DescriptionA case from Assistant Chief Constable Ned French's past has returned to haunt him. Heather Jonas, forced into a false confession of murder after a harrowing late-night interview with French, has served 15 years of a 20-year sentence. Now someone else has confessed and there's a citizens' rights campaigner on Heather's case, determined to get the truth.
DescriptionIn 1993 Marie Gesto disappeared after walking out of a supermarket in Hollywood. 13 years later Bosch is in the Open-Unsolved Unit, where he still keeps the Gesto file on his desk, when he gets a call from the DA's office. A man accused of two heinous killings is willing to come clean in regard to several other murders in a deal to avoid the death penalty. One of those murders, he says, is the killing of Marie Gesto. Bosch is now assigned to take Raynard Waits' confession and to make sure the killer is not scamming authorities to avoid a date with death. In confirming the confession Bosch must get close to the man he has sought, and hated, for 13 years.
DescriptionWhat should you do if the world has turned against you? When Father Anselm is asked this question by an old man at Larkwood Priory, his response is to have greater resonance than he could ever have imagined. For that evening the old man returns, demanding the protection of the church. His name is Eduard Schwermann and he is wanted by the police as a suspected war criminal.
DescriptionGuaranteed Fresh is 100 percent all new material and the third comedy recording from Suzanne Westenhoefer. Suzanne says, "I'm very comfortable confronting and bearing my soul. For some people, the thought of that is terrifying, and they would rather be dead. But this is the easiest thing I've ever done. I've worked in factories, I've bartended in New York, I've lugged stuff around; I know what hard work is. This is the easiest thing I've ever done in the world. This is me being me and getting paid for it."…
DescriptionNovelist Clifford Irving's "autobiography" of Howard Hughes was the literary hoax of our time. This no-holds-barred confession by the author was first published in Great Britain in 1997, where it became a best seller. But no American publisher would touch it until now. Why? The answer is implicit in this ultimate caper story of daring, treachery, and corruption. As fast-paced and exciting as any spy novel, The Hoax involves the listener at every devilish turn. Irving describes how the hoax developed, like a Chinese puzzle, from its madcap beginning to the final startling confession, a witty and nail-biting story of international intrigue and beautiful women, of powerful corporate executives and jet-set rogues, of cover-ups and headlines.
DescriptionAugustine's struggles with sex and a domineering mother, followed by his spiritual crisis and conversion to Christianity, detailed in his Confessions, ultimately led him to his major contribution to philosophy: the fusion of the two doctrines of Ch…
