Author: P. J. Alderman
Publisher: Bantam
ISBN: 0553906925
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
RITA-nominated author P. J. Alderman weaves present-day supernatural sleuthery with nineteenth-century intrigue in the first book of an enchanting new mystery series set in picturesque Port Chatham, Washington. Jordan Marsh left L.A. for the quaint Pacific Northwest town of Port Chatham in pursuit of some much-needed R & R. As the prime suspect in her cheating husband’s murder, she had been hoping to immerse herself in the restoration of the charming Victorian she’d just bought—and put all talk of homicide investigations behind her. But as she soon discovers, the coldest of cases cry out to be solved, too. For this old house comes fully furnished—with two garrulous ghosts who have a century-old murder of their own they’d like her to look into. Now, if Jordan can keep the L.A. police at bay, and sort through a suspect list of shady characters circa 1890, she might just clear a wrongly accused man’s name—and her own. From the Paperback edition.
Haunting Jordan
Author: P. J. Alderman
Publisher: Bantam
ISBN: 0553906925
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
RITA-nominated author P. J. Alderman weaves present-day supernatural sleuthery with nineteenth-century intrigue in the first book of an enchanting new mystery series set in picturesque Port Chatham, Washington. Jordan Marsh left L.A. for the quaint Pacific Northwest town of Port Chatham in pursuit of some much-needed R & R. As the prime suspect in her cheating husband’s murder, she had been hoping to immerse herself in the restoration of the charming Victorian she’d just bought—and put all talk of homicide investigations behind her. But as she soon discovers, the coldest of cases cry out to be solved, too. For this old house comes fully furnished—with two garrulous ghosts who have a century-old murder of their own they’d like her to look into. Now, if Jordan can keep the L.A. police at bay, and sort through a suspect list of shady characters circa 1890, she might just clear a wrongly accused man’s name—and her own. From the Paperback edition.
Publisher: Bantam
ISBN: 0553906925
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
RITA-nominated author P. J. Alderman weaves present-day supernatural sleuthery with nineteenth-century intrigue in the first book of an enchanting new mystery series set in picturesque Port Chatham, Washington. Jordan Marsh left L.A. for the quaint Pacific Northwest town of Port Chatham in pursuit of some much-needed R & R. As the prime suspect in her cheating husband’s murder, she had been hoping to immerse herself in the restoration of the charming Victorian she’d just bought—and put all talk of homicide investigations behind her. But as she soon discovers, the coldest of cases cry out to be solved, too. For this old house comes fully furnished—with two garrulous ghosts who have a century-old murder of their own they’d like her to look into. Now, if Jordan can keep the L.A. police at bay, and sort through a suspect list of shady characters circa 1890, she might just clear a wrongly accused man’s name—and her own. From the Paperback edition.
Ghost Ship
Author: P. J. Alderman
Publisher: Bantam
ISBN: 0553908014
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
RITA-nominated author P. J. Alderman’s delightful new mystery series blends haunting ghosts with hunting criminals as therapist Jordan Marsh dives deep into the past to solve a modern murder. A recent transplant to Washington State’s charming seaside town of Port Chatham, Jordan is still getting used to sharing her slightly run-down but historic lodging with ghosts. As if living with the long-deceased isn’t enough of a challenge, she’s just found a corpse: The town’s notorious womanizer Holt Stillwell is lying on the beach with a bullet in his head. Before Jordan can reel in a suspect, another victim surfaces. And this one isn’t taking murder lying down. Holt’s ancestor Michael Seavey, the Pacific Northwest’s most infamous shanghaier, has materialized in Jordan’s house, seeking to solve his own death in a suspicious shipwreck in 1893. With two murders to solve and a killer on the loose, Jordan faces yet another equally terrifying prospect: her growing attraction to the very alive and criminally attractive pub owner Jase Cunningham. From the Paperback edition.
Publisher: Bantam
ISBN: 0553908014
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
RITA-nominated author P. J. Alderman’s delightful new mystery series blends haunting ghosts with hunting criminals as therapist Jordan Marsh dives deep into the past to solve a modern murder. A recent transplant to Washington State’s charming seaside town of Port Chatham, Jordan is still getting used to sharing her slightly run-down but historic lodging with ghosts. As if living with the long-deceased isn’t enough of a challenge, she’s just found a corpse: The town’s notorious womanizer Holt Stillwell is lying on the beach with a bullet in his head. Before Jordan can reel in a suspect, another victim surfaces. And this one isn’t taking murder lying down. Holt’s ancestor Michael Seavey, the Pacific Northwest’s most infamous shanghaier, has materialized in Jordan’s house, seeking to solve his own death in a suspicious shipwreck in 1893. With two murders to solve and a killer on the loose, Jordan faces yet another equally terrifying prospect: her growing attraction to the very alive and criminally attractive pub owner Jase Cunningham. From the Paperback edition.
Ellie Jordan, Ghost Trapper
Author: J. L. Bryan
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781500977009
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
Ellie Jordan's job is to catch and remove unwanted ghosts. Part detective, part paranormal exterminator, Ellie operates out of Savannah, Georgia, one of the oldest and most haunted cities in North America. When a family contacts her to deal with a disturbing presence in the old mansion they've recently purchased, Ellie first believes it to be a typical, by-the-book specter, a residual haunting by a restless spirit. Instead, she finds herself confronting an evil older and more powerful than she'd ever expected, rooted in the house's long and sordid history of luxury, sin, and murder. The dangerous entity seems particularly interested in her clients' ten-year-old daughter. Soon her own life is in danger, and Ellie must find a way to exorcise the darkness of the house before it can kill her, her clients, or their frightened young child.
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781500977009
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
Ellie Jordan's job is to catch and remove unwanted ghosts. Part detective, part paranormal exterminator, Ellie operates out of Savannah, Georgia, one of the oldest and most haunted cities in North America. When a family contacts her to deal with a disturbing presence in the old mansion they've recently purchased, Ellie first believes it to be a typical, by-the-book specter, a residual haunting by a restless spirit. Instead, she finds herself confronting an evil older and more powerful than she'd ever expected, rooted in the house's long and sordid history of luxury, sin, and murder. The dangerous entity seems particularly interested in her clients' ten-year-old daughter. Soon her own life is in danger, and Ellie must find a way to exorcise the darkness of the house before it can kill her, her clients, or their frightened young child.
Neil Jordan
Author: Maria Pramaggiore
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 0252075307
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
Best known for his enormously successful independent film The Crying Game, Irish director Neil Jordan has made sixteen feature films since 1982. Even after achieving commercial success and critical acclaim with such films as Interview with the Vampire and The Butcher Boy, Jordan remains a curiously elusive figure in the era of the celebrity filmmaker. Maria Pramaggiore addresses this conundrum by examining Jordan's distinctive style across a surprisingly broad range of genres and production contexts, including horror and gangster films, Irish-themed movies, and Hollywood remakes. Despite the striking diversity of Jordan's films, the director consistently returns to gothic themes of loss, violence, and madness. In her sophisticated examination of Mona Lisa, Michael Collins, and The Good Thief, Pramaggiore shows how Jordan presents these dark narratives with a uniquely Irish and postmodern sense of irony. This illuminating analysis of one of the cinema's most important artists will be of keen interest to movie enthusiasts as well as students and scholars of contemporary film."
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 0252075307
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
Best known for his enormously successful independent film The Crying Game, Irish director Neil Jordan has made sixteen feature films since 1982. Even after achieving commercial success and critical acclaim with such films as Interview with the Vampire and The Butcher Boy, Jordan remains a curiously elusive figure in the era of the celebrity filmmaker. Maria Pramaggiore addresses this conundrum by examining Jordan's distinctive style across a surprisingly broad range of genres and production contexts, including horror and gangster films, Irish-themed movies, and Hollywood remakes. Despite the striking diversity of Jordan's films, the director consistently returns to gothic themes of loss, violence, and madness. In her sophisticated examination of Mona Lisa, Michael Collins, and The Good Thief, Pramaggiore shows how Jordan presents these dark narratives with a uniquely Irish and postmodern sense of irony. This illuminating analysis of one of the cinema's most important artists will be of keen interest to movie enthusiasts as well as students and scholars of contemporary film."
Haunting Jordan
Author: P. J. Alderman
Publisher: Bantam
ISBN: 0553592106
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 421
Book Description
Starting a new life in the quaint Pacific Northwest town of Port Chatham, Jordan Marsh, while restoring the Victorian house she just bought, finds herself once again immersed in mystery and mayhem when two ghosts ask her to solve a century-old murder. Original.
Publisher: Bantam
ISBN: 0553592106
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 421
Book Description
Starting a new life in the quaint Pacific Northwest town of Port Chatham, Jordan Marsh, while restoring the Victorian house she just bought, finds herself once again immersed in mystery and mayhem when two ghosts ask her to solve a century-old murder. Original.
The Haunting Fetus
Author: Marc L. Moskowitz
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 9780824824280
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
The Haunting Fetus focuses on the belief in modern Taiwan that an aborted fetus can return to haunt its family. Although the topic has been researched in Japan and commented on in the Taiwanese press, it has not been studied systematically in relation to Taiwan in either English or Chinese. This fascinating study looks at a range of topics pertaining to the belief in haunting fetuses, including abortion, sexuality, the changing nature of familial power structures, the economy, and traditional and modern views of the spirit world in Taiwan and in traditional Chinese thought. It addresses the mental, moral, and psychological aspects of abortion within the context of modernization processes and how these ramify through historical epistemologies and folk traditions. The author illustrates how images of fetus-ghosts are often used to manipulate women, either through fear or guilt, into paying exorbitant sums of money for appeasement. He argues at the same time, however, that although appeasement can be expensive, it provides important psychological comfort to women who have had abortions as well as a much-needed means to project personal and familial feelings of transgression onto a safely displaced object. In addition to bringing to the surface underlying tensions within a family, appeasing fetus-ghosts, like other dealings with supernatural beings in Chinese religions, allows for atonement through economic avenues. The paradox in which fetus-ghost appeasement simultaneously exploits and assists evinces the true complexity of the issue--and of religious and gender studies as a whole.
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 9780824824280
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
The Haunting Fetus focuses on the belief in modern Taiwan that an aborted fetus can return to haunt its family. Although the topic has been researched in Japan and commented on in the Taiwanese press, it has not been studied systematically in relation to Taiwan in either English or Chinese. This fascinating study looks at a range of topics pertaining to the belief in haunting fetuses, including abortion, sexuality, the changing nature of familial power structures, the economy, and traditional and modern views of the spirit world in Taiwan and in traditional Chinese thought. It addresses the mental, moral, and psychological aspects of abortion within the context of modernization processes and how these ramify through historical epistemologies and folk traditions. The author illustrates how images of fetus-ghosts are often used to manipulate women, either through fear or guilt, into paying exorbitant sums of money for appeasement. He argues at the same time, however, that although appeasement can be expensive, it provides important psychological comfort to women who have had abortions as well as a much-needed means to project personal and familial feelings of transgression onto a safely displaced object. In addition to bringing to the surface underlying tensions within a family, appeasing fetus-ghosts, like other dealings with supernatural beings in Chinese religions, allows for atonement through economic avenues. The paradox in which fetus-ghost appeasement simultaneously exploits and assists evinces the true complexity of the issue--and of religious and gender studies as a whole.
Enchanted: Volume One
Author: Bethany Michaels
Publisher: Dragonfly Press Books
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Like things that go "bump" in the night? This collection of six sexy paranormal tales is sure to keep your night bumping ;) From ghosts, to vampires, to elves, to an enchanted ruby, this anthology explores the spooky side of passion. Some tales are sweet, some are funny, some are short, some are longer. All of them are hot and sexy. Contents: The Blue Room Enchanted Polar Heat Hart & Souls My Soul to Stele Naughty Author's notes on each story ***Author's note: This anthology contains some new work and some that is published elsewhere. It is NOT my intention to force readers to buy books they have already purchased just to get the others. If you've purchased Hart & Souls, Enchanted and Naughty as stand alone volumes, and want just the others, please download this vendor's free sample and see the Note to Readers, or email me personally.
Publisher: Dragonfly Press Books
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Like things that go "bump" in the night? This collection of six sexy paranormal tales is sure to keep your night bumping ;) From ghosts, to vampires, to elves, to an enchanted ruby, this anthology explores the spooky side of passion. Some tales are sweet, some are funny, some are short, some are longer. All of them are hot and sexy. Contents: The Blue Room Enchanted Polar Heat Hart & Souls My Soul to Stele Naughty Author's notes on each story ***Author's note: This anthology contains some new work and some that is published elsewhere. It is NOT my intention to force readers to buy books they have already purchased just to get the others. If you've purchased Hart & Souls, Enchanted and Naughty as stand alone volumes, and want just the others, please download this vendor's free sample and see the Note to Readers, or email me personally.
Night Owl Reviews Magazine, Issue 1
Author:
Publisher: Night Owl Reviews
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 26
Book Description
Publisher: Night Owl Reviews
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 26
Book Description
The Mercer Boys In The Ghost Patrol
Author: Capwell Wyckoff
Publisher: Prabhat Prakashan
ISBN:
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
The summer camp of Woodcrest Military Institute was always an exciting event to the Mercer boys and Terry Mackson. But when the cadets camped near Rustling Ridge, the boys ran into a series of startling occurrences: a horse stampede, a mysterious fire, the disappearance of a little girl, and most frightening of all, the Ghost of Rustling Ridge, who seemed determined to drive the cadets away. Don and Jim, along with Terry, were appointed to the camp’s Ghost Patrol, and how they solved the mystery of the ghost makes one of the most exciting adventures in the Mercer Boys Series.
Publisher: Prabhat Prakashan
ISBN:
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
The summer camp of Woodcrest Military Institute was always an exciting event to the Mercer boys and Terry Mackson. But when the cadets camped near Rustling Ridge, the boys ran into a series of startling occurrences: a horse stampede, a mysterious fire, the disappearance of a little girl, and most frightening of all, the Ghost of Rustling Ridge, who seemed determined to drive the cadets away. Don and Jim, along with Terry, were appointed to the camp’s Ghost Patrol, and how they solved the mystery of the ghost makes one of the most exciting adventures in the Mercer Boys Series.
A Haunting at Ocean Winds
Author: Barbara Pleasant
Publisher: Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency
ISBN: 1631355996
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Parker and Claire’s dream was to open a bed and breakfast on the beach in South Carolina. They stood holding their three-year-old son Mattie’s hand outside a large empty house sitting high on the dunes overlooking the beach. “Perfect,” Claire thought. The sale sign said four bedrooms upstairs, and two down. Nothing had been done to the house in several years, and it was in bad need of restoration to bring it up to date. However, this was not what the five resident ghosts wanted who lived in the house. They wanted their home to stay just the way it was when they were alive; and bound and determined that it would, they did everything they could think of to run the new owners out.
Publisher: Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency
ISBN: 1631355996
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Parker and Claire’s dream was to open a bed and breakfast on the beach in South Carolina. They stood holding their three-year-old son Mattie’s hand outside a large empty house sitting high on the dunes overlooking the beach. “Perfect,” Claire thought. The sale sign said four bedrooms upstairs, and two down. Nothing had been done to the house in several years, and it was in bad need of restoration to bring it up to date. However, this was not what the five resident ghosts wanted who lived in the house. They wanted their home to stay just the way it was when they were alive; and bound and determined that it would, they did everything they could think of to run the new owners out.