Detective Sandra is investigating crimes, and a recent spate of murders around town. Cole takes crime scene photos and soon realizes he needs to help the detective solve the crimes, as he knows the women personally. There is an attraction between the two, but it becomes a dangerous liaison should they hookup The bodies that keep turning up have strange markings, Cole can help, but he also reveals the truth about himself, a truth that changes everything,...

While in competition for a job promotion, the female competitor sues her male counterpart for sexual harassment. Blackmail and murder follow closely behind.

Love is patient. Love is kind. Love is...deadly? For the people in this book, that's certainly the case. They acted out of love and performed some of the most hideous acts of passion in the history of romance. This short book follows several cases of deadly passion, from the celebrated French woman who had enough of her husband's blatant cheating to the woman who made her husband a few inches shorter. These deadly divas and wannabe studs shocked the...

Crimes of passion are both eerie and strangely tantalizing. This riveting anthology explores the question through some of the most compelling true crime accounts and stories of obsession and vengeance. Crimes fueled by emotions. When it comes to the emotions, people can react in strange and unexpected ways. Whether it's a heart hurt by unrequited love, or a lover so passionate they'll stop at nothing to get their way-even the most mild-mannered soul...

Murder for Love: Murder for Women is a collection of wickedly witty crime-of-passion short stories by some of the best women writers inside and out of the mystery field. These eight thrilling never-before-published stories include: • " For Whom the Beep Tolls" by Carol Higgins Clark • " Definitely, a Crime for Passion" by Mary Higgins Clark • " ...

Frank Chambers (John Garfield) is a drifter who lands at a roadside gas station owned by jolly old Nick Smith (Cecil Kellaway) and his young, blonde wife Cora (Lana Turner). In a matter of minutes, Frank and Cora fall in love, and plot to murder Nick. Eventually wedding bells ring, the body count rises, and the gavel slams-of course, nothing ever goes as planned. Part of what makes the film noir is watching the characters react, as their plans are...

Frank Chambers (Jack Nicholson) is a drifter who lands at a roadside gas station owned by jolly old Nick Papadakis (John Colicos) and his young, blonde wife Cora (Jessica Lange). Frank and Cora quickly fall in love, and plot Nick's murder. Waiting for wedding bells to ring, the body count rises, the gavel slams-of course, nothing ever goes as planned-and their plans are derailed one by one.

"In the new Eve Dallas police thriller from the #1 New York Times bestselling author J.D. Robb, what looks like a lover's quarrel turned fatal has larger-and more terrifying-motives behind it"-- "The scene in the West Village studio appears to be classic crime-of-passion: two wineglasses by the bed, music playing, and a young sculptor named Ariel Byrd with the back of her head bashed in. But when Dallas tracks down the wealthy Upper East Side woman...

"In 1895, an Italian seamstress in New York was accused of killing the man who had raped her, promised to marry her, and was about to abandon her. Following a sensational trial conducted in a language she could not understand, Maria Barbella, at the age of twenty-two, became the first woman sentenced to die in the newly invented electric chair. Idanna Pucci tells this story with immediacy, passion and authority that no other author could have mustered,...