Download or read book The Elliott Bay Murders written by J.R. Roberts and published by Speaking Volumes. This book was released on with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lovely Deirdre Crawford is a woman of experience—and to Clint Adams, that makes her a fine choice for showing him all the pleasures Seattle has to offer. But for some, the city offers only death. A young lady is drowned in Elliott Bay. A few days later, another woman is found, and this time it's one of Deirdre's friends. Clint has been warned to stay away from Deirdre, if he knows what's good for him... But if someone has a problem with Deirdre, then they've got a problem with the Gunsmith. And a problem like that will get a man killed...
Download or read book The Spider and the Fly written by Claudia Rowe and published by . This book was released on 2017-02-22 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Extraordinarily suspenseful and truly gut-wrenching, The Spider and the Fly is not just a superb true-crime story but an insightful investigation of the nature of evil, the fragility of good, and the crooked road that can turn human beings into monsters. A must-read.' GILLIAN FLYNN, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Gone Girl 'Well, well, Claudia. Can I call you Claudia? I'll have to give it to you, when confronted at least you're honest, as honest as any reporter . . . You want to go into the depths of my mind and into my past. I want a peek into yours. It is only fair, isn't it?' Kendall Francois, serial killer In this extraordinary, white-knuckle account of a series of horrifying true crimes, journalist Claudia Rowe chronicles her disturbing connection with a serial killer convicted of murdering eight women. An enthralling combination of memoir and psychological suspense, The Spider and the Fly reveals Claudia's chilling correspondence with the killer, his shocking confessions and her search to understand the darkness inside us all. 'Part psychological thriller and part gut-wrenching memoir, The Spider and the Fly crosses boundaries on nearly every page. It is chilling, self-revelatory, and unforgettable.' ROBERT KOLKER, author of the New York Times bestseller Lost Girls: An unsolved American mystery 'Claudia Rowe catalogues her obsession with a serial killer so mesmerizingly that before I knew it, I too was obsessed . . . But this is not merely a recounting of a descent, it is equally a memoir of discovery through the lens of potential evil. I literally could not put it down.' ALAN CUMMING, author of the New York Times bestseller Not My Father's Son
Download or read book Murder by the Book written by Lauren Elliott and published by Kensington Cozies. This book was released on 2018-10-30 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Addie Greyborne loved working with rare books at the Boston Public Library—she even got to play detective, tracking down clues about mysterious old volumes. But she didn’t expect her sleuthing skills to come in so handy in a little seaside town . . . Addie left some painful memories behind in the big city, including the unsolved murder of her fiancé and her father’s fatal car accident. After an unexpected inheritance from a great aunt, she’s moved to a small New England town founded by her ancestors back in colonial times—and living in spacious Greyborne Manor, on a hilltop overlooking the harbor. Best of all, her aunt also left her countless first editions and other treasures—providing an inventory to start her own store. But there’s trouble from day one, and not just from the grumpy woman who runs the bakery next door. A car nearly runs Addie down. Someone steals a copy of Alice in Wonderland. Then, Addie’s friend Serena, who owns a nearby tea shop, is arrested—for killing another local merchant. The police seem pretty sure they’ve got the story in hand, but Addie’s not going to let them close the book on this case without a fight . . .
Download or read book The Confessions of X written by Suzanne M. Wolfe and published by Thomas Nelson. This book was released on 2016-01-26 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Christianity Today 2017 Book Award! Before he became a father of the Christian Church, Augustine of Hippo loved a woman whose name has been lost to history. This is her story. She met Augustine in Carthage when she was seventeen. She was the poor daughter of a mosaic-layer; he was a promising student and heir to a fortune. His brilliance and passion intoxicated her, but his social class would be forever beyond her reach. She became his concubine, and by the time he was forced to leave her, she was thirty years old and the mother of his son. And his Confessions show us that he never forgot her. She was the only woman he ever loved. In a society in which classes rarely mingle on equal terms, and an unwed mother can lose her son to the burgeoning career of her ambitious lover, this anonymous woman was a first-hand witness to Augustine’s anguished spiritual journey from secretive religious cultist to the celebrated Bishop of Hippo. Giving voice to one of history’s most mysterious women, The Confessions of X tells the story of Augustine of Hippo’s nameless lover, their relationship before his famous conversion, and her life after his rise to fame. A tale of womanhood, faith, and class at the end of antiquity, The Confessions of X is more than historical fiction . . . it is a timeless story of love and loss in the shadow of a theological giant.
Download or read book Above Us the Milky Way written by Fowzia Karimi and published by Deep Vellum Publishing. This book was released on 2020-04-07 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Debut novel about a young family forced to flee their war-ravaged homeland, forced to leave behind everything & everyone beloved & familiar. Old family photographs & lush watercolor paintings based on medieval illuminated manuscripts interweave with remembrances, ghost stories/stories of the war dead, & fairy tales to conjure a story of war, of emigration & immigration, the remarkable human capacity to experience love & wonder amidst destruction & loss, & how to create beauty out of horror.
Download or read book Which Side Are You On written by Ryan Lee Wong and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2023-10-10 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Longlisted for the PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel How can we live with integrity and pleasure in this world of police brutality and racism? An Asian American activist is challenged by his mother to face this question in this powerful—and funny—debut novel of generational change, a mother’s secret, and an activist’s coming-of-age Twenty-one-year-old Reed is fed up. Angry about the killing of a Black man by an Asian American NYPD officer, he wants to drop out of college and devote himself to the Black Lives Matter movement. But would that truly bring him closer to the moral life he seeks? In a series of intimate, charged conversations, his mother—once the leader of a Korean-Black coalition—demands that he rethink his outrage, and along with it, what it means to be an organizer, a student, an ally, an American, and a son. As Reed zips around his hometown of Los Angeles with his mother, searching and questioning, he faces a revelation that will change everything. Inspired by his family’s roots in activism, Ryan Lee Wong offers an extraordinary debut novel for readers of Anthony Veasna So, Rachel Kushner, and Michelle Zauner: a book that is as humorous as it is profound, a celebration of seeking a life that is both virtuous and fun, an ode to mothering and being mothered.
Download or read book The Third Rainbow Girl written by Emma Copley Eisenberg and published by Hachette Books. This book was released on 2020-01-21 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *** A NEW YORK TIMES "100 Notable Books of 2020" *** A stunning, complex narrative about the fractured legacy of a decades-old double murder in rural West Virginia—and the writer determined to put the pieces back together. In the early evening of June 25, 1980 in Pocahontas County, West Virginia, two middle-class outsiders named Vicki Durian, 26, and Nancy Santomero, 19, were murdered in an isolated clearing. They were hitchhiking to a festival known as the Rainbow Gathering but never arrived. For thirteen years, no one was prosecuted for the “Rainbow Murders” though deep suspicion was cast on a succession of local residents in the community, depicted as poor, dangerous, and backward. In 1993, a local farmer was convicted, only to be released when a known serial killer and diagnosed schizophrenic named Joseph Paul Franklin claimed responsibility. As time passed, the truth seemed to slip away, and the investigation itself inflicted its own traumas—-turning neighbor against neighbor and confirming the fears of violence outsiders have done to this region for centuries. In The Third Rainbow Girl, Emma Copley Eisenberg uses the Rainbow Murders case as a starting point for a thought-provoking tale of an Appalachian community bound by the false stories that have been told about. Weaving in experiences from her own years spent living in Pocahontas County, she follows the threads of this crime through the complex history of Appalachia, revealing how this mysterious murder has loomed over all those affected for generations, shaping their fears, fates, and desires. Beautifully written and brutally honest, The Third Rainbow Girl presents a searing and wide-ranging portrait of America—divided by gender and class, and haunted by its own violence.
Download or read book Crime of Passion written by J.R. Roberts and published by Speaking Volumes. This book was released on with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When you're a living legend like the Gunsmith, people want to take you on for one fool reason or another. Tempers flare and men don't back down when they should. Then Clint Adams is forced to teach the show-offs a lesson: walking away is better than getting carried out in a box. Del Nolan wants to help his girlfriend kill her husband. He also wants to impress her—big time—so the plot involves stealing a gun from Clint and killing him too, if necessary. That's their big mistake. Because a crime of passion is still a crime. And a crime against the Gunsmith is a good way to end up dead...
Download or read book The Areas of My Expertise written by John Hodgman and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-10-02 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the great tradition of the American almanac, The Areas of My Expertise is a brilliant and hilarious compendium of handy reference tables, fascinating trivia, and sage wisdom on all topics large and small. Although bestsellers such as Poor Richard’s Almanack and The Book of Lists were certainly valuable, they also were largely true. Here is a different kind of handy desk reference, one in which all of the historical oddities and amazing true facts are sifted through the singular, illuminating imagination of John Hodgman—which is the nice way of saying: He made it all up. John Hodgman brings his considerable expertise to bear in answering all of the questions book buyers have been asking: -What are the mottoes of the 51 United States? THE ANSWER IS PROVIDED -Who were the U.S. presidents who had hooks for hands? THE ANSWER IS PROVIDED -What role does the Yale secret society “Skull and Bones” play in the secret world government? THERE IS NO SECRET WORLD GOVERNMENT -What was the menu at the first Thanksgiving, and did it include eels? Technically, that is two questions, but do not apologize, for John Hodgman shall answer them both . . . LATER. -Aside from a compendium of fake trivia, what is the best kind of book to write? A SIMPLE TABLE OF THE 55 MOST DRAMATIC LITERARY SITUATIONS PROVIDES THE ANSWER, and John Hodgman is the author of that table. Imagine if The Book of Lists had been rewritten by Peter Cook and Jorge Luis Borges under the pseudonym of “John Hodgman” and then renamed The Areas of My Expertise, and you will only begin to have a sense of the dizzying, uproarious, sublimely weird, and strangely wise journey that is contained within this book (along with all the pages and words). Perfect for anyone who thirsts for knowledge, and especially for collectors of books of fake trivia, The Areas of My Expertise offers through absurdity a better understanding of the world we share—and recognizes that while the truth may be stranger than fiction, it is never as strange as lies . . . or as true. Look out for John Hodgman's latest book, Vacationland, available from Viking in Fall 2017.
Download or read book Blind Justice written by J.R. Roberts and published by Speaking Volumes. This book was released on with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robbed of his sight and his family by desperados, Stan Barton swore he'd track down the bushwhackers and make them pay. Clint Adams reluctantly agrees to help the blind ex-lawman follow the trail to Colorado. There, in a deserted town taken over by outlaws, the Gunsmith will learn whether or not Barton is a madman on a fool's errand—and find out just what blind justice can do...
Download or read book Golden Gate Killers written by J.R. Roberts and published by Speaking Volumes. This book was released on with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Magician written by J.R. Roberts and published by Speaking Volumes. This book was released on with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Empty Gun written by J.R. Roberts and published by Speaking Volumes. This book was released on with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Clint Adams was lookin' to lay low for a while, waiting for his horse to get healthy. But right after riding into Dawson City, he got bushwhacked—by Leonard Hollitt, a nineteen-year-old kid! The Gunsmith sent him to his maker, but then discovered the kid drew an empty gun! Clint wondered why a man would do this. He figured that a letter the kid wrote to his father might have the answer, so he traveled to Winter Creek to deliver it in person. But the only thing colder than the weather was the way the locals acted when he asked for the old man. After being ambushed and nearly killed, the Gunsmith set out to teach the Hollitts a lesson about the way they treat visitors...
Download or read book The Road to Testimony written by J.R. Roberts and published by Speaking Volumes. This book was released on with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Denver Ripper written by J.R. Roberts and published by Speaking Volumes. This book was released on with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No matter where the Gunsmith goes, trouble always seems to find his address. Clint comes to Denver to pay a visit to his old friend, Bat Masterson. Since he's staying at Bat's private club, he figures to relax on this vacation and enjoy the finer things. But the people of Denver can't relax. There's a maniac on the loose. He strikes in the dead of night and kills only women. The police are unable to solve the crime, so Clint and Bat decide to take matters into their own hands. They lay a trap for the killer, one that will be the end of his career—or the end of the Gunsmith...
Download or read book The Hanging Woman written by J.R. Roberts and published by Speaking Volumes. This book was released on with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lynch mob ranks just below a rattlesnake in the Gunsmith's eyes. And a lynch mob that would hang a woman doesn't deserve the dirt it would take to bury it. That's just the kind of low-down cowardice Clint Adams finds when he rides into Horizon, Kansas. This bunch of so-called men left an innocent woman for dead—and now they've got to answer to the Gunsmith. Some would say the odds are against the Gunsmith, taking on seven men. But it only takes one legend to get the job done...
Download or read book The Witness written by J.R. Roberts and published by Speaking Volumes. This book was released on with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
