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The Cumberland Mountain Trilogy, Volume 3 - The Sheriff of Hell's Murder Case

Author : Jack Justin Turner
Publisher : First Edition Design Pub.
ISBN 13 : 1622877950
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (228 download)

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Download or read book The Cumberland Mountain Trilogy, Volume 3 - The Sheriff of Hell's Murder Case written by Jack Justin Turner and published by First Edition Design Pub.. This book was released on 2014-12-11 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sheriff of Hell's Murder Case is the final novel in Dr. Jack Justin Turner's highly-acclaimed Cumberland Mountain Trilogy. With a mangled arm, and with his long-barreled Luger close at hand, Sheriff Jacob Newton Herald must muster all the cunning and courage that saw him through The Great War to survive the sometimes savage place he calls home. Jake, as he is known by both friend and foe, has been described as a combination of Hamlet and Dirty Harry – but in this last volume Jake exhibits a quite different and endearing personality, when he makes two of the most important decisions of his life. Part murder mystery and part magnificent love story, The Sheriff of Hell's Murder Case again demonstrates Dr. Turner's powerful and insightful explanation of character and locale, in a page-turner that is perhaps unparalleled in modern Appalachian fiction. Turner obviously knows and loves the setting and its inhabitants and puts the lie to the work of a litany of literary carpetbaggers. As one reviewer put it, "Jack Justin Turner's voice rings so true that one might think the author is actually channeling the spirits of his early twentieth century characters. Seldom does a book transport a reader so surely to another place and time." Keywords: Romance, Revenge, Action, History, War, Kentucky, Herald, Fiction, Iron Fist, Mystery, Veteran

The Cumberland Mountain Trilogy, Volume 1 - The Sheriffs’ Murder Cases

Author : Jack Justin Turner
Publisher : First Edition Design Pub.
ISBN 13 : 1622877942
Total Pages : 155 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (228 download)

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Download or read book The Cumberland Mountain Trilogy, Volume 1 - The Sheriffs’ Murder Cases written by Jack Justin Turner and published by First Edition Design Pub.. This book was released on 2014-12-11 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sheriffs' Murder Cases is the initial volume in The Cumberland Mountain Trilogy, a series highlighting life the Kentucky Mountains during the early and middle decades of the 20th Century. Jacob Newton Herald, High Sheriff, or Chief Deputy, of Chinoe County from 1920-45, is the trilogy's central character, and the accounts are in his own words, or as nearly as his granddaughter Jennifer could copy down. Jake, as he was commonly known to friend and foe alike, received a B.A. Degree from Valparaiso University outside Chicago in 1914. He subsequently applied and was admitted to medical school at the University of Louisville. He left that school with a year remaining, in order to fight in the Great War. He emerged from the war a heavily decorated soldier with the battlefield rank of Captain. He returned to his home county in the mountains, where he became involved in law enforcement, serving for a quarter century. In The Sheriffs' Murder Cases, Jake takes the County Sheriff's job for a shockingly immoral purpose and ends up trying to solve a series of puzzling murders. He enlists the aid of family members, deputizes friends and war buddies, and is led down many paths that build suspense and create the dramatic tension that propels the novel to its climax. Keywords: Romance, Revenge, Action, History, War, Kentucky, Herald, Fiction, Iron Fist, Mystery, Veteran

Hell in the Heartland

Author : Jax Miller
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1984806319
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (848 download)

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Download or read book Hell in the Heartland written by Jax Miller and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-06-15 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “There is, in the best of us, a search for the truth, to serve the living and dead alike...Jax Miller is one of those people and Hell in the Heartland is one of those books.”—Robert Graysmith, New York Times bestselling author of Zodiac As seen in Marie Claire's "Best True Crime Books of 2020" • HuffPost • OK! Magazine • CrimeReads • LitHub's "Best New Summer Books" S-Town meets I'll Be Gone in the Dark in this stranger-than-fiction cold case from rural Oklahoma that has stumped authorities for two decades, concerning the disappearance of two teenage girls and the much larger mystery of murder, possible police cover-up, and an unimaginable truth... On December 30, 1999, in rural Oklahoma, sixteen-year-old Ashley Freeman and her best friend, Lauria Bible, were having a sleepover. The next morning, the Freeman family trailer was in flames and both girls were missing. While rumors of drug debts, revenge, and police corruption abounded in the years that followed, the case remained unsolved and the girls were never found. In 2015, crime writer Jax Miller--who had been haunted by the case--decided to travel to Oklahoma to find out what really happened on that winter night in 1999, and why the story was still simmering more than fifteen years later. What she found was more than she could have ever bargained for: evidence of jaw-dropping levels of police negligence, entire communities ravaged by methamphetamine addiction, and a series of interconnected murders with an ominously familiar pattern. These forgotten towns were wild, lawless, and home to some very dark secrets.

Hell Hath No Fury

Author : Bryna Taubman
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 146680176X
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book Hell Hath No Fury written by Bryna Taubman and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1992-09-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dan Broderick was one of California's most successful attorneys; his wife, Betty, a beautiful socialite. But when Betty discovered Dan's hidden life, the façade of LaJolla's golden couple was shattered. What followed was a vicious five-year battle that finally ended in a shocking double-murder. A Harvard Law School graduate, Dan manipulated the law to strip Betty of everything she loved: her home, her friends--even her children. When she frantically tried to fight back, he had her committed to a mental hospital. His new wife, Linda, even sent the once-beautiful Betty wrinkle cream ads and weight loss pamphlets. Consumed by hatred and thoughts of revenge, Betty's rage exploded on the night of November 5, 1989. Before the sun rose the next day, Dan Broderick and his gorgeous new wife were dead--their bullet-riddled bodies wrapped in the blood-soaked sheets of their bed. Hell Hath No Fury is a shocking story of wealth, passion, revenge, and a woman driven to murder.

The Mother From Hell - She Murdered Her Daughters and Turned Her Sons into Murderers

Author : Wensley Clarkson
Publisher : Kings Road Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1857829603
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (578 download)

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Download or read book The Mother From Hell - She Murdered Her Daughters and Turned Her Sons into Murderers written by Wensley Clarkson and published by Kings Road Publishing. This book was released on 2012-04-27 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To friends and neighbours, Theresa Knorr was a devoted, loving mother struggling to bring up five children on her own. Little did they know that, behind closed doors, the same woman was driven by religious extremism, terrible paranoia and an all-consuming jealousy of her daughters' beauty that led to one of the worst cases of serial abuse in history. For years Theresa subjected her offspring to a barbaric variety of physical and mental torture, culminating in her ordering her two sons to drug, torture and then burn alive one of their sisters before starving another to death. Terrified that she would be next, a third sister had to take action. When the police found her story too far-fetched, she was left with no choice but to escape the house of horrors and fight for justice. It was years before the full, shocking truth came out. This is the true story of a family unit twisted out of all recognition by a mother who perpetrated the most evil of crimes.

Hell Paso

Author : Samuel K. Dolan
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1493041517
Total Pages : 457 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Hell Paso written by Samuel K. Dolan and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-12-24 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spanning a thirty-year period, from the late 1800s until the 1920s, Hell Paso is the true story of the desperate men and notorious women that made El Paso, Texas the Old West’s most dangerous town. Supported by official court documents, government records, oral histories and period newspaper accounts, this book offers a bird’s eye view of the one-time “murder metropolis” of the Southwest.

Go to Hell Ole Miss

Author : Jeff Barry
Publisher : Greenleaf Book Group
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book Go to Hell Ole Miss written by Jeff Barry and published by Greenleaf Book Group. This book was released on 2024-05-07 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To what lengths will a father go to save his daughter? Big John, a former POW in WWII, thinks women are smarter than men. The three women in his life agree, especially when he brags about knowing more Shakespeare than anyone else in Hope Springs, Mississippi. Big John is overly proud of the only seven words of Shakespeare that he knows: The prince of darkness is a gentleman. When Big John and his wife learn their beloved daughter has been beaten to the point of death by the man Big John pressured her to marry, he needs only three of these words: prince, darkness, and gentleman. Set in the Mississippi hill country in the early 1970s, Go to Hell Ole Miss tells the story of a father’s willingness to do almost anything to save his daughter from the Southern gentleman he had pressured her to marry. Almost. For fans of Pat Conroy, Barbara Kingsolver, Wiley Cash, and Cormac McCarthy, Go to Hell Ole Miss is a historical family saga of hope and hardship, redemption and revenge, faith and doubt. It’s also a compelling Southern tale with characters that become people who make you laugh, cry, and think.

The Cumberland Mountain Trilogy, Volume 2 - The Sheriff of Frozen's Murder Cases

Author : Jack Justin Turner
Publisher : First Edition Design Pub.
ISBN 13 : 1622877969
Total Pages : 181 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (228 download)

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Download or read book The Cumberland Mountain Trilogy, Volume 2 - The Sheriff of Frozen's Murder Cases written by Jack Justin Turner and published by First Edition Design Pub.. This book was released on 2014-12-11 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sheriff of Frozen's Murder Cases is the second volume in The Cumberland Mountain Trilogy. Sheriff Jake Herald's career was characterized by violence, intemperate outbursts against "Outsiders" (non-Mountaineers), high-handed and perhaps illegal campaign tactics, flights of fancy wherein he extols the beauties of the mountains and the virtues of its inhabitants, incarceration and intimidation of coal camp managers, police and owners, and, some say, inveterate womanizing. He did, however, quite remarkably, find the time to solve the occasional murder case. In this volume, Jake considers running for High Sheriff while being assailed by a series of difficulties, some of them quite bizarre. Violence from a near war in West Virginia between union miners and coal company "detectives" threatens to spill over into Chinoe County, Kentucky. Two bodies are found on the same stretch of railroad track. "Italian Bank Robbers" strike a nearby town, a young school teacher is stalked, and automobiles come to Chinoe with the introduction of a yellow Duesenberg and a Bluebird Overland. The series of murder cases that Jake Herald faces, and the methods he employs, build suspense and create the dramatic tension that propels the novel to its climax, and to an unforgettable resolution that promises a love interest readers are sure to look forward to in the final novel of the Cumberland Mountain Trilogy. Keywords: Romance, Action, History, War, Kentucky, Herald, Fiction, Iron Fist, Mystery, Veteran

Murder, Wetlands and an Endangered Species

Author : Nelson Lynch
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595191878
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (951 download)

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Download or read book Murder, Wetlands and an Endangered Species written by Nelson Lynch and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2001-07 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Madame Z and Commissioner Sarah Curtis want Worcester County to buy land owned by a little old lady in a nursing home, for a wildlife sanctuary and to protect the Brown Pelicans. The farm is mostly wetlands with the Northern-most Brown Pelican Rookery located right on the water front overlooking Chincoteague Bay and Assateague Island. A developer has his eye on this same property on Maryland’s Eastern Shore for future homes and a golf course. The little old lady in the nursing home gives her nephew power of attorney, and shortly thereafter suffers a stroke rendering her helpless to wheel and deal. Her nephew is murdered leaving a young, good-looking wife as sole heir to her property. This little beauty is promptly besieged with offers of money, marriage, BMW’s and condos with little thought of her husband’s killer. Sheriff Abel, his wife, and Madame Z have their work cut out for them discovering who the killer is in time to save the farm from the bulldozer. Get set for more rollicking laughs as the Eastern Shore of Maryland is once again besieged by murder and mayhem. Will Worcester County’s best be able to come to the rescue once again?

Hell's Bones

Author : Roy S Smith Jr.
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1499078005
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (99 download)

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Download or read book Hell's Bones written by Roy S Smith Jr. and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2014-09-27 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Ah, she was so pretty. Sitting there with her long blonde hair and wonderful smile, all through his school year, Bill had idolized the beautiful little blonde girl. God, how he wished she would notice him.The pretty blonde girl seemed to know what Bill was thinking because right at that moment, she got up and walked over to him. Their eyes held for a brief moment when her sweet lips parted, and she started screaming. Bill woke up with a start, and the screaming didn’t stop.

Rockabilly Hell

Author : William W. Johnstone
Publisher : Lyrical Press
ISBN 13 : 160183540X
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Rockabilly Hell written by William W. Johnstone and published by Lyrical Press. This book was released on 2016-11-08 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NO COVER CHARGE From From Cairo to Vicksburg, along Route 61, they lit up the night with the sounds of wailing voices and twanging guitars. All the greats played at roadside clubs filled with smoke, sex, and a driving beat . . . Elvis, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, Johnny Cash. These jive joints are now a thing of the past. Or are they? A sheriff’s deputy has just stumbled on a mystery that will take him into the cheating heart of rockabilly hell. NO TWO-DRINK MINIMUM In the last forty years over five hundred people have disappeared along that particular stretch of highway. Now Deputy Jesse “Cole” Younger and a beautiful reporter named Katti Baylor have entered the doors of one of those lost clubs to find what waits within—and to face what waits beyond . . . AND NO MERCY

To Hell on a Fast Horse

Author : Mark Lee Gardner
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061969532
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (619 download)

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Download or read book To Hell on a Fast Horse written by Mark Lee Gardner and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2010-02-09 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “So richly detailed, you can almost smell the gunsmoke and the sweat of the saddles. ” —Hampton Sides, New York Times bestselling author of Ghost Soldiers No outlaw typifies America’s mythic Wild West more than Billy the Kid. To Hell on a Fast Horse by Mark Lee Gardner is the riveting true tale of Sheriff Pat Garrett’s thrilling, break-neck chase in pursuit of the notorious bandit. David Dary calls To Hell on a Fast Horse, “A masterpiece,” and Robert M. Utley calls it, “Superb narrative history.” This is spellbinding historical adventure at its very best, recalling James Swanson’s New York Times bestseller Manhunt—about the search for Lincoln’s assassin, John Wilkes Booth—as it fills in with fascinating detail the story director Sam Peckinpah brought to the screen in his classic film Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid.

Hell's Gate

Author :
Publisher : Club Lighthouse Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1897532199
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (975 download)

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Download or read book Hell's Gate written by and published by Club Lighthouse Publishing. This book was released on with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Colton Phillips, a workaholic crime scene investigator with the NYPD, likes to investigate paranormal activities in his spare time, and has spent a lot of that personal time studying visitations from beyond the grave. Having accumulated some vacation time, he visits Pineville, a small town in upstate New York, which has been plagued in the past by mysterious axe murders. It's a case that remained unsolved, as the murders stopped for a long while. While in Pineville, Colton comes upon an old farm house where he finds a hand held mirror with a solid gold back. This mirror reputedly came from Egypt and has been used as a portal to travel back and forth from the spirit world to the material world by those who possessed it. Abruptly, the murders begin again, and the female victims are usually made love to by a beautiful and buxom blonde woman before they're possessed by her and invariably end up murdering their mates. Together with the help of local psychic, Sheri Osmire who has served with the FBI, Colton learns that the murders are being committed by the spirit of Marge Borden, the illegitimate, incestuously fathered daughter of the infamous Lizzie Borden who also joins her daughter in the murderous sprees. Afterwards, they use the mirror as a portal to return to the spirit world. Marge and Lizzy Borden are on a mission to find a way to become immortal and obtain a body of flesh and bones. Colton and Sheri have their work cut out for them as they try to prevent this from happening. Their work together will lead them into many hair raising adventures, including trips to Egypt and The Dead Sea, and also into each other's arms as husband and wife. Colton also learns that Sheri has a kinky side, in that she's bi-sexual and doesn't mind having a couple extra women in their bed together with them. Surprisingly, Colton finds that he doesn't mind this, and eventually he enjoys their sexual escapades with a lesbian couple they encounter during their investigation, who become part of their lives. The lesbian couple, Jody and Alexis, are white witches with psychic gifts of their own that they contribute to helping Colton and Sheri bring an end to Marge and Lizzie's bloody reign of terror.

Hell's Detective

Author : Michael Logan
Publisher : Crooked Lane Books
ISBN 13 : 1683311736
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (833 download)

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Download or read book Hell's Detective written by Michael Logan and published by Crooked Lane Books. This book was released on 2017-06-13 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kat Murphy is a private detective tortured by demons. Real ones. She is serving a death sentence in Lost Angeles, the dark and depraved city in Hell where a beast known as a Torment forces her to relive, night after night, the moment she killed her lover and put a bullet in her own skull. Kat longs to make amends for her sins. So when the city's Chief Administrator hires her to retrieve a stolen box with a mysterious power, offering to call off her Torment in return, she gets the chance to do just that. But if Kat has learned one thing, it's that every case has a wrinkle. As she trawls drug dens, casinos, and fighting pits in search of the thief, she discovers that both box and city contain secrets darker than she could ever have imagined. And with time running out, Kat must choose between her own desire for peace and the fate of the world above in Hell's Detective, the electrifying new mystery from award-winning author Michael Logan.

To Hell on a Fast Horse Updated Edition

Author : Mark Lee Gardner
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 006301193X
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (63 download)

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Download or read book To Hell on a Fast Horse Updated Edition written by Mark Lee Gardner and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2020-04-21 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “So richly detailed, you can almost smell the gunsmoke and the sweat of the saddles.”—Hampton Sides, New York Times bestselling author From Spur Award-winning author Mark Lee Gardner, his classic dual biography of Billy the Kid and Sheriff Pat Garrett, detailing Garrett’s riveting chase of the notorious bandit—now updated with a new afterword covering new developments in the Billy the Kid story. Billy the Kid—a.k.a. Henry McCarty, Henry Antrim, and William Bonney—was a horse thief, cattle rustler, charismatic rogue, and cold-blooded killer. A superb shot, the Kid gunned down four men single handedly and five others with the help of cronies. Two of his victims were Lincoln County, NM, deputies, killed during the Kid’s brazen daylight escape from the courthouse jail on April 28, 1881. After dspensing with his guards and filing through the chain securing his leg irons, The Kid danced a macabre jig on the jail’s porch before riding away on a stolen horse as terrified townspeople—and many sympathizers—watched. For new sheriff, Pat Garrett, the chase was on . . . To Hell on a Fast Horse recreates the thrilling manhunt for the Wild West’s most iconic outlaw. It is also the first “dual biography” of the Kid and Garrett, two larger-than-life figures who would not have become the stuff of legend without the other. Drawing on voluminous primary sources and a wealth of published scholarship, Mark L. Gardner digs beneath the myth to take a fresh look at these two men, their relationship, and what they would come to mean to a public enamored of a violent national past.

Murder in the Tropics

Author : Stuart B. McIver
Publisher : Pineapple Press Inc
ISBN 13 : 1561640794
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (616 download)

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Download or read book Murder in the Tropics written by Stuart B. McIver and published by Pineapple Press Inc. This book was released on 1995 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is the first statewide collection of true Florida murders, and as the saying goes, truth is stranger than fiction. The Sunshine State, from Pensacola to Key West, has played host to a memorable and varied array of crimes of passion, greed and revenge. (Taken from back jacket).

Cold Day in Hell

Author : Roger Dale Trexler
Publisher : Crossroad Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cold Day in Hell written by Roger Dale Trexler and published by Crossroad Press. This book was released on 2016-02-06 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brutal murder has happened in a southern Illinois cornfield. The culprit appears to be the local alcoholic. But, when another murder occurs while the suspect is in custody, Sheriff Mark Graff realizes the town drunk was merely a puppet in the real killer’s hands and that the truth is locked somewhere in the drunkard’s memory. Soon, the evidence starts to point toward the local migrant camp and the camp’s shady Padre. A vicious cat-and-mouse game begins between the Padre, his ward, and the police. In a chase that leads from southern Illinois to Chicago, madness and murder and religion meld into an unholy trinity that only Frank Powell can end. But can he?