Murder At The Castle Wakes Up The Dead

Immunologist Dr. Jessica Shepard finds herself in a coastal Irish village, staying at the Victorian hostelry, Castle Ryan. She’s been invited there to meet with a television producer and screenwriter. Jessica sparked their interest due to recent exploits that provided her with an unexpected new career—that of amateur detective of mysterious murders. Jessica soon finds herself embroiled in local legend. A very rich man built Castle Ryan long ago for his wife who had literary aspirations. Before that woman could indulge her creativity through publication, she was found dead under suspicious circumstances. Fast-forward to the present, and a guest at Castle Ryan has been found murdered. With possible ghost sightings hanging over her head, Jessica again enlists the help of her admirer and frequent partner in investigation, Canadian narcotics detective inspector Alain Raynaud. The case will take them from Castle Ryan to the exciting capital of Dublin and back. Along the way, they learn how the past and present converge to relate a modern murder to one of the past.

Merricat Blackwood protects her sister, Constance, from the curiosity and hostility of the villagers after murders occur on the family estate.

Enchanted Castle is a sophisticated and contemporary science-fiction Gothic thriller. A MUST READ Eloquent and romantic words from the ghost of the Enchanted Castle; directed to a beautiful 16 year-old girl: "Forever my beloved, and eternal, like the swelling spring inside me, you are the summers that have died, my love, my all... Where cometh you from, but my heart?" -related in 1467 and again in 1999 A story of mature teenagers, and not so clever adults, ghosts, and at least four homicides, including several love trysts and lots of intrigue. -the Ghost Writer A POSSIBLE EDUCATIONAL NOVEL! This novel could become a requirement for History and Literature students due to the considerable dialogue concerning the Gothic Period, memorable events, and of Dukes, Earls, Kings, and consorts during that period. Professors may wish to parse and examine quotes and breakdown the truths and irregularities of this interesting novel, making it a fascinating, albeit educational learning experience. A NOTE FROM THE EDITOR: I have read and edited this story several times and each time I find it just as intriguing, entertaining, enlightening, fascinating and, yes, educational, as its first reading - A possible World's Best Seller in the making! It's not the Castle that's enchanting or ominous but the characters! The castle itself represents intrigue, beauty, and romantic history. - Dr. James T. Beesley, editor

Retired bank manager George Pearmain is, apparently, dead. According to the behavior of everyone around him, it would seem that he is no more. Not only that, but his mother has also passed away too - and on the eve of her 99th year, poor dear. Not only that, it could be that they were both murdered. He feels fine otherwise. As George's family gather for the birthday-celebration-that-never-was, he hovers around the house, watching and listening, entirely unseen. As a result, he makes all sorts of discoveries about himself, his wife Esmeralda, and his supposedly happy family . . . One of internationally bestselling author Nigel Williams' best books to date, Waking Up Dead is both a screamingly funny cozy mystery and startlingly strange ghost story asking the question: What would you do if you could bear witness to your own demise?

One of the movies' greatest actors and most colorful characters, a real-life tough guy with the prison record to prove it, Robert Mitchum was a movie icon for an almost unprecedented half-century, the cool, sleepy-eyed star of such classics as The Night of the Hunter; Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison; Cape Fear; The Longest Day; Farewell, My Lovely; and The Winds of War. Mitchum's powerful presence and simmering violence combined with hard-boiled humor and existential detachment to create a new style in movie acting: the screen's first hipster antihero-before Brando, James Dean, Elvis, or Eastwood-the inventor of big-screen cool. Robert Mitchum: "Baby, I Don't Care" is the first complete biography of Mitchum, and a book as big, colorful, and controversial as the star himself. Exhaustively researched, it makes use of thousands of rare documents from around the world and nearly two hundred in-depth interviews with Mitchum's family, friends, and associates (many going on record for the first time ever) ranging over his seventy-nine years of hard living. Written with great style, and vividly detailed, this is an intimate, comprehensive portrait of an amazing life, comic, tragic, daring, and outrageous.

A former forensic anthropologist and an outdoor guide search for clues to seven deaths in the Oregon wilderness. But as desire burns between them, a cold-hearted killer closes in.