Results for "True West" in Literature & Fiction

SHORTLISTED FOR NED KELLY AWARD FOR BEST CRIME FICTION The first book in the Lee Southern series by award-winning author David Whish-Wilson. Western Australia, 1988. After betraying the Knights bikie gang, seventeen-year-old Lee Southern flees to the city. Working as a rogue tow truck driver in...

Kit Harington (Games of Thrones) and Johnny Flynn (Beast) smolder and burn as sparring brothers in Sam Shepard’s darkly comic 1980 drama. The live theatre production of True West was performed at the Vaudeville Theatre in London, United Kingdom, in 2019. It was produced by Joseph Smith and John Brant for Smith & Brant Theatricals and James Bierman for Empire Street Productions.

Pulitzer Prize-winner Sam Shepard's classic comedy is a story of estranged brothers Austin and Lee. Shepard compares and contrasts the reality of the two brothers by forcing them to come to terms with each other, with themselves, and with family.

1917. As the Great War rages, Everest Macdonald is summoned to her father’s deathbed and entrusted with a final urgent request: she must uncover the truth behind the murder of her uncle, the celebrated Victorian actor William Terriss. In 1897, Terriss was stabbed to death outside London’s...

It is the year 1715, and Thomas True has arrived on old London Bridge with a dangerous secret. One night, lost amongst the squalor of London's hidden back streets, he finds himself drawn into the outrageous underworld of the molly houses. Meanwhile, carpenter Gabriel Griffin struggles to hide his double life as Lotty, the mollies' silent guard. When the queen of all 'he-harlots', Mother Clap, confides in him about a deadly threat, he realises his friends are facing imminent execution. To the horror of all mollies, there is a rat amongst them.

This is about the missing women in New Mexico. Due to professions of these women there is some sexual graphic content. So listeners Beware. Also there is a lot of violent content due to the nature of the story. The book is fiction based on the authors investigation into the story. He did not want to put down the victims. His main goal was to give investigators some insight to the crime. His main goal is that the crime gets solved and the victims and their families get some much needed justice. Please don't listen if sexual and graphic violence upsets you.

We Find Answers: True Tales of a Real Private Investigator pulls back the curtain on real-life cases ranging from missing persons and military misconduct to insurance fraud and criminal defense. With decades of experience as a former Military Police Officer, OSI Special Agent, and private investigator, Michael J. West takes you inside the world of high-stakes decisions, hidden truths, and justice hard-won.

Come visit Alpine Ridge, a small town deep in the Cascade mountains of Washington state, where four love stories and so much more unfolds, now with exclusive bonus material.

"Tales of the Texas Rangers" was a radio show that aired from 1950 to 1952. It featured stories based on the experiences of the Texas Rangers, a legendary law enforcement agency in the state of Texas. The show was notable for its authenticity and attention to detail, as it was based on actual cases handled by the Texas Rangers.The show followed the adventures of fictional Texas Ranger Jace Pearson, played by actor Joel McCrea. Each episode would start with a prologue by Pearson, explaining the nature of the case and the challenges he and his fellow Rangers would face in solving it. The show ...

Fresh off a breakup with her cheating Italian boyfriend in Como, 24-year-old New Yorker Jayne is emotionally fried and financially...let’s just say her wallet is crying in five languages. She’s got two options: fly home to Manhattan and face her sister’s smug “I told you so,” or stick it out in the land of la dolce chaos and chase her fashion dreams.

The Pattern Files is a companion investigation to the Don't Think Me Evil trilogy by Elwood West — a three-book saga of corporate conspiracy, ancient ritual, and the thin line between power and evil. Each episode takes you inside the research: location scouting the real buildings, tunnels, and landmarks that became settings in the novels. Underground Las Vegas. The pyramid they said was just a hotel. Small-town Texas corridors where recruiters operate in plain sight. We trace ley lines across continents, dig into classified construction records, uncover the histories that got buried, and ...

In the tight-knit, rural community of Little Rock, Arkansas, the tranquility of small-town life is shattered by a series of horrifying events. The heart of this upheaval is Jasmine Rivera, a now-teenaged girl whose life was irreversibly altered ten years ago when she witnessed the brutal murder of her parents. The trauma of that night has haunted her, leaving her scarred and distrustful of the world around her.Jasmine, now living in a foster care system fraught with its own dangers, begins to unravel a sinister web of corruption and violence that links back to the murder of her parents. Her ...

Critic, journalist, novelist, and feminist Rebecca West describes her discovery that human nature does not naturally support liberty in "Goodness Doesn’t Just Happen", her contribution to NPR’s This I Believe series. This I Believe is a National Public Radio program that features Americans...

Dark Web Continues.....In this gripping, gritty crime thriller that pulls back the veil on Detroit’s growing status as a hub for digital-age sex trafficking. Episode 3 adds to its hard-hitting crime thriller anthology that exposes the underbelly of human trafficking in modern-day Detroit. Episode 3 begins with the shocking abduction of 17-year-old Christina Rivera, a high school student lured through an online catfishing scheme. At first glance, the case appears to be a routine runaway case; however, as her distraught mother pleads for help, Detectives Olivia Banks, Amanda Ramariz, and ...

When a compassionate new student offers a traumatized teen, Gabriella McDonald, a fragile sense of safety, she dares to hope again until he is abducted by the very traffickers who once took her. As her world unravels, a school counselor uncovers a devastating secret about her own husband one that may finally give detectives their first real lead in bringing down the brutal trafficking ring.

Episode 4 Part 2 of The Dark Web – Sexplay: Nothing Stays Buried delivers a chilling convergence of crime, corruption, and consequence.In the wake of Jonathan Cruz’s arrest, the walls begin to close in—not only on traffickers, but on the political figures whose hidden involvement threatens to surface. Behind closed doors, the Mayor of Detroit confronts the truth, only to become a casualty of it. A calculated poisoning eliminates the one man who could expose everything.On the ground, detectives execute a critical operation that leads to the arrest of Cruz, Joel Peterson, and Jason ...

Picking up in the chilling aftermath of Episode One, Sexplay - Nothing Stays Buried plunges deeper into the deadly machinery of online exploitation. Two more teenage classmates vanish, snatched off the streets and hidden inside an abandoned warehouse—awaiting transport to a remote trafficking site.Nineteen-year-old Jonathan Cruz, desperate to save his ailing mother, is manipulated into assisting with the kidnappings, unaware that every decision tightens the noose around innocent lives.As two guards await orders from convicted predators Joel Peterson and Jason Carmichael, Detroit detectives ...

Two travelers in a far off land form an instant bond. They know right away they need each other.

National Geographic Archeologist Dr. Thomas St. John resurrects the investigation of the 1860 sunken slave ship, Claudia, in search of generational annulets that are recorded to have elements of supernatural powers and great wealth. The four annulets: Earth, Wind, Fire, and Water, are connected by ancestry, which was lost at sea when two hundred slaves were drowned in a shipwreck over 160 years ago. Dr. Thomas St. John is aware that anyone outside of the descendants who seeks possession of these annulets can result in deadly consequences. Instead, he devises a deceptive plan along with his ...

Welcome to Folktown, the podcast that delves into the enigmatic, eerie, and enthralling stories from the heart of small towns, where whispers echo louder than secrets.Join your hosts, Amanda, Deena, and Dayelle, as they guide you through the mysterious and thrilling world of Folktown each week, unveiling new tales of murder, mystery, and intrigue that have long lingered in the shadows.In Folktown, we uncover the dark corners of small towns, bringing to light the ghost stories, true crime cases, and haunted legends that have been whispered about for generations. Each episode is a journey into ...