Download or read book Murder is Dicey written by Gail Oust and published by Beyond The Page. This book was released on 2015-08-10 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Far superior . . . this uniquely capricious mystery will engage readers from the very first page to the surprising conclusion.” —Publishers Weekly Welcome to Serenity Cove, a peaceful Southern community where the residents like to play dice, play golf and, when foul play moves in, play detective. Kate McCall is an avid fan of detective shows and mysteries. And while she’s always looking for a whiff of trouble, the truth is that she and her friends in the close-knit community of Serenity Cove are more likely to cause it than to find it. But whether it’s their lively, sometimes rowdy bunco dice games or a trip out to the local watering hole, it’s always good fun. Until the round of golf that leads them to the discovery of a dismembered limb—and the realization that three of their friends are missing. With the local sheriff stumped for clues and the list of suspects growing, Kate decides to roll the dice and try a little sleuthing on her own. But when another body part shows up, this dedicated fan of mysteries knows the odds are stacked against her. Relying on her new detective kit, her natural curiosity, and a flare for unearthing clues, Kate has to gamble that she can catch a killer before more heads roll. This book was originally published under the title Whack ’n’ Roll.

Download or read book The Irish Cottage Murder written by Dicey Deere and published by Minotaur Books. This book was released on 2013-07-02 with total page 240 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 The Irish Cairn Murder written by Dicey Deere and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2003-03-14 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Torrey hires a teenage carpenter to make some repairs to her Ballynagh cottage. But when the boy's mother--a widowed heiress--is the target of a blackmail attempt that leads to murder, Torrey is determined to find the truth no matter what the cost. Martin's Press.

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 Irish Manor House Murder written by Dicey Deere and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2013-07-09 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ever seeking peace and quiet for her writing, Torrey Tunet believes she has found it in the quaint village of Ballynagh, nestled in the hills of rural Ireland. But something-she can't quite put her finger on it-is awry. With every change in the wind comes some strange news. First, her closest friend, Rowena Keegan, tries to run over the esteemed Dr. Ashenden, her own grandfather and master of the biggest manor in town. Why, Torrey wonders, would anyone want to kill him, least of all his favorite granddaughter? Torrey wants to believe that Rowena's attack on the doctor was a simple fluke, but when the old man later turns up dead in the forest, and Rowena confides a pressing secret to her, Torrrey can no longer stay intentionally ignorant. An outsider, Torrey looks on in bewilderment as mysteries crop up one after another in her beloved Ashenden family, which has taken her under its wing. And when the grandfather's will is read and a gypsy, shrouded in purple, arrives on the scene, family secrets fifty years old reveal themselves just as new ones begin to arise, capturing the attention of young and old townspeople alike. Ballynagh might never be the same.

Download or read book The Irish Village Murder written by Dicey Deere and published by Minotaur Books. This book was released on 2005-03-01 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When American translator and sometime sleuth Torrey Tunet returns home to the Irish village of Ballynagh, she wants nothing more than to relax in front of a peat fire in her cottage. But when she finds an eight-year-old girl at the bus stop, waiting forlornly in the gathering darkness, Torrey reluctantly takes charge of delivering the child to the country house where her usually dependable aunt serves as housekeeper. What they find at Gwathney Hall, however, is not a warmly welcoming Auntie Megan: it's cold-blooded murder. Historian John Gwathney has been brutally shot in his own house, and the immediate suspect is none other than his housekeeper-the girl's aunt-Megan O'Faolain. Certain that her friend Megan is not a killer-and unable to resist a good mystery-Torrey vows to track down the murderer herself. As she digs deeper and deeper into Gwathney's research, looking for clues, she gets caught up in a whirlwind of theft, intrigue, and scandal. Is the guilty party Megan's not-so-secret lover, jealous of the romance Megan and Gwathney had shared? Was it Gwathney's assistant, who stood to gain a great deal upon his mentor's death? Was it Owen Thorpe, whose castle Gwathney visited for mysterious purposes shortly before he was killed? And how does the famous historian's final project-an unprecedented piece of scholarly detective work into the Sack of Baltimore by Algerian pirates-fit into the mysterious puzzle of his murder? As Torrey struggles to clear her friend's name and uncover the real killer, she must employ all her skills to find the key to this shocking crime-and prove that even in a small town such as Ballynagh, people can keep the most dangerous of secrets...

Download or read book Murder in the Lincoln Bedroom written by Elliott Roosevelt and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2002-02-18 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A secret war council in the White House means that Eleanor must solve a murder herself or let the press become aware of the conference.

Download or read book Murder on the Mauretania written by Conrad Allen and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2002-01-07 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Liverpool to embark on the "Mauretania's" maiden voyage, George Porter Dillman and Genevieve Masefield are again working undercover as private detectives. Soon after the ship leaves port, severe weather confines passengers to their cabins. When one of them vanishes and is believed to have gone overboard in the storm, Dillman and Genevieve realize he was murdered.

Download or read book Murder in Georgetown written by Elliott Roosevelt and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2000-11-15 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Eleanor Roosevelt mystery.

Download or read book The Irish Cottage Murder written by Dicey Deere and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2000-06-15 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While in Ireland Torrey Tunet of Massachusetts is invited to a castle whose owner lends her a diamond necklace. He is murdered and Torrey is arrested while having the necklace appraised. But she did not do it and must clear her name.

Download or read book The Fifth Commandment written by Stuart Haussler and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2004-11 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stuart I. Haussler, a seventy-five-year-old, brings to his novels, usually Western and Military, knowledge acquired as a Rancher, Doctor, Teacher, and Naval/Marine Officer. This novel, The Fifth Commandment, is an intentional fabrication of the mind, based on imagination, experience, and a profound concern about those who would have us turn away from the preeminence of the Ten Commandments. The simplicity of the Commandments is their greatest testimony to how the Judeo-Christian God envisions how we should ethically conduct ourselves and fulfill our lives. Can our society turn away from this testimony and prevail as a republic? The Fifth Commandment instructs, "Honor thy father and mother, as the Lord thy God hath commanded thee; that thy days may be prolonged, and that it may go well with thee, in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee." Are there no stipulations, qualifications, and's, if's, or but's related to Judeo-Christian people following this Commandment? Is it to be, as with the other Commandments, followed to the letter? Certainly, in this day and age of enlightenment, there must be a means to qualify and stipulate whether this honor is warranted, but if there is not, then what price might a child pay for balancing this Commandment to his or her needs? The Fifth Commandment tells a story of the consequences of failing to accept this Commandment as handed down by God and the impact of those consequences on society. Once again the author creates the threads of intrigue, murder, and deceit into the whole cloth of today's truths, realities, and conflicts conjured up by forces that would undermine the true understanding of life as set forth in the Ten Commandments by God. Visit and talk to me @ www.stuarthaussler.com

Download or read book Dicey s Song written by Cynthia Voigt and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-03-06 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now that the four abandoned Tillerman children are settled in with their grandmother, Dicey finds that their new beginnings require love, trust, humor, and courage.

Download or read book Kill Me Tender written by Daniel Klein and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2002-01-07 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A murder mystery featuring Elvis Presley.

Download or read book Murder Is Against the Law but written by Patricia Graves and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2017-09-22 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When she starts her job at Sawyer Developmental Center, Janet Nelson is young, attractive, and nave. It doesnt take long for things to change. Her innocence makes her a target, and she soon receives the attention of Barton Cleese, director at Sawyer. He wants to make Janet his mistress, and he will have herbecause he always gets what he wants. In this corporate world, everyone is out for blood. Theres the assistant director, Cleeses current mistress, who is now in charge of training Janet as her replacement. There are supervisors and CEOs who will say yes to anything in exchange for a fat paycheck or a step up the ladder. Caught in a web of deceit and hostility, Janet must be on her guard on and off the job. When things take a turn for the worse, its Janet versus the Sawyer administration. She decides to take matters into her own hands, wreaking revenge on all those who have wronged her with the help of her intellect and her imagination. She knows murder is against the law, but some people need to die. Some people need to be destroyed for the good of humanity.

Download or read book Death Rolls the Dice written by Gail Oust and published by Beyond The Page. This book was released on 2015-11-10 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Far superior . . . this uniquely capricious mystery will engage readers from the very first page to the surprising conclusion.” —Publishers Weekly on Murder Is Dicey Welcome to Serenity Cove, a peaceful Southern community where the residents like to play dice, play golf and, when foul play moves in, play detective. When it comes to gardening, Kate McCall is known for having a brown thumb, but when the Serenity Cove garden club hosts an event featuring a celebrity botanist—who’s also a former college roommate of Kate’s friend Rita—she plants herself in the audience with all the other Bunco Babes. Before the evening can even get off the ground, though, the guest speaker and her boyfriend are rushed to the hospital with food poisoning, where he eventually dies. Convinced that her boyfriend’s death was no accident and that she too was meant to die, the famous botanist begs Kate to investigate. Glad to have a chance to use her newly acquired detective skills, Kate starts digging for clues—even when that means adding Rita to the list of suspects. And as the trail grows more tangled and treacherous, Kate realizes she’ll have to weed out the killer quick, before she’s the next thing they plant in the ground. This book was originally published under the title Shake, Murder and Roll. Praise for Rosemary and Crime by Gail Oust! “[A] quality first in a Southern cozy series. . . . This is a must-read for fans of Carolyn Hart’s Death on Demand series, as well as those who like culinary mysteries.” —Publishers Weekly “Gail Oust has crafted an excellent mystery. . . . Truly a cut above—and highly recommended!” —Donna Andrews, New York Times bestselling author of Hen of the Baskervilles “Fans of Jenn McKinlay and Ellery Adams will want to add this series to their reading lists.” —Booklist “Gail Oust has whipped up a killer read. . . . Rosemary and Crime is a character-driven zip zap of a tale with a robust mystery that readers will relish.” —Jenn McKinlay, New York Times bestselling author of Book, Line, and Sinker “A delicious new mystery series guaranteed to make you hungry for more. Gail Oust’s warm, witty characters bring southern charm to life.” —Krista Davis, national bestselling author of The Diva Digs Up the Dirt “Gail Oust has created a delicious new addition to the world of cozy mysteries. I'm definitely adding her to my must-read list.” —Jacklyn Brady, national bestselling author of Arsenic and Old Cake

Download or read book The Biblical Truth about America s Death Penalty written by Dale S. Recinella and published by Northeastern University Press. This book was released on 2015-12-01 with total page 463 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While secular support for capital punishment in America seems to be waning, religious conservatives, particularly in the "Bible belt," remain staunch advocates of the death penalty, citing biblical law and practice to defend government-sanctioned killing. Dale S. Recinella compares biblical teaching about the death penalty, including such passages as "eye for eye, tooth for tooth, life for life," with the nation's current system of capital punishment, and offers persuasive arguments for a faith-based moratorium on -- and eventual abolition of -- executions. Framing his careful and incisive analysis as a legal brief to those who believe the Bible mandates the ultimate punishment, the author addresses two critical areas of inquiry: what do the scriptures tell us about who is deserving of death and who has the authority to kill, and what do they tell us about the required standards for execution and the plight of victims' families. Recinella's examination of the Hebrew Torah, or Christian Pentateuch, and the Talmud reveals that the biblical death penalty was not a simple system of swift retribution, but a complex and practical set of laws that guided capital courts established under the Sanhedrin. His scrutiny of these texts, the Christian doctrine of atonement, and Romans 13 in the Pauline Epistles, draws parallels between the traditional biblical arguments used in favor of capital punishment and those used as the basis for pro-slavery positions in the nineteenth century. Demonstrating that both approaches are unsubstantiated in biblical terms, Recinella debunks the accepted religious reasoning for support of the death penalty and shows instead that the Bible's strict conditions for sanctioning execution are at odds with the arbitrary ways in which capital punishment is administered in the United States. He provides convincing evidence that a sentence of death in today's criminal justice system in fact fails to meet both the Bible's exacting procedural requirements and its strict limitations on judicial authority. By providing actual scriptural language and foundation to counter the position that biblical truth justifies a pro-death penalty stance, this thoughtful, solidly researched, and well-reasoned work will give pause to religious fundamentalists and challenge them to rethink their strongly held views on capital punishment.

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