The Goddess of Crime and Other Stories
The Goddess of Crime and Other Stories

Author: Michael La Ronn

Publisher: Author Level Up LLC

Published: 2024-10-02

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13:

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Ten page-turning science fiction & fantasy short stories from Michael La Ronn, one of the most prolific science fiction & fantasy authors of his generation. With over 100 books to his name, Michael La Ronn debuts his award-winning short fiction in this groundbreaking new series. From forgotten goddesses to magical uncles to dark apocalyptic adventures, Strange Stories showcases La Ronn's vivid world-building, quirky humor, and unforgettable characters. In the lead story, “The Goddess of Crime,” a goddess arrives in a crime-ridden city to collect a dark tribute from her subjects, only to uncover something far more sinister. This story, featured in the Hidden Villains: Betrayed anthology, earned Silver Honorable Mention in the Writers of the Future Contest. Each story brims with thrills, strange twists, and haunting beauty, topped off by an exclusive behind-the-scenes author's note. But that’s not all—readers also get a Strange Stories exclusive: the Encore story. This daring, genre-bending bonus tale ties together the worlds, characters, and stories of the collection in a mind-bending finale you won’t see coming. Stories included in this volume: • The Goddess of Crime • The Goddess of Justice • Hangin’ with Uncle Funky • All Hallowed Roads • Return to Exodus Ranch • Alone in Naked Greed • Almost Dawn • Maybe Now the Stars Will Shine • Quick—Only a Fool Would Say That! • One Last Thing Before We Dock • (Bonus) Encore No. 1 Get ready to stay up late with these strange and captivating tales. V1.0

Blind Goddess
Blind Goddess

Author: Anne Holt

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2012-06-05

Total Pages: 354

ISBN-13: 1451634900

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The first book in Edgar-nominated Anne Holt’s international bestselling mystery series featuring detective Hanne Wilhelmsen, last seen in 1222. A small-time drug dealer is found battered to death on the outskirts of the Norwegian capital, Oslo. A young Dutchman, walking aimlessly in central Oslo covered in blood, is taken into custody but refuses to talk. When he is informed that the woman who discovered the body, Karen Borg, is a lawyer, he demands her as his defender, although her specialty is civil, not criminal, law. A couple of days later another lawyer is found shot to death. Soon police officers Håkon Sand and Hanne Wilhelmsen establish a link between the two killings. They also find a coded message hidden in the murdered lawyer’s apartment. Their maverick colleague in the drugs squad, Billy T., reports that a recent rumor in the drug underworld involves drug-dealing lawyers. Now the reason why the young Dutchman insisted on having Karen Borg as a defender slowly dawns on them: since she was the one to find and report the body, she is the only Oslo lawyer that cannot be implicated in the crime. As the officers investigate, they uncover a massive network of corruption leading to the highest levels of government. As their lives are threatened, Hanne and her colleagues must find the killer and, in the process, bring the lies and deception out into the open.

The Goddess Chronicle
The Goddess Chronicle

Author: Natsuo Kirino

Publisher: Canongate Books

Published: 2021-09-02

Total Pages: 214

ISBN-13: 1838857583

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On an island in the shape of a teardrop live two sisters. One is admired far and wide, the other lives in her shadow. One is the Oracle, the other is destined for the Underworld. But what will happen when she returns to the island? Based on the Japanese myth of Izanami and Izanagi, The Goddess Chronicle is a fantastical tour de force about ferocious love and bitter revenge. The Myths series brings together some of the world’s finest writers, each of whom has retold a myth in a contemporary and memorable way. Authors in the series include Karen Armstrong, Margaret Atwood, A.S. Byatt, David Grossman, Natsuo Kirino, Alexander McCall Smith, Philip Pullman, Ali Smith and Jeanette Winterson.

The Goddess of War
The Goddess of War

Author: Dennis McCown

Publisher: Sunstone Press

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 344

ISBN-13: 0865348995

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John Wesley Hardin is the most famous gunfighter of the American Wild West. The subject of conversations from the Mexican border to the rowdy saloons of Kansas, he was the greatest celebrity of the age. He wrote an autobiography, but he only told what he wanted known, and few have researched beyond that. Today, Hardin is an enigma. Part of the mystery is his disastrous relationship with Helen Beulah Mrose, yet she has not been researched at all. Until now. Helen Beulah’s story is the final piece of the vast jigsaw of Hardin’s life and legend. Author Dennis McCown has delved into the mystery of Helen Beulah. Researching from Florida to California and north to faraway Alaska, McCown has uncovered one of the great tragedies of the Wild West. He developed this into the story of those around John Wesley Hardin. In the end, this is a woman’s story, not a gunfighter’s, and it’s also four biographies. Hardin’s story is told, but so is Helen Mrose’s. Martin Mrose and Laura Jennings are little known today, but their lives are integral to the mystery. Written for a general audience, the story includes footnotes for those interested in knowing more, footnotes historian Leon Metz called “the best I’ve ever seen.”

Goddess
Goddess

Author: Kelly Gardiner

Publisher: Harper Collins

Published: 2014-06-01

Total Pages: 352

ISBN-13: 1460702492

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A sparkling, witty and compelling novel based on the tragic rise and fall of the beautiful seventeenth century swordswoman and opera singer, Julie d'Aubigny (also known as La Maupin), a woman whose story is too remarkable to be true - and yet it is. Versailles, 1686: Julie d'Aubigny, a striking young girl taught to fence and fight in the court of the Sun King, is taken as mistress by the King's Master of Horse. tempestuous, swashbuckling and volatile, within two years she has run away with her fencing master, fallen in love with a nun and is hiding from the authorities, sentenced to be burnt at the stake. Within another year, she has become a beloved star at the famed Paris Opera. Her lovers include some of Europe's most powerful men and France's most beautiful women. Yet Julie is destined to die alone in a convent at the age of 33. Based on an extraordinary true story, this is an original, dazzling and witty novel - a compelling portrait of an unforgettable woman. 'I thought the book was utterly fascinating, dazzlingly original and inventive, and written with such wit and flair. the character of Julie is drawn so poignantly - what a woman!' Kate Forsyth 'An engaging and skilfully told tale of a singular character' Sydney Morning Herald 'The divine creature who plummets 'from the painted clouds' to center stage in Kelly Gardiner's gender-bending picaresque Goddess, is based on an actual historical character, Julie d'Aubigny. Scenes sparkle with period details and sensory impressions: all spectacle and shimmer, all gesture and pose, Baroque mask and mirror and role-play. Gardiner does this very well. And her goddess fascinates.' New York Times Book Review 'This is a wonderful story, made all the more gripping for being founded on truth. Gardiner undertakes to bring this ambiguous and outrageous woman back to life ... she succeeds with flair ... I wholeheartedly recommend this book as the most exquisitely-rendered historical novel I have read in years.' Historical Novel Society review

The Crime of the Wandering Dog and Other Stories The Brothers Grim & Grimy
The Crime of the Wandering Dog and Other Stories The Brothers Grim & Grimy

Author: Declan Moran

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2019-12-18

Total Pages: 190

ISBN-13: 035988668X

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The Crime of the Wandering Dog and Other Stories is a collection of illustrated poems by the Brothers Grim and Grimy, the nom the plume of the Irish artist and writer Declan Moran. Tales that stretch from the start to the end of time, and from the top to the very bottom, and from the bottom to the very top again.

Goddess of the North
Goddess of the North

Author: Lynda C. Welch

Publisher: Weiser Books

Published: 2001-04-01

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 9781578631704

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A thorough, academic look at the past, present, and future of Norse polytheism. Welch highlights many Norse goddesses as well as other divine females of the Norse pantheon - Valkyries, Norns, Giantesses, Disir - and in a straightforward manner, makes a definitive case for the primordial goddess.

The Immortals
The Immortals

Author: Jordanna Max Brodsky

Publisher: Orbit

Published: 2016-02-16

Total Pages: 438

ISBN-13: 0316385875

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In this modern-day "lively re-imagining of classical mythology" (Deborah Harkness), when a string of women are murdered in an ancient pagan ritual, Selene DiSilvia -- known by some as the goddess Artemis -- hears their cries for help and takes up her bow once more. Manhattan has many secrets. Some are older than the city itself. The city sleeps. In the predawn calm, Selene DiSilva finds the body of a young woman washed ashore, gruesomely mutilated and wreathed in laurel. Her ancient rage returns, along with the memory of a promise she made long ago -- when her name was Artemis. Jordanna Max Brodsky's acclaimed debut sets Greek Gods against a modern Manhattan backdrop, creating an unputdownable blend of myth and mystery.

Goddess
Goddess

Author: Natasha Luxe

Publisher: Independently Published

Published: 2021-10-15

Total Pages: 140

ISBN-13:

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The Heroes and Villains saga comes to its explosive finale with the sixth book in this scorching hot organized crime romance series that brings your superhero fantasies to life... Persephone: The Villain Queen The Hive: Her worst enemy . . . and the only one who can save her I spent centuries trying to both avenge my home and stop the destroyer Niberu from wreaking his chaos on other planets. But I have failed. And now, Niberu is on Earth. I will need all my allies to combat him. My closest confidante and her Watcher; my winged fighter and his new wife; my ex-Hero and his two lovers; my child and her Steel Soldier; Niberu's turncoat daughter and the new CEO of Heroes Org; my brother and his scientist with her monster. There is one other I know would bolster our ranks. One who sits in my own dungeon for crimes unatoned. Letting him out may save this planet . . . but it would destroy my heart.

Zero-Sum
Zero-Sum

Author: Joyce Carol Oates

Publisher: Random House

Published: 2024-09-10

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13: 0593469585

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Zero-sum games are played for lethal stakes in these arresting stories by one of America’s most acclaimed writers, the award-winning, best-selling author of Blonde A brilliant young philosophy student bent on seducing her famous philosopher-mentor finds herself outmaneuvered; diabolically clever high school girls wreak a particularly apt sort of vengeance on sexual predators in their community; a woman stalked by a would-be killer may be confiding in the wrong former lover; a young woman is morbidly obsessed by her unfamiliar new role as “mother.” In the collection’s longest story, a much-praised cutting-edge writer cruelly experiments with “drafts” of his own suicide. In these powerfully wrought stories that hold a mirror up to our time, Joyce Carol Oates has created a world of erotic obsession, thwarted idealism, and ever-shifting identities. Provocative and stunning, Zero-Sum reinforces Oates’s standing as a literary treasure and an artist of the mysterious interior life.