Inherit a Murder
Inherit a Murder

Author: Robert Rule

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2000-09

Total Pages: 258

ISBN-13: 0595120725

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Pamela Baxter returns to her small Iowa home town to assume executor's duties for the estate of her favorite aunt. She finds that her aunt may have been murdered and that her own life could be threatened. Love is rekindled at her high school reunion as John Paulsen returns to town for the dinner and dance. She is torn between her urge to flee danger and the desire to stay for romance. Pam and John uncover layer after layer of corruption in this small town. Attorneys use darkly creative schemes to bilk money from their elderly clients. There is a continually increasing danger to Pam as two more elderly women are murdered, but she is not suspicious because the women apparently have succumbed to heart attacks.

To Inherit a Murderer
To Inherit a Murderer

Author: E. J. Ruek

Publisher: The Deepening

Published: 2009-10-03

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 1449512518

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At seven, William killed his mother's dog. At ten, he stabbed his father with a letter opener. There's the murder of the family maid.Willed custody of her best friend's son, Deborah brings home a boy driven by hatred and rage. Injured by him the very first day, he threatens her carefully secured life with increasingly violent acts.But William begins to believe in Deborah as he has never believed in anyone. When Deborah starts to trust in William, though, death answers.A chilling account of a woman who, against her better judgment, reaches out to a boy everyone has pegged as evil. --Liz BrenamanReuk is up there with the best. Crisp, balanced prose. A unique, well-told story. And a protagonist and antagonist the reader won't be able to get enough of. I'm thrilled The Ward is just the first book in a series. ...The Ward is the reason I keep sifting through the galaxy of small and independent publishers; the novel is unique, and it's very good. --Clayton Bye, Reviewer

Inheritance Matters
Inheritance Matters

Author: Suzanne Lenon

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2023-09-21

Total Pages: 337

ISBN-13: 1509964835

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This book makes a compelling case for placing the social and legal practices of inheritance centre stage to make sense of fundamental questions of our time. Drawing on historical, literary, sociological, and legal analysis, this rich collection of original, interdisciplinary and international contributions demonstrates how inheritance is and has always been about far more than the set of legal processes for the distribution of wealth and property upon death. The contributions range from exploring the intractable tensions underlying family disputes and the legal and political debates about taxation, to revisiting literary plots in the past and presenting a contemporary artistic challenge of heirship. With an introduction that presents a critical mapping of the field of inheritance studies, this collection reveals the complexity of ideas about 'passing on', 'legacies', and 'heirlooms'; troubles some of the enduring consequences of 'charitable bequests', 'family money', and 'estate planning; and, deepens our understanding of the intimate and political practices of inheritance.

Murder by the Book
Murder by the Book

Author: Lauren Elliott

Publisher: Kensington Cozies

Published: 2018-10-30

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 1496720229

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Addie Greyborne loved working with rare books at the Boston Public Library—she even got to play detective, tracking down clues about mysterious old volumes. But she didn’t expect her sleuthing skills to come in so handy in a little seaside town . . . Addie left some painful memories behind in the big city, including the unsolved murder of her fiancé and her father’s fatal car accident. After an unexpected inheritance from a great aunt, she’s moved to a small New England town founded by her ancestors back in colonial times—and living in spacious Greyborne Manor, on a hilltop overlooking the harbor. Best of all, her aunt also left her countless first editions and other treasures—providing an inventory to start her own store. But there’s trouble from day one, and not just from the grumpy woman who runs the bakery next door. A car nearly runs Addie down. Someone steals a copy of Alice in Wonderland. Then, Addie’s friend Serena, who owns a nearby tea shop, is arrested—for killing another local merchant. The police seem pretty sure they’ve got the story in hand, but Addie’s not going to let them close the book on this case without a fight . . .

Murder in the Collective
Murder in the Collective

Author: Barbara Wilson

Publisher: Open Road Media

Published: 2013-11-12

Total Pages: 308

ISBN-13: 1480455148

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Seattle printing collective owner Pam Nilsen is on the case when a member of the group turns up dead before a controversial merger Pam Nilsen and her twin sister, Penny, inherited Best Printing four years ago when their parents died in a car crash. Unwilling to sell their family legacy, the sisters turned it into a collective run by a cadre of activists whose arguments over the business can be just as impassioned as their support for progressive causes. But internal divisions at the collective pale in comparison to those between Seattle typesetters B. Violet and Moby Dick—once a single company that has since broken apart into an all-female (and lesbian-run) company, and an all-male (and quickly bankrupt) operation. Shortly after Best Printing and B. Violet begin discussing a merger, the offices of the typesetter are ransacked, one of their members nowhere to be found. Then an employee of Best Printing is found murdered. It appears as if someone will stop at nothing—not even murder—to prevent the merger. And it’s up to Pam to get to the bottom of this deadly turn of events before the killer strikes again. Murder in the Collective is the first book in the Pam Nilsen Mystery trilogy, which continues with Sisters of the Road and The Dog Collar Murders.

The Death of Mrs. Westaway
The Death of Mrs. Westaway

Author: Ruth Ware

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2018-05-29

Total Pages: 416

ISBN-13: 1501156225

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A “perfectly executed suspense tale very much in the mode of Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca” (The Washington Post) from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of In a Dark, Dark Wood, The Woman in Cabin 10, The Lying Game, and The Turn of the Key. On a day that begins like any other, Hal receives a mysterious letter bequeathing her a substantial inheritance. She realizes very quickly that the letter was sent to the wrong person—but also that the cold-reading skills she’s honed as a tarot card reader might help her claim the money. Soon, Hal finds herself at the funeral of the deceased…where it dawns on her that there is something very, very wrong about this strange situation and the inheritance at the center of it. Full of spellbinding menace and told in Ruth Ware’s signature suspenseful style, this is a “captivating and eerie page-turner” (The Wall Street Journal) from the Agatha Christie of our time.

Compound Murder
Compound Murder

Author: Bill Crider

Publisher: Minotaur Books

Published: 2013-08-13

Total Pages: 269

ISBN-13: 1250020468

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Small-town Texas sheriff Dan Rhodes is in for another puzzling mystery in this next in the entertaining, award-winning series Before classes start one morning, the body of English instructor Earl Wellington is found outside the building of the community college. Wellington was clearly involved in a struggle with someone and has died as a result. Sheriff Dan Rhodes pursues and arrests Ike Terrell, a student who was fleeing the campus. Ike's father is Able Terrell, a survivalist who has withdrawn from society and lives in a gated compound. He's not happy that his son has chosen to attend the college, and he's even less happy with the arrest. Rhodes discovers that Wellington and Ike had had a confrontation over a paper that Wellington insisted Ike plagiarized. Wellington also had had a confrontation with the dean and was generally disliked by the students. As the number of suspects increases, it's up to Rhodes to solve the murder while also dealing with an amusing but frustrating staff, a professor who wants to be a cop, and all the other normal occurrences that can wreak havoc in a small town. Bill Crider's Compound Murder is an enjoyable police procedural filled with surprises, chuckles, and a quirky cast that will captivate mystery readers.

Decoding Us
Decoding Us

Author: Erica J Whelton

Publisher: Sunseri Design Publishing

Published: 2023-07-06

Total Pages: 253

ISBN-13: 1956069186

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Four middle-aged friends embark on a week-long treasure-hunting girls' trip as a distraction from the pressures of everyday life, but as it does, life catches up, and they are forced to face their struggles and insecurities. Amy is concerned her third marriage is going the way of the first two. She has no escape because even her job is a source of stress and the mundane tasks drone on. She just needs a break to think. Heather is bored and lonely with her two sons grown and moved away. She lost her identity when she became Tyler’s mom and Cody’s mom. She needs this trip to feel like Heather again. Marissa is burning the candle at both ends, but the burnout is coming. Between her parents living with her and requiring her full attention to her teenage kids' demands, she needs to get away or lose her mind. Denise was just diagnosed with stage 3 colon cancer. This may be the last fun thing she gets to do. Never wanting to be a burden to anyone, she doesn’t mention it to anyone. Now, if only she can hide it from her closest friends, they’ll only have good memories to remember her by. They may or may not find the treasure, but they gain something much more valuable.