Battered to Death

by Gayle Trent

Author	: Gayle Trent
Publisher	: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages	: 336
Release	: 2013-09-24
Genre	: Fiction
ISBN	: 1476706573

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The third “entertaining…and tasty read” (Entertainment Weekly) in the Daphne Martin Cake mystery series. A RECIPE FOR MURDER Life is sweet for Daphne Martin right now, from her flourishing cake-decorating business to a rekindled romance with her high school boyfriend, Ben. All that’s about to change, courtesy of famously foul-mouthed celebrity chef Jordan Richards. The TV star has come to Brea Ridge, Virginia, for the town’s lavish cake competition, but he won’t be leaving under his own steam. After his first master class, Jordan is found bludgeoned with a cake stand and drowned in some very bitter batter. Plenty of townsfolk think the curmudgeonly confectioner had it coming, but the half-baked evidence points to Daphne as a prime suspect. With Ben mulling a new job offer—in Kentucky—Daphne is faced with a multilayered dilemma. She needs to somehow keep her boyfriend, win the cake competition, and sift out the real culprit . . . before the killer serves up another victim.

A Batter of Life and Death

by Ellie Alexander

Author	: Ellie Alexander
Publisher	: Macmillan
Total Pages	: 305
Release	: 2015-06-30
Genre	: Fiction
ISBN	: 1250054249

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Autumn has arrived in Ashland, Oregon. The Pastry Channel has also landed in the quaint little town to film the "Take the Cake" reality show. Jules Capshaw, now that she's decided to move home and help her mom run Torte, the family bakeshop, wants nothing to do with the competition - until she is unwittingly entered into the competition. Read les.

Abused to Death 1

by Jessica Jackson

Author	: Jessica Jackson
Publisher	:
Total Pages	: 246
Release	: 2021-04-10
Genre	:
ISBN	:

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A haunting new take on True Crime and Child Abuse Biography Eight shocking true stories of children who were abused and murdered by their own parents or caregivers. Baby Peter's nightmare intensified on the arrival of his mother's sadistic boyfriend. Amy was hung up by her hair on a door frame and used as a punchbag. A 3-year-old was burned with a blowtorch to punish him for bed-wetting. Sylvia's foster mother encouraged the neighbourhood children to humiliate and abuse her. In his death throes, Dennis clawed desperately at his brother's back in the bed they shared. In a bid to raise awareness of these horrific crimes, Jackson often tells the stories from the child's point of view, giving a voice to those were neglected and tortured to death, following with the facts of each case, such as trials and sentencing, and concludes by searching for answers to the question, "How can we save children from this horrific fate?" This book is not suitable for children, and those who find depictions of the suffering of children deeply upsetting may wish to tread cautiously.

Beaten, Battered, and Damned

by Robert B. French

Author	: Robert B. French
Publisher	: Bookbaby
Total Pages	: 0
Release	: 2019-03
Genre	: True Crime
ISBN	: 9781543953428

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Sensational headlines were made in 1982 when a 13-year-old runaway from Georgia was killed. The victim had been injected with Drano, raped repeatedly, shot in the back, and ultimately pushed over the rim of Little River Canyon. This is the true story of the lawyer forced to represent the perpetrator of the heinous crimes, written by the lawyer himself.With theft, burglary, armed robbery, embezzlement, kidnapping, rape, two murders, the Neelley crime spree is one of the most gruesome in history. Robert B. French Jr. was assigned to represent Judith Ann Neelley, who was trying to exonerate her husband and take the blame herself. French weaves his own memories into this factual accounting of the investigation, trial, surrounding political intrigue, and crimes that will haunt your nightmares.

When Battered Women Kill

by Angela Browne

Author	: Angela Browne
Publisher	: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages	: 175
Release	: 2008-06-30
Genre	: Psychology
ISBN	: 1439118655

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A compassionate look at 42 battered women who felt "locked in with danger and so desperate that they killed a man they loved"; scholarly and compelling.

A Double Death on the Black Isle

by A. D. Scott

Author	: A. D. Scott
Publisher	: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages	: 388
Release	: 2011-09-27
Genre	: Fiction
ISBN	: 1439164851

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Two Women, Two Murders . . . A stunning and suspenseful story of families, betrayal, and a community divided. Nothing is ever quite at peace on Scotland’s Black Isle—the Traveling people are forever at odds with the locals, the fishermen have nothing in common with the farmers, and the villages have no connection with the town. But when two deaths occur on the same day, involving the same families from the same estate—the Black Isle seems as forbidding as its name. Joanne Ross, typist at the Highland Gazette, is torn whether to take on the plum task of reporting on these murders—after all, the woman at the center of both crimes is one of her closest friends. Joanne knows the story could be her big break, and for a woman in the mid-1950s—a single mother, no less—good work is hard to come by. But the investigation by the staff on the Gazette reveals secrets that will forever change this quiet, remote part of the Highlands. The ancient feudal order is crumbling, loyalties are tested, friendships torn apart, and the sublime beauty of the landscape will never seem peaceful again.

Death by the Riverside

by J.M. Redmann

Author	: J.M. Redmann
Publisher	: Bold Strokes Books Inc
Total Pages	: 371
Release	: 2009-01-01
Genre	: Fiction
ISBN	: 1602820724

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Among the moss-covered trees and wrought-iron balustrades of southern Louisiana, Detective Michele Knight (Micky to her friends) takes on the seemingly simple job of shooting a few photos for a client, but the going gets rough as Micky finds herself slugging through thugs and slogging through swamps in an attempt to expose a dangerous drug ring. The trail leads to the Hundred Oaks Plantation, a transvestite named Eddie, a beautiful doctor named Cordelia, and memories Micky thought she had buried twenty years ago. Hard-hitting prose in the style of Sam Spade and Mike Hammer with a lesbian twist. The first book in the Micky Knight mystery series.

Batter Off Dead

by Maddie Day

Author	: Maddie Day
Publisher	: National Geographic Books
Total Pages	: 0
Release	: 2022-02-22
Genre	: Fiction
ISBN	: 1496735633

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In Agatha Award-winning author Maddie Day’s tenth Country Store Mystery, Pans “N Pancakes owner and part-time sleuth Robbie Jordan must untangle the clues to find the killer of a knitting circle member... In South Lick, Indiana, fine foods and classic cookware can be found at Robbie Jordan’s Pans ’N Pancakes. Unfortunately, her country store also seems to stock up on murder… Robbie and her new husband Abe O’Neill are enjoying a summer evening in the park with fellow townsfolk excited for some Friday night fireworks. In attendance are senior residents from Jupiter Springs Assisted Living including Grant Bird, father to South Lick’s very own Police Lieutenant Buck Bird. Despite his blindness, Grant is a member of his group home’s knitting circle, spending quality time with some lovely ladies. But when the light show ends, one of the knitters who sat with Grant is found dead, a puncture wound in her neck. The poor woman’s death echoes that of Buck’s mother and Grant’s wife—an unsolved homicide. To help find the killer, Robbie’s going to have to untangle the knotty relationships deep in the victim’s past…

A Date with Death

by Michele R. McPhee

Author	: Michele R. McPhee
Publisher	: Macmillan
Total Pages	: 274
Release	: 2010-05-25
Genre	: True Crime
ISBN	: 1429936851

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In a luxury Boston hotel on April 14, 2009, police discovered the body of a beautiful young woman—her head battered, a bullet through her heart. Within hours, the story exploded, making headlines across the nation. The victim, a masseuse named Julissa Brisman, had advertised her erotic services on popular classified ads Web site Craigslist. A twenty-two-year-old medical student named Philip Markoff was her last-known client... The Boston Police Homicide Unit followed a digital trail that led to Markoff's home, where investigators found a gun, prepaid cell phones, plastic handcuffs, and other evidence linking Markoff to Brisman. They also uncovered a stash of women's undergarments, raising even more questions about their suspect: How many other women did Markoff meet before Brisman? And what happened to them? This is the true story of one woman's DATE WITH DEATH.