Mystery Women

Mystery Women
Author: Colleen A. Barnett
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
Total Pages: 598
Release: 1997
Genre: Detective and mystery stories, American
ISBN: 1459612329

Voyager 2

Voyager 2
Author: D.R. VerValin
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Total Pages: 303
Release: 2015-04-18
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1504906713

The past can come back to haunt youbut it can save you, too. Thats a lesson Bane Skiles learns in a story that begins when Hiroshi Ishikawa is commissioned as a lieutenant in the Imperial Navy. His life, he believes, is set for him, but its changed by events beyond his control. Then, on August 3, 1943, PT boat 165 of Squadron 10 is hiding in a cove off the beaches of Vonavona in the Solomon Island chain. As the ships captain, Skiles waits patiently and silently for the enemy. What he doesnt know then is that the action of that night will return to him years later when his grandmother foresees the Voyager sailing with black sails on a black sea. Skiles struggles to understand what the vision means and wonders if its connected to the past or his future. Skiles gets some answers when he slips into the past in a story mixed with stolen treasure, lies, deceit, and the one thing in life he thought he had lost.

Mystery Women

Mystery Women
Author: Colleen Barnett
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
Total Pages: 570
Release: 2010-03
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 1458768368

Edgar- and Agatha-nominated author Colleen Barnett here updates her essential reference for readers and writers of mystery, examining women who detect, women as sleuths, and the evolving roles of women in professions and in society.

Women Authors of Detective Series

Women Authors of Detective Series
Author: Moira Davison Reynolds
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 191
Release: 2017-07-06
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 078645069X

While the roots of the detective novel go back to the 19th century, the genre reached its height around 1925 to 1945. This work presents information on 21 British and American women who wrote during the 20th century. As a group they were largely responsible for the great popularity of the detective novel in the first half of the century. The British authors are Dora Turnbull (Patricia Wentworth), Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers, Elizabeth Mackintosh (Josephine Tey), Ngaio Marsh, Gladys Mitchell, Margery Allingham, Edith Pargeter (Ellis Peters), Phyllis Dorothy James White (P.D. James), Gwendoline Butler (Jennie Melville), and Ruth Rendell, and the Americans are Patricia Highsmith, Carolyn G. Heilbrun (Amanda Cross), Edna Buchanan, Kate Gallison, Sue Grafton, Sara Paretsky, Nevada Barr, Patricia Cornwell, Carol Higgins Clark, and Megan Mallory Rust. A flavor of each author's work is provided.

The Woman Detective

The Woman Detective
Author: Kathleen Gregory Klein
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Total Pages: 300
Release: 1995
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780252064630

Kathleen Gregory Klein traces female paid, professional private investigators in British, Canadian, and American novels, revealing that the detective novel is both a reflection of and potential barrier to social change for women. This edition adds sixty new female private eyes to the roster and includes an afterword that assesses the current state of the genre's new and old novels. A comprehensive bibliography and a character list update the field through mid-1994.

Comics

Comics
Author: Walter Ben Hare
Publisher:
Total Pages: 164
Release: 1924
Genre: Monologues
ISBN:

Song of Angels

Song of Angels
Author: Michelle Louring
Publisher: Michelle Louring
Total Pages: 951
Release: 2016-01-20
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

The first three books in the Angel's Voice Series: Resounding Echo Silent Sound Quiet Whisper - Resounding Echo The battlefield of angels and demons is no place for a mortal . . . Selissa has no memories from before the priests at the temple of Issara found her battered and bruised outside their gates years ago. All she has from her past life is a strange symbol on her back and frightening, confusing dreams. Her new life is thrown into disarray when the mysterious traveler Alassane arrives at the temple. With him follows the horrors her lost memories have been hiding. Selissa suddenly finds herself fighting for her life and comes to realize that no one is what they pretend to be . . . - Silent Sound Life is much simpler when myths are merely fairy tales . . . Selissa hardly thought her life could get any weirder, but the gods appeared to have developed a sadistic fondness for proving her wrong. A request for her help with solving a series of mysterious attacks at a temple seemed fairly simple. But everything suddenly becomes far more complicated once Selissa is told who she needs to protect from the unknown assailant. Because the target just happens to be the son of the archangel Arnath . . . - Quiet Whisper The victims will be many as long as war is part of human nature . . . A chance meeting with someone from her past causes Selissa to once again find herself in the middle of someone else’s fight. This time her unusual task involves neither angels nor demons, but leads her into the heart of Ver’dohna where a war is raging between the military and the Rebellion. And while she is far from home, Selissa is offered new allies. The only thing she has to do is to rescue a man from the executioner’s axe . . . . . . Right in the middle of the most heavily guarded stronghold in Ver’dohna.