Callum O'Connor believes that he is entitled to his former wife, Lisa's, inheritance. Her new business venture, The Pen and Pastry, that she shares with her two friends, Tanya and Rita, is under threat as Callum unleashes his fury. After several failed threats, he enlists the help of petty criminal, Billy Turner, to kidnap Rob, their employee, a young student baker. After leaving Rob for dead, he flees to his childhood home, Belfast, where his sister Siobhan, reluctantly finds him a place to stay in the Mourne Mountains. DS Short and DC Baker track him down and the chase begins.

When teacher, Tanya Masters, leaves her abusive, unfaithful husband and escapes to Italy, she has no idea that the paradise she is seeking will lead to terror. Her aunt welcomes her into her home which she shares with her partner, Gino, and where Tanya spent her summer holidays as a child. When she begins to rekindle her relationship with her childhood friend and Gino's son, Carlo, Tanya unwittingly involves them all in a sinister and terrifying plot. As her stalker closes in on her, there is one witness who is overlooked by everyone. Investigators Rossi and Gallo, assisted by eminent Criminal Psychologist, Professore Moretti, are baffled. Until, that is, they begin to get ahead of the game.

Jane Barter Moulaison's remarkable book engages contemporary critical understandings of Jesus Christ-including postcolonial, feminist, pluralist, ecological, and socialist-to argue that the core convictions of traditional Christology remain a viable, valuable, and even indispensable witness to the gospel in an imperiled world. Contemporary theology often makes a virtue of deconstructing traditional claims about the person and work of Christ. Claims about the central significance of Jesus Christ appear to be oppressive, intolerant, and even violent. Jane Barter Moulaison engages several contemporary christological critiques of classical Christology and argues that such critical theologies are not undermined by the claim of Christ's central significance but are rather radicalized by it. She ably re-reads the tradition that seeks to interpret Christ's saving activity in light of several contemporary theological and political concerns. In so doing, she suggests that there are extraordinary resources available to those who long for political and material transformation precisely through the abandonment of spiritualized answers to Jesus' question: "Who do you say that I am?"

Shame, Gender Violence and Ethics: Terrors of Injustice draws from contemporary, concrete atrocities against women and marginalized communties to re-conceptualize moral shame and to set moral shame apart from dimensions of subordination, humiliation, and disgrace. The inter-disciplinary collection starts with a contribution from a a Yazidi-survivor of genocidal and sexual violence, whose case brings together core themes: gender, ethnic and religious identity, and violence and shame. Further accounts of shame and gendered violence in this collection take the reader to other and equally disturbing accounts of lesser- known atrocities from around the. Although shame is sometimes posited as an innevitable companion to human life, editors Lenart Skof and She M. Hawke situate the discussion in the theoretical landscape of shame, and the contributors challenge this concept through fields as diverse as law, journalism, activism, philosophy, theology, ecofeminism, and gender and cultural studies. Their discussion of gendered shame makes room for it to be both a negative and a redemptive concept. Combining junior and senior scholarship, this collection examines power relations in the cycle of shame and violence.