Private eye, John Steele, just wants to solve cases and keep those around him happy. He'll soon have to face the consequences of ignoring a senator's plans to repeal the Right To Farm laws and the choice of taking on a case for a client with a shady past. Steele uncovers infidelity, murder, and acts of animal cruelty as he digs for the truth. The search for answers is never easy or painless for the rural detective.

Small town rural life is supposed to be simple, peaceful, and anything but tragic. The death of a local dairy farmer brings many questions. Was it purely accidental? Or was it the result of foul play? Private Eye John Steele searches for clues and a good cell phone signal as he tries to solve the case.

Learn to read and count with real dairy cows and calves. From one to five you can count each animal as they do different things on a working dairy farm.

Reporter Anya Horvat, who works at Clarice, a weekly women's magazine, has relationship problems with men. She is thirty-five years old, yet has never had a single relationship that lasted more than two months. This reality prompts her to consult the well-known and successful psychiatrist, Patricia Bellows, who is later found horribly murdered. Anya has never dealt with a murder investigation before, but when her boss literally forces her to take the assignment, she begins to uncover the m...

Paul Capodicasa, a wealthy benefactor of Rowe Sanctuary, is bludgeoned to death in one of their blinds. Detective Bobbie Lee must solve the murder while avoiding interference from the Mafia and her district attorney uncle. She must also confront the possibility that her son is the murderer.The initial DNA analysis indicates her son may have been involved and the evidence from the murder keeps pointing her toward the same person whom she thinks may be the son she gave up for adoptio...

The adventures continue with double the sneezes, wrinkles, and slobber…I am not an ordinary pug. I have the wrinkles, smashed face, and curly tail of a pug, but the similarities stop there. Instead of sleeping or eating my days away, I prefer to gather acorns for my squirrel friend Squeaks, solve the mystery of the leaf pile, or hide bones throughout the house.Now I have a sister. Her name is Peach, and we tell of our adventures together. We meet a giant mutant rabbit, try ...

She was young, she was blond, and she was beautiful--and she was dead. Crumpled in a pool of her own blood and gore, her stunning looks were gone. She wasn't very pretty anymore--but then, murder is never very pretty either.When retired homicide detective and newly minted private-eye Johnny "Jack-Ass" O'Brien gets the call to investigate this long forgotten and very cold case, he discovers an entire universe of intrigue and deception, and a far greater and more perilous puzzle than ...

There are many reasons a child would enjoy a Most Popular Birds in the USA themed book. Firstly, birds have colorful feathers that offer a wide range of beauty and intrigue. Second is the fascinating stories about the locations where the flying wonders can be found. Of course, brief descriptions of their habits, including migration patterns, nesting, and food sources, can inspire the desire to learn more about a particular species. All of these reasons together can produce a book that kids...

Jay Leicester (pronounced "Lester"), a retired airline pilot now running his own investigation firm, is sent a client by his old friend Guy Robbins, an attorney on the Gulf Coast of Mississippi. The client is a horribly disfigured young female marine biologist who is Director of a research lab on Cat Island, twelve miles off the coast ofGulfport. Her disfigurement is the result of an attack by a tiger shark during a dive to the wreck of a World War Two German submarine sank during t...

It was a crime of pure arrogance. Madame Muriel Ducharme was murdered in what looks like a break-in gone wrong. It’s a little too pat for Inspector Gilles Maintenon. Nothing appears to have been taken, but the killer has thought of that too.

Catching spies is hard work, so when a deal is struck before a question is even asked of their new prisoner... the director decides to take matters into his own hands.

In "The Lifted Veil," George Eliot navigates the intricate interplay of consciousness and fate through the lens of a chilling psychological narrative. Written in 1859, this novella showcases Eliot's profound exploration of human emotion, employing a rich, lyrical prose style that immerses the reader in the protagonist'Äôs tormented psyche. The story centers on Latimer, a man cursed with the ability to foresee the future, challenging the conventions of Victorian literary realism while delvi...