Author : M. C. Beaton
Publisher : Constable
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,6 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Authors
ISBN : 9781849010740
A dozen budding authors show up at the village hall for famous writer John Heppel's writing classes. But, once Heppel has mocked their writing and butchered their dreams, every single one of them wants to kill the arrogant man. Then someone does.
Author : Drew Gilpin Faust
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 40,14 MB
Release : 2009-01-06
Category : History
ISBN : 0375703837
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • An "extraordinary ... profoundly moving" history (The New York Times Book Review) of the American Civil War that reveals the ways that death on such a scale changed not only individual lives but the life of the nation. An estiated 750,000 soldiers lost their lives in the American Civil War. An equivalent proportion of today's population would be seven and a half million. In This Republic of Suffering, Drew Gilpin Faust describes how the survivors managed on a practical level and how a deeply religious culture struggled to reconcile the unprecedented carnage with its belief in a benevolent God. Throughout, the voices of soldiers and their families, of statesmen, generals, preachers, poets, surgeons, nurses, northerners and southerners come together to give us a vivid understanding of the Civil War's most fundamental and widely shared reality. With a new introduction by the author, and a new foreword by Mike Mullen, 17th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Author : M. C. Beaton
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 22,28 MB
Release : 2009-02-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0446544094
From the New York Times bestselling author of the Agatha Raisin television series, travel to the Scotland Highlands with this classic Hamish Macbeth cozy mystery. Returning from a vacation, Constable Hamish Macbeth senses a dark cloud of evil hanging over his Scottish village of Lochdubh. Newcomer Catriona Beldame has cast a bewitching spell over the town, causing the local men to visit her cottage at all hours of the night and infuriating the women. Hamish suspects that she is a great danger to the town. Before he can prove that Catriona is truly wicked, she is brutally murdered-and Hamish becomes the prime suspect in the case. The constable will call upon the assistance of a pretty female forensic expert as he attempts to clear his name . . . and perhaps even find some romance. But when more violence breaks out, loyal Hamish must use all his detective skills to restore peace to his beloved village.
Author : Sheri Cobb South
Publisher : Five Star Trade
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 39,58 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781594147111
Eager to escape London following the scandal of her husband's death, Lady fieldhurst accepts an invitation to spend the summer in Yorkshire at the home of Sir General & Lady Hollingshead. She soon discovers that country life is not what she imagined.
Author : Laura Levine
Publisher : Kensington Books
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 19,9 MB
Release : 2013-09-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0758238509
Reprinted Edition "I'm crazy about Laura Levine's mystery series. Her books are so outrageously funny." --Joanne Fluke When Jaine Austen's beloved cat Prozac unwittingly scares to death a parakeet belonging to the neighborhood's resident curmudgeon, Jaine finds herself knee-deep in toil and trouble. The cantankerous Hollywood has-been once played Cryptessa Muldoon, television's fourth most famous monster mom. Now she spends her days making enemies with everyone on the block. So when the ornery D-lister is murdered with her own Do Not Trespass sign on Halloween night, the neighborhood fills with relief--and possible culprits. With a killer on the loose, Jaine hardly has time to fall under the spell of her yummy new neighbor, Peter. As the prime suspect, she summons her sleuthing skills to clear her name and soon discovers that everyone has a few skeletons in their closets. . . "Levine's latest finds her at her witty and wacky best." --Kirkus Reviews "Cozy fans will enjoy seeing how Jaine wiggles out of this one." --Publishers Weekly
Author : Charles Finch
Publisher : Minotaur Books
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 30,57 MB
Release : 2007-06-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1429955333
Equal parts Sherlock Holmes and P.G. Wodehouse, Charles Finch's debut mystery A Beautiful Blue Death introduces a wonderfully appealing gentleman detective in Victorian London who investigates crime as a diversion from his life of leisure. Charles Lenox, Victorian gentleman and armchair explorer, likes nothing more than to relax in his private study with a cup of tea, a roaring fire and a good book. But when his lifelong friend Lady Jane asks for his help, Lenox cannot resist the chance to unravel a mystery. Prudence Smith, one of Jane's former servants, is dead of an apparent suicide. But Lenox suspects something far more sinister: murder, by a rare and deadly poison. The grand house where the girl worked is full of suspects, and though Prue had dabbled with the hearts of more than a few men, Lenox is baffled by the motive for the girl's death. When another body turns up during the London season's most fashionable ball, Lenox must untangle a web of loyalties and animosities. Was it jealousy that killed Prudence Smith? Or was it something else entirely? And can Lenox find the answer before the killer strikes again—this time, disturbingly close to home?
Author : Rachel Kushner
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 43,36 MB
Release : 2021-04-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1982157690
A career-spanning anthology of essays on politics and culture by the best-selling author of The Flamethrowers includes entries discussing a Palestinian refugee camp, an illegal Baja Peninsula motorcycle race, and the 1970s Fiat factory wildcat strikes.
Author : Elizabeth Scott
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 31,47 MB
Release : 2009-09-08
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1416960600
"This is Alice. She was taken by Ray five years ago. She thought she knew how her story would end. She was wrong."-- [P.4] Cover.
Author : ACF Bookens
Publisher : Andrea Cumbo-Floyd
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 44,82 MB
Release : 2021-02-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1952430135
Salvaging from historic buildings isn’t supposed to require reporting a murder. When salvage expert and historian Paisley Sutton crawls into an abandoned store with a house attached, she certainly isn’t expecting to find a body on site. But soon, her discovery sends Paisley on an expedition through history that links this murder to the one that led the previous owners to abandon the building in the first place. And someone doesn’t want her to salvage this story from the wreckage. Can Paisley preserve herself and her young son while also uncovering the stories that matter most?
Author : Elizabeth Peters
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 12,50 MB
Release : 2010-03-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0446573221
Bestselling author Peters brings back 19th-century Egyptologist Amelia Peabody and her entourage in a delicious caper that digs up mystery in the shadow of the pyramids.
