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She was just trying to confront a liar. Now she’s trying to stay alive. When Faydra Hawkins sets out to catch her boyfriend in a lie, she never expects to become entangled in a jewelry store robbery — or to come face to face with armed criminals and flashing sirens. In a single heartbeat, everything spirals. With the city on lockdown and the cops closing in, Faydra finds herself trapped in something far more dangerous than betrayal.

The Body is a dazzling collection of fiction from Hanif Kureishi, beginning with a novella that delves into the concept of identity, and its root in our physical being. Adam is a middle-aged playwright who accepts a tempting offer to have his mind transported into a younger body for six months. Youth restored, he embarks on an odyssey of physical hedonism, but must then face the dire consequences when he is loath to relinquish his new body.

In Bullseye, an exciting novella from Number One Sunday Times bestselling author David Baldacci, worlds collide when government assassin Will Robie is caught in the crossfire with Oliver Stone and the Camel Club. Will Robie is closing in on his next target when he finds himself in the middle of...

È un romanzo composto da una serie di dodici racconti legati da un filo narrativo e interdentale. A causa di un ascesso terribile, un uomo si reca al Pronto Soccorso dentistico notturno. Sulla poltrona il protagonista della storia, mentre sta cercando di vincere il dolore del trapano, fa volare la fantasia. Ecco allora le storie raccontate da Pinketts: dall'horror al noir, dal surreale al fantastico, i racconti si muovono tutti sul livello del paradosso e della metafora. Per ogni dente un racconto, in un caleidoscopio di immagini, di giochi di parole, di invenzioni fantastiche.

"ها قد حدثت الكارثة أخيرًا بعد سنوات طوال من الصراع الأعمى للفساد والحقد والغل لكنَّ بوادرها لم تحدث كما توقع المتوقعون أو ارتجف الراجفون !!!" تكون هذه المجموعة من...

'ভয় যদি সত্যি পেতে চাও, তাহলে একদিন আমার বাড়ি এসো. শুধু একটা রাত থাকতে হবে. রোজ যখন ঘুম ভাঙে অবাক হই যে আরেকটা রাত...

Written by Scottish-Canadian author John Buchan (The Thirty-Nine Steps), The Runagates Club is a collection of twelve short stories focusing on members of the eponymous London dining society.

Prizonierul faraonilor continuă seria scrierilor macabre ale lui H.P. Lovecraft, reunind şaisprezece dintre povestirile ce au pus bazele universului fascinant şi straniu creat de acesta. Fie că este vorba de blesteme vechi de secole ce se transmit din generaţie în generaţie, de cărţi...

O lume in care incredibilul devine realitate, o lume in care tenebrele acopera orizontul, in care macabrul, teroarea si nebunia invadeaza cosmosul - lumea stranie a lui H.P. Lovecraft. Volumul de fata reuneste douasprezece texte celebre ale maestrului literaturii fantastice, de la primele...

كائن فضائى مُمثل فى فيروس يتنقل بين أجهزة الكمبيوتر عبر العالم، ليكشف أسرارًا وأمورًا مرعبة تنقلنا بتشويق الى قلب عالم الجاسوسية. خمس قصص تنبأ بهم الكاتب الكبير...

The Greek Interpreter, one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is one of 12 stories in the cycle collected as The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes. The story was originally serialised in Strand Magazine in 1893. This story introduces Holmes's elder brother Mycroft. Doyle ranked The Greek Interpreter seventeenth in a list of his nineteen favourite Sherlock Holmes stories.

Author Bret Nelson mashes up dime novels and drive-in double features to bring you two killer books in one!

SINISTRES TROPIQUES ! Ce recueil rassemble 5 récits de crime exotique cultes de la littérature classique : - Amok, Stefan Zweig - Le bouddha vivant, H.J Magog - Dans le ventre d'Huitzilipochtli, Gustave Le Rouge - Une histoire contée par la mer, William Charles MORROW - Le Chameau noir, Earl Derr BIGGERS

وإذا كنت مكانهم يومًا ما وعرفت بأنَّني التّالي وبانَّ أيامي أصبحت في الحياة معدودة فماذا سافعل وكيف سأرتّب أولوياتي؟! لماذا إذن لا أرتبها منذ الآن... دماء سبعةٍ من...

"وعندما بدأنا نكبر بدأت أمهاتنا في الرحيل إلى أسفل شواهد القبور..كان آباؤنا يحملون المحفّات المحملةِ بجثثهنَّ وكنّا نسعى بينهم وعيوننا تنهمر منها الدموع...وكان...

خمسة قصص متنوعة ومثيرة. شاهد "غرفة أبليس" عن قرب، وتعرف إلى "زائر الليل الأخير" وغيرها من القصص التي تقدمها الكاتبة الشيماء السيوفي في مجموعتها القصصية "الأكفان...

Forced to marry a traitor to the Realm, Bridget helps her fiancé face the music.

Journey into the gothic heart of the past! This series uncovers the forgotten ghost stories that captivated readers in the roaring 20s. Experience the chilling atmosphere of a world on the brink of change, where the lines between reality and the supernatural blurred. Explore the macabre tales of haunted houses, vengeful spirits, and the chilling power of the unknown.

The time has come, water is scarce everywhere in Mumbai, it's as expensive as diamond. An old lady staying alone realises there is a thief in the house! What has he come to steal?...

Joby was a simple guy with small aspirations and all he wanted was to reach the peak of the Himalayas like hundreds of others before him so that he'd have done at least one exciting thing in the entirety of his boring life. But he'd never, ever, in his wildest dreams, dreamed of running into a...