Murder In The Meadow

Wayne Sutton is found dead by a stream in a beautiful meadow. His head has been bashed in and a red paper heart left on his body. The handsome young artist had a reputation as a ladies man. DI Hillary Greene discovers that many wealthy married women were buying his paintings and taking private art lesson from him. It appears that several of them might have wanted him dead. Can Hillary get to the bottom of a complex case involving jealousy, love, and cold-blooded murder? Hillary also has a new detective sergeant, Gemma Fordham. Seemingly efficient and pleasant, she harbours a secret agenda.‍

After ten years gone, Katelyn Took returns home in 1974 to find the grandmother who raised her has been killed in the farm meadow. Gram's will leaves Katelyn ownership of the now dilapidated farm, but includes a stipulation regarding seventeen cats. Then there's the confused old woman still living in the farmhouse. Katelyn doesn't want to stay, but the longer she does, the more drawn into finding Gram's killer she becomes.

This book emerged out of a dense reading of many texts, mainly philosophy, literature, fiction, and psychology. This is an amalgam of essays written with the spirit of intense catharsis. Reading and writing are a ravishment for me. Derrida has said: to write is to have the passion of origin. The work analyzes aesthetics, fiction, postmodernism, philosophy and literature.

When Tony Green returns to his home village of Much Gadding, not everyone is happy - especially when he proposes a new housing development right in the middle of it. The village is divided, but that's no reason to murder the poor man. Or is it? Pippa Parker has enough on her plate already, with a concert series to organise and the additional task of finding a suitable primary school for her son Freddie. She doesn't have the time or the inclination to investigate a murder. But with the village in disarray and her business in danger, does she have a choice? Murder in the Meadow is the fourth book in the Pippa Parker cozy mystery series, set in and around the English village of Much Gadding.

THE STORY: Thomas Devereaux, a successful architect and local contractor, and his beautiful wife, Joan, have just moved into their dream house in the quiet suburban town of Green Meadows when they are visited by their new neighbors, Carolyn and Jef

As Rhonda moves to a detective position with the county sheriff’s office her first lead case is the murder of the most hated man in the county. George Atkins has been killed with his own pitchfork while spreading manure. The fact the elderly man was out in a raging blizzard makes no sense. Why would he be out in such inclement weather? As the case progresses, threats are made against other members in the family, until Rhonda finally reveals the most unexpected suspect with a deep seeded hatred for the Atkins family for what he believes has been done to him in the past.

Before the 1969 Stonewall Riots, LGBTQ life was dominated by the negative image of "the closet"--the metaphorical space where that which was deemed "queer" was hidden from a hostile public view. Literary studies of queer themes and characters in crime fiction have tended to focus on the more positive and explicit representations since the riots, while pre-Stonewall works are thought to reference queer only negatively or obliquely. This collection of new essays questions that view with an investigation of queer aspects in crime fiction published over eight decades, from the corseted Victorian era to the unbuttoned 1960s.

On September 11, 1857, a group of Mormons aided by Paiute Indians brutally murdered some 120 men, women, and children traveling through a remote region of southwestern Utah. Within weeks, news of the atrocity spread across the United States. But it took until 1874—seventeen years later—before a grand jury finally issued indictments against nine of the perpetrators. Mountain Meadows Massacre chronicles the prolonged legal battle to gain justice for the victims. The editors of this two-volume collection of documents have combed public and private manuscript collections from across the United States to reconstruct the complex legal proceedings that occurred in the massacre’s aftermath. This exhaustively researched compilation covers a nearly forty-year history of investigation and prosecution—from the first reports of the massacre to the dismissal of the last indictment in 1896. Of special importance in Volume 2 are the transcripts of legal proceedings against John D. Lee—many of which the editors have transcribed anew from the shorthand. The two trials against Lee led to his confession, conviction, and ultimately his execution on the massacre site in 1877, all documented in this volume. Historians have long debated the circumstances surrounding the Mountain Meadows Massacre, one of the most disturbing and controversial events in American history, and painful questions linger to this day. This invaluable, exhaustively researched collection allows readers the opportunity to form their own conclusions about the forces behind this dark moment in western U.S. history.