Download or read book Murder in Palm Springs written by Mike Romano and published by . This book was released on 2002-12 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is happening in Palm Springs? Ted Ross is delighted to be away from the hectic urban pace of Los Angeles. Palm Springs is a non-violent mecca - that is until he awakes one morning to find a dead body on his lawn.

Download or read book The Author Murders written by Eric Meeks and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2007-08 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Author Murders is boisterously imagined and vividly written. Eric Meeks's debut thriller is one wild ride." -J.R. Lindermuth, author of Cruel Cuts After the freakish death of famous novelist Woodie Stuart, the literary world shrugs its shoulders. After all, Woodie was drinking, consorting with a woman who wasn't his wife, and sailing in waters prowled by pirates. He got what he deserved, right? But when more bestselling novelists are murdered, a strange thing occurs. The authors' first-edition books appear on online auction sights, garnering a fortune for some lucky individual. Palm Springs rare-book dealer Xanthe Anthony watches the events with interest but is a little disconcerted when he becomes a prime suspect. When Anthony is arrested and jailed on suspicion of murder, he knows it's going to take a lot more than smooth talking to get him out of this one. He asks his friend Milo, an Internet hacker, to help him track down the real murderer. But as the body count continues to rise, Anthony has to act fast if he is to escape the net of justice slowly closing around him .

Download or read book Palm Springs written by Mavis Norlund and published by . This book was released on 2021-06-14 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book about the cases you love and explore your journey to find the truth. An arduous journey to find the ultimate killer. Join Marty and her dog, Patron, as they eliminate suspects in the murder of a beloved rock star in Palm Springs, California.

Download or read book Murder in Palm Springs written by Dianne Harman and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-04-29 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An aging American idol.A murder. A dog with paranormal abilities. Who knew walking to the mailbox could be so deadly?Join Marty and her dog, Patron, as they eliminate suspects in the murder of a beloved rock star in Palm Springs, California. This is book number eight in the bestselling High Desert Cozy Mystery Series by two-time USA Today Bestselling Author Dianne Harman. Enjoy!

Download or read book I Went to Palm Springs and All I Got Was Three Dead Blondes written by Anne Stinnett and published by Booktango. This book was released on 2013-02-27 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the latest in a series of lamentable boyfriends lets her in on his plan to become the next big thing in porn, Evin Hart flings the nearest heavy object at his head and elects to relinquish her miserable independence for the long lost comforts of home. With her beloved dog Gulliver, Evin makes haste to Palm Springs, where she intends to bask in the sun with a frosty adult beverage, but before she can commence her poolside sprawl she's tangled in the loose ends of her stepfather's affair. Her mental health break goes completely awry when bodies start piling up and Jack, her stepfather, is arrested for murder. She and Jack have a deplorable habit of never letting each other down, so Evin hides her fears behind a snarky front (ok, so her front is always snarky) and goes in search of a killer. She's helped (and hindered) by her mother Leonie, a disciple of Absolute Truth, Harry Chalmers, who has gone from scrawny childhood annoyance to unfairly sexy, and her best friend Zuzu Jones, an ER nurse who gets a kick out of patients with self-inflicted veggies. In spite of the bodies, bullets and mayhem, Evin finds that nothing can snap you out of a funk quite like three dead blondes.

Download or read book Palm Springs s Murder written by Billy Meidl and published by . This book was released on 2021-06-14 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book about the cases you love and explore your journey to find the truth. An arduous journey to find the ultimate killer. Join Marty and her dog, Patron, as they eliminate suspects in the murder of a beloved rock star in Palm Springs, California.

Download or read book Palm Springs True Crime written by Eric G. Meeks and published by . This book was released on 2016-01-20 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of true crime stories, from historic to the present, of Palm Springs, CA, and surrounding communities.

Download or read book Rancho Mirage written by Aram Saroyan and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The crime at the heart of Rancho Mirage, the murder of wealthy businessman Robert Sand at an exclusive residential country club near Palm Springs, is a study in complexity and moral ambiguity that cuts to the quick of fin de siecle America." "The murder, the investigation that followed it - an investigation complicated by a bizarre series of reported rapes and abductions of the beautiful Mrs. Sand - and the eventual trial of Mrs. Sand for murder, make up one of the strangest and most telling true crime stories ever written." "Andrea Claire was a single mother who had raised two boys and become a highly paid international call girl by the time she met the 68-year-old Robert Sand. Although she was portrayed as a money-hungry sociopath by the prosecuting attorney, there is considerable evidence that she was a "borderline" - and perhaps a multiple - personality: someone who, under conditions of extreme stress, can cross over into a psychotic state in which reality and fantasy, as well as right and wrong, can't be distinguished." "Andrea Claire understood that her marriage to Robert Sand would not be an ordinary one, and that she would be expected to comply with his sexual demands. The extent of those demands - that she was in essence a sexual slave - turned out to be more than she had bargained for. A battered woman from the time of her first marriage at 15 to a man who had raped her, she married Sand believing she would at last achieve a secure lifestyle that would allow her to give up prostitution, a profession she had taken up because she couldn't hold a regular job." "At what point does sex stop being sex and become an act of power? What happens if a man's every wish is a woman's command? Most men can understand Robert Sand; what makes him unique is that he was blessed and cursed with the resources and the will to live out his unbridled fantasies." "A widower in his fifties named Joe Mims, who married Andrea Sand the day after she was indicted for murder, brings the story its strangest twist yet, and provides it with a climax that almost defies the imagination." "Nothing is quite what it seems in Rancho Mirage."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Download or read book The Bad Ending written by Scott Brassart and published by Publishamerica Incorporated. This book was released on 2008-10 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An old-school mystery set in modern Palm Springs! When voluptuous Kathryn West hires hard-boiled detective Alex Mulvaney to investigate the death of her terminally ill son, David, Mulvaney cant help but take the case. The problem is, no one but Kathryn believes David was murdered. Mulvaneys investigation leads him from one dead end to another, with the mafia dogging his and Kathryns every move. Meanwhile, the body count is climbing. Can Mulvaney unravel the mystery before he and Kathryn join the list of victims? The Bad Ending isnt a lost Dashiell Hammett manuscript, but it could be. The pared-down staccato prose, the classic femme fatale, the dry humor, the dark and abrupt conclusionevery element of the classic Hammett mystery is here. In many ways, Mulvaney resembles Hammetts nameless Continental Op, the blank slate made famous in novels like The Dain Curse and Red Harvest. As with Hammetts Continental Op tales, The Bad Ending is as much a mystery of character as plot. Who, exactly, is this pit bull of a detective?

Download or read book The Murder By The Lake written by Matthew Scott and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-27 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A tale of murder and deception. In the desert town of Palm Springs things aren't as peaceful as they seem. Donny Stearns is a detective for the Palm Springs Police Department. After his investigation into the disappearance of Alyssa Manning stalls, her father is unexpectedly murdered. With a world full of suspects Donny needs to save Alyssa and figure out who the killer is before they strike again.

Download or read book They Died So Young written by William Mansfield and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-06-30 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For twenty years Alex Wright, the Laguna Beach surfing real estate appraiser, has believed that his parents died in a freak auto accident on their way home from a weekend in Palm Springs. Now he learns that they were killed, mob-style, with single bullets to their heads. Why would they deserve to die this way? Meanwhile, Alex's wife, Rachel Fix, is not adjusting well to the settled life of wife and mother. She is drawn back to the excitement of celebrity and fame that she enjoyed during her ten years on the pro surfing tour. So begins the seventh story in the Alex Wright Mystery saga. Will the marriage survive the tension of competing desires? With the help of his law enforcement buddies and a big assist from appraisal partner, Heather Maybach, Alex follows the thread of his parents' lives from their marriage to their untimely deaths. For, in fact, THEY DIED SO YOUNG...

Download or read book Murdered Mayor written by Dianne Harman and published by . This book was released on 2020-12-26 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The famous cowboy movie starHad become the beloved mayor of Palm Springs.Too bad he was murdered.But who could have done it and what was their motive?Greed? Political rival? An environmental extremist?Son? Stepdaughter? Ex-wives? And what about his present trophy wife?Then there's that pesky proposed desert windmill turbine project.They kill a lot of birds, And the Desert Bird Sanctuary members were certainlyAgainst the proposal.The mayor's vote was needed to approve it.Maybe he was going to vote against it.Was that why Monty Madsen was murdered?And maybe Monty wasn't the only person in Palm SpringsWho wanted to be the mayor! There's a colorful cast of characters, But only one of them is a murderer.Join Marty, her husband, Detective Jeff Combs, and their psychic boxer dog, Patron, as they determine not only who had the motive, but also who had the means.This is the 13th book in the High Desert Cozy Mystery Series by a USA Today Bestselling Autho

Download or read book Murder at the Polo Club written by Dianne Harman and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-10-25 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Antiques, polo, and relationships. What do they have in common? Murder!Why was the Palm Springs polo club owner's fiancee, Pia, murdered? Old relationships, Mafia vendettas, and inheritances all play a part in this cozy mystery. Jack Rutledge, the owner of a world class polo club in Palm Springs hires Marty Combs, an antique appraiser, to evaluate Jack's collection of art pottery and Pia's collection of art glass. When Marty and her husband, Jeff, a Palm Springs police detective, attend a cocktail party at the Rutledge Polo Club, they find themselves in the middle of a murder mystery.Who killed Pia? Was it Kevin, the has-been polo player jealous of Jack's success? Roberto, the reputed second-in-command of the West Coast Mafia who loved Pia? Gerta, Pia's sister, who feels the art glass collection willed to Pia should be hers? Pia's ex-husband, a felon newly released from prison? Jensen, Jack's son, who'd been promised he would inherit Jack's very valuable art pottery collection, or even Lupe, the polo club owner's maid?From USA Today Bestselling Author and seven time Amazon All Star comes another page-turning cozy mystery!

Download or read book Murder in Palm Springs written by Mike Romano and published by . This book was released on 2000-04 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is happening in Palm Springs? Ted Ross is delighted to be away from the hectic urban pace of Los Angeles. Palm Springs is a nonviolent Mecca - that is until he awakes one morning to find a dead body on his front lawn. The Palm Springs Police, especially one Sargent Noble, aren't convinced that Ted knows nothing about the woman's murder.

Download or read book Murder at the PTA written by Lee Hollis and published by Kensington. This book was released on 2020-09-29 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Desperate Housewives meets Murder, She Wrote, in Lee Hollis’s new mystery series, where a housewife and a female private eye solve murders together in their small Maine town! Someone is trying to turn Portland High into a school for scandal with a gossipy website called Dirty Laundry. The latest target of ruinous rumors is newly elected PTA president Sandra Wallage. After a heated meeting with outraged parents, Sandra runs into fellow school mom and private investigator Maya Kendrick, who's discovered the person behind the website. But when the women storm into the venomous gossip columnist’s office they find a lifeless body—along with a confession. Although the police rule the death a suicide, Maya suspects an injured party hung the Dirty Laundry creator out to dry. Maya already has a PI partner—but she's pregnant, and sonograms and stakeouts tend to conflict. So when Sandra volunteers for a crash course in sleuthing, Maya accepts the help. But as these unlikely partners study the clues, a killer plans to teach them a lesson . . .

Download or read book Poppy Harmon Investigates written by Lee Hollis and published by Kensington Cozies. This book was released on 2018-07-31 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lee Hollis begins a delightful new series in which Poppy Harmon and her friends find that life after retirement can be much busier—and deadlier—than any of them ever anticipated . . . When Poppy goes from complacent retiree to penniless widow in a matter of weeks, the idea of spending her golden years as the biggest charity case in Palm Springs renders her speechless. With no real skills and nothing left to lose, Poppy uses her obsession with true crime shows to start a career as a private eye . . . But after opening the Desert Flowers Detective Agency with help from her two best friends, Violet and Iris, Poppy realizes that age brings wisdom, not business—until she convinces her daughter's handsome boyfriend, Matt, to pose as the face of the agency. It’s not long before Matt’s irresistible act snags a client desperate to retrieve priceless jewelry burglarized from an aging actress at the Palm Leaf Retirement Village. Or before Poppy stumbles upon the bloodied body of the victim’s arch rival . . . In a flash, Poppy’s innocent detective gig is upstaged by a dangerous murder investigation riddled with slimy suspects and unspeakable scandal. As she and her team uncover the truth, Poppy must confront the secrets about her late husband’s past and swiftly catch a killer lurking around the retirement community—even if it means turning her world upside down all over again.

Download or read book Deadly Shuffle written by Norma Lehr and published by Epicenter Press. This book was released on 2014-08-15 with total page 1 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abby Rollins is thrilled to depart Sacramento, where she owns a dance shop, for a romantic getaway with her PI friend, Blade, in Palm Springs. There she finds that her mother, Trish, disappeared after a poker game attended by several men from her colorful past. Along with her sisters, Trish sang with a trio known as the Malones. At the game, one of the men keeled over, dead. Was he murdered?