Download or read book Miz Scarlet and the Scandalous Secret written by Sara M. Barton and published by Sara Barton. This book was released on 2020-12-07 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The eighth book in the cozy mystery series laced with humor and romance… Scarlet Wilson is beginning to look like the Jessica Fletcher of Cheswick, Connecticut when she stumbles upon yet another dead body. What are the odds of that happening? Just when the Four Acorns Inn proprietor launches her new party business, she find out that she has a stalker, a con man with a fondness for impersonating serial killers who is hired to menace her. Who is the mastermind behind this plot? Kenny, Scarlet’s security expert husband, is convinced she has something in common with fictional hero Sherlock Holmes. Is there a Professor Moriarty lurking in the shadows, setting Miz Scarlet up for a deadly end in a real-life version of a popular board game? With Christmas and New Year’s Eve just around the corner, time is running out. If Kenny and Scarlet can’t solve the crime quickly, there may soon be more bodies headed to the morgue.

Download or read book Like a Thief in the Night written by Sara M. Barton and published by Sara Barton. This book was released on 2024-06-12 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Angus McDonald is a man once suspected of murdering his soon-to-be ex-wife. Annie Colston is a murder mystery author with a knack for character profiles. They’re not your typical amateur sleuths. As passionate cooks and members of the Golden Fork Club, they’re always on the hunt for great cuisine. When Angus and Annie attend an elegant party at a hotel, murder is on the menu. Annie comes face to face with a distraught woman in the ladies’ room who later turns out to be one of two murder victims. Weeks later, when Annie meets another distraught woman in the ladies’ room of another hotel a thousand miles away, she and Angus recognize there is a link between the two crimes. As they dig into a nasty kickback scheme, Annie suddenly discovers she has a stalker. Is he after her because of the murders or is this something entirely different? Annie and Angus must work quickly to uncover the truth before anyone else dies.

Download or read book Like A Fish Out Of Water written by Sara M. Barton and published by Sara Barton. This book was released on 2024-05-29 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Angus McDonald is a man once suspected of murdering his soon-to-be ex-wife. Annie Colston is a murder mystery author with a knack for character profiles. They’re not your typical amateur sleuths. When Annie is offered a 3-book publishing deal with Bonne Joie Books, she delves into the possibility of signing the contract. But she just doesn’t trust the publisher, Randall Collins. When she finds out that several authors want to sue him because their royalties are missing, she and Angus take a closer look and discover dangerous people targeting authors in a scheme to launder money for organized crime. As the body count goes up, escape to the Bahamas, only to find that trouble got there before they did!

Download or read book Like a Bad Penny at Christmas written by Sara M. Barton and published by Sara Barton. This book was released on 2024-05-29 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Angus McDonald is a man once suspected of murdering his soon-to-be ex-wife. Annie Colston is a murder mystery author with a knack for character profiles. They’re not your typical amateur sleuths. When Angus’s brother, Duncan, starts to fall apart, the pair of determined sleuths hit the road. Is Duncan’s manipulative wife planning to murder him and take over his company? How do you prove a man is being slowly driven mad with dangerous drugs? Angus and Annie race against the clock, desperate to extract him from the woman they call the lady vulture. And along the way, they indulge their inner foodies with culinary delights. What better way is there to celebrate Christmas Eve than with a Feast of the Seven Fishes? This will be a December they’ll never forget!

Download or read book Like a Horse of a Different Color written by Sara M. Barton and published by Sara Barton. This book was released on 2024-05-29 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Angus McDonald is a man once suspected of murdering his soon-to-be ex-wife. Annie Colston is a murder mystery author with a knack for character profiles. They’re not your typical amateur sleuths. Annie’s secret past comes back to haunt her when she’s accused of murdering Frank and Marjorie Welter, two people who dared to eavesdrop on her private conversation. Someone is determined to ruin her, but who? Is it the man from her past who turned her life upside down twenty years ago and nearly destroyed her or is it one of his enemies? Now that Annie is accused of murder, will this ruin her blossoming romance with Angus? Thrust into the world of polo matches and high-stakes bets, the dedicated foodies find themselves not only facing ruthless competitors who would do anything to win, but a killer determined not to be caught, all while indulging their passion for good cuisine.

Download or read book Like A Ghost In The Woods written by Sara M. Barton and published by Sara Barton. This book was released on 2024-05-29 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Angus McDonald is a man once suspected of murdering his soon-to-be ex-wife. Annie Colston is a murder mystery author with a knack for character profiles. They’re not your typical amateur sleuths. As passionate cooks and members of the Golden Fork Club, they’re always on the hunt for great cuisine. But when Angus’s dog, Truffles, and Annie’s dog, Cinnamon, find a dead body in the woods, solving the murder becomes imperative, especially after the killer realizes they know too much about him. This is not your typical killer. He’s well-acquainted with the woods and has all kinds of tricks up his sleeve to evade the police. Angus and Annie don’t even know his name or what he looks like, but he knows them. How can they stop him from getting away with murder?

Download or read book Miz Scarlet and the Scandalous Secret written by Sara Barton and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2020-12-11 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The eighth book in the cozy mystery series laced with humor and romance...Scarlet Wilson is beginning to look like the Jessica Fletcher of Cheswick, Connecticut when she stumbles upon yet another dead body. What are the odds of that happening?Just when the Four Acorns Inn proprietor launches her new party business, she find out that she has a stalker, a con man with a fondness for impersonating serial killers who is hired to menace her. Who is the mastermind behind this plot?Kenny, Scarlet's security expert husband, is convinced she has something in common with fictional hero Sherlock Holmes. Is there a Professor Moriarty lurking in the shadows, setting Miz Scarlet up for a deadly end in a real-life version of a popular board game?With Christmas and New Year's Eve just around the corner, time is running out. If Kenny and Scarlet can't solve the crime quickly, there may soon be more bodies headed to the morgue.

Download or read book Miz Scarlet and the Bewildered Bridegroom written by Sara M. Barton and published by Sara Barton. This book was released on 2019-06-11 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book four in the popular cozy mystery series laced with humor and romance… ”Awesome. She never wanted to go into the wedding planning business but pressure from the other has her finally agreeing. After all it is only for a party of twelve - how hard can it be. Add in a hitman, masked intruders and other underhand tricks for an enthralling read. Great plot and wonderful characters make this a must read.” How challenging can it be for the owners of this small bed-and-breakfast establishment to prepare for a wedding with a guest list of twelve? It hardly seems like a difficult task. When Scarlet Wilson is asked to host Annalee Pinault and Gunnar Magnusdotter’s nuptials at the Four Acorns Inn, she never expects it to start a war of matrimonial madness. Three senior citizens want Scarlet to get into the wedding business and they aren't willing to take no for an answer. It doesn't take long for things to spiral out of control. Someone wants to stop Scarlet and the gang, and before long, the dirty tricks turn dangerous! As the day of the wedding approaches, things go from bad to worse. Her mother, Laurel, and Cousin Lacey are ready to pack up and flee to Bermuda...or Tahiti...anywhere their stalker can't find them. Poor Jenny, her assistant, thinks it's her fault these terrible things are happening. And Scarlet? She can't fight an enemy she can't see. Who's behind this horrible campaign of mayhem being waged on the residents of the inn? As tensions and tempers rise, one thing becomes clear -- someone's willing to do just about anything to prevent Scarlet Wilson from hosting weddings at the Four Acorns Inn. Does that include kidnapping the bride?

Download or read book Scarlet Wilson Mysteries Presents Miz Scarlet Cracks the Cases written by Sara M. Barton and published by Sara Barton. This book was released on 2019-06-11 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you met innkeeper-turned-amateur sleuth known as Miz Scarlet? She’s a doozy! Unable to resist a mystery, the funny, feisty puzzle-solver often finds herself stumbling across one body after another as she evades an assortment of determined killers, much to the chagrin of her family and friends, including heartthrob Kenny Tolliver, head of Mercer Security, and Laurencia “Larry” Rivera, an experienced homicide investigator. This digital box set contains six mysteries in the popular series and is perfect for binge reading! Miz Scarlet and the Imposing Imposter #1: Murder comes to the Four Acorns Inn unexpectedly because of a dangerous secret in Scarlet’s past. She’s not the only one with something to hide. Miz Scarlet and the Vanishing Visitor #2: Scarlet rescues a teenager on the Jersey Shore and brings her home, never expecting that trouble will follow orphan Jenny Mulroney to Connecticut. Miz Scarlet and the Holiday Houseguests #3: When “Larry” Rivera tackles a tough homicide case as her divorced parents arrive for a Christmas visit, they join a killer at the inn. Miz Scarlet and the Bewildered Bridegroom #4: When someone decides to wreak havoc for a wedding at the Four Acorns Inn, malicious mayhem puts Scarlet and everyone else in danger. Miz Scarlet and the Perplexed Passenger #5: A cruise to Bermuda turns deadly when a passenger is tossed overboard. Can Scarlet prove the widow’s innocence and catch the culprit? Miz Scarlet and the Acrimonious Attorney #6: When Scarlet’s attorney is murdered, Kenny whisks her away to the Florida Keys, never suspecting the killer is there, ready to kill again. What readers are saying about the Scarlet Wilson Mysteries: “I loved every minute of this book!” “Purely addictive. I love these books.” “A great story with returning characters.” “It had me chuckling so much I had to pause the reading.”

Download or read book Daily Fare written by Kathleen Aguero and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Daily Fare presents seventeen artfully crafted essays in which writers representing a broad spectrum of the American experience ponder the meaning of living in a nation of diverse and competing cultures. Consistently thought-provoking and often intensely personal, these pieces confront such themes as the question of identity, the individual's relation to culture, problems of communication, and the need to strike a balance between preserving traditions and merging them. Memories both tender and painful fill these pages. Toi Derricotte, recalling her experiences as the only black person at an artist colony, often found her sense of isolation almost unbearable: "No one can help. Only I, myself. But how can I let go? My face is a mask, like Uncle Tom's, my heart twisted in rage and fear." In "The Death of Fred Astaire," Leslie Lawrence reflects on the difficult decisions that led to her becoming a lesbian mother and the mix of emotions--apprehension, maternal longing, and, finally, joyous fulfillment--that accompanied her choices. In "Kubota," Garrett Hongo describes how his grandfather enjoined him to learn and to give witness to the injustices committed against Japanese Americans by their own government during World War II; Hongo accepts this responsibility as "a ritual payment the young owe their elders who have survived." Several bilingual essayists contemplate their relationship to the English language--a language that can empower its users or deny them access to the dominant culture. For Judith Ortiz Cofer, reading books from the public library as a child gave her a sense of freedom as well as her first intimations of the writing career she would later pursue. Alberto Alvaro Rios, however, reminds us that learning English in the first grade also meant being punished for using Spanish: "Spanish was bad. Okay. We, then, must be bad kids." Still other essays explore what it means to confront the confusions of a plural family heritage or to be a black artist from a Catholic background when so much of black culture is tied to the Protestant tradition. "Despite the current interest in multiculturalism," Kathleen Aguero observes, "the notion of culture in the United States today is too often synonymous with predominantly white, male, heterosexual, upper-class, Eurocentric interests." In bringing together writers from beyond this tradition, Daily Fare provides a valuable perspective on our current moment in history. As Jack Agueros, summing up both the dilemma and the pleasure of our society's diversity, writes, "It's hard and wasteful to be purely ethnic in America--definitely wasteful to be totally assimilated."

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Download or read book Lay that Trumpet in Our Hands written by Susan Carol McCarthy and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is one of those rare and remarkable debuts that herald the appearance of a major new talent on the literary scene. Inspired by real events, Lay That Trumpet In Our Hands is a wise and luminous story about a northern family, a southern town, and the senseless murder that sparks an extraordinary act of courage. To this day, my family is in disagreement as to precisely when the nightmare began. For me, it was the morning Daddy and Luther discovered Marvin, beaten, shot, and dying, in the Klan’s stomping grounds off Round Lake Road. My brother Ren disagrees. He points to the small cluster of scars that begin just outside his left eye and trail horizontally across his temple to the top of his ear. Ren claims it started when the men in white robes took the unprecedented step of shooting at two white children. Others say it was when Mr. Thurgood Marshall of the NAACP and Mr. Hoover’s FBI came to town. Mother and Daddy shake their heads. In their minds, the real beginning was much earlier....

Download or read book Mudbound written by Hillary Jordan and published by Algonquin Books. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1946, Laura McAllan tries to adjust after moving with her husband and two children to an isolated cotton farm in the Mississipi Delta.

Download or read book Ruth s Journey written by Donald McCaig and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-10-14 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Exquisitely imagined, deeply researched . . . brings to the foreground the most enigmatic and fascinating figure in Gone with the Wind. This is a brave work of literary empathy by a writer at the height of his powers, who demonstrates a magisterial understanding of the period, its clashing cultures, and its heartbreaking crises. ” —Geraldine Brooks, author of March The only authorized prequel to Margaret Mitchell’s Gone with the Wind—the unforgettable story of Mammy. On a Caribbean island consumed by the flames of revolution, an infant girl falls under the care of two French émigrés, Henri and Solange Fournier, who take the beautiful child they call Ruth to the bustling American city of Savannah. What follows is the sweeping tale of Ruth’s life as shaped first by her strong-willed mistress, and then by Solange’s daughter Ellen and Gerald O’Hara, the rough Irishman Ellen chooses to marry; the Butler family of Charleston and their unexpected connection to Mammy Ruth; and finally Scarlett O’Hara—the irrepressible Southern belle Mammy raises from birth. As we witness the lives of three generations of women, gifted storyteller Donald McCaig reveals a nuanced portrait of Mammy, at once a proud woman and a captive, a strict disciplinarian who has never experienced freedom herself. Through it all, Mammy endures, a rock in the river of time. Set against the backdrop of the South from the 1820s until the dawn of the Civil War, here is a remarkable story of fortitude, heartbreak, and indomitable will—and a tale that will forever illuminate your reading of Margaret Mitchell’s Gone with the Wind.

Download or read book The 48 Laws of Power written by Robert Greene and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2023-10-31 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amoral, cunning, ruthless, and instructive, this multi-million-copy New York Times bestseller is the definitive manual for anyone interested in gaining, observing, or defending against ultimate control – from the author of The Laws of Human Nature. In the book that People magazine proclaimed “beguiling” and “fascinating,” Robert Greene and Joost Elffers have distilled three thousand years of the history of power into 48 essential laws by drawing from the philosophies of Machiavelli, Sun Tzu, and Carl Von Clausewitz and also from the lives of figures ranging from Henry Kissinger to P.T. Barnum. Some laws teach the need for prudence (“Law 1: Never Outshine the Master”), others teach the value of confidence (“Law 28: Enter Action with Boldness”), and many recommend absolute self-preservation (“Law 15: Crush Your Enemy Totally”). Every law, though, has one thing in common: an interest in total domination. In a bold and arresting two-color package, The 48 Laws of Power is ideal whether your aim is conquest, self-defense, or simply to understand the rules of the game.

Download or read book Daughter of the White River written by Denise Parkinson and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2009-04-30 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The tragic, true story of Helen Spence, the teenager who murdered her father’s killers in the insulated lower White River area of Arkansas in 1931. The once-thriving houseboat communities along Arkansas’s White River are long gone, and few remember the sensational murder story that set local darling Helen Spence on a tragic path. In 1931, Spence shocked Arkansas when she avenged her father’s murder in a DeWitt courtroom. The state soon discovered that no prison could hold her. For the first time, prison records are unveiled to provide an essential portrait. Join author Denise Parkinson for an intimate look at a Depression-era tragedy. The legend of Helen Spence refuses to be forgotten—despite her unmarked grave. “Most memorably, Parkinson evokes the natural beauty of the White River itself. But more importantly, she’s given Helen Spence, daughter of the river, a sympathetic hearing—something in its pulp version of events Daring Detective did not.”—Memphis Flyer “Denise details Helen’s life, from the murder of her father to the horrific treatment she received at the hands of the law, including how prison officials seemed to entice her to escape a final time, with the attempt culminating in her murder.”—Only in Arkansas