Why Is Murder on the Menu, Anyway?
Why Is Murder on the Menu, Anyway?

Author: Stevi Mittman

Publisher: Harlequin

Published: 2012-03-15

Total Pages: 253

ISBN-13: 1459236041

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“What is it with you and murder victims?” When Drew Scoones asks the questions, Teddi Bayer listens. Her latest decorating job for a restaurant spoiled by a murder, Ms. Bayer might just have to submit to the detective’s line of interrogation. After all, her life depends on it. With a mafia don who’s a little too interested in our crazed housewife, it seems as if everyone’s got their eye on the Long Island spitfire. Observe the Botoxed mother who can still wound at thirty feet with just a look and a daughter whose bat mitzvah is a disaster in the making. If Teddi can’t save herself, then the dreamy detective slowly putting the screws to her is the next best thing. But she’s got questions of her own. Like, where are the handcuffs, anyway?

Theory of Prose
Theory of Prose

Author: Виктор Шкловский

Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press

Published: 1991

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 9780916583644

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"Viktor Shklovsky's 1925 book Theory of Prose might have become the most important work of literary criticism in the twentieth century had not two obstacles barred its way: the crackdown by the Soviet dictatorship on Shklovsky and other Russian Formalists in the 1930s, and the unavailability of an English translation. Now translated in its entirety for the first time, Theory of Prose not only anticipates structuralism and post-structuralism, but poses questions about the nature of fiction that are as provocative today as they were in the 1920s. Arguing that writers structure their material according to artistic principles rather than from attempts to imitate "reality," Shklovsky uses Cervantes, Tolstoi, Sterne, Dickens, Bely, and Rozanov to give us a new way of thinking about fiction and, in his most impassioned moments, about the world. Benjamin Sher's lucid translation will allow Shklovsky's Theory of Prose to fulfill its destiny as a major theoretical work of the twentieth century." from back cover.

MURDER WAS ON THE MENU
MURDER WAS ON THE MENU

Author: C.P. Kemabia

Publisher: Speedy Publishing LLC

Published: 2015-07-04

Total Pages: 129

ISBN-13: 1682120708

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A collection of short stories from different genre. From action to drama to supernatural, not to mention the psychological thriller, this collection is sure to include at least one story that will stay with you. These stories are: - Despair Is Sitting on a Bench - My Mother's House - The Call - Murder Was on the Menu - The Reader - Split - The White Caiman - Pen Pals

Death in Her Hands
Death in Her Hands

Author: Ottessa Moshfegh

Publisher: Random House

Published: 2020-08-27

Total Pages: 161

ISBN-13: 1473574064

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'This is a story about what might happen when a woman takes charge... A glorious visceral mystery' The Times While on her daily walk with her dog in the woods near her home, Vesta comes across a chilling handwritten note. Her name was Magda. Nobody will ever know who killed her. It wasn't me. Here is her dead body. Shaky even on her best days, Vesta is also alone, and new to the area, having moved here after the death of her husband. Her brooding about the note grows quickly into a full-blown obsession: who was Magda and how did she meet her fate? From the Booker-shortlisted author of Eileen comes this razor-sharp, chilling and darkly hilarious novel about the stories we tell ourselves and how we strive to obscure the truth. __________________________ PRAISE FOR DEATH IN HER HANDS: 'Routinely hailed as one of the most exciting young American authors working today' Guardian 'A new kind of murder mystery' New Yorker 'Dark, devious' Observer 'A fine line between shocking realism and the absurd' New Statesman 'A brilliant off-kilter detective story' Evening Standard 'A beautiful novel' Sunday Times

A Pocket Full of Murder
A Pocket Full of Murder

Author: R. J. Anderson

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2015-09-08

Total Pages: 368

ISBN-13: 1481437739

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A determined young girl joins forces with an adventure-loving street boy to save her father’s life in this “thoroughly entertaining” (Kirkus Reviews) magical murder mystery. In the spell-powered city of Tarreton, the wealthy have all the magic they desire while the working class can barely afford a simple spell to heat their homes. Twelve-year-old Isaveth is poor, but she’s also brave, loyal, and zealous in the pursuit of justice—which is lucky, because her father has just been wrongfully arrested for murder. Isaveth is determined to prove his innocence. Quiz, the eccentric, eyepatch-wearing street boy who befriends her, swears he can’t resist a good mystery. Together they set out to solve the magical murder of one of Tarreton’s most influential citizens and save Isaveth’s beloved Papa from execution. But is Quiz truly helping Isaveth out of friendship, or does he have hidden motives of his own?

Any Way the Wind Blows
Any Way the Wind Blows

Author: Rainbow Rowell

Publisher: Wednesday Books

Published: 2021-07-06

Total Pages: 450

ISBN-13: 1250254345

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New York Times bestselling author Rainbow Rowell's epic fantasy, the Simon Snow trilogy, concludes with Any Way the Wind Blows. In Carry On, Simon Snow and his friends realized that everything they thought they understood about the world might be wrong. And in Wayward Son, they wondered whether everything they understood about themselves might be wrong. Now, Simon and Baz and Penelope and Agatha must decide how to move forward. For Simon, that means choosing whether he still wants to be part of the World of Mages — and if he doesn't, what does that mean for his relationship with Baz? Meanwhile Baz is bouncing between two family crises and not finding any time to talk to anyone about his newfound vampire knowledge. Penelope would love to help, but she's smuggled an American Normal into London, and now she isn't sure what to do with him. And Agatha? Well, Agatha Wellbelove has had enough. Any Way the Wind Blows takes the gang back to England, back to Watford, and back to their families for their longest and most emotionally wrenching adventure yet. This book is a finale. It tells secrets and answers questions and lays ghosts to rest. The Simon Snow Trilogy was conceived as a book about Chosen One stories; Any Way the Wind Blows is an ending about endings—about catharsis and closure, and how we choose to move on from the traumas and triumphs that try to define us.

The Trouble with Twins
The Trouble with Twins

Author: Nancy Warren

Publisher: Harlequin Treasury-Harlequin Superromance 90s

Published: 2006-12

Total Pages: 388

ISBN-13: 9780373781355

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She's nearly broke and raising two kids on her own, thanks to her deadbeat ex. He's dealing with a pair of mischief-making twins still grieving the loss of their mother. To top it all off, as the CEO of her bank, he has the power to make or break her future. But there is an undeniable connection between Melissa Theisen and Seth O'Reilly. And their children get along really well. Bringing these two broken families together seems the next logical step. But who ever heard of marrying for logic?

The Aosawa Murders
The Aosawa Murders

Author: Riku Onda

Publisher: Bitter Lemon Press

Published: 2020-01-16

Total Pages: 217

ISBN-13: 191224246X

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On a stormy summer day the Aosawas, owners of a prominent local hospital, host a large birthday party. The occasion turns into tragedy when 17 people die from cyanide in their drinks. The only surviving links to what might have happened are a cryptic verse that could be the killer's, and the physician's bewitching blind daughter, Hisako, the only person spared injury. But the youth who emerges as the prime suspect commits suicide that October, effectively sealing his guilt while consigning his motives to mystery. The police are convinced that Hisako had a role in the crime, as are many in the town, including the author of a bestselling book about the murders written a decade after the incident, who was herself a childhood friend of Hisako' and witness to the discovery of the murders. The truth is revealed through a skilful juggling of testimony by different voices: family members, witnesses and neighbours, police investigators and of course the mesmerizing Hisako herself.

The Tattoo Murder Case
The Tattoo Murder Case

Author: Akimitsu Takagi

Publisher: Soho Press

Published: 2003-07-01

Total Pages: 353

ISBN-13: 1569471568

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Kinue Nomura survived World War II only to be murdered in Tokyo, her severed limbs discovered in a room locked from the inside. Gone is the part of her that bore one of the most beautiful full-body tattoos ever rendered. Kenzo Matsushita, a young doctor who was first to discover the crime scene, feels compelled to assist his detective brother, who is in charge of the case. But Kenzo has a secret: he was Kinue’s lover, and soon his involvement in the investigation becomes as twisted and complex as the writhing snakes that once adorned Kinue’s torso. The Tattoo Murder Case was originally published in 1948; this is the first English translation.