A Santa Stabbing

A Santa Stabbing
Author: Geri Krotow
Publisher: Tule Publishing
Total Pages: 193
Release: 2022-11-02
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1957748656

She didn't realize she'd traded "Naval Aviator" for "amateur sleuth"… Retired Navy pilot Angel Warren’s new life awaits in Stonebridge, Pennsylvania, where she’s opening Shop ‘Round the World, her travel-inspired gift and novelty shop. A newly empty nester and longtime widow, she’s looking forward to leaving her flying career and its many life-or-death decisions behind and reconnecting with family and friends. Right now, Angel’s biggest challenge is getting the shop ready for its grand opening just weeks before Christmas. Until she finds a dead body in the shop murdered with one of her specialty Santa figurines. Even worse, Angel’s fingerprints are on the “weapon” and she’s a prime suspect. It doesn’t help that the deceased is an old friend who’s collected a long list of enemies as a cut-throat real estate agent. And then there’s the Stonebridge Chief of Police—and Angel’s high school BFF—who brings her in for questioning. If Angel wants to clear her name before the Christmas rush, she’s going to need to do some sleuthing on her own—and with the help of her stressed out parrot, Ralph.

Anatomy of Injustice

Anatomy of Injustice
Author: Raymond Bonner
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 338
Release: 2013-01-08
Genre: True Crime
ISBN: 0307948544

From Pulitzer Prize winner Raymond Bonner, the gripping story of a grievously mishandled murder case that put a twenty-three-year-old man on death row. In January 1982, an elderly white widow was found brutally murdered in the small town of Greenwood, South Carolina. Police immediately arrested Edward Lee Elmore, a semiliterate, mentally retarded black man with no previous felony record. His only connection to the victim was having cleaned her gutters and windows, but barely ninety days after the victim's body was found, he was tried, convicted, and sentenced to death. Elmore had been on death row for eleven years when a young attorney named Diana Holt first learned of his case. With the exemplary moral commitment and tenacious investigation that have distinguished his reporting career, Bonner follows Holt's battle to save Elmore's life and shows us how his case is a textbook example of what can go wrong in the American justice system. Moving, enraging, suspenseful, and enlightening, Anatomy of Injustice is a vital contribution to our nation's ongoing, increasingly important debate about inequality and the death penalty.

Who Killed Santa?

Who Killed Santa?
Author: Neil Haven
Publisher: Original Works Publishing
Total Pages: 115
Release: 2013
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 1934962848

Synopsis: In this hilarious and irreverent send-up, Santa is hosting his annual holiday party attended by the usual holiday favorties: Frosty, Tiny Tim, The Little Drummer Boy, and Rudolph, who all have a bone to pick with Santa. After the introduction of the sexy new Little Drummer Girl, tempers flare, and Santa ends up with a candy cane through the heart. No one will confess, no one can leave, and Christmas is in jeopardy. As the tension builds, a couple of incompetent detectives enter the scene, and all the dirty secrets of these iconic holiday characters are revealed. Eventually, with the help of the audience, the murderer is convicted and sentenced. * The show features parodies of holiday songs and four different endings. Cast Size: 3 Males, 2 Females, 1 Either

Stab 5

Stab 5
Author: Joshua Patrick Dudley
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2019-10-30
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1794712070

Stab 5 finds the cast of the amateur fan film Stab 4: Fresh Blood under attack, again playing on the reality-within-a-reality of the Stab films and taking it to the next level. After two cast members of Stab 4 are brutally murdered, the town of Manchester, New Hampshire is on edge as rumors of a Ghostface mask wearing psycho quickly make their way around town. Joshua Dudley, writer and director of Stab 4, and his producer, Rachel Arnold, are busily working on their production of Stab 5 when they receive the news. Deciding the film's production is worth more to them than the safety of their cast, production rolls on. Who would want to kill the cast of Stab 4? Is the killer following the same rules we all know and love? But the most important question on everyone's mind: who's next?

Santa Claws

Santa Claws
Author: Gabriela Harding
Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd
Total Pages: 440
Release: 2016-03-10
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1785891154

Will Christmas ever be the same again? Gabriela Harding’s debut children’s novel, Santa Claws, is set in the London suburbs and the wilderness of the High Arctic. It is a Christmas adventure narrated by Honey, who presents readers with festive terrors and an evil Santa. It’s Christmas Eve and Honey is home alone. Well, alone if she doesn’t count the boring company of her little brother, Teddy, and her grandmother, who is a little too fond of sherry. She doesn’t think Christmas can get any worse. But when Honey and Teddy are brutally kidnapped from their own home, this festive season soon becomes the worst Christmas ever... After waking up in a freezing land of horrors, they are forced into hard labour in a factory of nasty toys amidst evil dwarves and the evil Santa Claws. Honey and her brother fear for their lives in a world of child-eating dogs, murderous chefs and secret passages dripping with all things icky. Worse still, Santa Claws turns out to be a cannibal with a very special dish in mind for the New Year’s celebrations: his own brother, the real Santa Claus. Can Honey and Teddy save Santa from the cooking pot and free themselves from a life of whip-cracking dwarves and slave labour? Santa Claws is aimed at children between 11-14 who enjoy mystery and fantasy fiction with traces of dark humour.

The Cenci

The Cenci
Author: Marie-Henri Beyle Stendhal
Publisher: Read Books Ltd
Total Pages: 84
Release: 2016-01-18
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 147337992X

A wonderful biography of a fictional modern don Juan.

Murder by the Broads

Murder by the Broads
Author: Anthony Tamiozzo
Publisher: Open Road Media
Total Pages: 369
Release: 2018-07-30
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1913682404

Murder rocks an English seaside town, and a police detective must put the pieces together in this tense crime thriller. DS Adam Burnt has been called to a crime scene where a young man lies stabbed to death amid signs of a struggle—and not far away, another young man has been fatally hit by a truck. Using the corpse’s thumb to unlock his cellphone helps to ID the victim, but plenty of questions remain. The first suspicion is gang activity. But Burnt is also troubled by other suspicions—specifically, that his wife may be having an affair. As the clues unfold, DS Burnt begins a game of cat and mouse. What links the case to a doctor and a psychiatric hospital? Trying to juggle his personal life and the job, Burnt must navigate the seaside town of Great Yarmouth and the surrounding areas to catch a killer . . .

Images of a Murder: A Cold Case Murder Mystery Based on a True Story

Images of a Murder: A Cold Case Murder Mystery Based on a True Story
Author: John W. Hanson
Publisher: PublishAmerica
Total Pages: 215
Release: 2009-06-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1627725512

The year is 1955, and the small peaceful coastal community of Carmel-by-the-Sea would be shocked by the vicious murder and mutilation of one of its citizens, former silent screen actress Carla Miles. Local law enforcement would work vigorously to solve the crime that had all the indications the killer was a psychopathic sexual sadist. During the investigation, several good suspects were questioned but the police could never link them to the crime. The case would eventually die as a famous unsolved murder. Thirty-five years would pass before an eyewitness to the murder would come forward to contact Detective Colt Hannon. This would start a cold case murder investigation that would impact the detective’s career for the rest of his life. The Carla Miles murder case is based on a true homicide investigation that took over thirty-five years before its final conclusion.

Microsoft Encarta College Dictionary

Microsoft Encarta College Dictionary
Author: Anne H. Soukhanov
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 1740
Release: 2001-07-13
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 9780312280871

Easy-to-use "quick definition" system ; The most new words-more than 32,000 entries and definitions ; Preeminent coverage of high-technology words,