Download or read book Bingo Barge Murder written by Jessie Chandler and published by Llewellyn Worldwide. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shay O'Hanlon's life as co-owner of The Rabbit Hole, a quirky-cool Minneapolis coffee shop, is well caffeinated, but far from dangerous. All that changes when her lifelong friend Coop becomes a suspect in a murder case.

Download or read book Bingo Barge Murder written by Chandler and published by Train Wreck Xpress. This book was released on 2014-05-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shay O'Hanlon's life as co-owner of The Rabbit Hole, a quirky-cool Minneapolis coffee shop, is well caffeinated, but far from dangerous. All that changes when her lifelong friend Coop becomes a suspect in a murder case.

Download or read book Hide and Snake Murder written by Jessie Chandler and published by Llewellyn Worldwide. This book was released on 2012-06-08 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book two in the riotous caper series starring Shay O'Hanlon and her trouble-prone pals When Shay O'Hanlon's ill-mannered friend Baz steals a stuffed snake from a wealthy businessman, he wasn't expecting it to be filled with money. Nor was he expecting his aunt Agnes to take it with her on vacation to the Big Easy. With trigger-happy thugs in hot pursuit, Shay leads her friends on a rowdy rescue mission from Minneapolis to New Orleans and back. Along the way, a bungled burglary puts the gang in a drug cartel's cross hairs, and a beautiful professor offers the only way out. But can Shay and the gang trust her with their lives? Praise: "The entourage of loveable and multigenerational characters is just right for those looking for a madcap romp."—Library Journal "A rip-roaring sequel. Fans of comic cozies are in for a wild, enjoyable ride."—Publishers Weekly "Chandler follows up her Bingo Barge Murder with another tricky plot fully worthy of your suspension of disbelief."—Lavender Magazine "Fast paced and witty. It is peopled with wonderfully colorful characters, making it a strong second novel in the Shay O’Hanlon Caper series."—Lamda Literary "After reading her novels, I have come to believe Jessie Chandler is the illegitimate child of Raymond Chandler and Dorothy L. Sayers. She's funny—and she's good!"—Lori L. Lake, author of The Gun Series and The Public Eye Series "Wild and wacky Hide and Snake Murder will keep readers guessing all the way to a slam bang finale."—Carolyn Hart, New York Times bestselling author "Hide and Snake Murder takes us to the beginning and end of the Mississippi, New Orleans and Minneapolis, capturing the quirky charm of both cities. It's a rollicking read with an entertaining cast of funny and fascinating characters. You won't be able to turn the pages fast enough."—J.M. Redmann, author of The Goldie Award-winning novel Water Mark: A Micky Knight Mystery "Jessie Chandler makes me laugh. A talented storyteller with a deft hand at pacing, she writes rollicking, raucous adventures that are sure to entertain."—Julie Hyzy, bestselling author of The Manor Mysteries and White House Chef Mystery Series

Download or read book Pickle in the Middle Murder written by Jessie Chandler and published by Llewellyn Worldwide. This book was released on 2013-07-01 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Privy to Murder Shay O’Hanlon never knew the Minnesota Renaissance Festival was such a strange and bawdy event until JT Bordeaux—her badge-wearing, medieval-loving girlfriend—drags her along for a visit. The sixteenth-century faire is full of thrilling jousts, feisty wenches, and pickle vendors showing off their tasty tonsil ticklers, but Shay is distracted by the call of her full bladder. While trying to rein in her newest dog’s overactive nose, she finds a dead body with a pickle stuffed in his mouth. A real dead body. In the privy. And before Shay can shout “Huzzah!” JT is arrested for being the porta-potty body’s murderer. Together with her quirky crew of caper-solving pals, Shay must scramble for clues to free JT from the clink . . . and her troubled past.

Download or read book Chip Off the Ice Block Murder written by Jessie Chandler and published by Llewellyn Worldwide. This book was released on 2014-05-08 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's the dead of winter in Minnesota, and Shay O'Hanlon can't wait to close up her coffee shop and get out of town with her girlfriend, Minneapolis cop JT Bordeaux. But when she receives a call informing her that her dad is missing, Shay's plans for a romantic getaway are put on ice. Figuring her dad is on one of his periodic benders, Shay is shocked to learn that his gun has been used in a murder. With the dead man found in a giant ice cube unable to provide any answers, Shay and her quirky friends are bound and determined to find her father—and the real killer—before the trail turns cold. Praise: "Jessie Chandler's latest Shay O'Hanlon adventure is as sharp as a frigid winter day. A body in a block of ice meant for the Winter Carnival Ice Palace is just the beginning of this wild luge ride as Shay sorts through the clues to clear her father of murder. Like a luge, there are twists and turns throughout, but Jessie saves the bigest twist for (quite literally) the last few seconds. Highly recommended."—John Gaspard, author of The Eli Marks Mysteries

Download or read book Murder at the Bingo Hall written by Linda Pohl and published by . This book was released on 2021-11 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sunday night bingo at St. Andrew's Church, in the little village of Kenmore, New York, can be deadly. Priscilla Hatfield is filled with excitement when her number, I 17, appears on the bingo screen. But, when it's called, she grabs her chest and slumps over dead. Her two bingo buddies, Ethel Dinwiddie and Nellie Pearce, have good reason to believe she's been murdered. Fearing the police investigation is going no-where, these quirky amateur sleuths take matters into their own hands and vow to solve the case. Will these two feisty, bingo-dabbing seniors be able to solve the crime before they become the next victims?

Download or read book Quest for Redemption written by Jessie Chandler and published by Bella Books. This book was released on 2020-02-01 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Placed on a medical leave of absence from her job as a special agent in the National Protection and Investigation Unit, Mikala Flynn is a woman on the edge—guilt-ridden, depressed, battling war wounds and personal demons. The world and the relationships as she knew them no longer exist. Now, the streets of New York, the bottle, and anonymous sex have become her solace. In the midst of a fire escape bender, Flynn overhears her crazy-like-a-fox grandmother and her art-world cronies planning a daring theft of a valuable historical document. Eventually Flynn crashes the party and agrees to take on the heist herself. Along the way, Flynn runs into, both literally and figuratively, her now wheelchair-bound best friend, an alluring, mysterious thief who throws multiple wrenches into the works, and the ex-love of her life. Can Flynn pull off the job without falling victim to vodka and lost love…and somehow begin to find herself again along the way?

Download or read book Bingo King written by Robert Roehl and published by . This book was released on 2017-12-06 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When his former boss at the DA's office offers Henry Burkhart a job-"a little undercover work"-outside the official channels, he's grateful to get paid in cash and piqued by what sounds like the perfect fit for his particular skill-set-and, well, his disposition. But he can't hide his disenchantment when he's told that the criminal world he's supposed to infiltrate is the Colorado bingo industry. The fact that the only legal gambling allowed in the state does $300 million a year and is solely regulated by the notoriously inefficient yet flamboyant Secretary of State does little to boost his rock-bottom expectations. Church raffles, pep club fund raisers, the Loyal Order of the Moose, and Catholic school basement gatherings, what could possibly happen? And after three weeks on the job at Clancy's Bingo City, the low-rent version of the American melting pot peopling the room in front of him does little to inspire his thoughts from the absurd. But when three men in black wearing masks and welding shotguns burst into the middle of a game and attempt to hold a hundred-plus hostages while they pilfer the office safe, Henry is inspired to new heights of ingenuity as he comes to the rescue: he throws the main breaker switch plummeting the entire room in darkness and chaos. While this works out better than more judicious minds might predict, it also ramps up the rivalries between the two main bingo operators in the metro area. These antics unfold at the level you might expect of a Godfather prequel: a small-scale mock gang war with drive by shots-across-the-bow, loud-mouth shouting matches, and rival advertising smear campaigns that conversely result in boosting attendance. But when it eventually escalates to the point of arson, and Bingo City is burnt to the ground, the next round of retaliation turns to murder. The more Henry digs and the further he worms his way into a position of trust among this oddball clique of egocentric nerds, Tammy Faye lookalikes, and gun happy speed freaks, the more convinced he becomes that there is, indeed, a 'bingo mafia'. And the closer he gets to Frank Coyne, the man who has the cheek to call himself the King of Bingo on the basis of a mastery of high school arithmetic and a disregard for misdemeanor tax law, the more he has to admit that this smug and nerdy halfwit actually could be a master of deception and manipulator of lives. But as Henry closes in on the true culprit of the murders he is yet again blindsided by the discovery that it's among the women in the family, role-playing as complaisant and behind the throne, who are the most deadly and deceptive. It is bingo noir at its hinkiest and it's going to take dumb luck, a little romance, and a good deal of help from his friends for Henry to finally uncover the deadliest among them.

Download or read book The Bingo Hall Detectives written by Jonathan Whitelaw and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2022-04-14 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eyes down to find a killer who’s playing to win...

Download or read book Blood Money Murder written by Jessie Chandler and published by Bella Books. This book was released on 2016-06-01 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Secrets. It all begins with secrets. A long-held secret is about to implode with potentially catastrophic results. It’s St. Paddy’s Day, and Shay O’Hanlon is finishing her shift at the Rabbit Hole, anticipating the grand reopening of her father’s bar, the Leprechaun. Two suspicious-looking strangers show up at the Hole demanding to speak to Eddy Quartermaine, the closest person Shay has to a mother. That visit sparks a firestorm spanning twenty-five years in a deadly mix of love gone wrong, stolen money, murder, and betrayal. Will Shay and her sister Lisa pay the ultimate price for Eddy’s sins, or will Eddy confront her twenty-five year secret head-on before time runs out? “Blood Money Murder is fast-paced and skilled—and the ending comes all too soon.” -Lee Lynch, award-winning author of An American Queer

Download or read book Songs of My Families written by Kelly Fern and published by Lantern Books. This book was released on 2012 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1971, Lee Myonghi, aged five, was taken from her family and placed in a Korean orphanage. Six months later, she was flown to the United States, where she and two other Korean girls were adopted by a Minnesota couple. They renamed her Kelly Jean. Eleven years later, Kelly found herself at the doorstep of a Minnesota agency, although this time as a teen mother giving her own child up for adoption. Kelly later married and had two more children. Then, in 2007, Kelly's husband found her original, Korean family, and so began a journey that reunited Kelly with the family whom she thought had abandoned her, and brought her face to face with the daughter she herself had lost twenty-five years before. Told with refreshing honesty, Songs of My Families is a moving story of two generations of women forced to make agonizing choices as they coped with harsh economic realities and personal crises. It is also an affirmation of the strength of family, the importance of one's cultural heritage, and the enduring power of love.

Download or read book The Vanished Man written by Jeffery Deaver and published by Simon & Schuster. This book was released on 2019-10-08 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SOON TO BE A MAJOR TELEVISION EVENT FROM NBC, STARRING RUSSELL HORNSBY, ARIELLE KEBBEL, AND MICHAEL IMPERIOLI. From New York Times bestselling author Jeffery Deaver—Lincoln Rhyme and Amelia Sachs must track a brilliant illusionist and escape artist whose masterful magician’s tricks are matched only by his ruthless murders. Forensics expert Lincoln Rhyme is called in to work the high-profile investigation of a killer who seemingly disappeared into thin air just as the NYPD closed in. As the homicidal illusionist baits him with grisly murders that grow more diabolical with each victim, Rhyme and his protégée, Amelia Sachs, must go behind the smoke and mirrors to prevent a horrific act of vengeance that could become the greatest vanishing act of all…

Download or read book The Pocket Wife written by Susan Crawford and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2015-03-17 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dana Catrell wakes from a drunken stupor in time to see an ambulance pull into her neighbour's house a few doors down. Celia Steinhauser has been murdered. But Dana was at her house only a few hours ago. Celia wanted to show her a photo - a photo of Dana's husband with another woman - and Dana has blank spots of what happened to the rest of the afternoon . . . This is a thriller that makes the reader question everything. Dana, we learn, has a history of mental illness and as she descends into another manic episode, the line between what actually happened and what she has imagined becomes blurred. A gripping domestic psychological thriller for fans of ASA Harrison's The Silent Wife and Sabine Durrant's Under Your Skin, The Pocket Wife will stay with you - as all good thrillers do - long after you've finished it.

Download or read book Talking to Strangers written by Malcolm Gladwell and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2019-09-10 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Malcolm Gladwell, host of the podcast Revisionist History and author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Outliers, offers a powerful examination of our interactions with strangers and why they often go wrong—now with a new afterword by the author. A Best Book of the Year: The Financial Times, Bloomberg, Chicago Tribune, and Detroit Free Press How did Fidel Castro fool the CIA for a generation? Why did Neville Chamberlain think he could trust Adolf Hitler? Why are campus sexual assaults on the rise? Do television sitcoms teach us something about the way we relate to one another that isn’t true? Talking to Strangers is a classically Gladwellian intellectual adventure, a challenging and controversial excursion through history, psychology, and scandals taken straight from the news. He revisits the deceptions of Bernie Madoff, the trial of Amanda Knox, the suicide of Sylvia Plath, the Jerry Sandusky pedophilia scandal at Penn State University, and the death of Sandra Bland—throwing our understanding of these and other stories into doubt. Something is very wrong, Gladwell argues, with the tools and strategies we use to make sense of people we don’t know. And because we don’t know how to talk to strangers, we are inviting conflict and misunderstanding in ways that have a profound effect on our lives and our world. In his first book since his #1 bestseller David and Goliath, Malcolm Gladwell has written a gripping guidebook for troubled times.

Download or read book Best Friend written by R L Stine and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-10-01 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fear Street - Where your worst nightmare lives... It's great to have a best friend. But what happens when the friend becomes a stalker? Becka feels like she's being stalked by Honey, who is telling everyone at Shadyside High that she's Becka's best friend. Soon, Honey moves in on Becka's life… in every way imaginable. And it seems that Honey won't stop until Becka is gone… for good!

Download or read book The Grass Crown written by Colleen McCullough and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2020-04-07 with total page 1152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times bestselling author Colleen McCullough returns us to an age of magnificent triumphs, volcanic passions, and barbaric cruelties. Throughout the Western world, great kingdoms have fallen and despots lay crushed beneath the heels of Rome's advancing legions. But now internal rebellion threatens the stability of the mighty Republic. An aging, ailing Gaius Marius, heralded conqueror of Germany and Numidia, longs for that which was prophesied many years before: an unprecedented seventh consulship of Rome. It is a prize to be won only through treachery and with blood, pitting Marius against a new generation of assassins, power-seekers, and Senate intriguers—and setting him at odds with the ambitious, tormented Lucius Cornelius Sulla, once Marius's most trusted right-hand man, now his most dangerous rival.

Download or read book Blink written by Malcolm Gladwell and published by Back Bay Books. This book was released on 2007-04-03 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the #1 bestselling author of The Bomber Mafia, the landmark book that has revolutionized the way we understand leadership and decision making. In his breakthrough bestseller The Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell redefined how we understand the world around us. Now, in Blink, he revolutionizes the way we understand the world within. Blink is a book about how we think without thinking, about choices that seem to be made in an instant--in the blink of an eye--that actually aren't as simple as they seem. Why are some people brilliant decision makers, while others are consistently inept? Why do some people follow their instincts and win, while others end up stumbling into error? How do our brains really work--in the office, in the classroom, in the kitchen, and in the bedroom? And why are the best decisions often those that are impossible to explain to others? In Blink we meet the psychologist who has learned to predict whether a marriage will last, based on a few minutes of observing a couple; the tennis coach who knows when a player will double-fault before the racket even makes contact with the ball; the antiquities experts who recognize a fake at a glance. Here, too, are great failures of "blink": the election of Warren Harding; "New Coke"; and the shooting of Amadou Diallo by police. Blink reveals that great decision makers aren't those who process the most information or spend the most time deliberating, but those who have perfected the art of "thin-slicing"--filtering the very few factors that matter from an overwhelming number of variables.