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Book Synopsis Cup of Blood; A Crispin Guest Medieval Noir Prequel by : Jeri Westerson
Download or read book Cup of Blood; A Crispin Guest Medieval Noir Prequel written by Jeri Westerson and published by Dragua Press. This book was released on 2014-05-22 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a corpse turns up at his favorite tavern, Crispin Guest—disgraced knight turned detective--begins an inquiry, but the dead man turns out to be a Templar knight, an order thought to be extinct for 75 years, charged with protecting a certain religious relic which is now missing. Before he can begin to investigate, Crispin is abducted by shadowy men who are said to be minions of the French anti-pope. Further complicating matters are two women: one from court with an enticing proposition, and another from Crispin’s past, dredging up long-forgotten emotions he would rather have left behind. And as if all that weren’t enough, a cunning young cutpurse by the name of Jack Tucker has insinuated himself into Crispin’s already difficult life. The deeper Crispin probes into the murder, the more it looks like the handiwork of an old friend turned adversary. With enemies from all sides, Crispin has his hands full in more than murder in this intriguing prequel to the acclaimed series.
Download or read book Veil of Lies written by Jeri Westerson and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2008-10-28 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In late fourteenth-century England, Crispin Guest is a man adrift in a culture where position is rigidly defined. Guest - once a knight, a member of the upper tiers of society - was convicted of treason and stripped of his rank and his honor for plotting against King Richard II. Having lost his patron, his friends, his betrothed, and his position at court, and with no trade to support him and no family willing to acknowledge him, Crispin has turned to the one thing he still has - his wits - to scrape out a living on the mean streets of London." "In 1384, Crispin is called to the compound of a successful but reclusive cloth merchant who suspects his wife of infidelity and wants Crispin to look into the matter. In dire need of money, Crispin reluctantly agrees and discovers that the wife is indeed up to something. But when he comes to inform his client, he finds the merchant dead - clearly murdered - in a sealed room, locked from the inside. Now Crispin has come to the unwanted attention of the Lord Sheriff of London and finds himself in the middle of a complex plot involving dark secrets, international intrigue, and a missing religious relic - one that lies at the very heart of this heinous and impossible crime."--BOOK JACKET.
Book Synopsis Shadow of the Alchemist by : Jeri Westerson
Download or read book Shadow of the Alchemist written by Jeri Westerson and published by Jabberwocky Literary Agency, Inc.. This book was released on 2015-09-29 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since losing his knighthood, Crispin Guest has earned his reputation as the Tracker, a private investigator who can locate everything, and everyone he is hired to find. When famed French alchemist Nicholas Flamel enlists him to locate both his missing wife Perenelle and his apprentice, Guest is confident that it will be a case quickly resolved. But after Flamel’s apprentice is found dead and a ransom note arrives threatening the life of Perenelle in exchange for the Philosopher’s Stone, a magical object that can change lead into gold, Guest quickly discovers that there is nothing ordinary about this case. Soon, strange, antiquated symbols begin appearing throughout the city and he learns he must decipher their hidden code to unearth the truth of secrets long buried. Plunged into the dark, underground magic of alchemy and the treacherous world of English politics, Guest and his dedicated servant Jack, will have to unravel the mystery in order to find Perenelle and reveal the dangerous mastermind determined to wreak havoc throughout the city. Shadow of the Alchemist is the intriguing sixth book in the Crispin Guest series. It was featured as a “Best of 2013 Selection” by Suspense Magazine and was a finalist for Romantic Times Reviewers Choice Award in the Mystery Suspense & Thriller category.
Download or read book Troubled Bones written by Jeri Westerson and published by Jabberwocky Literary Agency, Inc.. This book was released on 2015-09-29 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Tracker encounters his old friend Geoffrey Chaucer while on a case for the Archbishop of Canterbury in this “murderous spin on The Canterbury Tales” (Kirkus Reviews). Since losing his knighthood, Crispin Guest has crafted a new reputation for himself. From the shadowy corners of London to the halls of the royal court he is known as the Tracker, an investigator for hire who can find anyone or anything. But when the Archbishop of Canterbury hires him to expose the culprit threatening the sacred relics of a holy martyr, Crispin finds himself a stranger in an unfamiliar land. Within a city of pilgrims and priests, he unexpectedly encounters his former friend Geoffrey Chaucer, poet, rabble-rouser, and liege to Crispin’s former master. Chaucer and his group of fellow pilgrims all have tales to tell . . . and secrets to hide. And when murder befalls the cathedral, Crispin is enlisted in a second case. Among hallowed tombs of soldiers and saints, in a world of ancient secrets and undying vendettas, Crispin must identify the murderous heretic among holy men if he has any hope of returning home. Reimagining the world of The Canterbury Tales in an engaging, suspenseful mystery, Troubled Bones was nominated for the Macavity, the Agatha, Romantic Times Reviewers’ Choice, and the Bruce Alexander Historical Mystery awards.
Book Synopsis Baying for Blood by : Jeri Westerson
Download or read book Baying for Blood written by Jeri Westerson and published by Dragua Press. This book was released on 2021-04-21 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jeff Chase is finding his way as a werewolf in his hometown of Huntington Beach, California, even though he might have screwed up big with the only woman who can help him navigate this new paranormal world...because he MIGHT have fallen for her— Aw, who is he kidding? He DID fall for her, but the girl isn't having it. She doesn't want to be another notch on his bedpost. Not like the girl he boinked who had just become a werewolf too...and was found dead on the beach. Was it that loser surfer gang, the Cutback Boys? Or is there something new in town, something he doesn’t even want to imagine could be real? Something big IS brewing and he’ll need all his friends—including his Voodoo “aunties” and the hated werewolf pack the Moonrisers—to help him solve this one.
Book Synopsis Oswald the Thief by : Jeri Westerson
Download or read book Oswald the Thief written by Jeri Westerson and published by Dragua Press. This book was released on 2022-05-28 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: London, 1308. “All I need is a Plan!” So says Oswald of Harlech, a misplaced Welshman in the heart of London. Besides his trade as a tinker, he also robs houses, cuts purses, plays a crooked shell game, and has a way with the ladies. But this time, caught in the act of robbing a house, he is blackmailed by the scheming Keeper of the King’s Wardrobe into stealing the Crown Jewels from the impenetrable Tower of London. Gathering his gang of friends—his half-wit companion who is uncannily adept at picking locks, his greedy landlord, a mad alchemist, a desperate but beautiful alehouse owner, and a man-of-few-words blacksmith—Oswald must steal the jewels, avoid the gallows, skirt some unscrupulous moneylenders, get the girl, and escape the sheriffs’ clutches, all with sly wit and good humor. It’s Ocean’s 11 in the Middle Ages!
Download or read book 3 Book Sampler written by Jeri Westerson and published by Old London Press. This book was released on 2022-04-21 with total page 853 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A "boxed set" of unabridged ebooks! TWO paranormals and a BONUS medieval mystery. Three firsts in their series. First up is THE DAEMON DEVICE, the first in the Enchanter Chronicles gaslamp-steampunk fantasy trilogy, with dirigibles chugging through the sooty skies of London, a magician with Jewish-Romani blood, an automaton, golems, ghosts, creatures of Gehenna, a shrewd Jewish daemon, mad German scientists, and a Special Inspector from Scotland Yard who may not be what she seems. With illustrations by Robert Carrasco. Then the second paranormal MOONRISERS, the first in the humorous Moonriser Werewolf Mystery series, with Jeff, a player and a surfer who has a werewolf problem that involves him with a dangerous surfer gang, a Voodoo coven, a werewolf pack…and murder! And then--a BONUS! The (real) first in the Crispin Guest Medieval Noir series CUP OF BLOOD. Disgraced knight turned detective Crispin Guest finds himself investigating a missing religious relic while eluding the violent overtures of the minions of the French antipope, a sultry courtier, Knight Templars, and a cunning cutpurse.
Book Synopsis Library of the Damned by : Jeri Westerson
Download or read book Library of the Damned written by Jeri Westerson and published by Dragua Press. This book was released on 2021-10-15 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leopold Kazsmer, stage magician extraordinaire, must make the dangerous journey to the Library of the Damned, a structure fluctuating between the worlds and filled with the archives of the centuries, to find a way to rescue his father and save his own soul from the Unholy Hosts with whom he has made a deadly covenant and who have trapped his father in the darkest depths of Gehenna for seventeen years. With Leopold's amazing cadre of friends—the Special Inspector from Scotland Yard Mingli Zhao, the imp Suchah, the ghost of Inspector Thacker, the automaton Raj, and led by Leopold's daemon friend Eurynomos—London goes to war with Gehenna, and all hell literally breaks loose in this final chapter of the Enchanter Chronicles.
Download or read book Moonrisers written by Jeri Westerson and published by Dragua Press. This book was released on 2020-03-02 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jeff Chase got caught up in a little supernatural trouble back east a few months back, like big time. Getting bitten by the First Werewolf was as big as it gets. . After a period of adjustment, he returned back to his own tea and spice shop in Huntington Beach, California to start life over. But more importantly, he wanted to find others of his kind. After all, werewolves have been around for as long as humans have existed. Surely they’re everywhere! Maybe hiding. And then he finds them. But they weren’t too happy to be found. Jeff soon discovered that having deep roots in the werewolf community is the only thing that matters to a pack, and he has no pack at all. And to make matters worse, he thinks they’re responsible for a string of murders being blamed on a local surf gang. He thought he’d get some help from a local Voodoo coven, and one of them in particular is the most beautiful woman he’s ever seen… And old Jeff has seen a lot. But he can’t reveal his own terrible secret when he learns that werewolves are killed on sight in Haiti where the Voodoo coven comes from. . It’s up to Jeff to find a murderer, make a choice between joining a pack and belonging somewhere…or falling for a Voodoo witch with deep secrets.
Book Synopsis The Daemon Device by : Jeri Westerson
Download or read book The Daemon Device written by Jeri Westerson and published by Dragua Press. This book was released on 2019-10-02 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: London, 1891. Dirigibles, like dark leviathans, surge through the sooty skies of London. Steam powers the engines that supply electricity to the new lights along the Thames. And strange murder appears on the seamy streets. Someone is killing women and gutting them for their body parts. Is it Jack the Ripper returned, or a far more sinister plot afoot than murder? Magician Leopold Kazsmer, the Great Enchanter, ashamed of his Jewish-Gypsy blood, has fashioned himself into a proper English gentleman, though he harbors a carefully guarded secret; he has learned the dangerous art of summoning daemons and through it, performs real magic. With the help of Raj, a tarot-reading automated man, and Eurynomos, a shrewd Jewish daemon, Leopold must discover what is behind the revolting murders that suddenly seem to involve tight-lipped German scientists, Golems in a plot of world domination, ghosts, demons, and the beautiful Scotland Yard Special Inspector, Mingli Zhao. Is she truly from the secret depths of Scotland Yard or is she instead a heartless spy and murderess?
Download or read book Clockwork Gypsy written by Jeri Westerson and published by Dragua Press. This book was released on 2020-10-31 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A diabolical plot is afoot to kill thousands by connecting England’s railway lines to a deadly curse. The beautiful and mysterious Mingli Zhao, Special Inspector from Scotland Yard, enlists the help of Leopold Kazsmer, the Great Enchanter, who uses his skills with summoning Jewish daemons to perform true magic to help solve supernatural crimes. Meanwhile, a Hungarian Romani—part man, part clockwork—will stop at nothing to kill the man he believes is responsible for his Hell of an existence that is slowly grinding his mind into the nothingness of gears and pistons. It’s a race against time for Leopold to foil the fiendish plot of the railway barons, fight off a plutocratic society of goblins, struggle to gain the romantic attentions of Miss Zhao…and discover the identity of the Clockwork Gypsy before he kills again.
Book Synopsis Serpent in the Thorns by : Jeri Westerson
Download or read book Serpent in the Thorns written by Jeri Westerson and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2010-09-28 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the French king's courier is killed by a crossbow in a tavern, a barmaid seeks the assistance of fourteenth-century detective Crispin Guest, who soon finds himself the prime suspect in the murder, one that could draw France and England into war.
Book Synopsis The Demon's Parchment by : Jeri Westerson
Download or read book The Demon's Parchment written by Jeri Westerson and published by Jabberwocky Literary Agency, Inc.. This book was released on 2015-09-29 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Tracker pursues mystical documents said to conjure demons while hunting for a monstrous killer in this medieval mystery with “an appealing noirish air” (Booklist). Since losing his knighthood, Crispin Guest has reinvented himself as an investigator for hire known as the Tracker. But his reputation will once again be put to the test with his latest case. Jacob of Provençal, a Jewish physician at the king’s court, is missing a set of documents that he claims contain the power to bring forth a dangerous demon. Meanwhile, it seems a monster has already been unleashed on the city. Vulnerable street children are being abducted and murdered, their mutilated bodies the only clues left behind. With the help of his orphaned servant, Jack, it is up to Crispin to unravel the grim tangle of mystery and murder. This third installment of the Crispin Guest Medieval mysteries was nominated for a Romantic Times Award and was a finalist for the Macavity Award.
Book Synopsis A Companion to Crime Fiction by : Charles J. Rzepka
Download or read book A Companion to Crime Fiction written by Charles J. Rzepka and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2020-07-13 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Companion to Crime Fiction presents the definitive guide to this popular genre from its origins in the eighteenth century to the present day A collection of forty-seven newly commissioned essays from a team of leading scholars across the globe make this Companion the definitive guide to crime fiction Follows the development of the genre from its origins in the eighteenth century through to its phenomenal present day popularity Features full-length critical essays on the most significant authors and film-makers, from Arthur Conan Doyle and Dashiell Hammett to Alfred Hitchcock and Martin Scorsese exploring the ways in which they have shaped and influenced the field Includes extensive references to the most up-to-date scholarship, and a comprehensive bibliography
Book Synopsis The Boat of a Million Years by : Poul Anderson
Download or read book The Boat of a Million Years written by Poul Anderson and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2018-09-18 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Notable Book and Hugo and Nebula Award Finalist: This epic chronicle of ten immortals over the course of history “succeeds admirably” (The New York Times). The immortals are ten individuals born in antiquity from various cultures. Immune to disease, able to heal themselves from injuries, they will never die of old age—although they can fall victim to catastrophic wounds. They have walked among mortals for millennia, traveling across the world, trying to understand their special gifts while searching for one another in the hope of finding some meaning in a life that may go on forever. Following their individual stories over the course of human history and beyond into a richly imagined future, “one of science fiction’s most revered writers” (USA Today) weaves a broad tapestry that is “ambitious in scope, meticulous in detail, polished in style” (Library Journal).
Book Synopsis Steven Spielberg and Philosophy by : Dean A. Kowalski
Download or read book Steven Spielberg and Philosophy written by Dean A. Kowalski and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2008-11-21 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “This lively collection of essays on the ideas underpinning his films enriches and enlarges our understanding of Spielberg’s complex body of work.” —Joseph McBride, author of Steven Spielberg: A Biography Few directors have had as powerful an influence on the film industry and the movie-going public as Steven Spielberg. Whatever the subject—dinosaurs, war, extra-terrestrials, slavery, the Holocaust, or terrorism—one clear and consistent touchstone is present in all of Spielberg’s films: an interest in the human condition. In movies ranging from Jaws to Schindler’s List to Amistad to Jurassic Park, he has brought to life some of the most popular heroes—and most despised villains—of all time. In Steven Spielberg and Philosophy, Dean A. Kowalski and some of the nation’s most respected philosophers investigate Spielberg’s art to illuminate the nature of humanity. The book explores rich themes such as cinematic realism, fictional belief, terrorism, family ethics, consciousness, virtue and moral character, human rights, and religion in Spielberg’s work. Avid moviegoers and deep thinkers will discover plenty to enjoy in this collection.
Book Synopsis Cyborg Cinema and Contemporary Subjectivity by : S. Short
Download or read book Cyborg Cinema and Contemporary Subjectivity written by S. Short and published by Springer. This book was released on 2004-11-10 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book breaks new ground in providing an in-depth critical assessment of cyborg cinema, arguing that it remains one of the most intriguing and provocative cycles to have emerged in contemporary screen culture. Tracing the cinematic cyborg's transition over the last two decades and evaluating the theoretical significance attributed to this figure, it asks what relevance the cyborg continues to have in terms of understanding human identity, our relationship to technology, and to one another.
