[PDF] Amy Among The Serial Killers eBook

Author : Jincy Willett
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 31,13 MB
Release : 2022-08-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1250275156

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Jincy Willett's beloved characters return in Amy Among the Serial Killers, a wickedly smart and funny take on the thriller genre by one of our most acclaimed literary humorists. Carla Karolak is doing just fine. Having escaped the clutches of her controlling mother and founded a successful writing retreat in which participants are confined to windowless cells until they hit their daily word count, she lives a comfortable, if solitary, existence. If only her therapist, Toonie, would stop going on about Carla's nonexistent love life and start addressing her writer’s block, she might be able to make some progress. But then Carla finds Toonie murdered, and suddenly her unfinished memoir is the least of her concerns. Without quite knowing why, she dials an old phone number. Amy Gallup, retired after decades as a writing instructor, is surprised to hear from her former student Carla out of the blue, three years since they last spoke. She’s even more shocked when she finds out the reason for Carla's call. Suddenly, she finds herself swept up in a murder investigation that soon brings her old writing group back together. But they’ll need all the help they can get, as one murder leads to another, and suspicions of a serial killer mount across San Diego. Full of Jincy Willett’s trademark dark humor, an unforgettable cast of characters, and two of the most endearingly imperfect protagonists who have ever attempted to solve a murder, Amy Among the Serial Killers shows us what can be gained when we begin to break down our own walls and let others inside...as long as they aren’t murderers.

Author : Jincy Willett
Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 10,79 MB
Release : 2008-05-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1466807539

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In these wonderfully funny and poignant stories, Willett's eccentric, complex characters think and do the unconventional. Soft, euphonic women gradually grow old; weak, unhappy men confront love and their own mortality; and abominable children desperately try to grow up with grace. With a unique voice and dry humor, Willett gives us a new insight into human existence, showing us those specific moments in relationships when life suddenly becomes visible. Critically acclaimed when it was first published in 1987, Jenny and the Jaws of Life is being brought back due to popular demand. It's a timeless collection filled with a certain freshness and wit that ring just as loudly today.

Author : Jincy Willett
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 10,39 MB
Release : 2009-05-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780312428419

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The acclaimed author of "Winner of the National Book Award" presents a darkly comic novel about a writing group with a killer in its midst.

Author : Alicia Thompson
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 14,2 MB
Release : 2022-08-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0593438663

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One of Cosmopolitan's Best Romance Novels Ever Turns out that reading nothing but true crime isn't exactly conducive to modern dating—and one woman is going to have to learn how to give love a chance when she's used to suspecting the worst. PhD candidate Phoebe Walsh has always been obsessed with true crime. She's even analyzing the genre in her dissertation—if she can manage to finish writing it. It's hard to find the time while she spends the summer in Florida, cleaning out her childhood home, dealing with her obnoxiously good-natured younger brother, and grappling with the complicated feelings of mourning a father she hadn't had a relationship with for years. It doesn't help that she's low-key convinced that her new neighbor, Sam Dennings, is a serial killer (he may dress business casual by day, but at night he's clearly up to something). It's not long before Phoebe realizes that Sam might be something much scarier—a genuinely nice guy who can pierce her armor to reach her vulnerable heart.

Author : M. William Phelps
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 13,17 MB
Release : 2011-06-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0762762500

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The gripping tale of a legendary, century-old murder spree *** A silent, simmering killer terrorized New England in1911. As a terrible heat wave killed more than 2,000 people, another silent killer began her own murderous spree. That year a reporter for the Hartford Courant noticed a sharp rise in the number of obituaries for residents of a rooming house in Windsor, Connecticut, and began to suspect who was responsible: Amy Archer-Gilligan, who’d opened the Archer Home for Elderly People and Chronic Invalids four years earlier. “Sister Amy” would be accused of murdering both of her husbands and up to sixty-six of her patients with cocktails of lemonade and arsenic; her story inspired the Broadway hit Arsenic and Old Lace. The Devil’s Rooming House is the first book about the life, times, and crimes of America’s most prolific female serial killer. In telling this fascinating story, M. William Phelps also paints a vivid portrait of early-twentieth-century New England.

Author : Carla Hoch
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 11,85 MB
Release : 2019-06-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1440300739

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Whether a side-street skirmish or an all-out war, fight scenes bring action to the pages of every kind of fiction. But a poorly done or unbelievable fight scene can ruin a great book in an instant. In Fight Write you'll learn practical tips, terminology, and the science behind crafting realistic fight scenes for your fiction. Broken up into "Rounds," trained fighter and writer Carla Hoch guides you through the many factors you'll need to consider when developing battles and brawls. • In Round 1, you will consider how the Who, When, Where, and Why questions affect what type of fight scene you want to craft. • Round 2 delves into the human factors of biology (think fight or flight and adrenaline) and psychology (aggression and response to injuring or killing another person). • Round 3 explores different fighting styles that are appropriate for different situations: How would a character fight from a prone position versus being attacked in the street? What is the vocabulary used to describe these styles? • Round 4 considers weaponry and will guide you to select the best weapon for your characters, including nontraditional weapons of opportunity, while also thinking about the nitty-gritty details of using them. • In Round 5, you'll learn how to accurately describe realistic injuries sustained from the fights and certain weapons, and what kind of injuries will kill a character or render them unable to fight further. By taking into account where your character is in the world, when in history the fight is happening, what the character's motivation for fighting is, and much more, you'll be able write fight scenes unique to your plot and characters, all while satisfying your reader's discerning eye.

Author : Amy Suiter Clarke
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 45,83 MB
Release : 2021
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0358418933

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In this debut thriller for fans of Riley Sager and Karin Slaughter, a social worker turned true crime podcaster investigates a decades-old serial killer cold case only to unwittingly create new victims.

Author : Caroline Mitchell
Publisher : Thomas & Mercer
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 18,58 MB
Release : 2018-08
Category : Birthparents
ISBN : 9781503903142

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Meet Amy Winter: Detective Inspector, daughter of a serial killer. DI Amy Winter is hoping to follow in the footsteps of her highly respected police officer father. But when a letter arrives from the prison cell of Lillian Grimes, one half of a notorious husband-and-wife serial-killer team, it contains a revelation that will tear her life apart. Responsible for a string of heinous killings decades ago, Lillian is pure evil. A psychopathic murderer. And Amy's biological mother. Now, she is ready to reveal the location of three of her victims--but only if Amy plays along with her twisted game. While her fellow detectives frantically search for a young girl taken from her mother's doorstep, Amy must confront her own dark past. Haunted by blurred memories of a sister who sacrificed herself to save her, Amy faces a race against time to uncover the missing bodies. But what if, from behind bars, Grimes has been pulling the strings even tighter than Amy thought? And can she overcome her demons to prevent another murder?

Author : Jessi Dixon
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 15,60 MB
Release : 2018-02-20
Category :
ISBN : 9781985697881

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In May 2016, a team of hackers cracked into a site on the dark web - and unknowingly uncovered evidence that would eventually help investigators with the FBI solve the murder of a woman named Amy Allwine. "If you want to kill someone, or to beat the shit out of him, we are the right guys," read the homepage of Besa Mafia, a website that was supposedly affiliated with an Albanian organized crime ring. In exchange for bitcoin, they claimed they would arrange beatings and even assassinations. The site had appealed to many potential clients, including a user named "dogdaygod." The FBI determined that "dogdaygod" was responsible for arranging the murder of Amy Allwine, a church-going Midwestern woman. "Dogdaygod" wanted the slaying to "look like an accident," according to the emails sent to Besa Mafia. The user claimed Amy Allwine "tore my family apart by sleeping with my husband, and is stealing clients from my business." However, this portrayal of Amy Allwine didn't fit with the victim's life. Who was "dogdaygod" and who killed Amy Allwine?