Download or read book The Crooked Spire written by Chris Nickson and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2013-11-01 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1361: Orphaned by the Black Death, all John possesses are the tools that belonged to his father, a carpenter, and an uncanny ability to work wood. His travels bring him to Chesterfield, where he finds work erecting the spire of the new church. But no sooner does he begin than the master carpenter is murdered and John himself becomes a suspect. To prove his innocence John must help the coroner in his search for the killer, a quest that brings him up against some powerful enemies in a town where he is still a stranger and friends are few. Chris Nickson brilliantly evokes the feeling of time and place in this story of corruption and murder.
Download or read book The Crooked Spire written by Chris Nickson and published by Mystery Press. This book was released on 2013-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1361: Orphaned by the Black Death, all John possesses are the tools that belonged to his father, a carpenter, and an uncanny ability to work wood. His travels bring him to Chesterfield, where he finds work erecting the spire of the new church. But no sooner does he begin than the master carpenter is murdered and John himself becomes a suspect.To prove his innocence John must help the coroner in his search for the killer, a quest that brings him up against some powerful enemies in a town where he is still a stranger and friends are few.Chris Nickson brilliantly evokes the feeling of time and place in this story of corruption and murder.
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Download or read book The Anchoress of Chesterfield written by Chris Nickson and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2020-07-17 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John the Carpenter has been happy to leave the investigation of death behind. For six years now he's been content to work with wood. His life looks prosperous, but times are growing desperate. Then the coroner summons him to look at the mysterious death of an anchoress, a religious woman who lived in confined solitude. She's been murdered. Her father is an important local landowner, a man of influence with the crown. He's distraught, and the money he offers John to find the killer can solve his problems and leave his family comfortable for life. But the path to the truth leads John to the heart of the rich, and back into history, to places where he's not welcome and in danger for his own life. Can he find the killer? And what will happen if he doesn't?
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Download or read book Head Wounds Sparrow written by Robert Johnson and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-10-18 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leo Guidry is a bad person and an even worse cop. When he suffers a psychic head wound, his life on the edge slips into spiritual warfare. In a landscape of angels, devils, and everything in between, can a person utterly devoid of empathy find a way to overcome the forces of darkness that have infiltrated his reality? This is the world of Head Wounds: Sparrow.
Download or read book Death of a Pilgrim written by David Dickinson and published by C & R Crime. This book was released on 2011-09-01 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1905. A young man called James Delaney is dying in a New York hospital. The doctors and the nuns cannot save him. When his life is spared his tycoon father takes it as a miracle and organizes a family pilgrimage to the resting place of the boy's name saint, Saint James the Greater in Santiago de Compostela in Spain, the greatest pilgrimage site of the Middle Ages. The first modern-day pilgrim is killed in Le Puy en Velay in Southern France and Powerscourt is summoned to investigate. The pilgrims' progress across the holy sites is punctuated by further bizarre deaths. After his own life is put in terrible danger Powerscourt finally solves the murders on the day of the Bull Run at Pamplona in Southern Spain where young men race down the cobbled streets pursued by the bulls. The careless are gored to death, but it is up to Powerscourt to beware of the horns and other hidden dangers to finally resolve the Deaths of the Pilgrims.
Download or read book Meant to Be written by Lauren Morrill and published by Delacorte Press. This book was released on 2012-11-13 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A girl with it all planned out discovers a romance she never expected in this funny debut about a class trip to London that HelloGiggles.com says you’ll love “if you’re into swoony romances with a little bit of history thrown in.” This spring break, Julia's rules are about to get defenestrated (SAT word: to be thrown from a window) when she's partnered with her personal nemesis, class-clown Jason, on a school trip to London. After one wild party, Julia starts receiving romantic texts . . . from an unknown number! Jason promises to help discover the identity of her mysterious new suitor if she agrees to break a few rules along the way. And thus begins a wild goose chase through London, leading Julia closer and closer to the biggest surprise of all: true love. Because sometimes the things you least expect are the most meant to be. *** "Readers of Jennifer E. Smith and Stephanie Perkins will revel in this debate about love ruled by the stars or as a matter of the heart." --Shelf Awareness "Fun, fresh and irresistibly romantic. STB (SURE to be) loved!" --Sarah Mlynowski “Star-crossed characters, hilarious dialogue, and a perfect London setting. I loved Meant to Be!” –Robin Benway, author of Emmy & Oliver
Download or read book To Share To Feel To See written by Patricia Ann Farnsworth-Simpson and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-09-24 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A book of poetry that touches upon all emotions in life especially the love of God, Spirituality and earthly life in all forms...Lots of poetry inspired from challenges so all in book is suitable for all reader age groups to enjoy and hopefully relate to...
Download or read book A L nn in Town written by Kittisak Tiyapan and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2003 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about the experience of a Lanna who have lived in Thailand, New Zealand, England, Hungary and Japan.
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Download or read book Ivybridge and South Brent Through Time written by John Van der Kiste and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2010-07-15 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating selection of more than 180 photographs traces some of the many ways in which Ivybridge & South Brent have changed and developed over the last century.
Download or read book Chesterfield Through Time written by Brian Davis and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2009-10-15 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fascinating history of Chesterfield, illustrated through old and modern pictures.
Download or read book Green Pastures written by Samantha Arran and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2016-11-23 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty-four-year-old London Lucy Locke is unable to sleep and can eat only the minimum, being filled with remorse and guilt that her paternal grandfather, parents, and two younger sisters were killed in a horrific motor way crash on their way to pick her up from the airport. Having spent Christmas with her maternal grandparents in Portugal as they were unable to travel and the pressure of her work, she had felt she had neglected them, so she used this opportunity. Lying awake as usual, she remembered a memory from her childhood. In the morning, she pursued this memory, and it was a new beginning for the journey of her life.
Download or read book The Holywell Dead written by Chris Nickson and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2017-10-02 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1364: The plague has returned and fear fills the air as the pestilence claims its first victims in Chesterfield. When the local priest vanishes, John the Carpenter believes the man is simply scared – until he discovers a body left in an empty house. Charged with finding the murderer by the coroner, John must dig deep into the past to discover who in the present has enough hatred to kill. But as the roll of the dead grows longer, can he keep his family safe from malign forces outside of his control? The third title in a gripping series following the best-selling titles The Crooked Spire and The Saltergate Psalter.
