Mostly Murders

Many thanks to @taherasplace for tagging me in the One Word Title challenge by Dee @chapter1.page1 for the #oldskoolchallengeclub. I had a look through my ebook collection and came up with these 10 books.

Alice by Gary Gautier

From Goodreads: Alice’s commune seems a small hippie utopia in a dreamlike forest, but the utopian surface begins to crack when strange things start happening. A small deformed creature with a bowling ball head appears out of nowhere and turns to Alice for support. Her trips to the pond start to bring transcendental omens and strange visitors. Thus begins a journey in which Alice wanders away from her idyllic home to find another world and to slowly connect the dots of her own world’s missing history.

Crouchback by Sarah Woodbury

From Goodreads: A rich medieval mystery that kicks off a series: In 1284, Catrin serves as a lady-in-waiting to Queen Eleanor of England. Freshly widowed, she returns to Wales — and finds herself confronted with long-lost childhood friend Rhys, a court rife with political intrigue, and a dastardly murderer haunting the halls…

Dashiki by Florence Wetzel

From Goodreads: During an interview with reclusive jazz singer Betty Brown, journalist Virginia Farrell is shown priceless tapes from the iconic 1957 Thelonious Monk-John Coltrane gig at the Five Spot. When Betty is found murdered, Virginia is determined to recover the tapes and uncover the truth behind Betty’s death.

Dracula by Bram Stoker

From Goodreads: When Jonathan Harker visits Transylvania to help Count Dracula with the purchase of a London house, he makes a series of horrific discoveries about his client. Soon afterwards, various bizarre incidents unfold in England: an apparently unmanned ship is wrecked off the coast of Whitby; a young woman discovers strange puncture marks on her neck; and the inmate of a lunatic asylum raves about the ‘Master’ and his imminent arrival.

Firefly by Hailey Stein

From Goodreads: Ben’s predictable, safe, and quietly unremarkable life runs on routine—until he is drawn into an unexpected disappearance. With more questions than answers and nowhere else to turn, he finds himself on a flight to Paris beside a woman he doesn’t trust, yet can’t seem to resist.

Generations by Noam Josephides

From Goodreads: The THETIS is humanity’s last hope: a generation ship carrying the last remnants of Earth to resettle on a new planet.
For two hundred years, its society has flourished under the banner of unity and cooperation. But beneath this carefully maintained facade lurks a truth so devastating it could spell doom for their entire future on their new home.

Jingo by Terry Pratchett

From Goodreads: A weathercock has risen from the sea of Discworld, and suddenly you can tell which way the wind is blowing.

A new land has surfaced, and so have old feuds.

And as two armies march, Commander Vimes of Ankh-Morpork City Watch has got just a few hours to deal with a crime so big that there’s no law against it. It’s called “war.”

Majordomo by Tim Carter

From Goodreads: Kobolds are supposed to run away—it’s what they’re best at. But Jack? Born with a club foot, he’s had to adapt. Resilient and clever, he clawed his way to respectability as majordomo of a premiere subterranean estate. He even found a father figure in the famed necromancer who owns the place.

Life was perfect… until a superband of overpowered do-gooders arrived bent on burglary and murder. These mercilessly righteous warriors of light cannot be beaten, or at least that’s how it looks on paper.

Jack must choose between survival and the people he loves… unless he can somehow defy the stats and find an unconventional solution.

Ravenscourt by Samantha Ward-Smith

From Goodreads: Alexander, Viscount Dundarran, seeks refuge from scandal amidst the fading grandeur of crumbling palazzos during the infamous Carnival in the city. There he encounters the enigmatic Lady Arabella Pembrook—a young, beautiful widow. Both are scarred by their pasts but find solace in each other and a chance at redemption.

Songbird by Gail Meath

From Goodreads: Meet Jax Diamond, a sharp, sophisticated, skilled, no-nonsense private detective. Or is he? Glued to his side is his canine partner, Ace, a fierce and unrelenting German Shepherd whose mere presence terrorizes criminals into submission. Well, maybe not.

But the two of them are a whole lot smarter than they look. And they have their hands full when a playwright’s death is declared natural causes, and his new manuscript worth a million bucks is missing.

One Word Titles – Oldskoolchallengeclub