Download or read book Murder on the Intergalactic Railway written by Kate MacLeod and published by Ratatoskr Press. This book was released on 2019-12-17 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For Murdina Ritchie, acceptance at the Oymyakon Foreign Service Academy means one last chance at her dream of becoming a diplomat for the Union of Free Worlds. For Shackleton Fitz IV, it represents his last chance not to fail out of military service entirely. Strange that fate should throw them together now, among the last group of students admitted after the start of the semester. They had once shared the strongest of friendships. But that all ended a long time ago. But when an insufferable but politically important woman turns up murdered, the two agree to put their differences aside and work together to solve the case. Because the murderer might strike again. But more importantly, solving a murder would just have to impress the dour colonel who clearly thinks neither of them belong at his academy. This is book 1 in the complete six-book THE RITCHIE AND FITZ SCI-FI MURDER MYSTERY series.
Download or read book Murder on the Intergalactic Railway written by Kate MacLeod and published by . This book was released on 2020-04-10 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For Murdina Ritchie, acceptance at the Oymyakon Foreign Service Academy means one last chance at her dream of becoming a diplomat for the Union of Free Worlds. For Shackleton Fitz IV, it represents his last chance not to fail out of military service entirely.Strange that fate should throw them together now, among the last group of students admitted after the start of the semester. They had once shared the strongest of friendships. But that all ended a long time ago. But when an insufferable but politically important woman turns up murdered, the two agree to put their differences aside and work together to solve the case. Because the murderer might strike again. But more importantly, solving a murder would just have to impress the dour colonel who clearly thinks neither of them belong at his academy.
Download or read book Tale of a Fox written by Kate MacLeod and published by Ratatoskr Press. This book was released on 2018-09-12 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nagano nestles amongst the highest mountains in Japan, far from the fashionable life of the capital city of Heain-Kyo. Asuka wishes to never leave her mountain home. But her husband’s career beckons him to the capital. Mountains covered in forests, forests filled with foxes. And with things more than foxes. No one says the word out loud, but Asuka knows it. Kitsune. The kitsune understand her love of remote Nagano. They share it. Asuka just wants her husband to share it too.
Download or read book Murder in the Skies written by Kate MacLeod and published by Ratatoskr Press. This book was released on 2020-04-14 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Murdina Ritchie put everything on the line to earn one chance to prove herself at the Oymyakon Foreign Service Academy. Just one chance. Despite the bad reputation that comes with her family name, despite the bullies desperate to see her fail, she refuses to back down from any opportunity to show her worth. Everyone at the academy knows her skill, knows her inability to compromise in the pursuit of excellence, and knows her drive for success at all costs that borders on desperation. But all of that common knowledge works against her when a bullying upper class cadet dies in a freak training accident that looks a lot like murder. Because now everyone knows that Murdina Ritchie tops any possible list of suspects. Suddenly she finds a goal beyond proving her worth: proving her own innocence. This is the second book in the complete six-book THE RITCHIE AND FITZ SCI-FI MURDER MYSTERIES series.
Download or read book Bewitchment After the Storm written by Cate Martin and published by Ratatoskr Press. This book was released on 2024-08-13 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ingrid Torfudottir juggled two separate lives for the longest time. In one life she struggled at aspiring to be a professional book illustrator, living with her grandmother in a Minnesotan fishing town on the North Shore of Lake Superior. In the other, she answered an ancestral calling to serve a village founded in the Viking age by Norse fishermen escaping some terrible enemy whose identity was lost to time. Now she lives in the Norse village of Villmark full-time. Her house lies in the middle of town where anyone can find her. But loneliness is her companion now that her boyfriend Thorbjorn has gone far to the north to accompany her friend Loke on a mysterious quest. But lonely doesn’t mean bored, because life as a volva, a Norse witch, is never boring. And when a storm blows through, destroying all the crops and leaving too many signs of ill omen, Ingrid definitely has her hands full. Then Loke’s sister Esja starts to behave very strangely. Something is going on, and it’s up to Ingrid to figure out what, before it’s too late.
Download or read book Charm Offensive written by Cate Martin and published by Ratatoskr Press. This book was released on 2019-09-17 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book 6 in the Witches Three Cozy Mystery series.
Download or read book Tillie s Big Race written by Cate Martin and published by Ratatoskr Press. This book was released on 2022-12-13 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tillie shares a name with the famous “Tillie the Terrible Swede”. She also shares an ambition with that woman from Chicago. She longs to break all the records on her bike. But her home deep in the farmlands of northwest Minnesota offers few opportunities to test her. Then a car full of city folks blows into her town. City folks in a fancy city car, carrying very city weapons. Their target? Her town’s bank. But when their getaway puts her grandfather in danger, Tillie and her bike ride to the rescue. “Tillie’s Big Race”, a short story featuring gangsters, Tommy guns, and a lone young woman on a bike.
Download or read book Sacrifice Behind the Falls written by Cate Martin and published by Ratatoskr Press. This book was released on 2023-02-14 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ingrid Torfudottir lives a double life. Half she spends in Runde, a normal town on the North Shore of Lake Superior in modern day Minnesota. The other half she spends in Villmark, a village that exists outside of time, where descendants of Vikings still live following the old ways. On top of all that, she personally descends from a long line of volvas, women trained in the magical arts. Only she missed out on everything when she grew up away from Villmark. Now she still struggles to catch up. After months of hard work, she speaks the language of Villmark. Her mastery of the runes sits at nearly a third complete. But now she must face her greatest challenge yet: the woman she narrowly defeated once before, who waits for their face-to-face confrontation deep inside the caves behind the waterfall that separates Runde from Villmark. No one thinks she is ready for this rematch. Not her friends. Not her mentor. Not even her own grandmother. No one but Ingrid. Sacrifice Behind the Falls is book 9 in the ongoing Viking Witch Cozy Mystery series!
Download or read book The Witches Three Cozy Mysteries Books 4 6 written by Cate Martin and published by Ratatoskr Press. This book was released on 2019-11-12 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collection of the novels Old World Charm, Charm His Pants Off and Charm Offensive.
Download or read book Slaying on the Lake Shore written by Cate Martin and published by Ratatoskr Press. This book was released on 2022-02-15 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spring, the season of renewal, finally arrives on the North Shore of Lake Superior, and Ingrid Torfa finds herself in a strange new situation. On vacation. She and her grandmother spend their days resting and recuperating in an old cabin overlooking the shores of Lake Superior. She can see modern ships pass by along the shipping lanes on the horizon. But everything around her? Strictly from the Viking Age. Not even the lost Norse village of Villmark lies so far in the past as this lonely cabin. But her restful vacation comes to a sudden end when a stranger knocks on their door. His presence disrupts their quiet lakeside lives even before he turns up dead. Now Ingrid must figure out who wanted the strange old man dead. Because the next target just might be her.
Download or read book The Novelty Shop Nightmare written by Cate Martin and published by Ratatoskr Press. This book was released on 2024-08-18 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tabitha Greene grew up all alone, shuttled from magical academy to magical academy with no rhyme or reason. She never stayed in the same place for more than a matter of weeks. Ever. That all changed when she moved in with her uncles to help them run the Weal & Woe Bookshop in the Square, a hidden magical neighborhood in Minneapolis. Now her uncles make her breakfast to start every day, her neighbors greet her whenever she passes them, and she has friends who mean the world to her, and she to them. She even found a brother she never knew she had. All that, and a little dog too. What’s not to love about that life? But all of that is threatened when the father she’s never met moves into the Square and opens a business of his own. The Shop of Wonders, where the proprietor knows just what item every customer never knew they always needed. People flock to shop in his store. But when one customer turns up dead after leaving the store, Tabitha can’t help suspecting the last man to see her alive. Even if implicates her father. No, scratch that. Especially if it implicates her father.
Download or read book Bloodshed in the Forest written by Cate Martin and published by Ratatoskr Press. This book was released on 2021-05-11 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By day, a drab pole barn used as general store, post office and meeting place all-in-one by the people of Runde, Minnesota, a fishing village on the North Shore of Lake Superior. By night, a Viking-style long house filled with tales and singing, roasting meat and flowing beer, and of course mead. Ingrid Torfa can imagine no better place for a much-needed night of R&R. The mead hall run by her grandmother lies where modern small town life brushes up against the old world lifestyle of the people of Villmark, proud descendants of a lost tribe of Northmen. All of her friends mingle there from the server who works in the restaurant on the side of the highway to the guardians charged with protecting the sacred flame of their ancestors. The spells that her grandmother casts over her mead hall nightly keep everyone within safe and harmonious. Or so everyone always believed. But when a murder interrupts Ingrid's night off, she finds herself questioning everything. Because her chief suspect is her own grandmother. Corpse in the Mead Hall, Book 6 in the Viking Witch Mystery Series!
Download or read book Body Under the Caf written by Cate Martin and published by Ratatoskr Press. This book was released on 2023-08-15 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ingrid Torfudottir lives in two worlds at once. The first, Runde, lies on the banks of Lake Superior, a town of northern Minnesotans who descend from Scandinavian immigrants, fishermen and farmers both. In that world she barely exists, just an unknown aspiring book illustrator who occasionally sells a little art at the local café.The other, Villmark, lies hidden from the rest of the world by ancient, strong magic. The people of the village descend from colonists who fled their homeland in Norway centuries before. In that world she bears great responsibilities. As a volva, a Viking witch, the protection of her people always comes first in her life.These two worlds overlap in just one place: her grandmother's mead hall. After sitting abandoned for months, Ingrid and her grandmother open it again to much celebration in both communities.But then everything goes wrong. The illusions and protections remain despite their efforts at the end of the night. And Ingrid can't get back to Villmark.Then someone dies, a murder. As if Ingrid didn't have enough on her plate.
Download or read book The Viking Witch Cozy Mysteries Books 4 6 written by Cate Martin and published by Ratatoskr Press. This book was released on 2023-05-02 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When her mother died after a long illness, Ingrid Torfa sold the family home to cover the medical bills. Her career as a book illustrator not yet exactly launched, Ingrid moved back to her mother's small hometown in northern Minnesota and the grandmother she scarcely remembered. Then she learned the truth she had forgotten since her early childhood: that Vikings still exist, and her grandmother serves as their spiritual leader and protector. Now Ingrid must leave the modern world behind for a time and immerse herself in this forgotten world. She must know if she has what it takes to serve the people of Villmark as her grandmother serves them. Or if her destiny lies instead among her friends in the modern world of Runde, Minnesota. No easy decision. But at least her magical cat Mjolner remains always by her side. Together, they can face anything either world can throw at them. Even if it’s murder. This box set includes the second three novels in THE VIKING WITCH COZY MYSTERIES KILLING IN THE VILLAGE COMMONS BLOODSHED IN THE FOREST CORPSE IN THE MEAD HALL
Download or read book Bubbly Bicycles and Brides written by Cate Martin and published by Ratatoskr Press. This book was released on 2022-12-13 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: BUBBLY, BICYCLES AND BRIDES showcases a collection of mystery and crime stories set in Minnesota in days past. “Long Night’s Moon” features romance and crime both, set on the first New Year’s Eve after the repeal of Prohibition. In “Tillie’s Big Race”, a young woman training for the big time gets caught up in a bank robbery when gangsters blow through her town. “The Elopement” tells the story of a gangster’s daughter on the eve of her dreaded wedding. “Dance Til You Drop” explores the world of marathon dance competitions and the poor souls willing to endure anything just for a chance at the cash prize. And “On a Cold Winter’s Night” goes further into the past for a darker kind of Christmas story. Five tales of bubbly, bicycles and brides, all guaranteed to delight you.
Download or read book The Viking Witch Cozy Mysteries Books 1 3 written by Cate Martin and published by Ratatoskr Press. This book was released on 2021-11-13 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When her mother dies after a long illness, Ingrid Torfa must sell the family home to cover the medical bills. Her career as a book illustrator not yet exactly launched, Ingrid faces two options: live in her battered old Volkswagen, or go back to her mother's small town in northern Minnesota. The small town that still haunts her dreams more than a decade since she last visited it. Or rather, not the town but the grandmother. All of the drawings she fills notebooks with witches and the trolls that do their bidding? Not as whimsical in her nightmares as she sketches them in the bright light of day. If not for her beloved cat Mjolner, living in the Volkswagen just might tempt her. But the cat wants four walls and a door, so north she goes. And that's where her adventures begin. This box set includes the first three novels in THE VIKING WITCH COZY MYSTERIES BODY AT THE CROSSROADS DEATH UNDER THE BRIDGE MURDER ON THE LAKE
Download or read book Body at the Crossroads written by Cate Martin and published by Ratatoskr Press. This book was released on 2020-05-12 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When her mother dies after a long illness, Ingrid Torfa must sell the family home to cover the medical bills. Her career as a book illustrator not yet exactly launched, Ingrid faces two options: live in her battered old Volkswagen, or go back to her mother's small town in northern Minnesota.The small town that still haunts her dreams more than a decade since she last visited it. Or rather, not the town but the grandmother.All of the drawings she fills notebooks with witches and the trolls that do their bidding? Not as whimsical in her nightmares as she sketches them in the bright light of day.If not for her beloved cat Mjollnir, living in the Volkswagen just might tempt her.But the cat wants four walls and a door, so north she goes. And finds trouble in the form of a dead body before she even finds her grandmother's little town. How much can a town of stoic fishermen possibly be hiding?As Ingrid is about to find out, quite a lot.
