Download or read book Slay Bells written by Kate Kingsbury and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2007-11-06 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cecily Sinclair Baxter's Christmas becomes a working holiday when the man she hired to play Santa Claus is murdered in this Pennyfoot Hotel mystery. To ring in the holiday season, Cecily Sinclair Baxter is hosting a party at the Pennyfoot Hotel for the children of Badgers End to meet Father Christmas. Unfortunately, the jolly old man fails to appear. Instead, his body is discovered—clearly a victim of foul play—and his helper has had a fatal fall. The police believe the two men had a tragic rooftop tangle, but Cecily has her doubts. The murder weapon is still missing, and since no one has left the hotel since the crime, she’s making a list of suspects—and checking it twice...

Download or read book Slay Bells Ring written by Amy Cissell and published by Amy Cissell. This book was released on 2023-08-20 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All Stephanie wants is to win back her kids and celebrate a vampire-free Christmas. Last summer, vampires murdered and turned Stephanie’s husband, forcing her to do the unthinkable. Angry and heartbroken, her kids fled to Eden Valley. She hasn’t seen them since. Now, she’s headed to Eden Valley for Christmas to rebuild her family. She hopes a town full of angels, demons, and teenage deities will be safe from vampires. Then again, she’s been wrong a lot lately. When vampires show up in the picturesque supernatural town, she has no choice but to defend her family. With the aid of her best friend and fellow vampire slayer, she stakes her life and the lives of her kids on the abilities she’s kept hidden for seventeen years. But she’s going to need more than rusty skills if she wants to save the ones she loves most…

Download or read book Slay Bells Ring written by Nancy Robards Thompson and published by Tule Publishing. This book was released on 2019-10-07 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's one thing to write a mystery, but when your daughter is the suspect -- you solve it. Wedding planner Jenna Bell doesn’t panic when the groom is a no-show to the ceremony – even though he is her former high school sweetheart and this wedding is the small town's event of the year. However, when he turns up dead and she is falsely accused… well, yeah, now it’s the time to panic. Jenna’s mother, Maddie, puts her cozy mystery writing skills to use to try to clear her daughter’s name, stepping on by-the-book Chief of Police Jackson Bradley's toes in the process. No matter how enticing he finds her, he doesn’t want this writer-turned-amateur-sleuth interfering with his murder investigation. With nearly all of Hemlock, North Carolina, picking sides and the town's own Gossip Brigade churning out the rumors, Maddie discovers the mystery isn't very cozy when it hits this close to home.

Download or read book Slay Bells Ring written by Karen Rose Smith and published by Kensington Cozies. This book was released on 2017-10-31 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this Pennsylvania town, crime lurks behind the Christmas decorations . . . “A great storyline that will keep you guessing to the very end.” —Suspense Magazine It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas, especially now that Caprice De Luca has wrapped up her holiday-themed staging gig at a stunning historic home in downtown Kismet, Pennsylvania. Behind all the red ribbon and glowing string lights, homeowners Chris and Sara Merriweather have it all. But Chris, a Vietnam vet who plays Santa every year at the community park, has been displaying strange behavior after a recent trip to Washington, DC The joy of the season vanishes entirely when Chris is found murdered on Santa Lane, leaving behind his loyal malamute and lots of unfinished business. As Caprice uncovers hidden secrets in Santa's workshop, the pressure is on to catch the candy cane-wielding culprit—before she’s next on a killer’s deadly wish list . . . “An irresistible sleuth.” —Leslie Meier, New York Times–bestselling author of Irish Parade Murder

Download or read book Slay Bells Ring written by Carol A. Guy and published by Devine Destinies. This book was released on 2009-12-15 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's the holiday season and Erica Parkhurst, part owner now of the Spirit Lake Inn, has organized an event called Enchanted Christmas. The weeklong event was to be open to couples only, but again fate intervenes and things don't go as planned. Paula Bascilla, Erica's best friend, is now living with her lover, Cal Motega, but things are not on an even keel. Cal is harboring a secret he will not share with her, yet one that keeps him up nights and causes bizarre behavior that is beginning to frighten her. But soon, Paula makes a discovery that will change both of their lives forever. When the guests arrive, Erica is in for an unpleasant shock when one of them turns out to be someone from her past and another one is there to promote a business deal that could adversely affect the inn's future. Then when a guest is murdered and Cal arrested for the crime, Erica, Paula and Joe must get to the truth. In the meantime, ghostly activity is running rampant, involving the guests this time to the point where one is injured. Yet Erica and Paula feel they are getting closer to unlocking some of the secrets of the inn's spectral residents. Spend the holidays in Spirit Lake where more secrets are revealed, lives are changed and romance still blossoms against the backdrop of a winter wonderland.

Download or read book Slay Bells Ringing written by Emily James and published by Stronghold Books. This book was released on 2019-01-04 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two twisty cozy mysteries by award-winning author Emily James... In "Unsilent Nights," Criminal defense attorney Nicole Fitzhenry-Dawes wanted nothing more than to relax and spend time with her new husband someplace warm for her honeymoon. But things rarely ever go as planned. With her husband sick from a source they can't identify and a fellow passenger who went missing while the ship was in the middle of the ocean, Nicole has more than one mystery to solve. In "Ginger Dead Man," cupcake truck owner Isabel Addington was hoping the Christmas season would help turn her struggling business around. Instead of making cupcakes, she ends up investigating a murder when it looks like the police aren't taking the death of a homeless man seriously. This collection includes a Maple Syrup Mysteries novella and a Cupcake Truck Mysteries novella.

Download or read book Slay Bells Ring written by Ellie Ferguson and published by Hunter's Moon Press. This book was released on 2016-01-14 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fifteen years ago, Juliana Grissom left Mossy Creek in her rear view mirror. She swore then she would never return for more than a day or two at a time. But even the best laid plans can go awry, something she knew all too well, especially when her family was involved. Now she's back and her family expects her to find some way to clear her mother of murder charges. Complicating her life even further is Sam Caldwell, the man she never got over. Now it seems everyone in town is determined to find a way to keep her there, whether she wants to stay or not. Bodies are dropping. Gossip is flying and Juliana knows time is running out. After all, holidays can be murder in Mossy Creek.

Download or read book Slay Bells written by Jo Gibson and published by Zebra Books. This book was released on 1994 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Diana and her friends are shopping for Christmas gifts at the newly opened Crossroads Mall when a sudden snowstorm traps them inside. They're having so much fun, they don't mind. That is, until Diana's friends are killed off--one by one. Hiding in the mall is a twisted killer with a Christmas list of his own.

Download or read book Sleigh Bells for Dry Creek written by Janet Tronstad and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rodeo rider Wade Stone never thought he'd step foot in Dry Creek, Montana, again. Not with his family's harrowing past. But nine years later, he's back on the Stone ranch and getting stared down by the townspeople. Except by Amy Mitchell, whose heart he broke after one sweet kiss. Wade knows she's afraid he'll leave again, but surely there's no second chance for them. It seems the whole town—and her family—is against them. Until one beautiful Christmas sleigh teaches everyone the true meaning of the holiday.

Download or read book The Final Girl Support Group written by Grady Hendrix and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-07-13 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER VOTED GOODREADS CHOICE AWARD BEST HORROR NOVEL OF 2021 A Good Morning America Buzz Pick “The horror master…puts his unique spin on slasher movie tropes.”-USA Today A can't-miss summer read, selected by The New York Times, Oprah Daily, Time, USA Today, The Philadelphia Inquirer, CNN, LitHub, BookRiot, Bustle, Popsugar and the New York Public Library In horror movies, the final girls are the ones left standing when the credits roll. They made it through the worst night of their lives…but what happens after? Like his bestselling novel The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires, Grady Hendrix’s latest is a fast-paced, frightening, and wickedly humorous thriller. From chain saws to summer camp slayers, The Final Girl Support Group pays tribute to and slyly subverts our most popular horror films—movies like The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, A Nightmare on Elm Street, and Scream. Lynnette Tarkington is a real-life final girl who survived a massacre. For more than a decade, she’s been meeting with five other final girls and their therapist in a support group for those who survived the unthinkable, working to put their lives back together. Then one woman misses a meeting, and their worst fears are realized—someone knows about the group and is determined to rip their lives apart again, piece by piece. But the thing about final girls is that no matter how bad the odds, how dark the night, how sharp the knife, they will never, ever give up.

Download or read book Here to Slay written by Amy Cissell and published by Broken World Publishing. This book was released on 2022-09-27 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who says vampire slaying is a young woman’s game? When 50-year-old Charlie Williams buys the winery she’s been saving for her whole life, she thought her vessel—wine not sailing—had come in. Sure, there’d been a couple supernatural snafus, but that was behind her. But when she’s ambushed at home by two vampires, all she has to fall back on is witty banter and a hot streak of luck. Avoiding the truth won’t work anymore. The vampires are back, and accepting her calling as a middle-aged Buffy is the only way to save her business—and stay alive. Charlie’s dreams of wine-making success are disappearing faster than a glass of chardonnay at a garden party. Unfortunately, the vampires keep raising the stakes. How much more can her life suck? She’s about to find out… Here to Slay is book 1 in the new Vamps in the Vineyard Paranormal Women’s Fiction Adventure series. If you like strong female characters, all slaying and no laying, and more vampire puns than you can shake a stake at, then this is the series for you! Keywords: contemporary fantasy, best female friends, humorous fantasy, supernatural series, tough heroine books, paranormal women's fiction, characters over 40, women over 40, vampire slayer fantasy, middle-aged vampire slayers, occult fantasy

Download or read book Antiques Slay Belles written by Barbara Allan and published by Severn House Publishers Ltd. This book was released on 2024-11-05 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Former sheriff, talented thespian and delightfully eccentric true-crime author Vivian Borne hunts down a Christmas killer in the new Trash 'n' Treasures cozy mystery - "one of the funniest cozy series going" (Ellery Queen Magazine) It's five days before Christmas, and Vivian Borne - septuagenarian antiques dealer, true-crime writer and enthusiastic amateur sleuth - and her long-suffering daughter Brandy are preparing a presentation of holiday antiques at the local country club's annual Christmas luncheon. Distracted by their secret Santa gifts, the ladies of the club, to Vivian's dismay, are not giving her and her antique sleigh bells the attention they deserve. But when Norma Crumley, socialite and world-class gossip, falls face first into her plum pudding, it seems Santa has also delivered the sleuthing mother and daughter a present: a cracker of a case! Christmas in small-town Serenity is (usually) a magical time. Can Vivian and Brandy - not forgetting Shih Tzu sidekick Sushi - make a killing from their holiday antiques, catch a devious murderer, and wrap up the case in time to eat their festive microwave turkey dinners? This light-hearted, laugh-out-loud cozy mystery also features mother-daughter sleuths Brandy and Vivian's witty tips for buying and selling antiques, along with a selection of tasty recipes. Perfect for getting you into the holiday spirit - whatever the time of year!

Download or read book Fright Xmas written by Alan-Bertaneisson Jones and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2010-08 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The 1001 Outfit written by Douglas D. Murray and published by Infinity Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Apaches, outlaws, thieves and killers bedevil Al Stuart after he finds a fabulous gold mine while riding to establish a new ranch in Arizona Territory's lonely Mogollon Rim forests.

Download or read book Bleeding Skull written by Annie Choi and published by Fantagraphics Books. This book was released on 2021-03-23 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A celebration of the most obscure, bizarre, and brain-busting movies ever made, this film guide features 250 in-depth reviews that have escaped the radar of people with taste and the tolerance of critics ― Goregasm! I Was a Teenage Serial Killer! Satan Claus!Die Hard Dracula! Curated by the enthusiastic minds behind BleedingSkull.com, this book gets deep into gutter-level, no-budget horror, from shot-on-VHS revelations (Eyes of the Werewolf) to forgotten outsider art hallucinations (Alien Beasts). Jam-packed with rare photographs, advertisements, and VHS sleeves (most of which have never been seen before), Bleeding Skull is an edifying, laugh-out-loud guide to the dusty inventory of the greatest video store that never existed.

Download or read book Elements of Surprise written by Amy Cissell and published by Amy Cissell. This book was released on 2023-04-25 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to Oracle Bay, the town where the psychics already knew you were coming. Morgana is recovering from the events of the last couple months, rebuilding her power, and mending her broken heart. But a text from the man she’d pushed away puts Oracle Bay back in the crosshairs. This time, the dark witch is looking for more than power – she’s looking for revenge. When the power-mad witch murders someone under Morgana’s protection, the hunt becomes even more urgent. She has to push aside her fear to work with the man who holds her heart. And she has to do it without giving in to the feelings that are drawing them even closer together. The hunt spans three countries and leaves Morgana constantly one step behind. When there’s nowhere else to turn, she’s forced to trust her instincts and her friends if she wants to find the strength to save the people she loves. One misstep will leave Oracle Bay vulnerable, and this time, it isn’t only her heart that’s on the line.

Download or read book Guardian of Eden written by Amy Cissell and published by Amy Cissell. This book was released on 2022-02-24 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Blending in as an angel is hard enough, but when you’re the adoptive mom of a primordial lake monster in a town full of demons, it’s nearly impossible. Aurielle Jones spent the last several millennia guarding Eden Valley and its secrets without forming attachments to anyone or anything. But then the unexpected happened—she made friends. Now, her loyalty and obedience to the one who created her are put to the test when she is forced to choose between friendship, love, and obedience. When her darkest secret and deepest regret reemerges in Eden Valley and threatens to destroy the town, the balance between heaven and hell, and her heart, she is given a command. Destroy the nephilim—again—who was once the center of her life, or watch her friends and neighbors fall one by one. One wrong decision will cost Elle the town she’s been entrusted with, the lives of the people she’s unexpectedly grown to love, and her very existence. Can she save the humans she loves without sacrificing her chance at happiness? Or will she let duty overcome desire and be forced to witness the destruction of everyone she holds dear? Guardian of Eden is the fourth and final book in a magical new paranormal women’s fiction series from USA Today Bestselling Author Amy Cissell, author of the Eleanor Morgan novels and the Oracle Bay series. Keywords: contemporary fantasy, paranormal romance, demon romance, fantasy complete series, angel and demon romance, theological fantasy, single mother fantasy, best female friends, humorous fantasy, supernatural series, tough heroine books, paranormal women's fiction, characters over 40, women over 40, fantasy romance, occult romance, psychic fantasy romance, occult fantasy