Download E-books Centaur of the Crime: Book One of Fantasy & Forensics (Volume 1) PDF

By Michael Angel

C.S. Lewis meets CSI...when Amazon Bestselling writer Michael Angel provides a new myth sequence: 'Fantasy & Forensics'.

She's the LAPD's most sensible corpse-kicker. Dayna Chrissie, LAPD's top Crime Scene Analyst, enjoys not anything greater than discovering the single clue which can remedy a criminal offense. The day she unearths a golden medallion on a physique that is been dumped at a downtown development web site, she does not imagine it is that phenomenal. till that medallion transports her to the mystical international of Andeluvia.

She needs to discover a killer in time to prevent a war. Dayna discovers that she's been summoned to unravel the homicide of the realm's king, ahead of warfare breaks out among Andeluvia and the Centaur country. difficulty is, not anyone turns out to need peace while battle deals possibilities for riches and glory - so Dayna finally ends up with a group of cast-offs: a centaur wizard with father concerns, a brash griffin warrior, and the world's unluckiest magical deer.

And the path leads the place she least expects it...back domestic! while the path of proof brings Dayna and her new buddies again from Andeluvia to la, she needs to use all of her forensic wisdom with a view to resolve the case. the cost of failure? A warfare that might kill thousands and devastate Andeluvia.

Hope she works most sensible stressed.

Included with this tale are preview chapters of Michael Angel's urban/contemporary fable 'The Detective & The Unicorn', additionally on hand on Amazon.

Reviews of 'Fantasy & Forensics':

"This smart, funny myth springs to lifestyles from web page one..."
-- Publisher's Weekly

"Fast-paced motion and sly wit make Angel's writing impossible to resist fun." -- Rebecca Moesta, NYT Bestselling co-author of younger Jedi Knights

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Download E-books 4 Bodies and a Funeral (A Body Movers Novel) PDF

By Stephanie Bond

One cadaver, cadaver, 3 cadaver, four...

Ever had a type of days?
A shock stopover at from her father--who's at the run from the law--has given Carlotta Wren much to consider. should still she subscribe to her former fiancé, Peter, in proving her father is blameless? If she does, are her body-moving days over?

And then...

A shut friend's habit starts off to spin out of control...

The law enforcement officials ensue the warmth on her father's case...

Carlotta discovers that her brother Wesley's playing accounts are kid's play in comparison to his new vice...

And the Charmed Killer, a serial assassin, unleashes his wrath on Atlanta.
Now the our bodies are piling up--and Carlotta's father is the #1 suspect!

Look for the entire books in Stephanie Bond's physique Movers series:


PARTY CRASHERS 
(prequel)
BODY MOVERS
2 our bodies FOR the cost of 1
3 males AND A BODY
4 our bodies AND A FUNERAL
5 our bodies TO DIE FOR
6 KILLER BODIES
6 0.5 physique PARTS (novella)
7 BRIDES FOR 7 BODIES

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Download E-books Wedding Day Murder (Lucy Stone Mysteries, No. 8) PDF

By Leslie Meier

Already juggling 4 children' nerve-racking schedules, a rambunctious puppy, an attention-craving husband, and a full-time reporter task, Lucy Stone cannot very likely squeeze in one other accountability. . .or can she? whilst Sue Finch asks for aid making plans her daughter Sidra's marriage ceremony to net millionaire Ron Davitz, unswerving good friend Lucy willingly dives into the area of white lace, roses, and chair leases. What can be extra ideal than a yard summer time marriage ceremony within the Stones' newly equipped gazebo?

Yet while the groom's physique is located floating beside his yacht, Lucy is not confident it was once an unintended drowning. From the picturesque waterfront to toney Smith Heights street, Tinker's Cove is awash with suspects. Now, clean from making plans Sidra's marriage ceremony, Lucy unearths herself considering her personal funeral as she launches the harrowing pursuit of a killer who will do whatever to maintain from being unveiled. . .

"Leslie Meier writes with sparkle and warmth." --Chicago Sun-Times

"The captivating surroundings and likeable forged make for relaxing reading." --Publishers Weekly

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Download E-books Murder in the Museum of Man (Norman de Ratour Mystery, Book 1) PDF

By Alfred Alcorn

Dean Cranston Fessing, dispatched from Wainscott college to enquire the funds of the neighboring Museum of guy, has been murdered. not just that, yet his grisly continues to be undergo the unmistakable mark of coaching as haute food. Norman de Ratour, museum recording secretary and not going sleuth, units out to discover a effervescent cauldron of clues during this hilarious satire of educational existence and modern social concerns, a stew of homicide, cannibalism, political posturing. and excessive camp.

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Download E-books The Bellini Card (Investigator Yashim) PDF

By Jason Goodwin

Detective. Polyglot. Chef. Eunuch.

Investigator Yashim Returns during this Edgar® Award-Winning Series

Istanbul, 1840: the younger sultan Abdülmecid believes that Gentile Bellini's vanished masterpiece, a portrait of Mehmet the Conqueror, could have resurfaced in Venice. yet it isn't Yashim, our eunuch detective, who takes a boat around the Mediterranean. as an alternative, it truly is his Polish ambassador buddy, Palewski, disguised as an American artwork dealer.

What starts as an easy inquiry quickly becomes a murderous video game of deception and suspense, performed out one of the light palazzi and slow canals of the decaying urban. purchasers, forgers, and aristocrats develop into fatally concerned, because the look for the Bellini portrait uncovers a possibility to the steadiness of the Ottoman throne, and the peace of Europe.

The Paperback version comprises an writer Interview, Bonus Inspector Yashim Recipe, and an Excerpt from the subsequent Inspector Yashim secret, An Evil Eye

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Download E-books Bangkok 8: A Royal Thai Detective Novel (1) PDF

By John Burdett

A mystery with perspective to spare, Bangkok 8 is a pretty, razor-edged, frequently darkly hilarious novel set in a single of the world’s such a lot unique cities.

Witnessed via a throng of gaping spectators, a charismatic Marine sergeant is murdered less than a Bangkok bridge within a bolted-shut Mercedes Benz. one of the witnesses are the one law enforcement officials within the urban no longer at the take, yet inside moments one is murdered and his accomplice, Sonchai Jitpleecheep—a religious Buddhist and the son of a Thai bar lady and a long-gone Vietnam struggle G.I.—is hell-bent on wreaking revenge. On a vigilante undertaking to trap his partner’s assassin, Sonchai is begrudgingly paired with a stunning FBI agent named Jones and captures her center within the strategy. In a urban fueled via illicit medications and countless corruption, prostitution and invaluable paintings, Sonchai’s quest for vengeance takes him right into a international even more sinister than he can have ever imagined.

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Download E-books Sins of the Blood (Sister Frevisse Medieval Mysteries) PDF

By Margaret Frazer

excellent brief tales FROM THE AWARD-WINNING PEN OF MARGARET FRAZER

Sins of the Blood collects 3 vintage stories of Dame Frevisse: "The Witch's Tale", "The Midwife's Tale", and "The Stone-Worker's Tale".

This Kindle particular additionally comprises "A Guided journey of St. Frideswide" - an intimate peek into the fantastic, medieval global of the multiplty Edgar-nominated secret series.

"Exquisitely written... a wonderfully researched medieval secret series!" - Publisher's Weekly

THE WITCH'S TALE

Witchcraft has come to the peaceable village close to St. Frideswide, and its foul contact is amazing down these closest to the church. Can Dame Frevisse thwart the servants of the satan sooner than the hellfire of tension sears the souls of the trustworthy? Or is there extra to this magic than meets the eye?

THE MIDWIFE'S TALE

"Sisters! come again! Please do not depart us yet!"

Cisily Fisher has died in childbirth and now the village of Priors Byfield is held in a grip of worry. Can Dame Frevisse locate the foundation of distress at the back of a murderer's sin ahead of the following deadly blow falls? Or will the village be misplaced in a hue and cry of terror? The gentling contact of the midwife might calm the tortured soul... or supply beginning to a sour death.

THE STONE-WORKER'S TALE

When Frevisse is given bishop-pardoned go away to go to her cousin Alice at Ewelme, she is enchanted by means of the paintings of the sculptor Simon Maye. yet Simon is enchanted via the wonderful thing about Elyn, considered one of Alice's girls in ready. Clandestine conferences have given strategy to sinful lust, and now the 2 fans have disappeared. The servants whisper that the enthusiasts have eloped, and secretly pine for the fervour to do a similar. girl Alice believes her sculptor has been stolen away through jealous opponents and rages on the injustice. yet Frevisse on my own suspects there is a few darker fact at the back of the nighttime vanishing...

A GUIDED travel OF ST. FRIDESWIDE

And so we flip to St. Frideswide's in rural northern Oxfordshire. Imaginary, sure, yet absolutely learned as a standard position very similar to many others universal throughout England in either rural and concrete settings by way of the 1400s. A filthy rich widow based it within the 1300s, observed to its starting, and endowed it with lands and different source of revenue to maintain it - sadly, now not so totally as she meant to do sooner than she died...

PRAISE FOR THE SISTER FREVISSE MEDIEVAL secret SERIES

"Dame Frevisse, the pious and perceptive nun supplies concentration to this sober series... [Frazer] indicates a meticulous aspect that speaks of reliable scholarship and a sympathetic imagination." - New York instances ebook Review

"Once you start to learn this sequence, you'll want to stick to your new associates to the top in their own story." - Cross aspect booklet Reviews

"Everything approximately it bespeaks caliber and care... Frazer attracts us right into a medieval village in England with a narrative of lust, greed, and murder." - St. Paul Pioneer Press

"Sister Frevisse is a stalwart, attractive sleuth." - Mostly Murder

"Truly surprising scenes and mental twists." - Mystery Loves Company
"Frazer makes use of her wide wisdom of the interval to create an strange plot ... attractive characters and crisp writing." - Los Angeles Times

Twice nominated for the Minnesota booklet Award.
Twice nominated for the Edgar Award.
A Romantic occasions best decide.

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Download E-books The Queen's Man: A John Shakespeare Mystery (John Shakespeare Mystery, Book 6) PDF

By Rory Clements

For enthusiasts of C J Sansom and S J Parris, THE QUEEN'S guy introduces the Queen's undercover agent John Shakespeare within the prequel to Rory Clements' acclaimed and bestselling sequence of Tudor secret agent thrillers. Clements, winner of the Ellis Peters ancient Fiction Award, 'does for Elizabeth's reign what C.J. Sansom does for Henry VIII's' Sunday Times

England is a Judas nest of conspiracy

It is 1582, and the clash among Protestant and Catholic threatens to rip the rustic in . whereas Queen Elizabeth I holds the reins of strength, there are these whose loyalty lies along with her imprisoned cousin, Mary Queen of Scots.

On his first significant project for Sir Francis Walsingham, the younger John Shakespeare is ordered to find a conspiracy to unfastened the Stuart queen from Sheffield fortress. All too quickly, he realises that the tentacles of the plot achieve deep into his local Warwickshire and threaten his personal family and friends. His responsibility lies with Elizabeth - yet how some distance will he visit guard these he loves?

About the Author:
Rory Clements is the bestselling writer of the toilet Shakespeare sequence of Tudor secret agent thrillers. His six acclaimed novels, Martyr, Revenger, Prince, Traitor, The Heretics and The Queen's guy, keep on with Elizabeth's Intelligencer, John Shakespeare, brother to the playwright William, during the darkish underworld of Tudor England as he unmasks the traitors and conspirators who plot opposed to the Queen. Rory Clements received the Crime Writers' organization Ellis Peters ancient Fiction Award in 2010 for Revenger, and has been shortlisted for CWA Awards for Martyr, Prince and The Heretics. A television sequence is presently in improvement. discover extra at www.roryclements.co.uk

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Download E-books The Glister PDF

By John Burnside

Acclaimed writer John Burnside grants a profound, page-turning novel approximately innocence, evil, morality, and the darkish corners of the human psyche.
 
Mysterious health problems impact the population of the post-industrial village of Innertown, and a pervasive experience of malaise hangs far and wide. So whilst teenage boys disappear into the poisoned woods surrounding the village’s deserted chemical plant, nobody notices, or in the event that they do, they don’t say a specific thing. now not even the town’s purely cop, whose leads have lengthy due to the fact that died. to at least one boy, notwithstanding, the chemical plant is gorgeous, and it's there he'll enact a plan to alter the destiny of the kids of Innertown. to take action he'll need to confront the blinding truth that burns within the chemical plant’s cavernous heart.

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Download E-books Brownies, Bodies and Bad Guys (Lexy Baker Cozy Mystery Series Book 5) PDF

By Leighann Dobbs

Whilst a retired mobster finally ends up murdered and one in every of her grandmother’s most sensible buddies is the final one to determine him alive, Lexy Baker can kiss her plans to spend a monotonous summer season dreaming approximately her upcoming marriage ceremony to detective Jack Perillo good-bye.

Lexy has the same opinion to assist her grandmother's octogenarian girls' Detective membership clear up the homicide. yet she does not expect sneaking into crime scenes, interviewing kooky kinfolk, and following thugs round town.

But whereas Lexy is busy juggling her bakery, her grandmother, and the hunky F.B.I. agent despatched to enquire the homicide, Jack appears spending loads of time along with his shapely, blonde ex-girlfriend who all of sudden arrives in town.

Will Lexy manage to trap the killers and observe the genuine mystery approximately Jack's ex sooner than it’s too overdue?

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