Download or read book Murder on the Miami Express Book five of The Sandie Shaw Mysteries written by R T Green and published by Wise Owl. This book was released on 2023-05-25 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Babysitting is never as easy as it seems. When the ‘baby’ is in her late teens, and determined to show everyone she’s older than she really is, things can get a little out of control! Frank makes a special request to Sandie and the team, asking them to babysit a key witness, whose testimony will send a Miami crime boss down for a very long time. The FBI has kept her a secret, setting up a decoy to make sure she actually gets to Miami to give her evidence. No one else knows she’s anything other than a teenager off for a beach holiday. The problem is she lives in Chicago, and it’s rather a long way from Florida. So the deMountford and Shaw Private Investigations Agency are tasked with accompanying her on the Florida Limited night sleeper train, and keeping an eye on her in Miami until she gives evidence, after which the FBI will take over protection duties, once her identity is revealed. It seems like a simple babysitting job, until they discover the girl is determined to make the most of a few days away from her parents, and reap as much benefit from her trip as she can. None of them have any experience of controlling a rampant, precocious teenager, who seems committed to getting herself as noticed as possible! It’s not the best idea when she’s holding the key to taking down one of the most ruthless men in America. Especially when things turn a lot more dangerous, and Sandie and Daphne find themselves as much on their own as they’ve ever been. Read all about Sandie, and everything else we create, on the rtgreen website. Enjoy!
Download or read book Murder Most Olympic Book seven of the Sandie Shaw Mysteries written by R T Green and published by Wise Owl. This book was released on 2023-05-31 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There’s a wedding in England! But for Sandie, Daphne and Archie, getting there is to prove a little more dangerous than they imagined. Archie and Rose are tying the knot in Windsor. For Sandie and the team (plus Frank, who gets dragged along) they’re anticipating a joyous time. Until it all turns a lot scarier. Boarding the RMS Olympic for the passage to England, none of them realize a life-threatening event lies just over the horizon. Two other passengers are hiding a big secret. It might have stayed a secret if one of them hadn’t got himself murdered on the second day of the voyage. The only people aboard with any experience of tackling such things are Sandie and her team, and even off-duty they’re not prepared to ignore a crime that needs solving. The murderer doesn’t have many places to hide, and for sure not very far to run, but it isn’t going to stay that way indefinitely. Once the ship docks in Southampton the killer may easily escape, never to be seen again. There’s another complication. Until they make landfall, with an unknown murderer on the loose, every passenger and crew-member is at risk. Can Chicago’s finest private investigators unearth the secret and discover the culprit in this time-limited case? It’s not going to be easy. Check out the whole Sandie series, and our popular ‘Daisy’ series, on the new rtgreen website. And enjoy!
Download or read book Christmas in Chicago is Murder Book two of the Sandie Shaw Mysteries written by R T Green and published by Wise Owl. This book was released on 2023-05-23 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A face from the past appears at a glitzy, high-society Christmas party in Chicago. An hour later, a body is found floating in the swimming pool. Are the two things connected? Sandie and the team have been invited to a glittering festive party by a wealthy new client, who suspects her husband of being unfaithful. The object of his desires is also there, and the client thinks it a good idea for the guys to observe them at play, and see if they do anything to give themselves away. Someone else is also present. Someone who knows too much about one of the team’s very personal past life. Coming out of the blue, it is a disturbing and unexpected development. Then, as the merry-making continues, things turn even more worrying. A body is found floating in their swimming pool. Sandie is convinced the mysterious stranger and the dead body are connected. There is no evidence to suggest that, but the face from the past is a coincidence she can’t ignore, as well as a real threat to one of the team. To make life even scarier, before the police arrive on the scene the stranger has disappeared into the night. The feeling won’t go away there is a link. But with precious little in the way of hard facts, it’s going to take a huge effort to unravel the thread that ties things together. Especially when matters become an awful lot more complicated… Check out the Sandie Shaw series on the rtgreen website. And enjoy!
Download or read book Death in Three Acts Book Ten of the Sandie Shaw Mysteries written by R T Green and published by Wise Owl. This book was released on 2023-11-06 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When tragedy strikes, there’s only one thing to do… strike back. As heartbreak descends on the deMountford and Shaw agency, Sandie realizes there’s no longer any choice. If she’s to keep those she loves safe, she has to risk her life like she’s never done before. Embarking on a road that may only have one destination, it’s not long until she discovers it really is a one-way street. A dark and dangerous road, which has to be followed to the bitter end… Read about Sandie, and everything else we create, on the rtgreen website. And enjoy!
Download or read book The Family Book six of the Sandie Shaw Mysteries written by R T Green and published by Wise Owl. This book was released on 2023-05-29 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revenge can be a force hard to fight. When it’s a family matter, sometimes it works both ways. Even after nine years. Sandie and Daphne discover their office has been wrecked. It’s one day after the crime boss who Sandie’s father was responsible for putting away died in prison. Nine years have passed since he brought down the family, and lost his life in doing it. It was the tragic event that led to Sandie taking over the family business. For a year afterwards the need for revenge burned away inside her. Then she accepted she’d already got it. The family had been destroyed because of her father’s determination to take them down. The head of the family and his eldest son were incarcerated for a long time. The hoods who worked for them but escaped prison went to work for Capone or Moran. The family was no more. Or so Sandie thought. The wrecked office is a sign someone hasn’t got closure. It’s not difficult to work out who it is. The boss’s second son, considered by his father too soft to join the family business, is out to prove he isn’t soft at all. It’s a dangerous scenario. The message left in the office places a target squarely on Sandie’s back. If she doesn’t implicate him before he takes the ultimate revenge, lives will be at risk. She’s all too aware that someone out to prove he’s got what it takes, when in reality he hasn’t, makes him the worst kind of loose cannon. The old feelings have returned with a vengeance. When it’s a family matter, sometimes it works both ways… Check out everything we do on the rtgreen website. And enjoy!
Download or read book Springtime in Chicago Book four of the Sandie Shaw Mysteries written by R T Green and published by Wise Owl. This book was released on 2023-05-24 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A big favour for a stranger turns into a shocking discovery. Fate has played an unexpected hand, and it’s down to Sandie and the team to make sure a murder that appears to be an accident leads to more than one satisfying conclusion. Can they achieve the impossible? Daphne persuades the team to work for free, and help out someone who has hit hard and tragic times. Little do they realise their act of compassion will lead to a startling discovery. Investigating an accident that might not have been, they spot a face from their recent past. Is destiny on their side? Could solving an injustice lead to a resolution much nearer to home? It’s nothing but a thin thread of possibility, but they have to grasp it with both hands, and hope it holds their weight. ‘Springtime in Chicago’, is the fourth book in the Sandie Shaw Mysteries, set in 1920’s Chicago. Check out Sandie, Daisy and everything else we do on the rtgreen website. And enjoy!
Download or read book Sins of the Mother Book Eleven of the Sandie Shaw Mysteries written by R T Green and published by Wise Owl. This book was released on with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tutankhamen, tomb-raiders and an ancient Egyptian curse… what could possibly go wrong? Even before Sandie has chance to come to terms with life in England, the team is asked to head to Egypt for the biggest job they’ve ever undertaken. It all begins when, unaware of the consequences, Archie and Rose accept a straightforward missing-person case, for the last man on Earth they ever thought would contact the agency. As it turns out, it’s anything but straightforward. The trip to Egypt descends into a dangerous mix of murder, buried secrets, and shadowy figures who will stop at nothing to ensure their justice is done. And then of course, there’s the ancient curse… Perfect for fans of Agatha Christie, ‘Sins of the Mother’ will keep you on the edge of your seats until the very last twist! Enjoy!
Download or read book An American in Windsor Book three of the Sandie Shaw Mysteries written by R T Green and published by Wise Owl. This book was released on 2023-05-23 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1920’s Windsor may be half a world away from Chicago, but as Sandie discovers, when it comes to murder there’s very little difference! Sandie, Daphne and Archie travel to England in this country house murder mystery. It’s supposed to be a relaxing break, courtesy of an invite from Roland, but of course once there, they become embroiled in mysterious goings-on. Invited to a weekend with Roland’s titled relatives, it isn’t long before murder rears its ugly head. Sandie’s natural instincts are to find out who is responsible, but when the fallout gets too close for comfort, she realises just how ugly things can get… This is the third book in the Sandie Shaw Mysteries series. Read about the others, and everything else we do, on the rtgreen website. Enjoy!
Download or read book Two Sisters One Ghost Book eight of the Sandie Shaw Mysteries written by R T Green and published by Wise Owl. This book was released on 2023-06-02 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sandie’s eighth adventure, ‘Two Sisters, One Ghost’, is a double helping of stories in one book! With the detective agency now based in both Chicago and Windsor UK, there is plenty of opportunity for twice the danger. In Windsor, Poppy asks Rose and Archie to help an acquaintance find her missing daughter. Following an overgrown trail that leads to a well-buried secret, they realise they’ve uncovered a dark story that was never supposed to see the light of day. In Chicago, Daphne sees a ghost. Not once, but several times, each visitation getting scarier and more threatening. Believing ghosts don’t exist, Sandie tries to convince her friend that trauma brought on by the past is the reason she thinks she’s seeing someone who no longer exists. Until something happens to blow that theory right out of the window... Check out the whole Sandie series, and our popular Daisy series, on the new rtgreen website. And enjoy!
Download or read book Murder at the Green Mill Book one of the Sandie Shaw Mysteries written by R T Green and published by Wise Owl. This book was released on 2023-05-23 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Sandie witnesses her client committing a cut-and-dried murder, her head tells her to walk away. Her heart tells her she can’t. Keeping away from the mob is Sandie’s first rule of survival… until the day someone comes to call, and changes everything. It is 1920’s Chicago. What came to be known as the ‘roaring twenties’. For private investigator Sandie Shaw, ‘roaring’ was hardly the flattering kind of way she would ever describe it. Born and raised in the city, she despises everything it has become. In her view, Chicago typifies the false decadence gripping America. Still recovering from the lawlessness of the Wild West, her city and the rest of the country then entered the world war for a brief time, and when that was over, the whole nation seemed to lose all sense of reason. People went crazy. Prohibition raised its ugly head, and the mobsters and the flappers took over Chicago. Her beloved city had fallen at the mercy of those who believed they were above the law… once again. Now fifty-three, for a long time Sandie has had to be strong willed to stay in one piece. Being gutsy and taking no nonsense helps to maintain a sense of right and wrong, and to retain her very individual identity. Taking over the one-man agency when her father died, and making it a one-woman business, she knew from the off that in a male-dominated environment she would have to be tough, and witty, to succeed. And that keeping well away from anyone with a machine gun was a big part of staying alive. For eight years she has avoided anything mob-related. Then one day someone comes to call, and without Sandie even realizing what she’s getting into, suddenly she’s up to her chin in murky waters. And that changes everything… ‘Murder at the Green Mill’ is the inaugural book of the Sandie Shaw historical murder mystery series. All the RTG-brand features readers have come to love are here… high drama, heartfelt emotion, fast-paced action, witty humour, and of course, heaped spoonfuls of the unexpected. Read about The Sandie Shaw Mysteries on the new rtgreen website… and do check out everything else we create too! Enjoy!
Download or read book The Sergeant the Flapper and a Crossword Book Nine of the Sandie Shaw Mysteries written by R T Green and published by Wise Owl. This book was released on 2023-11-06 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A man falls to his death right in front of Sandie and Daphne. He’s wearing an army cap, and in his pocket is a copy of The Tribune, open at the crossword page. Sandie has no idea why, but she slips the newspaper into her bag before Frank and his officers reach the scene. It proves to be a wise move. With no evidence to the contrary, his unfortunate death is written off as a suicide, but Sandie is not so sure. She and the team set about unearthing the man’s back-story, and bit by bit uncover a shocking tale of betrayal and dishonesty, and a second suspicious death that occurred in the same place, sixty years earlier. The clues are in the crossword, half-completed before he died. Can the team decipher a cryptic and complicated story, and grant him a posthumous kind of justice? Read all about the Sandie Shaw series, and everything else we do, on the new rtgreen website. And enjoy!
Download or read book Minute Mysteries Detectograms written by H. A. Ripley and published by Alpha Edition. This book was released on 2023-06-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Minute Mysteries [Detectograms] by H. A. Ripley has been regarded as significant work throughout human history, and in order to ensure that this work is never lost, we have taken steps to ensure its preservation by republishing this book in a contemporary format for both current and future generations. This entire book has been retyped, redesigned, and reformatted. Since these books are not made from scanned copies, the text is readable and clear.
Download or read book The Uninhabitable Earth written by David Wallace-Wells and published by Tim Duggan Books. This book was released on 2019-02-19 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “The Uninhabitable Earth hits you like a comet, with an overflow of insanely lyrical prose about our pending Armageddon.”—Andrew Solomon, author of The Noonday Demon NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New Yorker • The New York Times Book Review • Time • NPR • The Economist • The Paris Review • Toronto Star • GQ • The Times Literary Supplement • The New York Public Library • Kirkus Reviews It is worse, much worse, than you think. If your anxiety about global warming is dominated by fears of sea-level rise, you are barely scratching the surface of what terrors are possible—food shortages, refugee emergencies, climate wars and economic devastation. An “epoch-defining book” (The Guardian) and “this generation’s Silent Spring” (The Washington Post), The Uninhabitable Earth is both a travelogue of the near future and a meditation on how that future will look to those living through it—the ways that warming promises to transform global politics, the meaning of technology and nature in the modern world, the sustainability of capitalism and the trajectory of human progress. The Uninhabitable Earth is also an impassioned call to action. For just as the world was brought to the brink of catastrophe within the span of a lifetime, the responsibility to avoid it now belongs to a single generation—today’s. LONGLISTED FOR THE PEN/E.O. WILSON LITERARY SCIENCE WRITING AWARD “The Uninhabitable Earth is the most terrifying book I have ever read. Its subject is climate change, and its method is scientific, but its mode is Old Testament. The book is a meticulously documented, white-knuckled tour through the cascading catastrophes that will soon engulf our warming planet.”—Farhad Manjoo, The New York Times “Riveting. . . . Some readers will find Mr. Wallace-Wells’s outline of possible futures alarmist. He is indeed alarmed. You should be, too.”—The Economist “Potent and evocative. . . . Wallace-Wells has resolved to offer something other than the standard narrative of climate change. . . . He avoids the ‘eerily banal language of climatology’ in favor of lush, rolling prose.”—Jennifer Szalai, The New York Times “The book has potential to be this generation’s Silent Spring.”—The Washington Post “The Uninhabitable Earth, which has become a best seller, taps into the underlying emotion of the day: fear. . . . I encourage people to read this book.”—Alan Weisman, The New York Review of Books
Download or read book The Cultural Cold War written by Frances Stonor Saunders and published by New Press, The. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the Cold War, freedom of expression was vaunted as liberal democracy’s most cherished possession—but such freedom was put in service of a hidden agenda. In The Cultural Cold War, Frances Stonor Saunders reveals the extraordinary efforts of a secret campaign in which some of the most vocal exponents of intellectual freedom in the West were working for or subsidized by the CIA—whether they knew it or not. Called "the most comprehensive account yet of the [CIA’s] activities between 1947 and 1967" by the New York Times, the book presents shocking evidence of the CIA’s undercover program of cultural interventions in Western Europe and at home, drawing together declassified documents and exclusive interviews to expose the CIA’s astonishing campaign to deploy the likes of Hannah Arendt, Isaiah Berlin, Leonard Bernstein, Robert Lowell, George Orwell, and Jackson Pollock as weapons in the Cold War. Translated into ten languages, this classic work—now with a new preface by the author—is "a real contribution to popular understanding of the postwar period" (The Wall Street Journal), and its story of covert cultural efforts to win hearts and minds continues to be relevant today.
Download or read book Talking to Strangers written by Malcolm Gladwell and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2019-09-10 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Malcolm Gladwell, host of the podcast Revisionist History and author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Outliers, offers a powerful examination of our interactions with strangers and why they often go wrong—now with a new afterword by the author. A Best Book of the Year: The Financial Times, Bloomberg, Chicago Tribune, and Detroit Free Press How did Fidel Castro fool the CIA for a generation? Why did Neville Chamberlain think he could trust Adolf Hitler? Why are campus sexual assaults on the rise? Do television sitcoms teach us something about the way we relate to one another that isn’t true? Talking to Strangers is a classically Gladwellian intellectual adventure, a challenging and controversial excursion through history, psychology, and scandals taken straight from the news. He revisits the deceptions of Bernie Madoff, the trial of Amanda Knox, the suicide of Sylvia Plath, the Jerry Sandusky pedophilia scandal at Penn State University, and the death of Sandra Bland—throwing our understanding of these and other stories into doubt. Something is very wrong, Gladwell argues, with the tools and strategies we use to make sense of people we don’t know. And because we don’t know how to talk to strangers, we are inviting conflict and misunderstanding in ways that have a profound effect on our lives and our world. In his first book since his #1 bestseller David and Goliath, Malcolm Gladwell has written a gripping guidebook for troubled times.
Download or read book The Leaving written by Tara Altebrando and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2016-06-07 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Six were taken. Eleven years later, five come back--with no idea of where they've been. A riveting mystery for fans of We Were Liars. Eleven years ago, six kindergartners went missing without a trace. After all that time, the people left behind moved on, or tried to. Until today. Today five of those kids return. They're sixteen, and they are . . . fine. Scarlett comes home and finds a mom she barely recognizes, and doesn't really recognize the person she's supposed to be, either. But she thinks she remembers Lucas. Lucas remembers Scarlett, too, except they're entirely unable to recall where they've been or what happened to them. Neither of them remember the sixth victim, Max--the only one who hasn't come back. Which leaves Max's sister, Avery, wanting answers. She wants to find her brother--dead or alive--and isn't buying this whole memory-loss story. But as details of the disappearance begin to unfold, no one is prepared for the truth. This unforgettable novel--with its rich characters, high stakes, and plot twists--will leave readers breathless.
Download or read book From Poverty to Power written by Duncan Green and published by Oxfam. This book was released on 2008 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers a look at the causes and effects of poverty and inequality, as well as the possible solutions. This title features research, human stories, statistics, and compelling arguments. It discusses about the world we live in and how we can make it a better place.
