Author: Marlys Millhiser
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1504049667
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 786
Book Description
A Hollywood literary agent and single mother is a reluctant sleuth—and psychic—in this delightfully quirky quartet of paranormal mysteries. Kicking off with the “entertainingly oddball” debut novel in the Charlie Greene series, this volume gathers four of Millhiser’s best high-spirited whodunits (Kirkus Reviews). Murder at Moot Point: Charlie Greene heads to foggy Moot Point, Oregon, to meet with a client, reclusive New Age author Jack Monroe, who is currently experimenting with out-of-body experiences. But when a real body is found under Charlie’s car, she must find the real killer before she goes out of her mind. Death of the Office Witch: Gloria Tuschman—the receptionist at Charlie’s office and also a practicing witch—rubbed everyone the wrong way, so someone rubbed her out. With Gloria’s ghost calling to her from the great beyond, Charlie has no choice but to find who did it before someone else gets a cold-blooded reception. “Humorous, inviting . . . written in crisp, likable prose” (Library Journal). Murder in a Hot Flash: Charlie’s mother, biology professor and rodent specialist Edwina Greene, is in Utah consulting on a documentary. Unfortunately, she’s also the prime suspect in the murder of a science fiction film director. Now Charlie must team up with a Hollywood hunk and track down the dirty rat who did the deed if she hopes to clear her mom’s name. “Likable protagonists and wry humor make this a hit ” (Library Journal). Voices in the Wardrobe: Charlie takes her dear friend Maggie Stutzman to an exclusive San Diego spa to get some much-needed R&R. But tensions rise after a celebrity motivational speaker is found dead in one of the pools and Maggie is facing murder charges. Charlie will need to flush out the killer hiding among the spa’s pampered elite if she hopes to save her friend.
The Charlie Greene Mysteries
Author: Marlys Millhiser
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1504049667
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 786
Book Description
A Hollywood literary agent and single mother is a reluctant sleuth—and psychic—in this delightfully quirky quartet of paranormal mysteries. Kicking off with the “entertainingly oddball” debut novel in the Charlie Greene series, this volume gathers four of Millhiser’s best high-spirited whodunits (Kirkus Reviews). Murder at Moot Point: Charlie Greene heads to foggy Moot Point, Oregon, to meet with a client, reclusive New Age author Jack Monroe, who is currently experimenting with out-of-body experiences. But when a real body is found under Charlie’s car, she must find the real killer before she goes out of her mind. Death of the Office Witch: Gloria Tuschman—the receptionist at Charlie’s office and also a practicing witch—rubbed everyone the wrong way, so someone rubbed her out. With Gloria’s ghost calling to her from the great beyond, Charlie has no choice but to find who did it before someone else gets a cold-blooded reception. “Humorous, inviting . . . written in crisp, likable prose” (Library Journal). Murder in a Hot Flash: Charlie’s mother, biology professor and rodent specialist Edwina Greene, is in Utah consulting on a documentary. Unfortunately, she’s also the prime suspect in the murder of a science fiction film director. Now Charlie must team up with a Hollywood hunk and track down the dirty rat who did the deed if she hopes to clear her mom’s name. “Likable protagonists and wry humor make this a hit ” (Library Journal). Voices in the Wardrobe: Charlie takes her dear friend Maggie Stutzman to an exclusive San Diego spa to get some much-needed R&R. But tensions rise after a celebrity motivational speaker is found dead in one of the pools and Maggie is facing murder charges. Charlie will need to flush out the killer hiding among the spa’s pampered elite if she hopes to save her friend.
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1504049667
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 786
Book Description
A Hollywood literary agent and single mother is a reluctant sleuth—and psychic—in this delightfully quirky quartet of paranormal mysteries. Kicking off with the “entertainingly oddball” debut novel in the Charlie Greene series, this volume gathers four of Millhiser’s best high-spirited whodunits (Kirkus Reviews). Murder at Moot Point: Charlie Greene heads to foggy Moot Point, Oregon, to meet with a client, reclusive New Age author Jack Monroe, who is currently experimenting with out-of-body experiences. But when a real body is found under Charlie’s car, she must find the real killer before she goes out of her mind. Death of the Office Witch: Gloria Tuschman—the receptionist at Charlie’s office and also a practicing witch—rubbed everyone the wrong way, so someone rubbed her out. With Gloria’s ghost calling to her from the great beyond, Charlie has no choice but to find who did it before someone else gets a cold-blooded reception. “Humorous, inviting . . . written in crisp, likable prose” (Library Journal). Murder in a Hot Flash: Charlie’s mother, biology professor and rodent specialist Edwina Greene, is in Utah consulting on a documentary. Unfortunately, she’s also the prime suspect in the murder of a science fiction film director. Now Charlie must team up with a Hollywood hunk and track down the dirty rat who did the deed if she hopes to clear her mom’s name. “Likable protagonists and wry humor make this a hit ” (Library Journal). Voices in the Wardrobe: Charlie takes her dear friend Maggie Stutzman to an exclusive San Diego spa to get some much-needed R&R. But tensions rise after a celebrity motivational speaker is found dead in one of the pools and Maggie is facing murder charges. Charlie will need to flush out the killer hiding among the spa’s pampered elite if she hopes to save her friend.
Death of the Office Witch
Author: Marlys Millhiser
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780786202140
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780786202140
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
The Rampant Reaper
Author: Marlys Millhiser
Publisher: Minotaur Books
ISBN: 1429978031
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Millhiser outdoes herself yet again in The Rampant Reaper, an effort sure to leave both loyal fans and new readers clamoring for the next installment of this unconventional and engaging series. Literary agent and amateur sleuth Charlie Greene accompanies her mother to her great-great-aunt's funeral under great duress--after all, Charlie herself is adopted, and this part of her extended family has never made her feel that welcome. Plus, it's in Myrtle, Iowa, about as far from Charlie's life as a high-powered California literary agent as one can get. But she agrees to go. How bad could it be? In one of Marlys Millhiser's quirky, offbeat mysteries, that is the world's biggest rhetorical question. Because someone may be offing the elderly in this midwestern town's only nursing home, and it falls to Charlie, the suspicious outsider, to put all the pieces together. Dealing with a passel of wacky relatives she's never met and a vicious killer as well won't be the easiest task she's ever been handed, but Charlie's good humor and recently acquired investigative experience should be more than enough to finish the job. That is, if she can escape the prying eyes that seem to peer at her from every corner of the tiny town.
Publisher: Minotaur Books
ISBN: 1429978031
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Millhiser outdoes herself yet again in The Rampant Reaper, an effort sure to leave both loyal fans and new readers clamoring for the next installment of this unconventional and engaging series. Literary agent and amateur sleuth Charlie Greene accompanies her mother to her great-great-aunt's funeral under great duress--after all, Charlie herself is adopted, and this part of her extended family has never made her feel that welcome. Plus, it's in Myrtle, Iowa, about as far from Charlie's life as a high-powered California literary agent as one can get. But she agrees to go. How bad could it be? In one of Marlys Millhiser's quirky, offbeat mysteries, that is the world's biggest rhetorical question. Because someone may be offing the elderly in this midwestern town's only nursing home, and it falls to Charlie, the suspicious outsider, to put all the pieces together. Dealing with a passel of wacky relatives she's never met and a vicious killer as well won't be the easiest task she's ever been handed, but Charlie's good humor and recently acquired investigative experience should be more than enough to finish the job. That is, if she can escape the prying eyes that seem to peer at her from every corner of the tiny town.
Nightmare Country
Author: Marlys Millhiser
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1504010205
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 317
Book Description
Thousands of miles apart, a man and a woman dream of each other, unaware that they’re bound together by an otherworldly evil that will threaten everyone they love Tamara Whelan and her sullen adolescent daughter have just arrived in the isolated Wyoming mining town of Iron Mountain. The financially strapped single mother has accepted a teaching job, replacing someone who died under suspicious circumstances. As Tamara struggles to adjust to life among superstitious neighbors in an unforgiving place, she’s plagued by horrifying night visions of a strange man and an unfamiliar beach that glistens in the moonlight. Unbeknownst to her, the man, Thad Alexander, is real. He lives in Belize and has been dreaming about her as well. These two strangers find their lives increasingly intertwined as mysterious and menacing extraterrestrial technology allows them to read each other’s minds and become intimately familiar with each other’s worlds. Amid natural disasters and inexplicable vanishings, Thad and Tamara find themselves at the tumultuous center of a titanic battle between love and destruction, waged by forces beyond their control. A novel that expands the boundaries of the paranormal, Nightmare Country tackles weighty issues of time, love, loss, and the impermanence of life.
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1504010205
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 317
Book Description
Thousands of miles apart, a man and a woman dream of each other, unaware that they’re bound together by an otherworldly evil that will threaten everyone they love Tamara Whelan and her sullen adolescent daughter have just arrived in the isolated Wyoming mining town of Iron Mountain. The financially strapped single mother has accepted a teaching job, replacing someone who died under suspicious circumstances. As Tamara struggles to adjust to life among superstitious neighbors in an unforgiving place, she’s plagued by horrifying night visions of a strange man and an unfamiliar beach that glistens in the moonlight. Unbeknownst to her, the man, Thad Alexander, is real. He lives in Belize and has been dreaming about her as well. These two strangers find their lives increasingly intertwined as mysterious and menacing extraterrestrial technology allows them to read each other’s minds and become intimately familiar with each other’s worlds. Amid natural disasters and inexplicable vanishings, Thad and Tamara find themselves at the tumultuous center of a titanic battle between love and destruction, waged by forces beyond their control. A novel that expands the boundaries of the paranormal, Nightmare Country tackles weighty issues of time, love, loss, and the impermanence of life.
The Great Greene Heist
Author: Varian Johnson
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 0545525543
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 215
Book Description
Saving the school -- one con at a time. "A political heist page-turner set in middle school? Is that even possible? Varian Johnson shows us how it's done." - Gordon Korman, author of SWINDLE "Do yourself a favor and start reading immediately." - Rebecca Stead, author of WHEN YOU REACH ME Jackson Greene swears he's given up scheming. Then school bully Keith Sinclair announces he's running for Student Council president, against Jackson's former friend Gaby de la Cruz. Gaby wants Jackson to stay out of it -- but he knows Keith has "connections" to the principal, which could win him the presidency no matter the vote count. So Jackson assembles a crack team: Hashemi Larijani, tech genius. Victor Cho, bankroll. Megan Feldman, science goddess. Charlie de la Cruz, reporter. Together they devise a plan that will take down Keith, win Gaby's respect, and make sure the election is done right. If they can pull it off, it will be remembered as the school's greatest con ever -- one worthy of the name THE GREAT GREENE HEIST.
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 0545525543
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 215
Book Description
Saving the school -- one con at a time. "A political heist page-turner set in middle school? Is that even possible? Varian Johnson shows us how it's done." - Gordon Korman, author of SWINDLE "Do yourself a favor and start reading immediately." - Rebecca Stead, author of WHEN YOU REACH ME Jackson Greene swears he's given up scheming. Then school bully Keith Sinclair announces he's running for Student Council president, against Jackson's former friend Gaby de la Cruz. Gaby wants Jackson to stay out of it -- but he knows Keith has "connections" to the principal, which could win him the presidency no matter the vote count. So Jackson assembles a crack team: Hashemi Larijani, tech genius. Victor Cho, bankroll. Megan Feldman, science goddess. Charlie de la Cruz, reporter. Together they devise a plan that will take down Keith, win Gaby's respect, and make sure the election is done right. If they can pull it off, it will be remembered as the school's greatest con ever -- one worthy of the name THE GREAT GREENE HEIST.
Michael's Wife
Author: Marlys Millhiser
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 150401023X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
In this modern twist on a Gothic classic, a woman awakens in the desert with no memory of who she is or how she got there A screeching hawk circling ominously above rouses a woman from sleep. She finds herself immersed in total darkness, with no idea of who she is or what she’s doing here. Only two things tether her to reality: the intriguing Westerner who gives her a ride into town, and a piece of paper tucked into the waistband of her trousers, containing the handwritten words Captain Michael Devereaux, Luke A.F.B. Soon she discovers that her name is Laurel, and Michael Deveraux is the husband she abandoned two years ago, along with their newborn son. She has no memory of these missing twenty-four months, or of how she ended up in the Arizona desert. She also has no memory of Michael—now a bitter, volatile stranger—or of giving birth to their son. But she makes her way to the remote Devereaux estate, where she begins to believe that she is who everyone says she is. As Laurel struggles to put together the missing pieces of her life, it gradually becomes apparent that the shadowy terrors of her past pose a very real danger to her present—one that threatens her life and the life of her child.
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 150401023X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
In this modern twist on a Gothic classic, a woman awakens in the desert with no memory of who she is or how she got there A screeching hawk circling ominously above rouses a woman from sleep. She finds herself immersed in total darkness, with no idea of who she is or what she’s doing here. Only two things tether her to reality: the intriguing Westerner who gives her a ride into town, and a piece of paper tucked into the waistband of her trousers, containing the handwritten words Captain Michael Devereaux, Luke A.F.B. Soon she discovers that her name is Laurel, and Michael Deveraux is the husband she abandoned two years ago, along with their newborn son. She has no memory of these missing twenty-four months, or of how she ended up in the Arizona desert. She also has no memory of Michael—now a bitter, volatile stranger—or of giving birth to their son. But she makes her way to the remote Devereaux estate, where she begins to believe that she is who everyone says she is. As Laurel struggles to put together the missing pieces of her life, it gradually becomes apparent that the shadowy terrors of her past pose a very real danger to her present—one that threatens her life and the life of her child.
Willing Hostage
Author: Marlys Millhiser
Publisher: Carroll & Graf Pub
ISBN: 9780786701100
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Just when her life seems complicated by an unsatisfactory career and personal tragedy, model Leah Harper is taken hostage by a mysterious stranger and begins a dangerous trek across the Colorado Rockies
Publisher: Carroll & Graf Pub
ISBN: 9780786701100
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Just when her life seems complicated by an unsatisfactory career and personal tragedy, model Leah Harper is taken hostage by a mysterious stranger and begins a dangerous trek across the Colorado Rockies
Murder at Moot Point
Author: Marlys Millhiser
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1504010248
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 245
Book Description
Hollywood agent Charlie Greene gets tangled up in a world of holistic intervention, out-of-body experiences, and murder in this thrilling paranormal mystery Hollywood literary agent and single mother Charlie Greene heads out of town to fog-bound Moot Point, Oregon, to meet a client, reclusive New Age author Jack Monroe. But Charlie barely has time to sample a veggie meal and bond with Jack’s bronze Buddha statue before she runs into trouble: Local gossip Georgette Glick and her Schwinn bicycle have just been found under the wheels of Charlie’s Toyota—which makes Charlie the prime suspect in Georgette’s murder. Luckily, Moot Point sheriff Bennett discovers that Glick was shot, not run over, so Charlie is in the clear. But there are still too many unanswered questions. Who delivered the fatal bullet to Glick’s head? And why was the seventy-eight-year-old riding her bike on a night with zero visibility in the first place? Alongside Sheriff Bennett, whose interest in Charlie seems decidedly more than professional, she resolves to find the murderer among the town’s eccentrics, who include the suspiciously nongrieving widower, a holistic veterinarian, the victim’s terrified neighbor, and a Byronic artist whose painting of a century-old local shipwreck matches the one in Charlie’s recent nightmares. With the killer still at large, Charlie may be tempting an out-of-body experience of her own in this quirky and suspenseful novel.
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1504010248
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 245
Book Description
Hollywood agent Charlie Greene gets tangled up in a world of holistic intervention, out-of-body experiences, and murder in this thrilling paranormal mystery Hollywood literary agent and single mother Charlie Greene heads out of town to fog-bound Moot Point, Oregon, to meet a client, reclusive New Age author Jack Monroe. But Charlie barely has time to sample a veggie meal and bond with Jack’s bronze Buddha statue before she runs into trouble: Local gossip Georgette Glick and her Schwinn bicycle have just been found under the wheels of Charlie’s Toyota—which makes Charlie the prime suspect in Georgette’s murder. Luckily, Moot Point sheriff Bennett discovers that Glick was shot, not run over, so Charlie is in the clear. But there are still too many unanswered questions. Who delivered the fatal bullet to Glick’s head? And why was the seventy-eight-year-old riding her bike on a night with zero visibility in the first place? Alongside Sheriff Bennett, whose interest in Charlie seems decidedly more than professional, she resolves to find the murderer among the town’s eccentrics, who include the suspiciously nongrieving widower, a holistic veterinarian, the victim’s terrified neighbor, and a Byronic artist whose painting of a century-old local shipwreck matches the one in Charlie’s recent nightmares. With the killer still at large, Charlie may be tempting an out-of-body experience of her own in this quirky and suspenseful novel.
Statue of Limitations
Author: Kate Collins
Publisher: Kensington Cozies
ISBN: 1496724348
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 339
Book Description
In this delightful new series by the New York Times bestselling author of the Flower Shop Mysteries, Athena Spencer comes back home to work with her crazy big Greek family at their garden center. But she never expected a return to her roots would mean protecting her family from murder . . . After her divorce, Athena has returned to coastal Michigan to work in her family’s garden center and raise her son, while also caring for a mischievous wild raccoon and fending off her family’s annoying talent for nagging. Working alone at the garden center one night, Athena is startled by a handsome stranger who claims to be the rightful owner of a valuable statue her grandfather purchased at a recent estate sale. But she has even bigger problems on her plate. The powerful Talbot family from whom her pappoús bought the statue is threatening to raze the shops on Greene Street’s “Little Greece” to make way for a condo. The recent death of the family’s patriarch already seemed suspicious, but now it’s clear that a murderer is in their midst. Athena will have to live up to her warrior goddess namesake to protect her family from a killer and save their community from ruin . . . “Kate Collins delivers an entertaining, amusing, and deliciously suspenseful mystery.” —Cleo Coyle, New York Times bestselling author
Publisher: Kensington Cozies
ISBN: 1496724348
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 339
Book Description
In this delightful new series by the New York Times bestselling author of the Flower Shop Mysteries, Athena Spencer comes back home to work with her crazy big Greek family at their garden center. But she never expected a return to her roots would mean protecting her family from murder . . . After her divorce, Athena has returned to coastal Michigan to work in her family’s garden center and raise her son, while also caring for a mischievous wild raccoon and fending off her family’s annoying talent for nagging. Working alone at the garden center one night, Athena is startled by a handsome stranger who claims to be the rightful owner of a valuable statue her grandfather purchased at a recent estate sale. But she has even bigger problems on her plate. The powerful Talbot family from whom her pappoús bought the statue is threatening to raze the shops on Greene Street’s “Little Greece” to make way for a condo. The recent death of the family’s patriarch already seemed suspicious, but now it’s clear that a murderer is in their midst. Athena will have to live up to her warrior goddess namesake to protect her family from a killer and save their community from ruin . . . “Kate Collins delivers an entertaining, amusing, and deliciously suspenseful mystery.” —Cleo Coyle, New York Times bestselling author
Twenty-One Stories
Author: Graham Greene
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1504054067
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 213
Book Description
These wide-ranging tales of menace, tragedy, and comedy offer ample proof that “in the short story, as well as the novel, Graham Greene is the master” (The New York Times). Written between 1929 and 1954, here are twenty-one stories by a “master storyteller” (Newsweek). Whatever the crime, whatever the pursuit, whatever the mood—from the tragic and horrifying to the ribald and bittersweet, Graham Greene is “the ultimate chronicler of twentieth-century man’s consciousness and anxiety” (William Golding). In “The End of the Party,” a game of hide-and-seek takes a terrifying turn in the dark. In “The Innocent,” a romantic gets a rude awakening when he finds a hidden keepsake from a childhood crush. A husband’s sexual indiscretion is revealed in a most public and embarrassing way in “The Blue Film.” A rebellious teen’s flight from her petit bourgeois life includes a bad boy, a gun, and a plan in “A Drive in the Country.” In “A Little Place off the Edgware Road,” a suicidal man’s encounter with a stranger in a grubby cinema seals his fate. A young boy is ushered into a dark world when he discovers the secrets adults hide in “The Basement Room.” And in “When Greek Meets Greek,” a clever con between two scoundrels carries an unexpected sting. In these and more than a dozen other stories, Greene confronts his usual themes of betrayal and vengeance, love and hate, faith and doubt, guilt and grief, and pity and pursuit.
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1504054067
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 213
Book Description
These wide-ranging tales of menace, tragedy, and comedy offer ample proof that “in the short story, as well as the novel, Graham Greene is the master” (The New York Times). Written between 1929 and 1954, here are twenty-one stories by a “master storyteller” (Newsweek). Whatever the crime, whatever the pursuit, whatever the mood—from the tragic and horrifying to the ribald and bittersweet, Graham Greene is “the ultimate chronicler of twentieth-century man’s consciousness and anxiety” (William Golding). In “The End of the Party,” a game of hide-and-seek takes a terrifying turn in the dark. In “The Innocent,” a romantic gets a rude awakening when he finds a hidden keepsake from a childhood crush. A husband’s sexual indiscretion is revealed in a most public and embarrassing way in “The Blue Film.” A rebellious teen’s flight from her petit bourgeois life includes a bad boy, a gun, and a plan in “A Drive in the Country.” In “A Little Place off the Edgware Road,” a suicidal man’s encounter with a stranger in a grubby cinema seals his fate. A young boy is ushered into a dark world when he discovers the secrets adults hide in “The Basement Room.” And in “When Greek Meets Greek,” a clever con between two scoundrels carries an unexpected sting. In these and more than a dozen other stories, Greene confronts his usual themes of betrayal and vengeance, love and hate, faith and doubt, guilt and grief, and pity and pursuit.