Pressed to Death

Pressed to Death
Author: Kirsten Weiss
Publisher: misterio press
Total Pages: 452
Release: 2017-03-08
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0738750751

Perfectly pressed. Perfectly proper. Perfectly deadly. It’s Halloween season in San Benedetto, and Paranormal museum owner Maddie Kosloski has the perfect paranormal exhibit for the harvest festival – a haunted grape press. But before she can open the exhibit, she’s accused of stealing the antique. And when her accuser is found murdered, all eyes turn to Maddie. But murder is only the start of the puzzles she’ll have to unravel. Why does her perfectly proper mother insist Maddie investigate? Does her mother have a secret agenda? And why has the local charity, Ladies Aid, seemingly gone gangster? In this light cozy mystery, haunted houses, runaway wine barrels, and murder combine in a perfect storm of chaos. Facing down danger and her own over-active imagination, Maddie must unearth the killer before she becomes the next ghost to haunt her museum. If you enjoy quirky mysteries with heart, you’ll love Pressed to Death. Get cozy and start reading this hilarious whodunit now! Praise: "In Weiss's engaging sequel...Well-drawn characters and tantalizing wine talk help balance the quirky aspects of this paranormal mystery."—Publishers Weekly

A Storm of Witchcraft

A Storm of Witchcraft
Author: Emerson W. Baker
Publisher: Pivotal Moments in American Hi
Total Pages: 415
Release: 2015
Genre: History
ISBN: 019989034X

Presents an historical analysis of the Salem witch trials, examining the factors that may have led to the mass hysteria, including a possible occurrence of ergot poisoning, a frontier war in Maine, and local political rivalries.

The Witches

The Witches
Author: Stacy Schiff
Publisher: Little, Brown
Total Pages: 718
Release: 2015-10-27
Genre: History
ISBN: 0316200611

The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Cleopatra, the #1 national bestseller, unpacks the mystery of the Salem Witch Trials. It began in 1692, over an exceptionally raw Massachusetts winter, when a minister's daughter began to scream and convulse. It ended less than a year later, but not before 19 men and women had been hanged and an elderly man crushed to death. The panic spread quickly, involving the most educated men and prominent politicians in the colony. Neighbors accused neighbors, parents and children each other. Aside from suffrage, the Salem Witch Trials represent the only moment when women played the central role in American history. In curious ways, the trials would shape the future republic. As psychologically thrilling as it is historically seminal, The Witches is Stacy Schiff's account of this fantastical story -- the first great American mystery unveiled fully for the first time by one of our most acclaimed historians.

The Death of Mrs. Westaway

The Death of Mrs. Westaway
Author: Ruth Ware
Publisher: Pocket Books
Total Pages: 544
Release: 2020-10-27
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1982123656

A “perfectly executed suspense tale very much in the mode of Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca” (The Washington Post) from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of In a Dark, Dark Wood, The Woman in Cabin 10, The Lying Game, and The Turn of the Key. On a day that begins like any other, Hal receives a mysterious letter bequeathing her a substantial inheritance. She realizes very quickly that the letter was sent to the wrong person—but also that the cold-reading skills she’s honed as a tarot card reader might help her claim the money. Soon, Hal finds herself at the funeral of the deceased…where it dawns on her that there is something very, very wrong about this strange situation and the inheritance at the center of it. Full of spellbinding menace and told in Ruth Ware’s signature suspenseful style, this is a “captivating and eerie page-turner” (The Wall Street Journal) from the Agatha Christie of our time.

Cause of Death

Cause of Death
Author: Patricia Cornwell
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 376
Release: 1997-09-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1101205636

#1 bestselling author Patricia Cornwell returns to the world of gutsy medical examiner Kay Scarpetta in the seventh suspenseful novel in the forensic thriller series On a quiet day, away from the hustle of Richmond, in a small cottage on the Virginia coast, Dr. Kay Scarpetta receives a disturbing phone call from the Chesapeake police. Thirty feet deep in the murky waters of Virginia's Elizabeth River, a scuba diver's body is discovered near the Inactive Naval Shipyard.As the police begin searching for clues, the wallet of investigative reporter Ted Eddings is found. Unnerved by the possible identity of the victim, Scarpetta orders the crime scene roped off and left alone until she arrives. What was he doing there, searching for Civil War relics as the officer suggested, or was there a bigger story? As she rifles through the multitude of clues, a second murder hits much closer to home. This new development puts Scarpetta and her colleagues hot on the trail of a military conspiracy.

The Enterprise Of Death

The Enterprise Of Death
Author: Jesse Bullington
Publisher: Hachette UK
Total Pages: 317
Release: 2011-03-03
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0748118802

As the witch-pyres of the Spanish Inquisition blanket Renaissance Europe in a moral haze, a young African slave finds herself the unwilling apprentice of an ancient necromancer. Unfortunately, quitting his company proves even more hazardous than remaining his pupil when she is afflicted with a terrible curse. Yet salvation may lie in a mysterious tome her tutor has hidden somewhere on the war-torn continent. She sets out on a seemingly impossible journey to find the book, never suspecting her fate is tied to three strangers: the artist Niklaus Manuel Deutsch, the alchemist Dr Paracelsus and a gun-slinging Dutch mercenary. As Manuel paints her macabre story on canvas, plank and church wall, the apprentice becomes increasingly aware of the great dangers that surround her. She realises she must revisit the fell necromancy of her childhood - or death will be the least of her concerns.

The Murders in the Rue Morgue

The Murders in the Rue Morgue
Author: Edgar Allan Poe
Publisher: SAMPI Books
Total Pages: 20
Release: 2024-01-24
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 6585934016

"The Rue Morgue Murders" is a pioneering tale in the mystery genre, in which detective Auguste Dupin uses his acute observation and logic to solve a brutal double murder in Paris, revealing a surprising and unusual outcome.

The Story Of An Hour

The Story Of An Hour
Author: Kate Chopin
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 11
Release: 2014-04-22
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1443435198

Mrs. Louise Mallard, afflicted with a heart condition, reflects on the death of her husband from the safety of her locked room. Originally published in Vogue magazine, “The Story of an Hour” was retitled as “The Dream of an Hour,” when it was published amid much controversy under its new title a year later in St. Louis Life. “The Story of an Hour” was adapted to film in The Joy That Kills by director Tina Rathbone, which was part of a PBS anthology called American Playhouse. HarperPerennial Classics brings great works of literature to life in digital format, upholding the highest standards in ebook production and celebrating reading in all its forms. Look for more titles in the HarperPerennial Classics collection to build your digital library.

Harnessing the Power of the Criminal Corpse

Harnessing the Power of the Criminal Corpse
Author: Sarah Tarlow
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 277
Release: 2018-05-17
Genre: History
ISBN: 3319779087

This open access book is the culmination of many years of research on what happened to the bodies of executed criminals in the past. Focusing on the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, it looks at the consequences of the 1752 Murder Act. These criminal bodies had a crucial role in the history of medicine, and the history of crime, and great symbolic resonance in literature and popular culture. Starting with a consideration of the criminal corpse in the medieval and early modern periods, chapters go on to review the histories of criminal justice, of medical history and of gibbeting under the Murder Act, and ends with some discussion of the afterlives of the corpse, in literature, folklore and in contemporary medical ethics. Using sophisticated insights from cultural history, archaeology, literature, philosophy and ethics as well as medical and crime history, this book is a uniquely interdisciplinary take on a fascinating historical phenomenon.