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Book Synopsis A Murder Like No Author by : Amy Lillard
Download or read book A Murder Like No Author written by Amy Lillard and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2021-11-30 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bookstore owner Arlo and her Friday Night Book Club sleuths are going to have to read between the lines to solve this mystery! It's movie time in Sugar Springs and the whole town is pitching together to get the historical Coliseum Theater ready for the event of the year—the premiere of Missing Girl, local author Wally Harrison's bestselling novel turned film. Thrilled to bring tourists to Sugar Springs, the town comes together to host the late author's event. But when a stranger arrives, boasting he has definitive proof that Wally didn't write Missing Girl...well, drama leaps from the page into real life. Mishaps start taking place around the theater—and then the stranger is discovered dead in his hotel room right before his press conference. Can Arlo and her Friday night book club to sleuth out the killer and solve the mystery before the town's Hollywood dreams go up in smoke?
Book Synopsis No Place Like Murder by : Janis Thornton
Download or read book No Place Like Murder written by Janis Thornton and published by Quarry Books. This book was released on 2020-09-29 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A modern retelling of 20 sensational true crimes, No Place Like Murder reveals the inside details behind nefarious acts that shocked the Midwest between 1869 and 1950. The stories chronicle the misdeeds, examining the perpetrators' mindsets, motives, lives, apprehensions, and trials, as well as what became of them long after. True crime author Janis Thornton profiles notorious murderers such as Frankie Miller, who was fed up when her fiancé stood her up for another woman. As fans of the song "Frankie and Johnny" already know, Frankie met her former lover at the door with a shotgun. Thornton's tales reveal the darker side of life in the Midwest, including the account of Isabelle Messmer, a plucky young woman who dreamed of escaping her quiet farm-town life. After she nearly took down two tough Pittsburgh policemen in 1933, she was dubbed "Gun Girl" and went on to make headlines from coast to coast. In 1942, however, after a murder conviction in Texas, she vowed to do her time and go straight. Full of intrigue and revelations, No Place Like Murder also features such folks as Chirka and Rasico, the first two Hoosier men to die in the electric chair after they brutally murdered their wives in 1913. The two didn't meet until their fateful last night. An enthralling and chilling collection, No Place Like Murder is sure to thrill true crime lovers.
Book Synopsis Tastes Like Murder by : Catherine Bruns
Download or read book Tastes Like Murder written by Catherine Bruns and published by Gemma Halliday Publishing. This book was released on 2015-09-16 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: USA Today bestselling series! Sally Muccio’s had her crosses to bear: a cheating ex-boyfriend, crazy Italian parents, and an unfaithful husband, just to name a few. After her divorce, she returns to her hometown to start a novelty cookie shop whose specialties include original fortune cookies, served with a sprinkle of foreshadowing. But there’s no warning when her ex-husband’s mistress drops dead on Sal's porch, and police confirm it’s a homicide. Determined to stop her life from becoming a recipe for disaster, Sal takes matters into her own hands. With two very different men vying for her affection, dead bodies piling up, and a reputation hanging by an apron string, Sal finds herself in a race against time to save both her business and life—before the last cookie crumbles. The Cookies & Chance Mysteries: Tastes Like Murder (book #1) A Spot of Murder (short story in the "Killer Beach Reads" collection) Baked to Death (book #2) Burned to a Crisp (book #3) Frosted With Revenge (book #4) Silenced by Sugar (book #5) A Drizzle Before Dying (short story in the "Pushing Up Daisies" collection) Crumbled to Pieces (book #6) "The delightful whodunit kept me guessing until the end, and the tasty treats had my mouthwatering from start to finish! A fantastic culinary mystery in the vein of Joanne Fluke and Diane Mott Davidson!" —Gemma Halliday, New York Times & USA Today bestselling mystery author "Catherine Bruns has found a winning recipe for an exciting mystery mixed with a dash of humor and a heap of danger. Add in a little romance for spice, and you get one sweet reading treat." —Mary Marks, bestselling author of the Quilting Mystery series.
Book Synopsis Exceptional Depravity by : Lloyd Billingsley
Download or read book Exceptional Depravity written by Lloyd Billingsley and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-11-21 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A CRIME STEPHEN KING COULD NOT INVENT. Davis teen Daniel Marsh grows fond of sadistic violence and torture. He believes there are too many people in the world, and that serial killers can help solve this problem. He wants to be like them. On April 14, 2013, he murders Oliver "Chip" Northup, 87, and Claudia Maupin, 76, in a way that, as Davis police said, showed "exceptional depravity." He carefully covers his tracks but talks up the crime to friends. In a five-hour confession he tells police it "felt great" to kill the couple. He pleads not guilty and seeks to have the confession tossed. When that fails, he pleads insanity. He wants to get away with murder, by any means necessary. Lloyd Billingsley attended every day of the trial. Exceptional Depravity: Dan Who Likes Dark and Double Murder in Davis, California explains how it all happened, why it happened, and what it means.
Book Synopsis Seems Like Murder Here by : Adam Gussow
Download or read book Seems Like Murder Here written by Adam Gussow and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2010-03-15 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2004 C. Hugh Holman Award from the Society for the Study of Southern Literature. Seems Like Murder Here offers a revealing new account of the blues tradition. Far from mere laments about lost loves and hard times, the blues emerge in this provocative study as vital responses to spectacle lynchings and the violent realities of African American life in the Jim Crow South. With brilliant interpretations of both classic songs and literary works, from the autobiographies of W. C. Handy, David Honeyboy Edwards, and B. B. King to the poetry of Langston Hughes and the novels of Zora Neale Hurston, Seems Like Murder Here will transform our understanding of the blues and its enduring power.
Book Synopsis A Good Girl's Guide to Murder by : Holly Jackson
Download or read book A Good Girl's Guide to Murder written by Holly Jackson and published by Delacorte Press. This book was released on 2020-02-04 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE MUST-READ MULTIMILLION BESTSELLING MYSTERY SERIES—COMING SOON TO NETFLIX! • This is the story about an investigation turned obsession, full of twists and turns and with an ending you'll never expect. Everyone in Fairview knows the story. Pretty and popular high school senior Andie Bell was murdered by her boyfriend, Sal Singh, who then killed himself. It was all anyone could talk about. And five years later, Pip sees how the tragedy still haunts her town. But she can't shake the feeling that there was more to what happened that day. She knew Sal when she was a child, and he was always so kind to her. How could he possibly have been a killer? Now a senior herself, Pip decides to reexamine the closed case for her final project, at first just to cast doubt on the original investigation. But soon she discovers a trail of dark secrets that might actually prove Sal innocent . . . and the line between past and present begins to blur. Someone in Fairview doesn't want Pip digging around for answers, and now her own life might be in danger. And don't miss the sequel, Good Girl, Bad Blood! "The perfect nail-biting mystery." —Natasha Preston, #1 New York Times bestselling author
Book Synopsis Murder Loves Company Volume One by : Caitlin Rother
Download or read book Murder Loves Company Volume One written by Caitlin Rother and published by WildBlue Press. This book was released on 2019-12-19 with total page 1071 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three gritty novels of crime and investigation by acclaimed authors, in one volume . . . Ranging from the California coast to small-town Wyoming to the north of England, this three-in-one collection of crime thrillers includes: Naked Addiction by New York Times–bestselling author Caitlin Rother Tired of working undercover narcotics, police detective Ken Goode wants a transfer to homicide. After finding the body of a beautiful woman in an alley, he’s assigned to head a team of relief detectives with the hopes of proving he is homicide-worthy—and is plunged into the underbelly of the affluent coastal enclave of La Jolla, California. “With a journalist’s eye for the telling details of life, Caitlin Rother is a keen architect of the most important part of storytelling: character.” —Michael Connelly The Deadline by USA Today–bestselling author Ron Franscell A dying convict’s last request thrusts Jefferson Morgan, a newspaperman in Wyoming, into a deadly maelstrom as he explores a fifty-year-old child murder, a wound this small town still isn’t ready to re-open. Under the most important deadline of his life, Morgan digs deep into the town’s past and unveils a killer who managed to remain hidden for fifty years. “An impressive debut that will keep you on the edge of your seat.” —San Francisco Chronicle Northern Ex by Colin Campbell In Northern England, ex-vice squad cop Vince McNulty copes with life outside the force by visiting the massage parlors he used to police. But now several girls have gone missing, and when one turns up dead, everything points to a regular customer. And McNulty is top of the list . . . “Full of white-knuckle suspense, shocking violence, and unexpected twists. A fine choice for fans of gritty, realistic cop dramas.” —Booklist
Download or read book As Good as Dead written by Holly Jackson and published by Delacorte Press. This book was released on 2021-09-28 with total page 467 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE MUST-READ MULTIMILLION BESTSELLING MYSTERY SERIES • The final book in the A Good Girl's Guide to Murder series that reads like your favorite true crime podcast or show. By the end, you'll never think of good girls the same way again... Pip is about to head to college, but she is still haunted by the way her last investigation ended. She’s used to online death threats in the wake of her viral true-crime podcast, but she can’t help noticing an anonymous person who keeps asking her: Who will look for you when you’re the one who disappears? Soon the threats escalate and Pip realizes that someone is following her in real life. When she starts to find connections between her stalker and a local serial killer caught six years ago, she wonders if maybe the wrong man is behind bars. Police refuse to act, so Pip has only one choice: find the suspect herself—or be the next victim. As the deadly game plays out, Pip discovers that everything in her small town is coming full circle . . .and if she doesn’t find the answers, this time she will be the one who disappears. . . And don't miss Holly Jackson's next thriller, Five Surive!
Book Synopsis The Stranger She Loved by : Shanna Hogan
Download or read book The Stranger She Loved written by Shanna Hogan and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2015-03-31 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2007, Dr. Martin MacNeill—a doctor, lawyer, and Mormon bishop—discovered his wife of 30 years dead in the bathtub of their Pleasant Grove, Utah home, her face bearing the scars of a facelift he persuaded her to undergo just a week prior. At first the death of 50-year-old Michele MacNeill, a former beauty queen and mother of eight, appeared natural. But days after the funeral when Dr. MacNeill moved his much younger mistress into the family home, his children grew suspicious. Conducting their own investigation into their mother's death, the MacNeill's daughters uncovered their father's multiple marital affairs, past criminal record, and falsified college transcripts he used to con his way into medical school. It would take six long years to solve the mystery of Michele's murder and secure a first-degree murder conviction against the once prominent doctor. New York Times bestselling author Shanna Hogan delves into the high-profile case, unmasking the monster beneath the doctor's carefully concocted façade.
Download or read book Thankless in Death written by J. D. Robb and published by Berkley. This book was released on 2013 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the latest suspense thriller in the #1 New York Times bestselling series, the year 2060 is drawing to a close in New York City and loved ones are coming together for Thanksgiving. But sometimes the deepest hatreds seethe within the closest relationships, and blood flows faster than water… Lieutenant Eve Dallas has plenty to be grateful for this season. Hosting Roarke’s big Irish family for the holiday may be challenging, but it’s a joyful improvement on her own dark childhood. Other couples aren’t as lucky as Eve and Roarke. The Reinholds, for example, are lying in their home stabbed and bludgeoned almost beyond recognition. Those who knew them are stunned—and heartbroken by the evidence that they were murdered by their own son. Twenty-six-year-old Jerry hadn’t made a great impression on the bosses who fired him or the girlfriend who dumped him—but they didn’t think he was capable of this. Turns out Jerry is not only capable of brutality but taking a liking to it. With the money he’s stolen from his parents and a long list of grievances, he intends to finally make his mark on the world. Eve and her team already know the who, how, and why of this murder. What they need to pinpoint is where Jerry’s going to strike next.
Book Synopsis Death and the Girl He Loves by : Darynda Jones
Download or read book Death and the Girl He Loves written by Darynda Jones and published by St. Martin's Griffin. This book was released on 2013-10-08 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Darynda Jones, the New York Times bestselling author of Death and the Girl Next Door and Death, Doom & Detention, comes Death and the Girl He Loves, the exciting third book in her new young adult series Darklight The fate of the world is not something a girl wants on her shoulders, and that is especially true for Lorelei McAlister. Unfortunately for her, that is exactly where the world's fate has decided to take up residence. Lorelei has seen firsthand the horrors that lie beneath our everyday world. And those horrors are getting her friends killed. Because of this, she agrees to leave the sanctity of her hometown and is sent to a different world entirely. A boarding school. But even here she is being watched. Someone knows what she is. What she carries inside her soul. And on top of that she's seeing visions. This is nothing new for Lorelei. But these visions are something more: death, destruction, and the end of the world. Lorelei must face the fact that there are people who want her dead, and no matter where she goes, no matter how far she runs, the lives of her friends and family are in mortal peril. Lucky for her, her friends and family include the handsome Angel of Death, a fiercely protective half-angel, and a ragtag group of loyal supporters who aren't afraid to get a little dirty in the name of fighting pure evil.
Book Synopsis Seams Like Murder by : Dorothy Howell
Download or read book Seams Like Murder written by Dorothy Howell and published by Kensington Cozies. This book was released on 2023-08 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From USA Today bestselling author Dorothy Howell, a brand new cozy mystery series featuring twenty-something Abbey Chandler and her fellow sewing circle members in the quaint, touristy town of Hideaway Cove. Abbey Chandler needs a new start and a place to escape, so Hideaway Grove, where she spent her childhood summers, seems like a perfect choice. Once there, she takes up a rewarding new hobby--but also gets tangled up in a hit-and-run homicide . . . Abbey has barely arrived in the quaint, quiet town of Hideaway Grove before things turn from blissful to bloody--as the new librarian is mowed down by a car. The only witness on the scene isn't much help, aside from handing Abbey the bag of books dropped by the victim. Even worse, the sheriff's office seizes Abbey's car because of a suspicious dent in the right front fender. While she waits for the problem to be sorted out, Abbey is drawn into a charity sewing project--even though she can't tell a bobbin from a seam ripper. Before she knows it, she's graduating from pillowcase dresses to aprons, setting up a studio in a back room of her aunt's bakery, and making plans to participate in the upcoming craft fair. But through it all, she keeps looking for patterns and possible conflicts in the late librarian's personal, professional, and romantic life. Then a shocking discovery sends her in a new direction, and as the truth begins to unspool, she's got a notion about who's guilty . . .
Book Synopsis The Man Who Loved Women to Death by : David Handler
Download or read book The Man Who Loved Women to Death written by David Handler and published by Overamstel Uitgevers. This book was released on 2012-06-26 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A killer with a novelist’s touch wants Hoagy to be his editor The author calls himself the Answer Man. He introduces himself to Stewart Hoag—onetime literary darling of the New York scene—with a letter begging for help with his first novel. Hoagy usually ignores such requests, but the Answer Man’s sample chapter grabs his attention. It is a chilling, first-person story about a man who picks up a girl in a pet shop, takes her home, and savagely murders her. The imagery is clear, the prose strong, and the storytelling as truthful as though the author had actually lived it. When he opens the next morning’s paper, Hoagy realizes he was reading nonfiction. A young pet shop employee has been bludgeoned to death, and the crime’s details match those in the manuscript. As the Answer Man keeps killing, he continues writing letters asking Hoagy to collaborate with him. If Hoagy can’t stop him soon, he may find himself starring in the book’s next chapter.
Download or read book Loved to Death written by Will Kalinke and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2011-05-31 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As youngsters growing up in the same neighborhood in Mulberry, Florida, Bob and Jill shared a special relationship. But they would never let their love and affection for one another stand in the way of their ambitions. Their young love faded when Bob and Jill separated to attend different collegesJill in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and Bob at the University of Southern Florida. Careers, marriages, and almost thirty years followed. When Jills husband dies unexpectedly, she returns to her childhood home and is pleased to learn that Bob too is newly single. The two forty-eighty-year-olds reconnect and find common interests in dancing, music, travel, and enjoying meals and drinks together. The young flame of love burns as hot as ever, and the two decide to seal their commitment to each other by getting married. Bob, a people-loving person, realizes Jill can be controlling and manipulative, but he loves her nonetheless. This may be his last and most fatal mistake. Bob confides his fears in one person. But will he be able to prove its really murder?
Download or read book Like Death written by Guy De Maupassant and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2017-02-21 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A devastating novel about the treachery of love by Maupassant, now in a new translation by National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize winning poet and translator Richard Howard Olivier Bertin is at the height of his career as a painter. After making his name as a young man with his Cleopatra, he has gone on to establish himself as “the chosen painter of Parisiennes, the most adroit and ingenious artist to reveal their grace, their figures, and their souls.” And though his hair may be white, he remains a handsome, vigorous, and engaging bachelor, a prized guest at every table and salon. Olivier’s lover is Anne, the Countess de Guilleroy, the wife of a busy politician. Their relationship is long-standing, close, almost conjugal. The countess’s daughter is Annette, and she is the spitting image of her mother in her lovely youth. Having finished her schooling, Annette is returning to Paris. Her parents have put together an excellent match. Everything is as it should be—until the painter and countess are each seized by an agonizing suspicion, like death. . . . In its devastating depiction of the treacherous nature of love, Like Death is more than the equal of Swann’s Way. Richard Howard’s new translation brings out all the penetration and poetry of this masterpiece of nineteenth-century fiction.
Book Synopsis Death Loved a Woman by : Audrey Claire
Download or read book Death Loved a Woman written by Audrey Claire and published by Audrey Claire. This book was released on with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wesley made the mistake of falling for a woman who wanted him only for his money. Now he’s dead, and Barbara Jean is being blamed. Who should come to her rescue but Flynn, the first man Annie’s learning to trust. Flynn is trying to convince Annie that he cares about her, but he’s got a secret that might destroy their friendship, not to mention the budding attraction between them. How can Annie believe he’ll be there for her when everyone is saying Flynn is still in love with his old flame? Never a woman to sit at home and wait, Annie takes on the case. Her sleuthing gets her into some tight spots, and she draws the killer’s attention. Happy Holloway will get her man. Whether it’s the murderer or the firefighter remains to be seen.
Book Synopsis Some Like Murder Hot by : Jacqueline Vick
Download or read book Some Like Murder Hot written by Jacqueline Vick and published by Classical Reads. This book was released on with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Pet Psychic meets The Harlow Brothers in this hysterical mystery romp. When Frankie Chandler and Detective Martin Bowers finally embark on their long-awaited honeymoon at the iconic Hotel del Coronado, their blissful escape is rudely interrupted by an unwelcome guest—a corpse on their cabana patio. This shocking turn of events catches the eye of brothers Edward and Nicholas Harlow, who are hiding out at the hotel to dodge some dangerous criminals with a vendetta against Nicholas. But hiding can be difficult for the popular author of the Aunt Civility etiquette series and his ever-present secretary. Neither pair are strangers to solving mysteries, but cracking this case won’t be a walk in the park. The Some Like It Hot convention is in full swing, filling the hotel with cross-dressing couples, real-life gangsters, and super fans with hidden agendas. Get ready for a whirlwind of mystery, mayhem, and madcap fun!
