Deadly Encounter

Click the link below to watchthe excitingbook trailer for Deadly Encounter: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PifbC5t5-QQ One woman knows who left the body of the murder victim on a deserted path. Why won't she tell the police what she saw? Or perhaps a better question is: Did Emma MacDonald in her confused mind see anything at all? Detective Chief Inspector MacLanahan and Detective Sergeant Nicholson will have to find out. The investigation into Mathilda MacFey's death reveals a wealth of suspects. She was an environmentalist and countless people had good reasons to want her dead. Was it Lenny Ghilander, the contractor, who was infuriated by her opposition to his construction project in Peartree? Or was it someone unexpected? Someone else all together?

Kim Davenport has the picture perfect life as an author's wife and publicist. Although Russell Davenport is a successful best-selling author, he's first and foremost a devoted husband. Kim has been blessed with a man who loves her more than life itself. With all of this, what more could a woman want? That's a question Kim never really asked herself until an opportunity presented itself after she decides to surprise her husband with an unsuspecting gift. What she didn't know was how the surprise would change their lives forever.

Airport Ranger volunteer Stacy Broussard expected a peaceful Saturday morning ride around the perimeter of Houston’s airport. What she encounters instead is a brutal homicide and a baffling mystery. Next to the body is an injured dog, the dead man’s motorcycle, and a drone armed with a laser capable of taking down a 747. Though FBI Special Agent Alex LeBlanc sees a clear-cut case of terrorism, his past has taught him to be suspicious of everyone, even witnesses. Even bleeding-heart veterinarians like Stacy. But when her gruesome discovery is only the first in a string of incidences that throw her life into a tailspin, Alex begins to wonder if Stacy was targeted. As a health emergency endangers Stacy’s community, and the task force pulls in leads from all directions, Alex and Stacy must work together to prevent another deadly encounter.

In the fourth book in a series, Nadia Mei, a six-foot-tall white panda, travels throughout China with her leopard companion, Claw, searching for Dream Land. As the story begin, Nadia Mei and Claw encounter poachers who shoot Nadia Mei in the leg when she uses her body to shield her friend. Wounded and bleeding, she is captured and placed inside a cage on a truck. When the truck becomes submerged in a river, Selah the owl sees Nadia Mei and offers assistance by unlocking the cage door and releasing the wounded panda. After attending to the pandas injuries, Selah fl ies back to the river searching for other animals. She finds Claw, and eventually all three embark on the journey together. BLUE INK REVIEW

In July 1861 London newspapers excitedly reported two violent crimes, both the stuff of sensational fiction. One involved a retired army major, his beautiful mistress and her illegitimate child, blackmail and murder. In the other, a French nobleman was accused of trying to kill his son in order to claim the young man's inheritance. The press covered both cases with thoroughness and enthusiasm, narrating events in a style worthy of a popular novelist, and including lengthy passages of testimony. Not only did they report rumor as well as what seemed to be fact, they speculated about the credibility of witnesses, assessed character, and decided guilt. The public was enthralled. Richard D. Altick demonstrates that these two cases, as they were presented in the British press, set the tone for the Victorian "age of sensation." The fascination with crime, passion, and suspense has a long history, but it was in the 1860s that this fascination became the vogue in England. Altick shows that these crimes provided literary prototypes and authenticated extraordinary passion and incident in fiction with the "shock of actuality." While most sensational melodramas and novels were by lesser writers, authors of the stature of Dickens, Thackeray, George Eliot, Trollope, Hardy, and Wilkie Collins were also influenced by the spirit of the age and incorporated sensational elements in their work.

Quiet pleasant communities, sparkling under the clear blue skies of Alberta, have witnessed bloody murders and violent mayhem. From a wide variety of accounts, Babara Smith has selected eight intriguing stories that will astound and amaze you. Mystery still surrounds the fate of pro golfer Frank Willey who disappeared in 1962. Two men were convicted of his murder, but his body has never been found. No suspect, however, was ever found in the case of MaryAnn Plett. The pretty, young real-estate agent disappeared after going to show a property to a client — but some skeletal remains were discovered seven months later. In 1948, a family could hardly have guessed that their newly purchased home would come complete with a corpse; and, in another case, Winnie Wanner's bathroom was found splattered with blood. Although her estranged husband was seen leaving the apartment with a suspiciously large bag, Winnie vanished from the face of the earth. These chilling tales, previously little known outside Alberta, also include matters of greed, rum running, shoot-outs, and hostages. They will be every bit as fascinating to the crime buff as those found anywhere.

In 1995, the mutilated body of a female tourist is found in the hills overlooking Heidelberg. By 1997, three more female tourists have been brutally murdered. The media accuse Police Commissioner Kurt Schiller and Inspector Stefan Krupp of incompetence, and demand that they resign. So far, the motive for the deaths is sketchy, but the consensus is clear. Someone is trying to scare tourists away, but no one knows who or why.Most of the murders occur during springtime festivals, and most of the bodies are found in the hills above Heidelberg, except the latest one, which is found outside a US military installation near Seckenheim. This raises more questions since, besides location, there are other inconsistencies that cannot be explained.Inspector Krupp is faced with a puzzling dilemma. Is a clever killer trying to confuse the police, or are there two vicious killers on the loose with different motives? Soon, when a fifth victim is discovered, and a sixth is identified as a possible next one, Krupp must accept what his seasoned instincts tell him. The killer is someone he knows. Now, he must prove what he suspects before another innocent victim is killed...or he is.

This compilation of adventure modules which have only been available digitally until now comprises work from two of our best writers. #1 is "Astray in the Woodlands" by Daniel Deadmarsh. In this module your group comes across a mysterious individual in a wooded area with a dark secret. Is he friend or foe? #2 is "In a Manor of Speaking" by Craig Tidwell. In this adventure you need to help free the spirit of a long dead Lord from his manor. Will they be able to free him or become trapped in the same place that serves as his prison in death?