Author: Kate Ellis Publisher: Piatkus ISBN: 0748126651 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 352
Book Description
'A beguiling author who interweaves past and present' The Times Never has DI Wesley Peterson witnessed such a bizarre crime scene. A man has been brutally murdered by two precise wounds to his neck and his body drained of blood. It seems that the victim, Charles Marrick, was not a popular man in the Devon area and Wesley doesn't have a shortage of suspects. But then another victim is found killed in an identical fashion and a third body is also discovered. As if Wesley didn't have enough to investigate, Wesley's friend, archaeologist Neil Watson, begins to receive disturbing anonymous letters about macabre events at a medieval abbey. The gory details bare resemblance to the recent murders and Neil fears they are being sent by the killer. Wesley and Neil are forced to face tragedy and shocking revelations as sinister truths unfold, and they come face to face with a killer scarred by past sins. Whether you've read the whole series, or are discovering Kate Ellis's DI Wesley Peterson novels for the first time, this is the perfect page-turner if you love reading Elly Griffiths and Ann Cleeves. PRAISE FOR KATE ELLIS: 'I loved this novel . . . a powerful story of loss, malice and deception' Ann Cleeves 'Haunting' Independent 'Unputdownable'Bookseller 'The chilling plot will keep you spooked and thrilled to the end' Closer 'A gripping read' Best 'A fine storyteller, weaving the past and present in a way that makes you want to read on' Peterborough Evening Telegraph
Author: Kostas Myrsiades Publisher: Xlibris Corporation ISBN: 1543425097 Category : Literary Collections Languages : en Pages : 95
Book Description
Drinking from the Blood-Pit is a work of creative nonfiction, which uses Odysseuss descent to the underworld (Od.10.490-95) as a unifying theme for each of the fourteen pieces included. Each piece is based on a Homeric theme and/or episode that stresses the lessons culled from reading Homers Iliad and Odyssey on the authors journey from childhood to adulthood. The title of each story indicates the Homeric myth or episode used and is accompanied by a short epigraph from either the Iliad or Odyssey. The fourteen works are divided into three sections: childhood, adolescence, and adulthood. The first part, childhood (four stories), describes growing up on the island of Samos, Greece, during the Nazi occupation and the Greek Civil War that followed. The second section, adolescence (four stories), continues the authors odyssey to the United States, attempting to deal with a new language and becoming acclimated to a foreign culture. The third part, adulthood (six stories), returns the author to his native land as a student of Greek culture struggling to study the censored works of Greek poets under the military government of 19671974.
Author: Johnny Ryan Publisher: Fantagraphics Books ISBN: 1606997009 Category : Comics & Graphic Novels Languages : en Pages : 126
Book Description
CF still isn't dead, but can he survive the Holocaust Brothers? First he's got to destroy his arch-enemy, the seemingly indestructible Slitt, who happens to be the only one who knows how to get the hell out of the Prison Pit.
Author: Jane Yolen Publisher: HarperCollins ISBN: 0547538979 Category : Young Adult Fiction Languages : en Pages : 320
Book Description
Dragons are trained to fight to the death, and two determined teens help free them in this spellbinding saga. Training a dragon to be a fighting champion is the only way to freedom for fifteen-year-old Jakkin.
Author: Frank Norris Publisher: Good Press ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 332
Book Description
"The Pit" by Frank Norris. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
Author: Kate Ellis Publisher: ISBN: 9780750535489 Category : Detective and mystery stories Languages : en Pages : 432
Book Description
A string of grizzly murders and ominous epistles present a perplexing case in this unique blend of history and mystery At the scene of an unusual crime, DI Wesley Petersen finds the body Charles Marrick, who has been murdered and his body drained of blood. When a popular local vet is murdered in an identical fashion, Wesley wonders what the two men could possibly have in common. Meanwhile Wesley's friend Neil Watson is alarmed when he begins receiving disturbing anonymous letters writing in gory detail about macabre events at a medieval abbey; Neil fears that his letters are being sent by the killer. Wesley's investigation takes an unexpected twist when both a third body and a skeleton are found, the latter possibly belonging to a sex offender who disappeared 20 years before. As the sinister truth behind the mystery unfolds, both Wesley and Neil are forced to face tragedy, shocking revelations, and a killer who bears the scars of past sins.
Author: Marly Youmans Publisher: Mariner Books ISBN: 9780156027144 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 356
Book Description
A powerful, intimate look at the Civil War on the home and battle fronts, "The Wolf Pit" is Marly Youmans's third and most accomplished novel. In it Robin, a young Confederate soldier and witness to the horrors of war, clings to what gives him strength: family pictures, psalms, and an old legend about a pair of mysterious green children found in a wolf pit. Robin carries these inside the Elmira prison camp, the very embodiment of hell. Meanwhile, Agate, the mulatto daughter of a hired-out slave, embraces the forbidden teachings of her mistress, Miss Fanny, who teaches her to love books and to write. But the hope Agate has fashioned for her future disappears when her owner, Young Master, learns of her education. Agate comes to understand the meaning of her mother's cautionary tales as she struggles to survive loss and degradation and to pit knowledge and truth against evil. By turns eloquent and harrowing, "The Wolf Pit" explores the will to endure in the face of seemingly insurmountable odds, and the personal tolls exacted during this chaotic period in U.S. history.
Author: Johnny Ryan Publisher: Fantagraphics Books ISBN: 168396313X Category : Comics & Graphic Novels Languages : en Pages : 737
Book Description
This filthy meat-grinder of a comics space odyssey is collected in one massive volume! Prison Pit is a planet full of repugnant intergalactic criminals, drug-filled slugs, and now Cannibal F***face (CF). From 2009 to 2018, the crudely manic pen and mind of Johnny Ryan documented the mayhem and mutation as CF loses his arm to a vile beast, replaces it with a symbiotic bug that gives him a steroid-like jolt, and seeks grisly revenge against any and all creatures that get in his way. To find his way out he must do battle with his arch-enemy Slitt, the only one who knows how to escape the hellscape they inhabit. Finally, CF is pitted against the very system that shaped him into the avatar of death and destruction he has become.
Author: Kate Ellis
Author: Kostas Myrsiades
Author: Johnny Ryan
Author: Jane Yolen
Author: Jane Yolen
Author: Frank Norris
Author: Kate Ellis
Author: Marly Youmans
Author: Johnny Ryan
Author: Kate Ellis