Swans A Swimming (short story) (Twelve Days of Winter: Crime at Christmas, Book 7)

Swans A Swimming (short story) (Twelve Days of Winter: Crime at Christmas, Book 7) PDF Author: Stuart MacBride
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0007447175
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 26

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Book Description
Seventh story in a collection of interlinked bite-sized tales of crime and retribution laced with dark humour, set around the festive season – the perfect length for a short commute. Includes first chapters of Shatter the Bones and Birthdays for the Dead.

Swans A Swimming (short story) (Twelve Days of Winter: Crime at Christmas, Book 7)

Swans A Swimming (short story) (Twelve Days of Winter: Crime at Christmas, Book 7) PDF Author: Stuart MacBride
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0007447175
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 26

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Book Description
Seventh story in a collection of interlinked bite-sized tales of crime and retribution laced with dark humour, set around the festive season – the perfect length for a short commute. Includes first chapters of Shatter the Bones and Birthdays for the Dead.

The Christmas Murder Game

The Christmas Murder Game PDF Author: Alexandra Benedict
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
ISBN: 1728263050
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 269

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"Curl up by the fire (and lock all the doors) for this Christmas cracker of a book." —C.S. Green, author of Sleep Tight Twelve clues. Twelve keys. Twelve days of Christmas. But how many will die before Twelfth Night? Agatha Christie meets Clue in this delightful, tense manor house murder mystery. The annual Christmas Game is afoot at Endgame House, the Armitages' grand family home. This year's prize is to die for—deeds to the house itself—but Lily Armitage has no intention of returning. She hasn't been back to Endgame since her mother died, twenty-one years ago, and she has no intention of claiming the house that haunts her dreams. Until, that is, she receives a letter from her aunt promising that the game's riddles will give her the keys not only to Endgame, but to its darkest secrets, including the identity of her mother's murderer. Now, Lily must compete with her estranged cousins for the twelve days of Christmas. The snow is thick, the phone lines are down, and no one is getting in or out. Lily will have to keep her wits about her, because not everyone is playing fair, and there's no telling how many will die before the winner is declared. Including additional scavenger hunts for the reader, this clever murder mystery is the perfect gift for fans of classic mysteries, festive Christmas books, and armchair detective work.

Twelve Days of Winter: Crime at Christmas (short stories)

Twelve Days of Winter: Crime at Christmas (short stories) PDF Author: Stuart MacBride
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0007450281
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 79

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Book Description
A collection of interlinked tales of crime and retribution laced with dark humour, set around the festive season – from the No. 1 bestseller Stuart MacBride

Twelve Days of Winter

Twelve Days of Winter PDF Author: Stuart MacBride
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780007502905
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 128

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Book Description
A collection of interlinked tales of crime and retribution laced with dark humour, set around the festive season - from the No. 1 bestseller Stuart MacBride

Drummers Drumming (short story) (Twelve Days of Winter: Crime at Christmas, Book 12)

Drummers Drumming (short story) (Twelve Days of Winter: Crime at Christmas, Book 12) PDF Author: Stuart MacBride
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0007447221
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 21

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Book Description
The final story in a collection of interlinked bite-sized tales of crime and retribution laced with dark humour, set around the festive season – the perfect length for a short commute. Includes first chapters of Shatter the Bones and Birthdays for the Dead.

A Wild Winter Swan

A Wild Winter Swan PDF Author: Gregory Maguire
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0062980807
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 272

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After brilliantly reimagining the worlds of Oz, Wonderland, Dickensian London, and the Nutcracker, the New York Times bestselling author of Wicked turns his unconventional genius to Hans Christian Andersen's "The Wild Swans," transforming this classic tale into an Italian-American girl's poignant coming-of-age story, set amid the magic of Christmas in 1960s New York. Following her brother's death and her mother's emotional breakdown, Laura now lives on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, in a lonely townhouse she shares with her old-world, strict, often querulous grandparents. But the arrangement may be temporary. The quiet, awkward teenager has been getting into trouble at home and has been expelled from her high school for throwing a record album at a popular girl who bullied her. When Christmas is over and the new year begins, Laura may find herself at boarding school in Montreal. Nearly unmoored from reality through her panic and submerged grief, Laura is startled when a handsome swan boy with only one wing lands on her roof. Hiding him from her ever-bickering grandparents, Laura tries to build the swan boy a wing so he can fly home. But the task is too difficult to accomplish herself. Little does Laura know that her struggle to find help for her new friend parallels that of her grandparents, who are desperate for a distant relative’s financial aid to save the family store. As he explores themes of class, isolation, family, and the dangerous yearning to be saved by a power greater than ourselves, Gregory Maguire conjures a haunting, beautiful tale of magical realism that illuminates one young woman’s heartbreak and hope as she begins the inevitable journey to adulthood.

A Partridge in a Pear Tree (short story) (Twelve Days of Winter: Crime at Christmas, Book 1)

A Partridge in a Pear Tree (short story) (Twelve Days of Winter: Crime at Christmas, Book 1) PDF Author: Stuart MacBride
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0007447116
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 25

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Book Description
First story in a collection of interlinked bite-sized tales of crime and retribution laced with dark humour, set around the festive season – the perfect length for a short commute. Includes first chapters of Shatter the Bones and Birthdays for the Dead.

Dying for Christmas

Dying for Christmas PDF Author: Tammy Cohen
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 168177285X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 224

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A novel full of twists, surprising turns, and suspense, Dying for Christmas is Tammy Cohen's most disturbing psychological thriller yet. Out Christmas shopping one December afternoon, Jessica Gould meets the charming Dominic Lacey and impulsively agrees to go home with him for a drink. What follows are Twelve Days of Christmas from hell, as Lacey holds Jessica captive, forcing her to wear his missing wife’s gowns and eat lavish holiday meals. Each day he gifts her with one item from his twisted past—his dead sister’s favorite toy, disturbing family photos, a box of teeth. As the days pass and the “gifts” become darker and darker, Jessica realizes that Lacey has a plan for her, and he never intends to let her go. But Jessica has a secret of her own . . . a secret that may just mean she has a chance to make it out alive.

Seven for a Secret

Seven for a Secret PDF Author: Lyndsay Faye
Publisher: Penguin Group
ISBN: 0425270882
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 497

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One of The Wall Street Journal’s Ten Best Mysteries of the Year “Amazing...This is a series for the ages, it’s so spectacular.”—Gillian Flynn, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Gone Girl 1846: In New York City, slave catching isn’t just legal—it’s law enforcement. Six months after the formation of the NYPD, its most reluctant and talented officer, Timothy Wilde, learns of the gruesome underworld of lies and corruption ruled by the “blackbirders,” who snatch free Northerners of color from their homes, masquerade them as slaves, and sell them South to toil as plantation property. When the beautiful and terrified Lucy Adams staggers into Timothy’s office to report a robbery and is asked what was stolen, her reply is, “My family.” Their search for her mixed-race sister and son will plunge Timothy and his feral brother, Valentine, into a world where police are complicit and politics savage, and where corpses appear in the most shocking of places…

Morse's Greatest Mystery and Other Stories

Morse's Greatest Mystery and Other Stories PDF Author: Colin Dexter
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
ISBN: 9780330451901
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 292

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'No one constructs a whodunnit with more fiendish skill than Colin Dexter' GuardianMorse had solved so many mysteries in his life. Was he now, he wondered beginning to glimpse the solution to the greatest mystery of them all . . . ? How can the discovery of a short story by a beautiful Oxford graduate lead Chief Inspector Morse to her murderer? What awaits Morse and Lewis in Room 231 of the Randolph Hotel? Why does a theft at Christmas lead the detective to look upon the festive season with uncharacteristic goodwill? And what happens when Morse himself falls victim to a brilliantly executed crime? This dazzling collection of short stories from Inspector Morse's creator, Colin Dexter, includes six ingenious cases for the world's most popular fictional detective - plus five other tantalizingly original tales to delight all lovers of classic crime fiction.