Author : A. K. Benedict
Publisher : Orion
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 27,25 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781409103929
Stephen Killigan has been cold since the day he came to Cambridge as a senior lecturer. Something about the seven hundred years of history staining the stones of the university has given him a chill he can't shake. When he stumbles across the body of a missing beauty queen, he thinks he's found the reason. But when the police go to retrieve the body and find no trace, Killigan has found a problem - and a killer - that is the very opposite of reason.
Author : Beatrice Fairbanks Cayzer
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 42,7 MB
Release : 2011-11-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1462043151
Murder for Beauty describes the horrific murders by a serial killer planning to take over the cosmetics and perfume industry by killing off top executives of rival companies. Sleuth Happy Harrow, a Kentucky-born woman jockey married to a British race horse trainer based in Epsom, has a supernatural clairvoyant talent to find killers. Happy is drawn into these serial killings by a neighbor who is a Queen in the cosmetics and perfume business heading the WOW!Me Empire. Happy takes the case to save the Queens under threat. Travelling to Italy, Monaco, and Turkey, she stalks the killer in France.
Author : Denise Swanson
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 12,68 MB
Release : 2002-04-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1101119012
When school psychologist Skye Denison investigates the death of a popular teenager who was cast as Sleeping Beauty in the school play, she uncovers some shocking revelations about prominent Scumble River citizens. And even ever-optimistic Skye knows that in this case, finding the killer won't end this tale happily-end-after...
Author : Alex Josey
Publisher : Marshall Cavendish International Asia Pte Ltd
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 37,24 MB
Release : 2020-06-15
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9814893552
A beautiful, sensuous and rich widow is brutally murdered in the most questionable of circumstances. The last person to see her alive is her brother-in-law and lover—a man later found guilty on circumstantial evidence. Not until the condemned man appealed did a witness come forward and admit that he had given false evidence. How did she die? Who was the other mysterious lover to whom she constantly penned saucy letters? Why did the witness lie?
Author : Guillermo Martinez
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 32,87 MB
Release : 2009-07-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0143115804
A chilling new tale of literary intrigue from the author of the international sensation The Oxford Murders When Guillermo Martínez 's novel The Oxford Murders was first published in the United States, The New York Times Book Review called it "a scholarly whodunit [for] anyone who loves a good mystery." Now Martínez returns with a worthy followup: the mesmerizing The Book of Murder. A young writer finds himself unexpectedly tangled up in the story of Luciana, his former assistant and Kloster, bestselling author and rival. What he discovers about the deaths surrounding Luciana will make him question everything he had always believed-and taken for granted-about chance and calculation, cause and effect.
Author : Stephanie Damore
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 22,99 MB
Release : 2017-05-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781548103439
Ziva Diaz has been really looking forward to this week. Her best friend is getting married and her beauty line is launching. Life is good and she's on top of the world - what could go wrong? Sabotage, a feud, and a murder, it turns out. Stumbling over a dead body on the beach trips Ziva up in more ways than one, particularly when one of her beauty clients is charged with the murder. She doesn't believe for a minute that Mrs. J. would murder anyone; too bad she's the only one. As Ziva sets out to solve the mystery, someone else sets out to ruin both her reputation and her friend's wedding. Can Ziva solve the case and serve up some just desserts? Or will her investigation fall flatter than a wedding soufflé?
Author : Libby Klein
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 20,39 MB
Release : 2021-06-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1496733134
Gluten-free baker Poppy McAllister is about to see the ugly side of beauty expos... Easter weekend on the Jersey Shore is hopping. Poppy's Bed and Breakfast is busier than ever, but she needs to leave things in the hopefully capable hands of Aunt Ginny--and paws of Figaro the black smoke Persian. She's selling her paleo muffins and keto cookies at the Health and Beauty Expo in Cape May's Convention Hall. Normally sharing a booth with the love of her life would be a treat, but she's recently discovered secrets that throw her new romance into chaos. But more secrets are about to be exposed at the expo. In his keynote address, prominent cosmetic surgeon Dr. Lance Rubin reveals his breakthrough anti-aging technology. Unfortunately, someone has one-upped him with a truly foolproof anti-aging formula: murder. With the plastic surgeon dead under his own UV mask, and bedlam reigning in the hall and back at the B&B, Poppy needs to follow a twisted trail marked by glowing footprints to unmask a killer...
Author : Gloria V. Jones
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 107 pages
File Size : 16,89 MB
Release : 2017-05-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1543421326
Part one of his plan was now complete, and he was ready for part two. He rolled his special marijuana joint larger than normal. He wanted the full effect of the mixture to take effect quickly. The easier his victim was to handle, the better. There would be no chance of interruptions. He would be able to do whatever he wanted for as long as he wanted. Total gratification was what he was after this time.
Author : Reva Spiro Luxenberg
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 36,94 MB
Release : 2017-03-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1524588784
There are four suspects in the beauty school murder in Florida. Sadie Weinstein, the quirky amateur sleuth who owns a mom-and-pop grocery in Brooklyn with her husband, Nathan, is the primary suspect. Sadie prevails upon her reluctant spouse to help her entrap the murderer while they are on a much-needed vacation. She also contacts Rhajmah, her psychic, pickle-eating customer and friend to help her unravel the enigma and keep her out of jail. She needs all her skill, energy, ingenuity, eccentricity, and Poirot-like grey cells to unravel the mystery. The Beauty School Murder is an expansion of an earlier version of the cozy mystery story, Curl Up and Die.
Author : Sara Louise Knox
Publisher :
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 44,51 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN :
An analysis of American murder narratives across a number of genres including novels, sociological texts and true crime accounts.
