Book Summary: The Murder Mystery

In Katherine Ramsland’s article “Murder by the Book: The Murder of Karyn Slover,” she tells the story of the mysterious murder of a 23 year old mother who seemed to vanish with no reasoning in central Illinois back in 1996. Ramsland begins by telling how an abandoned car was left on the side of the road with it still running, the headlights on and the driver door still open. Police searched the car and found a drivers license with Karyn Slover’s name on it, yet the car belonged to David Swann. The police reached Swann and told him of Karyn’s disappearance, which he then told the police how she was borrowing the car to pick up her son at the Slover’s household. The author continues on about how Swann filed a missing-persons report

Tessa did not think that she would ever go back to Pennsylvania because her mom and sister abandon her and her dad went to prison when she was three. Until she finds out that her dad is dying so she has to fly back to Pennsylvania to see her dad in the prison. When Tessa gets in town she has to go to the Greenwoods house to stay because they are like family. Maggie gets Tessa up the next morning to go see her dad, When they get there the girl at the front desk said he passed away last night. The next plot element is when Tessa hears from Maggie that four girls got kidnapped, then killed, and dumped on the road I-70 by the Ohio river, that made Tessa think about the night in the greenwoods old home.

Bobby tells Jacy that when she loses her virginity, she can come back to him - making Jacy eager to get her first time over with. Sonny and Duane go off to Mexico (this happens off screen) to go drink, party and have fun. When they get back, hung over, they see that the restaurant is closed, which is very odd because they never close, not even on holidays. They’re curious and go ask a man named Andy only to find out that Sam the lion had died of a stroke the morning before. The next day they go to Sam’s funeral. Everyone is there, for Sam was a very well-known man who everyone enjoyed having around. After the funeral, Duane and Jacy meet in a small motel room and whisper to each other “I love you”. They had planned on having sex, but for some reason, Duane was unable to perform and Jacy gets very mad at him and tells him not to leave the room yet so that everybody won’t know they didn’t have sex. Outside, are a few teenage girls eager to listen to Jacy about how it went - and Jacy tells them it was

Later Helen meets a boy named collie. He lives in the same apartment building as Helen. Julie meets a man named Bud. Ray and Julie go to the Greggs house to investigate. They met David’s sister Megan. She then tells Julie about how the wreck affected her family’s life. They found out that they didn’t just kill a boy, they destroyed a whole family. On the way out of the house Ray notices something about the house, that someone much taller than Megan was painting the house. After this they study the evidence. Later Helen walks into her apartment room, and hears a voice behind her. She is startled to see Collie sitting in a chair in the corner. He then proceeded to tell Helen how he knew. Helen tried to lock her self in the bathroom. While in there she tried to look for a way out. Collie tried to take the hinges off the door to get in. Helen Jumped out of the bathroom window, and fell and became unconscious. Meanwhile Julie is waiting for Bud to go to the movies. Her mother insists that she does not go, and Julie agrees. Bud came to the door, and convinced Julie to walk with him to his car. Bud then squeezed Julie’s hand, so she can’t get away. He told her how he found out, and that he was angered by the fact that she sent yellow roses. He said it was like sunshine, but there was none. He then put his hands around her throat and started strangling her. Ray came up and hit Bud on the head with a flash light. He found out from the paint on Bud’s hand from the Gregg’s house. The reason he didn’t kill Ray was because he said that losing Julie would be the worst punishment for

In the book “Dollhouse Murders” by Betty Ren Wright the main character is a developing young girl with a mentally handicapped sister, she changes from a snotty brat to a nice competent young woman. Making the development of said sister crucial to the story, a brief summary of the book would help a reader before jumping in and just reading. The year is 1957 grandmother and grandfather Treloar are murdered at home and their daughter Clare was at the movies with her friends. Twelve-year-old Amy is having difficulties at home being responsible for her brain damaged sister. While visiting her Aunt Clare at the old family home, she finds a haunted dollhouse in the attic a copy of the family home. The dolls mysteriously move around but her aunt won't listen to Amy that the dolls are trying to tell her something. Amy researches old news reports where she discovers a family secret-the murder of her grandparents- grandma and grandpa Treloar.. Amy grows to accept her sister and to understand that Louann is more capable to do normal things than she had first thought.

I watched helplessly as Dean Moxley, the infamous Kronosville Killer, shoots him in the head. “Oopsies!” he yells. Enraged, I grab my gun off the floor and shoot him. He grabs his leg as he falls down. I rush over to the body and call for backup. It’s finally over. But at a great cost.

Soon after that, the girls decided to go to a general store not far by. Amy wanted to get some coloring books, Meg wanted better school supplies, Jo wanted Undine and Sintram, the book she had been wanting, and Beth wanted some new music sheets. Their was a mysterious man in front of them who looked very suspicious. He looked like he was in a rush. As soon as he was about to pay for his items, he pulled out a gun and told the lady to give him all the money they had. All four girls ran to the isles to hide. Once he got the money, he took off and jumped into a white van.

Maya has a school assignment and needs to write about a person she would love to know better, she thinks about her biological parents but realizes that knows nothing about them. A.J and Amelia helped Maya figuring out a topic. Maya writes a figurative story about her mom, and her paper got elected for a story contest which she did not win. A.J feels disappointed, and wonders how she did not win. Lambianse dates with A.J's sister in law Ismay, and discovers that she had stolen Tamerlane. At the same time, A.J got to know that had developed a brain cancer that compromises his speaking ability. A.J got struck by the news and knew that had no money for the surgery, but Lambianse managed to convince Ismay returning Tamerlane anonymously. A.J

Shortly thereafter, the apartment building in the center of town burst into flames with a child still on one of the floors. The rest of the kids and teens were scared to go in so Sam dives into the fiery hands of the building. As he neared the child, fire came from her hands and struck him. Then he accidentally unleashes his own secret power and kills the girl. He sobs and takes her body out of the fire,

Jessie comes and forces her to move to the other side of the room that they are sharing and so many other vulgar things. She killed her dog, pushed her down concrete stairs, stole her boyfriend, and started a fire in the school bathroom with Emily locked in. Emily and Nancy talk about how they need to stop Jessie and during the family camping trip is a perfect time. When they get there, someone throws Emily into a deep grave and hits her with a shovel. She looked up and saw it was Nancy and Nancy said that it was her the whole time and that she hates Emily because Emily saved herself and not her dad 3 years ago.

Natasha has been feeling like Hayley and Jenny don’t want to be friends anymore, so she goes back to Becca. Together, Natasha and Becca try to find out how she got in the river. Later on, everyone was at play practice. Tasha wasn’t feeling good so she sat out. Becca’s best friend Hannah stepped in her place. When Tasha went to go move the overhead light, it came crashing down over Hannah. It killed her. Both the police and the girls had decided that Hayley and Jenny had led Tasha into the river and did something to the light for it to fall. The two girls were sent to prison and counseling for murder and attempted murder. After that, everything was going fine until Becca started to get a little suspicious. She asked the police if she could look over all the evidence again. She then came to the conclusion that Natasha had done all of it. She had thrown herself into the river and framed Hayley and Jenny, and she loosened the light so that it would fall. The police did not believe her. One night, Becca and Tasha went out into the woods. Becca was going to try and get her to confess. Natasha did end up confessing, but then she

The detective genre is recognizable by the mystery that it represents or establishes. Every word of a fiction novel is chosen with a purpose, and that purpose on a detective novel is to create suspense. The excerpts from The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler, Murder Is My Business by Lynette Prucha, and Devil in a Blue Dress by Walter Mosley, create an atmosphere of suspense and mystery. Even though they all fit into this category, there are some differences that make each novel unique. The imagery that the authors offer in the excerpts helps the reader to distinguish the similarities and the differences.

He fell in love with Elizabeth, but hates Lorraine. He tracks Lorraine down. He fights off more Crazies and loses a finger when it falls off. Rocks find Blake. Blake kills Rocks, but Blake is also shot. Blake finds Lorraine and Shaunassy packing and they have the formula. Blake shoots Shaunassy, killing him, but Lorraine runs off. Blake is too weak to go after her, but he throws his butterfly knife that finds its mark in the middle of her back. She falls down with the briefcase. Crazies attack and finish off Lorraine. Then the cops show up, but for Blake it’s too late. Blake begs Theda and Walsh to kill him. Walsh pulls the trigger and shoots Blake in the

but it is connected to money. There is no victim in it but the villain

Fifteen year old Conrad Clark just came home from basketball practice where he was absolutely exhausted. He is the best player on his undefeated school basketball team. He lives with just his mom and only sibling Thomas after his father had recently been murdered by an unknown killer. As he approached the front door of his massive three story mansion located basically in the middle of nowhere surrounded by a lake and lots of wildlife, a gut punching feeling went through his body. He was remembering what had happened before he left for practice. He got in a huge fight with his mom about his grades in school, and was regretting some of the things he said. He goes through the front door and goes up to his bedroom on the third story. He lays down on his bed and he sees a note telling him that his mom and Thomas, are at a party and will be gone all night. He puts the note down and closes his eyes. About forty five minutes later he wakes up to his alarm going off. He turns off the alarm clock reading 10:30 p.m and is wondering why his alarm went off for no reason. He lets it go past him and goes down to the first floor and turns the television on. He turns on his favorite show, Criminal Minds, when Bang! At that moment Conrad knew that something bad