Author: Grace Brophy
Publisher: Soho Press
ISBN: 1569475717
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The second Commissario Cenni investigation In the peaceful Umbrian village of Paradiso, the murder and mutilation of an elderly German woman is bewildering. That is, until Inspector Alessandro Cenni of the State Police discovers that this retired cultural attaché was not only a difficult tenant and a blackmailer, but a bisexual swinger who recently had a female lover in residence. The dead woman grew up in occupied Venice, and one of her secrets from World War II might have surfaced. And the bucolic village is not that innocent: it was the site of a scandalous murder fifty years earlier. Cenni’s boss wants a scapegoat, and the woman’s young former lover is the obvious target, but Cenni cannot bring himself to close the case without bringing the true perpetrator to justice.
A Deadly Paradise
Author: Grace Brophy
Publisher: Soho Press
ISBN: 1569475717
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The second Commissario Cenni investigation In the peaceful Umbrian village of Paradiso, the murder and mutilation of an elderly German woman is bewildering. That is, until Inspector Alessandro Cenni of the State Police discovers that this retired cultural attaché was not only a difficult tenant and a blackmailer, but a bisexual swinger who recently had a female lover in residence. The dead woman grew up in occupied Venice, and one of her secrets from World War II might have surfaced. And the bucolic village is not that innocent: it was the site of a scandalous murder fifty years earlier. Cenni’s boss wants a scapegoat, and the woman’s young former lover is the obvious target, but Cenni cannot bring himself to close the case without bringing the true perpetrator to justice.
Publisher: Soho Press
ISBN: 1569475717
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The second Commissario Cenni investigation In the peaceful Umbrian village of Paradiso, the murder and mutilation of an elderly German woman is bewildering. That is, until Inspector Alessandro Cenni of the State Police discovers that this retired cultural attaché was not only a difficult tenant and a blackmailer, but a bisexual swinger who recently had a female lover in residence. The dead woman grew up in occupied Venice, and one of her secrets from World War II might have surfaced. And the bucolic village is not that innocent: it was the site of a scandalous murder fifty years earlier. Cenni’s boss wants a scapegoat, and the woman’s young former lover is the obvious target, but Cenni cannot bring himself to close the case without bringing the true perpetrator to justice.
Curse of Russia
Author: Kate Valery
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
ISBN: 1426934912
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
In Russia, at night, a despairing young woman of royal blood runs away from her husband’s rich estate, carrying her baby in her arms, to a new life as an artist (1896)... In California, on a playground, a 10-year-old girl calls on her cell-phone 911, trying to save her dying grandmother’s life (2006)... One hundred-and-ten years separate these two events; one hundred-and-ten years of one Russian family, seen from a child’s perspective. In the little girl’s eyes is reflected the whole portrait of Russia in the 20th century – the historical moments, life style, traditions, mentality, and fates of its people – like one shiny raindrop can sometimes reflect the whole world. Curse of Russia is a page-turner book, with subtle dramaturgic line and amazing real, living characters.
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
ISBN: 1426934912
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
In Russia, at night, a despairing young woman of royal blood runs away from her husband’s rich estate, carrying her baby in her arms, to a new life as an artist (1896)... In California, on a playground, a 10-year-old girl calls on her cell-phone 911, trying to save her dying grandmother’s life (2006)... One hundred-and-ten years separate these two events; one hundred-and-ten years of one Russian family, seen from a child’s perspective. In the little girl’s eyes is reflected the whole portrait of Russia in the 20th century – the historical moments, life style, traditions, mentality, and fates of its people – like one shiny raindrop can sometimes reflect the whole world. Curse of Russia is a page-turner book, with subtle dramaturgic line and amazing real, living characters.
Naples
Author: Diane Ketcham
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780979755583
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
"The teenage daughter of the chairman of the county commission is murdered a few weeks before Election Day. Cara Wicklow was blonde, beautiful and a twin. She was also the chairman's 'wild child' and was attending a local boarding school for wealthy troubled girls. Who killed Cara? Caught up in the murder investigation and a new life in Florida is transplanted New York journalist, A.J. 'Jazz' Billings. While reporting on Cara's murder and the strict school she attended, Jazz discovers a secret sorority and its dangerous initiation. Is it politics or teenage secrets that caused Cara's death? And is the sudden disappearance of the boyfriend of Jazz's new friend related? There's trouble in paradise for Jazz and her stud-dog Labrador Retriever, Willie." -- p. [4] of cover.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780979755583
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
"The teenage daughter of the chairman of the county commission is murdered a few weeks before Election Day. Cara Wicklow was blonde, beautiful and a twin. She was also the chairman's 'wild child' and was attending a local boarding school for wealthy troubled girls. Who killed Cara? Caught up in the murder investigation and a new life in Florida is transplanted New York journalist, A.J. 'Jazz' Billings. While reporting on Cara's murder and the strict school she attended, Jazz discovers a secret sorority and its dangerous initiation. Is it politics or teenage secrets that caused Cara's death? And is the sudden disappearance of the boyfriend of Jazz's new friend related? There's trouble in paradise for Jazz and her stud-dog Labrador Retriever, Willie." -- p. [4] of cover.
The Puppeteer
Author: Timothy Williams
Publisher: Soho Press
ISBN: 1616954620
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
Northern Italy, 1982: Inspector Piero Trotti is enjoying his breakfast at a café when gunmen drive up and shoot the man sitting at the next table. Was Trotti their intended target? He isn’t sure. The case falls under the jurisdiction of the local Carabinieri, but Trotti decides to make his own inquiries. The Puppeteer is the follow-up to CWA award-winner Timothy Williams’s dazzling crime fiction debut, Converging Parallels. This tautly written novel brings us to the depths of a corrupt, scheming Italian society in which bank officials, clergymen, masons, lawyers, and, of course, politicians are all suspect of resorting to criminal activity for personal gain. Only the police are presumed trustworthy, and even they are sorely divided by departmental rivalries and jealousies.
Publisher: Soho Press
ISBN: 1616954620
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
Northern Italy, 1982: Inspector Piero Trotti is enjoying his breakfast at a café when gunmen drive up and shoot the man sitting at the next table. Was Trotti their intended target? He isn’t sure. The case falls under the jurisdiction of the local Carabinieri, but Trotti decides to make his own inquiries. The Puppeteer is the follow-up to CWA award-winner Timothy Williams’s dazzling crime fiction debut, Converging Parallels. This tautly written novel brings us to the depths of a corrupt, scheming Italian society in which bank officials, clergymen, masons, lawyers, and, of course, politicians are all suspect of resorting to criminal activity for personal gain. Only the police are presumed trustworthy, and even they are sorely divided by departmental rivalries and jealousies.
The World's Finest Mystery and Crime Stories: 5
Author: Ed Gorman
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 076531147X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 470
Book Description
An annual collection of more than thirty mystery stories from the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, and Germany includes pieces by such names as Ruth Rendell, Ed McBain, Barbara Hambly, Ian Rankin, and Joyce Carol Oates.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 076531147X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 470
Book Description
An annual collection of more than thirty mystery stories from the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, and Germany includes pieces by such names as Ruth Rendell, Ed McBain, Barbara Hambly, Ian Rankin, and Joyce Carol Oates.
Lake Ephemeral Part 1
Author: Anya Allyn
Publisher: Anya Allyn
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
A free sci fi thriller (short) for readers 14+ Six children without memories of their early years can never leave the valley that gave them life. Seven manors surround Lake Ephemeral and their residents are hiding terrifying secrets. Seraphin Ferón was first brought to the valley as an eleven-year-old orphan. But Seraphin soon discovers that the vast estate is plagued by an exotic, massive species of carnivorous plant—named the Coffin Flower, capable of consuming humans. No one can answer Seraphin the riddle of why the residents stay at Lake Ephemeral year after year or why no one ever leaves. Keywords: free, freebie, teen sci fi The full novel of Lake Ephemeral will be released in March 2015. (Please sign up to Anya Allyn's newsletter to find out the release date and get the full novel for the special price of $0.99!)
Publisher: Anya Allyn
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
A free sci fi thriller (short) for readers 14+ Six children without memories of their early years can never leave the valley that gave them life. Seven manors surround Lake Ephemeral and their residents are hiding terrifying secrets. Seraphin Ferón was first brought to the valley as an eleven-year-old orphan. But Seraphin soon discovers that the vast estate is plagued by an exotic, massive species of carnivorous plant—named the Coffin Flower, capable of consuming humans. No one can answer Seraphin the riddle of why the residents stay at Lake Ephemeral year after year or why no one ever leaves. Keywords: free, freebie, teen sci fi The full novel of Lake Ephemeral will be released in March 2015. (Please sign up to Anya Allyn's newsletter to find out the release date and get the full novel for the special price of $0.99!)
Life After Magnet Memories - The Return of the Secret Series: 1988-1994
Author: Nick Goodman
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0244805555
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
The Magnet Editor ? the sci-fi adventure series known only to a select few ? was over. But it had an afterlife? Picking up from where The Magnet Editor left off, Life After? was the all-new series that took the space and time escapades of Cabin Relese, all-round adventurer and scientific journalist, to the next level. The Magnet Editor writing team of Nick Goodman and Jo Bunsell return, joined by prolific poet Paul Chandler. Relocating from Mexico to the leafy Sussex village of Handlehead, Cabin ? now without his super powers ? reluctantly takes charge of Base Security and finds it tough at the top. He is plunged into new, perilous and challenging adventures. Accompanied by friends old and new, he faces the darkest terrors, and everything from his marriage to the future of the universe is at stake. Venture deep into the unknown with Life After Magnet Memories, the complete guide to this sequel series!
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0244805555
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
The Magnet Editor ? the sci-fi adventure series known only to a select few ? was over. But it had an afterlife? Picking up from where The Magnet Editor left off, Life After? was the all-new series that took the space and time escapades of Cabin Relese, all-round adventurer and scientific journalist, to the next level. The Magnet Editor writing team of Nick Goodman and Jo Bunsell return, joined by prolific poet Paul Chandler. Relocating from Mexico to the leafy Sussex village of Handlehead, Cabin ? now without his super powers ? reluctantly takes charge of Base Security and finds it tough at the top. He is plunged into new, perilous and challenging adventures. Accompanied by friends old and new, he faces the darkest terrors, and everything from his marriage to the future of the universe is at stake. Venture deep into the unknown with Life After Magnet Memories, the complete guide to this sequel series!
Murder in the Marais
Author: Cara Black
Publisher: Soho Press
ISBN: 1569479992
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Aime Leduc, a Parisian private investigator, has sworn she would stick to tech investigation - no criminal cases for her. Especially since her father, the late police detective, was killed in the line of duty. But when an old Jewish man approaches Aime with a secret decoding job on behalf of a woman in his synagogue, Aime unwittingly takes on more than she was expecting. When she takes her findings to her client's house in the Marais, Paris's historic Jewish quarter, she finds the old woman strangled, a swastika carved on her forehead. Can Aime solve the crime?
Publisher: Soho Press
ISBN: 1569479992
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Aime Leduc, a Parisian private investigator, has sworn she would stick to tech investigation - no criminal cases for her. Especially since her father, the late police detective, was killed in the line of duty. But when an old Jewish man approaches Aime with a secret decoding job on behalf of a woman in his synagogue, Aime unwittingly takes on more than she was expecting. When she takes her findings to her client's house in the Marais, Paris's historic Jewish quarter, she finds the old woman strangled, a swastika carved on her forehead. Can Aime solve the crime?
Billy Boyle
Author: James R. Benn
Publisher: Soho Press
ISBN: 1569476721
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
What’s a twenty-two-year-old Irish American cop who’s never been out of Massachusetts before doing at Beardsley Hall, an English country house, having lunch with King Haakon of Norway? Billy Boyle himself wonders. Back home in Southie, he’d barely made detective when war was declared. Unwilling to fight—and perhaps die—for England, he was relieved when his mother wangled a job for him on the staff of a general married to her distant cousin. But the general turns out to be Dwight D. Eisenhower, whose headquarters are in London, which is undergoing the Blitz. And Uncle Ike wants Billy to be his personal investigator. Billy is dispatched to the seat of the Norwegian government in exile. Operation Jupiter, the impending invasion of Norway, is being planned, but it is feared that there is a German spy amongst the Norwegians. Billy doubts his own abilities, with good reason. A theft and two murders test his investigative powers, but Billy proves to be a better detective than he or anyone else expected.
Publisher: Soho Press
ISBN: 1569476721
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
What’s a twenty-two-year-old Irish American cop who’s never been out of Massachusetts before doing at Beardsley Hall, an English country house, having lunch with King Haakon of Norway? Billy Boyle himself wonders. Back home in Southie, he’d barely made detective when war was declared. Unwilling to fight—and perhaps die—for England, he was relieved when his mother wangled a job for him on the staff of a general married to her distant cousin. But the general turns out to be Dwight D. Eisenhower, whose headquarters are in London, which is undergoing the Blitz. And Uncle Ike wants Billy to be his personal investigator. Billy is dispatched to the seat of the Norwegian government in exile. Operation Jupiter, the impending invasion of Norway, is being planned, but it is feared that there is a German spy amongst the Norwegians. Billy doubts his own abilities, with good reason. A theft and two murders test his investigative powers, but Billy proves to be a better detective than he or anyone else expected.
Given In Marriage
Author: B. M. Croker
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 9361423487
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
The Book “Given in marriage” is a kind of historical fiction written by B.M Crocker. In the late 19th century, the prominent author B.M. Croker wrote the novel “Given in Marriage”. The story is about Hilda Maxwell and her daily life who gets married to A man named Dick Chichester. Facing several issues in their marriages, the couple gets stuck in financial difficulties and social pressure. The narrative signifies the complexities in the life of Hilda and the struggle she faced in her married life to find happiness and admit societal exportation to fulfill personal desires. The novel depicts the themes of duty, personal fulfillment, and love comprehensively and captures the intricacies of human life. The author's writing is characterized and appraised for describing human relationships and poignant portrayal of marriage. The book also provides a glimpse of hoy and hardship faced by people in their married life and how the resilience of the human spirit faces adversity. The book to showcase the real facts of marriage life and take readers into the hardship and joyful journey of marriage life.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 9361423487
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
The Book “Given in marriage” is a kind of historical fiction written by B.M Crocker. In the late 19th century, the prominent author B.M. Croker wrote the novel “Given in Marriage”. The story is about Hilda Maxwell and her daily life who gets married to A man named Dick Chichester. Facing several issues in their marriages, the couple gets stuck in financial difficulties and social pressure. The narrative signifies the complexities in the life of Hilda and the struggle she faced in her married life to find happiness and admit societal exportation to fulfill personal desires. The novel depicts the themes of duty, personal fulfillment, and love comprehensively and captures the intricacies of human life. The author's writing is characterized and appraised for describing human relationships and poignant portrayal of marriage. The book also provides a glimpse of hoy and hardship faced by people in their married life and how the resilience of the human spirit faces adversity. The book to showcase the real facts of marriage life and take readers into the hardship and joyful journey of marriage life.