Download or read book The Mum Mystery written by Gwyneth Rees and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2007 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Esmie has always longed for a new mum, since her real mother died when she was a baby. So when Lizzie moves in, Esmie is delighted. Surely it can only be a matter of time before Dad proposes and Lizzie becomes an official mum. So why does Matty, Esmie's brother, suddenly have cold feet about the whole thing? But Esmie has even more pressing problems: like the discovery of her mother's old jewellery box that leads to a mystery about her past. And then there's Esmie's friendship with a new girl in the street who claims to have psychic powers...Esmie has always loved mysteries -- but never before have her detective skills been so thoroughly put to the test!
Download or read book The Mystery of the Missing Mum written by Frances Moloney and published by Pushkin Children's Books. This book was released on 2022-11-08 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An anxious boy searches for his missing mum in this heartfelt, funny and unique ode to perfectly imperfect families One day, Jake wakes up to a different world: his mum seems to have vanished into thin air! With his Grandma snoring in the kitchen and older sister Rose spending hours getting ready, Jake starts the search for his mum by making a list of places she might be: Tesco? The EU? Hospital? The Bahamas? Being a detective turns out to be quite hard work and everyone Jake turns to for help seems frustratingly busy. Life at home wasn't perfect, but he can't understand why she would simply run off like this. And why doesn't everyone else seem more concerned?
Download or read book The Mum Detective written by Gwyneth Rees and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2005 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Esmie knows she wants to be a detective when she grows up - just like her dad. And now is the perfect time to start honing her investigative skills. First of all there`s the mystery disappearance of Esmie`s brother`s girlfriend`s mum (interestingly complicated! ) . Could she still be alive? Or does a vital clue lie beneath the soil of the local allotment? Even more importantly, Esmie is worried that her dad still hasn`t proposed to his girlfriend, Lizzie. After all, Esmie went to enough trouble to act as match-maker for them! Then Esmie discovers that something very strange is going on - Lizzie is having a secret rendezvous with a mysterious man when she is supposed to be at work. What on earth is Lizzie`s secret - and can Esmie find a way to make sure her new `mum` and dad stay together forever?
Download or read book Motherhood is Murder written by Diana Orgain and published by Diana Orgain. This book was released on 2020-06-13 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the USA Today Bestselling Author of Bundle of Trouble A fun new installment to the Maternal Instincts Mystery Series Nights out are hard to come by for new parents. So when Kate's new- mommy club, Roo & You, holds a dinner cruise, she and her husband leave baby Laurie with Kate's mom and join the grown-ups for some fine dining on the San Francisco Bay. But when one of the cofounders of Roo & You takes a fatal spill down a staircase, the police department crashes the party. Suddenly every mom and her man has a motive. Kate's on deck to solve the mystery- but a killer's determined to make her rue the day she joined the first-time-mom's club… To Do: 1. Buy diapers. 2. Make Laurie's two-month check. 3. Find good "how to" book for PI business. 4. x Find dress for the cruise (done) 5. x Ask Mom to babysit (done) 6. Exercise.
Download or read book The Mum Surprise written by Gwyneth Rees and published by MacMillan UK. This book was released on 2006 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Esmie decides to cheer her brother up by baking him a cake. Even better, Esmie can concoct it secretly in their elderly neighbour's kitchen now she's away. But just as she embarks on her secret scheme, a visitor arrives - who seems intent on robbing Esmie's neighbour. Can Esmie use her detective skills and save the day?
Download or read book Dotty Detective Dotty Detective Book 1 written by Clara Vulliamy and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2016-05-05 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meet Dorothy Constance Mae Louise, or Dot as she prefers to be called!
Download or read book My Mum the Police Officer written by Isabel Girgis and published by Matador. This book was released on 2017-08-28 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written from the point of view of the child of a female police officer, My Mum the Police Officer follows a day in the life of their mother - and how it makes them feel. The story begins at the start of the officer's day and focuses on the many varied tasks a police officer might do over the course of their shift, from finding lost cars to protecting some very important people. The method is simple, but not simplistic, as it captures the innocence yet highly intuitive skill of a young child who may be just a little afraid that Mummy might not come home...
Download or read book The Suspect written by Fiona Barton and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2019-01-22 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New York Times bestselling author of The Widow returns with a brand new novel of twisting psychological suspense about every parent’s worst nightmare... When two eighteen-year-old girls go missing in Thailand, their families are thrust into the international spotlight: desperate, bereft, and frantic with worry. What were the girls up to before they disappeared? Journalist Kate Waters always does everything she can to be first to the story, first with the exclusive, first to discover the truth—and this time is no exception. But she can’t help but think of her own son, whom she hasn’t seen in two years, since he left home to go travelling. As the case of the missing girls unfolds, they will all find that even this far away, danger can lie closer to home than you might think...
Download or read book Premeditated Myrtle Myrtle Hardcastle Mystery 1 written by Elizabeth C. Bunce and published by Algonquin Young Readers. This book was released on 2020-10-13 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Edgar Award-winning cozy mystery series for middle-graders introduces us to Myrtle Hardcastle, everyone's favorite 12-year-old amateur detective and Young Lady of Quality. Wickedly smart and keenly interested in the new tools of criminology, Myrtle has a nose for murder in the Victorian English village where she lives with her father, who is the local prosecutor, and her governess, Miss Judson. More mysteries await in How to Get Away with Myrtle (Book 2) and Cold-Blooded Myrtle (Book 3).
Download or read book The Thursday Murder Club written by Richard Osman and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-08-03 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times bestseller | Soon to be a major motion picture “Witty, endearing and greatly entertaining.” —Wall Street Journal “Don’t trust anyone, including the four septuagenarian sleuths in Osman’s own laugh-out-loud whodunit.” —Parade Four septuagenarians with a few tricks up their sleeves A female cop with her first big case A brutal murder Welcome to... THE THURSDAY MURDER CLUB In a peaceful retirement village, four unlikely friends meet weekly in the Jigsaw Room to discuss unsolved crimes; together they call themselves the Thursday Murder Club. When a local developer is found dead with a mysterious photograph left next to the body, the Thursday Murder Club suddenly find themselves in the middle of their first live case. As the bodies begin to pile up, can our unorthodox but brilliant gang catch the killer, before it's too late?
Download or read book My Dark Places written by James Ellroy and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-11-30 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: America's greatest crime writer investigates his mother's murder. On 21 June 1958, Geneva Hilliker Ellroy left her home in California. She was found strangled the next day. Her ten year-old son James had been with her estranged husband all weekend and was informed of her death on his return. Her murderer was never found, but her death had an enduring effect on her son - he spent his teens and early adult years as a wino, petty burglar and derelict. Only later, through his obsession with crime fiction, triggered by his mother's murder, did Ellroy begin to delve into his past. Shortly after the publication of his groundbreaking novel WHITE JAZZ, he determined to return to Los Angeles and, with the help of veteran detective Bill Stoner, attempt to solve the 38-year-old killing. The result is one of the few classics of crime non-fiction and autobiography to appear in the last few decades; a hypnotic trip to America's underbelly and one man's tortured soul.
Download or read book Mum s the Word written by Kate Collins and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2004-11-02 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abby Knight is the proud owner of her hometown flower shop, but a new low-cost competitor is killing her profits-and a black SUV just rammed her vintage Corvette in a hit-and-run. She's determined to track down the driver, but when the trail turns deadly, the next flower arrangement might be for her own funeral.
Download or read book How to Murder Your Mother In Law written by Dorothy Cannell and published by Alibi. This book was released on 2012-03-07 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The award-winning author of Femmes Fatal and The Thin Woman serves up the ubiquitous mother-in-law joke family style—with death for the punch line. . . . Nothing like a live-in mother-in-law to reduce a woman to the role of junior housemaid. That’s what Ellie Haskell discovers when her husband’s parents have a row in the midst of their anniversary dinner, and mother Magdalene seeks refuge in Ellie’s guest bedroom. Suddenly Ellie is being driven round the bend by the woman’s constant demands. Thank goodness for the other wives who also suffer the age-old mother-in-law curse. A chance meeting down at the Dark Horse pub finds them trading horror stories, and soon they’re mixing gin and tonics with homicidal fantasies—a soupçon of poison here, a broken brake line there. All very therapeutic and no harm intended. At least, that’s what Ellie thinks. . . . Praise for How to Murder Your Mother-in-Law “Vintage Cannell. . . . Dorothy Cannell is a master at creating wildly ludicrous characters and hilarious plots. . . . Her latest Ellie Haskell adventure only enhances her reputation.”—Booklist “Side-splitting!”—Rendezvous “Toxic and hilarious.”—Publishers Weekly
Download or read book If Mom Had Three Arms written by Karen Kaufman Orloff and published by Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.. This book was released on 2006 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imagine what might happen if your mother had more than two arms and could shake hands with an octopus or flip numerous pancakes at the same time.
Download or read book Cold Blooded Myrtle Myrtle Hardcastle Mystery 3 written by Elizabeth C. Bunce and published by Algonquin Young Readers. This book was released on 2021-10-05 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amateur detective extraordinaire Myrtle Hardcastle is back for Book 3 in this Edgar Award-winning, cozy mystery series. Just as she was in Premeditated Myrtle (Book 1) and How to Get Away with Myrtle (Book 2), Myrtle is on the case again, tracking down a killer out for revenge amid the Christmas festivities in Victorian England.
Download or read book The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time written by Mark Haddon and published by Anchor Canada. This book was released on 2009-02-24 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A bestselling modern classic—both poignant and funny—narrated by a fifteen year old autistic savant obsessed with Sherlock Holmes, this dazzling novel weaves together an old-fashioned mystery, a contemporary coming-of-age story, and a fascinating excursion into a mind incapable of processing emotions. Christopher John Francis Boone knows all the countries of the world and their capitals and every prime number up to 7,057. Although gifted with a superbly logical brain, Christopher is autistic. Everyday interactions and admonishments have little meaning for him. At fifteen, Christopher’s carefully constructed world falls apart when he finds his neighbour’s dog Wellington impaled on a garden fork, and he is initially blamed for the killing. Christopher decides that he will track down the real killer, and turns to his favourite fictional character, the impeccably logical Sherlock Holmes, for inspiration. But the investigation leads him down some unexpected paths and ultimately brings him face to face with the dissolution of his parents’ marriage. As Christopher tries to deal with the crisis within his own family, the narrative draws readers into the workings of Christopher’s mind. And herein lies the key to the brilliance of Mark Haddon’s choice of narrator: The most wrenching of emotional moments are chronicled by a boy who cannot fathom emotions. The effect is dazzling, making for one of the freshest debut in years: a comedy, a tearjerker, a mystery story, a novel of exceptional literary merit that is great fun to read.
Download or read book Mumlife written by Paula Kuka and published by S&S/Simon Element. This book was released on 2020-09-29 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A witty, empathic, and beautifully illustrated look at the roller coaster ride that is modern motherhood. Mum, mom, momma, or ma—whatever you’re called, being a mother can be hard, filled with stress and anxiety. But of course, it also delivers its own unique joy. Instagram sensation @Common_Wild, the popular account run by Australian artist Paula Kuka, channels that heady stew of anxiety and love in a series of relatable, warm, and funny cartoons that are eagerly shared by women around the world. Kuka features moments instantly recognizable to any parent, from new mom to experienced toddler-wrangler. Scenes like cooking an elaborate meal only to have it swept to the floor by a picky child, or dragging strollers home from the playground in the rain, bring parenthood to life on the page. She also winks at the societal expectations that ask women to do it all, including “taking care of themselves,” with a smile. But most importantly, she highlights the huge love that underpins the journey of parenthood, and the sometimes-surprising things you learn about yourself while watching your children grow up. The perfect gift for first-time parents—or for yourself, when you need to remember that you are not alone, and it’s okay to relax and enjoy the moment.
