Download or read book The Poplar Creek Murders written by Charles Connor and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-15 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: People are dying in east Tennessee. Children and the elderly and young adults in the prime of life, whole families are being found dead of unknown causes. Dr. Lee Turner, the deputy coroner for Bartram County, took the phone call that led her to the discovery of the first body, that of Dr. Alexander Hamrick, an aging scientist retired from the National Research Labs at Oak Ridge. Lee recently moved back to Carters Mill, the quiet little university town of her childhood, hoping for a slower pace of life and some peace of mind. But the discovery of the Hamrick body and those that follow turn her life and the lives of the citizens of Bartram County inside out. Lee works desperately to get to the bottom of whatever is going on, but not everyone is cooperative and happy with what she is doing. Powerful and sinister forces stand in her way at every turn. Through it all Lee has the support of her loyal assistant, the normally goodnatured and laid back Buddy Ruff who is not only her righthand man, he can be her righthand fist when the going gets dirty. She can only hope she has enough resources and enough time to solve the mystery as people close to her fall victim and she herself could be the next to die.

Download or read book Dead Guilty written by Beverly Connor and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2004-09-07 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Calls to mind the forensic mysteries of Aaron Elkins and Patricia Cornwell.”—Chicago Sun-Times “Deserves comparison with the best of Patricia Cornwell.”—Booklist (starred review) In Beverly Connor’s absorbing series, the bones of the dead reveal the secrets of the living. Now Connor takes her ingenious heroine—forensic anthropologist Diane Fallon—on a chilling excavation of a crime with harrowing implications. In the shadow of Diane Fallon’s new forensic lab in Georgia, a land survey crew has discovered three bodies hanging in an isolated patch of woods. The sensational case has aroused the interest of the media, unnerved the locals—and inspired a gruesome game between the killer and Diane. It begins with taunting e-mails and chilling phone calls. Where it leads is a dangerously personal investigation as each bizarre clue brings Diane closer to a heartless betrayal, and a desperate man’s obsession for justice—and revenge.

Download or read book One Grave Too Many written by Beverly Connor and published by Onyx Books. This book was released on 2003 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ex-forensic anthropologist, Diane Fallon, finds her past catching up to her when her former lover, Detective Frank Duncan, asks for her help in examining a bone he found in the woods, a grisly discovery that is linked to her family. Original.

Download or read book Dead Secret written by Beverly Connor and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2005-12-06 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Call[ing] to mind the forensic mysteries of Aaron Elkins and Patricia Cornwell” (Chicago Sun-Times), Beverly Connor’s spellbinding series proves that the dead do tell tales—and reveal secrets that can threaten the living in the most chilling of ways… In the depths of an unmapped cave, forensic anthropologist Diane Fallon makes an astonishing discovery: the decades-old skeleton of a caving victim. Soon, the remains of two more bodies are found—one in an old car submerged in the waters of an abandoned quarry, another buried in the Georgia woods. At first, with nothing to link the dissimilar victims except desiccated bones, Diane can’t fathom the connection. But someone in her shadow does. It’s the key to a mystery that reaches back seventy years in a heritage of love, greed, and murder—and an unearthed family secret that still holds the power to kill.

Download or read book The Night Killer written by Beverly Connor and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2010-04-06 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forensic investigator Diane Fallon fights for her life in her eighth mystery Diane is driving through a downpour on a windy mountain road after picking up a set of rare Indian artifacts when a tree suddenly slams across the hood of her car, revealing a human skeleton in its hollow trunk. As she starts to investigate, she's ambushed by a stranger and forced to run for her life. Stranded in the night with a killer, Diane must uncover a secret hidden away by time and distance-or she may not live to see another morning...

Download or read book Scattered Graves written by Beverly Connor and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2009-02-03 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beverly Connor's “outstanding series” (Booklist) returns with a gripping new installment that sends forensic anthropologist Diane Fallon hot on the trail of a stone-cold killer... Local politics get nasty when Rosewood, Georgia, elects a new mayor—and the honorable Spencer Jefferies makes it his first order of business to replace Diane Fallon with an incompetent crony as head of the crime lab. But just as Diane is adjusting to life without murder, a double whammy hits: within a 24-hour period, the newly appointed chief of police and the mayor himself are shot dead. Back on the job, Diane sees, but can't quite believe, the evidence damning the former chief of detectives as the shooter. Someone with plenty to gain intends to get away with more than murder, and as the investigation reveals an ever-widening web of corruption and treachery, Diane realizes that no one is safe—least of all her.

Download or read book One Grave Less written by Beverly Connor and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2010-12-07 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forensic anthropologist Diane Fallon has tried to put the past behind her, establishing herself as head of the River Trail Museum of Natural History. Late one night at the museum, Diane hears terrified cries and finds an injured man-a former coworker from her time as a human rights activist in South America. Left with a body, a bone, and a cryptic message, Diane has to dig back into her past with World Account International, before the next human rights abused are hers...

Download or read book Dead Past written by Beverly Connor and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2007-02-06 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beverly Connor’s “fabulous forensic investigation series” (Mystery Books) featuring forensic anthropologist Diane Fallon proves that the past is never really forgotten—and that some memories can kill… As a young girl, Juliet Price witnessed a brutal act of violence—and then became the victim of one herself. For years, Juliet’s traumatized mind hid the events from her. Then she saw a television show featuring an unsolved cold case, and the horrors come back to her in her nightmares. Diane Fallon realizes that Juliet’s shattered visions recall not one, but two intertwined crimes—crimes that Diane intends to uncover. But someone else also saw the TV program. Someone who has emerged from the shadows to continue the killing they began eighteen years ago…

Download or read book Dust to Dust written by Beverly Connor and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2009-08-04 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A woman dies under suspicious circumstances, supposedly after finding evidence of her incarcerated brother's innocence. Now to prove a possible murder, Diane Fallon must root through the victim's family secrets-and the many skeletons in her closet...

Download or read book Murder in Macon written by Charles Connor and published by Quick Brown Fox Publishers. This book was released on 2013-03-29 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In racially tense 1970 Macon, Georgia a young, naive and somewhat cynical Frank Hayes arrives at his office in City Hall to find Mr. John Glover, an eighty-nine year old illiterate black man who asks for Frank's help in stopping a city condemnation order against the old gentleman's home. Frank's efforts soon put him in the arms of Shirley Willingham, wife of one of Macon's wealthiest real estate developers. But it is Johnny Mae Glover, the green eyed granddaughter of John Glover, who steals Frank's heart. Frank is taken under the wing of a grizzled fifty-five year old ex-convict named Tiny Glover who confided to Frank that he was the husband and convicted killer of Johnny Mae's mother. Tiny believes Frank is an angel sent to put his and Johnny Mae's worlds right again. But before that can happen, Frank, Tiny, and Johnny Mae are arrested and jailed for the murder of millionaire Stafford Willingham. Frank must quickly unravel a plot of greed and corruption before he and his few brave companions become just the latest items in the obituaries.

Download or read book Dressed to Die written by and published by . This book was released on 2014-03-05 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some skeletons just won't stay hidden. No one knows that better than University of Georgia archaeologist Lindsay Chamberlain. But even she is shocked when a skeleton dressed in its Sunday best falls out of a packing crate in her lab. The dusty crate had been stored in a kudzu-covered shed on her grandfather's farm for more than sixty years. When other crates from the shed are discovered containing stashes of valuable artifacts, Lindsay begins to wonder if her beloved grandfather, who was a prominent archaeologist and her mentor, could have been a thief, a looter -- even a murderer? As Lindsay struggles with these troubling questions, she is asked by a local private investigator to help locate the wooded grave of Shirley Foster, a missing University of Georgia faculty member. The investigation leads to more questions than answers. Why did Shirley Foster lie to the world about her life? Who wanted her dead? Secrets and lies loom large in Lindsay's life, both professional and personal. Artifacts disappear from the university. She and her students are threatened. With her job, her reputation, and her life on the line, Lindsay must solve these mysteries and find a thief and a killer before the police come for her.

Download or read book Questionable Remains written by Beverly Connor and published by Quick Brown Fox Publishers. This book was released on 2014-03-20 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Man's eternal quest for gold proves as enduring as it is fatal when forensic archaeologist Lindsay Chamberlain unearths a four-hundred-year-old mystery -- and a mondern-day murder. Vacationing in Tennessee, Lindsay studies the bones of a centuries-old corpse hiding a fascinating secret. She's also asked to look into the suspicious deaths of two adventurous cavers whose fatal foray into Hell's Slide spells murder for one family member. But bones don't lie, and before long, Lindsay knows she's digging up trouble. Someone wants the case to remain closed -- and the mounting threats tell her she's getting closer to the truth. But as murder old and new come together in shocking ways, Lindsay finds herself digging for her life -- to survive the clever trap of a killer.

Download or read book Airtight Case written by Beverly Connor and published by . This book was released on 2013-05-08 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a seemingly random attack, forensic anthropologist Lindsay Chamberlain is left for dead in the woods of East Tennessee. The ordeal leaves her with amnesia, and when her memory returns, it is incomplete. To get herself back to normal, Lindsay joins an excavation at an 1830s farm site on the edge of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Unlike past digs where she has worked, this site has serious problems of open hostilities and tensions among the crew and an incompetent site director. Plus, the principal investigator is suspected of murdering a local resident and stealing valuable papers. When very rare sealed lead coffins dating from the 1700s are unearthed, one of them contains the disturbing remains of a woman who appears to have something frighteningly in common with Lindsay. Then one of the crew disappears and Lindsay realizes that unless she solves a complex web of mysteries, she might lose her sanity, or worse, her life.

Download or read book Skeleton Crew written by Beverly Connor and published by . This book was released on 2014-03-28 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Off the coast of Georgia, archaeologist Lindsay Chamberlain excavates the 1558 wreck of a Spanish galleon. The ancient artifacts reveal evidence of a murder at sea. As she discovers clues to the identity of the four-hundred-year-old murderer, she is faced with modern-day pirates and two killings that appear to be tied to the excavation. Raging seas, pirates, snakes, and a ghost galleon make this an adventure for Lindsay like no other in her life.

Download or read book The Whiskey Creek Murders written by Steven Jacobs and published by . This book was released on 2020-07-11 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The end of World War I ushered in the 1920's, which brought a technological boom in the United States, as great strides were being made in the automobile industry as well as cinema, aviation, medicine, and music such as Jazz. However, with the good also came the bad, as crimes such as bank robberies, gambling, drug trafficking, murder, and along with the ratification of the 18th Amendment, Prohibition, corruption, and organized crime.The port city of Wilmington, North Carolina, was not immune to these problems as a rash of murders had taken place in or near the city, and the bodies dumped on the same rural road outside of the town proper. All attempts to catch the perpetrator had failed, so the mayor of Wilmington called the Allied Detective Agency for help. Within days, Allied's newest agent, Detective Hunter Grey, would find himself in the thick of a case that involves murder, betrayal, corruption, and an old family curse before he finally unraveled the mystery of what was going on around the black waters of Whiskey Creek.

Download or read book The Brush Creek Murders written by Charles Horace Snow and published by . This book was released on 1937* with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Murder on Alum Creek written by Jim Ryan and published by . This book was released on 2021-06 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The subject of the book was a Baptist Minister murdered his wife. He was hanged for the crime. This happened in 1858.