Download or read book The Tag Along Murders written by Thomas O'Donnell and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2011-07-31 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zeus' masseuses keep bleeding out. On their own time and in the privacy of their own bathtubs, aided by a well-placed slit to the jugular, the lovely ladies who help make up Zeus's nationwide kingdom of "massage parlors" are turning up dead. The latest wrinkle is that so are his clientele. It is one thing for the employees to be targeted, but the women who frequent his "massage parlors," a/k/a health spas, are also winding up in the morgue. Tag-alongs.What are poor Kyra Fontaine and her partner/mentor, legendary profiler Foster Kincaid to do?Normally it would be one thing, but these are anything but normal circumstances. Is it a single serial killer using two entirely different MO's to throw them off? Or two separate serial killers with the common link being Zeus' franchises? Then there's the small matter of why. Who's killing who and why?Not to worry, Kyra, Foster Kincaid will make things right.Or he'll die trying.
Download or read book The Tag Murders written by Carroll John Daly and published by Steeger Properties, LLC. This book was released on 2017-11-12 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Race Williams thought he had seen it all until he came face to face with the mystery of The Tag Murderer: the killer who left metal emblems pinned to each of his victims' corpses. Solving the case is only made more complicated when The Flame, Race's femme fatale, becomes entangled in the mystery: what's her role? And is Race in her crosshairs too? One of the best adventures in the Race Williams series. Story #20 in the Race Williams series. Carroll John Daly (1889–1958) was the creator of the first hard-boiled private eye story, predating Dashiell Hammett's first Continental Op story by several months. Daly's classic character, Race Williams, was one of the most popular fiction characters of the pulps, and the direct inspiration for Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer.
Download or read book Murder She Wrote Murder on the QE2 written by Jessica Fletcher and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1997-10-01 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bestselling mystery writer and amateur sleuth Jessica Fletcher is invited to travel to London on the grand dame of ocean liners, the Queen Elizabeth II, as one of seven guest lecturers. The night they set sail, a fellow speaker is found brutally murdered. Now Jessica has just four days at sea to find the killer...before she finds more of her colleagues, or even herself, dead in the water!
Download or read book The Touchman Murders written by Gerald C. Davis and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2019-11-22 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Touchman Murders By: Gerald C. Davis A serial murderer is on the loose in the ghetto and the city is on alert. The Touchman Murders tracks the developments in the homeless community in a fast-paced chase from a homeless camp to the courtroom. Tensions are mounting as the events gain national attention and the murders continue.
Download or read book The Nineteenth Hole written by Thomas O'Donnell and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2011-12-04 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A state-of-the-art professional golf course above ground; an equally state-of-the-art cemetery underneath that very same plot of land. For the first time in years, things are looking up for both the school and the entire community. But all is not as it appears to be in the quaint little village of Canterbury, nor for that matter on the hollowed grounds of St. Anselm's. Long before the golf course is ready for play, long before the "cemeterium" is ready for those in need of eternal rest, dead bodies have begun popping up. A case crying out for Detective Quentin P. Montgomery? Not exactly. Montgomery doesn't have time to track down some two-bit pretender to the throne. He's after bigger fish to fry. In fact, the biggest fish of them all. The Almighty Unsub.
Download or read book Murder in the Queen s Armes written by Aaron Elkins and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-04-01 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Skeleton Detective puzzles over the theft of an ancient bit of bone—and a student’s murder—in this novel by the Edgar Award–winning author of Switcheroo. Anthropology professor Gideon Oliver would prefer to keep his mind on his beautiful new bride Julie during their English honeymoon, but one intrusive question will not stop nagging at him: Who would want to steal a thirty‐thousand‐year‐old parieto‐occipital calvarial fragment? Yet someone has lifted this chunk of prehistoric human skull from a musty museum in Dorchester. Then, thirty miles away, an archaeology student is murdered, increasing tension and suspicion at a dig that had already seethed with suspicion, rivalry, and mistrust. Could there be a connection between a hot bone and a cold‐blooded murder? Gideon is called on by the police to apply the unique skills for which the media have named him “the Skeleton Detective,” and he reluctantly agrees. Before he is done, his sleuthing will lead him to another murder and will—in the most literal and terrifying manner imaginable—sic the dogs on him, putting Gideon himself, and Julie as well, in mortal danger . . . Murder in the Queen’s Armes is a suspenseful, fun-filled whodunit by the author of the Alix London and Chris Norgren series—a celebrated master who “thoroughly understands the art of the murder mystery” (The Philadelphia Inquirer). Murder in the Queen’s Armes is the 3rd book in the Gideon Oliver Mysteries, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.
Download or read book On Call for Murder written by Adria Burrows and published by PublishAmerica. This book was released on 2010-10-12 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nicky Steinway, a smart and beautiful medical student, is on-call at the hospital one day when she accidentally discovers a murder scene right in the hospital. Almost immediately, she must somehow convince the New York City Police Department and the Underworld that she is not responsible for the murder and that she doesn't know anything about it. She is almost killed in the process and dodges all sorts of dangers. This book will make you hold your breath as it takes you through one adventure after another when Dr. Steinway tries to solve a murder and prove her innocence at the same time.
Download or read book Murder Ward written by Warren Murphy and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-09-01 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Robler Clinic is getting a reputation for far too many deaths during routine operations. A gorgeous female administrator, Kathy Hahl, has discovered a profitable little racket, and her tame anaesthetist, Dan Demmet, has been playing along nicely. But when Nathan David Wilberforce – a man of special interest to the secret government law-enforcement organisation CURE – comes to a premature death at the clinic, Remo and Chiun decide it is time to infiltrate. Remo Williams is The Destroyer, an ex-cop who should be dead, but instead fights for CURE. Trained in the esoteric martial art of Sinanju by his aged mentor, Chiun, Remo is America’s last line of defence. Breathlessly action-packed and boasting a winning combination of thrills, humour and mysticism, the Destroyer is one of the bestselling series of all time.
Download or read book Murder On The Wichita written by Bruce Hammack and published by Bruce Hammack. This book was released on 2023-10-12 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fraud, deception, murder… what else awaits this detective along the banks of the muddy Wichita? Substituting for an art teacher on medical leave, artist and private detective Fen Maguire is asked to investigate a long-standing cold case. Seven years ago, a realtor swindled local residents out of millions, then disappeared without a trace. Her victims want their money and they want justice. With the police no longer interested in solving the case, Fen agrees to investigate. The police are suddenly plunged into a new case—the reporter who wrote exposé articles on the fraud victims is dead. The waters surrounding his case get murky when Fen discovers the paths of the missing realtor and the dead journalist intersect. With the senior police detective refusing to believe there’s a connection, he’s on his own. Digging deep into the past, Fen finds a long list of people with reason to kill both the reporter and the realtor. With no help from the police, it’s up to him to follow the trail to the money… and the killer.
Download or read book Murder in the Crooked House written by Soji Shimada and published by Pushkin Vertigo. This book was released on 2019-06-25 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fiendish LOCKED ROOM MYSTERY from the Japanese master of the genre. Never before available in English. By the author of the acclaimed Tokyo Zodiac Murders. The Crooked House sits on a snowbound cliff overlooking icy seas at the remote northern tip of Japan. A curious place for the millionaire Kozaburo Hamamoto to build a house, but even more curious is the house itself - a disorienting maze of sloping floors and strangely situated staircases, full of bloodcurdling masks and uncanny, lifesize dolls. When a man is found dead in one of the mansion's rooms, murdered in seemingly impossible circumstances, the police are called. But they are unable to solve the puzzle, and powerless to protect the party of house guests as more bizarre deaths follow. Enter Kiyoshi Mitarai, the renowned sleuth, famous for unmasking the culprit behind the notorious Umezawa family massacre. Surely if anyone can crack these cryptic murders he will. But you have all the clues too - can you solve the mystery of the murders in The Crooked House first?
Download or read book Premedicated Murder written by Erica J Whelton and published by Sunseri Design Publishing. This book was released on 2021-09-25 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Check out the first book in the Medium with a Heart Series. After Joanna Webber’s husband, Ted, dies, along with his girlfriend that she knew nothing about, she hatches a plan to dig herself out of the debt he left behind. What’s the plan? Become a medium. It’s not that farfetched as she had powers as a child, but blocked them for her sanity, but mostly to appease her mother. So how then does she become a semi-famous medium touring and having a fully booked schedule? She fakes it, leaning on her amazing research skills and her two amazing assistants. Though she may not be the most honest medium, she tries to bring her clients peace and closure during their grief. Her fame grows as she is really quite good at what she does and has a sparkly, charismatic personality. It's her fame that leads to her being contacted by a local pharmaceutical executive, Jeremy Landon. He wants help to investigate a death that has been ruled an accident. He is adamant it is murder. Why should she help him? She’s a medium, not a homicide detective. What skills does she have? The only skill that matters – she can see him. Jeremy turns out to be exactly like Ted, a lying, cheating husband. Figures after nearly twenty years, the first ghost she’d meet would be exactly like her ex. Begrudgingly she decides to help him if only to give Jeremy’s widow the answers and peace Joanna so desperately craves herself. After all, caring and helping others is her brand, A Medium with a Heart.
Download or read book The Official Report of the Trial of John C Best for Murder written by Massachusetts. Superior Court and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 874 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Murder on the Mountain written by Jim Garvey and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2008-07-07 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a story of two detectives Jim Garber and Dick Taylor who investigate a homicide of an entire family in the small mountain community of Pine Heaven in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. The story is set in the time frame of the 1960's when there were vast areas of Southern California, that hadn't fallen under the developer's bulldozer and life seemed just a little more laid back, compared with today's hustle and bustle. It is a story of intrigue and human doubts and the avenues that these men travel to try and solve this horrendous crime in this small community. It deals with the emotions of these two Detectives and how these murders play upon their own feelings when confronting possible suspects to this crime and how they handle events that seem to put their reputations in jeopardy. The story goes from the sweltering hear of the valley to the cold and chilling nights in the mountains and all the human faults and failings that go into trying to solve this crime.
Download or read book Muffin But Murder written by Victoria Hamilton and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-07-01 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Muffin maker Merry Wynter hopes to find a buyer for the castle she’s recently inherited. But when she throws a party to draw interest, she finds someone who’s bought the farm instead… Merry’s career as a New York City stylist has crumbled, but her passion for muffins has helped her rise upstate in Autumn Vale. Everyone in town loves the tasty treats. Still, she would like to return to her glamorous life. Besides, the upkeep of Wynter Castle is expensive, and Merry’s cup isn’t exactly overflowing. So in order to bring some prospective buyers into the mix, Merry whisks together a spooky soiree and decorates the castle with dashes of fabric and a sprinkling of spider webs. Friends new and old are invited, and everyone has a blast. But as the revelers empty out, Merry notices one partygoer who isn’t leaving—or breathing. Now Merry must hurry to unmask a killer before her perfect plans turn into a recipe for disaster…
Download or read book Murder on the Titania and Other Steam Powered Adventures written by Alex Acks and published by Queen of Swords Press. This book was released on 2018-04-01 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Captain Marta Ramos, the most notorious pirate in the Duchy of Denver, has her hands full between fascinating murder mysteries, the delectable and devious Deliah Nimowitz, Colonel Geoffrey Douglas (the Duke of Denver’s new head of security), a spot of airship engineering and her usual activities: piracy, banditry and burglary. Not to mention the horror of high society tea parties. In contrast, Simms, her second in command, longs only for a quiet life, filled with tasty sausages and fewer explosions. Or does he? Join Captain Ramos, Simms and their crew as they negotiate the perils of air, land and drawing room in a series of fast-paced adventures in a North America that never was.
Download or read book Murder at the Lakeside Library written by Holly Danvers and published by Crooked Lane Books. This book was released on 2021-07-13 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A bookish cozy mystery series debut full of “rekindled friendships, family secrets, a twisty mystery, and a hint of romance” (Victoria Gilbert, author of the Blue Ridge Library mysteries). When a body turns up near Rain Wilmot’s rustic Wisconsin cabin, she must discover the killer—before the book closes on her life. Rain Wilmot has just returned to her family’s waterfront log cabin in Lofty Pines, Wisconsin after the untimely death of her husband. The cabin is peaceful compared to Rain’s corporate job and comes with an informal library that Rain’s mother, Willow, used to run. But as Rain prepares for the re-opening of the library, all hopes for a peaceful life are shattered when she discovers the body of Thornton Hughes, a real estate buyer, on the premises. The community of Lofty Pines starts pointing fingers at Willow, since she has been unusually absent from the library this summer. A fishy rumor surfaces when Rain learns that Willow had been spending a lot of time with Thornton. The town even thought they were having an affair. While theories swirl about Thornton's death, Rain takes it upon herself to solve the case to exonerate her mother. As more clues surface, Rain will have to piece together the mystery. But if she isn't careful, she may be the next to end up dead in the water in Murder at the Lakeside Library, the first in Holly Danvers’ new Lakeside Library mysteries.
Download or read book Murder on Highland Street A Vivian Ace Mystery written by N.J. Segen and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-06-14 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: July 1924, Vivian Ace just returned from a four year trip in Europe, to escape from her taunting memories, but when she returns to the small town of Ravenwood a mysterious murder greets her. On Highland Street, the Day's home is nothing but rubble from a terrible fire and just last night the Day's were hosting a large party, but now most of the guests are dead. All that is left from the party is a simple note, ""Dear party goers here's a N?siop cake made especially with love. May the night burn bright. Sincerely, your son."" Just a couple days later another person is murdered on Highland Street. Who is Son? What's N?siop? Can Vivian Ace find the murderer before they strike again?
