Author: James Cowell
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781549787973
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
The attractive Miss Martina Jayne Locke did not show up for work. Found in her house was a murdered woman. While searching for the killer, Detective Burton found that the redheaded secretary had had a secret life.George Irish was well-liked by all. While some of his closest friends knew he had an addiction to sex, there was one lover he told no one about.Ezra Smith was a part-time photographer. To become famous, he was looking for the perfect model: a woman with a beautiful smile and a gorgeous body. She also had to be good in bed. During his search, he preyed upon women that were not only financially strapped, but starved for romance as well.Set in South Centralia, a much overlooked locale on the outskirts of Columbus, Ohio, this novel delves into madness, illicit desires, and numerous affairs.Before MTV, HIV, the Internet, and cell phones, there was 1979. Herpes was in the news, and Vietnam was over. It was a time for smoking marijuana and waiting for Skylab to crash to the earth--which it did--one week after the Fourth of July fireworks on July 11.
The Solar Eclipse Murder
Author: James Cowell
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781549787973
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
The attractive Miss Martina Jayne Locke did not show up for work. Found in her house was a murdered woman. While searching for the killer, Detective Burton found that the redheaded secretary had had a secret life.George Irish was well-liked by all. While some of his closest friends knew he had an addiction to sex, there was one lover he told no one about.Ezra Smith was a part-time photographer. To become famous, he was looking for the perfect model: a woman with a beautiful smile and a gorgeous body. She also had to be good in bed. During his search, he preyed upon women that were not only financially strapped, but starved for romance as well.Set in South Centralia, a much overlooked locale on the outskirts of Columbus, Ohio, this novel delves into madness, illicit desires, and numerous affairs.Before MTV, HIV, the Internet, and cell phones, there was 1979. Herpes was in the news, and Vietnam was over. It was a time for smoking marijuana and waiting for Skylab to crash to the earth--which it did--one week after the Fourth of July fireworks on July 11.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781549787973
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
The attractive Miss Martina Jayne Locke did not show up for work. Found in her house was a murdered woman. While searching for the killer, Detective Burton found that the redheaded secretary had had a secret life.George Irish was well-liked by all. While some of his closest friends knew he had an addiction to sex, there was one lover he told no one about.Ezra Smith was a part-time photographer. To become famous, he was looking for the perfect model: a woman with a beautiful smile and a gorgeous body. She also had to be good in bed. During his search, he preyed upon women that were not only financially strapped, but starved for romance as well.Set in South Centralia, a much overlooked locale on the outskirts of Columbus, Ohio, this novel delves into madness, illicit desires, and numerous affairs.Before MTV, HIV, the Internet, and cell phones, there was 1979. Herpes was in the news, and Vietnam was over. It was a time for smoking marijuana and waiting for Skylab to crash to the earth--which it did--one week after the Fourth of July fireworks on July 11.
After the Eclipse
Author: Sarah Perry
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0544302656
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 371
Book Description
A fierce memoir of a mother's murder, a daughter's coming-of-age in the wake of immense loss, and her mission to know the woman who gave her life
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0544302656
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 371
Book Description
A fierce memoir of a mother's murder, a daughter's coming-of-age in the wake of immense loss, and her mission to know the woman who gave her life
The Solar Eclipse
Author: Samantha Sudol
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
It is 1925, a year after James Anderson was cast out from his position with the Conway Police in New Hampshire. Starting a new life in New York, he gets a call that makes him return home to face the unsolved mystery and demons he tried to leave behind. The first night aboard the private train, The Blue Star, the young matriarch of the Cross family was found passionately stabbed and murdered with the number 71200 carved into her arm. This mark, as well as notes laced in Greek mythology left behind for Anderson to follow, causes him to investigate alongside the controversial journalist, Martin O'Reilly. Soon he finds that not everything is as it seems as societal expectations, greed, and pride become the undercurrents of the once esteemed Cross family.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
It is 1925, a year after James Anderson was cast out from his position with the Conway Police in New Hampshire. Starting a new life in New York, he gets a call that makes him return home to face the unsolved mystery and demons he tried to leave behind. The first night aboard the private train, The Blue Star, the young matriarch of the Cross family was found passionately stabbed and murdered with the number 71200 carved into her arm. This mark, as well as notes laced in Greek mythology left behind for Anderson to follow, causes him to investigate alongside the controversial journalist, Martin O'Reilly. Soon he finds that not everything is as it seems as societal expectations, greed, and pride become the undercurrents of the once esteemed Cross family.
Solar Eclipse
Author: John Farris
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780812509571
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
Bruised and bleeding stuntwoman Shay Waco and her eleven-year-old daughter have just survived a car crash and a sixty-foot drop through a nest of conifers. They enter a lone house for help and instead find a family sitting around a dinner table--with bullets in their heads. Sheriff Tobin Bonner, an ex-DEA agent with past he'd like to forget, investigated. His son has a bullet lodged in his brain, a gift from drug dealers when he was two. Tobin delves into the case, only to receive photos of his boy, alone and vulnerable on his daily outings. Tobin and Shay must now rely on each other to solve the murder in sunny Arizona, and if they slip up, it will be their children who pay the price.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780812509571
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
Bruised and bleeding stuntwoman Shay Waco and her eleven-year-old daughter have just survived a car crash and a sixty-foot drop through a nest of conifers. They enter a lone house for help and instead find a family sitting around a dinner table--with bullets in their heads. Sheriff Tobin Bonner, an ex-DEA agent with past he'd like to forget, investigated. His son has a bullet lodged in his brain, a gift from drug dealers when he was two. Tobin delves into the case, only to receive photos of his boy, alone and vulnerable on his daily outings. Tobin and Shay must now rely on each other to solve the murder in sunny Arizona, and if they slip up, it will be their children who pay the price.
Eclipse of the Assassins
Author: Russell H. Bartley
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Pres
ISBN: 0299306402
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 549
Book Description
Eclipse of the Assassins investigates the sensational 1984 murder of Mexico's most influential newspaper columnist, Manuel BuendÃa, and how that crime reveals the lethal hand of the U.S. government in Mexico and Central America during the final decades of the twentieth century.
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Pres
ISBN: 0299306402
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 549
Book Description
Eclipse of the Assassins investigates the sensational 1984 murder of Mexico's most influential newspaper columnist, Manuel BuendÃa, and how that crime reveals the lethal hand of the U.S. government in Mexico and Central America during the final decades of the twentieth century.
Death in the Stars
Author: Frances Brody
Publisher: Minotaur Books
ISBN: 1250154790
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 399
Book Description
Suspecting the true nature of a theater actress' invitation to a viewing party at a school chapel during an eclipse in 1927 Yorkshire, Kate Shackleton investigates the suspicious death of one of the actress' co-stars, the third to have died recently under mysterious circumstances. --Publisher.
Publisher: Minotaur Books
ISBN: 1250154790
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 399
Book Description
Suspecting the true nature of a theater actress' invitation to a viewing party at a school chapel during an eclipse in 1927 Yorkshire, Kate Shackleton investigates the suspicious death of one of the actress' co-stars, the third to have died recently under mysterious circumstances. --Publisher.
After the Eclipse
Author: Fran Dorricott
Publisher: Titan Books (US, CA)
ISBN: 1785657895
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
A stunning psychological thriller about loss, sisterhood, and the evil that men do, for readers of Ruth Ware and S.K. Tremeyne Two solar eclipses. Two missing girls. Sixteen years ago a little girl was abducted during the darkness of a solar eclipse while her older sister Cassie was supposed to be watching her. She was never seen again. When a local girl goes missing just before the next big eclipse, Cassie - who has returned to her home town to care for her ailing grandmother - suspects the disappearance is connected to her sister: that whoever took Olive is still out there. But she needs to find a way to prove it, and time is running out.
Publisher: Titan Books (US, CA)
ISBN: 1785657895
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
A stunning psychological thriller about loss, sisterhood, and the evil that men do, for readers of Ruth Ware and S.K. Tremeyne Two solar eclipses. Two missing girls. Sixteen years ago a little girl was abducted during the darkness of a solar eclipse while her older sister Cassie was supposed to be watching her. She was never seen again. When a local girl goes missing just before the next big eclipse, Cassie - who has returned to her home town to care for her ailing grandmother - suspects the disappearance is connected to her sister: that whoever took Olive is still out there. But she needs to find a way to prove it, and time is running out.
Being in the Shadow
Author: Kate Russo
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781999707804
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
Through personal stories of six ordinary people, this narrative non-fiction book describes what it is like to experience a total eclipse for the first time. After these stories, you will understand why you MUST try to experience this eerie and awe-inspiring event yourself. Essential reading, written by an eclipse-chasing psychologist.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781999707804
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
Through personal stories of six ordinary people, this narrative non-fiction book describes what it is like to experience a total eclipse for the first time. After these stories, you will understand why you MUST try to experience this eerie and awe-inspiring event yourself. Essential reading, written by an eclipse-chasing psychologist.
Die Softly
Author: Christopher Pike
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0671690566
Category : Detective and mystery stories
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
Herb just wanted to photograph the cheerleaders in the school showers, but then he realizes he may also have photographed a murder.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0671690566
Category : Detective and mystery stories
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
Herb just wanted to photograph the cheerleaders in the school showers, but then he realizes he may also have photographed a murder.
Dolores Claiborne
Author: Stephen King
Publisher: Turtleback Books
ISBN: 9780785727095
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Accused of murdering the old woman whose house she cleaned, Dolores Claiborne is forced to explain a few things from her past, like the circumstances surrounding her husband's death years before
Publisher: Turtleback Books
ISBN: 9780785727095
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Accused of murdering the old woman whose house she cleaned, Dolores Claiborne is forced to explain a few things from her past, like the circumstances surrounding her husband's death years before