Download or read book The Ophelia Killer written by Valerie Geary and published by Broken Branch Books. This book was released on 2021-08-13 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An elusive killer outwits police. When a crime reporter connects the dots, the hunter becomes the hunted. Reporter Jimmy Eagan knows a good story when he sees one. After another young woman is found dead near Salem, Oregon clutching a bouquet of wildflowers, Jimmy is certain there's a serial murderer on the loose. He's even given the man a nickname: The Ophelia Killer. But the police don't seem interested in Jimmy's theories, and the primary detective is treating Jimmy like a suspect. After nearly a year with no new leads and the police looking in all the wrong places, Jimmy must track down the real killer before he claims another victim. *The Ophelia Killer is a standalone prequel to On A Dark Tide and can be read at any point a reader discovers the Brett Buchanan Mystery Series.

Download or read book No Turning Back written by Tracy Buchanan and published by Crooked Lane Books. This book was released on 2017-06-13 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A murder committed in self-defense blurs the line between guilty and innocent in this hair-raising psychological thriller from an internationally bestselling author Anna Graves's whole life has recently been turned upside down. A new mother, she's just gone back to her job as a radio presenter and is busy navigating a new schedule of late night feeding and early morning wake ups while also dealing with her newly separated husband. Then the worst happens. While Anna is walking on the beach with her daughter, she's attacked by a crazed teenager. Terrified, Anna reacts instinctively to protect her baby. But her life falls apart when the schoolboy dies from his injuries. The police believe Anna's story, until the autopsy results reveal something more sinister. A frenzied media attack sends Anna into a spiral of self-doubt. Her precarious mental state is further threatened when she receives a chilling message from someone claiming to be the “Ophelia Killer,” a serial killer who preyed on the town twenty years ago—and who abruptly stopped when Anna's father committed suicide. Is Anna as innocent as she claims? And is murder forgivable, if committed to save your child's life? Internationally–bestselling author Tracy Buchanan takes readers on an emotional roller coaster ride filled with heart-stopping secrets and hairpin turns in No Turning Back, her US debut.

Download or read book Ophelia written by Anne Miller Johnson, M.D. and published by Booktango. This book was released on 2013-12-02 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It falls to Dr. Signe Lund to perform the autopsy on the body of a young woman found in a pond on Emerald Creek, near Salmon Bay, Oregon, in 1937. Murder is certain, the identity of the young woman is not known until the end of this tangled tale of lust and larceny. Signe and Sheriff Flint name the young woman Ophelia, and this proves eerily apt, as the tragedy of Shakespeare's "Hamlet" plays out through the dissolution of the Larsen family timber empire. Fans of "Salmon Bay" will enjoy meeting Aunt Blix and the Jergenson family again, now numbering three young children, with the arrival of Holly. Through the unlikely availability of a Ford Trimotor forestry airplane,Signe and Flint exact rough justice on the murderers of Ophelia.

Download or read book A Deadly Endeavor written by Jenny Adams and published by Crooked Lane Books. This book was released on 2024-03-05 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A serial killer is on the loose in Jazz Age Philadelphia in Jenny Adams’ debut historical mystery, perfect for fans of Deanna Raybourn and Rhys Bowen. Philadelphia, 1921. When Edie Shippen returns home after spending years in California recovering from Influenza, she’s shocked to discover that her childhood sweetheart is engaged to her twin sister. Heartbroken and adrift, Edie vows to begin living her life as a modern woman—and to hell with anyone who gets in her way. But as young women start to disappear from the city, her newfound independence begins to feel dangerous. Gilbert Lawless returned home from the Great War a shell of his former self. He hides away in the office of Philadelphia’s Coroner, content to keep to himself until a gruesome series of corpses come into the morgue. And when his sister, Lizzie, goes missing, he risks his career to beg help from the one person Lizzie seemed to trust: her employer, Edie Shippen. Fearing the worst, Edie and Gilbert desperately search for clues. It soon becomes clear that Lizzie’s disappearance is connected to the deaths rocking the City of Brotherly Love...and it’s only a matter of time until the killer strikes again. With a lush Roaring Twenties setting and a wickedly smart sleuth to cheer for, A Deadly Endeavor is the perfect puzzling romp for fans of Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries.

Download or read book Luna s Revenge written by Devu and published by Infinite Joy. This book was released on 2021-06-01 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ☽ She is an enchanted forest with treasures and death within ☾ "Is that why you came here?" He asked with a smirk on his face as he traced her cheek with his fingers. His eyes shimmered with desire as he looked at her. "To seduce me so I won't rat you out?" She smiled charmingly, looking up at him through her lashes as her red lips looked sinister and enchanting at the same time. Leaning forward, she whispered in his ear, "I came here to end you." ♚♚♚ Alpha Rowan is presented with the opportunity to either kill the newest rogue caught hunting on pack grounds or, he could e*****e her as an Omega. Now, with being a new Alpha comes a responsibility that is unmatched, so what will Rowan choose to do now? Will he do what is supposed to be done or will he allow his heart to rule after he meets the rogue, Ophelia. And what happens if Ophelia has a different motive and identity altogether?

Download or read book Death by Dumpster written by Karen Hanson Stuyck and published by Speaking Volumes. This book was released on with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Laid off from her magazine job, Lauren Prescott reluctantly agrees to ghostwrite a memoir for Caroline Marshall, the self-described Queen of Dumpster Diving. Lauren attends a potluck dinner at Caroline’s house, where guests bring food they found dumpster diving. By the end of the evening, one guest is dead, poisoned by toxic nuts. Days later another dinner guest dies after trying homemade goodies sent to Caroline by “A Grateful Former Student.” Lauren is determined to bring the murderer to justice. But first she has to save herself from a ruthless killer intent on adding her to the list of victims.

Download or read book Sherlock Holmes and the Shakespeare Globe Murders written by Barry Day and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2015-07-28 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “[Barry Day] always captures the flavor of Conan Doyle and always comes up with a new, fresh plot” (The Sherlockian Times). Sherlock Holmes can tell the woman pacing outside of 221B Baker Street is an actress. She mutters to herself and practices gestures in preparation for her meeting with the world-famous detective. It’s a matter of life, death, and theater. Flora Adler has come on behalf of her father—the American impresario Florenz Adler, who turned Times Square into a circus, staged Wagner in the Grand Canyon, and has come to England to rebuild Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre. This last is a magnificent dream, but anonymous threats have turned it into a nightmare. A series of notes adorned with quotations from the Bard suggest that something terrible will happen at the venue’s inaugural performance, when none other than Queen Victoria will be in attendance. To save queen and country, as well as the English stage, Holmes is taking on Shakespeare.

Download or read book Method Actor Murder written by Leslie Langtry and published by Gemma Halliday Publishing. This book was released on 2023-01-24 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From USA Today bestselling author Leslie Langtry comes the next wacky, wild, wonderful Merry Wrath mystery... Whether they like it or not, culture is coming to Who’s There, Iowa in the form of community theater! Merry Wrath, former CIA operative turned suburban Girl Scout Troop leader has high hopes when Ye Olde Opera House is renovated, and newcomers Ophelia and her husband Dante arrive from off-off-off Broadway (…Street in Peoria) with their stage pig, Iago, to put on a production of Derek the Sparkly Unicorn Ninja, which was written by the mysterious SeBasquetian deCatalonia Braveheart. But chaos is the name of the game when half the town and their hamsters show up for auditions, Merry has been volunteered as Stage Manager, and her precocious troop are planning death-defying stunts and dangerous special effects. It certainly doesn’t help that Ophelia emotes like a deranged drama queen and Dante seems to think there’s a Tony Award for seducing women. When one of the thespians takes Method Acting a bit too far and ends up an actual corpse on stage, Merry has to work fast to find a killer before the curtain falls on another victim! What critics are saying about Leslie Langtry's books: "I laughed so hard I cried on multiple occasions! Girl Scouts, the CIA, and the Yakuza... what could possibly go wrong?" ~ Fresh Fiction "Darkly funny and wildly over the top, this mystery answers the burning question, 'Do assassin skills and Girl Scout merit badges mix…?'" ~ RT BOOKreviews "Mixing a deadly sense of humor and plenty of sexy sizzle, Leslie Langtry creates a brilliantly original, laughter-rich mix of contemporary romance and suspense." ~ Chicago Tribune "Langtry gets the fun started from page one." ~ Publisher's Weekly

Download or read book The Smoking Nun written by Dakota Cassidy and published by Dakota Cassidy. This book was released on 2021-06-24 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sister Trixie Lavender, reporting for Miss Marple duty! It’s been months since the evil residing inside me has reared his violently helpful head, and things are pretty peachy. My demon sidekick Coop continues to assimilate with the unsuspecting humans, our tattoo shop is busier than ever, we’re more and more involved in our little community of Cobbler Cove…heck, I’d even begun to attend the occasional Sunday sermon (after safely confirming my body wouldn’t burst into flames upon entering Our Lady of Perpetual Grace, of course). Yep, life is pretty good for me and mine. Until the shocking murder of our new friend, Sister Ophelia, during a church-sponsored speed-dating event. Talk about flirting with death—literally. I can’t fathom who’d want to kill a sweet little ol’ nun, but as I’ve learned by now, life in small-town Oregon isn’t always what it seems. When a second corpse is found, the stakes are even higher as Coop and I, along with our good friend Higgs, race to unmask a killer. But when my demon breaks free yet again, the killer’s not the only one in danger of being exposed…

Download or read book Edge of the Storm written by Valerie Geary and published by Broken Branch Books. This book was released on 2022-05-17 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They all have a reason to run. Lizzie is desperate to escape her family’s violent past. Daniel hopes to change his destiny. Adam fears becoming his father. June is loyal to a fault. The four friends plan to meet up on Halloween and cut ties with their old lives, but instead of a fresh start, one of them winds up dead. When Detective Brett Buchanan follows up on a report about kids causing trouble near dangerous cliffs, she assumes she’ll find nothing more than empty beer cans and cigarette butts. Instead, she finds herself embroiled in her most difficult investigation yet, a case that will threaten her career and throw her straight into the path of a ruthless killer--and this time she might not make it out alive. Edge of the Storm is the newest release in the Brett Buchanan Mystery Series. Pre-order your copy today!

Download or read book The Killers written by George Lippard and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2014-08-08 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Killers is a tale of gang violence, revenge, kidnapping, racial and ethnic conflict, international intrigue, and working-class triumph. Based on the real-life events of a Philadelphia race riot, this long-out-of-print sensational novella showcases the political and literary interests of its author, bestselling novelist George Lippard.

Download or read book American Serial Killers written by Peter Vronsky and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-02-09 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fans of Mindhunter and true crime podcasts will devour these chilling stories of serial killers from the American "Golden Age" (1950-2000). With books like Serial Killers, Female Serial Killers and Sons of Cain, Peter Vronsky has established himself as the foremost expert on the history of serial killers. In this first definitive history of the "Golden Age" of American serial murder, when the number and body count of serial killers exploded, Vronsky tells the stories of the most unusual and prominent serial killings from the 1950s to the early twenty-first century. From Ted Bundy to the Golden State Killer, our fascination with these classic serial killers seems to grow by the day. American Serial Killers gives true crime junkies what they crave, with both perennial favorites (Ed Kemper, Jeffrey Dahmer) and lesser-known cases (Melvin Rees, Harvey Glatman).

Download or read book The English Garden Mystery written by Dan Andriacco and published by Andrews UK Limited. This book was released on 2022-09-02 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An "Old Money" Family Meets Murder Shakespearean scholar and philanthropist Ezra Bainbridge, patriarch of one of Erin, Ohio's wealthiest old families, lives quietly and happily at his Stratford Court compound with three triplet daughters until accusations of elder abuse roil the family. Amateur sleuth Sebastian McCabe and his friend Jeff Cody are drawn into the controversy as objective observers but are soon ensnared in a puzzling series of horrendous murders, each one of which is marked by the presence of a flower. It takes McCabe and Cody to figure out the meaning of these floral tributes, but not until it is almost too late. At the center Stratford Court, and of the mystery, is an English garden around which stand the homes of Ezra Bainbridge and his daughters, all of them named for Shakespearean characters-Ophelia, the professor; Desdemona, the rebel; and Portia, the social climber. The story finds Erin much changed by the COVID-19 pandemic, with some of our old friends gone forever and others transformed. Readers of the early Ellery Queen mystery novels will find more than a passing similarity to those classics, from The English Garden Mystery title of the novel to the "Challenge to the Reader" at the point in the book where all the clues have been presented.

Download or read book Hamlet s Arab Journey written by Margaret Litvin and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2011-10-23 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the past five decades, Arab intellectuals have seen themselves in Shakespeare's Hamlet: their times "out of joint," their political hopes frustrated by a corrupt older generation. Hamlet's Arab Journey traces the uses of Hamlet in Arabic theatre and political rhetoric, and asks how Shakespeare's play developed into a musical with a happy ending in 1901 and grew to become the most obsessively quoted literary work in Arab politics today. Explaining the Arab Hamlet tradition, Margaret Litvin also illuminates the "to be or not to be" politics that have turned Shakespeare's tragedy into the essential Arab political text, cited by Arab liberals, nationalists, and Islamists alike. On the Arab stage, Hamlet has been an operetta hero, a firebrand revolutionary, and a muzzled dissident. Analyzing productions from Egypt, Syria, Iraq, Jordan, and Kuwait, Litvin follows the distinct phases of Hamlet's naturalization as an Arab. Her fine-grained theatre history uses personal interviews as well as scripts and videos, reviews, and detailed comparisons with French and Russian Hamlets. The result shows Arab theatre in a new light. Litvin identifies the French source of the earliest Arabic Hamlet, shows the outsize influence of Soviet and East European Shakespeare, and explores the deep cultural link between Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser and the ghost of Hamlet's father. Documenting how global sources and models helped nurture a distinct Arab Hamlet tradition, Hamlet's Arab Journey represents a new approach to the study of international Shakespeare appropriation.

Download or read book Ophelia s Husband written by Madison Morris and published by Fulton Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2021-06-04 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ophelia has aspiring dreams of becoming a police officer. Protecting the innocent is her heart's desire. But her future plans are crushed on her twenty-fifth birthday, when her strangely young family introduces her to an unknown part of her family, her aunt and uncle. Far from civilization, Ophelia ought to be married through arranged marriage by a long family tradition. This will make her into one of them. Struggling to accept her newly found fate, Ophelia is about to find a whole new meaning of what her heritage means and also the one thing she thought she'd never find: true love.

Download or read book A Beachfront Bakery Cozy Mystery Bundle Books 3 and 4 written by Fiona Grace and published by Fiona Grace. This book was released on 2021-08-30 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A bundle of books #3 (A PERILOUS CAKE POP) and #4 (A DEADLY DANISH) in Fiona Grace’s Beachfront Bakery cozy mystery series. This bundle offers books three and four in one convenient file, with over 150,000 words of reading. Allison Sweet, 34, a sous chef in Los Angeles, has had it up to here with demeaning customers, her demanding boss, and her failed love life. After a shocking incident, she realizes the time has come to start life fresh and follow her lifelong dream of moving to a small town and opening a bakery of her own. In A PERILOUS CAKE POP (Book #3), after a popular food critic trashes Allison’s bakery, he ends up dead—and suspicion falls on her. With business failing, Allison’s only hope is to solve the crime and clear her name. But it’s not so simple: the dead critic infuriated a long line of people, and any of them could have gladly killed him. Will Allison—and her beloved dog—be able to solve the seemingly impossible case in time? In A DEADLY DANISH (Book #4), a local Councilman lobbies for new laws to tax and fine all the boardwalk stores, making life for everyone miserable—and he has Allison’s booming business in his crosshairs. But when the Councilman turns up dead, Allison becomes the natural suspect. Panicked, Allison realizes that if she doesn’t solve the crime quickly, everything she worked so hard for will be swept away. Will Allison—her beloved dog by her side—be able to crack the case before it’s too late? A hilarious cozy mystery series, packed with twists, turns, romance, travel, food and unexpected adventure, the BEACHFRONT BAKERY series will keep you laughing and turning pages late into the night as you fall in love with an endearing new character who will capture your heart. Book #5-#6 are also available!

Download or read book Beachfront Bakery A Perilous Cake Pop A Beachfront Bakery Cozy Mystery Book 3 written by Fiona Grace and published by Fiona Grace. This book was released on 2021-05-27 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Very entertaining. I highly recommend this book to the permanent library of any reader that appreciates a very well written mystery, with some twists and an intelligent plot. You will not be disappointed. Excellent way to spend a cold weekend!" --Books and Movie Reviews, Roberto Mattos (regarding Murder in the Manor) BEACHFRONT BAKERY: A PERILOUS CAKE POP is book #3 in a charming and hilarious new cozy mystery series by #1 bestselling author Fiona Grace, whose bestselling Murder in the Manor (A Lacey Doyle Cozy Mystery) has nearly 200 five star reviews. Allison Sweet, 34, a sous chef in Los Angeles, has had it up to here with demeaning customers, her demanding boss, and her failed love life. After a shocking incident, she realizes the time has come to start life fresh and follow her lifelong dream of moving to a small town and opening a bakery of her own. After a popular food critic trashes Allison’s bakery, he ends up dead—and suspicion falls on her. With business failing, Allison’s only hope is to solve the crime and clear her name. But it’s not so simple: the dead critic infuriated a long line of people, and any of them could have gladly killed him. Will Allison—and her beloved dog—be able to solve the seemingly impossible case in time? A hilarious cozy mystery series, packed with twists, turns, romance, travel, food and unexpected adventure, the BEACHFRONT BAKERY series will keep you laughing and turning pages late into the night as you fall in love with an endearing new character who will capture your heart. Books #4 (A DEADLY DANISH), #5 (A TREACHEROUS TART), and #6 (A CALAMITOUS COOKIE) are also available!