Jesus Never Drove a Desoto
Jesus Never Drove a Desoto

Author: Denis O'Rourke

Publisher: AuthorHouse

Published: 2020-08-04

Total Pages: 483

ISBN-13: 1728367506

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Los Angeles private investigators, Nick Gamble and his long time fiancée Vera Foxxe have retired and moved to Sun City Coyote, a Phoenix area Over-55 community that boasts America’s lowest crime rate. It’s true. Until Nick and Vera arrive, Sun City Coyote geriatrics have experienced death in only two ways, those time-tested ways of all retirement communities: natural causes, and my golf cart has the right of way, so move your F-ing Buick.

Toxicity
Toxicity

Author: Denis O’Rourke

Publisher: AuthorHouse

Published: 2016-04-30

Total Pages: 331

ISBN-13: 1524605689

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Toxicity In this exciting prequel to ORourkes thrilling debut novel, Proposition, Napa Valley attorney, Riley Scofield is up to her pretty neck in another toxic mess. And this time its not just environmental. Rileys trying to mend a long-standing feud between the Scofield and Royster families when shes asked to represent the sale of a clients condemned toxic property. When Riley discovers the contamination reports have been falsified, the clients property value goes upway up. The client tells everyone about their good luck, and suddenly, Riley has an office full of new clients needing help with their contamination problems. It seems like a win-win. Riley is busier than ever, but shes also in the way of someones plan for making millions turning Napa Valleys toxic properties green. They drop a hint on Rileya hint that goes boom. Rileys fighting on three toxic fronts now: an environmental conspiracy, a fifty-year blood feud, and most importantstaying alive. Includes a bonus chapter of Denis ORourkes upcoming novel, Jesus Never Drove a Desoto. www.denisorourke.com Murder Menace Merriment

The Philistine Gamble
The Philistine Gamble

Author: Denis O'Rourke

Publisher: AuthorHouse

Published: 2015-09-03

Total Pages: 366

ISBN-13: 1504928385

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With The Philistine Gamble, ORourke adds mystery and a noir style to his mantra of Murder, Menace and Merriment. Compost happens. Discount private eye Nick Gamble says that a lot, usually when he opens the mail, but today its worse. Our flawed and philandering PI finds his friend and mentor, Bishop Francis Xavier Augustini, dead in the church office. It doesnt help when one of LAPDs not-so-finest Lieutenant Hardcastle catches Nick at the murder scene and takes him in for questioning. When Hardcastle asks for the thousandth time why Gamble killed his friend, Nick finally confesses. It was Amway. The Bishop said I had to hold meetings, invite my friends. I only wanted to sell the soap. We argued. Nick wants to know who really killed his friend, but the Russian Mafia, the Vatican Police, too many bad cops, and a three thousand-year-old, muscle-bound geezer keep getting in the way. Theyre all after the same thingan ancient manuscript worth millions. Nicks going to need a lot of help, and he gets it. Theres Leo the massive mailman, a mini fridge with a bum leg and a trick door, a secret underwear gun, and Vera Foxxe, Nicks able assistant and long-time bride to bethe sexiest woman on earth. If you dont believe it, ask the Dalai Lama. This double feature will keep you guessingand laughinguntil the last page. Twice. Sorry, youll have to bring your own popcorn. Includes a preview of Toxicity. Attorney Riley Scofield returns in Denis ORourkes exciting prequel to Proposition. Read inside: Acclaim for Denis ORourkes stories.

Groovy Gumshoes
Groovy Gumshoes

Author: Jack Bates

Publisher: Down & Out Books

Published: 2022-04-11

Total Pages: 196

ISBN-13:

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The Sixties were a time of great cultural upheaval, when long-established social norms were challenged and everything changed: from music to fashion to social mores. And the Leave It to Beaver households in Middle America didn’t know what to make of it all. In the midst of this, private eyes tried to understand and bridge the generational divide while providing their clients with legal and extra-legal detecting services. From old-school private eyes with their flat-tops, off-the-rack suits, and well-worn brogues to the new breed of private eyes with their shoulder-length hair, bell-bottoms, and hemp sandals, the shamuses in Groovy Gumshoes take readers on a rollicking romp through the Sixties. With stories by Jack Bates, C.W. Blackwell, Michael Bracken, N.M. Cedeño, Hugh Lessig, Steve Liskow, Adam Meyer, Tom Milani, Neil S. Plakcy, Stephen D. Rogers, Mark Thielman, Grant Tracey, Mark Troy, Andrew Welsh-Huggins, and Robb White.

Breaking Through
Breaking Through

Author: Francisco Jiménez

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13: 9780618011735

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Ray
Ray

Author: Barry Hannah

Publisher: Open Road + Grove/Atlantic

Published: 2007-12-01

Total Pages: 132

ISBN-13: 1555846459

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“A shorthand epic of extraordinary power . . . A novel of brilliant particulars and dizzying juxtapositions” from the acclaimed southern author of Geronimo Rex (Newsweek). Nominated for the American Book Award, Ray is the bizarre, hilarious, and consistently adventurous story of a life on the edge. Dr. Ray—a womanizer, small-town drunk, vigilante, poet, adoring husband—is a man trying to make sense of life in the twentieth century. In flight from the death he dealt flying over Vietnam, Dr. Ray struggles with those bound to him by need, sickness, lunacy, by blood and by love. “This novel hangs in the memory like a fishhook. It will haunt you long after you have finally put it down. Barry Hannah is a talent to reckon with, and I can only hope that Ray finds an audience it deserves.” —Harry Crews, The Washington Post Book World

Maddy’S Place
Maddy’S Place

Author: R L Bowden

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Published: 2018-02-20

Total Pages: 582

ISBN-13: 1984509667

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Sex & Drugs & Rock n Bowl This is serious business. Newly promoted Chief Homicide Detective Jack Diamonds first case is to solve the death of the towns most famous resident, professional bowler Biff Bower. Bowers body was found standing upright on the eve of his annual Memorial Day weekend bowling tournament. An illegal, grueling 72-hour winner-take-all marathon tournament. Detective Diamonds previous experience is of a 20-year veteran beat cop, whose duties were consisted of berating jaywalkers and checking parking meters. Promoted out of necessity and working with a skeleton crew, Diamond must do most of the legwork himself along with Lydia, Biff Bowers, mysterious, young personal biographer. Lydia was also the last known person to have seen Bower alive. Through Lydia, Diamond gets to know Maddys Place. A home for wayward girls that Bower frequented often during his turbulent youth. He gets to know the influences that he had on it, as well. Within Bower's fifty-year career and the people who shared his life may lie the clues that led to his demise.

Velva Jean Learns to Drive
Velva Jean Learns to Drive

Author: Jennifer Niven

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2009-07-28

Total Pages: 434

ISBN-13: 0452289459

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The New York Times bestselling author of All the Bright Places—soon to be a Netflix film starring Elle Fanning—presents a coming-of-age debut about ill-fated love during the Great Depression—and what it means to be a woman with ambition. Velva Jean’s mother urged her to “live out there in the great wide world,” and growing up in Appalachia in the years before World War II, Velva Jean dreams of becoming a big-time singer in Nashville. Then she falls in love with Harley Bright, a handsome juvenile delinquent turned revival preacher. As their tumultuous love story unfolds, Velva Jean must choose between keeping her hard-won home and pursuing her dream of singing in the Grand Ole Opry. Like All the Bright Places, hailed as a “charming love story about [an] unlikely and endearing pair” (New York Times Book Review), Jennifer Niven’s debut novel is a big-hearted story about the struggle to find happiness.

Live to Fight Another Day
Live to Fight Another Day

Author: Paul J. Verheyden

Publisher: AuthorHouse

Published: 2010-01-25

Total Pages: 236

ISBN-13: 1449068510

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Paul’s life-changing events: 1. Born a triplet in 1955 – 4th of 6 children in family 2. Mom died when I was 5 years old in 1961. She was 45. 3. Dad married Mother when I was 7 in 1963. 4. Acceptance of Jesus Christ as Savior Lord at age 13, 1968. 5. College & single life- ages 18-26, 1974 - 1981. 6. Older sister died when I was 23 in 1978. She was 29. 7. Married at age 27 in 1982. 8. Birth of 1st daughter in 1986. 9. Birth of 1st son in 1987. 10. Delta Plane Crash when I was 33 in 1988. 11. Registered Architect, State of TX at age 34 in 1989. 12. Birth of 2nd son in 1990. 13. Car crash when I was 36 in 1991. 14. Registered Interior Designer, State of TX, age 38 in 1993. 15. Birth of 2nd daughter in 1993. 16. Mother died when I was 40 in 1995. She was 82. 17. Dad married Laverna when I was 41 in 1996. 18. Separation of both legs simultaneously at age 44 in 2000. 19. Miracle of the Crusaders Football Team at age 47 in 2003. 20. Dad died when I was 50 in 2006. He was 90. 21. Brain Surgery at age 53 in Jan. 2009. 22. 2 seizures with work and income loss at 53 in Feb. 2009. 23. Shoulder Surgery twice at 53 in Mar. 2009. Use the Bible Reading charts in the back of the book to read through the Bible in one year!