A Murder too Soon

A Murder too Soon
Author: Michael Jecks
Publisher: Severn House Publishers Ltd
Total Pages: 234
Release: 2017-09-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1780108982

Jack Blackjack is ordered to eliminate a spy in Princess Elizabeth’s household in this engaging Tudor mystery. June, 1554. Former cutpurse and now professional assassin Jack Blackjack has deep misgivings about his latest assignment. He has been despatched to the Palace of Woodstock, where Queen Mary’s half-sister Princess Elizabeth is being kept under close guard. Jack’s employer has reason to believe that a spy has been installed within the princess’s household, and Jack has been ordered to kill her. Jack has no choice but to agree. But he arrives at Woodstock to discover that a murder has already been committed. As he sets out to prove his innocence by uncovering the real killer, Jack finds the palace to be a place steeped in misery and deceit; a hotbed of illicit love affairs, seething resentments, clashing egos and bitter jealousies. But who among Woodstock’s residents is hiding a deadly secret – and will Jack survive long enough to find out?

Too Soon, Too Late

Too Soon, Too Late
Author: Ralph Kelly
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
Total Pages: 319
Release: 2019-05-06
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1760636800

On a winter's night in July 2012, Kathy and Ralph Kelly received a phone call no parent should ever have to answer. It was the Emergency department of a Sydney hospital, telling them that their eldest son Thomas had been in an altercation and that they were to come at once. Thomas had been coward punched by a total stranger within two minutes of getting out of a taxi in Kings Cross, on his way to a private 18th birthday party of a friend. Two days after that first phone call Kathy and Ralph were told that their son had suffered catastrophic head injuries resulting in brain death. They were advised that there was no other option but to switch off his life support. He was 18 years old. In the aftermath of their son's death, Kathy and Ralph became the public face of the campaign to end the drunken violence that plagued Sydney's major nightspots. Along with Premiers Barry O'Farrell and Mike Baird they helped institute the lock out laws that have been a major factor in the reduction of alcohol related deaths and injuries in Darling Harbour, Kings Cross and Sydney's CBD. They were also instrumental in creating Take Kare Safe Spaces ('Kare' with a 'K' after Thomas's initials) for young people in key nightspots, which has now registered over 52,000 interventions since December 2014, what the Kellys call 'sliding door moments', the difference between a young person's life continuing on as normal or degenerating into something terrible. And they were one of the driving forces behind the introduction of tougher sentencing for 'coward-punch' deaths. But their campaigning created a huge toll on their family. Online intimidation, death threats and false news about the mishandling of donations came from those with a stake in the clubs and businesses who were the lock out laws financial losers. When Stuart Kelly, Thomas's younger brother, went for his first night at University of Sydney's St Paul's College, Ralph and Kathy believe the bullying he experienced because of the family's profile was so traumatising he left university for good the next day, and wouldn't tell his parents exactly what he'd been made to endure. Five months later, on July 25th 2016, Stuart took his own life. This book is the Kellys' story. How they coped with one unimaginable tragedy, only to find that it had sowed the seed for another. How in the face of these terrible losses they have found the spirit and the drive to campaign first for a safer environment for all our children, and for a greater understanding of young people's self-harm and its drivers.

McStays, Taken Too Soon

McStays, Taken Too Soon
Author: Patrick McStay
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2016-11-01
Genre:
ISBN: 9781539867890

The last day anyone heard the voices of Joseph, Summer, Gianni or Joey Jr. McStay was on 2/4/10. The family's two beloved dogs were left abandoned in the backyard, food left out to rot, and a growing and thriving home-based business had orders pouring in unanswered. Joseph's father, Patrick, and other family members insisted their loved ones would never disappear voluntarily. Many suspected Joseph's contract employee of foul play. Yet for four years, the San Diego Sheriff's Department led the public to believe they had left of their own accord and moved to Mexico, until the harrowing discovery of four bodies in the desert shattered that illusion. Journey inside the lives of Joseph and Summer, hear their own accounts of their life together as well as insight from close friends and family. Read about Patrick's fight to keep his family's case in the forefront, and about the love he shared with his son for so many years.

Murder Among Strangers

Murder Among Strangers
Author: Jonnie Jacobs
Publisher: Kensington Books
Total Pages: 404
Release: 2001-08-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781575666471

Kidnapped after stopping to help a woman fix her flat tire, Kate Austen manages to flee her captors and then becomes embroiled in a murder investigation after one of her captors turns up dead. Reprint.

Cry from the Grave

Cry from the Grave
Author: Carolyn Mahony
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2013
Genre: Interpersonal relations
ISBN: 9781493718764

After a heartbreaking tragedy six years ago, Hannah Walker is struggling to pick up the pieces of her life - until a chance discovery tips her world upside down again. Now her fragile existence is threatened by the unfolding mystery that seems to have everyone, including the police, clawing to understand it. The truth is about to come out - but is it one she can bear to confront?Natasha Campbell's unhappy childhood has haunted her throughout her life. Her marriage to Adam was the one good decision she made, but now, even that is crumbling around her - and she will do whatever it takes to save it.Three people drawn together by a crime, three lives torn apart by the chilling consequences. Secrets cannot stay buried for ever ... and when they're exposed, the truth can be devastating.

Murder at Half Moon Gate

Murder at Half Moon Gate
Author: Andrea Penrose
Publisher: Wrexford & Sloane Mystery
Total Pages: 369
Release: 2019-07-30
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1496722418

"When Lord Wrexford discovers the body of a gifted inventor in a dark London alley, he promptly alerts the watchman and lets the authorities handle the matter. But Wrexford soon finds himself drawn into the murder investigation when the inventor's widow begs for his assistance, claiming the crime was not a random robbery. It seems her husband's designs for a revolutionary steam-powered engine went missing the night of his death. The plans could be worth a fortune ... and very dangerous in the wrong hands"--Amazon.com

Death by Honeymoon (Book #1 in the Caribbean Murder series)

Death by Honeymoon (Book #1 in the Caribbean Murder series)
Author: Jaden Skye
Publisher: Independent Books
Total Pages: 207
Release: 2011-05-28
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0976585502

Cindy and Clint are enjoying their honeymoon when paradise quickly turns into hell. Clint drowns in a freak accident in the ocean. The local police are quick to insist that he was caught in a sudden riptide. But Cindy, left all alone, is not convinced. She realizes that the only way to get answers, and to save her own life, is to return to where it all began: Barbados.

Murder by the Book

Murder by the Book
Author: DEBBIE. YOUNG
Publisher: Hawkesbury Press
Total Pages: 226
Release: 2018-04-07
Genre:
ISBN: 9781911223269

Is it possible to get away with murder in the close-knit Cotswold village where everyone knows each other? Sophie's determined to find out in her fourth laugh-out-loud cosy mystery, helped and hindered by her bookseller boyfriend Hector Munro, set in the dark days between New Year and Valentine's Day.

The Sirens Sang of Murder

The Sirens Sang of Murder
Author: Sarah Caudwell
Publisher: Dell
Total Pages: 290
Release: 1990-09-09
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0440207452

A lawyer’s lucrative case has deadly consequences in the third installment of the Hilary Tamar mysteries that began with Thus Was Adonis Murdered “Sarah Caudwell is one of my very favorite mystery writers.”—A. J. Finn, New York Times bestselling author of The Woman in the Window Young barrister Michael Cantrip has skipped off to the Channel Islands to take on a tax-law case that’s worth a fortune—if Cantrip’s tax-planning cronies can locate the missing heir. But Cantrip has waded in way over his head. Strange things are happening on these mysterious, isolated isles. Something is going bump in the night—and bumping off members of the legal team, one by one. Soon Cantrip is messaging the gang at the home office for help. And it’s up to amateur investigator Hilary Tamar, Oxford don turned supersleuth, to get Cantrip back to the safety of his chambers—alive! Don’t miss any of Sarah Caudwell’s riveting Hilary Tamar mysteries: THUS WAS ADONIS MURDERED • THE SHORTEST WAY TO HADES • THE SIRENS SANG OF MURDER • THE SIBYL IN HER GRAVE

Murder on Astor Place

Murder on Astor Place
Author: Victoria Thompson
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 292
Release: 1999-05-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780425168967

The first novel in the national bestselling Gaslight Mystery series introduces Sarah Brandt, a midwife in the turn-of-the-century tenements of Manhattan who refuses to turn a blind eye to the injustices of the crime-ridden city… After a routine delivery, Sarah visits her patient in a rooming house—and discovers that another boarder, a young girl, has been killed. At the request of Sergeant Frank Malloy, she searches the girl’s room. She discovers that the victim is from one of the most prominent families in New York—and the sister of an old friend. The powerful family, fearful of scandal, refuses to permit an investigation. But with Malloy’s help, Sarah begins a dangerous quest to bring the killer to justice—before death claims another victim...