empire: A History of Ottoman Cuisine examines the food of the Ottoman Empire – one of the largest and longest-lasting empires in history – as it changed and evolved over more than five centuries. From sultans to soldiers, food bound people of different classes and backgrounds together, defining identity and serving symbolic functions in the social, religious, political and military spheres.Starting with an overview of the earlier culinary traditions in which Ottoman cuisine was rooted, such as those of the Central Asian Turks, Abbasids, Seljuks and Byzantines, the book focuses on diverse aspects of this rich culinary culture, including etiquette, cooks, restaurants, military food, food laws and food trade. This meticulously researched account draws on more than six hundred primary and secondary sources, ranging from archive documents to poetry, and includes over one hundred illustrations. It is a fresh and lively insight into an empire that until recent decades has been sidelined or viewed through orientalist spectacles.
Young Children's Rights
Priscilla Alderson; Mary John; Rob Gayton
Jessica Kingsley Publishers
2008
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Published in association with Save the ChildrenPriscilla Alderson examines the often overlooked issue of the rights of young children, starting with the question of how the 1989 UN Convention on the Rights of the Child applies to the youngest children, from birth to eight years of age. The question of finding a balance between young children's rights to protection, to provision (resources and services) and to participation (expressing their views, being responsible) is discussed. The author suggests that, in the belief we are looking after their best interests, we have become overprotective of children and deny them the freedom to be expressive, creative and active, and that improving the way adults and children communicate is the best way of redressing that balance.This second edition has been updated and expanded to include the relevance of UNCRC rights of premature babies, international examples such as the Chinese one-child policy, children's influence on regional policies, and the influence on young children's lives of policies such as Every Child Matters and those of the World Bank, IMF, OECD and UNICEF.This readable, informative and thought-provoking book is a compelling invitation to rethink our attitudes to young children's rights in the light of new theories, research and practical evidence about children's daily lives. It will be of interest to anyone who works with young children.
Mortuary Ritual and Society in Bronze Age Cyprus
Priscilla Keswani
Equinox Publishing Ltd
2004
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"Mortuary Ritual and Society in Bronze Age Cyprus" is a ground-breaking investigation of burial practices and social transformations in the era when Cypriot agricultural communities moved from village to urban life and became major players in the eastern Mediterranean copper trade. Confronting the many interpretive challenges posed by tombs used for multiple interments, the author develops an innovative theoretical and methodological approach that enables her to define and elucidate the shifting spatial relationships between tombs and habitation areas, the elaboration of rituals involving secondary treatment and collective burial, and changing patterns of mortuary expenditure and symbolism throughout the Bronze Age. Keswani proposes that during the Early-Middle Bronze periods, the growing elaboration of mortuary festivities and their crucial importance in negotiating status hierarchies contributed to the intensification of Cypriot copper production and the expansion of interregional exchange relations. This helped set the stage for the rise of urban polities early in the Late Bronze Age, when the presence of hereditary elites first becomes apparent in the Cypriot archaeological record. Subsequent changes in mortuary practice suggest that the importance of collective burial rites and traditional modes of ritual display diminished over the course of the Late Bronze Age, as urban institutions multiplied and the bases of social prestige were transformed.
Set in the medieval town of Shrewsbury, this is the third in the compelling Martha Gunn forensic mystery seriesWhen a woman arrives in A&E clutching a child in a pink blanket, Martha Gunn is not quite ready to make the discovery that the evening has in store for her. The baby is dead, and not only that, it has been mummified. Post mortem reveals the child to be a new born, deceased for over five years and, despite the mysterious woman's protestations that it is callled 'Poppy' most certainly a boy.As always coroner Martha Gunn reserves judgement until she is able to get to the bottom of the case.
Cécile Bellange is a worried mother. Her eighteen-year-old daughter Annabelle and her friend Dorothée left Paris for a summer hitchhiking holiday in England, but it's now September and the only contact from them is a postcard sent from the picturesque setting of Rudyard Lake in Staffordshire three months ago. Meanwhile, in England, brothers Martin and James Stuart find a note from two French girls, inviting the finder to meet them at Rudyard Lake. Their enquiries lead them to Mandalay, an upmarket guesthouse where the girls stayed just before their disappearance, and its owner, the creepy peeping tom, Mr Barker. Arriving in England, Cécile Bellange meets Detective Joanna Piercy, who is looking into the girls' disappearance. Soon Joanna must answer two important questions: what is the anxious Mr Barker trying so desperately to hide, and where are Annabelle and Dorothée?
Coroner Martha Gunn is baffled by the discovery of an unidentified body in the ruins of a local beauty spot On a bright spring morning, John Hyde opens the gates to the grounds of Moreton Corbet Castle, a local medieval ruin, and discovers the body of a homeless man with his throat slashed.Detective Inspector Alex Randall and his team soon face some disturbing questions: was this a random attack, or does someone have a vendetta against the homeless? For coroner Martha Gunn, establishing the man's identity is essential, but there are no clues . . . Who is he? What was he doing in the grounds of a Shropshire beauty spot? As the mystery deepens, the need for answers becomes increasingly important. Can Martha and Alex solve the puzzle?
Can a psychiatrist prevent a crime when it exists only in a patient's mind?When she receives a wedding invitation from one of her former patients, forensic psychiatrist Dr Claire Roget is more than a little alarmed. Highly intelligent and manipulative, Jerome Barclay suffers from a severe personality disorder. Although she has never been able to prove it, Claire believes him to be highly dangerous, responsible for at least three suspicious deaths - and she fears for the safety of his new bride. What's more, Jerome seems to know rather too much about Claire's personal and professional life, including intimate details concerning her other patients. What sinister game is he playing?With no proof as to Jerome's possibly murderous intentions, Claire's hands are tied. Can she prevent a tragedy unfolding? And is Claire herself at risk?
Detective Inspector Joanna Piercy investigates the disappearance of a young husband - and discovers all is not as it seems.Jadon Glover is good-looking, professional, reliable and a perfect husband, according to his wife. So when he fails to return home one miserable March night, she rings the police, certain that something has happened to him. DI Joanna Piercy and DS Mike Korpanski are sceptical: there is no such thing as a perfect marriage. So what is the truth about Jadon?As the investigation proceeds, it soon becomes apparent that Jadon Glover has been keeping dark secrets from his wife. And as the police pursue their house-to-house enquiries through the claustrophobic, jumbled streets of cramped Victorian terraces, they unearth other secrets from behind the net curtains. But, whatever else has been going on among the inhabitants' quiet, desperate lives, it's clear that at least one of them knows what really happened to Jadon .
DI Alex Randall and coroner Martha Gunn search for a missing child, but their investigation is compromised by local superstitions and beliefsIn the peaceful setting of the National Trust near Church Stretton, south of Shrewsbury, Tracey Walsh drives herself and her four-year-old daughter, Daisy, up the remote Burway in the early hours of the morning, tragically loses control of her car and crashes into the valley below.Tracey is rushed to hospital, but where is Daisy? She has vanished, provoking an intense police search of the area around the Devil's Chair, land that is rife with legends and strange stories of witchcraft, sorcery and unexplained disappearances. Detective Inspector Alex Randall, the senior investigating officer, soon admits to coroner Martha Gunn that he is baffled by the case.Alex and Martha must sift through fact and fiction, folklore and reality in their search for answers.
A desperate phone call from an old acquaintance plunges forensic psychiatrist Claire Roget into an explosive situation with echoes in her own past.Forensic psychiatrist Dr Claire Roget finds it impossible to refuse when she receives a desperate phone call from an old acquaintance, obstetrician Charles Tissot. One of his patients, Heather Kimble, alleges that Tissot seduced her at a party and that he is the father of her unborn child. His career on the line, Charles begs Claire to expose Heather's fragile mental state and discredit her wild claims.With a history of making similar false allegations, her two previous babies having suffered unexplained cot deaths, Heather's accusations would appear to be nothing more than the result of a damaged mind. But as Claire delves further, it becomes clear that Charles hasn't been telling her the whole truth. Could Heather's story possibly have some merit? And is her unborn child in danger.?
Gina Marconi was a beautiful young barrister with everything to live for - a loving fiancé, a young son and a successful career. So why did she leave her home in the middle of the night and drive her car into a stone wall? Soon afterwards, Patrick Elson, a clever twelve-year-old schoolboy, jumps off a bridge on to the A5. The victims are unrelated, but neither suicide makes sense. Could there be a connection? When a third unexplained death follows, Martha is left confronting even more difficult questions, and this time closer to home...