Download or read book A Bet Turned Deadly written by Alice Zogg and published by eBookIt.com. This book was released on 2014-09-26 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jacob Barrstein and his friend James Eaton have a $1000 bet going. James claims that a group of 21st Century people cannot last a week without smartphones, computers, tablets, GPS's etc., while Jacob aims to prove him wrong. They organize a camping trip with 12 people up in the Angeles National Forest Mountains, allowing no electronic devices. When they suffer severe hardship and are stranded on the mountain with no way out, Jacob goes for help on foot and never returns. Six months after his disappearance, hikers stumble onto his remains, and the case changes from a missing person's file to a full-blown police investigation. Once events are brought to the surface, another member of the group is killed. The unexpected ending of A BET TURNED DEADLY is something the reader will not easily forget.
Download or read book A Lethal Joke written by Alice Zogg and published by eBookIt.com. This book was released on 2023-08-16 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The late Norma Davenport was an eccentric who poked a bit of fun at her heirs with her unconventional last will and testament of "finders keepers." She managed to send her family members on a scavenger hunt for jewelry throughout her estate in artsy, high-end Laguna Beach. The bulk of her assets, however, was not immediately revealed, leaving the family in turmoil. Although Norma meant no harm with her joke, it provoked two murders, which baffled Lieutenant Krop, the detective in charge of the investigation. Then he happened to overhear a fragment of a conversation by two strangers and he thought there might be a very different motive in this case.
Download or read book When Greed Turns Deadly written by Dixie Murphy and published by eBookIt.com. This book was released on 2012-07-10 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The two women found dead in their beds had been executed. There was no robbery, no sexual motivation. The satanic writings and red candles found at the scene had been staged to throw investigators off track. The killer, or killers, just wanted the women dead! One of them, Betty Lou Gray, had been the primary target, while the other, a close friend, had simply been in the wrong place at the wrong time. From the beginning, the prime suspect had been Betty Lou's husband Bill. A dominating and controlling husband, he had kept his wife penniless and almost in bondage for 28 years until, finally, she'd had enough and asked for a divorce. The obvious motivation was money, a $250,000 life insurance policy, and with his wife dead there would be no splitting of assets in a divorce settlement. If he could succeed in hiding the insurance money and the pawnshop assets from his children, Bill Gray would become a rich man. It seemed an open and shut case, but it was not to be. In this true story, Dixie Murphy follows a trail of suspicion and intrigue, and reveals the virtually unprecedented means used to finally bring a murderer to justice.
Download or read book Accidental Eyewitness written by Alice Zogg and published by eBookIt.com. This book was released on 2017-09-29 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kurt Nobel, known as "The Real Estate King," invites a mixture of odd guests to his mansion on the Isle of Ease for a week of snorkeling, scuba diving, deep-sea fishing, and general fun in the sun. The occasion is to celebrate the millionaire's recent marriage to his new young wife, singer Barbie. But all is not pure pleasure and merriment on the tropical island. One person plans an intriguing way to commit murder, and may get away with it, if not for the fortuitous eyewitness, eight-year-old Evie Frederique.
Download or read book A Bad Apple written by Alice Zogg and published by eBookIt.com. This book was released on 2021-10-25 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The pandemic changed everything, so catching a killer will require new methods after Cecile Long-Horton is found strangled in her doorway and Lt. Claudia Campbell with the Monrovia City Police has to use modern technology to discover the murderer. Cecile was CEO of a small company. Her two sons and daughter worked for her. Right before she was killed she mentioned at a board meeting that there was a bad apple in their midst. Unfortunately, each of her children has a secret. So do a few others who were close to Cecile. But which one has the most to gain? And can Lt. Campbell unmask the killer using a computer screen and her skill as a detective?
Download or read book EXPOSING THE PAST written by Alice Zogg and published by eBookIt.com. This book was released on 2020-08-13 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What do you do when you meet someone who looks just like you? Sherry Rinaldi and her husband were on a vacation on Maui, Hawaii when she happened to see the reflection of another woman in a mirror who had her face. What else did they have in common? Returning to her home in California, Sherry does a little research, even though her husband tells her it might not be a good idea. Despite the warning, she tracks down her look-a-like and soon discovers there are things buried in both their lives that are deadly. A murder from forty years ago triggers another death as the truth slowly comes to the surface. This will change everybody's life.
Download or read book DoubleBlind A Case of Mistaken Identity Turns Deadly written by Libby Fischer Hellmann and published by The Red Herrings Press. This book was released on 2022-03-08 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Doubleblind is #6 in the Georgia Davis PI Series. With little work during the pandemic, Chicago PI Georgia Davis agrees to help the best friend of fellow sleuth, Ellie Foreman. Susan Siler’s aunt died suddenly after her Covid booster, and Susan’s distraught mother wants the death investigated. However, Georgia’s investigation is interrupted by a family trip to Nauvoo, Illinois, the one-time Mormon heartland. It’s there that her life unexpectedly intersects with the runaway spouse of a Mormon Fundamentalist. " Terrific scenes with Georgia's family and boyfriend add depth and layers to a memorable cast of characters." BookReporter Back in Evanston, after Georgia is almost killed by a hit and run driver, she discovers that she and the escaped woman look remarkably alike. Is someone trying to kill Georgia because of her death investigation? Or is it a case of mistaken identity? And how can Georgia find her doppelganger before whoever wants them both dead tries again? "Combining an up-to-the-minute tale of crime in the COVID era with fundamentalist Mormon noir (there's a phrase I never thought I'd find myself using!), Hellmann has put together an engrossing story that will appeal to her regular readers and win her new ones." Deadly Pleasures Magazine If you like Tess Gerritsen, Karin Slaughter, and Lisa Gardener, you'll love Libby Hellmann's Compulsively Readable Thrillers.
Download or read book Evil At Shore Haven written by Alice Zogg and published by eBookIt.com. This book was released on 2016-09-20 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Private investigator Andi is hired to look into the drowning accident of Kitty Ralph at Shore Haven. She sweet-talks R. A. Huber into coming out of retirement and reside undercover at the upscale senior community near the Ventura pier. Huber uncovers other suspicious deaths at the place. Only when Andi rides to Reno and Salt Lake City on her Harley-Davidson to interview relatives of recent victims, does the motive for the crime make sense. Andi and Huber confront the villain and barely escape being silenced.
Download or read book A DOOMED REUNION written by Alice Zogg and published by eBookIt.com. This book was released on 2024-07-20 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: People with old school ties attend a 30th high school reunion and are shocked to hear one of the attendees say he knows who murdered a classmate years earlier. That knowledge gets him killed. Can Detective Scharfkopf with the San Diego County Sheriff's Department piece together what happened back then in order to catch the person who has lived with this secret all these years before another body is added to the list?
Download or read book Betting Hearts written by Dee Tenorio and published by Dee Tenorio. This book was released on 2013-12-13 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cassandra Bishop’s boyfriend is back. And this time, it’s war. Hardcore tomboy Cass had thought she’d seen the last of her miserable excuse for an ex when he left her at the altar. But he’s come back to their hometown, new “perfect” fiancee in tow, determined to show the world Cass was never woman enough for him. Never one to turn away from a fight, Cass is willing to do whatever it takes to prove to everyone—including herself—that she’s more woman than they can handle. The only problem…she has no idea where to start! Burke Hallifax’s worst nightmare has somehow come true. His best friend wants him to see her as a real female, something Burke has spent a lifetime specifically avoiding. On the other hand, he’s also spent years getting rid of the no-good, worthless, faithless waste of space that was her high school sweetheart. The last thing he’s willing to do is watch Cass turn herself inside out again for a jerk who wasn’t worth her spit, which means going all-in to help Cass win her bet, even if it means seeing her in a whole new light. Anything to keep her from falling back in love with the wrong guy… Now the entire town is betting as well—on whether Burke and Cass can pull off the makeover of the century…without falling in love. Book One of the Rancho del Cielo Romance series—now with a brand new epilogue!
Download or read book The Deadly Bet written by Walter LaFeber and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2005 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lyndon Johnson made a life or death bet during his Presidential term, and lost. Intent upon fighting an extended war against a determined foe, he gambled that American society could also endure a vast array of domestic reforms. The result was the turmoil of the 1968 presidential election--a crisis more severe than any since the Civil War. With thousands killed in Vietnam, hundreds dead in civil rights riots, televised chaos at the Democratic National Convention, and two major assassinations, Americans responded by voting for the law and order message of Richard Nixon. In The Deadly Bet, distinguished historian Walter LaFeber explores the turbulent election of 1968 and its significance in the larger context of American history. Looking through the eyes of the year's most important players--including Robert F. Kennedy, Eugene McCarthy, Martin Luther King, Hubert Humphrey, Richard Nixon, George Wallace, Nguyen Van Thieu, and Lyndon Johnson--LaFeber argues that the domestic upheaval had more impact on the election than the war in Vietnam. Clear, concise, and engaging, this work sheds important light on the crucial year of 1968.
Download or read book Deadly Dozen written by Robert K. DeArment and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2012-11-27 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Think gunfighter, and Wyatt Earp or Billy the Kid may come to mind, but what of Jim Moon? Joel Fowler? Zack Light? A host of other figures helped forge the gunfighter persona, but their stories have been lost to time. In a sequel to his Deadly Dozen, celebrated western historian Robert K. DeArment now offers more biographical portraits of lesser-known gunfighters—men who perhaps weren’t glorified in legend or song, but who were rightfully notorious in their day. DeArment has tracked down stories of gunmen from throughout the West—characters you won’t find in any of today’s western history encyclopedias but whose careers are colorfully described here. Photos of the men and telling quotations from primary sources make these characters come alive. In giving these men their due, DeArment takes readers back to the gunfighter culture spawned in part by the upheavals of the Civil War, to a time when deadly duels were part of the social fabric of frontier towns and the Code of the West was real. His vignettes offer telling insights into conditions on the frontier that created the gunfighters of legend. These overlooked shooters never won national headlines but made their own contributions to the blood and thunder of the Old West: people less than legends, but all the more fascinating because they were real. Readers who enjoyed DeArment’s Deadly Dozen will find this book equally captivating—as gripping as a showdown, twelve times over.
Download or read book Robert F Kennedy and the 1968 Indiana Primary written by Ray E. Boomhower and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2008-02-11 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On April 4, 1968, Senator Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., arrived in Indiana to campaign for the Indiana Democratic presidential primary. As Kennedy prepared to fly from an appearance in Muncie to Indianapolis, he learned that civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., had been shot outside his hotel in Memphis, Tennessee. Before his plane landed in Indianapolis, Kennedy heard the news that King had died. Despite warnings from Indianapolis police that they could not guarantee his safety, and brushing off concerns from his own staff, Kennedy decided to proceed with plans to address an outdoor rally to be held in the heart of the city's African American community. On that cold and windy evening, Kennedy broke the news of King's death in an impassioned, extemporaneous speech on the need for compassion in the face of violence. It has proven to be one of the great speeches in American political history. Marking the 40th anniversary of Kennedy's Indianapolis speech, this book explains what brought the politician to Indiana that day, and explores the characters and events of the 1968 Indiana Democratic presidential primary in which Kennedy, who was an underdog, had a decisive victory.
Download or read book Mooncake Man written by John R. Fischer and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2012-05-31 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Look Kid, said Al, the local CIA operative. What did you expect to happen, you guys came out of nowhere. some little courier company called DHL after three guys no one ever heard of. Hell for awhile we thought you were one of us. Vina, God Im crazy about her, I would give up all the whores in Patpong just to be with her. We never called it bribery, that was a word used by western cultures. We simply took care of people that took care of us. Seduced by money, booze and dangerous women, this young American becomes like the very people he despises. His life spirals out of control into strange adventures, war and romance.
Download or read book A Good Man written by Farran V. Hank Helmick and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2011-12-20 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The so-called fast gun slingers from the Wicked Wild West could have picked up some pointers from their peers in Pikeville and the Tug River areas of 1876 Kentucky and their West Virginia neighbors in Huntington and nearby Buff alo Creek. Young men in this era could draw a pistol and hit a fifty cent piece twice and reholster their weapon; the bystanders would swear the shooter had never moved. Their babies teethed on their pappys .44-40s and stood up for the first time pulling themselves upright on their eight-year old brothers hunting rifles. Matthew OShannon and his Cherokee blood brother Jon Ridge are dragged into a feud that leaves Matts grandfather and parents murdered. When they defend themselves, they are slandered and labeled by their neighbors as murderers and killers. To avoid the feud, Matt, his brother Byron, and his Cherokee Indian friend Jon Ridge plan to relocate in Colorado and New Mexico and breed horses. They leave by train with forty breeding horses and find themselves thrown shooting and fighting into another deadly feud with Cotton Brands clan, a notorious feuding Texan family. Its action from cover to cover with twists and turns in the plot that will delight the avid reader of Western Historical Fiction.
Download or read book One Deadly Sister written by Rod Hoisington and published by Rod Hoisington. This book was released on 2010-10-27 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An almost-too-clever young law student in Philadelphia gets a life-or-death call from her estranged brother who just moved to Florida--she tells him to go to hell. She doesn't need this. She's holding an old grudge and resents having her life interrupted.The brother doesn't come looking for trouble, he simply wants to get past his Philadelphia divorce and start a new life in Florida, but woman-trouble comes looking for him. Unfortunately, he arrives in the small Florida ocean side town just as someone murders the local gubernatorial candidate. The brother doesn't have a clue about women and gets seduced and framed.The brother hasn't bothered with his estranged sister up north for years, but now as a stranger in a hostile town she's his only hope. She reluctantly decides to at least check out her brother's predicament in Florida.This small step leads the sister into an ever-increasing entanglement of deceit, double-cross, and danger, as she can't leave well-enough alone and goes after the real killer in this fast-paced mystery. The first book in the Sandy Reid mystery series. THE PRICE OF CANDY is the second, and SUCH WICKED FRIENDS is the third.
Download or read book The Divine Ones Dangerous Love written by Elizabeth Moore and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2013-05-16 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jezebel is the daughter of the vampire king at the Court of Eclipse. The kingdom is located in the mountains of North Carolina where it has been hidden away for hundreds of years. Jezebel is about to marry the man of her dreams, a werewolf of the court, then take the throne. Her world is destroyed along with her dreams as she is betrayed by someone she loves. Cole is a human slave to the court, docile and angry from the death of his mother and sister. He is taking care of the horses in the stables when she is swept up into Jezebels world where deceit and a plot for the throne might take down the whole kingdom. The two are drawn closer together as they face peril, uncover secrets and risk their lives all in the hopes of saving the kingdom.
