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Nightshift clerk and high-functioning insomniac Jack is back to work, trying his best to keep out of trouble. But when his chain-smoking coworker discovers a mysterious radio signal revealing the guarded secrets of their town, Jack will learn that an annoying new dayshift manager is far from the worst of his problems. In this second installment of the Gas Station saga, Jack finds himself entangled in his most harrowing adventure yet.

Diane Williams, "godmother of flash fiction" (The Paris Review), returns with thirty-three brilliant short stories. In Williams's stories, life is newly alive and dangerous; whether she is writing about an affair, a request for money, an afternoon in a garden, or the simple act of carrying a cake from one room to the next, she offers us beautiful and unsettling new ways of seeing everyday life.

2Was gibt‘s zum Essen?" "Nix." Paukenschlag am Eberhofer-Hof: Die Oma streikt! Nach gefühlt 2000 Kuchen und noch mehr Schweinsbraten, Semmelknödeln und Kraut beschließt die Oma, sich der familiären Fürsorge zukünftig zu entledigen. Chaos pur! Papa Eberhofer, Franz, Leopold und Susi sollen doch bitteschön endlich mal lernen, sich selbst zu versorgen. Ausgerechnet jetzt übernimmt Susi auch noch vorübergehend Niederkaltenkirchens Rathaus als stellvertretende Bürgermeisterin und reduziert mit ihrer neugewonnenen Macht Franz‘ Posten kurzum auf halbtags, damit er sich zukünftig um Sohn Pauli kümmert.

'A whip-smart whodunnit, this will keep you guessing' Red 'A fast-paced thriller with clever twists' Bella ***KATY BRENT IS BACK! I BET YOU'D LOOK GOOD IN A COFFIN IS OUT NOW*** Something bad happened last night. My best friend Posey is dead. The police think it was a tragic accident. I know she...

Dave is one of Irwell Cars' best drivers, although his life doesn't always reflect that. A run-down office with an uncertain future, Irwell Cars isn't offering Dave much—except the chance to pine after Lind, the long-suffering radio operator and his secret crush, and panic over what will become of him if the firm closes. Add in a crucial darts match, a 'Brief Encounter' themed date night, some former school bullies and a rather difficult omelette, and Dave is beginning to feel like even his pick ups are bringing him down...

FINALIST FOR THE GOTHAM BOOK PRIZE AN NPR, BBC, AND DEBUTIFUL BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR There’s a fine line between bending the truth and telling bold-faced lies, and Javier Perez is willing to cross it. Victim is a fearless satire about a hustler from the Bronx who sees through the veneer...

A dark comedy about four women coming together to heal the damage their husbands have done––and hide their bodies once they’ve killed them When Sally kills her husband with a cast-iron skillet, she’s more fearful of losing her kids than of disposing of a fresh corpse. That just...

A stagecoach containing a microcosm of French society seek to escape to Le Havre during the Prussian war. Stopping at an inn along the way, they soon realize they have blundered into Prussian occupied territory. The travelers are not allowed to leave until one woman, a prostitute known as Boule de Suif, (literally suet dumpling, or ball of fat), sleeps with the commanding officer. This turn of events is met with universal indignation by the travelers. But as the days stretch out, everyone’s true colors are revealed.

Stacey was trying to live her best life, but now she's dead. But why hasn't she passed on? Could it be her fatal car accident is actually murder? Detectives Ed Beaufontaine and Rose Garafino have a long list of suspects, chief among them Stacey's fiancé, Liam. His business dealings and new relationship with Emily Jackson are raising a few eyebrows. As the detectives dig deeper, so does Stacey. With nothing but time on her hands, she forensically examines her past relationships realising she might have been better off without them.

Eigentlich kennen sie sich nicht, können aber nicht aufhören, sich zu unterhalten... Lauren und Jared haben absolut nichts miteinander zu tun, obwohl sie seit Jahren auf dasselbe College gehen. Trotzdem hat sich Lauren direkt in ihn verliebt. Heimlich, still und leise – so wie Lauren wahrgenommen wird. Und dann sind da diese E-Mails, die sie sich wochenlang schreiben. Heimlich, still und leise – so wie Jared sich in Lauren verliebt. Das Problem: Er weiß nicht, dass sie die Eine für ihn ist und Lauren hat bereits die Hoffnung aufgegeben, sich ihm zu offenbaren.

The orcs are thirsty. And so are Captain Frank Gerber's swords, but apparently, you can't murder your customers. Stuck with a nightclub after a job gone wrong, Frank has to figure out how to rebuild something he never even wanted. That's just the first of his problems. Frank's blades will have a taste of blood again, but first, he has to party with orcs, barter with gnomes, drink with dwarves, and make shady deals with the scum of Sankta Varath, the greatest city in all of Steelheart Kingdom. And that's just the first week.

The debut cosy culinary crime thriller from Suk Pannu, creator of BBC Radio 4’s Mrs Sidhu Investigates and writer for Goodness, Gracious, Me and The Kumars at No. 42. Shortlisted for the 2024 McDermid Award ‘Stuffed with warmth and wicked, cross-cultural observations, Dead and Scone is a...

Frank and his team have their work cut out for them. The club needs new guests, drinks, trophies, and employees, not to mention a good mopping of blood after every shift. Guests love him, but the bounty hunters aren't pleased at all with Frank's success. Hector, their leader, knows just what it takes to knock his former friend down a peg or two. Just when Frank thinks things can't get any crazier, he gets invited to a bizarre nightclub owner meeting. New alliances will have to be forged, and dangerous waters will threaten to swallow him.

Squid Match: More than a mere tale of horror and carnage, this story is a powerful study in class struggles and inequality. Some Body to Love: Join Sally as she embarks on a quest to get chlamydia while helping her classmate's father secure a corpse in time for his sex doll convention . . . and maybe find love along the way. The Lepercorn: Lucy and her father are just like any working-class family trying to make an honest living scamming blind people out of hot dogs. But their lives are turned upside down when a small misunderstanding manifests as a grotesque abomination.

The Filthy Marauders motorcycle club is heading down South to steal some loot, drink some hooch, and have themselves a hoot at the Annual Hilljack Games, but their rivals have another game in mind. After a night of partying hard on the muddy banks of Delacroix County, these surly bikers will find themselves in a sticky situation, as friends and enemies conspire to pit them against a pack of ferocious animals in the grossest bloodsport ever conceived by man.

When Joe finds out that the agency insures a person’s marriage against falling apart, he is beyond baffled. How can anyone, let alone perpetually single Joe, promise such a thing? Now Joe must work hard to make enough profit to pay his bills with or make the business attractive enough to sell it off. But attempting to repair broken marriages, especially with the cast of strange and oddball characters who keep coming to his tiny office in the crumbling building demanding his attention, is no small task—and it threatens to fracture his sanity. Could Joe really pull this off?

Dwayne Devero is just like you and me, except he simply doesn’t give a sh*t anymore. He’s had enough. He’s done with people living life wrong. You’ll do it right, or he’ll bury you under the bases at the ballpark where he coaches. It’s just that simple. Tired of poor decisions being made all around him, from the politics of player positions on his son’s little league baseball team to the philandering of his wife in his own bedroom, Dwayne decides that breaking is better than bending.

Heff hat sich mit der Mafia eingelassen! Davon sind Alex, Sven und Franz spätestens dann überzeugt, als Alex etwas von "Beton Muffensausen" aufschnappt und Heff plötzlich überstürzt das Haus verlässt. Es gibt nur eine Person, die den drei verängstigten Angestellten jetzt noch helfen kann: Michael, der externe Telefonseelsorger und persönliche Domian der Firma.

Da mal wieder Ebbe in der Kasse herrscht und Heff keine Methode zu makaber ist, meldet er seine Angestellten kurzerhand zu einer Prekariats-Reality-Doku-Soap an. Unter der Leitung der wandelnden Walze Vera von Sinnen und ihres tuntigen Trainers Detlef Daisen soll der Kandidat mit Gold überschüttet werden, der am Ende der Sendung das meiste Gewicht verloren hat.

Das war abzusehen. Nach all der Gehirnwäsche, den körperlichen Strapazen und dem Hochgenuß von hundert Jahre altem Kuchen, landet die gesamte Belegschaft der Firma inklusive Heff im Krankenhaus. Zwischen tonnenweise Beruhigungsmitteln, verschrobenen Patienten, einem leicht labilen Vertreter der Armee-Versicherung, einer sadistischen Krankenschwester und dem Doktor, der seinen Namen nicht nennen will, erleben Heff und seine Mannen was es heist, sich mit dem Gesundheitssystem anzulegen. Nicht einmal Heffs Fische bleiben davon verschont.