Download or read book Open Home Murders written by Tom Kunkel and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2017-11-28 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A small town is put on edge when Real Estate Agents start turning up dead. Kurt Banning is a successful real estate agent who has an on-again, off-again relationship with the local police lieutenant, Elizabeth Colburn. Kurt hopes his knowledge of local real estate will aid in the capture of the person responsible. The Hamilton police department is not so enthusiastic about Kurts meddling. Soon, he and Elizabeth come face to face with a vengeful killer. Will Kurts involvement help or will it result in his own death, or Elizabeths or both?

Download or read book Open for Murder written by Mary Angela and published by Lyrical Underground. This book was released on 2020-11-24 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From award-winning author Rebekah Weatherspoon comes a thoroughly modern take on the timeless tale of a struggling Cinderella who finds her prince charming at the eleventh hour—and the adventure that ensues the morning after . . . Working as the personal assistant to one of Hollywood’s cruelest divas has left Amanda Queen more determined than ever to sell her screenplay and gain her independence. In the meantime, she’ll settle for a temporary escape. When her employer is felled by the flu on Hollywood’s biggest night of the year, Amanda gets her glam on, struts out the door, and parties with the glitterati. But she never expects to come face to face—and closer than close—with one of the hottest stars in the game . . . Following up his first Oscar win with a steamy after-hours romp with an enigmatic woman seems like the perfect way for actor Sam Pleasant to celebrate—until she suddenly disappears. Worse, she’s vanished with the wrong swag bag: the one containing his Oscar statue, leaving Sam even more intrigued about the beauty’s identity—and wondering if a repeat performance of their amazing night is in the stars. And when a second chance encounter happens, only a trip to Sam’s family ranch—and revealing the whole, not-always-glamorous, truth about themselves—will give them a chance to turn one magical night into forever . . .

Download or read book Murder Before Noon written by Julie Anne Brown and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2011-10-01 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Julie Anne Brown is a retired real estate broker. She has worried for many years about the safety of female agents, and has actually known of dangerous incidents that are featured in this novel. The story begins with an agent finding a woman's body laying on the floor of a closet in a home she planned to open to the public. Other real estate agents are attacked or murdered and they all have a similar body type and hair color as the main character, Kendra McIntyre. Kendra, divorced, lives alone with her adored Irish Setter, Casey, has a busy career and many supportive friends but no solid relationship with a good man. Then she meets a private detective, Walt, while they try to locate the abducted children of her client. Kendra is kidnapped by the bad guys who have been terrorizing the agents in the California desert community where Kendra lives and works. She suffers a horrifying experience in captivity. Eventually there is a trial where she is the primary witness. Her relationship with Walt grows into a strong commitment. The local real estate agents begin to relax but will never forget the fearful events that took away their sense of security in their lives as hard-working professionals.

Download or read book Open House Murder written by Jeff and Carole Chandler and published by . This book was released on 2021-07-11 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: OPEN HOUSE THIS SUNDAY. FROM 2PM UNTIL DEAD. Most people attend open houses to find their next home. This poor victim wound up dead, and the four suspects were all in an adjoining room, talking to each other. How did the murderer pull this magic trick off? Only Private eye Huston Grant can unravel the case, and he's busy trying to stay alive long enough to do it. The fourth episode in the Huston Grant thriller series, OPEN HOUSE MURDER is a classic "whodunnit" with plenty of clues to point the reader in the right direction...perhaps. See if you can figure out the killer before Huston does. And if you are thinking about buying or selling a house, you might want to take a closer look at Realtor Joseph Gates. He certainly looks like a professional, successful agent, but is he what he seems? Ride along with Huston Grant as he tries to piece together the puzzle that just might cost him his life! OPEN HOUSE MURDER is waiting for you. Won't you come on in and take a look around?

Download or read book Circumstantial Evidence written by Pete Earley and published by Bantam. This book was released on 1996 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A piercing, provocative true story that is also a commentary on our system of justice, centered around a wrongful murder conviction that bares the dark side of the American soul. This book highlights a case that was front page news--featured on "60 Minutes", in The New York Times in 1993.

Download or read book Vampire written by Kevin Sullivan and published by WildBlue Press. This book was released on 2014-12-02 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author of The Bundy Murders tells the harrowing true story of “one of the most bizarre serial killers in America” (Katherine Ramsland, bestselling author of Confession of a Serial Killer). A city under siege, held captive while a psychopathic vampire serial killer instills fear in its residents, taunts the authorities, and brutally kills his victims. This book is a chilling and stomach-churning look into the life of a twisted, sick man, so evil one would wonder if he was even human. From his early days when he would liquify rabbits in a blender to drink their intestines and blood to mutilating his victims, his thirst for killing could not be satiated. This is the story of Richard Trenton Chase, the Vampire of Sacramento. It is not for the faint of heart. “Fraught with emotion and detail . . . a must have book for all true crime enthusiasts and collectors.” —RJ Parker, award-winning author of Escaped Killer “Sullivan has written a fascinating account of an abnormal psyche of egregious proportions, and captures the very essence of Richard Chase’s monstrous crime spree the citizens of Sacramento will never forget.” —Gary C. King, author of Love, Lies, and Murder

Download or read book Don t Open the Door written by Linda Lonsdorf and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2014-08-20 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Karen Morino finds her fifteen year old daughter, Nikki, lying in their foyer dead. There are no signs of a struggle but all evidence points to murder. A neighbor saw Jared Davis leaving the Morino home near the time of the murder. Davis is nineteen years old, mentally challenged, with Down syndrome. Conrad Confidential is hired to investigate her murder. Until a forensic report comes back, the Akron Police Department hesitates to make an arrest. The neighbors are livid and fear for the safety of their children. Prejudice escalates and the Davises are victimized daily. Father Flannery, a priest in Atlanta, is shocked by an anonymous confessor to a girl's murder. However, he is sworn to secrecy by the Covenant of Confession.

Download or read book Murder of An Open Book written by Denise Swanson and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2015-09-01 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times Bestselling Scumble River Series A nasty faculty feud leaves one Scumble River teacher belly-up. . . . Her honeymoon may have been less than relaxing, but Skye Boyd née Denison is still high on marital bliss with her new husband, Wally. The fact that their family is about to get bigger is even more exciting, even if Skye is dealing with morning sickness—and trying to hide the news from her ever-meddling mother, May. But Skye quickly comes crashing down from cloud nine when the body of one of her coworkers, science teacher and volleyball coach Blair Hucksford, is found in the school swimming pool. The troublesome trainer was on the bad side of almost everyone on staff and many of the girls on her team, leaving Skye to sort through a huge roster of suspects. Now she must figure out which wronged party was mad enough to kill, and quickly—before someone else in town gets bumped off. . . .

Download or read book Murder Mayhem in Nashville written by Brian Allison and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2016-10-03 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From post–Civil War political feuds to Depression-era mass murder—explore the criminally fascinating secret history of Music City, USA. Nashville is known for its bold, progressive flair, but few are aware of its malevolent past. Now, historian Brian Allison sheds light on some of Nashville’s darkest deeds in this compulsively readable chronicle of turn-of-the-century bad behavior. Included here are tales of infamous bar brawls, escaped fugitives, and deadly duels instigated (and won) by legendary hothead Andrew Jackson; a tour of the notorious red-light district of Smokey Row, where one of the largest congregations of prostitutes in the country was at the service of 1000s of beleaguered boys in gray; a killer temptress with a penchant for poison who strolled the city streets looking for victims; a grisly—and true—local legend known as the Headless Horror; the facts behind the macabre 1938 Marrowbone Creek cabin murders; and much more. Vividly capturing the outlandish mischief, shocking crimes, and political powder kegs of an era, Murder and Mayhem in Nashville lifts the veil on a great city’s sordid secrets.

Download or read book Open House Murder written by David Chapel and published by . This book was released on 2021-03-24 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meet Allison a multi million dollar producer - Real Estate Diva, reluctant sleuth. "I do not live with winsome witty children. I am not a park ranger and I do not cut my hair with a nail scissors. As a matter of fact, I also do know exactly why a person is dead, I do know that when I find a dead body in the kitchen of a million dollar home, it will make it that much more difficult to sell. Difficult, but not impossible."Allison Little is an excellent Realtor but less skilled as a investigator, with best friends, cats, handsome handymen and weird, scary art to dispose of. Selling a house has never been more difficult, or more dangerous in this dark comedy novel Open House Murder. Also included a collection of twelve short stories, with subjects ranging from sci-fi to spy thriller, from humor to history and from family to finance.

Download or read book Murder Handcrafted written by Isabella Alan and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016-06-07 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amish quilt shop owner Angie Braddock crosses wires with a killer in the latest from the national bestselling author of Murder, Plainly Read... Spring has arrived in Holmes County and Angie couldn’t be happier. She’s got great friends, a thriving business, and is in the perfect relationship with Sheriff James Mitchell. The only thing raining on her parade is her mother drafting her into a massive home renovation project—and using their sudden mother/daughter bonding time to comment on Angie’s ticking biological clock. The house’s repairs and upgrades between the Amish craftsmen and their Englisch counterparts are proceeding well until a tremendous shock comes to the workers when the electrician is found dead on site. With the sheriff suspecting foul play, it falls to Angie to root a killer out of the woodwork. . . .

Download or read book In Cold Blood written by Truman Capote and published by Modern Library. This book was released on 2013-02-19 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time From the Modern Library’s new set of beautifully repackaged hardcover classics by Truman Capote—also available are Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Other Voices, Other Rooms (in one volume), Portraits and Observations, and The Complete Stories Truman Capote’s masterpiece, In Cold Blood, created a sensation when it was first published, serially, in The New Yorker in 1965. The intensively researched, atmospheric narrative of the lives of the Clutter family of Holcomb, Kansas, and of the two men, Richard Eugene Hickock and Perry Edward Smith, who brutally killed them on the night of November 15, 1959, is the seminal work of the “new journalism.” Perry Smith is one of the great dark characters of American literature, full of contradictory emotions. “I thought he was a very nice gentleman,” he says of Herb Clutter. “Soft-spoken. I thought so right up to the moment I cut his throat.” Told in chapters that alternate between the Clutter household and the approach of Smith and Hickock in their black Chevrolet, then between the investigation of the case and the killers’ flight, Capote’s account is so detailed that the reader comes to feel almost like a participant in the events.

Download or read book Volunteer for Murder written by Tim Myers and published by Tim Myers. This book was released on 2017-01-31 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times Bestselling Author and Agatha Award Nominee! This traditional mystery is just a little racier than my standard fare, but it still should be acceptable to many of my cozy readers! When Vera Hobart stumbles into the soup kitchen, most folks think she's drunk. When they take a closer look though, they realize that she's been stabbed. As volunteers Seth Jackson and Gillian Graywolf dig into the murder, they find more than they ever could have imagined, or bargained for.

Download or read book Open for Murder written by Mary Angela and published by Lyrical Press. This book was released on 2020-11-24 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deep in the heart of touristy small-town Spirit Canyon, South Dakota, former journalist Zo Jones runs the Happy Camper gift shop, where she sells everything from locally made souvenirs to memorabilia. She even rents out mountain bikes, and dabbles in the adventure industry—and sleuthing . . . It’s Memorial Day weekend in Spirit Canyon, and for Zo that means the return of summer shoppers. It also means the return of her good friend Beth, who’s moved back to the area to reopen her family’s premier hotel, Spirit Canyon Lodge. Beth and Zo spent many childhood summers there and Zo can’t wait to reconnect and celebrate the Grand Opening. But the festivities go from bad to worse when a power outage knocks out the lights—and morning reveals a competitor’s dead body found on the premises . . . Soon enough, Beth is the prime suspect in the suspicious death. Fortunately, Zo isn’t afraid to put her investigative skills to work and prove her friend’s innocence. To start digging for information, she appeals to Max Harrington, a local Forest Ranger and unlikely ally. Though they’ve argued about Happy Camper’s tours, in this case they agree on one thing: Beth isn’t a murderer. Stranger things have happened than their collaboration. After all, this is Spirit Canyon. But as the list of suspects grows, Zo will have to keep her guard up if she doesn’t want to be the next lodge guest to check out . . .

Download or read book An Urgent Murder written by Alex Winchester and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2018-08-14 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A rookie who questions everything teams up with an experienced detective with a chequered past to investigate a chilling murder ... He had to be killed urgently - if he suffered, all the better. If the blame could be shifted to someone else, so be it. A murder in a private home is quickly and easily solved by the police, their culprit established by fingerprints on the murder weapon: a jar of poison. The private care nurse neither denies nor admits to it. A clear cut case - but one detective isn’t sure. John is an experienced Metropolitan Police detective with a chequered background and a laissez faire attitude who is knocked back when he is suddenly teamed with Alison, a prim young Sussex officer who is out to learn as much as possible in her ambitious pursuit of senior rank. With different approaches to the case and influences from various people, the two must learn to work together in order to bring the true killer to justice. Can Alison trust John? Can John shield Alison for what is to come? And are more laws about to be broken when a nefarious crime lord learns from a highly placed mole that their lucrative way of life is about to come to an end? The reader is led through the ongoing investigation of an apparently solved, simple murder that transpires to be anything but. Twists, turns and clues abound but may not necessarily lead to the expected conclusion. Readers who enjoy thrilling crime books along with baffling mysteries will delight in this novel.

Download or read book Murder on the House written by Juliet Blackwell and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-12-04 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bed-and-breakfast—with a side of ghosts. Word has spread that contractor Mel Turner can communicate with the spirits of the dead, and she’s having a hard time maintaining a low profile. She decides to embrace her reputation for the chance to restore a historic house that calls to her. The new owners, who hope to run a haunted bed-and-breakfast, want Mel to encourage the ghosts that supposedly roam the halls to enhance the house’s paranormal charm. The catch: Mel has to spend one night in the house to win the project. During the spine-chilling sleepover, the estate gains another supernatural occupant when someone doesn’t survive the night. As Mel tries to coax the resident spirits into revealing the identity of the killer, she risks becoming the next casualty of this dangerous renovation.

Download or read book The Stately Home Murder written by Catherine Aird and published by Rue Morgue Classic British Mys. This book was released on 2008-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At a stately manor home, open for public tours, a young boy lifts the helmet on a suit of armor and finds a human face staring back at him! Detective C.D. Sloan and his wisecracking sidekick, Crosby, must figure out who stashed the body and why.