Memories Can Be Murder
Memories Can Be Murder

Author: Connie Shelton

Publisher: Secret Staircase Books, an imprint of Columbine Publishing Group

Published: 2010-07-19

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13: 1452403104

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Praise for USA Today bestseller Connie Shelton: “This novel offers memorable details . . . and an edgy, paranoid atmosphere.” –Booklist “Connie Shelton has another winner.” –The Book Report “Charlie is a good detective and a pleasant companion to unravel a mystery with.” –Mystery News “The best of the series. Memories Can Be Murder demonstrates Connie Shelton’s talent as the audience will find a night with Charlie is an exciting evening.” –Harriet Klausner, online reviewer While stowing boxes away in her attic in preparation for her fiancé’s move-in, Albuquerque CPA Charlie Parker uncovers chilling information about her father — and his work as a scientist during the Cold War years. Worse, she now suspects the fatal plane crash that killed both her parents was murder, and that her father's employer squashed the investigation. Determined to solve the fifteen-year-old crime, Charlie quickly learns that asking questions is dangerous. Soon, dead ends — and dead bodies — have her worried she's next on the hit list. But what secret is worth killing for after all this time? And who is worried enough to go to murderous lengths to keep the door to the truth closed? The shocking answers are tied inexorably with the past — and present — and just might cost Charlie her future. "Connie Shelton gets better with every book she writes." --The Midwest Book Review Search words: mystery, crime fiction, espionage, Cold War, New Mexico, Charlie Parker, Connie Shelton, bestselling mystery series, series books, romance and mystery, mystery books with dogs, mystery books with romance

Memory Can be Murder
Memory Can be Murder

Author: Elizabeth Daniels Squire

Publisher: Berkley

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780425147726

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Peaches, the forgetful amateur sleuth, was working on her book when she was interrupted by a call from a cousin she hadn't seen in years, and couldn't really remember. Peaches agreed to pay her cousin a visit and during her stay finds a corpse stuffed in a laundry chute. Now Peaches has to recall every detail of the visit, in the hope that she can find the killer.

Memory Can Be Murder
Memory Can Be Murder

Author: Elizabeth Daniels Squire

Publisher:

Published: 2014-05-27

Total Pages: 380

ISBN-13: 9781589851818

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A body is found stuffed in a laundry bin. Peaches must contend with rattlesnakes and an odd cast of characters before the mystery is solved.

Once Upon a Time
Once Upon a Time

Author: Vivian French

Publisher: Candlewick Press (MA)

Published: 1996-09

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781564028068

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A bored boy's world is suddenly populated by three house-building pigs, a girl wearing a red hood, and other familiar nursery characters.

Piano Lessons Can Be Murder (Goosebumps #13)
Piano Lessons Can Be Murder (Goosebumps #13)

Author: R. L. Stine

Publisher: Scholastic Inc.

Published: 2018-06-26

Total Pages: 118

ISBN-13: 0545910390

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Convinced that there is something creepy about his new piano teacher, Jerry soon hears terrifying stories about Dr. Shreek's music school and students who never completed their lesson alive.

The Teeth May Smile But the Heart Does Not Forget
The Teeth May Smile But the Heart Does Not Forget

Author: Andrew Rice

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2009-05-26

Total Pages: 386

ISBN-13: 9780805079654

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From Rwanda to Sierra Leone, African countries recovering from tyranny and war are facing an impossible dilemma: to overlook past atrocities for the sake of peace or to seek catharsis through tribunals and truth commissions. In this work, Rice reports on Idi Amin's legacy and the limits of reconciliation.

A Memory of Murder
A Memory of Murder

Author: Ray Bradbury

Publisher: Dell Publishing Company

Published: 1984

Total Pages: 198

ISBN-13:

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"Vintage gems of crime and terror by a modern master of the macabre"--Cover.

Deer Creek Drive
Deer Creek Drive

Author: Beverly Lowry

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 2023-08-01

Total Pages: 369

ISBN-13: 1984898361

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The stunning true story of a murder that rocked the Mississippi Delta and forever shaped one author’s life and perception of home. “Mix together a bloody murder in a privileged white family, a false accusation against a Black man, a suspicious town, a sensational trial with colorful lawyers, and a punishment that didn’t fit the crime, and you have the best of southern gothic fiction. But the very best part is that the story is true.” —John Grisham In 1948, in the most stubbornly Dixiefied corner of the Jim Crow south, society matron Idella Thompson was viciously murdered in her own home: stabbed at least 150 times and left facedown in one of the bathrooms. Her daughter, Ruth Dickins, was the only other person in the house. She told authorities a Black man she didn’t recognize had fled the scene, but no evidence of the man's presence was uncovered. When Dickins herself was convicted and sentenced to life in prison, the community exploded. Petitions pleading for her release were drafted, signed, and circulated, and after only six years, the governor of Mississippi granted Ruth Dickins an indefinite suspension of her sentence and she was set free. In Deer Creek Drive, Beverly Lowry—who was ten at the time of the murder and lived mere miles from the Thompsons’ home—tells a story of white privilege that still has ramifications today, and reflects on the brutal crime, its aftermath, and the ways it clarified her own upbringing in Mississippi.

Ghost of the Ozarks
Ghost of the Ozarks

Author: Brooks Blevins

Publisher: University of Illinois Press

Published: 2012-03-15

Total Pages: 306

ISBN-13: 0252094115

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In 1929, in a remote county of the Arkansas Ozarks, the gruesome murder of harmonica-playing drifter Connie Franklin and the brutal rape of his teenaged fiancée captured the attention of a nation on the cusp of the Great Depression. National press from coast to coast ran stories of the sensational exploits of night-riding moonshiners, powerful "Barons of the Hills," and a world of feudal oppression in the isolation of the rugged Ozarks. The ensuing arrest of five local men for both crimes and the confusion and superstition surrounding the trial and conviction gave Stone County a dubious and short-lived notoriety. Closely examining how the story and its regional setting were interpreted by the media, Brooks Blevins recounts the gripping events of the murder investigation and trial, where a man claiming to be the murder victim--the "Ghost" of the Ozarks--appeared to testify. Local conditions in Stone County, which had no electricity and only one long-distance telephone line, frustrated the dozen or more reporters who found their way to the rural Ozarks, and the developments following the arrests often prompted reporters' caricatures of the region: accusations of imposture and insanity, revelations of hidden pasts and assumed names, and threats of widespread violence. Locating the past squarely within the major currents of American history, Ghost of the Ozarks: Murder and Memory in the Upland South paints a convincing backdrop to a story that, more than 80 years later, remains riddled with mystery.

Who Named the Knife
Who Named the Knife

Author: Linda Spalding

Publisher: Anchor

Published: 2008-10-07

Total Pages: 274

ISBN-13: 0307279200

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When a murder occurs in beautiful Hawaii, the suspects are two young mainlanders on their honeymoon. Mayann Acker is eighteen-years-old. Her husband, William, is twenty-eight and just out of prison.Linda Spalding is chosen as a juror for Maryann's trail. Surprisingly, the chief witness against her is William. Spalding has her doubts, but on the last day of the trial she is abruptly dismissed from the jury. Maryann is found guilty. Who Named the Knife is the story of how, eighteen years later, Spalding tracks down Maryann and uncovers much more than the answer to the question of her innocence. A complex journey into the twists of fate that spin two lives down different paths, Who Named the Knife offers profound insight into the human heart.