Reporter Sheldon Merrill's plans for a relaxing three-day weekend are shattered early Friday morning when she awakens to the sound of sirens and the ringing of her telephone. Her newspaper editor tells her to cover the raging fire at a neighboring farm complex owned by friends who had been the subject of her first agricultural page story. The conflagration takes a devastating toll on the dairy herd, but soon a more grisly discovery is made: that of a woman's battered body. Murder and arson are terrifying news in the small city of Westburgh, New York.But the fatal fire scene is not the only intrigue Sheldon finds herself coping with on a weekend that gives her little peace of mind. Mystery surrounds both the handsome, eccentric benefactor David P. Bradford and his dying sister Lucille, who makes a shocking confession to Sheldon, accompanied by a plea for help. Just as it seems that life is settling down to normal, Sheldon opens her door to a knock...and faces the murderer.
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Pandora Piper, better known as Dora, longs for hope in her hum-drum life. She retires to Hope Haven, Florida, believing that its very name suggests the quality of life she seeks. And for her, hope would surely be realized if she could find the right man, preferably a wealthy man. After she meets, and begins to fall in love with, the stereotype of her dream man, Dora makes a devastating discovery. He may be wanted by the law for murdering his wife. However, while she attempts to learn the truth about this man, danger lurks much closer to her new home as a sex offender targets her for his next conquest.
In 1791, the French femme de lettres Olympe de Gouges wrote that 'as women have the right to take their places on the scaffold, they must also have the right to take their seats in government'. This book explores the issues of female emancipation through the history of female execution, from the burning of Joan of Arc in 1431 to the events of the French revolution. Concentrating on individual victims, the author addresses the sexual attitudes and prejudices encountered by women condemned to death. She examines the horrific treatment of those denounced as witches and reveals the gruesome reality of death by hanging, burning or the guillotine. In an attempt to uncover the historical truth behind such figures as Joan of Arc, Anne Boleyn, Manon Roland and Charlotte Corday, she goes beyond biography to consider their deaths in symbolic terms. She also considers writers such as Genet, Yourcenar and Brecht and their treatment of the tragic, sacrificial and erotic aspects of female execution.
Journalist Sheldon Merrill is assigned to cover a farm fire which destroys one of northern New York's showplace farmsteads. Added to this loss is the discovery of a woman's body, not a victim of the fire but of a murderer. While the killer remains at large, Sheldon is intrigued by an eccentric young multi-millionaire and his dying sister, Lucille, who makes a shocking confession to her. Lucille pleads for her help to rectify a shattering lie she told her brother. When it appears that her life is finally back to normal, Sheldon opens her door to a knock and finds herself face-to-face with the murderer.
Pandora Piper, better known as Dora, longs for hope in her hum-drum life. She retires to Hope Haven, Florida, believing that its very name suggests the quality of life she seeks. And for her, hope would surely be realized if she could find the right man, preferably a wealthy man. After she meets, and begins to fall in love with, the stereotype of her dream man, Dora makes a devastating discovery. He may be wanted by the law for murdering his wife. However, while she attempts to learn the truth about this man, danger lurks much closer to her new home as a sex offender targets her for his next conquest.
Justice? When an unpopular judge and his wife are murdered in their home, the killer calls it, Justice, right or wrong. Astrid finds herself drawn into the investigation bit by bit with harrowing physical dangers and narrow escapes from death. While it appears that someone from the militia group at The Kingdom may be guilty, Astrid literally stumbles into a trap that places her face-to-face with the killer, unable to defend herself.
Journalist Sheldon Merrill is assigned to cover a farm fire which destroys one of northern New York's showplace farmsteads. Added to this loss is the discovery of a woman's body, not a victim of the fire but of a murderer. While the killer remains at large, Sheldon is intrigued by an eccentric young multi-millionaire and his dying sister, Lucille, who makes a shocking confession to her. Lucille pleads for her help to rectify a shattering lie she told her brother. When it appears that her life is finally back to normal, Sheldon opens her door to a knock and finds herself face-to-face with the murderer.
Camille Howland Mariani, retired college public relations director, journalist, and newspaper editor, is the author of several magazine articles, as well as the SUNY Canton College history, Seventy Years of Change. Having turned to writing fiction, she previously published Lucille's Lie. The Maine native resides with her husband, Albert J. Mariani, in Sun City Center, Florida. On returning to her home city of Twin Ports, Maine, Dee Major learns that her mother, Aletha, is dead. Officials call the hanging a suicide. But Dee has good reason to believe it is murder as well as a far-reaching conspiracy. To learn the truth, Dee must find Aletha's will. Just when it appears that she has the evidence to prove her theory, her own courage and will to live are put to the test by the egocentric murderer.
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