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Author : Jennifer Rowe
Publisher : Crimeline
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0553297406
Margot Bell, co-owner of the elite Deepdene health spa, is found dead and television researcher Verity Birdwood starts digging beneath the trappings of pampered luxury. By the author of Grim Pickings. Reprint.
Author : Jennifer Rowe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1992-11-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1863733779
Author : Laura Levine
Publisher : Kensington Cozies
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2021-09-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781496728159
The latest in acclaimed TV comedy writer and novelist Laura Levine’s witty, lighthearted mystery series featuring Hollywood-based freelance writer Jaine Austen and her snarky cat, Prozac—a laugh-out-loud read for fans of Joanne Fluke, Miranda James, and Laura Childs. Uber-stylist Bebe Braddock plans to juice up her Instagram feed and thinks Jaine would make a perfect “Before & After” model. At Lance’s insistence Jaine is ushered into Bebe’s sprawling Brentwood spread to await her transformation. Yet, while the surroundings are glamorous, the atmosphere is toxic as Bebe bullies her team of assistants, and even her husband, into obeying her every whim. Having earned the wrath of everyone in her orbit, few are shocked when Bebe is found strangled with one of her detested wire hangers. But Jaine’s prints are all over the murder weapon, making her a prime suspect. The police, however, aren’t the only ones showing interest in her—so is Justin, Bebe’s very cute, very young personal assistant. While Jaine navigates a cougar-style romance, Prozac is mistakenly hailed as a feline hero and catapults into internet fame. Still, there are more urgent matters at hand than Prozac’s swelling ego. Unless Jaine can track down Bebe’s killer and clear her own name, the only new outfit she’ll be modeling is an orange prison jumpsuit . . . “As always, Levine’s spunky heroine gets the last laugh.” —Kirkus Reviews “For lovers of the zany this is a sure thing.” —Booklist
Author : Stephanie Damore
Publisher : Stephanie Damore Free Cozy Mysteries
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2021-02-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781544800714
(Free cozy murder mystery) Client’s secrets can get you killed. A lesson girl boss, Ziva Diaz is learning the hard way. When she’s attacked inside a client’s home and wakes to find a dead body, Ziva gives up the safety of selling lipsticks for the dangerous role of detective. With suspects piling up, a killer on the loose and her own life threatened, Ziva needs to solve the case before her high heels turn toes up. Good thing she has her fashionable best friend, Aria, the handsome deckhand, Finn, and the feisty Mrs. J. to watch her back because it's all hands on deck in this humorous, romantic mystery. Grab a chai latte and escape to Port Haven today! Keywords: cozy mystery boxed sets, cozy mystery series, cozy mystery books, mysteries women sleuths, mystery with dogs, mystery with a twist, mystery with recipes, mystery with female sleuth, mystery with humor, animal mysteries, mystery series, female detective mysteries, female detective books, female detective series, female detectives murder mysteries series, female sleuth mysteries, Women mystery authors, women mystery writers, women detectives, women sleuths, women sleuths mysteries, cozy, cozy books, cozy books mysteries, cozy murder mysteries, cozy mysteries, cozy mysteries funny, cozy mysteries, cozy mysteries with audible, cozy mysteries with dogs, cozy mysteries women sleuths, cozy mystery 7 book set, cozy mystery audio books, cozy mystery authors, cozy mystery book 1, cozy mystery book set, cozy mystery book sets, cozy mystery, cozy mystery dog, free cozy mystery, hawaii cozy mystery, in the mountains cozy mystery, knitting cozy mystery, library cozy mystery, light house cozy mystery, movies cozy mystery novels, cozy mystery paperbacks, cozy mystery paranormal, cozy mystery pepper, cozy mystery recipes, cozy mystery releases, cozy mystery romance, cozy mystery sale, cozy mystery series, cozy mystery series box set, mystery sets, cozy mystery seven book set, cozy mystery short stories, mystery woman detective, cozy mystery women sleuths.
Author : Colleen Barnett
Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
Page : 1090 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2010-12-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781615950102
Like other fictional characters, female sleuths may live in the past or the future. They may represent current times with some level of reality or shape their settings to suit an agenda. There are audiences for both realism and escapism in the mystery novel. It is interesting, however, to compare the fictional world of the mystery sleuth with the world in which readers live. Of course, mystery readers do not share one simplistic world. They live in urban, suburban, and rural areas, as do the female heroines in the books they read. They may choose a book because it has a familiar background or because it takes them to places they long to visit. Readers may be rich or poor; young or old; conservative or liberal. So are the heroines. What incredible choices there are today in mystery series! This three-volume encyclopedia of women characters in the mystery novel is like a gigantic menu. Like a menu, the descriptions of the items that are provided are subjective. Volume 3 of Mystery Women as currently updated adds an additional 42 sleuths to the 500 plus who were covered in the initial Volume 3. These are more recently discovered sleuths who were introduced during the period from January 1, 1990 to December 31, 1999. This more than doubles the number of sleuths introduced in the 1980s (298 of whom were covered in Volume 2) and easily exceeded the 347 series (and some outstanding individuals) described in Volume 1, which covered a 130-year period from 1860-1979. It also includes updates on those individuals covered in the first edition; changes in status, short reviews of books published since the first edition through December 31, 2008.
Author : Stephen Knight
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2018-07-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781476632667
Australian crime fiction has grown from the country’s origins as an 18th-century English prison colony. Early stories focused on escaped convicts becoming heroic bush rangers, or how the system mistreated those who were wrongfully convicted. Later came thrillers about wealthy free settlers and lawless gold-seekers, and urban crime fiction, including Fergus Hume’s 1887 international best-seller The Mystery of a Hansom Cab, set in Melbourne. The 1980s saw a surge of private-eye thrillers, popular in a society skeptical of police. Twenty-first century authors have focused on policemen—and increasingly policewomen—and finally indigenous crime narratives. The author explores in detail this rich but little known national subgenre.
Author : Elizabeth A. Ford,Deborah C. Mitchell
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2004-03-31
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780786417216
The plots of many films pivot on the moment when a dowdy girl with bad hair, ill-fitting outdated clothing, and thick glasses is changed into an almost unrecognizable glamour girl. Makeover scenes such as these are examined beginning with 1942's Now, Voyager. The study examines whether the film makeover is voluntary or involuntary, whether it is always successful, how much screen time it takes up, where in the narrative structure it falls, and how the scene is actually filmed. Films with a Pygmalion theme, such as My Fair Lady, Vertigo, and Shampoo, are examined in terms of gender relations: whether the man is content with his creation and what sort of woman is the ideal. Some films' publicity capitalizes on a glamorous star's choice to play an unattractive character, as discussed in a chapter examining stars like Bette Davis, Meryl Streep, and Cameron Diaz. Topics also include folk literature's Cinderella tale, men as the inspiration for makeovers in teen flicks films like Clueless, She's All That, and Me, Natalie, and class repositioning in such movies as Working Girl, Pretty Woman, and Grease. Photographs are presented in a before/after format, showing the change in the madeover character.
Author : Kathryn Lilley
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2009-09-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101136188
Plus-size reporter Kate Gallagher is facing the ultimate challenge. She has to bare her belly in a bikini on camera for an upcoming assignment about weight loss scams. Sticking to her diet won't be easy—especially since it’s her love life that’s wasting away. Kate learns she’s not alone at a meeting of a women’s support group, the Newbodies—where her friend Lila confides that her marriage is in trouble. When Lila turns up dead, Kate’s suspicions immediately fall on the husband. But that’s before she finds out that Lila wasn’t the first “Newbody” to meet a violent death. Apparently a killer has an appetite for plus-sized victims, and Kate may be next. Well, chasing a murderer is one way to trim down.
Author : Christine Chianti
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2017-05-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1946925209
Author : Charlotte Beyer
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2022-02-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781476641713
The clue-puzzle, legal thriller, and classic whodunit are just a few of the subgenres within the widely popular crime fiction genre. However, despite its popularity among readers, the crime short story genre has yet to be fully explored by scholars. This book offers a deep-dive into crime short stories written by a wide range of authors, tracing the history and evolution of the crime short story. The book offers an accessible and original examination of crime short stories, focusing on compelling themes such as miscarriage of justice, feminism, environmental crime and toxic masculinity.
Author : Tracy Kiely
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2009-09-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781429954761
A die-hard fan of Jane Austen novels and the traditional English mystery, Tracy Kiely has combined elements of both for this truly delightful and witty debut. Planning New Year's resolutions to rid her life of all things unhealthy, Elizabeth Parker has dumped fatty foods, processed sugar, and her two-timing boyfriend. Indeed, the invitation to join her Aunt Winnie for a How to Host a Murder Party on New Year's Eve at Winnie's new Cape Cod B & B comes just in time. But when the local wealthy miser ends up the unscripted victim, Elizabeth must unearth old secrets and new motives in order to clear her beloved aunt of suspicion. The suspects include the town gossip, a haughty rich woman, and an antiques business owner much enamored of his benefactress, a Mrs. Kristell Dubois. If that isn't bad enough, Elizabeth must also contend with her childhood nemesis, Peter McGowan---a man she suspects has only matured in chronological years---and her suspicions about his family's interest in Winnie's inn. Yesterday, her only worry was of ever finding her Mr. Darcy. Now she has a murder to solve. Is it any wonder her resolution to achieve inner poise is in tatters? By reimagining characters and themes lifted from the treasured classic Pride and Prejudice, and crafting an expert, intricate mystery, Tracy Kiely has brought to life something very special: a new cozy series that is clever, vibrant, and utterly disarming.
Author : Ellen Byerrum
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2005-08-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1101119004
As makeover madness sweeps the nation's capital, reporter Lacey Smithsonian interviews TV show makeover success story Amanda Manville. But with Amanda's beauty comes a beast in the form of a stalker with vicious intentions—and Lacey may be the only one who can stop him.
Author : Leslie Meier
Publisher : Kensington Cozies
Page : 475 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2019-10-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781496726759
Christmas has come to Tinker’s Cove, Maine, and sleuthing skills are at the top of Lucy’s Stone’s wish list in these two beloved mysteries—now collected in one festive volume for the very first time! . . . NEW YEAR’S EVE MURDER After the annual parade of Christmas presents in Tinker’s Cove has ended, Lucy Stone and her daughter are ready to ring in the new year in style. Elizabeth has won mother/daughter winter makeovers in Manhattan from Jolie magazine! But the all-expenses-paid trip is bound to have some hidden costs—and one of them is murder. Soon it will be up to Lucy to dress down a killer before the ball drops in Times Square . . . CHRISTMAS CAROL MURDER Lucy Stone is excited about acting in the town’s production of A Christmas Carol. But a real-life Scrooge has everyone feeling frosty. While Tinker’s Cove has fallen on hard times, Downeast Mortgage owners Jake Marlowe and Ben Scribner are raking in profits from misfortune. So when Marlowe is murdered, the suspects are many. But Scribner claims Marlowe’s ghost has come to warn him of his own impending demise—and he’s soon receiving death threats. Now Lucy will have to solve the case faster than she can say “Bah! Humbug!”. . .
Author : Leslie Meier
Publisher : Kensington Publishing Corp.
Page : 435 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2006-11-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780758258632
New York Times-Bestselling Author: A mother and daughter visiting from Maine get mixed up in murder at a Manhattan fashion magazine… After the annual parade of Christmas presents in Tinker's Cove, Maine, has ended, Lucy Stone and her daughter Elizabeth are ready to ring in the new year in style. Elizabeth has won mother/daughter winter makeovers in Manhattan from Jolie magazine! But the all-expenses-paid trip is bound to have some hidden costs—and one of them is murder. After arriving at the magazine’s offices, meeting their fellow makeover candidates, and being treated to a fashion show, Elizabeth is enamored of the extreme outfits and stick-thin models—while Lucy’s having some misgivings. The pampering is nice and the glamour of haute couture is bizarrely fascinating, but bitterness and aggression lurk behind the hipper-than-thou façade. And things turn downright ugly when self-absorbed fashion editor Nadine Nelson falls mysteriously ill and dies. Lucy can tell that backstabbing, rumors, and cliquishness have stirred up some bad blood at Jolie over the years. But this Manhattan murder mystery hits too close to home when Elizabeth gets rushed to the hospital with symptoms disturbingly similar to Nadine’s—and Lucy to dress down a killer before the ball drops in Times Square… “A down-to-earth sleuth.”—Library Journal “I like Lucy Stone a lot, and so will readers.”—Carolyn Hart, New York Times-bestselling author of the Death on Demand Mysteries
Author : Arlene McFarlane
Publisher : ParadiseDeer Publishing
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2016-11-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780995307605