Steven Boyer
Author
Series
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
414 p. : col. map ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
New York City, 1845. Timothy Wilde, a 27-year-old Irish immigrant, joins the newly formed NYPD and investigates an infanticide and the body of a 12-year-old Irish boy whose spleen has been removed.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
[1990], c1985
Physical Desc
145 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
From one of the country's most acclaimed and popular novelists comes a selection of a dozen short stories set in James Lee Burke's most beloved milieu, the Deep South. James Lee Burke has become a dedicated voice for the people of Louisiana, especially post-Katrina. This collection demonstrates the depth of his feeling for the state that has always been such a study in contrasts: rural and urban, old and new, wild and civilized. In this moving collection...
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Co
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
212 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
In their own voices--raw and uncensored--inmates sentenced to death as teenagers talk about their lives in prison, and share their thoughts and feelings about how they ended up there. Susan Kuklin also gets inside the system, exploring capital punishment itself and the intricacies and inequities of criminal justice in the United States.