Author: Diego
Publisher: Austin Macauley Publishers
ISBN: 103586035X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Follow Detective Jayne Baker’s career from her first big case: a marital murder-suicide that her keen skills expose as something far more sinister. Witness Jayne gradually shed the stricter tenets of her Catholic upbringing, redirecting those core values toward the pursuit of justice instead. See her determination in action as she clambers halfway out a window for a clear shot at criminals. As the years pass and the gruesomeness mounts, Jayne embraces harsher means to take down heinous villains. Yet despite this moral slide, justice remains her North Star. When the country is upended by her final case, Jayne risks all to serve the greater good. Through every twist and turn Runs a common thread: Jayne’s strong moral compass layered with complexity. Across these stories emerges a deeper understanding of this dedicated detective’s intriguing character. Good or bad, she is driven by her principles.
Detective Jayne Baker
Author: Diego
Publisher: Austin Macauley Publishers
ISBN: 103586035X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Follow Detective Jayne Baker’s career from her first big case: a marital murder-suicide that her keen skills expose as something far more sinister. Witness Jayne gradually shed the stricter tenets of her Catholic upbringing, redirecting those core values toward the pursuit of justice instead. See her determination in action as she clambers halfway out a window for a clear shot at criminals. As the years pass and the gruesomeness mounts, Jayne embraces harsher means to take down heinous villains. Yet despite this moral slide, justice remains her North Star. When the country is upended by her final case, Jayne risks all to serve the greater good. Through every twist and turn Runs a common thread: Jayne’s strong moral compass layered with complexity. Across these stories emerges a deeper understanding of this dedicated detective’s intriguing character. Good or bad, she is driven by her principles.
Publisher: Austin Macauley Publishers
ISBN: 103586035X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Follow Detective Jayne Baker’s career from her first big case: a marital murder-suicide that her keen skills expose as something far more sinister. Witness Jayne gradually shed the stricter tenets of her Catholic upbringing, redirecting those core values toward the pursuit of justice instead. See her determination in action as she clambers halfway out a window for a clear shot at criminals. As the years pass and the gruesomeness mounts, Jayne embraces harsher means to take down heinous villains. Yet despite this moral slide, justice remains her North Star. When the country is upended by her final case, Jayne risks all to serve the greater good. Through every twist and turn Runs a common thread: Jayne’s strong moral compass layered with complexity. Across these stories emerges a deeper understanding of this dedicated detective’s intriguing character. Good or bad, she is driven by her principles.
Detective
Author: Pip Baker
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780333272138
Category : Readers
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780333272138
Category : Readers
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
DILUTED INNOCENCE
Author: Angus Hyslop
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1329258398
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
A seventeen year old school girl, Jade Langley, is infatuated with her twenty six year old art teacher, Tyron Williams, and she congers up a daring plan to seduce him. Finally, she is successful and they begin a dangerous relationship. However, things start to get out of control after her ex boyfriend is murdered down at the beach. Tyron's girlfriend also finds love letters to him from Jade. This sends her into a mad frenzy and she vandalizes Tyron's house. From there things start to go very wrong for the couple. Circumstances and events beyond their control lead them into making wrong decisions that they both end up regretting.
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1329258398
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
A seventeen year old school girl, Jade Langley, is infatuated with her twenty six year old art teacher, Tyron Williams, and she congers up a daring plan to seduce him. Finally, she is successful and they begin a dangerous relationship. However, things start to get out of control after her ex boyfriend is murdered down at the beach. Tyron's girlfriend also finds love letters to him from Jade. This sends her into a mad frenzy and she vandalizes Tyron's house. From there things start to go very wrong for the couple. Circumstances and events beyond their control lead them into making wrong decisions that they both end up regretting.
Body on Baker Street
Author: Vicki Delany
Publisher: Crooked Lane Books
ISBN: 1683313003
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
The amateur sleuths at the Sherlock Holmes Bookshop must call upon the powers of deduction in order to rid Baker Street of a ruthless killer Gemma Doyle and Jayne Wilson are busy managing the Sherlock Holmes Bookshop and Emporium on Baker Street and adjoining Mrs. Hudson’s Tea Room in anticipation of the store’s upcoming book signing with the illustrious Renalta Van Markoff, author of the controversial Hudson and Holmes mystery series. But during the author Q&A session, dedicated Sherlockian Donald Morris verbally attacks Renalta and her series for disgracing Sherlock’s legacy, only to be publicly humiliated when the author triumphantly lashes back and gains the upper hand. That is until Renalta collapses on the table—dead. Donald insists he didn’t do it and pleads to his friends to clear his name. Fortunately, Gemma and Jayne have no shortage of suspects between author’s bullied personal assistant, her frustrated publicist, the hapless publisher, a handsome rare book dealer, an obsessively rabid fan, and a world of other Sherlock enthusiasts with strong objections to Renalta’s depiction of the Great Detective. It’s up to the shrewd sleuthing duo to eliminate the impossible and deduce the truth before the West London police arrest an innocent man in Body on Baker Street, the second Sherlock Homes Bookshop mystery perfect for fans of Miranda James and Kate Carlisle.
Publisher: Crooked Lane Books
ISBN: 1683313003
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
The amateur sleuths at the Sherlock Holmes Bookshop must call upon the powers of deduction in order to rid Baker Street of a ruthless killer Gemma Doyle and Jayne Wilson are busy managing the Sherlock Holmes Bookshop and Emporium on Baker Street and adjoining Mrs. Hudson’s Tea Room in anticipation of the store’s upcoming book signing with the illustrious Renalta Van Markoff, author of the controversial Hudson and Holmes mystery series. But during the author Q&A session, dedicated Sherlockian Donald Morris verbally attacks Renalta and her series for disgracing Sherlock’s legacy, only to be publicly humiliated when the author triumphantly lashes back and gains the upper hand. That is until Renalta collapses on the table—dead. Donald insists he didn’t do it and pleads to his friends to clear his name. Fortunately, Gemma and Jayne have no shortage of suspects between author’s bullied personal assistant, her frustrated publicist, the hapless publisher, a handsome rare book dealer, an obsessively rabid fan, and a world of other Sherlock enthusiasts with strong objections to Renalta’s depiction of the Great Detective. It’s up to the shrewd sleuthing duo to eliminate the impossible and deduce the truth before the West London police arrest an innocent man in Body on Baker Street, the second Sherlock Homes Bookshop mystery perfect for fans of Miranda James and Kate Carlisle.
The Billboard
James Ellroy
Author: Jim Mancall
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786433078
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
This comprehensive guide to James Ellroy's work and life is arranged as an encyclopedia covering his entire career, from his first private-eye novel, Brown's Requiem, to his 2012 e-book Shakedown. It introduces new readers to his characters and plots, and provides experienced Ellroy fans and scholars with detailed analyses of the themes, motifs and stylistic innovations of his books. The work is a tour of Ellroy's dark underworld, highlighting the controversies and unsettling questions that characterize his work, as well as assessing Ellroy's place in the annals of American literature.
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786433078
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
This comprehensive guide to James Ellroy's work and life is arranged as an encyclopedia covering his entire career, from his first private-eye novel, Brown's Requiem, to his 2012 e-book Shakedown. It introduces new readers to his characters and plots, and provides experienced Ellroy fans and scholars with detailed analyses of the themes, motifs and stylistic innovations of his books. The work is a tour of Ellroy's dark underworld, highlighting the controversies and unsettling questions that characterize his work, as well as assessing Ellroy's place in the annals of American literature.
Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing and Horror Cinema
Author: Mark A. Miller
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 147663842X
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 552
Book Description
From their first pairing in Hamlet (1948) to House of the Long Shadows (1983), British film stars Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing forged perhaps the most successful collaboration in horror film history. In its revised and expanded second edition, this volume examines their 22 movie team-ups, with critical commentary, complete cast and credits, production information, details on cinematography and make-up, exhibition history and box-office figures. A wealth of background about Hammer, Amicus and other production companies is provided, along with more than 100 illustrations. Lee and Cushing describe particulars of their partnership in original interviews. Exclusive interviews with Robert Bloch, Hazel Court and nearly fifty other actors, directors and others who worked on the Lee-Cushing films are included.
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 147663842X
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 552
Book Description
From their first pairing in Hamlet (1948) to House of the Long Shadows (1983), British film stars Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing forged perhaps the most successful collaboration in horror film history. In its revised and expanded second edition, this volume examines their 22 movie team-ups, with critical commentary, complete cast and credits, production information, details on cinematography and make-up, exhibition history and box-office figures. A wealth of background about Hammer, Amicus and other production companies is provided, along with more than 100 illustrations. Lee and Cushing describe particulars of their partnership in original interviews. Exclusive interviews with Robert Bloch, Hazel Court and nearly fifty other actors, directors and others who worked on the Lee-Cushing films are included.
TV Crime Drama
Author: Sue Turnbull
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 0748678182
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
This book provides an historical analysis of the TV crime series as a genre, paying close attention not only to the nature of TV dramas themselves, but also to the context of production and reception.
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 0748678182
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
This book provides an historical analysis of the TV crime series as a genre, paying close attention not only to the nature of TV dramas themselves, but also to the context of production and reception.
Baker v. Barach, 297 MICH 219 (1941)
Private Eyes
Author: Robert Allen Baker
Publisher: Popular Press
ISBN: 9780879723309
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
Private Eyes is the complete map to what Raymond Bhandler called "the mean streets," the exciting world of the fictional private eye. It is intended to entertain current PI fans and to make new ones.
Publisher: Popular Press
ISBN: 9780879723309
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
Private Eyes is the complete map to what Raymond Bhandler called "the mean streets," the exciting world of the fictional private eye. It is intended to entertain current PI fans and to make new ones.