Steven Axelrod
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When Nantucket homeowner Preston Lomax is killed in his McMansion, everyone on the island could be a suspect. Chief of Police Henry Kennis, a newcomer from California, finds himself investigating with help from the State Police. Together they solve the case--or so it appears. But Kennis can't shake the feeling that they've missed something.
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Henry Kennis, Nantucket island's poetry-writing police chief works a second challenging case. At the height of the summer tourist season, a threat to bomb the annual Boston Pops Concert could destroy the island's economy, along with its cachet as a safe, if mostly summer-time, haven for America's ruling class. The threat of terrorism brings The Department of Homeland Security to the island, along with prospects for a rekindled love affair - Henry's...
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The fifth Henry Kennis mystery takes us into the closed, gossip-riddled, back-stabbing world of Nantucket's community theater. Horst Refn, the widely disliked and resented Artistic Director of the Nantucket Theater Lab, has been found stuffed into the meat freezer in his basement. Most of the actors, all the technical crew, and quite a few of the Theater Lab Board members, whom Refn was scamming and blackmailing, are suspects in his murder. The island's...
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During a long winter and short, chilly spring, a series of disturbing incidents rock the small resort island of Nantucket. A Land Bank executive dies in a suspicious hunting accident, a prominent local family's historic summer cottage burns down in an arson fire, and a teenage girl lies comatose from a drug overdose. When spring turns to summer and the tourists flood the island, the mysterious cycle of violence spins faster. A young Jamaican boy is...
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It's Christmas Eve on Nantucket and prominent businessman Jackson Blum is about to live out his own version of A Christmas Carol.
Christmas Eve on Nantucket, and businessman Jackson Blum is living out his own version of A Christmas Carol. The past: the exhumed skeleton of his partner Ted Coddington with a bullet from Blum's Ruger pistol in its skull; the present: a mistreated employee who reveals Blum as the Scrooge he is; the future: a family crisis...
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"The old Nantucket tradition of throwing a penny off the ferry to ensure your eventual return resonates for locals and visitors alike. But that ritual takes a sinister turn when, one by one, people start to disappear and the telltale pennies are found at the scene of the kidnappings. Someone is trying to send a frightening message. The race is on to save the missing people and in order to stop this chilling crime wave , Chief Henry Kennis will have...
7) Memoirs
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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2022.
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"A new, expanded edition of Lowell's prose, with annotations"--
"A complete collection of Robert Lowell’s autobiographical prose, from unpublished writings about his youth to reflections on the triumphs and confusions of his adult life. Robert Lowell's Memoirs is an unprecedented literary discovery: the manuscript of Lowell’s lyrical evocation of his childhood, which was written in the 1950s and has remained unpublished until now. Meticulously...
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Andrews McMeel Publishing
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[2022]
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"Cat Ninja: Wanted features Metro City's favorites and newcomers in tales that include a nearly cat-astrophic case of stolen identity, the not-so-villainous adventures of Master Hamster, and Adonis's first mission as one of the good guys. Enjoy six stand-alone stories, plus a five-part Cat Ninja special miniseries! "--Amazon.
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Critical responses in arts and letters volume no. 33
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Greenwood Press
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1999
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English