Promises to the Dead
Author: Mary Downing Hahn
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 210
ISBN-13: 9780547258386
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA white boy helps a black child escape slavery in the midst of the Civil War
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A Promise to the Dead
Author: Victoria Jenkins
Publisher: Bookouture
Published: 2019-01-21
Total Pages: 258
ISBN-13: 9781786816870
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe blur of shapes began to sharpen, forming a clear picture that stood out against the darkened background. For a moment he couldn't move, his fear rendering him immobile. He needed help. He turned to run. On a dark night, on a mountain road, a young couple, Matthew and Stacey, are on their way home from a night out. Their car breaks down and Matthew leaves to look for help. By the next morning, Stacey is found murdered in the car and Matthew is missing, presumed guilty of her murder. Called to the scene, Detective Alex King and her team soon see some terrifying links - to another local young man who is missing, and to the discovery of a body from 30 years ago. Alex knows that the missing and the dead have a story to tell her. But will she hear it in time to uncover the killer before they strike again? A Promise to the Dead is a totally unputdownable crime thriller that will have you hooked. Readers of Angela Marsons, Karin Slaughter and Robert Dugoni will love this. Readers love Detectives King and Lane! 'Had my brain rattling in my head! Genius... Sometimes my mouth fell open and a few OMGs escaped... I loved it!' B for Bookreview, 5 stars 'Bam! Straight out of the starting gate this had me totally hooked... Fast paced all the way through, hit after hit of tension, excitement and horror... I don't hesitate in giving this 5 stars, it had me captivated and on the edge-of-my-seat.' Bonnie's Book Talk, 5 stars 'Cor! Talk about a gripping crime story! WOO! What a corker!... had me on the edge-of-my-seat... left me utterly reeling!... That ending nearly broke me... insanely compelling and addictive.' Novel Deelights, 5 stars
Promises in Death
Author: J. D. Robb
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2009-07-28
Total Pages: 370
ISBN-13: 0425228940
DOWNLOAD EBOOK#1 New York Times bestselling author J. D. Robb takes us to the New York City of 2060, where Lieutenant Eve Dallas faces down a cop killer... Amaryllis Coltraine may have recently transferred to the New York City police force from Atlanta, but she’s been a cop long enough to know how to defend herself against an assailant. When she’s taken down just steps away from her apartment, killed with her own weapon, for Eve the victim isn’t just “one of us.” Eve starts questioning everyone while her husband, Roarke, digs into computer data on the dead woman’s life back in Atlanta. To their shock, they discover a connection between this case and their own painful, shadowy pasts. The truth will need to be uncovered one layer at a time, starting with the box that arrives at Cop Central addressed to Eve, containing Coltraine’s guns, badge, and a note from her killer: “You can have them back. Maybe someday soon, I’ll be sending yours to somebody else.” But Eve Dallas doesn’t take too kindly to personal threats, and she is going to break this case, whatever it takes. And that’s a promise.
Dead Promise
Author: Patch Xiong
Publisher: Infinity Pub
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 173
ISBN-13: 9780741455147
DOWNLOAD EBOOKInspired by a Hmong folktale, Dead Promise is a tragic love story about a young couple torn by family and war.
Call for the Dead
Author: John le Carré
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2012-10-02
Total Pages: 182
ISBN-13: 1101603755
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first of his peerless novels of Cold War espionage and international intrigue, Call for the Dead is also the debut of John le Carré's masterful creation George Smiley. "Go back to Whitehall and look for more spies on your drawing boards." George Smiley is no one's idea of a spy—which is perhaps why he's such a natural. But Smiley apparently made a mistake. After a routine security interview, he concluded that the affable Samuel Fennan had nothing to hide. Why, then, did the man from the Foreign Office shoot himself in the head only hours later? Or did he? The heart-stopping tale of intrigue that launched both novelist and spy, Call for the Dead is an essential introduction to le Carré's chillingly amoral universe.
Promise Not to Tell
Author: Jennifer McMahon
Publisher: Harper Collins
Published: 2009-03-17
Total Pages: 289
ISBN-13: 0061827487
DOWNLOAD EBOOK“McMahon unfurls a whirlwind of suspense...Combining murder mystery and coming-of-age tale with supernatural elements, this taut novel is above all a reflection on the haunting power of memory.” –Entertainment Weekly A woman’s past and present collide in terrifying ways in this explosive debut by New York Times bestselling author Jennifer McMahon. Forty-one-year-old school nurse Kate Cypher has returned home to rural Vermont to care for her mother, who's afflicted with Alzheimer's. On the night she arrives, a young girl is murdered—a horrific crime that eerily mirrors another from Kate's childhood. Three decades earlier, her dirt-poor friend Del—shunned and derided by classmates as "Potato Girl"—was brutally slain. Del's killer was never found, while the victim has since achieved immortality in local legends and ghost stories. Now, as this new murder investigation draws Kate irresistibly in, her past and present collide in terrifying, unexpected ways. Because nothing is quite what it seems . . . and the grim specters of her youth are far from forgotten. More than just a murder mystery, Jennifer McMahon's extraordinary debut novel, Promise Not to Tell, is a story of friendship and family, devotion and betrayal—tautly written, deeply insightful, beautifully evocative, and utterly unforgettable.
Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead
Author: Emily Austin
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2021-07-06
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 1982167351
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Gilda, a twenty-something, atheist, animal-loving lesbian, cannot stop ruminating about death. Desperate for relief from her panicky mind and alienated from her repressive family, she responds to a flyer for free therapy at a local Catholic church, and finds herself being greeted by Father Jeff, who assumes she's there for a job interview. Too embarrassed to correct him, Gilda is abruptly hired to replace the recently deceased receptionist Grace. In between trying to memorize the lines to Catholic mass, hiding the fact that she has a new girlfriend, and erecting a dirty dish tower in her crumbling apartment, Gilda strikes up an email correspondence with Grace's old friend. She can't bear to ignore the kindly old woman, who has been trying to reach her friend through the church inbox, but she also can't bring herself to break the bad news. Desperate, she begins impersonating Grace via email. But when the police discover suspicious circumstances surrounding Grace's death, Gilda may have to finally reveal the truth of her mortifying existence."--Amazon.
What Moves the Dead
Author: T. Kingfisher
Publisher: Tor Nightfire
Published: 2022-07-12
Total Pages: 117
ISBN-13: 1250830788
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn Instant USA Today & Indie Bestseller A Barnes & Noble Book of the Year Finalist A Goodreads Best Horror Choice Award Nominee A gripping and atmospheric reimagining of Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Fall of the House of Usher” from Hugo, Locus, & Nebula award-winning author T. Kingfisher *A very special hardcover edition, featuring foil stamp on the casing and custom endpapers illustrated by the author.* When Alex Easton, a retired soldier, receives word that their childhood friend Madeline Usher is dying, they race to the ancestral home of the Ushers in the remote countryside of Ruritania. What they find there is a nightmare of fungal growths and possessed wildlife, surrounding a dark, pulsing lake. Madeline sleepwalks and speaks in strange voices at night, and her brother Roderick is consumed with a mysterious malady of the nerves. Aided by a redoubtable British mycologist and a baffled American doctor, Alex must unravel the secret of the House of Usher before it consumes them all. Also by T. Kingfisher What Feasts at Night A House with Good Bones Nettle & Bone Thornhedge A Sorceress Comes to Call At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
My Friend, I Care
Author: Barbara Karnes
Publisher:
Published: 1991-01-01
Total Pages: 14
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"My Friend, I Care addresses the normalcy of grieving while offering suggestions for moving forward into living. It is often used as a sympathy card. It offers an expression of caring while giving support and guidance"--Publisher description.
The Book of the Dead
Author: Muriel Rukeyser
Publisher:
Published: 2018
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781946684219
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWritten in response to the Hawk's Nest Tunnel disaster of 1931 in Gauley Bridge, West Virginia, The Book of the Dead is an important part of West Virginia's cultural heritage and a powerful account of one of the worst industrial catastrophes in American history. The poems collected here investigate the roots of a tragedy that killed hundreds of workers, most of them African American. They are a rare engagement with the overlap between race and environment in Appalachia. Published for the first time alongside photographs by Nancy Naumburg, who accompanied Rukeyser to Gauley Bridge in 1936, this edition of The Book of the Dead includes an introduction by Catherine Venable Moore, whose writing on the topic has been anthologized in Best American Essays.
