Download or read book Meth Murder Amazon written by G. S. Gerry and published by G. S. Gerry. This book was released on 2022-03-11 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The hilarity ensues when the body of an unidentified child is found under the bed during an open house. Alive or dead? Murder or myth? Derald Grake destroys his life the moment he decides to sell the family home. After capturing the American dream, this father of 4 hopes to solve the complex formula of buying low and selling high. Witness one ‘normal’ family embark on a hilarious and entirely unexpected journey involving, among other surprises, assassins, meth, murder, and the end of Amazon. Wrapped inside this intriguing mystery are eye witness accounts and compelling evidence to separate truth from fantasy. Follow the clues, sort through the lies, and put the pieces together of this twisted reality. From award winning author and visionary creator G. S. Gerry comes the critically acclaimed debut Meth Murder & Amazon. A humorous, suspense filled roller coaster that goes downhill as quickly as a methamphetamine rush. This plot twisting symphony of laughter, absurdity, & betrayal will leave you speechless. Wondering how far one father will go to rescue his family from the unthinkable. Author G. S. Gerry presents a witty, gripping read that will keep you guessing and pulls you to the edge of your seat until the very end. Quirky and utterly unique, Buying and Selling will never be the same again! Fans of Hunter S. Thompson (Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas) and Chuck Palahniuk (Fight Club, Stranger than Fiction) won't be able to put down this adrenaline-charged thrill ride.

Download or read book Meth Murder Amazon written by G. S. Gerry and published by G. S. Gerry. This book was released on 2022-03-11 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The hilarity ensues when the body of an unidentified child is found under the bed during an open house. Alive or dead? Murder or myth? Derald Grake destroys his life the moment he decides to sell the family home. After capturing the American dream, this father of 4 hopes to solve the complex formula of buying low and selling high. Witness one ‘normal’ family embark on a hilarious and entirely unexpected journey involving, among other surprises, assassins, meth, murder, and the end of Amazon. Wrapped inside this intriguing mystery are eye witness accounts and compelling evidence to separate truth from fantasy. Follow the clues, sort through the lies, and put the pieces together of this twisted reality. From award winning author and visionary creator G. S. Gerry comes the critically acclaimed debut Meth Murder & Amazon. A humorous, suspense filled roller coaster that goes downhill as quickly as a methamphetamine rush. This plot twisting symphony of laughter, absurdity, & betrayal will leave you speechless. Wondering how far one father will go to rescue his family from the unthinkable. Author G. S. Gerry presents a witty, gripping read that will keep you guessing and pulls you to the edge of your seat until the very end. Quirky and utterly unique, Buying and Selling will never be the same again! Fans of Hunter S. Thompson (Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas) and Chuck Palahniuk (Fight Club, Stranger than Fiction) won't be able to put down this adrenaline-charged thrill ride.

Download or read book As I Walk Through the Valley of Meth written by Robert Newell and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-08-19 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ...As I Walk Through the Valley of Meth... chronicles drug related execution style murders, kidnappings, and other crimes that have steadily increased throughout the Mid-Ohio Valley in the middle of the Appalachian Region in spite of the all the efforts of the criminal justice system. The book is based on investigations conducted by state and local narcotic task forces, the Drug Enforcement Administration, along with other federal agencies, and travels through the beginning of drug enforcement in the 1960s and early 70s, and into 2021, the deadliest year ever recorded in West Virginia and the United States for the number of drug related deaths. For well over a half a century, our country has been engaged in a war against illegal and dangerous drugs. The number of Americans who have died far eclipses those lost in any war our country has engaged in. In 2018 alone, more Americans died from drug overdoses than during the entire Vietnam War. Since 1999, nearly 800,000 people in the United States have died easily surpassing the number of those who were killed during the Civil War (620,000), or World War II (407,000). ...As I Walk Through the Valley of Meth... chronicles the efforts to curtail drugs in one area of Appalachia in West Virginia. West Virginia has the highest rate of deaths in the country with 57.8 deaths per 100,000 population.

Download or read book The Motel Murder written by Emerson Littlefield and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-03-03 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The "Motel Murder" is a murder mystery set in the imaginary small town of Seminole Pines, North Florida, a rural farming community surrounded by cornfields, tobacco plantations, and tens of thousands of acres of Southern pines and palmettos. Deputy sheriff Denise "Midge" Sumpter, a young African-American sleuth who has a keen eye for detail and a knack for stitching together the details of a crime, tries to solve a murder that occurred in her grandmother's motel. The victim was both clubbed on the head, strangled, and stabbed. But no murder weapon can be found, and the only man seen earlier at the scene of the crime swears he didn't do it. Among other confusing clues are an unfired snub-nose revolver left in the motel room, a motel safe full of crystal methamphetamine, a torn piece of motel stationery with three mysterious numbers written on it, a bloody footprint belonging to an unidentified man, and a missing girl who checked into the motel with the victim but seems to have vanished into thin air. Among other characters Midge meets or works with are her partner Jake, who is gay, the sheriff of Wassahatchka County, a six-foot seven inch giant she calls Pee-Wee, a barbecue cook who cuts his meat with a machete and keeps a Confederate flag pinned to the wall of his restaurant, a meth-producer who has his works, and a still, out in the woods, and a local addict who proves to be far more articulate and helpful than one would think. A host of other characters you will not easily forget populate the novel. Midge, who loves Cajun food and fast cars, makes do with a ten-year-old Crown Victoria patrol car cast off from the Florida Highway Patrol, while her partner Jake, who usually mans a speed trap and has been in the department several years longer than Midge, drives a brand new Dodge Challenger Hellcat-the department's newest piece of "technology." The Hellcat, which Midge drools over, becomes the nearest mechanical thing to a character in the story, and by the end of the tale, it proves its worth. Adding to the charm of the novel, Midge, who grew up in Seminole Pines and speaks in the local dialect, tells the story in first person. The dialect is very easy to read, but it's authentic spoken English as you would hear it were you to visit Northern Florida. At times, the language gets a little salty, but Midge tells the tale accurately and honestly in the real language of the place. Coming soon is the second novel in the Midge Sumpter series, "The Indian Mound Murder." A professor of anthropology at a nearby university who is an expert in Florida's Paleo-Indians, is found dead in an exploratory trench dug into a local mound that is perhaps twelve to thirteen thousand years old-dating to the earliest era of human habitation. Only, the dead professor was supposed to be at another dig site 250 miles south, and no one can account for how he got where he has been found. None of the people working at the mound, neither the site manager, another local paleontologist, nor any of the four graduate students working with her, know how he got there-or who killed him. The site has some curious features, including cigarette butts stuck filter-end-first into the mound, empty beer cans strewn around, and local legends about spirits that inhabit the place. Once again, Midge, her partner Jake, and Sheriff Pee-Wee Marion, have their hands full trying to figure out who killed the victim. This time, the characters include an ex-Army Ranger Captain who is a woman, two ex-Army Special Ops personnel, a local hermit who lives in a shack entirely made out of abandoned or recycled lumber, a local hardware store clerk who was a schoolmate of Denise, and the dead professor's lover, another anthropologist who was supposed to be with the dead man the night he died. Midge's Crown Vic is back, as is Jake's Challenger Hellcat, and Pee-Wee's Chevy Suburban.

Download or read book Life Or Meth written by Philip C. Keeling and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2008-06 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once located in rural towns and on the West Coast, meth has erupted across the United States and is now devastating countless families, children and neighborhoods. Inside you will discover the history, effects, common slang words and prices of Methamphetamine. You will find out how Meth effects our children and our loved ones. "Narcotics is the worst of all crimes except murder and perhaps even more offensive to society than murder itself. In the case of murder you take away the life of a fellow human being. In the case of distributing narcotics, you take the mind of the individual and make his life intolerable for the good of his own soul." President Franklin Roosevelt - 1940 Read my book and find out the facts about Methamphetamine and what you can do to protect yourself and the ones you love.

Download or read book Poisoned Love written by Caitlin Rother and published by Pinnacle Books. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 499 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Case seen on Inside Edition, Good Morning America, and 48 Hours Accident, Suicide. . . Or Murder? On November 6, 2000, paramedics answered a call to find Kristin Rossum, 24, sobbing. Her husband, Greg de Villers, wasn't breathing and she claimed he had overdosed on drugs after learning she was leaving him. But family and friends who knew of Greg's distaste for drugs weren't buying Kristin's story--particularly the idea that he would take his own life. American Beauty The daughter of a well-to-do California family, Rossum was a brainy blonde beauty whose talent for toxicology had won her a post at the San Diego County Medical Examiner's Office. But her sweet smile masked a dark side. She'd developed a taste for methamphetamine in high school, and six months after her marriage to Greg, she'd begun seeking secret trysts with other men. Toxic Passion At the time of her husband's death, Rossum was engaged in an illicit affair with her married boss. Investigators found that the Medical Examiner's Office was missing supplies of meth and fentanyl, the narcotic that had killed her husband. With each clue discovered, another piece of Rossum's good girl faade fell away. What the world would eventually see was the true face of a murderer--and the hand of justice. . . 16 Pages Of Shocking Photos.

Download or read book Shards of Ice written by Alison Sampson and published by . This book was released on 2016-02-01 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shards of Ice is the true story of a man who committed the ultimate act of violence. Was it drug induced or pre-meditated? Was it the drug or the person? You decide.

Download or read book Let Me Out An Ashley Hope Suspense Thriller Book 2 written by Kate Bold and published by . This book was released on 2022-02-03 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ashley Hope is an average Southern woman, happily engaged-until dark secrets from her past tear her life apart. On track to join the state police's violent crimes division, Ashley is assigned to a case near her hometown: a female, 22 year-old meth addict has been found murdered. Can it be the work of a serial killer? "Phenomenal debut with a huge creep factor... So many twists and turns, you'll have no idea who the next victim will be. If you love a thriller that will keep you awake well into the night, this book is for you." -Reader review for Let Me Go While Ashley embarks on hew new life, going through the police academy, hazed by fellow recruits, the state police summon her, as they realize they need to make a rare exception and enlist her help on a case immediately. The murdered victim has been found in the backwoods, in a small, rural town neighboring Ashley's own Grundy County. The locals are hostile to outsiders and police, and only Ashley stands a chance of getting through to its hardened folk. At first glance, the victim seems like just another meth addict-turned prostitute, caught up in a routine drug murder. But as Ashley digs deeper, she sees things that others do not, and suspects something far more sinister may be at play. Ashley digs deeper, refusing to put the case to bed. But if she digs too deep, Ashley, herself, may become the target. A dark crime thriller full of mystery and suspense, the ASHLEY HOPE mystery series is rife with twists and jaw-dropping secrets as it unfolds into a riveting psychological thriller. Join this brilliant new female protagonist as she hunts down a serial killer, keeping you spellbound and turning pages late into the night. Fans of Rachel Caine, Teresa Driscoll and Robert Dugoni are sure to fall in love. Book #3 in the series-LET ME LIVE-is also available. "I really enjoyed this book... It draws you in right away and keeps you turning the pages right up to the end. I am really anticipating the next book." -Reader review for Let Me Go "A really good read. The story went quickly and the characters were interesting. I'm looking forward to the next book in this series!" -Reader review for Let Me Go "Good read with good plot, plenty of action, and great character development. A thriller that will keep you awake into the night." -Reader review for Let Me Go "Excellent start to a new series... Get this book and read it, you will love it!" -Reader review for Let Me Go

Download or read book The Book of Matt written by Stephen Jimenez and published by Steerforth. This book was released on 2013-09-24 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Methamphetamine was a huge part of this case . . . It was a horrible murder driven by drugs.” — Prosecutor Cal Rerucha, who convicted Matthew Shepard's killers On the night of October 6, 1998, twenty-one-year-old Matthew Shepard left a bar with two alleged “strangers,” Aaron McKin­ney and Russell Henderson. Eighteen hours later, Matthew was found tied to a log fence on the outskirts of town, unconscious and barely alive. Overnight, a politically expedient myth took the place of important facts. By the time Matthew died a few days later, his name was synonymous with anti-gay hate. The Book of Matt, first published in 2013, demonstrated that the truth was in fact far more complicated – and daunting. Stephen Jimenez’s account revealed primary documents that had been under seal, and gave voice to many with firsthand knowledge of the case who had not been heard from, including members of law enforcement. In his Introduction to this updated edition, journalist Andrew Sullivan writes: “No one wanted Steve Jimenez to report this story, let alone go back and back to Laramie, Wyoming, asking awkward questions, puzzling over strange discrepancies, re-interviewing sources, seeking a deeper, more complex truth about the ghastly killing than America, it turned out, was prepared to hear. It was worse than that, actually. Not only did no one want to hear more about it, but many were incensed that the case was being re-examined at all.” As a gay man Jimenez felt an added moral imperative to tell the story of Matthew’s murder honestly, and his reporting has been thoroughly corroborated. “I urge you to read [The Book of Matt] carefully and skeptically,” Sullivan writes, “and to see better how life rarely fits into the neat boxes we want it to inhabit. That Matthew Shepard was a meth dealer and meth user says nothing that bad about him, and in no way mitigates the hideous brutality of the crime that killed him; instead it shows how vulnerable so many are to the drug’s escapist lure and its astonishing capacity to heighten sexual pleasure so that it’s the only thing you want to live for. Shepard was a victim twice over: of meth and of a fellow meth user.”

Download or read book Facing the Dragon written by David Parnell and published by Health Communications, Inc.. This book was released on 2010-12 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author shares the story of his methamphetamine addiction, suicide attempt, brief experiences of heaven and hell, and the extensive facial reconstruction that has been a part of his new life.

Download or read book Murder of a Pink Elephant written by Denise Swanson and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2004-07-06 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Skye Denison's brother forms a band called Pink Elephant, the town goes wild-maybe too wild. First, a groupie turns stalker, seducing the band members one by one. Then, one of the Pink Elephants winds up murdered. Who's to blame? Everyone seems to think it's the drummer-and now Skye has to clear her brother's name.

Download or read book Officer Involved written by Bill Zahren and published by . This book was released on 2015-10-06 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If local newspaper reporter Tom Kingman hadn't dropped by a domestic disturbance police call in the middle of a June swelter, people might still think of Sioux City only as a quiet town at the junction of Iowa, Nebraska, and South Dakota. Tom's witnessing of an officer-involved shooting leads to an epiphany: not everyone in Iowa is friendly and polite, especially Tom's fellow Iowans who are involved in a multistate methamphetamine ring. He even discovers that Assistant Woodbury County Attorney Hillary Reed has a secret. The wise-cracking, skeptical Kingman soon finds himself thrown into an unlikely alliance with the deliberative, calm, religious Reed for a seventy-hour frenzied pursuit of the truth about meth, murder . . . and each other.

Download or read book Book of Matt written by Stephen Jimenez and published by . This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What role did crystal meth and other previously underreported factors play in the brutal murder of gay college student Matthew Shepard? "The Book of Matt" is a page-turning cautionary tale that humanizes and de-mythologizes Matthew while following the evidence where it leads, without regard to the politics that have long attended this American tragedy. Late on the night of October 6, 1998, twenty-one-year-old Matthew Shepard left a bar in Laramie, Wyoming with two alleged "strangers," Aaron McKin-ney and Russell Henderson. Eighteen hours later, Matthew was found tied to a log fence on the outskirts of town, unconscious and barely alive. He had been pistol-whipped so severely that the mountain biker who discovered his battered frame mistook him for a Halloween scarecrow. Overnight, a politically expedient myth took the place of important facts. By the time Matthew died a few days later, his name was synonymous with anti-gay hate. Stephen Jimenezwent to Laramie to research the story of Matthew Shepard's murder in 2000, after the two men convicted of killing him had gone to prison, and after the national media had moved on. His aim was to write a screenplay on what he, and the rest of the nation, believed to be an open-and-shut case of bigoted violence. As a gay man, he felt an added moral imperative to tell Matthew's story. But what Jimenez eventually found in Wyoming was a tangled web of secrets. His exhaustive investigation also plunged him deep into the deadly underworld of drug trafficking. Over the course of a thirteen-year investigation, Jimenez traveled to twenty states and Washington DC, and interviewed more than a hundred named sources. "The Book of Matt "is sure to stir passions and inspire dialogue as it re-frames this misconstrued crime and its cast of characters, proving irrefutably that Matthew Shepard was not killed for being gay but for reasons far more complicated -- and daunting. "From the Hardcover edition."

Download or read book Confound It written by Maggie Toussaint and published by Dreamwalker Mystery. This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Award-winning AuthorA Dreamwalker Mystery (Book 5)While hosting out-of-town guests at her Georgia home, Dreamwalker Baxley Powell is called to help investigate a suspicious fire. Close friend and fellow dreamwalker Deputy Sam Mayes accompanies her to the scene. A meth cook is dead, and when Baxley visits her beyond the Veil of Life, she determines that the woman was murdered. Baxley pities Mandy Patterson, a single mother with aspirations for her teenage son, Doodle. While the authorities pursue the drug-supply angle, Baxley worries about Doodle and vows to find out who killed his mother. And as the case grows more baffling, Baxley struggles against her attraction to Sam.

Download or read book The Book of Matt written by Stephen Jimenez and published by Steerforth Press / Truth to Power. This book was released on 2020-05-26 with total page 487 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a New Conclusion by the Author On the night of October 6, 1998, twenty-one-year-old Matthew Shepard left a bar with two alleged “strangers,” Aaron McKin­ney and Russell Henderson. Eighteen hours later, Matthew was found tied to a log fence on the outskirts of town, unconscious and barely alive. Overnight, a politically expedient myth took the place of important facts. By the time Matthew died a few days later, his name was synonymous with anti-gay hate. The Book of Matt, first published in 2013, demonstrated that the truth was in fact far more complicated – and daunting. Stephen Jimenez’s account revealed primary documents that had been under seal, and gave voice to many with firsthand knowledge of the case who had not been heard from, including members of law enforcement. In his Introduction to this updated edition, journalist Andrew Sullivan writes: “No one wanted Steve Jimenez to report this story, let alone go back and back to Laramie, Wyoming, asking awkward questions, puzzling over strange discrepancies, re-interviewing sources, seeking a deeper, more complex truth about the ghastly killing than America, it turned out, was prepared to hear. It was worse than that, actually. Not only did no one want to hear more about it, but many were incensed that the case was being re-examined at all.” As a gay man Jimenez felt an added moral imperative to tell the story of Matthew’s murder honestly, and his reporting has been thoroughly corroborated. “I urge you to read [The Book of Matt] carefully and skeptically,” Sullivan writes, “and to see better how life rarely fits into the neat boxes we want it to inhabit. That Matthew Shepard was a meth dealer and meth user says nothing that bad about him, and in no way mitigates the hideous brutality of the crime that killed him; instead it shows how vulnerable so many are to the drug’s escapist lure and its astonishing capacity to heighten sexual pleasure so that it’s the only thing you want to live for. Shepard was a victim twice over: of meth and of a fellow meth user.”

Download or read book Funny Thing About Murder written by David Geherin and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2017-10-19 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on crime fiction and films that artfully combine comedy and misdeed, this book explores the reasons writers and filmmakers inject humor into their work and identifies the various comic techniques they use. The author covers both American and European books from the 1930s to the present, by such authors as Rex Stout, Raymond Chandler, Robert B. Parker, Elmore Leonard, Donald E. Westlake, Sue Grafton, Carl Hiaasen and Janet Evanovich, along with films from The Thin Man to the BBC's Sherlock series.

Download or read book Controlling Tropical Deforestation written by Alan Grainger and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tropical rain forest is being cleared so rapidly and on such a scale that it is a major global environmental problem, threatening the survival of half of the world's plant and animal species and contributing to global climate change through the greenhouse effect. But, despite widespread concern for over twenty years, only limited progress has been made in controlling deforestation and improving forest management in the humid tropics. In this book Alan Grainger offers afresh analysis of the causes of deforestation and presents an integrated strategy for controlling it. His strategy embraces agriculture, forestry and conservation and stresses the need for changes in government policies if land use is to be made more sustainable and the underlying causes of the problem are to be addressed. Controlling Tropical Deforestation is essential reading for policy makers, agronomists, foresters, conservationists and development professionals. To general readers and students on introductory courses at schools and universities it also offers the first concise but comprehensive overview of the causes, scale and consequences of deforestation. Alan Grainger is a lecturer in geography at the University of Leeds. He is author of The Threatening Desert: Controlling Desertification, also published by Earthscan. Originally published in 1992