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Author: Gretchen Evans
Publisher: Sadist Ink
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 168

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Soon after a young witch has her first menses, tradition says that her magic begins to mature fully, and that part of this process is the arrival of her familiar. Except for Melody, that hasn't quite happened just yet. She always had thought of herself as a late bloomer, but her magical affirmation hasn't happened yet, and she thinks it might not happen for her at all. If only she could ask her mother, but her mother is passed and she has to rely on her quirky aunt to guide her through all of this. Despite this quandary, it's Melody’s favorite holiday, All Hallow's Eve, when the veil thins and the ghosts of lives passed can be seen. But when a tormented soul attaches himself to Melody, she might just need her magic to solve how he died. Hopefully it will come so she can help this poor guy to eternal peace. If that wasn't enough, her old high school crush, Colin MacAlister back in town. That's Detective MacAlister to Melody. He can only cast doubt when Melody is certain she knows who the murderer is. With a little bit of patience and the guidance of her aunt, Melody might just find her path to unlocking her magic. But until then, she's off exploring the strange and wonderful world of Hills Hollow with its secrets around every corner. Will her adventures lead her to unlock her own power or will she remain in the darkness? Will her familiar finally emerge? Only if she's Familiar with Murder.

Author: Marjorie Bremner
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781899000487
Category : Detective and mystery stories
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Business titan Hugh Mason is poisoned on his 60th birthday weekend, and the evidence points to one of the family. Hugh was about to make a large political donation; was this the reason? But who amongs them would risk such a move, given that Hugh provided for everyone and his will was completely unknown?

Author: Kathleen Kaska
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1627934286
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 245

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It's 1952. Reporter Sydney Lockhart checks into the historic Arlington Hotel in Hot Springs, Arkansas. Before she even unpacks, she discovers the brutally murdered body of the hotel's bookkeeper. What had begun as a simple travel-writing assignment now turns into a murder investigation. The bad news is that Sydney is a suspect. Determined to clear her name and prove herself a reporter deserving more than just travel assignments, Sydney becomes embroiled in the underworld of gangsters and gamblers. In her fight for the truth, she soon faces a more urgent battle: saving her own skin.

Author: Eric Brown
Publisher: Severn House/ORIM
ISBN: 1780104138
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 258

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Who is killing the crime writers of London? Find out in this “consistently entertaining . . . crime debut from sci-fi veteran Brown” (Kirkus Reviews). London, 1955. When crime writer Donald Langham’s literary agent asks for his help in sorting out “a delicate matter,” little does Langham realize what he’s getting himself into. For a nasty case of blackmail leads inexorably to murder as London’s literary establishment is rocked by a series of increasingly bizarre deaths. With three members of the London Crime Writers’ Association coming to sudden and violent ends, what at first appeared to be a series of suicides looks suspiciously like murder—and there seems to be something horribly familiar about the various methods of dispatch. With the help of his literary agent’s assistant, the delectable Maria Dupré, Langham finds himself drawing on the skills of his fictional detective hero as he hunts a ruthless and fiendishly clever killer—a killer with old scores to settle. “[A] well-paced first mystery. . . . Readers will hope a sequel is in the works.” —Publishers Weekly

Author: Alan Terry Wright
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780976041399
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 435

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Around noon, November 22, 1915, everyone in Stoutland, Missouri, who could walk or ride rushed to view the mortal remains of one of the area's most prosperous farmers and leading citizens. Hidden in a brush pile on nearby Rouse Hill, the victim's body displayed the marks of a determined and vicious killer.Six years later, a dozen lawyers, four doctors, one hundred witnesses, four jury trials, a Missouri Supreme Court decision, and the only eyewitness--a Missouri fox-trotter horse named "Sam"--had not resolved the brutal murder of Jasper Jacob "Jap" Francis.Alan Terry Wright's suspenseful tale of greed, fraud, political influence, and cold-blooded murder will keep you riveted. His descriptions of the predawn killing, carried out in pitch darkness on a public road, and the agony of "Sam," Francis's prized horse, tied by the killer and left to starve, are both frightening and moving. The accused killer, Charlie Blackburn, nearly lynched by townsfolk, died in his bed in a California nursing home in 1964 at the advanced age of 91. The victim, Jasper Francis, had been dead for 49 years. Wright's account of a young girl's unwitting visit to the murder scene in 1928 is chilling. Her return there as a feisty 84-year-old accompanies events so bizarre and puzzling they verge on the paranormal.Recent interviews with the accused killer's family, the opinion of a renowned medical examiner, and the report of a handwriting expert shed important new light on this nearly forgotten case.Wright's skillful weaving of the story line with gently humorous vignettes of backwoods living sets this book apart from typical "true crime" stories. His love for the history and lore of Missouri helps craft a tale that rings with authenticity.

Author: Edna Buchanan
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1416578927
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 452

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This classic by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author is her nonfiction masterpiece--a tale of life and death on Miami's streets, which she covered for 18 years for "The Miami Herald." Reissue.

Author: Lissa Marie Redmond
Publisher: Severn House Publishers Ltd
ISBN: 1448305713
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 239

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In this exciting and atmospheric second entry of this Cold Case Investigation mystery series Detective Lauren Riley is determined to bring the attacker that left her for dead to justice . . . even if it is a fellow police officer. Cold Case Detectives Lauren Riley and her partner Shane Reese are helping the Homicide Squad after a murder earlier in the day left the department short-staffed. As their shift ends, Reese leaves Lauren alone only for her to be savagely beaten and stabbed from behind minutes later. Lauren didn’t see her attacker, but knows it was a fellow police officer from the city-issued boots she glimpsed as she passed out. Stolen during the attack is the Murder Book, which contains evidence on all active cold cases. Without the book, old homicides became almost impossible to track down. Who in police headquarters would try to kill a fellow officer? Why’d they suddenly want the Murder Book? Although hurt and on enforced leave, nothing will stop Lauren from seeking answers . . . but who on the force can she trust and how safe is she within her own home?

Author: Edna Buchanan
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439141142
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 419

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A re-release of a classic work by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Cold Case Squad details events from her eighteen years of writing for The Miami Herald, from a father who murdered his comatose toddler to a Haitian who was knitted to death in a Hialeah factory. Reprint.

Author: Kate Jessica Raphael
Publisher: She Writes Press
ISBN: 1631522752
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 489

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Hamas has taken power in Palestine, and the Israeli government is rounding up threats. When Palestinian policewoman Rania Bakara finds herself thrown in prison, though she has never been part of Hamas, her friend Chloe flies in from San Francisco to get her out. Chloe begs an Israeli policeman named Benny for help—and Benny offers Rania a way out: investigate the death of a young man in a village near her own. The young man’s neighbors believe the Israeli army killed him; Benny believes his death might not have been so honorable. Initially, Rania refuses; she has no interest in helping the Israelis. But she is released anyway, and returns home to find herself without a job and suspected of being a traitor. Searching for redemption, she launches an investigation into the young man’s death that draws her into a Palestinian gay scene she never knew existed. With Chloe and her Palestinian Australian lover as guides, Rania explores a Jerusalem gay bar, meets with a lesbian support group, and plunges deep into the victim’s world, forcing her to question her beliefs about love, justice, and cultural identity.

Author: Gail Feichtinger
Publisher: Zenith City Press
ISBN: 9781887317351
Category : Cold cases (Criminal investigation)
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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On June 27, 1977, an intruder entered Glensheen, the stately manor built along the Lake Superior shore by Chester A. Congdon, patriarch of one of Duluth, Minnesota's, most generous and respected families. Before leaving with a basketful of stolen jewelry, the intruder used a satin pillow to smother Chester's last surviving daughter, Elisabeth Congdon, after killing the heiress's valiant nurse, Velma Pietila, by beating her with a candlestick -- crimes set in motion by a hastily hand-written will penned just days before the killings. For the first time the story of the Glensheen killings and the crimes and trials surrounding Marjorie Caldwell Hagen, Elisabeth Congdon's notorious adopted daughter, is told through the eyes of former Duluth Police Detective and St. Louis County Sheriff Gary Waller and St. Louis County Prosecutor John DeSanto, the men who led the investigation and prosecution of Marjorie and her husband, Roger Caldwell.