Download or read book My Beard was a Yuletide Serial Killer written by Dale M. Chatwin and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-11-12 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It begins like every other Christmas story that has never happened, with a storm and a dead body. On the first day of December the quiet fishing village of Mevagissey, Cornwall is plagued by a supernatural storm. In the aftermath, a series of bizarre and gruesome Christmas related murders begin to occur. During this spate of Yuletide horror the aquarium manager Leif Fabian is struggling to understand why his beard is growing at such a fast and uncanny rate and why his friends are unnecessarily dying around him. Also, his dreams are being haunted by the ominous ghost of a horse of Christmas past. Could it all somehow be connected? It's not long until Leif discovers a terrifying truth about the forest of follicles on his face and events start to take a very weird and treacherous turn. Can he stop his beard from killing again or will he be boiled alive in a cauldron of mulled wine on Christmas Day? This Christmas horror has a hairy disposition!

Download or read book The Christmas Killer written by J.R. Mitchell Fletcher and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2023-08-10 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Detective Jock Mitchell, after serving eight years in the Washington, DC, Metropolitan Police Department (DCPD), left DCPD to pursue a career as a homicide detective. He landed in the historic city of Fredericksburg, Virginia, with his wife, Latisha. After being named the sheriff department's only homicide detective, his work was largely relegated to solving B&Es and robberies. Detective Mitchell hadn't found the fulfillment he sought. On a cold winter morning in December, Detective Mitchell found himself at the center of a brutal and terrifying killing. Little did he know, it was just the beginning of a killing spree. How many would face the killer's rath before he was caught, if ever? As the bodies piled up, the city desired a festive Christmas and holiday season, but the killer, aptly named the Christmas Killer, desired revenge and was killing the season's holiday business. The inexperienced detective had no answers, only victims. Was he really cut out to be a homicide detective? Critics' Views: Fascinatingly entertaining. Brilliantly written. Clever plot and engaging. Kudos to new mystery author, J. R. Mitchell Fletcher.

Download or read book Bright Lights Big Christmas written by Mary Kay Andrews and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2023-09-26 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Mary Kay Andrews, New York Times bestselling author of The Homewreckers and The Santa Suit, comes a novella celebrating love and the warm, glittering charm of the holiday season. "Nobody does Christmas like Mary Kay Andrews." ―Debbie Macomber "Cozy up with Santa's favorite novelist!” ―Adriana Trigiani When fall rolls around, it’s time for Kerry Tolliver to leave her family’s Christmas tree farm in the mountains of North Carolina for the wilds of New York City to help her gruff older brother & his dog, Queenie, sell the trees at the family stand on a corner in Greenwich Village. Sharing a tiny vintage camper and experiencing Manhattan for the first time, Kerry’s ready to try to carve out a new corner for herself. In the weeks leading into Christmas, Kerry quickly becomes close with the charming neighbors who live near their stand. When an elderly neighbor goes missing, Kerry will need to combine her country know-how with her newly acquired New York knowledge to protect the new friends she’s come to think of as family, And complicating everything is Patrick, a single dad raising his adorable, dragon-loving son Austin on this quirky block. Kerry and Patrick’s chemistry is undeniable, but what chance does this holiday romance really have? Filled with family ties, both rekindled and new, and sparkling with Christmas magic, BRIGHT LIGHTS, BIG CHRISTMAS delivers everything Mary Kay Andrews fans adore, all tied up in a hilarious, romantic gem of a novel.

Download or read book Christmas Tales written by William McInnes and published by Hachette Australia. This book was released on 2020-10-27 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I can't help it if I'm a boring conservative dag, but I love Christmas, always have and hopefully always will. Whatever brand of faith you fly under, even if you proclaim you don't have one, Christmas is a time of generosity, good citizenship and decency. It's the holiday where shopping centres become a sea of dazed shoppers bearing checklists as long as your arm, lunch is a neverending buffet of prawns and ham and your electricity bill is doubly struck by having to run the fan all day and keep those decorative lights blinking through the night. William McInnes, bestselling author of FATHERHOOD, WORSE THINGS HAPPEN AT SEA, and A MAN'S GOT TO HAVE A HOBBY tackles the silly season in a way only he can - telling stories brimming with good humour and nostalgia, to remind us what Christmas is all about: family.

Download or read book The Twelve Murders of Christmas written by Jane Bennett Munro and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2020-09-22 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pathologist Toni Day and her husband, Hal, are mystified when she starts receiving grisly Christmas cards depicting murders, each accompanied by a twisted verse from The Twelve Days of Christmas, and she and her partners are suddenly inundated with autopsies on the corresponding bodies. The victims are members of a jury that convicted Toni’s old boyfriend Robbie of kidnapping and sent him to prison. Robbie is now out on parole and is presumably systematically killing off the jury that put him there, but the true identity of the Jury Killer becomes unclear when another parolee, a pretty female police detective, and a newspaper reporter with an icepick get involved. To complicate matters further, Toni’s parents are visiting for Christmas. Toni teams up with her stepfather Nigel, a retired Scotland Yard chief inspector, to interpret clues and assist the police in a race against time to catch the killer or killers before they wipe out the entire jury and then come after Toni and Hal.

Download or read book I Saw Mommy Killing Santa Claus Book 3 written by Liliana Hart and published by . This book was released on 2018-03-20 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Harley and Davidson Mystery, book 3. In the latest Harley & Davidson mystery, there's a new meaning to the twelve days of Christmas. Hank and Agatha stumble upon a serial killer who's rewriting Santa Claus's naughty and nice list by knocking off big guys in red suits with beards. Hank isn't sure he believes this is a serial killer. Despite Agatha's insistence, he knows serial killers aren't as common as she'd like them to be for her research. Maybe deadline enthusiasm is making Agatha see this as more than it is. But Agatha knows her way around bodies, and the dead Santa's have too much in common not to be connected. Her real-world training as a forensic anthropologist pays off as she matches wits with law enforcement's best, and a deviant killer's worst. Other Books In the series: 1: The Farmer's Slaughter; 2: A Tisket A Casket; 3: I Saw Mommy Killing Santa Claus; 4: Get Your Murder Running; 5: Deceased and Desist.

Download or read book Christmas Lights Killer written by R. Barri Flowers and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2023-10-24 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Home for the holidays And on the trail of a killer… After his missing niece turns up dead, state trooper Hamilton McCade joins the hunt for her murderer. Working the case with Detective Annette Lynley, they quickly discover there’s a serial killer in their town. With Christmas just around the corner, and the attraction between them heating up, Annette becomes a target. But Hamilton won’t let this monster hurt another woman he loves… From Harlequin Intrigue: Seek thrills. Solve crimes. Justice served. Discover more action-packed stories in The Lynleys of Law Enforcement series. All books are stand-alone with uplifting endings but were published in the following order: Book 1: Special Agent Witness Book 2: Christmas Lights Killer Book 3: Murder in the Blue Ridge Mountains

Download or read book My True Love Gave to Me written by Stephanie Perkins and published by St. Martin's Griffin. This book was released on 2014-10-14 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twelve romantic holiday stories by twelve bestselling young adult authors edited by Stephanie Perkins. If you love holiday stories, holiday movies, made-for-TV-holiday specials, holiday episodes of your favorite sitcoms and, especially, if you love holiday anthologies, you're going to fall in love with My True Love Gave to Me: Twelve Holiday Stories by twelve bestselling young adult writers (Holly Black, Ally Carter, Matt de La Peña, Gayle Forman, Jenny Han, David Levithan, Kelly Link, Myra McEntire, Rainbow Rowell, Stephanie Perkins, Laini Tayler and Kiersten White), edited by the international bestselling Stephanie Perkins. Whether you celebrate Christmas or Hanukkah, Winter Solstice or Kwanzaa, there's something here for everyone. So curl up by the fireplace and get cozy. You have twelve reasons this season to stay indoors and fall in love.

Download or read book Hello Dr Christmas written by Olivia Noble and published by Olivia Noble. This book was released on 2019-12-31 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My name is Clara, and I was born to dance in the Nutcracker. I eat, sleep, and breathe ballet, until a jealous understudy causes me to break my ankle. I can't stand en pointe. I can't dance. My Christmas is ruined. Until my sister hooks me up with one of the world's best orthopedic surgeons, and gives me hope. His name is Klaus, he's Swedish, and they call him Dr. Christmas. He's also single, newly-widowed, and hot-as-hell. I think, for the first time in my life, I could maybe grow to care about something other than ballet. Note: These are steamy Christmas rom-coms to heat up the cold winter. Filled with lots of laughs and guaranteed happily-ever-afters. Snowflake Creek is short and sweet, so you can enjoy even during the busy holidays! ❤️

Download or read book All I Want for Christmas Eve written by Olivia Noble and published by ThunderWords Press. This book was released on 2019-12-24 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Santa's Sleigh has crashed in Eve's backyard. To be clear, it's a plane named Santa's Sleigh. She saves Adam from the wreckage, and although he's injured, he's not too injured to make endless jokes about how they belong together. Adam and Eve jokes. Ugh. It would be so lame if he weren't so sexy. And if Eve didn't live in The Middle of Nowhere, Alaska, where the only men around are polar bears. Could Adam be Eve's Christmas present from Santa? Men don't usually fall from the sky, but when they do... might as well enjoy. It's snowing men. Hallelujah? This is a steamy holiday rom-com to heat up the cold winter. Filled with lots of laughs and a happily-ever after. Snowflake Creek is short and sweet, so you can enjoy even during the busy holidays! ❤️

Download or read book Talking with Serial Killers Sleeping with Psychopaths written by Christopher Berry-Dee and published by John Blake. This book was released on 2022-01-06 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bestselling writer and criminologist Christopher Berry-Dee turns his attention to a new kind of victim: the wives or partners of serial murderers who remained unaware of exactly who they had fallen for until after their other half's arrest or, in some cases, conviction, for multiple murders. Sonia Sutcliffe first discovered that her husband, Peter, was leading a secret existence as 'the Yorkshire Ripper' only when he was arrested. The wife of the 'Hillside Strangler' only learned of her husband's crimes when state police smashed down her door in search of him. On finding out the truth, these innocents often experience a strange kind of guilt for not having recognised the killer in their home, as well as having to face the grim reality of betrayal and deceit. Christopher Berry-Dee speaks directly to killers and their oblivious loved ones to get inside the minds of the men and women who fall for murderers.

Download or read book Christmas Redemption written by Laura Scott and published by Readscape Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2020-07-08 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From USA TODAY Bestselling Author Laura Scott Plan your escape to Crystal Lake! Did he deserve a second chance? Jack Keller AKA Jessie Kramer has remained isolated, living off the land for several years, until an unseen force is nudging him home to Crystal Lake, Wisconsin to see his brother Ian at Christmas. When Jack finds an injured woman living alone in the woods, he feels compelled to help her and her German shepherd Sadie, along with Belle the puppy, survive. What he doesn’t expect is to be drawn to Raven in a way he’s never experienced before. And when he realizes Raven is in danger, he refuses to leave until the guy is caught. Widower Raven Clark prefers animals over people, but when drifter Jack Keller does odd chores and makes pretty gifts for her, she’s plagued by curiosity about him. Who is this man God brought to her doorstep? When a blizzard hits, Raven insists Jack seek shelter with her, rather than sleeping in his tent. She soon learns Jack isn’t what he appears and is touched by his determination to protect her. Will Jack learn to forgive himself for his past mistakes and open his heart to love? -- Read what others are saying about USA Today Bestselling Author Laura Scott: “Scott delivers distinctive characters, an appealing small-town setting, and a hint of romance. This cozy is perfect for animal lovers."--Publishers Weekly review of Dogged by Death "An entertaining cast of characters makes for a kickoff sure to please dog lovers." --Kirkus review for Dogged by Death Read the entire Crystal Lake series in order: Healing Her Heart A Soldier’s Promise Coming Home Worth the Wait Christmas Reunion Second Chance Christmas Redemption Topics: Small town romance, Christmas romance, dog romance, puppy romance, clean and wholesome romance, sweet romantic suspense, sweet romance, small town contemporary romance, family romance, medical romance, doctor nurse romance, contemporary suspense romance, clean family centered romance, Laura Scott books, Laura Scott romantic suspense books, emotional romance, redemption romance, finding faith romance, faith journey, medical drama, medical romance, USA today Bestselling author, USA Today, rescue romance, learning to trust again, strong women romance, damsel in distress, doctor, hospital, strong men of faith, protector, faith redeemed. Readers of Laura Scott’s books enjoyed books by: Lynette Eason, Irene Hannon, Susan Sleeman, Susan May Warren, Hallee Bridgeman, Christy Barritt, Diann Mills, Dee Henderson, Elizabeth Goddard, Terri Blackstock, Lisa Harris, Rachel Dylan, Dani Pettrey, Colleen Coble, Edie James, Terri Reed, Shirlee McCoy, Lenora Worth, Heather Woodhaven, Dana Mentink

Download or read book A Crush for Christmas written by Elouise East and published by Elouise East. This book was released on 2023-07-13 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After Colton’s father died, his mother returned to her hometown of Cambridge, UK, leaving him to his life in New York. He’s happy, apart from only being able to see his mother once a year at Christmas. It’s during one visit, he meets Ioan, a carer, who lights him up like a Christmas tree. It makes the experience more special because Ioan understands how Colton feels when his mother doesn’t recognise him. Ioan loves his job, but his heart breaks every time pain flares through Colton’s eyes, especially as he knows Colton’s time in the UK is short. When he gets the opportunity to visit New York, he doesn’t entertain the thought of bumping into Colton – after all, the city is enormous. When he meets up with him by chance, he tries to hide how happy he is, pushing down the feelings before they could escape. The more time they steal together, the closer they become, but nothing can happen with three thousand miles between them. Ioan has experience of long-distance relationships, and he’ll never go there again. Find out what happens when their decisions set them on a path of heartache and happiness.

Download or read book Christmas In Malsum Pass written by Kimberly Forrest and published by Kimberly Forrest. This book was released on 2023-04-28 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is magic in Malsum Pass… For Allison Harris, the only thing to look forward to around Christmas is the extra money she could earn in tips working the ritzy holiday parties on the mountain. After all, when you’re alone, Christmas is just another day on the calendar. But when her car leaves her stranded on the side of the road with a blizzard breathing down her neck, she has no choice but to take shelter in the small town of Malsum Pass. Zachary Pierce is larger than life, with a playful nature that has Allison quickly forgetting her worries as her attraction to the man grows. It’s been too long since she’s taken a moment and just had fun, but thanks to Zack, Allison feels the spirit of the holiday take hold. Just the scent of Allison told Zack that she was his destined mate, but this blizzard that brought them together won’t last forever. He needs to work fast if he wants to keep her, and what better way, than to show her the true magic of Christmas?

Download or read book My Sister the Serial Killer written by Oyinkan Braithwaite and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2018-11-20 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE'S 100 BEST MYSTERY AND THRILLER BOOKS OF ALL TIME • BOOKER PRIZE NOMINEE • “A taut and darkly funny contemporary noir that moves at lightning speed, it’s the wittiest and most fun murder party you’ve ever been invited to.” —MARIE CLAIRE Korede’s sister Ayoola is many things: the favorite child, the beautiful one, possibly sociopathic. And now Ayoola’s third boyfriend in a row is dead, stabbed through the heart with Ayoola’s knife. Korede’s practicality is the sisters’ saving grace. She knows the best solutions for cleaning blood (bleach, bleach, and more bleach), the best way to move a body (wrap it in sheets like a mummy), and she keeps Ayoola from posting pictures to Instagram when she should be mourning her “missing” boyfriend. Not that she gets any credit. Korede has long been in love with a kind, handsome doctor at the hospital where she works. She dreams of the day when he will realize that she’s exactly what he needs. But when he asks Korede for Ayoola’s phone number, she must reckon with what her sister has become and how far she’s willing to go to protect her.

Download or read book The Class Menagerie written by Robert Lamb and published by Screecher Creature. This book was released on 2007 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 18 stories by University of South Carolina students from Robert Lamb's Fiction Workshop, plus one by the professor.

Download or read book The Portia MacIntosh Festive Collection written by Portia MacIntosh and published by Boldwood Books Ltd. This book was released on 2022-10-20 with total page 914 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Laugh-out-loud festive romantic comedies from top 10 bestseller Portia MacIntosh, guaranteed to put a smile on your face this Christmas. This boxset contains 3 books: 1. Single All The Way 2. Will They, Won't They? 3. Stuck On You ----- Single All The Way When Dani's boyfriend (and boss!) dumps her for a younger model, the only silver lining she can see is to be able to spend Christmas at home with her family after years away. Determined to surprise them, Dani turns up unannounced in her hometown, excited to see that the festive season in Marram Bay is in full swing with Christmas lights twinkling on every corner. But disaster strikes when she finds her parents' house is empty and they appear to have gone away on holiday! Christmas alone and single is not ideal, and when Dani starts bumping into old friends, neighbours and potential love interests, she can't face telling them the truth. So in a panic she claims to be home to throw a Christmas party for the whole town - easier said than done with 12 days to go before Christmas... As the fake party approaches, little does Dani know that there may be someone there under the mistletoe for her, if she can just let her guard down and see them... Will They, Won't They? Emmy Palmer is the star of Bragadon Forest, the biggest fantasy series on TV; adored by the public, living the life of glamour and luxury in London. But when scandal breaks, Emmy must escape the city and return to her seaside hometown to lie low and wait for the storm to pass. And as tragedy strikes for her family, it is good timing to go back to her roots. Emmy's agent decides it would be a good look to star in the community Christmas pantomime, but who else could be playing her leading man but her ex-boyfriend who she may or may not have ditched to move to London a decade ago... As the show approaches, love and friendships blossom and the real question is - Will they? Won't they? Stuck On You Sadie doesn't have time for finding love. She's too busy as PA for famous artist Damian Banks. When she's not arranging exhibitions, she's organising his dry cleaning or dumping his never-ending stream of girlfriends. But when she strikes up an unusual friendship with her desk share buddy, she finds a confidante and a new potential love interest. Problem is, they've never actually met... With Christmas just around the corner, can Sadie put herself first for a change and find what she's been looking for all along?