Detective Constable - and secretly submissive damsel in distress - Susan MacQuillan achieves promotion to her dream post - Inspector in the Carapine Islands, but on arrival reality proves very far from what she had imagined. The locals treat her with a friendly contempt that quickly leads to a bare bottom spanking over the local matriarch's knee. Nor do the local criminals - a drug cartel - treat her with any more respect, viewing her body as a toy and her determination to bring them to justice as a joke. Only when she destroys one of their boats do they begin to take her seriously, and things take on a much darker complexion.
Illuminating everything is the artist’s own commentary, written expressly for this book, explaining his thought processes and stylistic approaches for the various riffs and reimaginings of characters we thought we knew everything about ...
Even from his jail cell, he has the cunning and connections to kill again… A stunning legal thriller, 'Rough Justice' launches a riveting new series and establishes Lisa Scottoline as an undisputed leader in one of fiction's hottest ...
After the Civil War, the Secret Service sends Gideon Ryder to stop the masked Knights of the Rising Sun, a group of vicious vigilantes who want to halt progress in Texas—a mission that proves difficult when he must go undercover to learn ...
In Roll, Jordan, Roll, Eugene Genovese argued that the lynching of slaves was relatively rare. Estimating that a mere 10 percent ofthe three hundred or so persons lynched in the South between 1840 and 1860 were black, Genovese asserted ...
This work examines the influence of race, gender, and class on understandings of criminal justice and shows how they varied across regions.
A novella featuring Olivia Taylor-Jones, from the Cainsville series.
Jess Bravin, the "Wall Street Journal"'s Supreme Court correspondent, was there within days of the prison's opening, and has continued ever since to cover the U.S. effort to create a parallel justice system for enemy aliens.
There's one problem: Evie is dating his deadliest rival-the leader of the Black Jacks-and if Evie and Zane hook up, there'll be hell to pay... in Sinner's Steel. Sarah Castille's Sinner's Tribe series is: "Raw, rugged, and romantic.
Rough Justice
The story of the movement to establish the International Criminal Court, its tumultuous first decade, and the challenges it will continue to face in the future.