Download or read book Jitter Joint written by Howard Swindle and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2007-04-01 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Jitter Joint, award-winning journalist Howard Swindle delivers Jeb Quinlin, a Dallas homicide detective combating crime-and his own personal demons. "The weak and pitiful shall perish..." Jeb Quinlin has been issued an ultimatum by his boss and his wife: dry out or get out. So he hits his favorite bar for a last fifth of Wild Turkey and reluctantly enters detox. Once inside, Jeb is forced to confront his years of alcoholism with the help of Librium, hard-core therapy, and AA meetings. But someone is taking the words of the Big Book too far, as rehab patients begin to die mysteriously, each tagged with one of AA's Twelve Steps. Now Jeb is on a sobering hunt for the Twelve-Step killer, a twisted psychopath who's taking the battle with the bottle to horrifying new heights...

Download or read book Jitter Joint written by Howard Swindle and published by St. Martin's Paperbacks. This book was released on 2000-03-15 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Jitter Joint, award-winning journalist Howard Swindle delivers Jeb Quinlin, a Dallas homicide detective combating crime-and his own personal demons. "The weak and pitiful shall perish..." Jeb Quinlin has been issued an ultimatum by his boss and his wife: dry out or get out. So he hits his favorite bar for a last fifth of Wild Turkey and reluctantly enters detox. Once inside, Jeb is forced to confront his years of alcoholism with the help of Librium, hard-core therapy, and AA meetings. But someone is taking the words of the Big Book too far, as rehab patients begin to die mysteriously, each tagged with one of AA's Twelve Steps. Now Jeb is on a sobering hunt for the Twelve-Step killer, a twisted psychopath who's taking the battle with the bottle to horrifying new heights...

Download or read book Doin Dirty written by Howard Swindle and published by Minotaur Books. This book was released on 2011-04-01 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A year ago, Dallas Homicide Detective Jeb Quinlin went through an alcohol rehab program that was rather more intense than usual, as he double-timed his treatment with tracking a serial killer on an AA agenda. Now, sober and taking things one day at a time on the job and cautiously but successfully involved with Madeline Meggers, a woman he met in the Jitter Joint, he's fragile but surviving. Quinlin and his partner Paul McCarren's latest case involves the gruesome murder of an investigative reporter. It seems that Richard Carlisle may have found more than he bargained for while following a lead on a hush-hush story. Tracing Carlisle's steps, the case leads Quinlin back to his roots in the legendary Texas ranching country of Comanche Gap, looking into the activities of the Colters, a prominent and wealthy family. But what could Carlisle possibly have found that was threatening enough to cost him his life? The truth promises to be more far-reaching, more dangerous, and much closer to home than Quinlin can imagine, pitting him, McCarren, and a few faces from Quinlin's past against one of the Lone Star State's most powerful families.

Download or read book The Book Lover s Tour of Texas written by Jessie Gunn Stephens and published by Taylor Trade Publications. This book was released on 2004 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book takes readers on a literary ride across the Lone Star State. J. Frank Dobie tells true stories of rattlesnakes and buried treasure, Jodi Thomas finds romance in the oilfields.

Download or read book The Irish Cottage Murder written by Dicey Deere and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2013-07-02 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meet Torrey Tunet. Great career. Big dreams. One terrible mistake. Accept an invitation from a stranger who spills soup on her at a restaurant to stay at his Irish castle? What is pretty translator Torrey Tunet thinking? That's easy. She's thinking that luxurious rooms and gourmet meals beat the seedy Dublin hotel her agency booked for her. Fluent in numerous languages, Torrey intends to say non, nicht, nyet, and no way to any passes her host makes. But even Torrey is left speechless by what he actually suggests...and by stumbling upon a murdered man near a forest cottage. And when a priceless heirloom disappears and an old secret from her past surfaces, all fingers point to Torrey. Now she faces ruin-and gaol (jail)-unless she uncovers a truth darker than Irish nights about twisted minds, sinister passions and red-hot revenge...

Download or read book Crime Fiction and Film in the Southwest written by Steve Glassman and published by Popular Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee, Tony Hillerman's oddly matched tribal police officers, patrol the mesas and canyons of their Navajo reservation, they join a rich traditon of Southwestern detectives. In Crime Fiction and Film in the Southwest, a group of literary critics tracks the mystery and crime novel from the Painted Desert to Death Valley and Salt Lake City. In addition, the book includes the first comprehensive bibliography of mysteries set in the Southwest and a chapter on Southwest film noir from Humphrey Bogart's tough hood in The Petrified Forest to Russell Crowe's hard-nosed cop in L.A. Confidential.

Download or read book The Eye Opener written by Anonymous and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-06-07 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A recovery basic for over 30 years, this popular meditation book includes daily affirmations on AA philosophy. Popular meditations on A.A. philosophy, written for every day of the year. This effective tool has been a recovery-basic for over 30 years.

Download or read book Analytical Network and System Administration written by Mark Burgess and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2012-12-17 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Network and system administration usually refers to the skill of keeping computers and networks running properly. But in truth, the skill needed is that of managing complexity. This book describes the science behind these complex systems, independent of the actual operating systems they work on. It provides a theoretical approach to systems administration that: saves time in performing common system administration tasks. allows safe utilization of untrained and trained help in maintaining mission-critical systems. allows efficient and safe centralized network administration. Managing Human-Computer Networks: Will show how to make informed analyses and decisions about systems, how to diagnose faults and weaknesses Gives advice/guidance as to how to determine optimal policies for system management Includes exercises that illustrate the key points of the book The book provides a unique approach to an old problem and will become a classic for researchers and graduate students in Networking and Computer Science, as well as practicing system managers and system administrators.

Download or read book Larger Than Death written by Lynne Murray and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2000-04-15 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Smart and full of attitude, Josephine Fuller goes undercover as a troubleshooter for a feminist philanthropist. Working around the clock, it's a rare day that Josephine gets some time off. When she does, she heads to visit her friend Nina, a plus-size clothing designer. However, when Josephine gets to Seattle, Nina turns up dead. With a list of suspects that keeps growing, it's up to Josephine to find the killer before he strikes again.

Download or read book Tell No Tales written by Eleanor Taylor Bland and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2000-03-15 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Lincoln Prairie, Illinois, black policewoman Marti MacAlister investigates the murder of a black woman--dead for some thirty years--whose body is discovered in an abandoned movie theater. Shortly after, the theater's owner is murdered and MacAlister finds a connection.

Download or read book Explorer s Guide Dallas Fort Worth A Great Destination Explorer s Great Destinations written by Laura Heymann and published by The Countryman Press. This book was released on 2011-06-06 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From real cowboys to the Dallas Cowboys, sushi to steakhouses, and honky-tonks to opera houses, Dallas/Fort Worth has it all. Unlike other guides, this book covers the entire Metroplex—some 110 communities across 10 counties. There’s so much to choose from, but Heymann and Prochnow help you find the best of the best. This imaginative guide provides a mix of high-end and budget choices to fit all travelers’ needs.

Download or read book Roots of Murder written by Janis Harrison and published by Minotaur Books. This book was released on 2011-04-01 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Flower Shop in River City, MO, is Bretta Solomon's whole life. Widowed more than a year ago when her cop husband had a heart attack, Bretta has thrown herself into her florist's business and her place in this small rural Midwestern community. And her diet--she's lost a lot of weight in the intervening year. If only she could shed her grief in the same way. When Bretta reads in the newspaper that Isaac Miller, an Amish farmer who supplied some of her most beautiful flowers, has died under mysterious circumstances, she's shocked and saddened. But her shock turns to curiosity when Isaac's brother, Evan, a friend of hers since his family bought her parents' farm in neighboring Woodgrove, calls and asks her to help him find out more about his brother's death. What Bretta finds when she begins looking into Isaac's murder--for that's what it was--is a complicated web of mistrust and suspicion both inside and around the Amish community. The sheriff suspects Evan, Evan suspects the neighbors, and Bretta finds her florist competitors unnaturally interested in Isaac's garden. Bretta's talent for digging around is both her blessing and her curse. Roots of Murder is the first novel in Janis Harrison's Bretta Solomon Gardening Mysteries--a charming cozy mystery and an atmospheric story about small-town life.

Download or read book The Silly Season written by Susan Holtzer and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2000-04-15 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Strange lights in the Michigan sky. The gathering horde of psychics, alien abductees, and millennialists swear it's an authentic UFO hovering over UM, but to student and Daily sports reporter Zoe Kaplan, the sightings look like a group of fireflies mating. The controversy deepends when history professor Thomas Edison Stempel, a dedicated ufologist, suspects that someone is trying to discredit his extensive research. His archenemy, biochemistry professor Conrad deLeeuw, thinks Stempel set the whole thing up, and fanatic Jarvis McCray claims documented proof of alien/government conspiracy. Was it a hoax, or a cleverly designed plot to kill? Police lieutenant Karl Genesko is stymied, while his fiancee, computer consultant Anneke Haagen, is amused, and Zoe is thrilled at the chance to string the story for the AP. But when Professor Stempel turns up electrocuted on a wide swath of burned field, the silly summer season turns deadly. Genesko's out to trap the killer-with a trap so dangerous he may not survive to tell the tale.

Download or read book Going Local written by Jamie Harrison and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1998-02-15 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sheriff Jules Clement must catch the killer of a lawyer and his lover when the rodeo comes to Blue Deer, Montana.

Download or read book Tech Terms written by Jeff Rutenbeck and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2012-11-12 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An avalanche of acronyms, terms-of-art, buzz words, and short-hand phraseology confronts today's busy communications professionals. Now in its 3rd edition, Tech Terms is an invaluable learning tool to help grasp key aspects of the television and video, PC hardware and software markets, multimedia authoring tools, and the exploding wireless Internet and mobile telecomputing worlds. With more than 1000 terms described in four sentences or less, Tech Terms is perfect the perfect desk reference.

Download or read book Spinegrinder written by Clive Davies and published by SCB Distributors. This book was released on 2015-03-06 with total page 1100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First came video and more recently high definition home entertainment, through to the internet with its streaming videos and not strictly legal peer-to-peer capabilities. With so many sources available, today’s fan of horror and exploitation movies isn’t necessarily educated on paths well-trodden — Universal classics, 1950s monster movies, Hammer — as once they were. They may not even be born and bred on DAWN OF THE DEAD. In fact, anyone with a bit of technical savvy (quickly becoming second nature for the born-clicking generation) may be viewing MYSTICS IN BALI and S.S. EXPERIMENT CAMP long before ever hearing of Bela Lugosi or watching a movie directed by Dario Argento. In this world, H.G. Lewis, so-called “godfather of gore,” carries the same stripes as Alfred Hitchcock, “master of suspense.” SPINEGRINDER is one man’s ambitious, exhaustive and utterly obsessive attempt to make sense of over a century of exploitation and cult cinema, of a sort that most critics won’t care to write about. One opinion; 8,000 reviews (or thereabouts.

Download or read book Common Computer Abbreviations written by B. S. E. E. Desousa and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2008-10 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stroke-Survivor's Pathway of Success! COMMON COMPUTER ABBREVIATIONS Up-to-Date Reference Guide to Abbreviations in Computers and Internet By: John S. DeSousa, B.S.E.E., M.S.E.E. (Stroke-Survivor)This book has been written with non-technical individuals in mind, and every effort has been made to collect the most frequently used abbreviations. In first part of this book, few hundreds of pages are dedicated to listings of abbreviations used in Computers and Internet. In second part ten useful appendices are given as: 1. Appendix A: Electrical information to operate a computer or laptop. 2. Appendix B: SI electrical characteristic symbols. 3. Appendix C: Scietific usage of Greek Alphabet. 4. Appendix D: Decimal prefixes used in computers. 5. Appendix E: Latin and Roman numerical symbols. 6. Appendix F: "Smiley Faces" in E-mail and Newsgroup. 7. Appendix G: "Country Code E-mail" to locate origin of an E-mail. 8. Appendix H: A guide to metric measurement conversion. 9. Appendix I: US spelled words versus International English. 10.Appendix J: Inspiring and motivation words.