Retired San Francisco cop Brad Lyon and his wife Ashleigh had been settling into a comfortable life in the Shenandoah Valley, collecting and creating adorable teddy bears. But when they take a return trip to California, things suddenly turn ugly.Sometimes you shouldn't go home again. When Brad and Ashleigh Lyon visit San Francisco for the first time since they moved to Virginia, they're looking forward to catching up with friends and family. But instead, they first...

Former homicide detective Brad Lyon has happily settled into retirement with his wife, Ashleigh, and their new business: crafting artisan teddy bears. They even take their ‘Lyon’s Tigers and Bears**’** on the road to Baltimore, site of a big-time bear show.But ex-cop Brad senses something sinister when he witnesses a domestic dispute between the couple behind the hugely popular line of ‘Cheery Cherub Bears.’ And a second scuffle soon has the bear aficionados talkin...

San Francisco cop Brad Lyon has retired from the force and is loving his new life in Shenandoah Valley, Virginia, with his wife, Ashleigh. When not investigating murder, they collect and create adorable teddy bears, and even sometimes encounter real ones.While Brad pieces together his latest “Claw and Order” bear for a local teddy bear show, his deputy wife finds a local farmer done in by an arrow through his heart. Ash’s investigative skills may be razor-sharp, bu...

Retired San Francisco cop Brad Lyon is settling into a quieter life with his wife Ashleigh in Virginia’s mountain country, where they collect and create teddy bears. But even here, stuff happens...The day is here—and Brad Lyon is helping his wife put the finishing touches on her best bears, just in time for the Shenandoah Valley Teddy Bear Extravaganza. The event will draw fur-ball fanatics from near and far—to buy, sell, or simply ogle the bears. But the main even...

Retired San Francisco cop Brad Lyon is settling into a quieter life with his wife Ashleigh in Virginia’s mountain country, where they collect and create teddy bears. But even here, stuff happens.The peace of the Shenandoah Valley is shattered when an intruder breaks into the Lyon home and makes off with their antique Farnell Alpha teddy bear—one of the most celebrated stuffed animals in history, and also Brad’s gift to Ash on their twentieth wedding anniversary.

Are you ready for a stroll down memory alley?Can you recall a time when cops arrested rioters who were setting fire to buildings and vandalizing historical monuments? Remember when shoplifters actually went to jail? Imagine an era when violent lunatics weren’t allowed to wander freely through neighborhoods and menace residents.Don’t you wish you lived in a time when the police were allowed to do their jobs?Retired Southern California homicide detective John J. Lamb ...

Hell is empty and all the devils are here.Shakespeare’s words aptly describe the Southern California City of Oceanside in 1984. It’s a violent town full of pitiless marauders and anarchic violence. Armed street gangs fight over drug turf, serial sexual predators prowl the nighttime streets, and armed robbery is a commonplace occurrence. Oceanside cops refer to their city as “where the debris meets the sea.”Welcome to the third volume of John J. Lamb’s remarkable memoirs. Pr...

Finalist for the Killer Nashville Silver Falchion award in the nonfiction category.Back in 1982, Frankie and Annette wouldn’t have survived ten minutes on this beach. Not before either being robbed, brutally assaulted, or forced to flee in terror from a violent lunatic amped to the gills on angel dust.Incredibly, the seaside sands were still much safer than the anarchic downtown streets of Oceanside, California. Little wonder the street cops’ unofficial motto for the town w...

One of the world's foremost teddy bear experts delves into the history of the famous brand that inspired Winnie-the-Pooh.The family firm of J. K. Farnell & Co. Ltd. occupies a position of unparalleled importance in British soft toy history, firstly because it was the very first British toy company to manufacture teddy bears, and also because it created the actual bear that inspired A. A. Milne to write the Winnie-the-Pooh stories. Yet impressive as those facts undo...

Are you the kind of person who watches crime drama and real-life crime documentaries on television? Are you fascinated by the twists and turns of justice and the law? But how much do you really know about key issues in crime, crime control, policing and punishment in the UK?This exciting, dynamic and accessible book, written by leading experts, presents 50 key facts related to crime and criminal justice policy in Britain. Did you know that, contrary to public belief, in the UK a li...

The contemporary legal landscape is no longer a rigid hierarchy composed of limited and complacent behemoths, but rather an ecosystem, filled with a wide variety of players that facilitate disruption and revolution and jostle for clients' attention with agility and innovation. This includes - but is certainly not limited to - entities such as technology companies, consultants, alternative legal service providers, and paraprofessionals. Law firms are not the only ones in this environment th...

This new addition to the Images of America seriestraces the history of Lockport, Illinois, from theheight of its canal activity in the late 1860s to itsdecline as the lifeblood of the town in the early20th century. Lockport�s story is revealed here inover 200 vintage photographs that trace the town�sprogress from its early days through the 1970s, whenthe canal reappeared as a recreational and tourist attraction. In Lockport, Illinois: The Old Canal Town, author John Lamb offers a rare glim...