‘The guillotine was the silent weapon of Nazi terror — and Johann Reichhart its most faithful servant.’While the world remembers the horrors of the concentration camps, few know of the other, quieter machinery of death that powered the Nazi regime – a judicial system that turned the art of execution into an industry.Hitler’s Headsmen reveals the untold story of the judges and executioners who enforced the tyranny of the Nazi regime, taking readers deep insi...

From cold-blooded calculation to fiery vengeance—discover how history's most notorious killers finally faced their fate!Step into the chilling world of some of history's most infamous killers and discover how their reigns of terror came to a brutal, often fitting end. Payback chronicles the lives, crimes, and ultimate fates of notorious figures like Harold Shipman, the most prolific serial killer in British history, whose meticulous plans for suicide were as calcul...

They were the last face their victims ever saw.From the swinging axe to the smoking electric chair, The Executioners, the second book in the gritty Payback series, steps into the shadowy world of history’s deadliest profession. These men didn’t just kill — they turned death into a craft shaped by ritual, rules, and cold necessity.Meet Johann Reichhart, the Nazi regime’s tireless guillotine operator who executed over 3,000 men and women with chilling efficie...

Harold Shipman, the worst know serial killer in British history, was determined to die. He tied a homemade noose around this throat and threw himself against his cell’s window in a desperate attempt to knock himself out. After several attempts Shipman succeeded and slowly asphyxiated while his leg smoldered and burnt on the iron-barred heater under the cell’s window.Shipman committed suicide so that his wife would be eligible for the full pension.Bluebeard, the monstrous Fr...

"An enigmatic woman comes between a toxicologist and a murderer in this hypnotic and disturbing thriller" set in the shadowy fog of San Francisco ( Guardian, UK).Caleb Maddox is a San Francisco toxicologist studying the chemical effects of pain. He's out drinking after a bad breakup when a hauntingly seductive woman sits down beside him. He talks to Emmeline over absinthe, but their encounter is fleeting. She brushes her lips on his ear and disappears. He ...

“The book’s tone is Chandleresque, the conspiracy worrying Carver and Jenner expands to Pynchonian proportions, and the physical ick they encounter might have oozed out of a Cronenberg movie.”—Washington Post“It’s Miami Vice meets The Matrix, and George Orwell is hosting the party.”—Pittsburgh Post-GazetteIt’s late Thursday and Inspector Ross Carver is at a crime scene: a dead man covered in an unknown substance that’s eating through his ...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Money is the gateway to stability, opportunity, and freedom, and all of these benefits come not from the amount of money you start out with but from what you do with the money you have.The problem is, this isn’t a skill you’ve been taught, and for many young adults, this lack of knowledge lands them in adulthood spending money from their first paychecks with little thought… until there’s nothing left and they re...

In the tradition of Just Mercy, an inspirational memoir by WNBA star Maya Moore Irons and her husband, Jonathan Irons, who she helped free from a wrongful conviction. A journey for justice turned into a love story when Maya Moore, one of the WNBA's brightest stars, married the man she helped free from prison, Jonathan Irons. Jonathan was only 16 when he was arrested for a crime he did not commit. Maya Moore's family met Jonathan through a prison ministry program in 1999 and over time devel...

In the tradition of Just Mercy, an inspirational memoir by WNBA star Maya Moore Irons and her husband, Jonathan Irons, who she helped free from a wrongful conviction.A journey for justice turned into a love story when Maya Moore, one of the WNBA's brightest stars, married the man she helped free from prison, Jonathan Irons.Jonathan was only 16 when he was arrested for a crime he did not commit. Maya Moore's family met Jonathan through a prison ministry progra...

Italian Americans on Screen: Challenging the Past, Re-Theorizing the Future reconsiders Robert Casillo’s definition of Italian-American cinema as “appl[ying] to works by Italian-American directors who treat Italian-American subjects” to expand this classification. Contributors situate Italian-American cinema and media within the contemporary and intersectional debates about ethnic identity, including race, class, gender, and sexuality studies. This book links past scholarship to theoretica...

Money is the gateway to stability, opportunity, and freedom, and all of these benefits come not from the amount of money you start out with but from what you do with the money you have. The problem is, this isn’t a skill you’ve been taught, and for many young adults, this lack of knowledge lands them in adulthood spending money from their first paychecks with little thought… until there’s nothing left and they realize they’re in trouble. Inside this book, you’ll discover: •How mindset shap...

A California heiress's death leads a PI into her powerful family's unsettling secrets in a "gritty neo-noir with an all-too-plausible speculative twist" ( Publishers Weekly).Who is Claire Gravesend? So wonders PI Lee Crowe when he finds her dead, in a cocktail dress, on top of a Rolls Royce, in the most dangerous neighborhood in San Francisco. Claire's mother, Olivia, is one of the richest people in California. She doesn't believe the coroner's rul...