"A pleasingly written lay person's primer to disease epidemiology, as well as a gentle introduction to the social and cultural history of medicine." — The BiologistIncludes extensive illustrationsBehind every disease is a story, a narrative woven of multiple threads—from the natural history of the disease to the tale of its discovery and its place in world events. The Atlas of Disease is the first book to tell these stories in a new...

Violence against women is out of control. Conviction rates for rape are so low that most survivors think it pointless to report, or later regret doing so. Ruthless trafficking gangs run the sex trade. Women have no confidence in the Metropolitan Police. The year is 1914.As the First World War began, a group of British campaigners founded the Women Police Volunteers, hoping to protect the vulnerable both from crime and from patriarchal policing and justice. The movement’s pioneers i...

In the nineteenth century it was criminally easy to bump off unwanted relatives.A Household Thrown into ChaosPlumstead village, 2 November 1833. Wealthy landlord, George Bodle is taken violently ill. He dies within hours. When his wife, daughter and two maids are also taken ill, there is only one terrifying explanation . . . arsenic poisoning.A Murder Most FoulYet, while arsenic was readily available over the counter in the 1...

In 1831, an unknown, horrifying and deadly disease from Asia swept across Continental Europe, killing millions in its path and throwing the medical profession into confusion. Cholera is a killer with little respect for class or wealth. When it arrived in Britain, its repercussions rocked Victorian England - from the filthy lanes of the Sunderland quayside and the squalid streets of Soho, to the great centres of power: the Privy Council, Whitehall and the Royal Medical Colleges. One man - a...

All was quiet in the Bodle home in Plumstead village on the morning of 2 November 1833. In the large ten bedroom farmhouse, the maid Sophia Taylor began preparing breakfast while, at the cottage down the track, Mary Higgins came down to set the fire.But all was not as it seemed that morning...When the local doctor was summoned several hours later he found four women suffering from severe vomiting and stomach pains whilst the master of the house was delirious with pain. His suspicio...

Inspired by songs from AC/DC’s bestselling album, Back in Black, this anthology contains ten murder mysteries from ten bestselling writers—including a new Jack Reacher original by Andrew Child.The third collection in the Music and Murder Mystery Series, Back in Black features one story for each song from the seminal hard rock album of the same name. This book showcases ten brilliant mystery writers at the top of their game, including Reed Farrel C...

Ein wunderschönes Ritual zum Hochzeitstag: trotz klirrender Kälte nach Anbruch der Dunkelheit mit Duftkerzen, Tee, Weihnachtsplätzchen und dem gemeinsamen Lied auf den Ohren auf der kleinen Dachterrasse sitzen und sich gegenseitig Gedichte vorlesen. Doch das Wichtigste fehlt ...

In der Mondscheinallee leben lauter perfekte Menschen mit perfekten Gärten, perfekten Kindern und perfekten Leben. Jedenfalls dem Anschein nach perfekt. Doch hinter verschlossenen Türen ...

Ella ist total im Vorbereitungsstress für Heiligabend, da klingelt es auch noch an der Tür. Der Postbote stellt ihr wortlos ein Paket vor die Füße. "Für Ella. Erst öffnen, wenn du es verstanden hast", steht darauf. Also für so einen Quatsch hat sie nun echt keine Zeit!