Un-friend: A Cozy Mystery Short Story
Un-friend: A Cozy Mystery Short Story

Author: S. Y. Robins

Publisher: Cozy Murder Mystery Bookshelf

Published:

Total Pages: 38

ISBN-13:

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Enjoy this fun amateur sleuth short story by best-selling cozy murder mystery blind author S.Y. Robins. We’d been planning it for months, a weekend getaway just for the ladies of Coffee and Cake, an online social group of women that had come to form a very strong bond over the years. Thirteen of us, that is, until one of us died on night one of our trip. Secrets are revealed, suspicions are levelled, and accusations are made. Can an online group of women really be true friends or is it all just a lie they have spent an age imagining? The murder of one of their own could tear it all apart and for one member in particular, Babette Martin, her very freedom may depend on finding the real killer. A web of lies, far too many instances of turning a blind eye, and the arrogance of one woman could tear apart the entire group. Far more is at stake and the very sanity of one member could be in peril. Are online relationships the same, or as good as real life relationships, and can a group of women really truly be friends? Babette is about to find out, she just has to survive the ordeal first. If you enjoy a light-hearted, easy, and relaxing murder mystery book, then this is the book for you. Suitable for fans of Agatha Christie, Richard Osman, and Deany Ray.

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.

Dead Famous
Dead Famous

Author: Ben Elton

Publisher: Random House

Published: 2012-11-08

Total Pages: 384

ISBN-13: 1448167523

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"Wry, fast and fiendishly clever" (The Times) One house. Ten contestants. Thirty cameras. Forty microphones. Yet again the public gorges its voyeuristic appetite as another group of unknown and unremarkable people submit themselves to the brutal exposure of the televised real-life soap opera, House Arrest. Everybody knows the rules: total strangers are forced to live together while the rest of the country watches them do it. Who will crack first? Who will have sex with whom? Who will the public love and who will they hate? All the usual questions. And then, suddenly, there are some new ones. Who is the murderer? How did he or she manage to kill under the constant gaze of the thirty television cameras? Why did they do it? And who will be next?

Witch You Were Dead: A Cozy Mystery Short Story
Witch You Were Dead: A Cozy Mystery Short Story

Author: S. Y. Robins

Publisher: Cozy Murder Mystery Bookshelf

Published:

Total Pages: 40

ISBN-13:

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Enjoy this fun amateur sleuth short story by best-selling cozy murder mystery blind author S.Y. Robins. Helena Richardson is a solitary witch determined to keep her license to practice witchcraft. Something has slowly been sapping her powers however and this is no more evident than when her license is restricted with a notice of 30-days given to improve her skills. On the advice of a friend Helena asks the ancient spirits of Standing Stone Circle to aid her in her plight. She believes she’s been given a chance, a test, to prove her worthiness when she stumbles across a body. She never expected the outcome would be a shambling shell of a man. Desperate for answers and to fix the damage she’s done Helena learns she has to wait for Halloween night to ask for help. As Helena seeks out answers as to who the man is, who killed him, and how she can return him to normal, Helena learns that sometimes you have to rely on yourself to get what you want. And if she can improve her skills in witchcraft in the meantime that would be great too. If you enjoy a light-hearted, easy, and relaxing murder mystery book, then this is the book for you. Suitable for fans of Agatha Christie, Richard Osman, and Deany Ray.

Apple Pie a la Murder
Apple Pie a la Murder

Author: Kathleen Suzette

Publisher:

Published: 2018-05-05

Total Pages: 124

ISBN-13: 9781520984513

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Welcome to Sandy Harbor, Maine a place where everyone knows everyone, as well as everyone else's business. It's a small town with a big problem when local businessman Henry Hoffer turns up dead. Local blogger and pie baker extraordinaire, Allie McSwain, also has a problem. When she discovers Henry's body, she finds herself suddenly a suspect in his murder. Allie and her sidekick Lucy Gray set out to discover the real killer before the wrong person ends up in an orange jumpsuit.

Another One Bites the Crust
Another One Bites the Crust

Author: Ellie Alexander

Publisher: St. Martin's Paperbacks

Published: 2018-01-02

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 1250159369

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Torte—the beloved small-town bakeshop run by Jules Capshaw—is set to hit the stage. But who would have guessed that murder would makes a surprise appearance? It’s the role of a lifetime for Jules. The Shakespeare Festival has returned to Ashland, Oregon, for the season and Torte has been cast as the supplier of Elizabethan-era treats for the main event. But on the eve of opening night, a brawl between Jules’s friend Lance, the artistic director, and a strapping young thespian named Anthony almost brings down the house. . .and the next morning, Anthony is dead. Jules knows that Lance loves his drama—and his just desserts—but she also knows that murder is way off-script for him. Now it’s up to Jules to cut through a bevy of backstage betrayals and catty co-stars who all have their own secrets—before the curtain drops on someone else. . . The Bakeshop mysteries are: “Delectable.”—Portland Book Review “Delicious.”—RT Book Reviews “Marvelous.” —Fresh Fiction

A Touch of Frost
A Touch of Frost

Author: R.D. Wingfield

Publisher: Random House

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 436

ISBN-13: 0552145556

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Humorous tale of a local police force's fight against crime and corruption, featuring the raffish Detective Inspector Frost. by the author of áFrost at Christmas'.

Wicked Vampire: A Paranormal Cozy Mystery Short Story
Wicked Vampire: A Paranormal Cozy Mystery Short Story

Author: S. Y. Robins

Publisher: Cozy Murder Mystery Bookshelf

Published:

Total Pages: 41

ISBN-13:

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Enjoy this fun amateur sleuth short story by best-selling cozy murder mystery blind author S.Y. Robins. Sina Wheeler is your typical woman, living with her roommate, working from home, and trying to make it day by day. A regular at the Druid’s Grove Sina has a few unusual friends, including a witch named Oona, but her best friend is her roommate, Gia. And Gia may just be a vampire. Or a Goth sunk so far into the lifestyle that she’s harming herself. Sina dismisses Gia’s behaviours and pale appearance as a phase, after all, her friend lost her parents at an early age. Who else would have the right to be depressed and into darkness? Sina is pretty sure her dismissal of the pale skin and Goth look is all wrong when she finds Gia squeezing a steak for dear life in the middle of the kitchen one night. Can Sina save her friend? And will the help come from a doctor trained in medical problems or Oona, the all-knowing witch? Sina is facing a battle for her friend’s life that may turn into a battle for her own. Can she win against something she has no understanding of? If you enjoy a light-hearted, easy, and relaxing murder mystery book, then this is the book for you. Suitable for fans of Agatha Christie, Richard Osman, and Deany Ray.

Night Without End
Night Without End

Author: Alistair MacLean

Publisher: HarperCollins UK

Published: 2010-07-29

Total Pages: 302

ISBN-13: 0007289359

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From the acclaimed master of action and suspense. The all time classic.

Writing the Cozy Mystery
Writing the Cozy Mystery

Author: Phyllis M. Betz

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2024-08-05

Total Pages: 167

ISBN-13: 1476690820

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This book brings together essays written by a number of well-known writers of cozy mysteries, including Sherry Harris, Amanda Flower, Leslie Budewitz, and Edith Maxwell, among others, who provide insight into their approaches to writing. Topics covered include how they work with the form, develop characters and settings, and utilize the particular hook, skill or business that establishes the protagonist's ability to solve crimes. In addition to discussing these traditional aspects of writing, several authors focus on how they have expanded the direction the contemporary cozy mystery has taken with the inclusion of more diverse characters and social issues.