Reality Crime

A serious crime facing American society is now a crime/thriller. Ben, an engineer, was sitting in Our Bar when he heard the horrific news of the train crash. He learns that his girlfriend, Christy is permanently blinded. He vows to take care of her, but Christy ends up taking her life. Ben becomes obsessed with his love for trains, uses another engineer for her knowledge of the inner workings of them, and then orchestrates another train crash, leaving all but himself accounted for.

Cheri was a stripper, when she met her husband, Spike. Spike was a biker and a customer at the strip joint where Cheri worked. She got pregnant soon after they met, and she convinced him to marry her. Cheri quit being a stripper, but Spike didn't quit going to the strip clubs. Their marriage lasted for a few years, but after the son they had together died in a horrible accident, things began to fall apart, and Spike got into gambling, Spike was never the same; things were never the same.

Crossing the US-Mexican border has become increasingly dangerous as these immigrants escape poverty to a word of kidnapping, rape, murder, heat exhaustion, dehydration, and starvation, while they are chased and hunted by drug cartels and for sex trafficking.

Children Below Us: Child Trafficking is one of Blair's latest crime novels about a very serious problem in America. Have you ever wondered what happens to missing and exploited children? Are they victims of the trafficking of children? Children Below Us: Child Trafficking will give you an insight into where they might be - in your basement, the house next door, a vacant building...you should be more aware of the possibilities after listening to this intense novel by one of today's best crime authors.

Friends Failing Forever is a story of how Gina, the never-ending party-seeker, constantly needs a caretaker - or babysitter - for herself and her young daughter. Also how her BFF, Cassie, decides she can't be that person anymore, and leaves Gina out to dry - dry up, hopefully. Periodically, Gina tries to better herself - like getting a job from which she later gets fired, as she gets angry at a child. Cassie, in contrast to Gina's hooker-look, is attractive, stylish, well-educated, and employed, and prefers to keep it that way rather than party with Gina.

Paige and Jordan fall in love, and seem to live what looks like a normal life. However, their tastes are quite expensive, and soon find themselves out of money. Each of them has a secret life that they have not revealed to the other. Paige lets her friends know that Jordan is at fault; Jordan blames Paige. They both blame the other for not giving them what they want. They make friends, but end up scamming them, oftentimes without the other knowing.

Gabbi loves her wine almost as much as she loves her men. But being the attention whore that she is, she couldn't hang in there when her marriage needed mending; instead she ran to an old high school sweetheart, making up stories that her husband abused her so all would feel sorry for her. When friends would confront Gabbi with their disbelief of Travis' abusiveness, she would say that he put on a good act. Gabbi got what she wanted - for a while.

Penny always envied her friend Amber, but lost touch with her over the years. Amber comes to visit and confesses to Penny that she had killed her own children by letting them drown. Amber let her children drown, and then blamed it on her husband, who was drunk and didn't remember what he did or where he was, and so was convicted of the heinous crime.

Even though it is said that the usual motive of a serial killer is psychological gratification, which involves sexual contact with the victim, the FBI states that the motives could include thrills, anger, attention seeking, and financial gain. With all the stated motives, a question is left hanging: What was Dennis Rader's motive for his notorious serial killing?

Todesursache - dem Leben auf der Spur.

Sherlock Holmes is probably the most famous detective in the world. The tales of his exploits have been seen in magazines, books, television screens, the movies and even in computer games. And yet, there is a mysterious side to this fictional character that has eluded and yet drawn us for decades.