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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.

Silver Blaze, one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by Sir Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is one of 12 in the cycle collected as The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes. Doyle ranked "Silver Blaze" 13th in a list of his 19 favourite Sherlock Holmes stories. Sherlock Holmes and his partner Dr. Watson travel by train to Dartmoor to investigate a crime of disappearance of the great race horse Silver Blaze and the murder of the horse's trainer, John Straker.

Sometimes the only way to do the right thing is to break the rules. Love, Lies, and Murder is a collection of 19 short stories that explore the extremes of human emotion and the conflicts that result. Every story will leave you tense and breathless as the characters race to a conclusion that is as unexpected as it is satisfying. Intense and gripping, each story features a hero that seeks justice and the triumph of good over evil by whatever means necessary - regardless of what society’s rules find acceptable.

AN ORIGINAL E-SHORT This prequel to John Grisham’s #1 New York Times bestseller The Whistler delivers a startling and original courtroom drama. In one small-town courthouse, the stakes are unbearably high for nearly everyone present: A judge presiding over his first murder trial. A defense...

Tom Christian is on the trail of revenge and a fortune in gold. Square-jawed and rugged, Tom is headed deep into the jungles of the Solomon Islands to find Punjo Charlie—the ruthless criminal who killed his partner. But these jungles are thick with danger ... as greed, temptation and sudden violence threaten to draw Tom into the heart of darkness. There’s a pile of gold.... There’s a beautiful blonde.... And there’s a bloodthirsty tribe of headhunters who have fallen under the spell of Punjo Charlie. The trap has been set.

A fiery and passionate tale by the beloved author of Little Women Writing under the pseudonym A. M. Barnard, Louisa May Alcott wrote a series of what she termed "blood and thunder" thrillers for a weekly pulp magazine. Pauline's Passion and Punishment, and Other Escapades brings together five of...

FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF REBECCA 'How long he fought with them in the darkness he could not tell, but at last the beating of the wings about him lessened and then withdrew . . .' A classic of alienation and horror, The Birds was immortalised by Hitchcock in his celebrated film. The five...

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.

Ten mysteries. Ten unexplained events. Countless clues waiting to be discovered. Someone Opened the Door is a collection of suspenseful mystery stories filled with strange disappearances, hidden rooms, forgotten records, abandoned places, mysterious figures, and unexpected discoveries. From an empty house showing signs of life to seven missing minutes, a strange door deep in the woods, and a midnight intrusion that leaves behind more questions than answers, each story begins with an ordinary moment that quickly becomes a mystery.

AN ORIGINAL E-SHORT This standalone prequel to John Grisham’s #1 New York Times bestseller Rogue Lawyer tells the story of how Sebastian Rudd finally found someone he could trust to be his driver, bodyguard, law clerk, and partner. Sebastian Rudd, rogue lawyer, defends people other lawyers...

An alarming telephone call, in which the phrases “it’s life and death” and “the table with the yellow irises” are whispered, causes Hercule Poirot to rush to the luxuriant restaurant Jardin des Cygnes, desperate to stop an impending murder and find the person behind the voice on the...

Fünfzehn Krimis, ein Sehnsuchtsort: der Lago Maggiore und sein kleiner Bruder, der Lago d'Orta. Zwischen den eleganten Uferpromenaden von Stresa und Belgirate, den stillen Gassen von Orta und Pettenasco, den Felsen von Santa Caterina del Sasso und den alten Häusern von Luino, Maccagno, Sesto Calende, Brissago, Levo und Mergozzo lauert das Verbrechen. Wo andere Urlaub machen, geschieht das Unfassbare: Mord, Verrat, alte Schuld und brandneue Gier.

FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF REBECCA 'Mary Farren went into the gun room one morning about half-past eleven, took her husband's revolver and loaded it, then shot herself. The butler heard the sound of the gun from the pantry...' The fourteen haunting stories in this collection span the whole...

In the quaint English village of Eastcote, a series of mysterious murders unfold. Hilda Shilton has unconventional methods. Yet she still stumbles upon a web of espionage and criminal activities linked to a top-secret base. Join Hilda and Arthur Shilton along with her best friend Pearl and a surprise addition. Another Hilda Mystery Novella.

This collection of twelve short stories will draw the listener into each story, whether it is Old Love, the tale of two undergraduates at Oxford in the thirties and their bitter rivalry that ends in a memorable love story or Broken Routine, which tells of an insurance claim advisor and his...

Cat O' Nine Tales is the fifth collection of irresistible short stories from the master storyteller Jeffrey Archer. These twelve yarns are satisfying and ingeniously plotted, featuring richly drawn characters and Jeffrey Archer's trademark deliciously unexpected conclusions. They feature the mad...

An imprisoned man is certain that his supposed murder victim is very much alive . . . A female driver is pursued relentlessly by a menacing figure in another vehicle . . . A young artist gets the biggest break of her career . . . A restless beauty manages the perfect birthday celebration...

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...