Download or read book Murder in Palm Springs written by Dianne Harman and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-04-29 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An aging American idol.A murder. A dog with paranormal abilities. Who knew walking to the mailbox could be so deadly?Join Marty and her dog, Patron, as they eliminate suspects in the murder of a beloved rock star in Palm Springs, California. This is book number eight in the bestselling High Desert Cozy Mystery Series by two-time USA Today Bestselling Author Dianne Harman. Enjoy!

Download or read book Murder in Palm Springs written by Mike Romano and published by . This book was released on 2000-04 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is happening in Palm Springs? Ted Ross is delighted to be away from the hectic urban pace of Los Angeles. Palm Springs is a nonviolent Mecca - that is until he awakes one morning to find a dead body on his front lawn. The Palm Springs Police, especially one Sargent Noble, aren't convinced that Ted knows nothing about the woman's murder.

Download or read book Poppy Harmon Investigates written by Lee Hollis and published by Kensington Cozies. This book was released on 2018-07-31 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lee Hollis begins a delightful new series in which Poppy Harmon and her friends find that life after retirement can be much busier—and deadlier—than any of them ever anticipated . . . When Poppy goes from complacent retiree to penniless widow in a matter of weeks, the idea of spending her golden years as the biggest charity case in Palm Springs renders her speechless. With no real skills and nothing left to lose, Poppy uses her obsession with true crime shows to start a career as a private eye . . . But after opening the Desert Flowers Detective Agency with help from her two best friends, Violet and Iris, Poppy realizes that age brings wisdom, not business—until she convinces her daughter's handsome boyfriend, Matt, to pose as the face of the agency. It’s not long before Matt’s irresistible act snags a client desperate to retrieve priceless jewelry burglarized from an aging actress at the Palm Leaf Retirement Village. Or before Poppy stumbles upon the bloodied body of the victim’s arch rival . . . In a flash, Poppy’s innocent detective gig is upstaged by a dangerous murder investigation riddled with slimy suspects and unspeakable scandal. As she and her team uncover the truth, Poppy must confront the secrets about her late husband’s past and swiftly catch a killer lurking around the retirement community—even if it means turning her world upside down all over again.

Download or read book Palm Springs Noir Akashic Noir written by Barbara DeMarco-Barrett and published by Akashic Books. This book was released on 2021-07-06 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Palm Springs now joins Los Angeles, San Diego, Orange County, San Francisco, Oakland, and Berkeley in California’s Noir Series arena. “Contrary to popular belief, noir doesn’t require a bleak city street for its setting. Nor water, for that matter. Noir thrives on secrets, lies and lust, all flowing plentifully through the jewel in the Coachella Valley’s fragile crown . . . For all the playfulness of the genre and the location, the wisecracks and the kidney-shaped pools, there is an unmanageable darkness waiting to seep in, like so much blood in the pool water.” —Los Angeles Times Akashic Books continues its award-winning series of original noir anthologies, launched in 2004 with Brooklyn Noir. Each book comprises all new stories, each one set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the respective city. Brand-new stories by: T. Jefferson Parker, Janet Fitch, Eric Beetner, Kelly Shire, Tod Goldberg, Michael Craft, Barbara DeMarco-Barrett, Rob Roberge, J.D. Horn, Eduardo Santiago, Rob Bowman, Chris J. Bahnsen, Ken Layne, and Alex Espinoza.

Download or read book Rancho Mirage written by Aram Saroyan and published by Barricade Books. This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is one of the strangest true-crime stories ever written: a story of murder, reported rape, abduction and multiple personalities. It contains all of the ingredients of a chilling page-turner. Saroyan writes nonfiction as compelling as a great novel. Readers won't stop until the last page.

Download or read book Palm Springs True Crime written by Eric G Meeks and published by . This book was released on 2016-01-23 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of true crime stories of Palm Springs and the surrounding communities.

Download or read book Twilight Manors in Palm Springs God s Waiting Room written by St Sukie de la Croix and published by Rattling Good Yarns Press. This book was released on 2021-09-18 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Hilarious Romp Through Retirement!Why do gay men retire to Palm Springs? Because it's a great place to live and a fabulous place to die. When Brian and Stéphane retired and moved to Palm Springs, California, they never expected their lives to be turned upside down. They expected a quiet, peaceful retirement. But God had other plans. Instead of sunny days lounging by the pool, the aging couple discovered glory holes, nonagenarian cross-dressing neighbors, a lost pussy, an S&M-themed Thai restaurant, owl-collecting lesbians, nuns, a sad-looking anal chrysanthemum, Carol Channing, murder, and annoying mallards ... mostly annoying mallards. Twilight Manors in Palm Springs, God's Waiting Room, is a hysterical, laugh-out-loud romp. It follows the adventures of Brian, Stéphane, their friends and neighbors through a series of bizarre events that could only happen in Palm Springs, God's Waiting Room.

Download or read book Palm Springs Confidential written by Howard Johns and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A star-studded guided tour of Palm Springs, California, where some of Hollywood's best-loved movie stars have lived and died. It lifts the lid on the secret lives of the rich and famous individuals who have resided in this world-renowned tourist resort during the last century.

Download or read book Murder at the PTA written by Lee Hollis and published by Kensington. This book was released on 2020-09-29 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Desperate Housewives meets Murder, She Wrote, in Lee Hollis’s new mystery series, where a housewife and a female private eye solve murders together in their small Maine town! Someone is trying to turn Portland High into a school for scandal with a gossipy website called Dirty Laundry. The latest target of ruinous rumors is newly elected PTA president Sandra Wallage. After a heated meeting with outraged parents, Sandra runs into fellow school mom and private investigator Maya Kendrick, who's discovered the person behind the website. But when the women storm into the venomous gossip columnist’s office they find a lifeless body—along with a confession. Although the police rule the death a suicide, Maya suspects an injured party hung the Dirty Laundry creator out to dry. Maya already has a PI partner—but she's pregnant, and sonograms and stakeouts tend to conflict. So when Sandra volunteers for a crash course in sleuthing, Maya accepts the help. But as these unlikely partners study the clues, a killer plans to teach them a lesson . . .

Download or read book Almost Eleven written by Harrell Glenn Crowson and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2013-08-09 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Almost Eleven is the documentation of the January 7, 1965 abduction, rape and murder of ten year-old Brenda Sue Sayers in the small town of Brawley, California. Imperial Valley’s biggest crime is detailed through volumes of official records and interviews with witnesses, relatives and investigators. Serial killer Robert Eugene Pennington not only murdered Sayers, but was a suspect in killing Dorothy Minor-Hindman in Fresno and possibly fifteen other innocent victims from coast to coast including one victim attributed to the Boston Strangler. Extensive research provides the reader with details of Pennington’s life before and after his encounter with Brenda.

Download or read book The Author Murders written by Eric Meeks and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2007-08 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Author Murders is boisterously imagined and vividly written. Eric Meeks's debut thriller is one wild ride." -J.R. Lindermuth, author of Cruel Cuts After the freakish death of famous novelist Woodie Stuart, the literary world shrugs its shoulders. After all, Woodie was drinking, consorting with a woman who wasn't his wife, and sailing in waters prowled by pirates. He got what he deserved, right? But when more bestselling novelists are murdered, a strange thing occurs. The authors' first-edition books appear on online auction sights, garnering a fortune for some lucky individual. Palm Springs rare-book dealer Xanthe Anthony watches the events with interest but is a little disconcerted when he becomes a prime suspect. When Anthony is arrested and jailed on suspicion of murder, he knows it's going to take a lot more than smooth talking to get him out of this one. He asks his friend Milo, an Internet hacker, to help him track down the real murderer. But as the body count continues to rise, Anthony has to act fast if he is to escape the net of justice slowly closing around him .

Download or read book Palm Springs Babylon written by Ray Mungo and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1993-01-15 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Palm Springs, California, is a city of philanthropists and philanderers, movie stars and media moguls, athletes, actors, and aesthetes. Mungo's Palm Springs Babylon is the conflagration of their secrets, packed with pictorial persiflage and damning documentation--Hollywood's history at its sleaziest and most corrupt.

Download or read book Murder at the Bake Sale written by Lee Hollis and published by Kensington Cozies. This book was released on 2021-11-30 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maya and Sandra are friends, fellow moms, and private-detective partners in the picturesque waterfront city of Portland—where sometimes their cases can get as rocky as the Maine coast . . . While private investigator Maya Kendrick is still mentoring her new partner, PTA president Sandra Wallage, in the detective game, the two women don’t need incredible powers of deduction to know their marriages are on the rocks. With Maya’s ex-cop husband in prison and Sandra’s senator spouse separated from her, both find themselves investigating the dating scene. Until Diego Sanchez turns up dead. The flirtatious high school Spanish teacher who had eyes for Maya was poisoned by cookies from a bake sale fundraiser for a Portland High school class trip to Spain. Hired by the students to find out who killed their popular and beloved teacher—including their own children—Maya and Sandra get a real education in parenting, relationships, and murder as their search for whodunit leads them deep into the unpleasant realities found in the small town politics and gossip of their Maine community . . .

Download or read book The Palm Beach Murders written by James Patterson and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2021-03-23 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James Patterson sets this bestselling thriller in Florida’s wealthiest zip code. Palm Beach doesn’t just have billionaires, yachts, and private planes—it also has the best murder plots money can buy. The Palm Beach Murders (previously published as Let's Play Make-Believe): Both survivors of the divorce wars, Christy and Martin don't believe in love at first sight and certainly not on a first date. But from the instant they lock eyes, life becomes a sexy, romantic dream come true. That is, until they start playing a strangely intense game of make-believe—a game that's about to go too far. (with James O. Born) Nooners: Everyone who knows Tim says he's a good guy. But the popular advertising exec has a problem: a lot of the people who know him are getting murdered. And by the time he figures out why, Tim won't feel so good anymore. (with Tim Arnold) Stingrays: When a teenager goes missing on a Caribbean beach, the local police are baffled. It's up to the Stingrays, a world class team that solves the unsolvable, to unearth the truth: a truth that no one will believe. (with Duane Swierczynski)

Download or read book The Secrets of Harry Bright written by Joseph Wambaugh and published by Bantam. This book was released on 1986-09 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When wealthy, young Palm Springs resident Jack Watson is shot and then incinerated in his Rolls Royce, his father seeks revenge by calling on LAPD homicide detective Sidney Blackpool to sort things out.

Download or read book No Body Homicide Cases written by Thomas A.(Tad) DiBiase and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2023-11-13 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A practical guide for police, death investigators, and prosecutors, No-Body Homicide Cases: A Practical Guide to Investigating, Prosecuting, and Winning Cases When the Victim is Missing, Second Edition takes an expansive look at both the history of no-body murder cases and the best methods to investigate, solve, and bring them to court. How do you prove someone guilty of murder when the best and primary piece of evidence—the victim’s body—is missing? Exclusively dedicated to the investigation and prosecution of no-body homicide cases, this fully updated Second Edition provides the author’s insight gained from investigating, consulting on, and trying scores of no-body cases throughout the United States. Taking readers step-by-step from the first days of a homicide investigation through the trial, the book explores the history of confessions and discloses the investigative techniques police must use to catch these cunning killers. Chapters review methods criminals have used to dispose of bodies, delving into the psychological profile of the type of defendant who murders someone, then hides the body. Since the last edition published, the number of no-body murder cases investigated has skyrocketed, with more than 50 percent of all no-body murder cases tried and prosecuted have occurred since the year 2000. New to this edition is a chapter on a full, singular high-profile case from start to finish, to illustrate the entire no-body investigative and adjudication process. A sample arrent warrant for a no-body murder case is provided in addition to Chapter 12 updating the prior edition’s nearly 400 case summaries provided to the current figure, as of this publication, of 576 no-body murder trials in U.S. history. No-Body Homicide Cases, Second Edition continues to serve as an essential resource and the "how-to" manual for investigating, prosecuting, and winning no-body murder cases.

Download or read book Live on TV3 Palm Springs written by Bill Evans and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: California's Palm Springs was a hotbed for movie stars, big money and high crime, making it a great town to be a TV news reporter and police detective in the '80s and '90s. There, we see the explosive Sonny Bono rise to mayor before he becomes a US Congressman, we meet Frank Sinatra and his wife at exclusive dinner parties.