Download or read book A Christmas Vanishing written by Anne Perry and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2023-11-07 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charlotte Pitt’s clever grandmother investigates the sudden disappearance of her dear friend in this chilling holiday whodunit by New York Times bestselling author Anne Perry. Mariah Ellison, Charlotte Pitt’s grandmother, accepts her longtime friend Sadie’s gracious invitation to spend Christmas with her and her husband, Barton, in their picturesque village. But upon arrival, Mariah discovers that Sadie has vanished without a trace, and Barton rudely rescinds the invitation. Once Mariah finds another acquaintance to stay with during the holiday season, she begins investigating Sadie’s disappearance. Mariah’s uncanny knack for solving mysteries serves her well during her search, which is driven by gossip as icy as the December weather. Did Sadie run off with another man? Was she kidnapped? Has someone harmed her? Frustratingly, Mariah’s questions reveal more about the villagers themselves than about her friend’s whereabouts. Yet in the process of getting to know Sadie’s neighbors, Mariah finds a kind of redemption, as she rediscovers her kinder side, and her ability to love. It is up to Mariah to master her own feelings, drown out the noise, and get to the bottom of what occurred, all before Christmas day. With the holiday rapidly approaching, will she succeed in bringing Sadie home in time for them to celebrate it together—or is that too much to hope for?
Download or read book A Christmas Vanishing written by Anne Perry and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2023-11-07 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charlotte Pitt’s clever grandmother investigates the sudden disappearance of her dear friend in this chilling holiday whodunit by New York Times bestselling author Anne Perry. Mariah Ellison, Charlotte Pitt’s grandmother, accepts her longtime friend Sadie’s gracious invitation to spend Christmas with her and her husband, Barton, in their picturesque village. But upon arrival, Mariah discovers that Sadie has vanished without a trace, and Barton rudely rescinds the invitation. Once Mariah finds another acquaintance to stay with during the holiday season, she begins investigating Sadie’s disappearance. Mariah’s uncanny knack for solving mysteries serves her well during her search, which is driven by gossip as icy as the December weather. Did Sadie run off with another man? Was she kidnapped? Has someone harmed her? Frustratingly, Mariah’s questions reveal more about the villagers themselves than about her friend’s whereabouts. Yet in the process of getting to know Sadie’s neighbors, Mariah finds a kind of redemption, as she rediscovers her kinder side, and her ability to love. It is up to Mariah to master her own feelings, drown out the noise, and get to the bottom of what occurred, all before Christmas day. With the holiday rapidly approaching, will she succeed in bringing Sadie home in time for them to celebrate it together—or is that too much to hope for?
Download or read book A Christmas Vanishing written by Anne Perry and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2023-10-12 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times bestselling author Anne Perry's twenty-first heart-warming Christmas novella. When Mariah Ellison arrives in the picturesque village of St Helen's to spend the festive season with her old friend Sadie Alsop, she is shocked to discover that Sadie has vanished. Her husband has no idea where she has gone or when she will return but, thankfully, Mariah has other friends in the village who are willing to offer their hospitality. Once settled, she begins a rigorous search for Sadie that is fuelled by malicious gossip as harsh as the winter snow. Has Sadie run away? Has she been kidnapped? Has someone harmed her? And how long can she survive if she has no shelter from the bitterly cold weather? As Christmas Day approaches, Mariah is increasingly determined to solve the mystery of Sadie's disappearance and bring her home in time to celebrate Yuletide together . . .
Download or read book A Christmas Promise Christmas Novella 7 written by Anne Perry and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2013-08-01 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young girl is searching for the truth behind her uncle's death. Can she solve the mystery before the Christmas bells toll? Set in the Victorian world where Anne Perry reigns supreme, A Christmas Promise culminates in a radiant finale that will remain with you long after the final page is turned. Perfect for fans of C. J Sansom and Harriet Smart. '[Perry] writes with detail that invades the senses' - Lincoln Journal Star Three days before Christmas, in the freezing slums of London's East End, thirteen-year-old Gracie Phipps encounters Minnie Maude Mudway, who is only eight, alone, and determined to find her friend Charlie. However Charlie is no ordinary companion: He is a donkey who belonged to Minnie Maude's Uncle Alf. Gracie is shocked to learn that only the day before, someone brutally murdered Uncle Alf and made off with his rag-and-bones cart and the beloved beast who pulled it. Now, come hell or high water, Minnie Maude means to rescue Charlie-and Gracie decides to help. But the path that Uncle Alf had taken to his death was not his regular route, and in his cart were not just the usual bits of worn silver and china but also, the children are told, a dazzling golden box. What its contents may have been no one can say, for, like Charlie and the cart, it too has vanished. Uncertain where their four-legged friend may be, the children are drawn into an adult world far beyond their innocent imaginings. And in a shop gleaming with beautiful objects, they recruit an unexpected ally: Mr. Balthasar, who warns them that the shining prize may be just a Pandora's box of evil... What readers are saying about A Christmas Promise: 'You feel you are there in Victorian England with all the smells, sights and sounds that accompany the story-telling' 'Very atmospheric, entertaining, well written and just that bit different' 'Five stars'
Download or read book Five Christmas Mysteries written by Anne Perry and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2012-11-19 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anne Perry’s spellbinding Christmas novels combine mystery and intrigue with all the charm of Victorian England. From the dark and winding streets of London to the opulent and aristocratic estates of the surrounding countryside, these Yuletide tales are as enchanting as they are thrilling. Featuring a variety of colorful characters, including Henry Rathbone and Lady Vespasia Cumming-Gould, the five novels in this exclusive eBook bundle include A CHRISTMAS JOURNEY A CHRISTMAS VISITOR A CHRISTMAS GUEST A CHRISTMAS SECRET A CHRISTMAS BEGINNING “Perry’s Victorian-era holiday mysteries . . . are for many an annual treat.”—The Wall Street Journal
Download or read book A Christmas Deliverance written by Anne Perry and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2022-10-13 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times bestselling author Anne Perry's twentieth heart-warming Christmas mystery. The festive season is fast approaching, and Dr Crowe and his young apprentice Scuff are busy, as always, tending London's sick and wounded. This year, however, Crowe is increasingly distracted by memories of a former patient, Eliza Hollister, for whom he cared deeply. When Crowe sees Ellie being bullied by her domineering fiancé in the street, he is convinced that she is marrying a man she doesn't love, and he is determined to find out why. While Crowe starts his investigations, Scuff is left to run the clinic - with a little help from a rather unexpected source. Forced to enter a dangerous world of blackmail and deception, will Crowe manage to reveal the truth before the bells ring out for Christmas? A Christmas Deliverance is a heart-warming festive mystery set in Victorian London from the pen of the New York Times bestselling author Anne Perry.
Download or read book A Vanished Christmas written by Anne Gertrude Sneller and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 11 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Vanishing American Adult written by Ben Sasse and published by St. Martin's Griffin. This book was released on 2017-05-16 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER In an era of safe spaces, trigger warnings, and an unprecedented election, the country's youth are in crisis. Senator Ben Sasse warns the nation about the existential threat to America's future. Raised by well-meaning but overprotective parents and coddled by well-meaning but misbegotten government programs, America's youth are ill-equipped to survive in our highly-competitive global economy. Many of the coming-of-age rituals that have defined the American experience since the Founding: learning the value of working with your hands, leaving home to start a family, becoming economically self-reliant—are being delayed or skipped altogether. The statistics are daunting: 30% of college students drop out after the first year, and only 4 in 10 graduate. One in three 18-to-34 year-olds live with their parents. From these disparate phenomena: Nebraska Senator Ben Sasse who as president of a Midwestern college observed the trials of this generation up close, sees an existential threat to the American way of life. In The Vanishing American Adult, Sasse diagnoses the causes of a generation that can't grow up and offers a path for raising children to become active and engaged citizens. He identifies core formative experiences that all young people should pursue: hard work to appreciate the benefits of labor, travel to understand deprivation and want, the power of reading, the importance of nurturing your body—and explains how parents can encourage them. Our democracy depends on responsible, contributing adults to function properly—without them America falls prey to populist demagogues. A call to arms, The Vanishing American Adult will ignite a much-needed debate about the link between the way we're raising our children and the future of our country.
Download or read book Christmas Homecoming Secrets written by Lynette Eason and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2020-10-12 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A man from a detective’s past is back to help her solve a holiday murder case in this classic story, previously titled Holiday Homecoming Secrets (2019), from bestselling author Lynette Eason. A friend is missing and presumed dead, and detective Jade Hollis is determined to track down the killer. To do that she must team up with private investigator Bryce Kingsley—who doesn’t know he is the father of her child. But she’ll have to put personal secrets aside because the killer will strike again to keep the truth from being exposed.
Download or read book Silent Night written by Mary Higgins Clark and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1996-11 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Journeying with his parents to New York City at Christmastime, where his father is to have a life-saving operation, young Brian chases a pickpocket who has stolen his mother's wallet, which contains a St. Christopher medal. Reissue.
Download or read book A Christmas Revelation written by Anne Perry and published by Center Point. This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In this intriguing, uplifting holiday mystery from bestselling author Anne Perry, an orphan boy investigates a woman's kidnapping--and discovers there's more at stake than a disappearance"--
Download or read book Saving Christmas written by Thomas Johnson and published by . This book was released on 2021-03-28 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What would you do if your family vanished? On a frigid December day, sixty-six hours before Christmas, Aedan O'Beirne's wife, Ciara, and their five-year-old son disappear. Aedan discovers he has until the first second on Christmas day to find them, or he will lose his family forever. Set in Chicagoland, O'Beirne initiates a thrilling fast-paced struggle to find his family, while the minutes and hours tick by. His journey takes him to Chicago's Loop where he sets out on a frantic search for Ciara and Colin. Absorbing and suspenseful, SAVING CHRISTMAS launches readers into Aedan's surprise-filled world, as he reacts to each clue throughout his sixty-six-hour journey. His search transforms him in unexpected ways, as he strives to find his lost family before it is too late. His life will never be the same. Will Aedan find his lost family before it is too late?
Download or read book Blind Christmas written by Tanya R Taylor and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2022-01-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is going to be a Christmas they will never forget! The town of Chadsworth is filled to the brim with excitement for the upcoming Christmas season. Families, large and small, are wrapping gifts and doing last minute shopping, but one family is devastated over the disappearance of a loved one just days before Christmas. Twelve-year-old Tommy Anderson has a disability and his parents are worried sick, praying for his safe return. Is something sinister going on in Chadsworth or has Tommy simply wandered off on his own? Is there a kidnapper on the loose and should other residents watch their loved ones like a hawk this Christmas? This is bound to be one of the most puzzling and shocking mysteries that Lucille and Nilla will encounter. Another exciting installment in the five-star rated Lucille Pfiffer Mystery Series!
Download or read book Morris s Disappearing Bag written by Rosemary Wells and published by . This book was released on 1986-12-01 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christmas story.
Download or read book The Ghost of Christmas Past written by Rhys Bowen and published by Molly Murphy Mystery. This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Semi-retired private detective Molly Murphy Sullivan is suffering from depression after a miscarriage. She and her husband, Daniel, are invited for Christmas at a mansion on the Hudson, and they expect a peaceful and relaxing holiday season. When they arrive, however, they feel the tension in the house's atmosphere. Then they learn that the host couple's young daughter wandered out into the snow ten years ago and was never seen again. There is so little to go on: no ransom note, no body ever found. Molly begins to suspect that the occupants of the house know more than they are letting on. Then, on Christmas Eve, there is a knock at the door and a young girl stands there. 'I'm Charlotte, ' she says. 'I've come home."
Download or read book Gone Before Christmas written by Charles Finch and published by Minotaur Books. This book was released on 2017-10-03 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Gone Before Christmas, this delightfully absorbing short Christmas story in the bestselling Charles Lenox mystery series, Lenox must find a soldier who ran into a cloakroom for his hat—and never returned. Charles Lenox’s holiday preparations are interrupted when an officer vanishes at Charing Cross Station. Lieutenant Austen, by all accounts an upstanding member of the elite Grenadier Guards, disappears, and his friends, searching the cloakroom of the station where they had been waiting for their trains together, find only a spray of blood on the wall above a scattering of his personal items—his train ticket among them. Scotland Yard is baffled. Has the Lieutenant, who had a hand in intelligence, been kidnapped by French operatives? Or is there some more personal grudge at work? The situation grows graver by the hour, and Lenox knows that he will have to work quickly and brilliantly to have any chance of discovering the missing soldier—and getting home in time for his own Christmas dinner. Includes a sneak peek of The Woman In the Water, a prequel to the Charles Lenox series.
Download or read book What the Seven Did Or The Doings of the Wordsworth Club written by Margaret Sidney and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
