Download or read book The Dead Don t Boogie written by Douglas Skelton and published by Saraband. This book was released on 2022-01-01 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Absolutely brilliant. A quick-witted and vastly entertaining novel that takes Douglas Skelton into the crime fiction big league.” Alex Gray “If you like your humour black and your detective novels hard boiled, The Dead Don’t Boogie is a cut above the rest.” Theresa Talbot “A white-knuckle, wisecracking thriller.” Caro Ramsay A missing teenage girl should be an easy job for Dominic Queste – after all, finding lost souls is what he does best. But sometimes it’s better if those souls stay lost. Jenny Deavers is trouble, especially for an ex-cokehead like Queste. Some truly nasty characters are very keen indeed to get to Jenny, and will stop at nothing... including murder. As the bodies pile up, Queste has to use all his street smarts both to protect Jenny and to find out just who wants her dead. The trail leads him to a vicious world of brutal gangsters, merciless hitmen, dark family secrets and an insatiable lust for power in the highest echelons of politics.
Download or read book Tag You re Dead written by Douglas Skelton and published by Saraband. This book was released on 2017-04-27 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maverick investigator Dominic Queste is on the trail of missing butcher Sam Price. But he soon uncovers links to a killer with a taste for games. What began as a simple favour for his girlfriend quickly descends into a battle for survival against an enemy who has no qualms about turning victims into prime cuts. Amidst a twisted game of cat and mouse, suspicious coppers, vicious crooks and a seemingly random burglary, Queste has to keep his wits about him. Or he might just find himself on the butcher’s block.
Download or read book The Blood Is Still written by Douglas Skelton and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-01-12 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A riveting, immersive thriller from the author of Thunder Bay—"If you don't know Skelton, now's the time" (Ian Rankin). When a man in eighteenth-century Highland dress is found dead on the site of the Battle of Culloden, where Bonnie Prince Charlie led his forces to a rout seared into Scottish memory, Rebecca Connolly takes up the case for the Chronicle. A controversial film about the rebellion and battle is being shot nearby, and it has drawn the ire of the right-wing nationalist movement Spirit of the Gael. Is there some link between the murder—the weapon used to impale the man leaves no doubt it was murder—and Spirit of the Gael or the shadowy militant group New Dawn, thought to be associated with them? Meanwhile, in the working-class part of town, Rebecca's assignment to cover a protest against the placement of a convicted child molester into the community leads her to Mo Burke, the unlikely protest leader. Mo is a formidable woman, but she is also the matriarch of a known crime family and usually prefers to shun the spotlight. What has drawn her out? And what of her two grown sons, who share in the family business? The older one, Nolan, with Ben Affleck good looks, is clearly intrigued by Rebecca, as she is by him, despite her better instincts to steer clear of their dangerous, violent world. And then another body is found, this one wearing the Redcoat uniform of the victorious British army.
Download or read book Good Cop Dead Cop written by Bob Ruchhoft and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2010-02 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Detective Lieutenant Jake Reed runs Hollywood Detective Division. He's pondering the brutal rape and murder of a young woman in the Hollywood Hills when he is stunned to receive a call form Mitch Thacker, a former partner from twenty years ago. Jake had assumed Thacker was long since dead from alcoholism. When Mitch finally persuades a reluctant Jake to meet the next day for a cup of coffee, the two men begin to resolve old differences. Their renewed friendship gets feisty on occasion and humorous on others. They unintentionally get involved in a minor incident which quickly develops into a complex investigation involving high placed corrupt officials, crooked cops, a headless corpse and the Mafia. The story is based on real events and told by the guys who've been there. A major investigation full of twists and turns, a variety of characters and the real dialogue of street smart detectives reveals the real L.A.P.D.
Download or read book Dead Babies written by Martin Amis and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-01-26 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If the Marquis de Sade were to crash one of P. G. Wodehouse's house parties, the chaos might resemble the nightmarishly funny goings-on in this novel from "one of the most gifted novelists of his generation” (TIME). “Amis is a born comic novelist in the tradition that ranges from Dickens to Waugh.... [His] mercurial style…can rise to Joycean brilliance” —Newsweek "Amis's version of the bleak and wrecky future that awaits a sex-and-drug-addicted society is...fizzing with style, [and] busy with verbal inventiveness." —Julian Barnes, best-selling author of The Sense of an Ending The residents of Appleseed Rectory have primed themselves both for a visit from a triad of Americans and a weekend of copious drug taking and sexual gymnastics. There's even a heifer to be slugged and a pair of doddering tenants to be ingeniously harassed. But none of these variously bright and dull young things has counted on the intrusion of "dead babies"—dreary spasms of reality. Or on the uninvited presence of a mysterious prankster named Johnny, whose sinister idea of fun makes theirs look like a game of backgammon.
Download or read book The Quick and the Dead written by Randy Lee Eickhoff and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2005-07 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ordered to assassinate a suspected spy in Saigon, Vietnam War operative Benjamin Wingfoot discovers that his mission has more widespread significance and is forced to confront his ethical beliefs in order to expose dangerous local corruption.
Download or read book The Tragic Odes of Jerry Garcia and The Grateful Dead written by Brent Wood and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-03-26 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Tragic Odes of Jerry Garcia and the Grateful Dead is a multifaceted study of tragedy in the group’s live performances showing how Garcia brought about catharsis through dance by leading songs of grief, mortality, and ironic fate in a collective theatrical context. This musical, literary, and historical analysis of thirty-five songs with tragic dimensions performed by Garcia in concert with the Grateful Dead illustrates the syncretic approach and acute editorial ear he applied in adapting songs of Robert Hunter, Bob Dylan, and folk tradition. Tragically ironic situations in which Garcia found himself when performing these songs are revealed, including those related to his opiate addiction and final decline. This book examines Garcia’s musical craftsmanship and the Grateful Dead’s collective art in terms of the mystery-rites of ancient Greece, Friedrich Nietzsche’s Dionysus, 20th century American music rooted in New Orleans, Hermann Hesse’s Magic Theater, and the Greek Theatre at Berkeley, offering a clear prospect on an often misunderstood phenomenon. Featuring interdisciplinary analysis, close attention to musical and poetic strategies, and historical and critical contexts, this book will be of interest to scholars and researchers of Popular Music, Musicology, Cultural Studies, and American Studies, as well as to the Grateful Dead’s avid listeners.
Download or read book The Unrelieved Paradox written by Martin E. Marty and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Franz Bibfeldt's famously flexible theology comes to life for a new generation of readers in this revised and expanded edition of The Unrelieved Paradox, which, besides completely reproducing the original 1994 volume, contains these noteworthy added features: A new preface by Martin Marty ("Not a classic!" he says) Previously unpublished essays by William Schweiker, Jean-Luc Marion, James T. Robinson, and Arthur Callaham Much more recent toasts to Bibfeldt by Ian Gerdon and Emanuelle Burton New artwork by David Morgan
Download or read book The American Book of the Dead written by Oliver Trager and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1997-12-04 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains over 750 alphabetically-arranged entries that provide information about the rock group Grateful Dead, featuring profiles of band members and associated musicians, filmmakers, photographers, composers, and others, and descriptions of the band's albums and solo releases.
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Download or read book The Complete Annotated Grateful Dead Lyrics written by David G. Dodd and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-10-13 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Additional edition statement from dust jacket.
Download or read book Egg Drop Dead written by Laura Childs and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2017-12-05 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ladies of the Cackleberry Club seek a killer in the latest mystery from New York Times bestselling author Laura Childs. Maintaining good personal relationships with their suppliers is one of the secrets of the Cackleberry Club café’s success, so Suzanne doesn’t mind going out to Mike Mullen’s dairy farm to pick up some wheels of cheese. She’s looking forward to a nice visit with the mild-mannered farmer before heading back to their hectic kitchen. But when she arrives, Mike’s nowhere to be found. The moaning of his cows leads her to look in the barn, where she discovers a bloodcurdling sight—the farmer’s dead body. Apparently not everyone was as fond of Mike Mullen as the Cackleberry Club. Churning with grief and outrage, Suzanne, Petra, and Toni vow to find the farmer’s murderer—but as they get closer to the truth, the desperate killer gets whipped into a frenzy and plans to put the squeeze on them…
Download or read book Truck n written by Loyd Skiles and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2005-07 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The autobiographical adventures of a rock 'n roll Karma Bandit who hops in a big rig in New York City with his truck driving partner, criss-crossing America twice during a month long run with the President hot on their trail, finally encountering everything from subtrefuge to murder
Download or read book The Dead Beat Scroll written by Mark Coggins and published by Down & Out Books. This book was released on 2019-09-16 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Private investigator August Riordan returns to San Francisco to avenge the death of his friend and one-time partner, Chris Duckworth. Duckworth has taken over Riordan’s old business, his old office and even his old apartment, and Riordan suspects Duckworth’s death is linked to the missing person case he was working when he died. An alluring young woman named Angelina hired Duckworth to look for her half-sister, but what Riordan finds instead is a murderous polyamorous family intent on claiming a previously unknown manuscript from dead Beat writer Jack Kerouac. Following clues from Duckworth and a trail of mutilated bodies left by the family, Riordan soon realizes that avenging his partner will first involve recovering the manuscript—and then saving Angelina and himself from kidnap, torture and death. As the bodies pile up, Riordan must work with old allies and enemies to untangle Duckworth’s last case before time runs out. Praise for THE DEAD BEAT SCROLL: “Slick, sardonic and suspenseful—everything a great thriller should be.” —Lee Child, bestselling author of the Jack Reacher novels “Fast-paced excursion into the remnants of San Francisco's lost bohemia…Alternately comic, sad, lurid, impossible, blasphemous, and just plain fun.” —Domenic Stansberry, Edgar Award-winning author of the North Beach Mystery Series
Download or read book The Bronx written by C. N. Phillips and published by Urban Books. This book was released on 2023-02-21 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: C. N. Phillips returns with the next tale in the saga of five crime families that run the streets of New York’s five boroughs. The uneasy alliance they once shared has been compromised, and now no one is truly safe from retribution. Caesar knew the peace he started had an expiration date, but he never thought the end would be so explosive. With the Pact completely dissolved and the Chinese angered beyond measure at the loss of their leader, they want Boogie’s head bloody and served on a stick. Caesar is willing to protect him at all costs, even if it puts him at odds with the allies still on his side.
Download or read book Dead Before Dying written by Deon Meyer and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2008-02-01 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This brilliantly atmospheric suspense novel from a rising African thriller writer is about a detective racing to solve a terrifying series of murders. Film rights have been sold to Jungle Media for Heart of the Hunter and Dead at Daybreak.
Download or read book The Walking Dead The Fall of the Governor Part One written by Robert Kirkman and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2013-10-08 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The conclusion of the Walking Dead trilogy follows an epic showdown between evil governor Philip Blake and Rick Grimes
