The Blood Pit

Author : Kate Ellis
Publisher : Piatkus
ISBN 13 : 0748126651
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Blood Pit written by Kate Ellis and published by Piatkus. This book was released on 2011-01-06 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'A beguiling author who interweaves past and present' The Times Never has DI Wesley Peterson witnessed such a bizarre crime scene. A man has been brutally murdered by two precise wounds to his neck and his body drained of blood. It seems that the victim, Charles Marrick, was not a popular man in the Devon area and Wesley doesn't have a shortage of suspects. But then another victim is found killed in an identical fashion and a third body is also discovered. As if Wesley didn't have enough to investigate, Wesley's friend, archaeologist Neil Watson, begins to receive disturbing anonymous letters about macabre events at a medieval abbey. The gory details bare resemblance to the recent murders and Neil fears they are being sent by the killer. Wesley and Neil are forced to face tragedy and shocking revelations as sinister truths unfold, and they come face to face with a killer scarred by past sins. Whether you've read the whole series, or are discovering Kate Ellis's DI Wesley Peterson novels for the first time, this is the perfect page-turner if you love reading Elly Griffiths and Ann Cleeves. PRAISE FOR KATE ELLIS: 'I loved this novel . . . a powerful story of loss, malice and deception' Ann Cleeves 'Haunting' Independent 'Unputdownable'Bookseller 'The chilling plot will keep you spooked and thrilled to the end' Closer 'A gripping read' Best 'A fine storyteller, weaving the past and present in a way that makes you want to read on' Peterborough Evening Telegraph

Author : Kostas Myrsiades
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1543425097
Total Pages : 95 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Drinking from the Blood-Pit written by Kostas Myrsiades and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2017-05-18 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drinking from the Blood-Pit is a work of creative nonfiction, which uses Odysseuss descent to the underworld (Od.10.490-95) as a unifying theme for each of the fourteen pieces included. Each piece is based on a Homeric theme and/or episode that stresses the lessons culled from reading Homers Iliad and Odyssey on the authors journey from childhood to adulthood. The title of each story indicates the Homeric myth or episode used and is accompanied by a short epigraph from either the Iliad or Odyssey. The fourteen works are divided into three sections: childhood, adolescence, and adulthood. The first part, childhood (four stories), describes growing up on the island of Samos, Greece, during the Nazi occupation and the Greek Civil War that followed. The second section, adolescence (four stories), continues the authors odyssey to the United States, attempting to deal with a new language and becoming acclimated to a foreign culture. The third part, adulthood (six stories), returns the author to his native land as a student of Greek culture struggling to study the censored works of Greek poets under the military government of 19671974.

Author : Jane Yolen
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0547544855
Total Pages : 371 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Heart's Blood written by Jane Yolen and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2004-05-01 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Second in the thrilling young adult fantasy series from the award-winning author of Dragon’s Blood. “Readers . . . will welcome this one with delight.” —Booklist An ALA Best Book for Young Adults Jakkin now has everything he’s ever wanted—the rank of freeman, a string of victories in the dragon pits, and the companionship of his dragon, Heart’s Blood. Everything, that is, except for his beloved Akki, who vanished a year ago. To find her, Jakkin must become a rebel spy. He will risk everything he holds dear—Heart’s Blood, her hatchlings, even his hard-won freedom—and join in a game fiercer than any dragon pit match, a game he’ll lose no matter how well he plays. “Eloquent . . . rich in symbolism.” —The Horn Book

Author : Jane Yolen
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0547538979
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dragon's Blood written by Jane Yolen and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2004-05-01 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dragons are trained to fight to the death, and two determined teens help free them in this spellbinding saga. Training a dragon to be a fighting champion is the only way to freedom for fifteen-year-old Jakkin.

Author : Frank Norris
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Pit written by Frank Norris and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-11-22 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Pit" by Frank Norris. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

Author : Kate Ellis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780750535489
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Blood Pit written by Kate Ellis and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A string of grizzly murders and ominous epistles present a perplexing case in this unique blend of history and mystery At the scene of an unusual crime, DI Wesley Petersen finds the body Charles Marrick, who has been murdered and his body drained of blood. When a popular local vet is murdered in an identical fashion, Wesley wonders what the two men could possibly have in common. Meanwhile Wesley's friend Neil Watson is alarmed when he begins receiving disturbing anonymous letters writing in gory detail about macabre events at a medieval abbey; Neil fears that his letters are being sent by the killer. Wesley's investigation takes an unexpected twist when both a third body and a skeleton are found, the latter possibly belonging to a sex offender who disappeared 20 years before. As the sinister truth behind the mystery unfolds, both Wesley and Neil are forced to face tragedy, shocking revelations, and a killer who bears the scars of past sins.

Author : Kate Ellis
Publisher : Piatkus Books
ISBN 13 : 9780708861691
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Blood Pit a Pbp written by Kate Ellis and published by Piatkus Books. This book was released on 2008-11 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Marly Youmans
Publisher : Mariner Books
ISBN 13 : 9780156027144
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Wolf Pit written by Marly Youmans and published by Mariner Books. This book was released on 2003 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A powerful, intimate look at the Civil War on the home and battle fronts, "The Wolf Pit" is Marly Youmans's third and most accomplished novel. In it Robin, a young Confederate soldier and witness to the horrors of war, clings to what gives him strength: family pictures, psalms, and an old legend about a pair of mysterious green children found in a wolf pit. Robin carries these inside the Elmira prison camp, the very embodiment of hell. Meanwhile, Agate, the mulatto daughter of a hired-out slave, embraces the forbidden teachings of her mistress, Miss Fanny, who teaches her to love books and to write. But the hope Agate has fashioned for her future disappears when her owner, Young Master, learns of her education. Agate comes to understand the meaning of her mother's cautionary tales as she struggles to survive loss and degradation and to pit knowledge and truth against evil. By turns eloquent and harrowing, "The Wolf Pit" explores the will to endure in the face of seemingly insurmountable odds, and the personal tolls exacted during this chaotic period in U.S. history.

Author : Johnny Ryan
Publisher : Fantagraphics Books
ISBN 13 : 168396313X
Total Pages : 737 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Prison Pit written by Johnny Ryan and published by Fantagraphics Books. This book was released on 2020-08-04 with total page 737 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This filthy meat-grinder of a comics space odyssey is collected in one massive volume! Prison Pit is a planet full of repugnant intergalactic criminals, drug-filled slugs, and now Cannibal F***face (CF). From 2009 to 2018, the crudely manic pen and mind of Johnny Ryan documented the mayhem and mutation as CF loses his arm to a vile beast, replaces it with a symbiotic bug that gives him a steroid-like jolt, and seeks grisly revenge against any and all creatures that get in his way. To find his way out he must do battle with his arch-enemy Slitt, the only one who knows how to escape the hellscape they inhabit. Finally, CF is pitted against the very system that shaped him into the avatar of death and destruction he has become.

Author : Jonathan Valin
Publisher : Blackstone Publishing
ISBN 13 : 162064312X
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Lime Pit written by Jonathan Valin and published by Blackstone Publishing. This book was released on 2013-02-01 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stoner is a private eye in the classic tradition: a loner with a history of failed relationships with women and all-too-successful relationships with bottles of scotch. He's unable to look away from the world's corruption-and unable to avoid trying to do something about it. His latest hopeless cause is Cindy Ann, a teenage hooker. She's not very pretty or bright or engaging ... she doesn't have much to offer at all. So when she disappears, it's all the more disturbing for Stoner-who knows what can happen to girls that nobody wants. And he's got a sick hunch that he knows what happened to Cindy Ann, right across the Cincinnati border. Stoner's hunches are almost always on the money-and they rarely feature happy endings.