Уильям Деверелл0.0 In Platinum Blues, Oliver Gulliver is a small-town lawyer in northern California, and he’s slowly going broke. He’s a plodder and a dreamer, has never tested himself in a big trial, and is immensely protective of his two teenage girls. His very attractive 18-year-old returns home from San Francisco, where she had been seeking a modeling career, dragging home with her a once-famous, now burnt-out and alcoholic rock star, C.C. Gilley. They’re in love. Oliver is utterly shocked and dismayed. It’s like having a dope-smoking extraterrestrial in the trailer in the back yard, living with his daughter. But a quirky friendship develops as Gilley accepts Oliver’s dare to go cold turkey. Working in the backyard Winnebago, with guitar and portable recording studio, Gilley begins writing songs — a comeback album. But the tune of his love song to Oliver’s daughter ("Small-Town Girl") gets stolen, and begins to get major airplay from a new band that a major label is pushing. Armed with an opinion from a music expert, Oliver finds himself in Los Angeles, tackling the big boys, suing a billion-dollar record company for plagiarism. He discovers he has a folksy talent that captures not only the admiration of the public, but that of the courts. He wins a temporary restraining order, and survives efforts to sabotage his case. This legal thriller captures the inside story of the music business as well as the arcane issue of copyright.
Джон Брэйди0.0 A student’s murder in the grounds of Dublin’s famous Trinity College brings out Ireland’s darker secrets.
In this first of the ten-book Inspector Matt Minogue series, a brutal murder in the grounds of Trinity College, Dublin sparks a police investigation with unexpected consequences for Sergeant Matt Minogue of the Garda Murder Squad.
When the body of student Jarlath Walsh is discovered with his head beaten in, Minogue instinctively knows that this is no random killing. Walsh was an idealist, an innocent, as his grieving girlfriend Agnes McGuire confirms, yet someone wants Minogue to believe that Walsh was a drug-pusher who got what he deserved.
As the Sergeant digs deeper into the case, Dublin is rocked by IRA violence - a violence which seems somehow linked to the student’s murder. Only after Minogue himself is nearly killed does he discover the truth, when a hair-raising chase ends in a fateful clash in that no-man’s land which is the border with Northern Ireland.
'A tragic drama involving many characters, each so skilfully realized that one virtually sees and hears them in this extraordinary novel.’ - Publisher’s Weekly (U.S.)
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DID THE LAW EXACT JUSTICE--OR REVENGE?
Investigative reporter Mick Lowe here presents one of the most fascinating and shocking true crime stories--an account brimming with violence, passions, and stunning revelations. It began on the night of October 18, 1978. Small-town biker Bill Matiyek was having a drink in a Port Hope, Ontario, bar. A gunman suddenly walked up and fired three shots point-blank into his head. Members of the motorcycle gang Satan's Choice, who were in the bar, quickly vanished.
Was the murder a cold-blooded gangland-style execution as the Crown Attorney and police believed? Or was it, as the defense argued, the impulsive act of a single gunman? Were the convictions of the bikers the result of persistent police work--or a police frame-up? Did the bikers conspire to murder--or did the law conspire to convict them at any cost?
Six bikers were sentenced to ninety years in prison, but many mysteries remain and many provocative questions are still unanswered, including: Who really killed Bill Matiyek? And why?
