Monkey Mystery

When she's not at school Nina likes to help out at the bookshop owned by her Aunty and Uncle. But when Uncle Bill finds a hidden room behind a dusty bookshelf in a forgotten corner of the shop Nina knows she simply must investigate. And so with the help of her best friend, Ivy, and a bespectacled boy named Oswald she unlocks the door and the three step into the mysterious room.

Three complete stories in one collection! Includes Monkey Trouble, The Zombie Project, and The Great Turkey Heist.

Shirley Jane Holmes is the great-great-granddaughter of Sherlock Holmes who solves mysteries with her friends, Janice Dickinson and Joshua Edgar Poe. Join them as you hear about how they solved the case of the missing golden monkey that was stolen from the Franklin D. Roosevelt History Museum in the town of Buckleville, Vermont.

Marty's a recently divorced antique and art appraiser who moves from the Midwest to live with her sister in High Desert, California, just outside of Palm Springs. Since their early childhood days, her sister has always possessed unexplained psychic abilities that often enable her to predict future events. An antique appraisal in the home of a recently murdered woman puts Marty at the center of a search for the killer.

San Francisco has a Monkey King - and she's kinda freaked out. Barista, activist and were-monkey Maya McQueen was well on her way to figuring herself out. Well, part of the way. Twenty-five percent of the way. If you squint. But now, the Bay Area is being shaken up. Occupy Wall Street has come home to roost, and on the supernatural side, there are disappearances, shape-shifter murders and the city's spirit trying to find its guardian.

In The Monkey House, Sarajevo is a city besieged by the atrocities of war. Stadium walls that once shook with the roar of Olympic crowds have since collapsed under the screams of artillery. Police Superintendent Rosso and the ragtag remains of his Sarajevo police force, however, remain dedicated to preserving what is left of the city's civil order.

Young boys are being killed and left in makeshift cages on the floor of the ocean. Their flesh is eaten by crabs and fish leaving their skeletons with no means of identifying them except untraceable Mexican dental work. Homicide detective Eduardo Padilla is a Mexican-American who no longer follows the rules that govern other cops. He is determined to find out who has been killing these kids. It becomes personal.

Mo Collins survived the beginning of the zombie apocalypse by staying on the replica pirate ship, the Viva Ancora. But after a chance meeting with another survivor named Smokes, everything changed. Can good triumph over evil? Will this wickedness spread? Who will stand against the malevolence? Is all hope lost? It's the end of the world as we know it.

Les always wanted to visit Port Stephens. And nobody liked Fishcake Fishbyrne that much anyway. The first night in town, Les gets arrested by the federal police then collared by a drug-crazed, feminist author. The hit turned out to be a complete nightmare. Next thing, it's a night drive into Newcastle with Eddie to sort out a team of local heavies. Somehow in the middle of all this Les meets Digger.

Nearly two decades after the fall of Vietnam, the knot of corruption and deceit that Rainbow Porter thought was safely buried in the alleys off Saigon's Tu Do street begins to unravel. An old comrade is blown apart. His Vietnamese daughter, April Bow, appears at Rainbow's mountain sanctuary with a cryptic message and a hidden agenda. The careful feelers Rainbow puts out to his old friends return disquieting news - a fortune is missing, a dead man may have resurrected himself, and the heart of the storm is sleeping in his spare bed.

Elena Lacosta, a paranoid, take-no-prisoners drug trafficker turned FBI fugitive, marries a cop and fights her inner demons. Her new life depends on it. When Elena's oldest brother Gabriel is killed, she listens to what seems like endless accolades about him at his memorial service, held in a packed church with standing room only, and before the dirt on his grave can settle, she is scheming to reinvent herself in her dead brother's image to launch her new life.

Ask any kid in Rumors Mill and they’ll tell you the same thing. Playing anywhere around the old Monkey Farm was completely off limits. The dark branches of the woods surrounding the abandoned lab held whispers of secret government experiments, and creatures that lurked the property at night on both two legs and four. So it was no real surprise when Effin and his friends decided to spend one fateful summer day in those same woods, one of them didn’t make it out alive.

When Trixie returns after being suspended, her best friend Gloria doesn’t seem herself. To make matters worse, the vampire is suddenly best friends with an exciting new monster. Is the new girl all that she seems, or are the Mean Ghouls up to no good? When the most important monster in the country pays Monstacademy a visit, the threat of their school closing hangs over Trixie and her friends like a black cloud. To make matters even worse, there’s a traitor in the ranks. Who is making things go wrong at just the right time?

In this daring venture - a rollicking pause-resister with crisp psychological intrigue, waves of deep emotions, and rich splashes of humor - we are gripped by a compelling story, a dynamic exploration, and revelation of the promiscuity of fear, the cruelty of truth, the futility of power, and the breadth and depth of an unrivaled love.

Seit Monaten herrschen in Chicago Minustemperaturen, als die Leiche der jungen Ella Reynolds eingefroren im See gefunden wird. Die Medien beschuldigen gleich den berüchtigten Four Monkey Killer Anson Bishop, aber Detective Sam Porter will nicht glauben, dass der etwas damit zu tun hat. Er kennt den Serienkiller gut. Er hat ihn geschnappt und laufen lassen. Und er hat noch eine Rechnung mit ihm offen. Porter hat sich zudem noch auf einen gefährlichen Deal eingelassen: Er soll Bishops Mutter finden, im Gegenzug würde Bishop ihm helfen, den Mörder seiner Frau zu stellen.

Jane Charlotte besitzt die Lizenz zum Töten und ist eine notorische Lügnerin. Wegen Mordes verhaftet, erzählt sie ihre Geschichte in der Psychiatrie des Bezirksgefängnisses von Las Vegas: Sie sei Auftragskillerin einer geheimen Organisation, die die Welt von bösen Menschen befreit. Sie berichtet von geheimen Nachrichten in Kreuzworträtseln und von Dollarscheinen, die sehen können.

School is out in the summer of 1925 in Dayton, Tennessee. For Frances Robinson, a 15-year-old daydreamer with a crush on her teacher, John T. Scopes, summer vacation promises tennis and Coca-Colas from her father's drug store. But when Frances' father, the school board chairman, has Scopes arrested for teaching evolution, the sleepiest place on earth becomes a hotbed for famous thinkers, including H.L. Mencken, Clarence Darrow, and William Jennings Bryan.

In this stunning novel, Gerald Blumenthal explores the mind of a serial killer and the subsequent court room dramas that follow. Like his previous award-winning novel The Brass Compass (now being adapted to the big screen), The Monkey Trial is fact-based but is fictionalized to avoid another court drama! The novel begs the question: what happens if a man chosen by society to judge others in society commits heinous crimes?

George Olsen's life is one big lie. As a witness in a mob-money-embezzlement-operation-turned-deadly, he lives within the WITSEC program and has had plenty of trouble adapting to life. Never look back: It’s one of the sacred rules within the WITSEC program. But when he hears an old flame has moved back to New Mexico and is in danger, he is forced to return to his old stomping grounds only to discover that decision could prove to be fatal.

A collection of short... stories by W W Jacobs. Serpents, skinflints, skivers, suitors and sundry sailors take the foreground in these stories about the East End of London and the mythical village of Claybury at the turn of the century.