Download or read book The After Hours Deception written by Patti Larsen and published by Patti Larsen Cozy Mystery Books. This book was released on 2019-12-16 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Free Cozy Murder Mystery Book with a Female Detective) Infiltrate. Investigate. Hyperventilate. New jobs can be a real killer. Enter the world of wit and intrigue with The After Hours Deception by Patti Larsen – A humorous cozy mystery that will keep you guessing and giggling! Meet Petal Morgan, a twenty-eight-year-old whose life seems to have lost its way. With no clear direction toward her lifelong dream and a mounting pile of student loans, she finds herself teetering on the brink of bankruptcy. In a humbling turn of events, Petal reluctantly moves into the unfinished apartment above her parents' garage, feeling the weight of failure upon her shoulders. But just when Petal thinks her luck couldn't get any worse, an unexpected encounter with an old friend leads her down a path she never anticipated. In a stroke of fate, she stumbles upon a job that not only reveals her hidden talents but also brings her face to face with a shocking discovery – a dead body! Welcome to Masquerade Inc. Cozy Mysteries, where deception takes center stage and secrets are the currency of the trade. Petal finds herself thrust into a world of mystery and intrigue, armed with her quick wit and newfound skills. As she delves deeper into the enigmatic web surrounding the murder, she uncovers a trail of deception that leads to unexpected places. Patti Larsen's The After Hours Deception invites you to join Petal on a rollercoaster ride of laughter and suspense in the realm of Masquerade Inc. Cozy Mysteries. Get ready to laugh out loud as Petal navigates through hilarious misadventures, uncovers hidden motives, and exposes the quirks of the eclectic characters populating her newfound world. With each twist and turn, you'll find yourself engrossed in a delightful blend of humor, mystery, and a touch of whimsy. Petal's journey will not only keep you on the edge of your seat but also leave you chuckling with every page turned. So, prepare to embark on an unforgettable escapade alongside Petal Morgan, the accidental detective with a knack for stumbling upon the unexpected. Explore the enticing world of Masquerade Inc., where deception becomes the key to unraveling the truth. Don't miss out on the uproarious charm of The After Hours Deception – because sometimes, life's detours can lead to the most thrilling and hilarious adventures of all! KEYWORDS: cozy mystery, cozy mystery series, cozy mystery books, cozy murder mystery books, cozy murder mystery series, cozy murder, cozy mystery books, murder mystery series, free ebook, free murder mystery, free mystery, free cozy murder mystery book, cozy series

Download or read book The Age of Deception written by Mohamed ElBaradei and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2011-05-03 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When, in 1997, the International Atomic Energy Agency unanimously elected Mohamed ElBaradei as its next Director General, few observers could have forecast the dramatic role he would play over the next 12 years. Certainly, the stage onto which Dr. ElBaradei stepped - featuring Saddam Hussein's Iraq, Kim Jong-Il's North Korea, Muammar al-Gaddafi's Libya, and the Islamic Republic of Iran - gave ample opportunity for high-stakes and high-profile decision-making. But no one could have predicted that ElBaradei would be 'the man in the middle' of so many nuclear conflicts over so sustained a period of time. And after he and the IAEA were jointly awarded the 2005 Nobel Peace Prize, his role as middle-man only gained intensity.In The Age of Deception, Dr. ElBaradei gives us his account from the centre of the nuclear fray. Readers will sit at the dinner table with Iraqi officials in Baghdad, listening as they bleakly predict the coming war. They will eavesdrop on the exchanges between UN inspectors and U.S. officials observing the behind-the-scenes formulation of an approach to foreign policy and diplomacy that would come to characterise the Bush administration. We gain a feel for the difficulty of the IAEA inspectors' struggle to maintain objectivity when trust has been broken, or when the press - or governments - are playing fast and loose with the facts. The Age of Deception is a story of human imperfection, of modern society struggling to come to grips with the multiple dimensions of human insecurity.

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Download or read book Leadership and Self deception written by The Arbinger Institute and published by Berrett-Koehler Publishers. This book was released on 2002 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explains why self-deception is at the heart of many leadership problems, identifying destructive patterns that undermine the successes of potentially excellent professionals while revealing how to improve teamwork, communication, and motivation. Reprint.

Download or read book Deception on His Mind written by Elizabeth George and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2009-03-24 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “One of George’s best . . . insightful, tense, and compassionate.”—Entertainment Weekly Balford-le-Nez is a dying seaside town on the coast of Essex. But when a member of the town’s small but growing Asian community is found murdered near its beach, the sleepy town ignites. Intrigued by the involvement of her London neighbor—Taymullah Azhar—in what appears to be a growing racial conflagration, Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers arranges to have herself assigned to the investigation. Setting out on her own, this is one case Havers will have to solve without her longtime partner, Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley— and it’s one of the toughest she’s ever encountered. For Havers must probe not only the mind of a murderer and her emotional response to a case unsettlingly close to her own heart, but also the terrible price people pay for deceiving others . . . and themselves. Praise for Deception on His Mind “So much fun to read, it’s criminal.”—Newsday “It’s tough to resist the pull of George’s storytelling once hooked.”—USA Today “Falls smartly into place in [George’s] literate, impassioned series, one of today’s best.”—Chicago Tribune “Fascinating . . . there are wrenching stories here, and George conveys them with exceptional grace.”—People

Download or read book The Language of Deception written by Dariusz Galasinski and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2000-03-08 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Author Dariusz Galasinski employs a discourse analytical approach to the study of deception in The Language of Deception. The book focuses on the deceptive messages themselves -- how language is used to deceive others and what kinds of linguistic devices are used. Galasinski develops a theory of deception based on his extensive study of debates and interviews of American and British politicians. Actual exchanges such as the one in which a politician is asked the same question 14 times and evades it 14 times, provide fascinating insight into deceptive linguistic practices.

Download or read book Deception s Path written by Henry J. Gambino and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2000-09-16 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When prominent businessman and arts patron E. Dillon Parsons is murdered at the prestigious Verdi Society’s annual masquerade ball, Homicide Lieutenant Douglas MacArthur Kim is plunged into the Philadelphia arts scene, where, to find the killer he must follow a path of deception in which the arts are subject to corporate whim and justice is subordinated to political expediency. When three other members of the city’s arts scene are murdered, the pathways of deception branch even farther, forcing Kim to cope with pressure from his superior officer, who wants to be police commissioner; from the District Attorney, who wants to be mayor; and from an overbearing newspaper editor, who wants headlines. They want an arrest and conviction, even though Kim is convinced the prime suspect is innocent. Along the way, Kim must come to grips with the deceptions of his own life. Half Korean, half Caucasian, he is torn between two cultures. Unsure of his own identity, he has become alienated from his American stepfather, who brought him to this country and raised him as his own, then abandoned him and his mother for another woman. Now, he must follow deception’s path until he reaches a doorway of truth.

Download or read book The Interplay of Truth and Deception written by Matthew S. McGlone and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-03-15 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents a conceptualization of the phenomena of lying and deception, manifested in some well-known constructions like spin, hype, doublespeak, equivocation, and contextomy (quoting out of context). With chapters from leading-edge researchers offering innovative perspectives, this volume will appeal to scholars, researchers, and advanced/graduate students in communication, media, and psychology.

Download or read book D Day Deception written by Mary K. Barbier and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2007-10-30 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On 6 June 1944, Allied forces stormed the beaches at Normandy. The invasion followed several years of argument and planning by Allied leaders, who remained committed to a return to the European continent after the Germans had forced the Allies to evacuate at Dunkirk in May 1940. Before the spring of 1944, however, Prime Minister Winston Churchill and other British leaders remained unconvinced that the invasion was feasible. At the Teheran Conference in November 1943, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill promised Josef Stalin that Allied troops would launch Operation Overlord, the invasion of Normandy, in the spring. Because of their continuing concerns about Overlord, the British convinced the Americans to implement a cover plan to help ensure the invasion's success. The London Controlling Section (LCS) devised an elaborate two-part plan called Operation Fortitude that SHAEF (Supreme Headquarters, Allied Expeditionary Force) helped to fine tune and that both British and American forces implemented Historians analyzing the Normandy invasion frequently devote some discussion to Operation Fortitude. Although they admit that Fortitude North did not accomplish all that the Allied deception planners had hoped, many historians heap praise on Fortitude South, using phrases such as, unquestionably the greatest deception in military history. Many of these historians assume that the deception plan played a crucial role in the June 1944 assault. A reexamination of the sources suggests, however, that other factors contributed as much, if not more, to the Allied victory in Normandy and that Allied forces could have succeeded without the elaborate deception created by the LCS. Moreover, the persistent tendency to exaggerate the operational effect of Fortitude on the German military performance at Normandy continues to draw attention away from other, technical-military reasons for the German failures there.

Download or read book Alleged Deception of Congressional Task Force Delegation to Miami District of the Immigration and Naturalization Service written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Immigration and Claims and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Dark Deception Defenders of Justice Book 2 written by Nancy Mehl and published by Bethany House. This book was released on 2017-06-06 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kate O'Brien's quiet life in small-town Shelter Cove, Arkansas is shaken when her past suddenly comes roaring back to life. Four years ago, she and her twin sister were attacked by an elusive serial killer. Only Kate survived, and she's been in witness protection ever since. When new evidence arises to suggest the convicted man wasn't the murderer, she's subpoenaed to testify in the new trial. Afraid to go back into that world, Kate only agrees if Tony DeLuca, the deputy Marshal who protected her during the original trial, escorts her to St. Louis. Tony readily takes on the assignment; Kate's beauty and inner strength made more of an impression on him than he expected. But when Kate's safety is threatened, Tony must race against the clock to keep her alive and put this ugly case to rest before anyone else gets killed.

Download or read book Bodies of Deception the Final Fury of the Dark Angel Series written by John LaJoie and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2008-07-29 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Feeling remorse for the unseen accident that placed his wife into a coma, John Joliea finds that her sudden awakening is now reason to celebrate. Embracing the woman he had fought to find and love for so long, she was returning home to his mending heart, or so he thought. As work completes on his final legacy at Xandow, his wife begins to show signs of change. As her hostility increases, so does their relationship as it begins to unwind. In a deadly game of cat and mouse, John escapes her web of killings in order to gain access to his wealth. Uncovering the truth behind the accident, he finds that an evil brought into the world in the form of his wife is none other than the dark angel herself bent on his destruction. In the end, who will survive?

Download or read book Close Encounter Part 1 written by Stephanie St. Klaire and published by . This book was released on 2020-11-18 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What happens in the city of sin during a total blackout? EVERYTHING...Cane O'Reilly has one job, keep Charlie Adams alive. When witness protection fails, more than once, he's the only one who can protect her. As the only surviving victim of an international serial killer, she comes with a hell of a lot of baggage and...other needs Cane is happy to fulfill. Hiding out in one of the most secure cities, they keep each other company while Cane has eyes everywhere searching for the killer with unfinished business...Charlie.The day started with a quick screw, a couple of quirky two-bit cons and ended with a diabolical serial killer. What do you do when the lights go out? Run.

Download or read book Deception written by Robert W. Mitchell and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1986-01-01 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mitchell and Thompson have compiled the first interdisciplinary study of deception and its manifestations in a variety of animal species. Deception is unique in that it presents detailed explorations of the broadest array of deceptive behavior, ranging from deceptive signaling in fireflies and stomatopods, to false-alarm calling by birds and foxes, to playful manipulating between people and dogs, to deceiving within intimate human relationships. It offers a historical overview of the problem of deception in related fields of animal behavior, philosophical analyses of the meaning and significance of deception in evolutionary and psychological theories, and diverse perspectives on deception--philosophical, ecological, evolutionary, ethological, developmental, psychological, anthropological, and historical. The contributions gathered herein afford scientists the opportunity to discover something about the formal properties of deception, enabling them to explore and evaluate the belief that one set of descriptive and perhaps explanatory structures is suitable for both biological and psychological phenomena.

Download or read book Cross cultural Deception in Polish and American English in Computer Mediated Communication written by Anna Kuzio and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2018-09-30 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deception is omnipresent throughout the evolution of life, inseparable from the development of various modes of communication. By effectively manipulating the behavior of others, apparently by taking advantage of recipients’ own rules, communicators are able to gain an advantage while negotiating meaning in a cross-cultural environment. Even though much research related to deceptive behavior and its detection has been conducted in recent years, little of it has concentrated on deception outside of a North American context. This monograph addresses that lacuna. Consistently, most research on deception has examined face-to-face verbal communication and ignored computer-mediated communication. In response, this book also provides detailed insights into how computer-mediated communication and adopted cultural values affect deceptive communication and deception detection across cultures, namely in Poland and the USA. It focuses on discussing theories about why cues to deception exist, theories specific to verbal cues to deception, and theories about computer mediation in communication. The book also proposes a research model postulating relationships between computer-mediated communication media, cue detection, media familiarity, national culture, espoused cultural values, veracity judgment success, and deceptive communicative behavior.

Download or read book Pirate Gold and Murder written by Patti Larsen and published by Patti Larsen Books. This book was released on 2019-06-16 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A swashbuckling kind of life I could honestly say there was nothing more incredible than opening my eyes to find a pair of gorgeous blue ones staring right back at me. I’d been enjoying this particular view for the last six months, with many, many more mornings to come. The rest of our lives together, to be exact, minus a few the delicious man I’d married was out of town. How lucky could I possibly get? Happily married and ready for the truth, Fee and Crew go on an official search to find out if Reading’s hoard actually exists. But treasure hunting takes a nasty turn when one of the dive team searching for gold goes belly up. To make matters worse, a second death adds to Fee’s body count, leaving her juggling two murders and more mysteries than even a Fleming knows what to do with. In this final installment of the Fiona Fleming Cozy Mysteries, will Fee finally uncover the secret of her namesake, Blackstone Corporation, Captain Reading’s lost treasure and more? cozy murder mystery series, cozy murder mystery, cozy murder mystery books, cozy murder, cozy murder mysteries, animal cozy mystery, animal cozy

Download or read book Deception s Guard written by Jacqueline Randolph and published by Fultus Corporation. This book was released on 2005-03 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DEA agent Skye Mathews is a celebrated DEA agent assigned to the South/Central America Region. A consummate bilingual actress and pilot her successes are renown in the DEA. She is assigned to her most difficult mission, that of guarding CEO Rhys Wielde of Genoreach Technologies, Inc. in his quest to bring his colleagues to justice after they create a deadly biological weapon. Despite not knowing the identity of his multi-disguised bodyguard, Skye and Rhys's adventures take them through three countries, four states, deceptions, assassins, betrayals--and an unexpected alliance.