Download or read book The Great Valentine Mystery written by Megan E. Bryant and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The girls in Ms. Jacobs's class enjoy all sorts of Valentine's Day activities, and even the boys look forward to a special party, but when the time comes, all of the treats have disappeared.

Download or read book Nate the Great and the Mushy Valentine written by Marjorie Weinman Sharmat and published by Delacorte Press. This book was released on 2013-01-30 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perfect for beginning readers, this timeless chapter book is a fun introduction to the detective mystery genre. And for Valentine's Day, kids can follow Nate as he unravels the problem, all the while learning about the importance of friendship--with people and dogs! Nate the Great hates mushy stuff. Then he spies a big red paper heart taped to Sludge’s doghouse. Who left Nate’s dog a secret valentine? Nate will solve the case, and then there will be no more mushy stuff. At least that’s what he thinks. . . . Check out the Fun Activities section in the back of the book! “A most appealing choice.”—Booklist, Boxed Review

Download or read book The Valentine Mystery written by Kathi Daley and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-02-05 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "It is Valentine's Day in White Eagle, Montana, and Tess and Tilly are busy delivering Valentine Cards along with the daily mail. Of course it wouldn't be Valentine's Day in White Eagle without a mystery to solve or a Holiday Adoption party to prepare for. When a mysterious man comes to town looking for answers about his past, Tess and Tilly team up with Tony to find the answers he seeks. Meanwhile Tess helps Brady make sure that every shelter resident finds their perfect match in time for Valentine's Day."--Page 4 of cover.

Download or read book The Valentine s Day Murder written by Lee Harris and published by Fawcett. This book was released on 2010-12-29 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE BIG CHILL What really happened that tragic Valentine's night on Lake Erie? No one knows. Three old buddies--reckless Matty, successful Clark, clever Val--decided to cap Val's birthday celebration with a stroll across the frozen lake. They never returned. Matty's scarf was found snagged on broken ice. After the thaw, only the bodies of Clark and Matty are recovered--the latter with a bullet in it. Val remains missing, now a murder suspect. His desperate wife pleads with ex-nun investigator Christine Bennett to find him and prove his innocence. A tall order, especially when Chris starts hunting for clues in the lives of these respectable suburbanites and their wives. And when she closes in on a truth that chills her to the bone, she suddenly finds herself skating on very thin ice.

Download or read book Valentine Murder written by Leslie Meier and published by Kensington Publishing Corp.. This book was released on 2012-06-12 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A librarian is killed and a local mom must read the clues in this mystery from the New York Times-bestselling author: “[An] engaging cozy series.”—Publishers Weekly It’s Valentine's Day in Tinker’s Cove, Maine. And while the cupcakes Lucy Stone is baking for her children will have pink frosting and candy hearts, Lucy’s thoughts aren’t centered on sugary sentiments. She’s barely arrived at her first board meeting of the newly renovated library when Bitsy Howell, the new librarian, is found dead in the basement, shot only minutes before story hour was to start. The agitated board members assume that Bitsy was killed by an outsider, until Detective Lt. Horowitz arrives on the scene and announces that the killer is among them. Lucy was already aware that Bitsy’s uppity big city ways rubbed some people in Tinker’s Cove the wrong way. But she has a hunch that motives for the librarian’s violent death run a lot deeper. From Hayden Norcross's elegant antique shop to Corney Clark’s chic kitchen, Lucy relentlessly snoops into the curious lifestyles and shocking secrets of Tinker's Cove’s most solid citizens—secrets that will plunge her into a terrifying confrontation with a conniving killer… “Meier weaves into her nimble plot some good insights on lotteries, rural poverty, computers, and library operations.”—Booklist “Meier’s inclusion of the domestic details attendant to Lucy's small, close-knit community add charm.”—Publishers Weekly

Download or read book Deadly Valentine written by Carolyn Hart and published by Crimeline. This book was released on 1991-01-01 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mystery bookstore owner Annie Laurance didn't really want to go to her neighbor's Valentine Day masked ball -- particularly not after the voluptuous brunette made a pass at Annie's husband, Max. So when her dizzy mother-in-law, Laurel, made a surprise visit to Broward's Rock Island, Annie thought it would be a perfect excuse to skip the party. She should have known better: True to form, Laurel accepted the invitation for all three of them. But the biggest surprise of all came at the party's end, when Annie found the amorous hostess in the gazebo--murdered.

Download or read book A Catered Valentine s Day written by Isis Crawford and published by Kensington Books. This book was released on 2006-12-26 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Caterers and sisters Bernie and Libby, while attending the funeral for a client's mother, are plunged into a bizarre mystery when the corpse of Ted Gorman, the owner of Just Chocolate, who supposedly died in a fiery car crash weeks earlier, is found in someone else's grave.

Download or read book Paper Valentine written by Brenna Yovanoff and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-01-03 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The city of Ludlow is gripped by the hottest July on record. The asphalt is melting, the birds are dying, petty crime is on the rise, and someone in Hannah Wagnor's peaceful suburban community is killing girls. For Hannah, the summer is a complicated one. Her best friend Lillian died six months ago, and Hannah just wants her life to go back to normal. But how can things be normal when Lillian's ghost is haunting her bedroom, pushing her to investigate the mysterious string of murders? Hannah's just trying to understand why her friend self-destructed, and where she fits now that Lillian isn't there to save her a place among the social elite. And she must stop thinking about Finny Boone, the big, enigmatic delinquent whose main hobbies seem to include petty larceny and surprising acts of kindness. With the entire city in a panic, Hannah soon finds herself drawn into a world of ghost girls and horrifying secrets. She realises that only byconfronting the Valentine Killer will she be able move on with her life - and it's up to her to put together the pieces before he strikes again.

Download or read book Slate written by Nathan Aldyne and published by Felony & Mayhem Press. This book was released on 2014-11-15 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Boston’s hottest new gay bar is making a killing in this mystery first published in 1984 that’s “screamingly funny in the gayest way!” (The New York Times). Daniel Valentine is a gay bartender. Clarisse Lovelace is his straight pal. From Boston’s gay underground to the fabulous beaches of Provincetown, they do everything together (well, okay, not everything). And between it all, they still find time to solve a few murders. When Clarissa is gifted a run-down building by her gay uncle Noah, she and Daniel decide to make a dream come true: opening their own gay bar. While Clarissa heads off to law school, Daniel gets busy turning their new bar into Boston’s grooviest gay boite. In this exuberantly pre-AIDS world, everything seems perfectly peachy—until Daniel discovers a dead body at the disco.

Download or read book Chocolate Covered Murder written by Leslie Meier and published by Kensington Publishing Corp.. This book was released on 2012-03-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A “fast-paced” mystery with “a plot that involves two rival chocolatiers, a wealthy elderly couple from Connecticut, and plenty of local gossip” (Publishers Weekly). No one in their right mind would vacation in Maine this time of year, but to boost the economy, the town of Tinker’s Cove is launching a travel promotion for Valentine's Day. As a reporter for the Pennysaver, Lucy Stone is assigned a puff piece on upscale Chanticleer’s Chocolates, and its deliciously handsome owner, Trey Meacham. Not the best way to keep her widening waistline under control. Soon Lucy discovers there’s another tantalizing tart behind the counter. Sultry store manager Tamzin Graves is only too eager to serve her male customers. With a throng of jealous women in her wake, it’s almost no surprise when Tamzin turns up dead, her body covered in chocolate. There's no sugar-coating murder, and Lucy must crisscross the snow-covered landscape as she tries to find a heartless killer… “I like Lucy Stone a lot, and so will readers.”—Carolyn Hart, New York Times-bestselling author of the Death on Demand Mysteries “An enjoyable story.”—RT Book Reviews

Download or read book Valentine s Resolve written by E.E. Knight and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2007-07-03 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After three years of exile from humanity’s war against the Kurians, David Valentine returns to battle. The Lifeweavers, Earth’s allies in the conflict, have mostly vanished, but those that remain are held captive by an overlord known as the Seattle Kurian. To free them, Valentine must convince the legendary resistance fighter known as the Marshal to join his cause. But the Marshal is something of an overlord himself…

Download or read book The Great Cake Mystery written by Alexander McCall Smith and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2012 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before becoming the first female private investigator in Botswana, eight-year-old Precious Ramotswe tracks down a thief who has been stealing her classmates' snacks.

Download or read book Valentine Candy Murder written by Leslie Meier and published by Kensington Cozies. This book was released on 2018-12-18 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In these two beloved mysteries now collected in one volume for the very first time, it’s Valentine’s Day in Tinker’s Cove, Maine—but when it comes to foul play, Pennysaver reporter Lucy Stone can’t sugar-coat the truth . . . VALENTINE MURDER Lucy has barely arrived at her first library board meeting when the new librarian is found dead in the basement. The agitated group assumes Bitsy Howell was killed by an outsider—until Detective Lt. Horowitz announces that the killer is among them. Lucy knew that Bitsy rubbed some people the wrong way. But she has a hunch the murderous motives run a lot deeper. And as she snoops into the curious lifestyles and shocking secrets of Tinker’s Cove’s most solid citizens, what she finds is far from hearts and flowers . . . CHOCOLATE COVERED MURDER Despite the frigid winter temperatures, to boost the economy, Tinker’s Cove is launching a travel promotion for Valentine’s Day. Lucy is assigned a puff piece on upscale Chanticleer Chocolate—and its deliciously handsome owner. But there’s another tantalizing tart behind the counter—sultry store manager Tamzin Graves. Leaving a throng of jealous women in her wake, it’s almost no surprise when Tamzin turns up dead, her body covered in chocolate. And as Lucy closes in on the culprit, she may find herself locked in the clutches of a half-baked killer . . .

Download or read book The Alien Next Door 6 The Mystery Valentine written by A.I. Newton and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2018-12-18 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the sixth book of the Alien Next Door series, Harris explains Valentine's Day to Zeke, and Zeke develops a crush! Valentine's Day is right around the corner, and Harris explains the holiday and its traditions to Zeke. When Zeke gets an anonymous valentine, Harris is excited to help him figure out who sent it, but Zeke is confused at the customs of Earth, and his efforts to get a girl to notice him by doing what Harris tells him to don't go quite right. Will Zeke be able to turn things around and show his valentine his feelings?

Download or read book Valentine s Blizzard Murder written by Linnea West and published by . This book was released on 2019-02-26 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a minor celebrity staying at the Shady Lake Bed and Breakfast dies of an allergic reaction during a blizzard, it doesn't seem like it could get much worse. But was it really an accident? Jake Crawford is a D list celebrity who loves to come back to Shady Lake to be the big fish in a small pond. This time, he brought his new wife back to Shady Lake for his honeymoon and they are staying at the bed and breakfast that Tessa Schmidt helps her family run. Jake is kind of a jerk, but then a blizzard hits and he dies of an allergic reaction. It seems like things couldn't get any worse for a Valentine's Day weekend. But Tessa is starting to suspect that the allergic reaction isn't the horrible accident she had assumed. As the blizzard stretches on and on, secrets keep coming out. It seems like almost everyone has a motive to kill Jake. Can Tessa figure out who wanted to kill Jake Crawford before the killer strikes again? Read Valentine's Blizzard Murder today and find out before you follow Tessa Schmidt through her other seasonal escapades in the Small Town Minnesota Cozy Mystery Series.

Download or read book The Caveman s Valentine written by George Dawes Green and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2013-07-25 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Romulus Ledbetter has discovered a frozen corpse outside his front door. A fairly unusual circumstance as it is - but even more so as Romulus' front door is a cave in Central Park. A former musical prodigy, Romulus opted out of society and has been living a life of deluded paranoia in the cave for some time. His version of events, involving drug abuse, sexual deviancy and a criminally-inclined celebrity, are viewed with understandable scepticism by the police officers on the case. So Romulus has no choice but to find out what happened on his own...

Download or read book Sherlock Holmes and the Great Titanic Mystery written by Valentine Palmer and published by . This book was released on 2019-05-16 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sherlock Holmes greatest case - find out who sank the Titanic.The world's most famous detective investigates the death of the world's most famous ship. Sherlock is on board the Titanic as it starts to sink. Rescued from a watery grave, he is taken to New York, where he meets the widow of one of the wealthy men who went down with the ship. Believing the loss of the Titanic to be part of an elaborate and ruthless conspiracy, the widow engages Sherlock to find the true story of the sinking of the Titanic.The trail leads the detective to Belfast, where a crucial witness is murdered in front of his eyes. Then to Paris, with a fight to the death at the top of the Eiffel Tower.Sherlock travels on the Orient Express bound for Constantinople, in pursuit of his arch enemy, Professor Moriarty, one of the key villains behind this vile plot that has cost the death of over 1500 innocent souls.However, his final confrontation with his nemeses takes place in a Belfast shipyard aboard a mystery ship that holds the key to the riddle of the Titanic's loss. The great detective is shot but, when he recovers, he discovers that he can never reveal the true secret of the death of the great ship.