Amanda Clayburn a popular, celebrity nurse is murdered. Det. Ridge Kelley and Det. James Tanner rush to find her killer. The only clue to this case is with a missing peridot ring and rich suspects who have their own secrets to hide.
Just outside of a small Texas town on a lazy hot day in 1919, sixteen year old Rachel Brock was found in the sea canes by the railroad tracks brutally murdered. A black man, Samuel Ford, was accused of the crime and was illegally hung. Seventeen years later Texas Special Agent Cal McKleen returns home to face the crime that not only tore a town apart but his family. His judgement comes into question when his partner, Jim Connors, learns that Cal and his cousin Jack have three things in common; a very lucrative family owned and operated mercantile; Katie, Jack's kind and caring wife, who had been Cal's true love that he abandonded years earlier; and a deadly secret they all share that is sure to destroy them. Can the combination of the three be the reason two innocent people died that hot August day? If so, will Cal be able to find the truth before there is another causality of that summer and will he be able to regain his partner's trust before it's too late?
The course of the narrative of Yesterday Dawns Today spans a number of years; the focal point begins in Madison, Wisconsin in the mid-1950's. A relationship between Jenny Singleton and Regs Snow, a married man, begins when she is involved in an accident with him and his wife, Sarah. After the collapse of his unstable marriage, Regs pursues his relationship with Jenny until Sarah interferes by luring Regs back to her, leaving Jenny to bear his child. She is, at that point, welcomed into the life of Margy Drake, a woman who has a similar sense of hope for an older man named Sean Kilkelly who becomes part of their family when they marry. Fate, helped by Margy, finally brings Regs back into Jenny's life so that she can confront him about the pain he has caused her by leaving, despite his ignorance to the fact that she was pregnant. Other relationships associated with these characters are the love that develops between Annie, Jenny's daughter, and Mike Straw, a Madison detective. Mike must also make several difficult choices in his own life. At the end, Regs expresses his true love for Jenny by making her, along with Annie, the inheritors in his vast estate.
In a small Texas community, a woman is found murdered and scalped. Homicide Detective Gavin Reece believes the case to be cult related but soon realizes nothing is what it seems. Reece will uncover a killer's seven year slaughtering and discover the murderer is preying on one of their own. On a deadly collision course, Reece will do the unthinkable to catch a killer.
The golfer's Fairway of Verses" is a litany of descriptions of the character traits and golf swing foibles of close friends and family, all amusing and lighthearted. It also uses the tunes of familiar songs including ballads, folk songs, and country songs. As a result the reader is permitted to combine his appreciation of familiar music with his love for the game of golf. Further, the golfers described in "The Golfers Fairway of Verses" as typical of all golfers and once more the reader will get much pleasure as he reads the tome of thinking of someone he knows that have the same characteristics, personal and golf-wise, as the one his is reading about. Perhaps the most significant trait of " The Golfer's Fairway of Verses is that it is impossible to read it and not come to the end in anything other than a happy, up-lifted disposition, smiling from ear to ear, in not actually chuckling aloud.
Just outside of a small Texas town on a lazy hot day in 1919, sixteen year old Rachel Brock was found in the sea canes by the railroad tracks brutally murdered. A black man, Samuel Ford, was accused of the crime and was illegally hung. Seventeen years later Texas Special Agent Cal McKleen returns home to face the crime that not only tore a town apart but his family. His judgement comes into question when his partner, Jim Connors, learns that Cal and his cousin Jack have three things in common; a very lucrative family owned and operated mercantile; Katie, Jack's kind and caring wife, who had been Cal's true love that he abandonded years earlier; and a deadly secret they all share that is sure to destroy them. Can the combination of the three be the reason two innocent people died that hot August day? If so, will Cal be able to find the truth before there is another causality of that summer and will he be able to regain his partner's trust before it's too late?
In this one-of-a-kind Hollywood history, the creator of Instagram's celebrated @ThisWasHollywood reveals the forgotten past of the film world in a dazzling visual package modeled on the classic fan magazines of yesteryear. From former screen legends who have faded into obscurity to new revelations about the biggest movie stars, Valderrama unearths the most fascinating little-known tales from the birth of Hollywood through its Golden Age. The shocking fate of the world's first movie star. Clark Gable's secret love child. The film that nearly ended Paul Newman's career. A former child star who, at ninety-three, reveals her #metoo story for the first time. Valderrama unfolds these stories, and many more, in a volume that is by turns riveting, maddening, hilarious, and shocking. Drawing on new interviews, archival research, and an exhaustive library of photographs, This Was Hollywood is a compelling and visually stunning catalogue of the lost history of the movies.
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