Böcker av Betty L. Alt

Arriving home from an unsuccessful trip to try and locate the killer of four local women, Deputy Chief Levi Taylor learns of the murder of Paramont's former state senator, Judge Jason Craig Montgomery. Thinking it may be a 'grudge' killing, Taylor and detective Richard Samms begin to question paroled prison inmates formerly sentenced by the judge, along with males relatives of the parolees. Their investigation reaches a standstill until Samms mentions that the two men could be questioning the wrong people . . .

In the late 21st century, with the new ice age causing worldwide starvation, industrialized nations have condemned all private property. Citizens have been forced into huge tower complexes, and land is used solely for food production under the Bureau of Sustenance. Amos Benton and Jake Martinez, employees of the Bureau, are sent from Tower-7 to investigate interior damage and missing items taken from a sustainer pod near Dallas. It is finally decided that the incursions into the pod are due to hungry animals. Benton, recalling his capture and escape nearly three years earlier from a group of people still living outside, is not so sure . . .

With his partner Richard Samms, shot and facing a lengthy period of recuperation, Detective Levi Taylor and the other men in the Paramont Police Department are kept busy with the usual number of major crimes. Then, they are plagued for two years with numerous calls from citizens about a Peeping Tom. Considered simply a nuisance problem at first, this changes when a woman is severely beaten and raped. Can Hunter and Samms, now back on the job, find "e;The Peeper"e; before someone is killed?

Having left Boston and Chicago with millions of stolen dollars from former husbands, Ridgeway and Simpson, the beautiful and elusive woman is now living in Kansas under the name Janet Johansen. There, she meets and marries widower billionaire, Allen Randolphe, who resides in Kansas City, Missouri with his daughter, Margaret. For Janet, life is beautiful until at a Randolphe business event, Chicago guest Rusty Aldred tells Margaret that he knew her stepmother under another name and that a private detective is trying to locate that woman. When Margaret mentions Aldred's comments to her stepmother, Janet has to make a decision: assume that Margaret doesn't believe Aldred and that the detective will never find her . . . or run!

Falling for a scam or con is humiliating for anyone, and can have terrible consequences. Here, Alt and Wells describe the most common scams, offer the stories of actual victims, and detail ways to protect yourself and your family from becoming easy targets. What makes the elderly such easy marks for con artists?

Based on personal interviews with military spouses, as well as current articles and statistics and studies from the Department of Defense and Rand National Defense Research Institute, this book provides an objective look at America's military family in the 21st century, and explains how the military is attempting to improve family life.

A collection of memoirs, diaries, letters and interviews presenting a history of the military wife from the Revolutionary War tho the post-Vietnam years. It considers both the traditional and modern roles of the military wife, including her place as second in line to her husband's career.