CRIMES OF PASSION - Tapa dura

The very term 'crimes of passion' evokes deep-seated, primitive responses in us all. We are fascinated, yet repelled by the thought of such overwhelming rage and passion. In this remarkable book, Howard Engels leads us on a journey through these murky passages of the human mind. In clear-sighted, reflective accounts of history's most well-known cases, Engels attempts to understand this most extreme of behaviour and unravels some of the darkest depths of the human psyche.

Howard Engels is the author of the best-selling Lord High Executioner and the recipient of the prestigious Arthur Ellis Award for Crime Fiction and the Crime Writers of Canada Derick Murdoch Award. Ruth Rendell has described him as 'a born writer, a natural stylist...a writer who can bring a character to life in a few lines.'