Download or read book Murder in the Dunes written by Vickie McKeehan and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-09 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Newlyweds Brogan Cole and Lucien Sutter are busy settling in to their new home. They're getting each room squared away, hanging their favorite pieces of artwork, designing and creating unique furniture pieces, putting their personal touches on the place. They're even planting a garden. Life is good. But when Lucien saves a young girl from drowning and they discover a dead body in the dunes, life starts to take a sinister turn. When murder comes knocking, they soon go down a path that will take them into the twisted underbelly of Tinseltown, revealing the darker side to one of Hollywood's most legendary directors. Is he linked to a mysterious decades-old disappearance? Did an equally famous producer help him cover up the crime? For Brogan and Lucien, unraveling this case means revisiting some hard truths. Will they unlock the secrets before anyone else dies? And will they be able to save the only witness to the crime?

Download or read book Midnight Dunes written by Laura Griffin and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2022-05-24 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the shocking discovery of a murdered woman’s body disturbs the tranquility of tourist season, the police detective in charge of the puzzling case must work alongside the new filmmaker in town to pursue every lead in the new romantic thriller from New York Times bestselling author Laura Griffin. After a scandal derails her television reporting career, Macey Burns comes looking for a change of pace in Lost Beach, Texas. She’s ready to focus on her first passion—documentary filmmaking—and has a new job working for the island’s tourism board, shooting footage of the idyllic beachside community. Her plans for a relaxing rebound are dashed when she realizes the cottage she’s renting belonged to the woman whose body was just found in the sand dunes. Detective Owen Breda is under intense pressure to solve this murder. Violent crimes are rising in his small town, and he can’t stand to see anyone else hurt…especially not the beautiful documentarian who keeps showing up at the precinct. With the clock ticking, cameras rolling, and body count climbing, Macey and Owen must use all their resources to find the killer without getting caught in the crosshairs.

Download or read book Murder on the Dunes written by Martin Sokoloff and published by Booksurge Llc. This book was released on 2004-07-23 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Murder on the Dunes, by Martin Sokoloff takes place mostly in Provincetown, Massachusetts, and recounts the story of a murder which occurs there on the Day of the Blessing of the Fleet, a special day observed by the area's commercial fishermen.The book's main character is Dennis Dawes, the Provincetown Chief of Police, who works together with the State Police, and helps in the solving of the crime, which includes drug smuggling, as well as murder.Murder on the Dunes almost replicates the lifestyle of the area: laid back; somewhat unstructured and, at times, seemingly without objectives. Perhaps that is its charm.

Download or read book Murder on the Dunes written by Donald Steven Collins and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2013-11 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elaine Leblanc, a student at Queens College, hadn't called home in a month. Her aunt in Arizona contacted detectives in NYPD's Jackson Heights precinct. When they couldn't help she called the Newberry Agency. The investigation led Tom Newberry and Barry Noonan into the sordid life of Craigslist escorts and prostitutes and put them on the trail of a man who had a penchant for killing them after he had his kicks.

Download or read book Murder In The Dunes written by Bruce Hammack and published by Jubilee Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2021-09-08 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A detective’s perfect vacation: sun, sand, surf… and murder. When blind PI Steve Smiley visits his friend and writing mentor, Kate Bridges, he anticipates an idyllic South Padre Island getaway. The island’s magic spell is shattered when Kate is accosted by her abusive ex-husband. Two days later, his body is found in the dunes, and she becomes the prime suspect. As the authorities rush to put a final stamp on the case by arresting Kate, Steve sets out to find the real killer. His search takes him deep into a dark underworld of crooked cops and Mexican cartels where there are no rules. In a desperate attempt to prove Kate's innocence, Steve lays a trap for the murderer. Can he outwit the devious opponent, or will the next blood spilled in the sand be his? The suspense and action in the Smiley and McBlythe Mysteries will keep you turning the pages to find out whodunit! No foul language, sex scenes or graphic violence—just a great mystery waiting to be solved.

Download or read book Murder Dunes written by A. M. Holloway and published by Clint Rugbee Mysteries. This book was released on 2024-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Severed hands, five victims, one crime family, and an extra body. Detective Rugbee's day started out like any other until the call came into dispatch about hands on the beach. He wasted no time in responding to the distress call. Upon his arrival, he found two men, one on the ground, unresponsive, lying next to fingers poking up from the sand.The men are friends and have been for decades. Since retirement, they search for treasures on the beach. This morning, they found severed hands on a dune, and the finder had a heart attack. After Rugbee secured a ride to the hospital for the men, he returned to the scene. There were three sets of hands, two males and one female. One of the female hands boasted a starfish tattoo in the webbing between the index finger and thumb. When Rugbee found out their fingerprints had been removed, he turned to the starfish tattoo. He would identify the girl by the tattoo. As the investigation goes forward, more bodies turn up on the beach, but this time it was a plane crash. It claimed two people, a boy and a girl. Once Rugbee and Bonner had IDs on the victims, Rugbee began the task of notifying families. That's when things went sideways. All five deceased people belonged to one family. Three kids from one brother and two from another. The investigation doesn't end there. Hitmen arrive in town with one objective, and that is to finish what they started. That puts Rugbee and Bonner in the crosshairs, along with the brothers. Rugbee and Bonner fight to control the situation until the last piece of the puzzle falls into place and it's something no one expected.

Download or read book Murder In The Dunes written by Bruce Hammack and published by A Smiley And McBlythe Mystery. This book was released on 2021-09-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A detective's perfect vacation: sun, sand, surf? and murder.When blind PI Steve Smiley visits his friend and writing mentor, Kate Bridges, he anticipates an idyllic South Padre Island getaway. The island's magic spell is broken when Kate is accosted by her abusive ex-husband. Two days later, his body is found in the dunes, and she becomes the prime suspect.With the police in a hurry to close the case and Kate arrested for the murder, Steve sets out to find the real killer. His investigation leads him into the dangerous world of dirty cops and the Mexican cartel-a world where there are no rules. In a last ditch effort to prove Kate's innocence, Steve lays a trap for the murderer. Can he outwit the devious opponent, or will the next blood spilled in the sand be his?

Download or read book Vanished In The Dunes written by Allan Retzky and published by Oceanview Publishing. This book was released on 2012-06-23 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amos Posner has a lovely house in the upscale Hamptons beach community of eastern Long Island. But recent events in Amos's life are preventing him form enjoying it. His employer, an international trading firm, fired him after making him the scapegoat for some shady business deals. His wife, a highly successful Manhattan lawyer, has not taken kindly to his job situation, and their marriage is under considerable stress. Amos is spending most of his time at the beach house, alone, and not at all happy. So he is highly vulnerable when a beautiful woman approaches him on a bus - the Hampton Jitney - from Manhattan to the Hamptons and persuades him to show her around the area on her day off from her job as a psychiatric resident at a Manhattan hospital. When Amos reluctantly agrees, he gets far more than an ego boost. He gets a nightmare beyond imagination. And the cascading events could cost him more than the loss of his job and his wife. They could cost him his life.

Download or read book Death in the Dunes written by Paul H. Dobbins and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Shanty written by Sandra Lee and published by America Star Books. This book was released on 2012-08 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Sandra Lee uncovers new secrets in the most notorious unsolved homicide in Massachusetts history: The Lady in the Dunes. The Shanty is not just a story rooted in an old mystery; Lee captures the dogged determination of the small but elite group of investigators with the Provincetown Police who went as far as to question whether Boston mobster James "Whitey" Bulger should be questioned as a suspect. A great read." -Michele McPhee, Best-selling Author and Award-winning Journalist On the morning of July 26, 1974 a young girl walking her dog near the dunes at Race Point Beach made the gruesome discovery of a woman brutally murdered. Thirty-eight years later the case remains unsolved; neither the victim nor her killer has been identified. The body rests in a nameless grave at Cemetery of the Church of Saint Peter the Apostle while the Provincetown Police Department continues to tirelessly investigate what has become New England's oldest unsolved murder mystery. Based on the true story, The Shanty; Provincetown's Lady in the Dunes is a thrilling tale of loyalty and honor, deception and betrayal, and one of ultimate sacrifice wherein people are forced to dig deep into the past and discover the darkest sides of their hidden selves.

Download or read book Being Dead written by Jim Crace and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2000-04-02 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A National Book Critics Circle Awards Winner From the author of Quarantine comes Being Dead, Jim Crace's haunting novel about love, death, and the afterlife. Baritone Bay, mid-afternoon. A couple, naked, married almost thirty years, are lying murdered in the dunes. "Their bodies had expired, but anyone could tell--just look at them--that Joseph and Celice were still devoted. For while his hand was touching her, curved round her shin, the couple seemed to have achieved that peace the world denies, a period of grace, defying even murder. Anyone who found them there, so wickedly disfigured, would nevertheless be bound to see that something of their love had survived the death of cells. The corpses were surrendered to the weather and the earth, but they were still a man and wife, quietly resting; flesh on flesh; dead, but not departed yet."

Download or read book Bear Bones written by Charles Cutter and published by . This book was released on 2020-06 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Helen Lockwood's boat was found drifting off Sleeping Bear Dunes with no one aboard. A year later, her body was found in a shallow grave on South Manitou Island. She had been in court, fighting with the National Park Service, which was trying to take her family's four-hundred-acre cherry orchard for the new national park. Burr Lafayette, recently divorced and the deposed head of a major Detroit law firm, had kept the Park Service at bay for seven years. But now Helen's husband, Tommy, is arrested for her murder. It seems he had been trying to sell the orchards to the Park Service ever since Helen went missing. All of the evidence points to Tommy, but there's no shortage of suspects. A man at loose ends, Burr is a brilliant litigator who prefers sailboats and dogs over courtrooms and clients. He's not a criminal lawyer, but he's convinced there is a clue somewhere that will unlock the truth.

Download or read book Death Behind the Dunes written by Sylvia Melvin and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2011-06-01 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Behind the Dunes is a mystery laced with suspense, intrigue and twists. Detective Nick Melino must investigate the murder of the woman he once loved. Racing against time, Nick is on a mission to solve the case as Hurricane Eileen threatens to erase all crime evidence on a coastal beach in Florida. A shocking twenty-five year old secret holds the key to the murder and its revelation points to unlikely suspects. Will Nick's unyielding determination lead to justice or will Lyndy's murderer disappear like footprints in the shifting sand?

Download or read book The Few and the Damned written by William Vickers and published by Outskirts Press. This book was released on 2018-11-14 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Killing is a hard thing to shake, he thought. The world had turned into a giant cesspool and he was the scum that floated on top. The next few weeks became the best of times for Nick Carter. The green-eyed blonde who Veronica Steele had assigned to him as a summer project turned out being much more interesting than he had expected. She was neither the snob nor academic that he had perceived her to be, but instead had an effervescent demeanor and attitude toward life. Aesthetically she had the long stems and sleek lines of a fashion model yet chose architecture as her field of endeavor, and if successful, would help create a new standard for women wishing to enter into that field. Rosalind was also steadfast in keeping her virtue, at least until she received a decent proposal of marriage. Her reasons weren't necessarily based on religious morals, but on how she had perceived her parents until their big breakup. In spite of that, and maybe because of it, Nick felt right being with her...being with her more than anyone else. They were from two different worlds, it seemed, and on a collision course to who knows where. She was there to bring back her past, while he was there running from his. She was the daughter of a fashion model and a prominent architect, while he worked for bootlegger profiteers. But none of that mattered to either of them in the summer of 1927....

Download or read book The Shanty written by Sandra Lee and published by America Star Books. This book was released on 2012-12 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Sandra Lee uncovers new secrets in the most notorious unsolved homicide in Massachusetts history: The Lady in the Dunes. The Shanty is not just a story rooted in an old mystery; Lee captures the dogged determination of the small but elite group of investigators with the Provincetown Police who went as far as to question whether Boston mobster James "Whitey" Bulger should be questioned as a suspect. A great read." -Michele McPhee, Best-selling Author and Award-winning Journalist On the morning of July 26, 1974 a young girl walking her dog near the dunes at Race Point Beach made the gruesome discovery of a woman brutally murdered. Thirty-eight years later the case remains unsolved; neither the victim nor her killer has been identified. The body rests in a nameless grave at Cemetery of the Church of Saint Peter the Apostle while the Provincetown Police Department continues to tirelessly investigate what has become New England's oldest unsolved murder mystery. Based on the true story, The Shanty; Provincetown's Lady in the Dunes is a thrilling tale of loyalty and honor, deception and betrayal, and one of ultimate sacrifice wherein people are forced to dig deep into the past and discover the darkest sides of their hidden selves.

Download or read book Dunes of Fire written by Dr A.J. Goodrum and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2019-05-03 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dunes of Fire was completed in the summer of June 2016, after two years of composing its plot and characters. Just like a vintage wine, this book will draw you into its plot as you turn every page. The book is a fiction, historical, fantasy, and romance-one to put in your personal library for generations. It is also a great gift for the avid readers. It will become a best seller. Who built the Pyramids and the Sphinx in Africa? What if teachers came and taught early humans how to build these huge structures? Obviously, they were advanced and could travel through time. So if they traveled through time to get here, they could also go back. But what if one of these "teachers" remained on earth and never grew old? And what if this "teacher" loved only one man? The truth is the "teachers" came through the portal of the sun, and one stayed on Earth. Dr. Manny Cortez has searched for signs of these teachers all his life. Dr. Cortez is the most famous archaeologist of our time, and he is digging in Africa at a site where King Arumet met the original teachers. Some Egyptians believe that Anubis (a "teacher") walked the earth himself and helped humans as the cave drawings depict in the Great Pyramids. Dr. Cortez is searching for the portal of the sun that is the gateway to another dimension. Mr. Widdal, who is the site dig manager, is a crook and wants to sell it and all the artifacts on the black market for money. Dr. Cortez knows the significance of the portal of the sun and doesn't want Mr. Widdal to find it. Dr. Cortez goes missing and cannot be located, leaving his playboy son Johnny Cortez to uncover clues and locate him. Widdal is watching his every move and waiting to kill him.

Download or read book Invisible Eden written by Maria Flook and published by Crown. This book was released on 2003-06-24 with total page 533 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A literary investigation by "one of the most powerful American writers at work today" [Annie Proulx] of a story that riveted the nation: how an accomplished, world-traveled fashion writer who had retreated to a simpler life as a single mother on Cape Cod became the victim of a brutal, still-unsolved murder. On the surface, Christa Worthington’s life had the appearance of privilege and comfort. She was the granddaughter of prominent New Yorkers. Her sparkling journalism earned the fashion world’s respect. But she had turned her back on a glamorous career and begun living in the remote Cape Cod town where she had summered as a child. When she was found murdered in Truro, Massachusetts, just after New Year’s Day in 2002, her toddler daughter clinging to her side, her violent death brought to the surface the many unspoken mysteries of her life. Invisible Eden is the deeply felt story of a career woman's attempt to start over and reinvent her life away from the fashion circles of New York and Paris only to have an out-of-wedlock child with a local fisherman, forge a life as a single mother, and meet a violent end. Brilliantly portraying Christa’s hunger for belonging and her struggle for survival as a first-time mother, Flook searingly evokes her search for a safe haven, her many tumultuous relationships, and the evidence linking family, strangers, lovers, suspects, and innocents to the tragedy that both shocked a seaside town on Cape Cod and horrified the nation. Flook intricately maps Christa's charged life before her death and follows the first year of the murder investigation with the help of the district attorney who is in an election battle even as he searches for the killer. At the same time, Invisible Eden captures the Cape's haunted landscape, class stratifications, and never-ending battles between its weathy summer residents and its hardscrabble working families who together form a backdrop for a powerful chronicle of love and murder. An edgy and compelling portrait of a woman's tragic journey, Invisible Eden is a mesmerizing true story.