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Three heart-pounding stories of courage and passion, where heroes fight to shield the vulnerable and find love amidst the chaos. Defending the Child by Sharon Dunn Caught in a mountain blizzard…with a child to protect. After Marielle Coleman’s foster son witnesses his mother’s murder, he...

When lives hang in the balance, three K-9 heroes fight to keep the innocent safe. Can love survive in the crossfire? Tracking the Missing by Sami A. Abrams A search for three abducted teens—and a K-9 on the case. After surviving a vicious attack in the woods, Tori Campbell awakes to her worst...

Love and loyalty take the lead in three gripping romances where K-9 heroes protect the vulnerable against deadly threats. Baby Protection Mission by Laura Scott When a baby is targeted, can a K-9 team keep him safe? When his sister is kidnapped, rancher Cade McNeal will do anything to prevent...

Passion and peril intertwine in these three romantic suspense stories featuring heroes, loyal K-9s, and fierce protectors. Can she trust the determined detective? After a betrayal that almost took his life, Detective Joel Standage is deskbound. A new assignment is his chance to find out if he...

Three heart-pounding mysteries where passion and peril intertwine, and no one is safe from the truth…or love. Her Darkest Secret When a cold-case serial killer returns, FBI special agent Fiona Kelly has one last chance to stop him before he claims the prize he’s always wanted—her. The...

The erudite Dr Thorndyke returns in this next anthology of his many and varied cases by R. Austin Freeman. This collection includes the stories: The Blue Scarab: For what reason was a valueless blue-glass Scarab ornament stolen? Could it have any connection to a lost family legacy? The Case of...

This classic detective anthology by GK Chesterton, beloved by both readers and writers of crime fiction alike, narrated here by Michael Ward. Father Brown is a small, unobtrusive Essex parson, but underneath his wide brimmed hat, lurks one of the finest deductive minds in all England. Included...

Written by R.Austin Freeman, The Adventures of Dr Thorndyke (also sometimes known as The Singing Bone) present five tales of crime and forensic detection from the inventor of the inverted detective story: The Case of Oscar Brodski A lost diamond merchant chances upon the house of a fence and...

The 20th Century Modern Classics Collection includes some of the most groundbreaking novels of the 1900s, read by narrators including David Rintoul, Greg Lockett, Jonathan Keeble, Ian Porter, Ako Mitchell, Robert G. Slade, Nathan Osgood, Ruairi Conaghan, Katherine Fenton, Miranda Raison, and...

One of the most anthologized short stories in American literature, Ambrose Bierce's 'An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge' is regarded as a remarkable feat of genius, and has gone on to influence the likes of Ernest Hemingway and William Golding amongst others. A haunting exploration of death, 'An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge' masterfully blurs the lines between perception and reality in the final moments of a man's life. Set during the American Civil War, it follows Peyton Farquhar, a Confederate sympathiser, facing execution by Union soldiers.

Tra i vicoli stretti dei caruggi genovesi e le pieghe nascoste della memoria, ti avventurerai tra delitti irrisolti, confessioni tardive e verità che nessuno sembra voler raccontare. Tra giornalismo, amicizie complicate e amori sfuggenti, ogni storia è quindi un viaggio nel cuore di una città che non smette mai di sorprendere.

1889 was a full year indeed... Against a vibrant backdrop of world events, local scandals and the lingering aftermath of the Ripper murders, we find our heroes, SHERLOCK HOLMES and DR. WATSON racing through the gaslit streets of London, bringing malefactors to justice–and saving the innocent from iniquity!

Douze nouvelles. Un enfant de junkie disparaît du jour au lendemain dans un ancien quartier cossu de Buenos Aires, livré désormais à la drogue et à la violence. Des jeunes femmes se promettent dans le sang de ne jamais avoir d'amants et sont obsédées par la silhouette fugace d'une adolescente disparue. Adela, amputée d'un bras, aime se faire peur en regardant des films d'horreur jusqu'à en devenir prisonnière. Alors qu'il vient de devenir père, Pablo est hanté par la figure du Petiso Orejudo, un enfant serial killer.

In vier Episoden erzählt Menger schaurige Geschichten, die unter die Haut gehen: Vier Geschichten über das Leben. Und das Überleben! Im Beichtstuhl. An der Bushaltestelle. Beim Zahnarzt. Zuhause. Die Figuren in seinen Shortstorys erleben Dinge, die nahezu jeden Menschen in Angst und Schrecken versetzen würden und sich in unseren Urängsten widerspiegeln.

În „Casa pustie”, Sherlock Holmes revine în mod spectaculos după dispariția sa de la Cascadele Reichenbach. Alături de doctorul Watson, el investighează o crimă misterioasă și întinde o cursă ingenioasă pentru a demasca un ucigaș periculos. O povestire captivantă, care...

Malcolm Crisp, the Worshipful Master of a small Masonic Lodge in Randolph County, West Virginia, is dead before page one. He maintained four interconnected systems that no one else knew were one system: the beehives as a communication channel between the living and the dead, the crows as surveillance from the far side of that threshold, a dead cedar hung with blue bottles as containment for what came back uninvited, and the Lodge ritual as the formal transmission protocol that gave the bees' messages their authority.

Ten more cases from the files of The Great Detective, comprising adventures previously published in the anthology 'The MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories', as well as some recent additions from Doctor Watson's despatch box. • Mrs Maria Blackwell is concerned by the threatening and persistent observations of a stranger, each time she dines at Simpson's with her husband. • New artwork is appearing, in the style of the great Leonardo. It is not claimed that they are newly-discovered works of The Master, so why is someone prepared to kill to gain their possession?

Instead of focusing on the usual mysteries in which Sherlock Holmes is the primary investigator, this volume puts a spotlight on an oft-overlooked part of his career in detection, putting the emphasis on his role as a consultant. For the first time ever, The Consultations of Sherlock Holmes collects sixteen ingenious cases in which he serves as a last resort for other detectives – both private investigators and those from the official police force – who come to Holmes for his unique perspective and aid as "the only unofficial consulting detective" in the world.

Ultima problemă îl aduce pe Sherlock Holmes față în față cu cel mai redutabil adversar al său, genialul profesor Moriarty. Într-o confruntare plină de suspans, urmăriri și pericole, Holmes și doctorul Watson pornesc într-o cursă dramatică prin Europa, iar deznodământul va...

Immobilienmakler Friedemann Heij alias Arturo Hernandez-Canicio de Cordoba hat es wild getrieben in seinem Leben. Er machte andere arm, um selbst reich zu werden. Und dann war da noch die Sache mit den Frauen. Eine tödliche Angelegenheit. Zwei sind einfach eine zu viel.