[PDF] Vanishing In The Haight eBook

Author : Max Tomlinson
Publisher : Oceanview Publishing
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 38,93 MB
Release : 2019-08-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1608093425

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USA Today best-selling author An ex-con traces a victim's clues to set a cold case ablaze Between fending off a lecherous parole officer and trying to get by in 1978 San Francisco, private investigator Colleen Hayes struggles to put her life back together so she can reconnect with her runaway teenage daughter. Then her life changes dramatically. She accepts a case from wealthy, retired industrialist Edward Copeland. The old man is desperate to solve the brutal murder of his daughter, a murder that took place in Golden Gate Park eleven years earlier—during the Summer of Love. The case has since gone cold, her murderer never found. Now, in his final days, Copeland hires Colleen to find his daughter's killer in hopes he might die in peace. Colleen understands what it means to take a life—she spent a decade in prison for killing her ex. Battling her own demons, she immerses herself in San Francisco's underbelly, where police corruption is rampant. Her investigation turns deadly as she pries for information, yet there is little to go on. However, a song on the radio makes her wonder—did the murdered girl leave any clues that others may have missed? Perfect for fans of Elmore Leonard and Gillian Flynn

Author : Max Tomlinson
Publisher : Oceanview Publishing
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 44,74 MB
Release : 2023-07-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1608094553

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1970s San Francisco: the sights, the sounds, the serial killers As the ’70s draw to a close in San Francisco, things do not bode well for the city—or for ex-con PI Colleen Hayes, whose daughter Pam, in a tragic turn of events, has lost her baby. Pam leaves San Francisco, and Colleen, who moved there to reunite with her, starts to wonder what she’s doing in the Bay Area. Meanwhile, a serial killer given the name “Night Candy” is targeting sex workers, both male and female. The situation doesn’t improve when Colleen’s friend and ally—SFPD Inspector Owens—is arrested for the murder of his ex-wife, who was found burned in a fire the same night the pair had tried to rekindle their love. Could Owens have really done what they say? Even Colleen has her doubts. But there are people depending on her: Owens, who needs help finding his ex-wife’s real killer, and a trio of sex workers Colleen keeps her eye on—especially with Night Candy on the loose. Then, one of the three girls is next to disappear. If anything is to test Colleen’s resolve, December 1979 seems to be it. Perfect for fans of Steve Berry and Harlan Coben While all of the novels in the Colleen Hayes Mystery Series stand on their own and can be read in any order, the publication sequence is: Vanishing in the Haight Tie Die Bad Scene Line of Darkness Night Candy

Author : Ana Ellickson
Publisher : Abrams
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 42,34 MB
Release : 2024-04-30
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 1647008131

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Author Ana Ellickson’s The Vanishing Station is a lyrical and bold YA debut about an underground magic system in San Francisco—and the lengths one girl is willing to go to protect the ones she loves. Eighteen-year-old Filipino American Ruby Santos has been unmoored since her mother’s death. She can’t apply to art school like she’s always dreamed, and she and her father have had to move into the basement of their home and rent out the top floor while they work to pay back her mother’s hospital bills. Then Ruby finds out her father has been living a secret life as a delivery person for a magical underworld—he “jumps” train lines to help deliver packages for a powerful family. Recently, he’s fallen behind on deliveries (and deeper into alcoholism), and if his debts aren’t satisfied, they’re going to take her mother’s house. In an effort to protect her father and save all that remains of her mother, Ruby volunteers to take over her dad’s station and start jumping train lines. But this is no ordinary job. Ruby soon realizes that the trains are much more than doors to romance and adventure: they’re also doors to trafficking illicit goods and fierce rivalries. As she becomes more entangled with the magical underworld and the mysterious boy who’s helped her to learn magic, she realizes too late that she may be in over her head. Can she free her father and save her mother’s house? Or has she only managed to get herself pulled into the dangerous web her father was trapped in?

Author : Marcia Muller
Publisher : Mysterious Press
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 45,96 MB
Release : 2006-07-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0759567778

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In the latest installment in this critically acclaimed series, Sharon McCone is hired to investigate one of San Luis Obispo County's most puzzling cold cases. A generation ago, Laurel Greenwood, a housewife and artist, inexplicably vanished, leaving her young daughter alone. Now, new evidence suggests that the missing woman may have led a strange double life. But before McCone can penetrate the tangled mystery, she must first solve a second disappearance--that of her client, the now grown daughter of Laurel Greenwood. The case, which forces Sharon to explore the darker sides of two marriages, comes uncomfortably close on the heels of her own marriage to Hy Ripinsky, and she begins to doubt the wisdom of her impulsive trip to the Reno wedding chapel.

Author : Chris OGrady
Publisher : Page Publishing Inc
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 40,36 MB
Release : 2020-09-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1642146072

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Author : Dayton Lummis
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 41,60 MB
Release : 2010-06-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1450224342

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VANISHING POINT is an eclectic collection of the authors writings ranging from short fiction pieces, and a disturbing account of a difficult period in early 1960s San Francisco, to personal observations in the first years of the 21st century. There are brief vignettes that capture aspects of the American character, from positive to cynically critical. Throughout the volume the author writes with crisp insight, humor, and occasional existential despair, which adds up to a unique American story

Author : Max Tomlinson
Publisher : Oceanview Publishing
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 14,51 MB
Release : 2021-08-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1608093468

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USA Today Best-Selling Author 1978 San Francisco—a cult leader in Ecuador—one woman's struggle to reconnect with her lost daughter before it is too late When PI and ex-con, Colleen Hayes, learns that a local neo-Nazi group is talking about shooting the mayor, she thinks it's just another rumor—until her source, a humble street newspaper vendor, winds up in SF General, beaten to a pulp. To add to her grief, she discovers that her runaway daughter, Pamela, might have joined a shadowy religious group, building a church in South America near a volcano that is about to erupt. Death is the path to perfection according to the charismatic young preacher—and the date is fast approaching. Colleen is desperate to find a way to stop her daughter from making the ultimate mistake before she—along with hundreds of others—lose their lives. Perfect for fans of Harlan Coben's gritty noir suspense While all of the novels in the Colleen Hayes Mystery Series stand on their own and can be read in any order, the publication sequence is: Vanishing in the Haight Tie Die Bad Scene Line of Darkness

Author : Max Tomlinson
Publisher : Oceanview Publishing
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 33,95 MB
Release : 2022-08-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1608094537

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Post-war darkness may be the darkest of them all—Nazi-hunters reach deep into 1979 San Francisco When a German businesswoman in 1979 San Francisco hires ex-con PI Colleen Hayes to find a missing relative, supposedly in town to visit, she thinks it's a simple job. But she soon discovers that the "nephew" is linked to an international vigilante group hunting down ex-Nazis. Then the body of a mysterious woman turns up on San Francisco's Municipal Railway, mirroring a murder committed the week before in Buenos Aires where the "nephew" had just been. Colleen's search uncovers a World War II banknote and the 1942 SS ID of a German officer long thought dead. When Colleen fails to heed warnings to stop her investigation, her pregnant daughter is attacked. The so-called nephew is nowhere to be found. The German businesswoman has fled town. Colleen's search leads her to Italy where the infamous Vatican Ratlines helped escaped ex-Nazis forge new identities around the globe. Deep in the Italian Alps, she uncovers a secret project hatched in a concentration camp. Colleen has no choice but to push ahead if the killing is to stop and justice prevail. Perfect for fans of Steve Berry and Harlan Coben While all of the novels in the Colleen Hayes Mystery Series stand on their own and can be read in any order, the publication sequence is: Vanishing in the Haight Tie Die Bad Scene Line of Darkness Night Candy

Author : John Jeffries
Publisher : FriesenPress
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 41,46 MB
Release : 2012-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1460211871

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In the Chicago Silversmith Hotel and Suites parking facility the driver of the blue BMW checked his watch. Then he smiled, raised his hands to the roof and screamed "Allahu akbar!" An instant later the equivalent of one thousand tons of TNT detonated with a deafening roar. Simultaneously devices went off at the Cosmopolitan Hotel in Las Vegas, close to the Stock Exchange in New York City, the Old State House in Boston, the National Museum of Jewish History in Philadelphia, the Holocaust Memorial in Miami, the Pacific Stock Exchange in Los Angeles, Haight Ashbury in San Francisco and the National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C. Static over-presssure from the blasts killed 50% of the people within 150 meters of ground zero. Even at 350 meters half the people were killed by the blast energy. Their tissues vaporized before their bodies could fall to the ground. David Jamison, editor with the U.S. Weekly News magazine, is on a mission to discover the real reason for millions of people worldwide vanishing without a trace. His challenge is aided by Uri Sakharov, a mysterious gentleman with Epiphany Associates Unlimited.