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Pennies on a Dead Woman's Eyes
by Marcia MullerIt looked like a lost cause. Convicted of a brutal society murder in 1956, Lis Benedict had served a long sentence and just been released from jail. Then in a last desperate attempt to clear the Benedict name, her daughter Judy convinces All Souls Legal Cooperative to take her mother's case before the Historical Tribunal. Sharon McCone loves a challenge but has little affection for the cold and unlikable Lis. Then, suddenly, the woman in question is dead, a vicious threat is scrawled in red paint across the front of Sharon's house, and San Francisco's #1 P.I. is following a fresh trail of death that leads back to a wild debutante, a prestigious think tank, and the power politics of the 50s...all in search of a killer who has engineered a fatal cover-up and built a brilliant career on murder.
Pennies on a Dead Woman's Eyes (Sharon McCone Book #12)
by Marcia MullerConvicted of a brutal society murder in 1956, Lis Benedict had served a long sentence and just been released from jail.
Penny Files: Alaska State Troopers-Unfinished Business
by Walden RonCaptain Meadows had a worried call from an old friend and asked Trooper Penny Rossiter to stop on her way home after shift to check on the old man. It was eleven miles out Funny River Road to the home of Gus Sampson. Gus told the small red-haired, pretty, trooper he was worried about a friend who lived up the road, asking her to please check on him. She allowed Gus to ride along. Arriving at the cabin she asked him to wait while she checked it out. She found Will Goodson beaten to death in his own living room. Penny called the crime scene team to investigate. The five member team headed by David Haskins collected evidence as Penny took Gus back to his cabin. While returning home she had a call asking her to fly a search mission looking for two blond sisters and their young boys missing on Resurrection Trail between Hope and Cooper Landing, Alaska. This file, too, became a cold case. Later she went to the Goodson cabin to check on it and as she approached it she was fired upon and nearly killed. She was medically retired and David Haskins took up the search for the answers to her unsolved cases. His association with the young lady trooper, now lawyer, leads them to a personal affair and finally marriage. In the process he uncovers a drug ring, murdered drug dealers and users as well as an upstanding citizen who is somehow connected to all this illegal happening. This is an endless, frustrating chase from the first file to the last.
A Penny for the Hangman
by Tom SavageIn Tom Savage's chilling novel of suspense, an ambitious reporter is beckoned to an island paradise for the story of a lifetime. But this scoop might just be the death of her. Fifty years ago, on the Caribbean island of St. Thomas, two teenagers born to privilege were convicted of slaughtering their parents in cold blood. Today the men are free and a Hollywood movie has been made about the murders. For Karen Tyler, an eager New York journalist, the case is irresistible. She has been invited to the Virgin Islands for an interview that's too good to pass up . . . and sounds too good to be true. Karen packs her bikini and her digital recorder and follows an ingeniously designed trail that leads her to a wealthy, mysterious figure. The man claims to be one of the notorious boys, but Karen soon learns that all is not as it seems. On this isolated utopia of sun and surf, a young reporter far from home fights for the truth--and for her life. Because the shocking secret behind the infamous atrocities has remained hidden all these years. And the killing isn't over yet.
Penny for Your Secrets (A Verity Kent Mystery #3)
by Anna Lee HuberEngland, 1919. In Anna Lee Huber&’s latest mystery, former Secret Service agent Verity Kent is finding that life after wartime offers its own share of danger . . . The Great War may be over, but for many, there are still obstacles on the home front. Reconciling with her estranged husband makes Verity sympathetic to her friend Ada&’s marital difficulties. Bourgeois-bred Ada, recently married to the Marquess of Rockham, is overwhelmed trying to navigate the ways of the aristocracy. And when Lord Rockham is discovered shot through the heart with a bullet from Ada&’s revolver, Verity fears her friend has made a fatal blunder. While striving to prove Ada&’s innocence, Verity is called upon for another favor. The sister of a former Secret Service colleague has been killed in what authorities believe was a home invasion gone wrong. The victim&’s war work—censoring letters sent by soldiers from the front—exposed her to sensitive, disturbing material. Verity begins to suspect these two unlikely cases may be linked. But as the connections deepen, the consequences—not just for Verity, but for Britain—grow more menacing than she could have imagined. Praise for Anna Lee Huber&’s Treacherous Is the Night &“A thrilling mystery that supplies its gutsy heroine with plenty of angst-ridden romance.&”—Kirkus Reviews &“A splendid sequel. . . . Huber combines intricate puzzles with affecting human drama.&” —Publishers Weekly &“Masterful. . . . Just when you think the plot will zig, it zags. . . . Deeply enjoyable.&”—Criminal Element
A Penny for Your Thoughts (The Million Dollar Mysteries, #1)
by Mindy Starns ClarkBusiness investigator Callie Webber finds herself looking into the sudden death of an old family friend of her employer.
The Penny Heart
by Martine BaileySentenced to death for a simple confidence trick, Mary Jebb escapes the gallows ... but her reprieve is harsh: seven years in the unforgiving penal colony of Botany Bay.Yet Mary is determined not to be forgotten, sending two pennies, engraved with a promise, to the two men who sealed her fate.Timid artist Grace Moore jumps at the opportunity to marry handsome gentleman Michael Croxon - happy if only to get away from her drunken father. But when Grace takes on a new cook, the two penny heart love tokens reveal she is tied to a world she didn't know existed ... A world of deceit, double-crossing, revenge and murder.
The Penny Heart
by Martine BaileySentenced to death for a simple confidence trick, Mary Jebb escapes the gallows ... but her reprieve is harsh: seven years in the unforgiving penal colony of Botany Bay.Yet Mary is determined not to be forgotten, sending two pennies, engraved with a promise, to the two men who sealed her fate.Timid artist Grace Moore jumps at the opportunity to marry handsome gentleman Michael Croxon - happy if only to get away from her drunken father. But when Grace takes on a new cook, the two penny heart love tokens reveal she is tied to a world she didn't know existed ... A world of deceit, double-crossing, revenge and murder.
The Penny Heart
by Martine BaileySentenced to death for a simple confidence trick, Mary Jebb escapes the gallows ... but her reprieve is harsh: seven years in the unforgiving penal colony of Botany Bay. Yet Mary is determined not to be forgotten, sending two pennies, engraved with a promise, to the two men who sealed her fate.Timid artist Grace Moore jumps at the opportunity to marry handsome gentleman Michael Croxon - happy if only to get away from her drunken father. But when Grace takes on a new cook, the two penny heart love tokens reveal she is tied to a world she didn't know existed ... A world of deceit, double-crossing, revenge and murder.(P)2016 Hodder & Stoughton
Penny Parker's Pregnant! (Twins on the Doorstep #7)
by Stella BagwellWhen a prim and proper judge becomes pregnant by a sexy cop, a marriage of convenience leads to love in this romance from a USA Today bestseller.Hardly a soul in Lincoln County believed any man could get near enough to kiss Judge Penelope Parker—let alone get intimate! But someone had gotten a heck of a lot closer—because Penny Parker was pregnant!Yep, Penny was in the family way—and Sheriff Ethan Hamilton was the proud papa-to-be. The long, lean lawman and the straitlaced judge had come together one desperate, dangerous night—and made a baby.Honorably, Ethan proposed. But no one expected what happened after Penny Parker said “I do!”
A Penny Urned
by Tamar MyersPickled...Then Potted All that remains of Lula Mae Wiggins-who drowned in a bathtub of cheap champagne on New Year's Eve-now sits in an alleged Etruscan urn in Savannah, Georgia. Further north, at the Den of Antiquity antique shop in Charlotte, North Carolina, plucky proprietor Abigail Timberlake is astonished to learn that she is the sole inheitor of the Wiggins estate. Late Aunt Lula Mae was, after all, as distant a relative as kin can get. Arriving in picturesque Savannah, Abby makes a couple of startling discoveries. First, that Lula Mae's final resting pot is more American cheap than Italian antique. And second, that there was a very valuable 1793 one-cent piece taped to the inside lid. Perhaps a coin collection worth millions is hidden among the deceased's worldly possessions-making Lula's passoing more suspicious than orginally surmised. With the strange appearance of a voodoo preistess coupled with the disturbing disappearance of a loved one-and with nasty family skeletons tumbling from the trees like acorns-Abby needs to find her penny auntie's killer p.d.q...or she'll be up to her ashes in serious trouble!
The Pennypackers Go on Vacation
by Lisa DoanThe cheapest family in the world decides to go on an off-brand cruise in this wacky mystery/adventure story.Mr. Pennypacker is cheap. But Mrs. Pennypacker has wrestled money for a vacation from his tightfisted grip, and the family is on their way to a Disney cruise. Charlie Pennypacker is thrilled to be going somewhere—an eleven story luxury cruise liner, 212-foot water slide, and an all-night buffet awaits! So Charlie thinks. The vacation is actually a Wisney cruise, which means a dilapidated fishing boat, fake Disney characters, no water slide, eggs for every meal, and his enemy Gunter Hwang, who has been brought along for thirty dollars a day. On top of that, the captain is on the run from sinister men in dark suits. It's a Caribbean game of cat and mouse involving wits, interrogations, a hidden room, races against time, and clever deceptions. As Mr. Pennypacker would say, you can't get this kind of adventure on those other overpriced cruises.
Penombra
by Esteban Navarro SorianoLa stazione di polizia della città di Jaca inizia i lavori di ristrutturazione, così gli agenti si trasferiscono per un po' di tempo nel Seminario, un vecchio edificio dove anni prima si erano verificati una serie di eventi inspiegabili. Nel giro di poche settimane iniziano a verificarsi diversi incidenti che spaventano alcuni poliziotti, i quali si rifiutano persino di entrare in servizio. La direzione invia allora un esperto di casi soprannaturali.
Penpal
by Dathan AuerbachIn an attempt to make sense of his own mysterious and unsettling childhood memories, a man begins to reconstruct his past. As the games and adventures of his youth become engulfed by a larger story, he finds that it forms a tapestry of unbelievable horror that he never could have expected. Each chapter completes a different piece of the puzzle for both you and the narrator, and by the end of it all, you will wish that you could forget what he never knew.
Pent Up
by Damon SuedePENT UP: Mix business with pleasure and take cover. Ruben Oso moves to Manhattan to start his life over as a low-rent bodyguard and stumbles into a gig in a swanky Park Avenue penthouse. What begins as executive protection turns personal working for a debonair zillionaire who makes Ruben question everything about himself. Watching over financial hotshot Andy Bauer puts Ruben in an impossible position. He knows zero about shady trading and his cocky boss lives barricaded in a glass tower with wall-to-wall secrets and hot-and-cold-running paranoia. Can the danger be real? Is Andy for real? What's a bullet catcher to do? Ruben knows his emotions are out of control even as he races to untangle a high-priced conspiracy and his crazy feelings before somebody gets dead. If his suspicions are right, Andy will pay a price neither can afford, and Ruben may discover there's no way to guard a heart.
The Pentagon Spy (Hardy Boys Mystery Stories #61)
by Franklin W. DixonFrank and Joe are tasked with finding the robbers of several valuable weather vanes. They travel to the Amish farmland in Pennsylvania where they seem to be foiled at every lead. Meanwhile Fenton Hardy is attempting to find some top secret stolen documents from the Pentagon. He calls on Frank and Joe to help in the search. Through strange twists, the Hardys end up solving both cases at the same time.
El pentagrama
by Vitor MendesSarah es una adolescente común, segura de algunas cosas e indecisa en cuanto a otras; está enamorada del compañero de clase, Alex. Cuando por impulso lo defiende ante la mejor amiga del chico, se terminan enamorando el uno del otro. Así comienza una pelea con la mejor amiga de este, Karen, que sigue enamorada de él y no acepta ser sustituida. Como si lidiar con las artimañas de su celosa rival no fuese suficiente, Sarah y sus nuevos amigos empiezan a verse envueltos en un ambiente constante de miedo que domina la ciudad. Un asesino en serie está matando a jóvenes de manera brutal y no se ha descubierto ninguna pista sobre el responsable. Es entonces que para horror de Sarah, extraños acontecimientos y visiones macabras la empiezan a perseguir y se ve envuelta en cosas aterradoras que escapan de su control. Nadie la toma en serio y por eso decide iniciar una investigación por su cuenta. Llega a la conclusión de que ella puede ser la próxima víctima del asesino y si no actúa rápido, todos a su alrededor también pueden estar en peligro. Temiendo lo peor, en una carrera contrarreloj lidia con sus propios problemas típicos de la adolescencia y descubre que un pentagrama es la llave que revela quién es el asesino. En medio las fuerzas sobrenaturales con las que no tiene ni la más mínima oportunidad, se inicia una lucha por la supervivencia. Pero sentir que alguien más cercano de lo que imaginaba puede ser quien quiere matarla es algo para lo que no está preparada.
Pentecost Alley: A Charlotte and Thomas Pitt Novel (Charlotte and Thomas Pitt #16)
by Anne PerryThe murder of a prostitute named Ada McKinley in a bedroom on decrepit Pentecost Alley should occasion no stir in Victoria's great metropolis, but under the victim's body, the police find a Hellfire Club badge inscribed with the name "Finlay Fitzjames"--a name that instantly draws Superintendent Thomas Pitt into the case. Finlay's father--immensely wealthy, powerful, and dangerous--refuses to consider the possibility that his son has been in Ada McKinley's bed. The implication is clear: Pitt is to arrest someone other than Finlay Fitzjames for Ada's demise. But Thomas Pitt is not a man to be intimidated, and with the help of his quick-witted wife, Charlotte, he stubbornly pursues his investigation--one that twists and turns like London's own ancient streets.allop into the final pages, one climax following another." *Chicago Sun-Times"Vibrant . . . Alluring." *The New York Times Book ReviewA MAIN SELECTION OF THE BOOK-OF-THE-MONTH CLUBFrom the Paperback edition.
Pentecost Alley (Thomas and Charlotte Pitt Mystery #16)
by Anne PerryWhen a prostitute is killed in Whitechapel, fears arise of another Jack the Ripper. Pitt finds incriminating evidence that points to a very wealthy and powerful family.
Pentecost Alley: A thrilling Victorian mystery of murder and secrets (Thomas Pitt Mystery #16)
by Anne PerryPitt's pursuit of the truth makes him some powerful enemies... After sending a man to the gallows for the murder of a Whitechapel prostitute two years after the ghastly crimes of Jack the Ripper, Superintendent Thomas Pitt is suddenly confronted with another chillingly similar killing that raises speculation that the wrong man has been convicted... or that the Ripper has returned. The thrilling sixteeth novel in Anne Perry's Thomas Pitt mystery series would be the perfect read for fans of C. J. Sansom and Sherlock Holmes.'Stands as one of her most intricately constructed plots... Perry packs a triple wallop into the final pages, one climax following another' - Chicago Sun-TimesInspector Thomas Pitt knows the murder of a prostitute in a bedroom on decrepit Pentecost Alley would normally cause little comment, but under Ada McKinley's body is a Hellfire Club badge inscribed with the name 'Finlay Fitzjames'. Finlay's father - immensely wealthy, powerful, and dangerous - denies the possibility that his son has been in Ada's bed. The implication is clear: Pitt must arrest someone else. But Thomas Pitt will not be intimidated, and with the help of his quick-witted wife, Charlotte, he stubbornly pursues his investigation, determined to expose the truth. What readers are saying about Pentecost Alley: '[Anne Perry's] books are always gripping and beautifully written''Anne Perry writes with amazing clarity of London - a joy to pick up each book''Five stars'
The Penultimate Truth (S. F. Masterworks Ser.)
by Philip K. DickIn this dystopian novel from the author of The Man in the High Castle, humanity is forced to live underground while a great secret hides above them.In the future, most of humanity lives in massive underground bunkers, producing weapons for the nuclear war they&’ve fled. Constantly bombarded by patriotic propaganda, the citizens of these industrial anthills believe they are waiting for the day when the war will be over and they can return aboveground. But when Nick St. James, president of one anthill, makes an unauthorized trip to the surface, what he finds is more shocking than anything he could imagine.&“At a time when most 20th-century science fiction writers seem hopelessly dated, Dick gives us a vision of the future that captures the feel of our time.&”—Wired
Penultimate Words, and Other Essays
by Lev ShestovThis vintage book contains a collection of essays written by the influential Russian philosopher, Lev Isaakovich Shestov. One of the most delicate and individual of modern Russian critics, Shestov was a radical empiricist and proto-existentialist thinker who integrated literary theory and philosophical thought in a masterful way that inspired such minds as Camus, Dostoyevsky, Deleuze, D. H. Lawrence, and Bataille. Included in this collection are the essays: "Anton Chekhov", "The Gift of Prophecy", "Penultimate Words", and "The Theory of Knowledge".-Print ed.
Los penúltimos días de Jean Paul Balart
by Gabriel MaratUn magnífico thriller que aúna la figura histórica de Kant con una trepidante trama policiaca ambientada en las postrimerías de la dictadura franquista en España. Königsberg, 12 de febrero de 1804. Muere Immanuel Kant, el filósofo más influyente de la Ilustración. Las condolencias llegan de toda Europa, y en su ciudad se celebran unos multitudinarios funerales a los que acuden grandes autoridades de Prusia. Sin embargo, no todos le tienen en tan alta estima. Uno de sus colegas de la universidad, el doctor Johann Daniel Metzger, ayudado por el antiguo criado del filósofo, Martin Lampe, emprenderá una cruzada contra Kant. Barcelona, primavera de 1970. Heriberto Vilalta, dueño de una importante casa de subastas y miembro de la alta burguesía de la ciudad, es asesinado en su despacho. Faltan pocas semanas para que el Generalísimo inicie la que será su última visita a la Ciudad Condal, y la jefatura de policía centra todos sus esfuerzos en garantizar su seguridad. Apremiado a resolver el caso, el inspector Pedro Almansa se encarga de la investigación. A la falta de medios y al escaso interés de sus superiores, se sumarán las trabas que los hijos de la víctima interponen al ocultar información. El inspector Almansa poco a poco descubrirá que lo que parecía un simple robo esconde una trama de intereses cuyo origen se remonta dos siglos atrás. Con una prosa inteligente, salpicada de ironía y sensibilidad, Gabriel Marat se mueve entre la crónica histórica y la narración fantástica, la novela negra y el thriller psicológico, para atrapar al lector en un relato lleno de intriga y acción.
Penumbra
by Carolyn HainesJade Dupree is a beautician and an undertaker's assistant with a gift for smoothing the ravages of death from the faces of her clientele. But her strange talent isn't the only thing that sets her apart from the townspeople of tiny Drexel, Mississippi.Jade is half-black and the unacknowledged bastard daughter of Drexel's ''first lady,'' the imperious Lucille Longier. Jade's half sister, the pale, fragile, and legitimate Marlena, is married to Lucas Bramlett, the wealthiest man in the region. While the entire town knows of the blood bond between the two women, no one dares speak the truth out loud.Though her talents as a hairdresser are highly sought after by Drexel's elite, Jade accepts that she'll never truly be part of the town and lives her life the best she can. But on one hot summer day in 1952, Jade's world is turned inside out when Marlena, on a tryst with her lover, is savagely beaten and her young daughter kidnapped. Determined to find her niece before it's too late, Jade accepts help from a white sheriff's deputy, Frank Kimble. The forbidden attraction that ignites between them threatens to add to the violence already brewing in town.
The Penwyth Curse (Medieval Song Quartet #6)
by Catherine CoulterSir Bishop of Lythe has come to Penwyth for his royal reward?the keep and young Merryn?s hand. But he wonders if a curse will prove his undoing.