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The Museum Murder
by John T. MacintyreDuddington Pell Chalmers is a young man of taste, class, and girth. As trustee for a local art museum, he is called in by police when the troublesome curator is murdered and soon finds himself at odds with the official enquiry. There is no shortage of suspects among local artists, art dealers, and collectors, while motives become muddled when it is discovered that murder was not the only crime. Chalmers knows that time is of the essence, or the police will arrest his artist friend, bringing ruin to a bright career, but can he follow the clues to unmask the murderer?
The Museum of Desire: An Alex Delaware Novel (Alex Delaware #35)
by Jonathan KellermanPsychologist Alex Delaware and detective Milo Sturgis struggle to make sense of a seemingly inexplicable massacre in this electrifying psychological thriller from the #1 New York Times bestselling master of suspense. LAPD Lieutenant Milo Sturgis has solved a lot of murder cases. On many of them—the ones he calls “different”—he taps the brain of brilliant psychologist Dr. Alex Delaware. But neither Alex nor Milo are prepared for what they find on an early morning call to a deserted mansion in Bel Air. This one&’s beyond different. This is predation, premeditation, and cruelty on a whole new level.Four people have been slaughtered and left displayed bizarrely and horrifically in a stretch limousine. Confounding the investigation, none of the victims seems to have any connection to any other, and a variety of methods have been used to dispatch them. As Alex and Milo make their way through blind alleys and mazes baited with misdirection, they encounter a crime so vicious that it stretches the definitions of evil. <p><p><b>A New York Times Bestseller</b>
Museum of Thieves
by Lian TannerGoldie, an impulsive and bold twelve-year-old, escapes the oppressive city of Jewel, where children are required to wear guard chains for their protection, and finds refuge in the extraordinary Museum of Dunt, an ever-shifting world where she discovers a useful talent for thievery and mysterious secrets that threaten her city and everyone she loves.
Museums: Full of Surprises (Fountas & Pinnell LLI Red #Level J)
by Alice CaryAll over the world people like to visit museums. Find out about some of he wild museum collections you could visit.
The Mushroom Shift
by Joe Clifford FaustBased on 4 1/2 years Joe Clifford Faust spent working in Law Enforcement, The Mushroom Shift is a snapshot of a different world that isn't that far in the past. Yet while it comes from a time before political correctness, its theme of men struggling to hang on to their jobs is as relevant now as when the book was first written. It's also the most unusual police story you'll ever read, with no gunshots or car chases, where the mundane becomes a grind. Profane and darkly funny, it captures all the humor and horror, the triumphs and tragedies that are a part of daily life for those who wear a badge.It tells the story of Clarence Raymond Monmouth, a deputy with the Badlands County Sheriff's Department in Modern Times, Wyoming, who is finishing his third year on the despised Mushroom Shift - midnight to eight a.m. - in the final weeks of 1985.As the year draws to a close, Monmouth comes to realize that the county's aging Sheriff will soon be succeeded by the political enemy who put Monmouth on the Mushroom Shift to begin with. Survival mode kicks in and he begins to consider his options, interrupted by his crumbling marriage, his drinking, and the never-ending parade of drunk drivers, family fights and perverts that make up small town police work.
Mush's Jazz Adventure
by Daniel PinkwaterNow that Mush -- the talking, cooking, educated dog from space -- is part of the Mangiaro household, Kelly wants to know more about the planet Growf-Woof-Woof, and how her dog came to Earth. When the two of them go on a picnic, (which Kelly prepares carefully under Mush's supervision), Kelly asks Mush about her past. "Well, it's such a long story," says Mush. . . and soon, Kelly is hearing about Mush's old jazz band, The Hot Animals, and how they dealt with robbers who threatened to knock over their boss's jive joint!
The Music Festival Mystery
by Carolyn KeeneTHE INTERNATIONAL FRIENDSHIPCLUB IS SPONSORING A FUNWEEKEND -- BUT NANCY FINDS AMELTING POT OF SABOTAGE!For Nancy and her friends, Worldbeat Weekend at Emerson College is supposed to be fun. Nancy gets to spend time with her boyfriend, Ned, and everyone plans to enjoy music and food from around the world. But the two candidates running to be the next president of IFC, both from rival countries, accuse each other of smearing their campaigns with dirty tricks -- and the chaos begins.Missing money and collapsing tents are just the start of the trouble. As tensions rise, the weekend spirals toward disaster. The local press is sniffing around. A public scandal would ruin IFC, and only Nancy can uncover the clues to track down the culprit in time!
Music in the Dark
by Sally Magnusson1884. In a tenement room and kitchen in the town of Rutherglen, near Glasgow, a woman with stark injuries to her face and her mind, and a man who has recently arrived from America, spend the night together.As the night progresses, the couple discover that their past lives were once entwined in ways they hadn't realised, and that they are linked by a shared past; the eviction of Greenyards, Strathcarron in 1854. Separately and together the couple reflect on the shocking brutality of the glen's clearance thirty years earlier, exploring notions of love, commitment, trauma and happiness, and discovering what it means to take care of another person's soul.An audiobook suffused with poetry and based on truth, Music in the Dark looks with searing honesty at love in older age - its cost and its beauties - whilst shedding light on female resistance during the Highland Clearances, and depicting, with poignant empathy, the long-term physical and mental effects the past can have on us.(P) 2023 Hodder & Stoughton Limited
Music in the Dark
by Sally MagnussonJamesina Ross is long finished with men. But one night a stranger seeking lodgings knocks on the door of her tenement flat. He doesn't recognise her, but she remembers him at once. Not that she plans to mention it. She has no intention of trusting anyone enough to let herself be vulnerable again. A lifetime ago Jamesina Ross was bent on becoming a writer. She had a facility with words. She made up songs about the Highland glen where she lived and the kin who had worked that land for generations. When her community was threatened with eviction, she gave voice to that too. The women stood together, defiant and determined, but Jamesina's music was no match for one of the most brutal confrontations of the Highland Clearances. Jamesina has borne the disfigurements of that day ever since, on her face and inside her head. It marked the end of a life of promise and the beginning of a very different one. Her lodger thinks that if she would only dare to open the past, she might have the chance of a future. A beautiful exploration of unlooked-for love in later life, its contrariness and its awkward, surprising joys, this is a story about resilience, memory, resurrection - and those parts of who we are that nobody can take away.
The Music Lesson: A Novel
by Katharine Weber"She's beautiful," writes Irish-American art historian Patricia Dolan in the first of the journal entries that form The Music Lesson. "I look at my face in the mirror and it seems far away, less real than hers." The woman she describes is the subject of the stolen Vermeer of the novel's title. Patricia is alone with this exquisite painting in a remote Irish cottage by the sea. How she arrived in such an unlikely circumstance is one part of the story Patricia tells us: about her father, a policeman who raised her to believe deeply in the cause of a united Ireland; the art history career that has sustained her since the numbing loss of her daughter; and the arrival of Mickey O'Driscoll, her dangerously charming, young Irish cousin, which has led to her involvement in this high-stakes crime. How her sublime vigil becomes a tale of loss, regret, and transformation is the rest of her story. The silent woman in the priceless painting becomes, for Patricia, a tabula rasa, a presence that at different moments seems to judge, to approve, or to offer wisdom. As Patricia immerses herself in the turbulent passions of her Irish heritage and ponders her aesthetic fidelity to the serene and understated pleasures of Dutch art, she discovers, in her silent communion, a growing awareness of all that has been hidden beneath the surface of her own life. And she discovers that she possesses the knowledge of what she must do to preserve the things she values most.From the Hardcover edition.
Music Lovers
by Holden CentenoUna historia de amor, una App y un cadáver. «Una única y original historia de amor que bien podría ser un capítulo de Black Mirror».Javier Castillo, autor de El día que se perdió la cordura La vida se compone de elecciones. Elegimos continuamente cómo vestirnos, qué comer, dónde ir, qué decir, a quién votar, de quién enamorarnos... De esas elecciones que parecen banales y a las que no damos importancia, depende todo nuestro futuro. El mío se truncó el día que elegí a Lori.
The Music Lovers
by Jonathan ValinDetective Harry Stoner has seen better days. It's the middle of January and business is slower than a crawl. Curled up in his office with a paperback mystery, a little classical music on the radio, and a bottle of scotch, Harry's ready to cut his losses and hibernate until spring. The only problem is that Harry's been living off Visa credit and Christmas cash, and the money faucet is beginning to run dry. Enter Leon Tubin, an odd little man with worn trousers but a pocketful of cash. Leon's a collector of vintage LP recordings and he's sure another member of his music-listening group is ripping him off. They're all jealous of his record library, especially his Wagner-loving rival, Sherwood Loeffler. It seems to be nickel-and-dime stuff to Harry but Leon insists that the recordings in question are worth about ten thousand dollars. Convincing arguments are one thing, but an advance of five crisp one-hundred-dollar bills is another. Harry takes the case. After interviews with Leon's music-loving cronies, Harry is struck by their obsessive audio compulsions but almost positive that when it comes to grand theft, they are all on the up-and-up. It's Leon's blond bombshell of a wife, Sheila, who has Harry doing a double-take. What's a woman like her doing with a wimp like Leon? Sheila confides that Leon saved her years before from her days as a swizzle-stick lounge singer, and out of loyalty and true love she'd do anything to protect him. But what does Sheila's past have to do with a bunch of stolen records? A bizarre trail of clues emerges but, in the end, Harry finds this case won't be completely resolved even though he's heard the fat lady sing over and over again.
The Music Lovers
by Jonathan ValinDetective Harry Stoner has seen better days. Enter Leon Tubin, an odd little man with worn trousers but a pocketful of cash. Leon's a collector of vintage LP recordings and he's sure another member of his music-listening group is ripping him off. They're all jealous of his record library, especially his Wagner-loving rival, Sherwood Loeffler. It seems to be nickel-and-dime stuff to Harry but Leon insists that the recordings in question are worth about ten thousand dollars. After interviews with Leon's music-loving cronies, Harry is struck by their obsessive audio compulsions but almost positive that when it comes to grand theft, they are all on the up-and-up. It's Leon's blond bombshell of a wife, Sheila, who has Harry doing a double take. What's a woman like her doing with a wimp like Leon? Sheila confides that Leon saved her years before from her days as a swizzle-stick lounge singer, and out of loyalty and true love she'd do anything to protect him. But what does Sheila's past have to do with a bunch of stolen records? A bizarre trail of clues emerges but, in the end, Harry finds his case won't be completely resolved even though he's heard the fat lady sing over and over again.
Music of the Distant Stars (Aelf Fen Mysteries #3)
by Alys ClareThe new 'Lassair' mystery from the author of the 'Hawkenlye' books - Very early one summer morning, Lassair slips out of her Fenland village on a deeply personal mission and discovers the body of a young woman, hidden where it has no place to be. The girl's identity is quickly discovered but, as she wonders who killed her and why, Lassair swiftly becomes mystified and frightened. Why did a sweet-natured seamstress have to die? Suspicion soon creeps uncomfortably close to home; then another body is found . . .
Music of the Night: from the Crime Writers' Association
by Flame Tree StudioThe Annual Crime Writers' Association anthology is always a thrilling read, and eagerly anticipated by readers and authors of crime and mystery fiction worldwide.Music of the Night is a new anthology of original short stories contributed by Crime Writers' Association (CWA) members and edited by Martin Edwards, with music as the connecting theme. The aim, as always, is to produce a book which is representative both of the genre and the membership of the world&’s premier crime writing association.The CWA has published anthologies of members&’ stories in most years since 1956, with Martin Edwards as editor for over 25 years, during which time the anthologies have yielded many award-winning and nominated stories by writers such as Ian Rankin, Reginald Hill, Lawrence Block, and Edward D. Hoch. Stories by long-standing authors and stellar names sit alongside contributions from relative newcomers, authors from overseas, and members whose work haven&’t appeared in a CWA anthology before.Contents List:Abi Silver – Be PreparedAlison Joseph – A Sharp ThornAndrew Taylor – Wrong NotesAntony M. Brown – The Melody of MurderArt Taylor – Love Me or Leave MeBrian Price – The Scent of an EndingCath Staincliffe – Mix TapeC. Aird – The Last Green BottleChris Simms – TaxiChristine Poulson – Some Other DraculaDavid Stuart Davies – Violin – CEDea Parkin – The Sound and the FuryJason Monaghan – A Vulture Sang in Berkeley SquareKate Ellis – Not a NoteL.C. Tyler – His Greatest HitLeo McNeir – RequiemMartin Edwards – The Crazy Cries of LoveMaxim Jakubowski – Waiting for CorneliaNeil Daws – The Watch RoomPaul Charles – The Ghosts of PeacePaul Gitsham – No More &‘I Love You&’s&’Peter Lovesey – And the Band Played OnRagnar Jónasson – 4x3Shawn Reilly Simmons – A Death in Four PartsVaseem Khan – Bombay BluesFLAME TREE PRESS is the imprint of long-standing independent Flame Tree Publishing, dedicated to full-length original fiction in the horror andsuspense, science fiction & fantasy, and crime / mystery / thriller categories. The list brings together fantastic new authors and the more established; the award winners, and exciting, original voices. Learn more about Flame Tree Press at www.flametreepress.com and connect on social media @FlameTreePress
The Music of the Spheres
by Elizabeth RedfernIn 1795 London, agent Jonathan Absey from the Home Office seeks the French spies that infiltrate England, but is haunted by the unsolved murder of his 15-year-old daughter. As he pursues both investigations, Absey stumbles across a strange society of astronomers looking for a long-lost star. Soon, their quest begins to merge with his own, and Absey finds himself discovering more than he had ever imagined.
The Music of What Happens (A Cecil Younger Investigation #3)
by John StraleyIn the third entry to the series, Alaska P.I. Cecil Younger is fresh out of rehab with a head wound, a child custody case from hell, and the clients to match.Confrontational and obsessed, Priscilla DeAngelo is sure her ex is conspiring with a state senator to wrest her son from her, and thus, she hires Cecil Younger to investigate. This is the first time Younger has to deal with lawyers in flashy suits and overused paper shredders. When she storms off to Juneau for a showdown, Younger's custody case swiftly turns into a murder. Younger is fired from the defense team, but he can't stop thinking about the case, and keeps on with the investigation alone. He's not sure what keeps him involved. Is it Priscilla's sister (his lost love)? His regard for truth as a rare commodity? Or the head injury Priscilla's ex gave him? But there's one thing he knows: he won't let go until it's solved, even if it kills him.
Music to Die For (The Falconer Files #6)
by Andrea FrazerThe last three Musical Directors of 'The Dalziels' had left them high and dry by moving to France. Their next one was to make the 'ultimate move' by getting himself murdered! The village band in Swinbury Abbot has jogged along quite happily for nigh on a decade. Band practices are free and easy affairs, the music never commencing until after a rather lavish meal with wine, followed by more wine, and then maybe running through a piece or two, just for form's sake. Until the vicar turns up with a new musical director, who plays quite a different tune? For the newcomer's ideas of what a band?s routine should consist of are completely at odds with the musicians? current practices. His clashes with the various band members cause enormous resentment, and, in one of them, a hatred strong enough to provoke murder! Into this welter of negative emotions, Detective Inspector Falconer and Detective Sergeant Carmichael of the Market Darley CID arrive, determined to get to the bottom of things and bring the killer to justice, while simultaneously dealing with their own domestic problems. But the musical mayhem???and the murderousness??? doesn't stop there?
Music to Die For (The\falconer Files Ser. #6)
by Andrea FrazerThe last three Musical Directors of 'The Dalziels' had left them high and dry by moving to France. Their next one was to make the 'ultimate move' by getting himself murdered! The village band in Swinbury Abbot has jogged along quite happily for nigh on a decade. Band practices are free and easy affairs, the music never commencing until after a rather lavish meal with wine, followed by more wine, and then maybe running through a piece or two, just for form's sake. Until the vicar turns up with a new musical director, who plays quite a different tune? For the newcomer's ideas of what a band?s routine should consist of are completely at odds with the musicians? current practices. His clashes with the various band members cause enormous resentment, and, in one of them, a hatred strong enough to provoke murder! Into this welter of negative emotions, Detective Inspector Falconer and Detective Sergeant Carmichael of the Market Darley CID arrive, determined to get to the bottom of things and bring the killer to justice, while simultaneously dealing with their own domestic problems. But the musical mayhem???and the murderousness??? doesn't stop there?
La música de las esferas
by Luis F. F. SimónUna sinfonía curativa, un enigma ancestral y una excitante aventura difícil de olvidar. Bajo extrañas circunstancias, Miko es comisionado para realizar la versión electrónica de una pieza contenida en una antigua caja de melodías. Días más tarde la composición explota como un éxito y él recibe una demanda por plagio. Alicia del Toro, una excelente abogada, es confiada con el caso para defender los intereses del artista. Juntos se embarcan en una trepidante aventura por Sudáfrica, Indonesia, Groenlandia y la Isla de Pascua para dar con más pistas del empleador de Miko. Poco a poco descubren que el misterio encerrado en la caja musical es mucho mayor a la sobredimensionada demanda. Mientras tanto, el neurocientífico Peter Bigelow es incorporado a una sociedad secreta dedicada a controlar la producción musical. El origen de esta organización se remonta a Pitágoras, quien diseñó una sinfonía con propiedades curativas con la que Peter podría ayudar a su hermano en estado de coma y a la humanidad entera. El reto es conseguir su impecable interpretación. Como en una melodiosa pieza, estas historias convergen para develar la máxima composición diseñada por el filósofo griego: LA MÚSICA DE LAS ESFERAS.
La música de los huesos
by Nagore SuárezNadie puede enterrar el pasado para siempre. El plan de Anne parecía perfecto: un verano en la vieja casa familiar de la Ribera Navarra para aclararse las ideas, reencontrarse con los amigos de la infancia y bailar hasta el amanecer en un festival de música. Pero el destino guarda sorpresas que pueden ser muy peligrosas. Cuando llega a su tan ansiado refugio, Anne se entera de que han aparecido enterrados unos extraños huesos en el jardín de la casa. Y eso no es todo. Gabriel, subinspector de la policía Foral, entra en escena para investigar los sucesos y reconstruir una trama que resultará cada vez más sorprendente y aterradora. ¿Pueden unos misterios del pasado entrañar una amenaza cada vez más cercana? La música de los huesos es una novela apasionante y enigmática que convertirá a Nagore Suárez en la nueva reina del thriller. EL THRILLER ADICTIVO QUEESTABAS ESPERANDO Reseñas:«Un consejo: no empieces a leer esta novela por la noche. Una vez empiezas a leer, no podrás dejar de hacerlo.»Juan Gómez-Jurado «Una joven escritora está detrás de las historias de misterio que enganchan a millones de lectores en internet.»The Huffington Post «Necesitarás saber cómo termina.»Chloe «Hacía años que no me enganchaba así a una historia.»Pedro «Pura tensión.»Cristina
Musical Chairs (Kinky Friedman #5)
by Kinky FriedmanSomeone is killing the Texas Jewboys, the former members of the Kinkster's rowdy country-western band. To protect the remaining members of the band, a reunion tour is organized. But it soon becomes apparent that the killer is almost certainly a former Texas Jewboy himself. It's an unpleasant task Kinky must undertake to unravel this incestuous mess, and he does it with his customary panache.
The Musical Comedy Crime (Scott Egerton)
by Anthony GilbertIt began with the theatre - and ended with drugs, blackmail and a decades old crime...Classic crime from one of the greats of the Detection ClubMajor John Hillier is found dead in his flat, early one morning, in strange circumstances. Inspector Field traces the dead man's last movements and learns that, after breaking up a dinner party, he visited a remote suburban theatre to see a leading lady he didn't even know by sight.Field traces the Major's history back some years and finds himself entangled in a net of underworld intrigue in England and further afield. Drugs, blackmail and a crime years old all play their part in an affair that starts to attract wide attention.
The Musician's Daughter
by Susanne DunlapAmid the glamour of Prince Nicholas Esterhazy's court in 18th-century Vienna, murder is afoot. Or so 15-year-old Theresa Maria thinks after her musician father turns up dead on Christmas Eve. Her father's mentor, the acclaimed composer Franz Joseph Haydn, offers her insight into her father's secret life.
Musseled Out (A Maine Clambake Mystery #3)
by Barbara RossThe busy summer tourist season is winding down in Busman's Harbor, Maine, but Julia Snowden senses trouble simmering for the Snowden Family Clambake Company. Shifty David Thwing--the "Mussel King" of upscale seafood restaurants--is sniffing around town for a new location. But serving iffy clams turns out to be the least of his troubles. . .When Thwing is found sleeping with the fishes beneath a local lobsterman's boat, the police quickly finger Julia's brother-in-law Sonny as the one who cooked up the crime. Sure, everyone knows Sonny despised the Mussel King. . .but Julia believes he's innocent. Proving it won't be easy, though. It seems there's a lot more than murder on the menu, and Julia needs to act fast. . .Includes Traditional Maine Clambake Recipes!