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New York Times bestselling author Jeffery Deaver delivers an electrifying collection of sixteen award-winning stories that will widen your eyes and stretch your imagination. Diverse, provocative, and eerie, Twisted showcases Deaver's amazing range and signature plot twists: a beautiful woman...

A Mini Mystery, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory meets the Famous Five in this cozy crime. A detective and puppy duo, an eccentric chocolatier, and an international espionage plot. Eleven-year-old Megan hoped for an exciting weekend in France, touring Adrien Le Clair's legendary chocolate shop with her puppy, Wonder. Instead, their quest for an Easter egg turns into chaos when a recipe book hiding confidential MI5 photographs is stolen. Suddenly, Megan is the prime suspect, thanks to incriminating evidence planted on her.

This is a story from the Fall of the House of Usher collection. The horrors of the Spanish Inquisition, with its dungeon of death, and the overhanging gloom on the House of Usher demonstrate unforgettably the unique imagination of Edgar Allan Poe. Unerringly, he touches upon some of our greatest nightmares: Premature burial, ghostly transformation, words from beyond the grave. Written in the 1840s, they have retained their power to shock and frighten even now.

Although it's difficult to believe, the sixties are not fictional; they actually happened' (Author's Afterword) Stephen King, whose first novel, Carrie, was published in 1974, the year before the last US troops withdrew from Vietnam, is the first hugely popular writer of the TV generation...

She’s on the run. He’s off the grid. A killer storm unites them in a breathtaking short story about survival and redemption by Ivy Pochoda, the award-winning author of Sing Her Down. For med-tech worker and amateur hacker Andie, uncovering a conspiracy is above her pay grade. So is risking...

Vier tiefdunkle Storys der Erfolgsautorinnen Alia Dawn, Lisa Kismet, Sitara Snow und Sazou G. Freu dich auf verbotene Fantasien, rohe Leidenschaft und dunkle, verführerische Masked Men vom Feinsten.

Sammy and the other residents of Sunny Cove are excited to find out that the Columbia County Cooking Competition is to be held right in their small town. It attracts people from all the surrounding counties and even further, so the quiet streets are about to be full of tourists. Helen is convinced that Sammy will win, but when she finds out the famous Chef Collin Casey will be in the running as well, she isn’t so sure.

Before he was an assassin, David Rivers was a patriot. One year after the 9/11 attacks, he serves as an Army Ranger in Afghanistan. His patrol enters the Shigal Valley, a desolate place with a fearsome reputation for enemy fighters - a reputation that David is about to experience firsthand. As the first shots ring out over the valley, David must decide between military orders and gut instinct...and in the process, discover a hidden truth about himself.

The expected never happens . . . A man calls unexpectedly on his mistress and sees another man leaving her flat. Accusing her of being unfaithful, he quarrels with her, strikes her. She dies. Leaving unseen, he tips off the police so that the other man is arrested and charged . . . Has he...

By the bestselling author of The Talented Mr Ripley, Carol and Strangers on a Train 'By opening this book, you've given Patricia Highsmith permission to follow you, catch you, take you apart. Get ready to run' CARMEN MARIA MACHADO 'Every story shimmers like a dark gem as Highsmith turns her...

An artist struggles to hold on to her soul as she feverishly completes a deadly masterpiece. The death of a movie producer unleashes an ancient reel of film with a dark secret worth killing for. And a woman gets the scare of her life as strange intruders break into her home....

Crime is as universal as innocence. Christopher J. F. Gibson takes us into the under and overworld where things are never what they seem!

Kun kirjailija päättää jättää tyttöystävänsä halveksuttavalla tavalla, tyttöystävä järjestää koston. Koston, joka vetäisi maton alta jokaiselta kirjailijalta. Toisaalla rikosjuristi saa työkseen tapauksen, jossa on jotakin outoa – miehensä murhasta syytetty vaimo vaikuttaa...

Kaksi lontoolaista miestä kilpailee siitä, kumpi pääsee ensin viettämään yhden illan jutun newyorkilaisen kaunottaren, Debbien, kanssa. Lopputulos yllättää miehet. Aatelismies kokee suuren yllätyksen, kun kallis perintöesine vaikuttaakin olevan väärennös. Englantilainen kirjailija...

Experience the rugged world of the Old West in W. C. Tuttle: Lawmen, Outlaws, and Frontier Justice, a collection of classic Western tales filled with gunfighters, deception, frontier law, and hard-earned justice. Featuring Law-Star for an Outlaw, The Trail of Deception, and Skeeter Bill Comes to...

In the shadowed windows of a grand historic home overlooking the Indian River Lagoon in Fort Pierce, Florida, the apparition of a grieving woman materializes—eternally gazing across the restless waters, waiting for her husband and son who vanished on a doomed fishing trip, never to return.

When Gold's daughter is viciously attacked by a neighbor's dog and barely escapes with her life, Gold's world is torn open. Haunted by the incident and unable to convince local authorities to take action, he agrees to a friend's offer of retaliation. When he feels compelled to return the favor...

When a mysterious packet of seeds arrives at their struggling Wisconsin farm, Ruth and Daniel believe it might be the answer to their prayers. The crops grow fast, too fast. The stalks rise impossibly high, the husks pulse as if alive, and at night the whispers begin. Daniel sees salvation. Ruth feels only dread. Soon, the corn is not just growing, it is watching. As eyes open across the fields and voices seep into their home, Ruth realises the truth. This harvest does not belong to them.

Der Erzähler besucht eine Irrenanstalt im Süden Frankreichs und trifft den Anstaltsleiter, der ihn in die „Menagerie" der Irren einführt. Viele der Insassen halten sich für Gegenstände oder Tiere. Die Geschichte spielt zur Zeit der Cholera-Epidemie in New York. Der Protagonist folgt einer Einladung eines Verwandten zu dessen Landhaus am Ufer des Hudson River. Der Protagonist ist äußerst abergläubisch und wird misstrauisch, nachdem er ein paar Bücher in der Bibliothek seines Freundes gelesen hat.

Some places look ordinary until one impossible detail changes everything. Rain falls across an entire valley except around one isolated house. A light appears inside an apartment with no electricity. Three antique keys belong to a house demolished decades ago. An abandoned railway platform is missing from modern maps. A drought reveals a forgotten village beneath a reservoir. And those are only the beginning. The Rain Stopped at One House is a collection of ten atmospheric mystery and suspense stories in which ordinary people encounter strange clues hidden inside familiar places.