Download or read book Extracurricular Murder written by Kent Conwell and published by Thomas & Mercer. This book was released on 2006 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In order to secure an eight-million-dollar insurance claim for Frances Holderman, all Tony Boudreaux had to do was prove to Universal Life Insurance Company that his client was not responsible for the death of her husband, a local school district superintendent. What should have been a simple matter of confirming her alibi exploded in his face, leading Tony into a maze of suspects, each of which had his own reasons for murdering the superintendent; a tangle of faculty indiscretions, and the hidden world of high school drugs. To further complicate the investigation, Tony's nephew, Stewart Thibodeaux, breezed into Austin with lofty dreams of becoming a drug lord, only to wind up on the wrong end of an executioner's bullet.
Download or read book Extracurricular Activities written by Maggie Barbieri and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2007-11-27 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: College English professor Alison Bergeron links up with NYPD Homicide Detective Bobby Crawford to save her own skin in this delightful follow-up to "Murder 101."
Download or read book Extra Credit written by Andrew Clements and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-03-13 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It isn’t that Abby Carson can’t do her schoolwork. She just doesn’t like doing it. And in February a warning letter arrives at her home. Abby will have to repeat sixth grade—unless she meets some specific conditions, including taking on an extra-credit project to find a pen pal in a distant country. Seems simple enough. But when Abby’s first letter arrives at a small school in Afghanistan, the village elders agree that any letters going back to America must be written well. In English. And the only qualified student is a boy, Sadeed Bayat. Except in this village, it is not proper for a boy to correspond with a girl. So Sadeed’s younger sister will write the letters. Except she knows hardly any English. So Sadeed must write the letters. For his sister to sign. But what about the villagers who believe that girls should not be anywhere near a school? And what about those who believe that any contact with Americans is . . . unhealthy? Not so simple. But as letters flow back and forth—between the prairies of Illinois and the mountains of central Asia, across cultural and religious divides, through the minefields of different lifestyles and traditions—a small group of children begin to speak and listen to one another. And in just a few short weeks, they make important discoveries about their communities, about their world, and most of all, about themselves.
Download or read book Murder Takes the High Road written by Josh Lanyon and published by Carina Press. This book was released on 2018-04-23 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a mystery fan’s holiday in Scotland turns deadly, he begins to suspect an enigmatic fellow traveler in this M/M romantic suspense novel. Librarian Carter Matheson is determined to enjoy himself on a Scottish bus tour for fans of mystery author Dame Vanessa Rayburn. Sure, his ex-boyfriend will be on the trip with his new boyfriend. And sure, that leaves Carter sharing a room with a stranger. But he can’t pass up a chance to meet his favorite author. Carter’s roommate turns out to be John Knight, a figure as mysterious as any character from Vanessa’s books. His strange affect and nighttime wanderings make Carter suspicious. When a fellow traveler’s death sparks rumors of foul play, Carter is left wondering if there’s anyone on the tour he can trust. Drawn into the intrigue, Carter searches for answers, trying to fend off his growing attraction toward John. But as unexplained tragedies continue, the whole tour must face the fact that there may be a murderer in their midst—but who?
Download or read book Extra Credit written by Maggie Barbieri and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2012-12-11 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alison Bergeron has her doubts about hosting a birthday party for her twin stepdaughters, seeing as it'll include all of her new husband's ex-in-laws. Still, she's a good sport, and everyone has a great time, especially the girls, who receive $10,000 from their estranged uncle, Chick. The girls' father, NYPD Detective Bobby Crawford, and Christine, his ex, think the gift is too much. When Crawford swings by Chick's apartment to return it, he finds Chick dead, with roughly $250,000 stuffed in his mattress. The death is ruled a suicide, but Christine isn't convinced, and even Alison can't help but admit that there must be a lot more to Chick's death than meets the eye. Extra Credit, the latest in Maggie Barbieri's stellar Murder 101 series, finds Alison and Bobby delving into family secrets they'd both rather leave untouched.
Download or read book Fountain of Death written by Jane Haddam and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2013-03-05 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As New Year’s approaches, a former FBI investigator—“the Armenian-American Poirot”—resolves to find the killer of a Connecticut exercise guru (Kirkus Reviews). After twenty years in California, Frannie Jay—formerly Frances Jakumbowski—returns to her home turf: New Haven, Connecticut, a university town that has become rife with crime. The depressed aerobics instructor hopes to find new life at the Fountain of Youth—a workout studio whose weight trainer, Tim Bradbury, is the best in the business. But Frannie’s fresh start turns sour just before New Year’s, when she finds Bradbury in the bushes outside the studio, stark naked and stone dead. Former FBI investigator Gregor Demarkian comes to New Haven to assist the local police. Bradbury died of arsenic poisoning—a fate no amount of exercise can stave off—and any instructor and client in the studio could have killed him. Demarkian’s body may not be rock hard, but his mind is sharp, and he will see to it that the next weights the killer lifts will be in the prison yard.
Download or read book Feast of Murder written by Jane Haddam and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-01-14 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A former FBI agent gets entangled in a financial mogul’s murder in this “superior” whodunit series (Publishers Weekly). Once one of Wall Street’s most powerful forces, Donald McAdam’s life changed when he found himself in a tight spot with the SEC. Either give up everything, they told him, or inform on your friends. Never one for loyalty, McAdam chose the wire, and sent half the stockbrokers in New York to prison. Now he’s filthy rich, isolated, and so paranoid that he buys his cocaine laced with strychnine, in hopes of building up a tolerance for the poison. His caution doesn’t help him, however, when he tumbles off his high-rise balcony and falls headfirst back down to Wall Street. Soon afterward, one of the men McAdam put away invites ex–FBI investigator Gregor Demarkian on a very peculiar cruise—onboard a cramped precise replica of the Mayflower. But when the behavior of the passengers proves rather un-Puritan, Demarkian discovers something that would have shocked Columbus: a New World murder.
Download or read book The Haunting of D I Stone written by Brian Astwood and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2016-01-11 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A troubled Vietnam Vet, Vince Stone hooked on dope and booze wages war against his P.T.S.D. He joined the army to escape his dysfunctional family but discovered returning home on furlough that the anti-war movement has turned his home into a bitter, hostile and cold place. To make matters worse, Vince cannot seem to abate the nightmares from Vietnam; his buddies' deaths relived night after night, and the only outlet is through substance abuse. The war has ravaged Vince from the inside out and his mood swings were impossible to control. After the death of Gonzales, Vince is forced into a black ops situation and certain death, when he convinces his new wife, with a secret past to go A.W.O.L to Canada. Frozen and near death they witness a miracle in the form of Duffy. Finally, they find refuge with a hippie commune deep in the Canadian woods, but the F.B.I., are hot on their trail thanks to his wife. Chance is born in a mountain man's cabin where they have complete privacy, then after an escape from a ravenous wolf pack Vince is finally cornered in a Vancouver park by the F.B.I. to face desertion charges. He then escapes into an amnesty program where his world, in an instant, is shattered and destroyed. After many years of absence, Vince and Chance, now a teenager, finally reunite by the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
Download or read book Baker s Deadly Dozen written by L. J. Washburn and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Going back to school can be a killer!Phyllis Newsom and Sam Fletcher come out of retirement to take substitute teacher jobs as a favor for some friends, but they soon realize that the more things change, the more they stay the same. That means getting up early, dealing with students and other teachers, and helping out with extracurricular activities. The problem is, for Phyllis, stumbling over dead bodies is an extracurricular activity! When murder strikes at the school's Friday the Thirteenth dance, it's unlucky not only for the victim but also for the student who's the prime suspect. Sam's granddaughter has a crush on the boy and can't believe he's a killer. Neither can Phyllis. The police are convinced, though, so the only way Phyllis can help him is to uncover the true identity of the killer stalking the halls of the high school before it's too late!
Download or read book Murder 101 written by Maggie Barbieri and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2006-10-31 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When her stolen car turns up with the body of one of her students in its trunk, English professor Alison Bergeron suddenly finds herself on NYPD Homicide Detective Bobby Crawford's list of suspects and embarks on a quest to clear her name.
Download or read book Murder Unpunished written by Thornton W. Price and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In November of 1977, Terry Lee Farmer, a white inmate at Arizona State Prison in Florence, walked up to black prisoner Waymond Small in front of sixty witnesses and stabbed him in the heart with a shank. Small had agreed to testify before the state legislature about gang violence inside Arizona State Prison and was murdered the day before his scheduled appearance. This murder proved the catalyst for an all-out war between the State of Arizona and the Aryan Brotherhood. Through five trials, Farmer claimed self-defense and the jurors acquitted all ten of his co-conspirators. Thornton Price, one of the defense attorneys, now tells how Farmer and Small became cannon fodder in this war to reclaim ArizonaÕs prisons from rival gangs. These gangsÑthe Aryan Brotherhood, the Mau Maus, and the Mexican MafiaÑwere suspected of committing more than a dozen murders over the previous two years, motivating politicians to crack down after the violence could no longer be ignored or contained. To reconstruct the case, Price reviewed 16,000 pages of court records and conducted interviews with key participants to piece together an insiderÕs account of the crime and the politics behind its investigation. Prison murders should be easy to solve, but investigators quickly learned that the convictsÕ code of silence makes these cases often impossible to win in court. Price focuses on the special problems posed by prison crime by getting inside the skins of men like murderer Terry "Crazy" Farmer and William "Red Dog" Howard, one of the Florence Eleven and a founder of the Aryan Brotherhood. He also presents the perspectives of state investigators and reveals how they calculated to pit black witnesses against white killers until one black would break the code of silence and provoke feuding within the Brotherhood. Murder Unpunished tells how societyÕs most outrageous criminals ran the prison through gang violence as outside the walls Arizona struggled to outgrow its Wild West past. Like few other books, it reveals how prisons incubate predatory criminals and gangs, and it exposes the unique difficulties of prosecuting prison crimes. It is a gripping account that cuts to the heart of our penal system and a cautionary tale for citizens who prefer to keep prisons out of sight, out of mind.
Download or read book Quoth the Raven written by Jane Haddam and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2013-03-05 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As college students get dressed up for Halloween, ex-FBI agent Gregor Demarkian must catch a real campus ghoul before another faculty member is murdered. Since Father Tibor Kasparian escaped the Soviet Union, he has done his best to keep his philosophy to himself—not out of fear, but because he knows that few people could stomach an honest account of life under Stalinism. When he gets an invitation to spend a semester teaching philosophy at Independence College, Kasparian hesitates, but his friend Gregor Demarkian, a former FBI investigator, convinces him to accept. They will both wish he had decided to stay away. At Independence, Halloween is the biggest party of the year—it’s also the anniversary of the day that the school’s colonial founders pledged themselves to the American Revolution. As the students prepare to burn an effigy of King George, the hated professor Donegal Steele vanishes, and his secretary turns up dead. To keep his old friend from becoming the next victim, Demarkian will have to do his homework.
Download or read book Baker s Deadly Dozen written by Livia J. Washburn and published by Wheeler Publishing, Incorporated. This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Fresh-Baked MysteryPhyllis Newsom and Sam Fletcher come out of retirement to works as substitute teachers as a favor for friends. That means getting up early, dealing with students and teachers, and helping out with extracurricular activities. But for Phyllis, stumbling over dead bodies is an extracurricular activity! When murder strikes at the school's Friday the Thirteenth dance, it's unlucky for the victim and for the student who's the prime suspect. Sam's granddaughter has a crush on the boy, and can't believe he's a killer. Neither can Phyllis.
Download or read book The Road to Nowhere written by Lee Argus and published by Permuted Press+ORM. This book was released on 2011-01-02 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this post-apocalyptic thriller, a lone survivor in the wasteland of Las Vegas is stalked by a terrifying and mysterious threat. When John Doe wakes up from a coma, he finds himself in an empty hospital. With no memory of who he is or how he got there, he finds remnants of a mysterious, horrific event throughout the facility . . . and throughout the ghost town that was once Las Vegas, Nevada. The roads are packed with abandoned cars, the buildings burned and looted. As John searches for other survivors, he discovers that something sinister is prowling the Strip. The residents and tourists of the once glamorous city have all succumbed to a virus. The infected haven’t died, exactly. They are just no longer human . . .
Download or read book Closed Alpha written by Xavier P. Hunter and published by Magical Scrivener Press. This book was released on 2024-02-20 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Former champions clash in a race to the top Rather than emerging victorious into the real world, Arnold O'Connor finds himself back at the beginning of Spires of Fate. This time, it's an alpha build he'd stuck inside, and he's forced to choose an entirely different class. With no outside help, he'll have to find allies within the game if he hopes to escape. What's old is new again as parts of the game world have been fixed, updated, or simply overhauled. New challenges await. New adversaries threaten. And waiting at the top of the spire itself is a simple-sounding quest goal that supplants all others. Slay the Mountain Lord. Closed Alpha is the second book in the Pixelate series. Pixelate is a LitRPG fantasy series that follows the adventures of Arnold O'Connor as his digital self, delving into the secrets of a world that feels as real as his own body. The Pixelate series will appeal to fans of classic tabletop RPGs, World of Warcraft, and Lord of the Rings Online. It touches on themes of self and reality, style vs. stats, and how to kill dragons through the superior application of math. It's a book you won't be able to log out of! Grab a copy and try for yourself.
Download or read book A Handbook of Extra curricular Activities in the High School written by Harold Diedrich Meyer and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Working Boys A Midnight Murder Mystery Part II written by Milton Stern and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-03-07 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WORKING BOYS by MILTON STERN, the popular online serial, is now in print. Published weekly over a two-year period, all the chapters are now together in two print editions. Follow the lives of notorious, retired madam, Madeline Bennett and her two Gay sons, Bradley, a former escort, and Marty, a police detective, as they navigate mid-life, while working to catch the Black Marble Murderer, who targets middle-aged, muscular gay men. Old loves return and new loves blossom. The cast of colorful characters are back, including the members of a secret organization, who have been hiding in plain sight. WORKING BOYS, Part II will leave you asking for more.
