Amy Among The Serial Killers

Author : Jincy Willett
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2022-08-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781250275158

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Amy Among the Serial Killers by Jincy Willett Pdf

Jincy Willett's beloved characters return in Amy Among the Serial Killers, a wickedly smart and funny take on the thriller genre by one of our most acclaimed literary humorists. Carla Karolak is doing just fine. Having escaped the clutches of her controlling mother and founded a successful writing retreat in which participants are confined to windowless cells until they hit their daily word count, she lives a comfortable, if solitary, existence. If only her therapist, Toonie, would stop going on about Carla's nonexistent love life and start addressing her writer’s block, she might be able to make some progress. But then Carla finds Toonie murdered, and suddenly her unfinished memoir is the least of her concerns. Without quite knowing why, she dials an old phone number. Amy Gallup, retired after decades as a writing instructor, is surprised to hear from her former student Carla out of the blue, three years since they last spoke. She’s even more shocked when she finds out the reason for Carla's call. Suddenly, she finds herself swept up in a murder investigation that soon brings her old writing group back together. But they’ll need all the help they can get, as one murder leads to another, and suspicions of a serial killer mount across San Diego. Full of Jincy Willett’s trademark dark humor, an unforgettable cast of characters, and two of the most endearingly imperfect protagonists who have ever attempted to solve a murder, Amy Among the Serial Killers shows us what can be gained when we begin to break down our own walls and let others inside...as long as they aren’t murderers.

Author : Jincy Willett
Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2008-05-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781466807532

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Jenny and the Jaws of Life by Jincy Willett Pdf

In these wonderfully funny and poignant stories, Willett's eccentric, complex characters think and do the unconventional. Soft, euphonic women gradually grow old; weak, unhappy men confront love and their own mortality; and abominable children desperately try to grow up with grace. With a unique voice and dry humor, Willett gives us a new insight into human existence, showing us those specific moments in relationships when life suddenly becomes visible. Critically acclaimed when it was first published in 1987, Jenny and the Jaws of Life is being brought back due to popular demand. It's a timeless collection filled with a certain freshness and wit that ring just as loudly today.

Author : Jincy Willett
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2009-05-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781466806238

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The Writing Class by Jincy Willett Pdf

Amy Gallup is gifted, perhaps too gifted for her own good. Published at only twenty-two, she peaked early and found critical but not commercial success. Now her former life is gone, along with her writing career and beloved husband. A reclusive widow, her sole companion a dour, flatulent basset hound who barely tolerates her, her daily mantra Kill Me Now, she is a loner afraid to be alone. Her only bright spot each week is the writing class that she teaches at the university extension. This semester's class is full of the usual suspects: the doctor who wants to be the next Robin Cook, the overly enthusiastic repeat student, the slacker, the unassuming student with the hidden talent, the prankster, the know-it-all.... Amy's seen them all before. But something is very different about this class---and the clues begin with a scary phone call in the middle of the night and obscene threats instead of peer evaluations on student writing assignments. Amy soon realizes that one of her students is a very sick puppy, and when a member of the class is murdered, everyone becomes a suspect. As she dissects each student's writing for clues, Amy must enlist the help of everyone in her class, including the murderer, to find the killer among them. Suspenseful, extremely witty, brilliantly written, unexpectedly hilarious, and a joy from start to finish, The Writing Class is a one-of-a-kind novel that rivals Jincy Willett's previous masterpieces.

Author : Jincy Willett
Publisher : Picador
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2014-07-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1250050251

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Amy Falls Down by Jincy Willett Pdf

Amy Gallup is an aging novelist and writing instructor living in Escondido, California, with her dog, Alphonse. Since recent unsettling events, she has made some progress. While she still has writer's block, she doesn't suffer from it. She's still a hermit, but she has allowed some of her class members into her life. She is no longer numb, angry, and sardonic: she is merely numb and bemused, which is as close to happy as she plans to get. Amy is calm. So, when on New Year's morning she shuffles out to her backyard garden to plant a Norfolk pine, she is wholly unprepared for what happens next. Amy falls down. A simple accident, as a result of which something happens, and then something else, and then a number of different things, all as unpredictable as an eight-ball break. At first the changes are small, but as these small events carom off one another, Amy's life changes in ways that range from ridiculous to frightening to profound. This most reluctant of adventurers is dragged and propelled by train, plane, and automobile through an outlandish series of antic media events on her way to becoming—to her horror—a kind of celebrity. And along the way, as the numbness begins to wear off, she comes up against something she has avoided all her life: her future. Jincy Willett's Amy Falls Down explores, through the experience of one character, the role that accident plays in all our lives. "You turn a corner and beasts break into arias, gunfire erupts, waking a hundred families, starting a hundred different conversations. You crack your head open and three thousand miles away a stranger with Asperger's jump-starts your career." We are all like Amy. We are all wholly unprepared for what happens next. Also, there's a basset hound.

Author : James Renner
Publisher : Gray Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2013-06-20
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1938441400

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Amy: My Search for Her Killer: Secrets & Suspects in the Unsolved Murder of Amy Mihaljevic by James Renner Pdf

Reporter James Renner investigates the kidnapping and murder of eleven-year-old Amy Mihaljevic in Northeast Ohio, 1989, revealing new clues about key suspects and sharing his own theory of what really happened to the young girl.

Author : Jincy Willett
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2010-04-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781429982382

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Winner of the National Book Award by Jincy Willett Pdf

Winner of the National Book Award, the long-awaited novel from the author of the acclaimed collection, Jenny and the Jaws of Life, is an unusual and wonderful novel that is somehow able to be at once bleak and hilarious, light-hearted and profound. It's the story of two sisters. Abigail Mather is a woman of enormous appetites, sexual and otherwise. Her fraternal twin Dorcas couldn't be more different: she gave up on sex without once trying it, and she lives a controlled, dignified life of the mind. Though Abigail exasperates Dorcas, the two love each other; in fact, they complete each other. They are an odd pair, set down in an odd Rhode Island town, where everyone has a story to tell, and writers, both published and unpublished, carom off each other like billiard balls. What is it that makes the two women targets for the new man in town, the charming schlockmeister Conrad Lowe, tall, whippet-thin and predatory? In Abigail and Dorcas he sees a new and tantalizing challenge. Not the mere conquest of Abigail, with her easy reputation, but a longer and more sinister game. A game that will lead to betrayal, shame and, ultimately, murder. In her darkly comic and unsettling first novel, Jincy Willett proves that she is a true find: that rare writer who can explore the shadowy side of human nature with the lightest of touches.

Author : Chelsea G. Summers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2022-07-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0571372325

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A Certain Hunger by Chelsea G. Summers Pdf

Author : Carla Hoch
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2019-06-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781440300738

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Fight Write by Carla Hoch Pdf

Whether a side-street skirmish or an all-out war, fight scenes bring action to the pages of every kind of fiction. But a poorly done or unbelievable fight scene can ruin a great book in an instant. In Fight Write you'll learn practical tips, terminology, and the science behind crafting realistic fight scenes for your fiction. Broken up into "Rounds," trained fighter and writer Carla Hoch guides you through the many factors you'll need to consider when developing battles and brawls. • In Round 1, you will consider how the Who, When, Where, and Why questions affect what type of fight scene you want to craft. • Round 2 delves into the human factors of biology (think fight or flight and adrenaline) and psychology (aggression and response to injuring or killing another person). • Round 3 explores different fighting styles that are appropriate for different situations: How would a character fight from a prone position versus being attacked in the street? What is the vocabulary used to describe these styles? • Round 4 considers weaponry and will guide you to select the best weapon for your characters, including nontraditional weapons of opportunity, while also thinking about the nitty-gritty details of using them. • In Round 5, you'll learn how to accurately describe realistic injuries sustained from the fights and certain weapons, and what kind of injuries will kill a character or render them unable to fight further. By taking into account where your character is in the world, when in history the fight is happening, what the character's motivation for fighting is, and much more, you'll be able write fight scenes unique to your plot and characters, all while satisfying your reader's discerning eye.

Author : Alicia Thompson
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2022-08-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780593438664

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Love in the Time of Serial Killers by Alicia Thompson Pdf

One of Cosmopolitan's Best Romance Novels Ever Turns out that reading nothing but true crime isn't exactly conducive to modern dating—and one woman is going to have to learn how to give love a chance when she's used to suspecting the worst. PhD candidate Phoebe Walsh has always been obsessed with true crime. She's even analyzing the genre in her dissertation—if she can manage to finish writing it. It's hard to find the time while she spends the summer in Florida, cleaning out her childhood home, dealing with her obnoxiously good-natured younger brother, and grappling with the complicated feelings of mourning a father she hadn't had a relationship with for years. It doesn't help that she's low-key convinced that her new neighbor, Sam Dennings, is a serial killer (he may dress business casual by day, but at night he's clearly up to something). It's not long before Phoebe realizes that Sam might be something much scarier—a genuinely nice guy who can pierce her armor to reach her vulnerable heart.

Author : Amy Suiter Clarke
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780358418931

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Girl, 11 by Amy Suiter Clarke Pdf

In this debut thriller for fans of Riley Sager and Karin Slaughter, a social worker turned true crime podcaster investigates a decades-old serial killer cold case only to unwittingly create new victims.

Author : M. William Phelps
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2011-06-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780762762507

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Devil's Rooming House by M. William Phelps Pdf

The gripping tale of a legendary, century-old murder spree *** A silent, simmering killer terrorized New England in1911. As a terrible heat wave killed more than 2,000 people, another silent killer began her own murderous spree. That year a reporter for the Hartford Courant noticed a sharp rise in the number of obituaries for residents of a rooming house in Windsor, Connecticut, and began to suspect who was responsible: Amy Archer-Gilligan, who’d opened the Archer Home for Elderly People and Chronic Invalids four years earlier. “Sister Amy” would be accused of murdering both of her husbands and up to sixty-six of her patients with cocktails of lemonade and arsenic; her story inspired the Broadway hit Arsenic and Old Lace. The Devil’s Rooming House is the first book about the life, times, and crimes of America’s most prolific female serial killer. In telling this fascinating story, M. William Phelps also paints a vivid portrait of early-twentieth-century New England.

Author : David Sedaris
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2010-04-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781847375902

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Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules by David Sedaris Pdf

'When apple-picking season ended, I got a Job in a packing plant and gravitated towards short stories, which I could read during my break and reflect upon for the remainder of my shift. A good one would take me out of myself and then stuff me back in, outsized, now, and uneasy with the fit . . . Once, before leaving on vacation, I copied an entire page from an Alice Munro story and left it in my typewriter, hoping a burglar might come upon it and mistake her words for my own. That an intruder would spend his valuable time reading, that he might be impressed by the description of a crooked face, was something I did not question, as I believed, and still do, that stories can save you'.

Author : Harold Jaffe
Publisher : Raw Dog Screaming Press
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 097450310X

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15 Serial Killers by Harold Jaffe Pdf

Exploring dangerous territory, Jafee uses illustrations, letters, monologues, interviews, and "unsituated dialogues" to bring to life some of the most infamous serial killers of all time.

Author : Amy Cross
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2019-12-21
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1678851396

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I Married a Serial Killer by Amy Cross Pdf

One year, alone on his birthday, John sits drowning his sorrows in a hotel bar. Due to a twist of fate, he happens to start talking to a woman at the next table, and he discovers that they have one thing in common.Paula is also marking her birthday alone. After a one night stand during which they share no personal information whatsoever, John and Paula come to a loose understanding: they'll meet in the same hotel bar on the same day every year, unless one of them has something better to do. No phone numbers. No social media profiles. Just an idea.And then they go their separate ways. Or do they?For the next ten years, John and Paula stick (more or less) to their agreement. As time passes, they begin to learn more about one another, despite their attempts to remain distant. And although he knows he should remain detached, John finds himself wanting to know more and more about the mysterious Paula. Some years she seems remote and disinterested, other years she's emotional and attached, and sometimes she seems half crazy. In fact, even though she looks the same, John starts to wonder if this is really the same woman every year after all.Can one person really be ten different people at the same time? Or is something even more sinister going on? And is Paula connected to a series of murders in local hotels?I Married a Serial Killer is a horror thriller about two very mis-matched people whose lives become entwined, about the dangers of breaking the rules, and about the potentially deadly consequences of asking too many questions.

Author : Caroline Mitchell
Publisher : Thomas & Mercer
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2020-06-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1542021790

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Left for Dead by Caroline Mitchell Pdf

Shopping with her sister, DI Amy Winter is admiring a Valentine's Day window display of a perfect bride encrusted in diamonds and resplendent in lace -- until she notices blood oozing from the mannequin's mouth. This is no stunt. A post-mortem reveals the victim was left to die on her macabre throne for all to see. When a second victim is found, it emerges that both women were "Sugar Babes" arranging dates with older men online, and Amy finds herself hunting an accomplished psychopath