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Book Synopsis Hide and Snake Murder by : Jessie Chandler
Download or read book Hide and Snake Murder written by Jessie Chandler and published by Llewellyn Worldwide. This book was released on 2012-06-08 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book two in the riotous caper series starring Shay O'Hanlon and her trouble-prone pals When Shay O'Hanlon's ill-mannered friend Baz steals a stuffed snake from a wealthy businessman, he wasn't expecting it to be filled with money. Nor was he expecting his aunt Agnes to take it with her on vacation to the Big Easy. With trigger-happy thugs in hot pursuit, Shay leads her friends on a rowdy rescue mission from Minneapolis to New Orleans and back. Along the way, a bungled burglary puts the gang in a drug cartel's cross hairs, and a beautiful professor offers the only way out. But can Shay and the gang trust her with their lives? Praise: "The entourage of loveable and multigenerational characters is just right for those looking for a madcap romp."—Library Journal "A rip-roaring sequel. Fans of comic cozies are in for a wild, enjoyable ride."—Publishers Weekly "Chandler follows up her Bingo Barge Murder with another tricky plot fully worthy of your suspension of disbelief."—Lavender Magazine "Fast paced and witty. It is peopled with wonderfully colorful characters, making it a strong second novel in the Shay O’Hanlon Caper series."—Lamda Literary "After reading her novels, I have come to believe Jessie Chandler is the illegitimate child of Raymond Chandler and Dorothy L. Sayers. She's funny—and she's good!"—Lori L. Lake, author of The Gun Series and The Public Eye Series "Wild and wacky Hide and Snake Murder will keep readers guessing all the way to a slam bang finale."—Carolyn Hart, New York Times bestselling author "Hide and Snake Murder takes us to the beginning and end of the Mississippi, New Orleans and Minneapolis, capturing the quirky charm of both cities. It's a rollicking read with an entertaining cast of funny and fascinating characters. You won't be able to turn the pages fast enough."—J.M. Redmann, author of The Goldie Award-winning novel Water Mark: A Micky Knight Mystery "Jessie Chandler makes me laugh. A talented storyteller with a deft hand at pacing, she writes rollicking, raucous adventures that are sure to entertain."—Julie Hyzy, bestselling author of The Manor Mysteries and White House Chef Mystery Series
Book Synopsis Pickle in the Middle Murder by : Jessie Chandler
Download or read book Pickle in the Middle Murder written by Jessie Chandler and published by Llewellyn Worldwide. This book was released on 2013-07-01 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Privy to Murder Shay O’Hanlon never knew the Minnesota Renaissance Festival was such a strange and bawdy event until JT Bordeaux—her badge-wearing, medieval-loving girlfriend—drags her along for a visit. The sixteenth-century faire is full of thrilling jousts, feisty wenches, and pickle vendors showing off their tasty tonsil ticklers, but Shay is distracted by the call of her full bladder. While trying to rein in her newest dog’s overactive nose, she finds a dead body with a pickle stuffed in his mouth. A real dead body. In the privy. And before Shay can shout “Huzzah!” JT is arrested for being the porta-potty body’s murderer. Together with her quirky crew of caper-solving pals, Shay must scramble for clues to free JT from the clink . . . and her troubled past.
Book Synopsis The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (A Hunger Games Novel) by : Suzanne Collins
Download or read book The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (A Hunger Games Novel) written by Suzanne Collins and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2020-05-19 with total page 747 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ambition will fuel him. Competition will drive him. But power has its price. It is the morning of the reaping that will kick off the tenth annual Hunger Games. In the Capitol, eighteen-year-old Coriolanus Snow is preparing for his one shot at glory as a mentor in the Games. The once-mighty house of Snow has fallen on hard times, its fate hanging on the slender chance that Coriolanus will be able to outcharm, outwit, and outmaneuver his fellow students to mentor the winning tribute. The odds are against him. He's been given the humiliating assignment of mentoring the female tribute from District 12, the lowest of the low. Their fates are now completely intertwined - every choice Coriolanus makes could lead to favor or failure, triumph or ruin. Inside the arena, it will be a fight to the death. Outside the arena, Coriolanus starts to feel for his doomed tribute . . . and must weigh his need to follow the rules against his desire to survive no matter what it takes.
Book Synopsis Chip Off the Ice Block Murder by : Jessie Chandler
Download or read book Chip Off the Ice Block Murder written by Jessie Chandler and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's the dead of winter in Minnesota, and Shay O'Hanlon can't wait to close up her coffee shop and get out of town with her girlfriend, Minneapolis cop JT Bordeaux. But when she receives a call informing her that her dad is missing, Shay's plans for a romantic getaway are put on ice. Figuring her dad is on one of his periodic benders, Shay is shocked to learn that his gun has been used in a murder. With the dead man found in a giant ice cube unable to provide any answers, Shay and her quirky friends are bound and determined to find her father--and the real killer--before the trail turns cold. Praise: "Jessie Chandler's latest Shay O'Hanlon adventure is as sharp as a frigid winter day. A body in a block of ice meant for the Winter Carnival Ice Palace is just the beginning of this wild luge ride as Shay sorts through the clues to clear her father of murder. Like a luge, there are twists and turns throughout, but Jessie saves the bigest twist for (quite literally) the last few seconds. Highly recommended."--John Gaspard, author of The Eli Marks Mysteries
Download or read book Snake Eyes written by Bitty Martin and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-05-15 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By 1966, Hot Springs, Arkansas wasn’t your typical sleepy little Southern town. Once a favorite destination for mobsters like Al Capone and Lucky Luciano, illegal activities continued to lure out-of-state gamblers, flim-flam men, and high rollers to its racetracks, clubs, and bordellos. Still, the town was shaken to its core after a girl was found dead on a nearby ranch. The ranch owner claimed it was an accident. Then the rancher was found to be the killer of another woman – his fourth wife. The story begins when 13-year-old Cathie Ward was found dead after horseback riding at Blacksnake Ranch on the outskirts of Hot Springs, Arkansas. Frank Davis, the owner of the ranch, tells authorities Cathie’s death is an accident. He claims her foot caught in a stirrup and she was dragged to her death despite his pursuit of the runaway horse. People who know the 42-year-old skilled horseman don’t believe his story, and soon rumors of her rape and murder begin swirling around town. The rumors reach a crescendo after Davis viciously guns down his fourth wife and mother-in-law in broad daylight outside of a laundromat. Davis is arrested and charged with first-degree murder. Soon after, Hot Springs authorities re-open the investigation into Cathie Ward’s death. Snake Eyes is the first book to examine this decades-old murder and cover-up, and the only in-depth account of the man who would become the town’s most notorious villain. Featuring personal interviews, crime scene records, court documents, and Davis’ own prison files, author and lifelong Hot Springs resident Bitty Martin reveals the true story for the first time.
Book Synopsis Murder by Magic by : Rosemary Edghill
Download or read book Murder by Magic written by Rosemary Edghill and published by Aspect. This book was released on 2007-09-03 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anthology features 20 original stories of murder by acclaimed and award-winning science fiction and fantasy writers.
Book Synopsis Blood Money Murder by : Jessie Chandler
Download or read book Blood Money Murder written by Jessie Chandler and published by Bella Books. This book was released on 2016-06-01 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Secrets. It all begins with secrets. A long-held secret is about to implode with potentially catastrophic results. It’s St. Paddy’s Day, and Shay O’Hanlon is finishing her shift at the Rabbit Hole, anticipating the grand reopening of her father’s bar, the Leprechaun. Two suspicious-looking strangers show up at the Hole demanding to speak to Eddy Quartermaine, the closest person Shay has to a mother. That visit sparks a firestorm spanning twenty-five years in a deadly mix of love gone wrong, stolen money, murder, and betrayal. Will Shay and her sister Lisa pay the ultimate price for Eddy’s sins, or will Eddy confront her twenty-five year secret head-on before time runs out? “Blood Money Murder is fast-paced and skilled—and the ending comes all too soon.” -Lee Lynch, award-winning author of An American Queer
Download or read book She Walks Alone written by Helen McCloy and published by Orion. This book was released on 2014-10-14 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A woman dies by violence aboard the Santa Cristina. A radio flash from the West Indies brings word of an apparently related death. A man's body turns up, and in his hand is a suicide note written in one woman's handwriting but signed with another woman's name. But what part does the jar of blood play - and why is everyone so interested in the contents of a certain package wrapped in cherub-bedecked paper? That's the puzzle Captain Urizar has to solve in a case with a startling showdown.
Download or read book In Cold Blood written by Truman Capote and published by Modern Library. This book was released on 2013-02-19 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time From the Modern Library’s new set of beautifully repackaged hardcover classics by Truman Capote—also available are Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Other Voices, Other Rooms (in one volume), Portraits and Observations, and The Complete Stories Truman Capote’s masterpiece, In Cold Blood, created a sensation when it was first published, serially, in The New Yorker in 1965. The intensively researched, atmospheric narrative of the lives of the Clutter family of Holcomb, Kansas, and of the two men, Richard Eugene Hickock and Perry Edward Smith, who brutally killed them on the night of November 15, 1959, is the seminal work of the “new journalism.” Perry Smith is one of the great dark characters of American literature, full of contradictory emotions. “I thought he was a very nice gentleman,” he says of Herb Clutter. “Soft-spoken. I thought so right up to the moment I cut his throat.” Told in chapters that alternate between the Clutter household and the approach of Smith and Hickock in their black Chevrolet, then between the investigation of the case and the killers’ flight, Capote’s account is so detailed that the reader comes to feel almost like a participant in the events.
Book Synopsis Murder Of A Snake In The Grass by : Denise Swanson
Download or read book Murder Of A Snake In The Grass written by Denise Swanson and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2003-04-01 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After over two years, school psychologist Skye Denison is still in Scumble River trying to figure out why she’s still in Scumble River. But with all the town’s quirks and crimes, life there is never dull . . . and besides, it’s home. Scumble River is celebrating its bicentennial in style—with Historical Society Reenactments, a bingo tent, Crazy Craft Race, and a coal-tossing tournament. Serving as the guest of honor is none other than the town founder’s great-great-grandnephew, Gabriel Scumble. But his visit turns out to be short-lived when Skye’s students, Frannie and Justin, find him dead, a pickax protruding from the chest area of his authentic buckskin costume. Meanwhile, Skye’s deceitful ex-fiancé Luc St. Amant has appeared out of the blue, creating turmoil in her love life. Does the real danger lie in the possibility that Luc will drive away the men in Skye’s life . . . or is there a more menacing connection between Luc’s arrival and Gabriel Scumble’s murder? “When writers as sharp as Margaret Maron, Earlene Fowler, and Jerrilyn Farmer all rave about a colleague as convincingly as they have about Denise Swanson, even the gruffest noir addict has to take notice.”—Chicago Tribune
Book Synopsis The Death-Bound-Subject by : Abdul R. JanMohamed
Download or read book The Death-Bound-Subject written by Abdul R. JanMohamed and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2005-04-21 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the 1940s, in response to the charge that his writing was filled with violence, Richard Wright replied that the manner came from the matter, that the “relationship of the American Negro to the American scene [was] essentially violent,” and that he could deny neither the violence he had witnessed nor his own existence as a product of racial violence. Abdul R. JanMohamed provides extraordinary insight into Wright’s position in this first study to explain the fundamental ideological and political functions of the threat of lynching in Wright’s work and thought. JanMohamed argues that Wright’s oeuvre is a systematic and thorough investigation of what he calls the death-bound-subject, the subject who is formed from infancy onward by the imminent threat of death. He shows that with each successive work, Wright delved further into the question of how living under a constant menace of physical violence affected his protagonists and how they might “free” themselves by overcoming their fear of death and redeploying death as the ground for their struggle. Drawing on psychoanalytic, Marxist, and phenomenological analyses, and on Orlando Patterson’s notion of social death, JanMohamed develops comprehensive, insightful, and original close readings of Wright’s major publications: his short-story collection Uncle Tom’s Children; his novels Native Son, The Outsider, Savage Holiday, and The Long Dream; and his autobiography Black Boy/American Hunger. The Death-Bound-Subject is a stunning reevaluation of the work of a major twentieth-century American writer, but it is also much more. In demonstrating how deeply the threat of death is involved in the formation of black subjectivity, JanMohamed develops a methodology for understanding the presence of the death-bound-subject in African American literature and culture from the earliest slave narratives forward.
Book Synopsis Quest for Redemption by : Jessie Chandler
Download or read book Quest for Redemption written by Jessie Chandler and published by Bella Books. This book was released on 2020-02-01 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Placed on a medical leave of absence from her job as a special agent in the National Protection and Investigation Unit, Mikala Flynn is a woman on the edge—guilt-ridden, depressed, battling war wounds and personal demons. The world and the relationships as she knew them no longer exist. Now, the streets of New York, the bottle, and anonymous sex have become her solace. In the midst of a fire escape bender, Flynn overhears her crazy-like-a-fox grandmother and her art-world cronies planning a daring theft of a valuable historical document. Eventually Flynn crashes the party and agrees to take on the heist herself. Along the way, Flynn runs into, both literally and figuratively, her now wheelchair-bound best friend, an alluring, mysterious thief who throws multiple wrenches into the works, and the ex-love of her life. Can Flynn pull off the job without falling victim to vodka and lost love…and somehow begin to find herself again along the way?
Book Synopsis The Murder of Cleopatra by : Pat Brown
Download or read book The Murder of Cleopatra written by Pat Brown and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using criminal profiling and crime scene reconstruction, argues that Cleopatra was murdered rather than killed by her own hand, looking at the queen's life and the politics of her day to reveal why and by whom her death was desired.
Book Synopsis Atrocity Speech Law by : Gregory S. Gordon
Download or read book Atrocity Speech Law written by Gregory S. Gordon and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-04-11 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The law governing the relationship between speech and core international crimes a key component in atrocity prevention is broken. Incitement to genocide has not been adequately defined. The law on hate speech as persecution is split between the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) and the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY). Instigation is confused with incitement and ordering's scope is too circumscribed. At the same time, each of these modalities does not function properly in relation to the others, yielding a misshapen body of law riddled with gaps. Existing scholarship has suggested discrete fixes to individual parts, but no work has stepped back and considered holistic solutions. This book does. To understand how the law became so fragmented, it returns to its roots to explain how it was formulated. From there, it proposes a set of nostrums to deal with the individual deficiencies. Its analysis then culminates in a more comprehensive proposal: a Unified Liability Theory, which would systematically link the core crimes of genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes with the four illicit speech modalities. The latter would be placed in one statutory provision criminalizing the following types of speech: (1) incitement (speech seeking but not resulting in atrocity); (2) speech abetting (non-catalytic speech synchronous with atrocity commission); (3) instigation (speech seeking and resulting in atrocity); and (4) ordering (instigation/incitement within a superior-subordinate relationship). Apart from its fragmentation, this body of law lacks a proper name as Incitement Law or International Hate Speech Law, labels often used, fail to capture its breadth or relationship to mass violence. So this book proposes a new and fitting appellation: atrocity speech law.
Book Synopsis The Last Persecution by : Jeff Carter
Download or read book The Last Persecution written by Jeff Carter and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2021-03-11 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Last Persecution is an episodic dystopian work of science fiction from twenty-seven minutes into our future, or a future filled with monstrous genetic mutations and calloused political forces. Caesar is the President is the Fuhrer is the Leader--and he will tolerate no dissension. But even so, Dr. Tarrec, an eccentric old man who is part theologian, part alchemist, part DIY spy, and his friends (one of whom is a living decapitated head) manage to hide in the shadows and find the light.
Book Synopsis Bingo Barge Murder by : Jessie Chandler
Download or read book Bingo Barge Murder written by Jessie Chandler and published by Llewellyn Worldwide. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shay O'Hanlon's life as co-owner of The Rabbit Hole, a quirky-cool Minneapolis coffee shop, is well caffeinated, but far from dangerous. All that changes when her lifelong friend Coop becomes a suspect in a murder case.
Download or read book Cruising to Murder written by Mark McCrum and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2023-08-25 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sleuthing crime writer may be out of his depth when two passengers die aboard a luxury liner, in this “entertaining mystery” (Publishers Weekly). Crime writer Francis Meadowes has landed an enviable job lecturing aboard the luxurious Golden Adventurer as it cruises down the West African coast. His fellow passengers, including opinionated retired surgeon Klaus, mischievous elderly widow Eve, flamboyant designer Sebastian, beautiful American aid worker Sadie, and her tedious but extremely wealthy aunt Marion, are an eclectic group. But when one guest is found dead in bed and another disappears overboard, Francis must employ all his professional expertise to find out which of the colorful characters on the ship is capable of murder . . . Praise for the Francis Meadowes mysteries “A rollicking read.” —Evening Standard “Ingenious.” —The Independent
