Author: Marlene Ritchie Publisher: FriesenPress ISBN: 1460223764 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 255
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Life for Lisa Spencer has been a little boring recently. As an auctioneer in Toronto, she's had her share of interesting clients and expensive and sometimes even exotic lots to auction, but as of late, nothing seems to pique her interest. Take her regular client, Dr. Alistair Huntington, interested in having her appraise his collection of Grenfell mats and art-glass. The appraisal seems routine until she finds Huntington dead in his bedroom and pieces of his collection missing. Lisa suddenly finds herself a suspect in Huntington's murder investigation and in pursuit of the real killer. From Cabbagetown to Chinatown, Lisa's own investigation will take her all over Toronto, but the last place she expected to find a connection was with her own family! Life for Lisa Spencer had been a little boring recently...
Author: Marlene Ritchie Publisher: FriesenPress ISBN: 1460265580 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 233
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After auctioneer Lisa Spencer's adventures in "Cabbagetown" (Murder in Cabbagetown), she is ready for things to get back to normal. Unfortunately, that also means that business is back to being slow, and the auction scene just isn't what it used to be. With a sale just around the corner, Lisa is still looking for a headliner of the show to attract the highest bidders, and she may just have solved that problem. She's found a painting by a renowned Austrian artist, Gustav Klimt, and she's on her way to meet the owner in a small town just east of Toronto. She couldn't possibly know that waiting for her is another adventure, this time involving some shady characters, a big wig research association, and even a painter with ties to a WWIIPOW camp. And, as if THAT wasn't complicated enough, Lisa soon finds herself entangled in yet another murder. At the end of it all, will Lisa finally get her hands on the painting to auction? Business might be slow, but for Lisa Spencer, everything else is anything but...
Author: Marlene Ritchie Publisher: FriesenPress ISBN: 1460237536 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 212
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It was a simple plan. Steal her own tuition money and head out to discover the world for herself, away from her parents. It was just too bad that 20-year-old Claire Winchester had a conscience, and her guilt wouldn’t let her go through with it. Plan B, attend nursing school, like her parents wanted, and prove to them how big a mistake THAT was. She’d be miserable, fail to meet scholastic expectations, and she’d be free before she knew it. That’s why nobody was more surprised than Claire herself when she discovered she actually enjoyed her classmates and patients. Who’d have thought nursing school would be nothing like she expected, where she seemed to learn just as much, if not more, from her patients as from her instructors. She might even find a man in her life. Claire was taking a crash course in human nature peppered with humor, honesty and thoughtfulness, and whether she planned to or not, she was going to see it through to the end. Well that was the expectation anyways.....
Author: Rick Blechta Publisher: Dundurn ISBN: 1459730844 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 649
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This special two-book bundle collects the adventures in crime of opera star Marta Hendriks. In The Fallen One, Marta is onstage at the Metropolitan Opera in New York when she learns of her beloved husband’s death in a house fire. Fast-forward two years and countless therapy sessions, Marta is ready to resume her career. In a stroke of luck, she’s hired at the last moment to sing Violetta for the Paris Opera. She manages to keep her emotions under tight control and triumphs in the opening-night performance. During one of her rare days off, Marta spots someone: her husband. Marta fears she’s losing her mind – or did she actually see him? In Roses for a Diva, when Marta finds a bouquet of red roses in her dressing room after a performance, she’s surprised as well as charmed. The card only says "Roses for a Diva." And as miles and performances rack up in her globe-hopping career, the bouquets continue to mysteriously appear. But then strange things start happening in her private life. She’s certain someone has been in her apartment, breaking her most treasured possession. After calling in private investigator Shannon O’Brien, Marta is shocked to discover her entire life has been invaded. Includes The Fallen One Roses for a Diva
Author: Lynn Abercrombie Publisher: Pinnacle Books ISBN: 9780786017287 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 390
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When his former partner is kidnapped, retired Atlanta police detective Hank Gooch returns to work to help save Sgt. MeChelle Deakes, while the abducted Deakes tries to meet her kidnapper's atypical demands.
Author: Jimmy Hurd Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 145163997X Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 258
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Carney Light has no idea that Corey Foster is married—or that he’s using her to smuggle illegal methamphetamines. Jimmy Hurd's latest novel brings back the cast of characters from his racy first novel, Turnaround, in this fast-paced story of drug-smuggling, running from the law, and murder. Jerzy Rabideaux, Carney Light, Charlie Puckett, and Robinson Giles return in Jimmy Hurd's novel of suspense that covers ground from Georgia to Texas, with spine-tingling stops in Alabama along the way. Ice Dancer takes readers on a wild race to prove Carney Light's innocence in a drug charge conviction. When Carney begins to tell detectives about her current love interest, Corey Foster, they discover that Corey isn't who he seems. In fact, his real name is Nathan, and he runs a lucrative internet drug trade using innocent people like Carney to distribute methamphetamines. Will Carney be able to escape the sinister world in which she's entangled? Or will it be too late to mend her wild ways? Filled with secrets, lies, attempted murders, and revenge, Ice Dancer brings new meaning to the phrase "fast-paced." With an ending that will leave readers—and some characters— breathless, Ice Dancer is an impressive addition to Jimmy Hurd's gripping novels.
Author: Colleen Barnett Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc. ISBN: 1615950109 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 1090
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Like other fictional characters, female sleuths may live in the past or the future. They may represent current times with some level of reality or shape their settings to suit an agenda. There are audiences for both realism and escapism in the mystery novel. It is interesting, however, to compare the fictional world of the mystery sleuth with the world in which readers live. Of course, mystery readers do not share one simplistic world. They live in urban, suburban, and rural areas, as do the female heroines in the books they read. They may choose a book because it has a familiar background or because it takes them to places they long to visit. Readers may be rich or poor; young or old; conservative or liberal. So are the heroines. What incredible choices there are today in mystery series! This three-volume encyclopedia of women characters in the mystery novel is like a gigantic menu. Like a menu, the descriptions of the items that are provided are subjective. Volume 3 of Mystery Women as currently updated adds an additional 42 sleuths to the 500 plus who were covered in the initial Volume 3. These are more recently discovered sleuths who were introduced during the period from January 1, 1990 to December 31, 1999. This more than doubles the number of sleuths introduced in the 1980s (298 of whom were covered in Volume 2) and easily exceeded the 347 series (and some outstanding individuals) described in Volume 1, which covered a 130-year period from 1860-1979. It also includes updates on those individuals covered in the first edition; changes in status, short reviews of books published since the first edition through December 31, 2008.
Author: Rachel McMillan Publisher: Harvest House Publishers ISBN: 0736966455 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 234
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Uncommon Heroes...or Unsuspecting Victims? Toronto, 1914. Merinda Herringford and Jem Watts never could have imagined their crime-solving skills would set them up as emblems of female empowerment in a city preparing to enter World War I at the behest of Great Britain. Yet, despite their popularity, the lady detectives can't avoid the unrest infiltrating every level of society. A war measure adopted by Mayor Montague puts a target on Jem and her Italian husband, Ray DeLuca. Meanwhile, deep-rooted corruption in the police force causes their friend, Constable Jasper Forth, to wonder if his thirst for upholding the law would be best quenched elsewhere. In spite of these distractions, Merinda, Ray, and Jasper join with other honorable and courageous city leaders in the Cartier Club, which exists to provide newly arrived residents of Toronto with a seamless integration in the city. When a club member turns up dead, bearing a slanderous white feather, will Merinda, Jem, and those they hold dear be able to solve the high-stakes mystery before they're all picked off, one by one?
Author: Tamara Cherry Publisher: ECW Press ISBN: 1778521509 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 356
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A groundbreaking and thorough examination of the trauma caused by the media covering crimes, both to victims and journalists, from a respected journalist and victim advocate In The Trauma Beat, an eye-opening combination of investigative journalism and memoir, former big-city crime reporter Tamara Cherry calls on her award-winning skills as a journalist to examine the impact of the media on trauma survivors, and the impact of trauma on members of the media. As Tamara documents the experiences of those who were forced to suffer on the public stage, she is confronted by everything she got wrong on the crime beat. Covering murders and traffic fatalities to sexual violence and mass violence, Cherry exposes a system set up to fail trauma survivors and journalists. Why do some families endure a swell of unwanted attention after the murder of a loved one, while others suffer from a lack of attention? What is it like to have a microphone shoved in your face seconds after escaping the latest mass shooting? What is the lasting impact on the reporter holding that microphone? The Trauma Beat explores these issues with the raw, reflective detail of a journalist moving from ignorance to understanding and shame to healing.
Author: Marlene Ritchie
Author: Marlene Ritchie
Author: Marlene Ritchie
Author: Jeffrey Miller
Author: Rick Blechta
Author: Lynn Abercrombie
Author: Jimmy Hurd
Author: Colleen Barnett
Author: Rachel McMillan
Author: Tamara Cherry