"My guiltiest pleasure is Harry Stephen Keeler. He may been the greatest bad writer America has ever produced. Or perhaps the worst great writer. I do not know. There are few faults you can accuse him of that he is not guilty of. But I love him." – Neil Gaiman<P> It all started with a murder 20 years earlier. A ragpicker was found in a closet, stabbed in the back with a jewelled dagger—through an ace of spades! There’s a reward for the solution to this old murder and Bill Chattuck,...
"My guiltiest pleasure is Harry Stephen Keeler. He may been the greatest bad writer America has ever produced. Or perhaps the worst great writer. I do not know. There are few faults you can accuse him of that he is not guilty of. But I love him." – Neil Gaiman<P> An unholy love! That's what young Erlys Janway found herself in the throes of as she awaits word from her brother, Pell Barneyfield, as to whether they are truly blood-related. If he can come up with the proof...
"My guiltiest pleasure is Harry Stephen Keeler. He may been the greatest bad writer America has ever produced. Or perhaps the worst great writer. I do not know. There are few faults you can accuse him of that he is not guilty of. But I love him." – Neil Gaiman<P> There's nothing new under the sun in Idiots' Valley, home of Harry Stephen Keeler's Screwball Circus. Angus MacWhorter's circus has made it across Old Twistibus – the windingest road in the world – but...
“A dynamic story line that grips from the first chapter and doesn't let go.” –Midwest Book Review, Diane Donovan (regarding Once Gone) From #1 bestselling author Blake Pierce comes a new masterpiece of psychological suspense: CAUSE TO SAVE (An Avery Black Mystery—Book 5). In CAUSE TO SAVE, serial killer Howard Randall has escaped, and the entire city of Boston is on edge. Women are turning up gruesomely murdered, and everyone suspects Howard is at it again. When Boston’s most...
From Blake Pierce, bestselling author of ONCE GONE (a #1 bestseller with over 900 five star reviews), comes book #8 in the heart-pounding Mackenzie White mystery series. In BEFORE HE HUNTS (A Mackenzie White Mystery—Book 8), victims are turning up dead in FBI Special Agent Mackenzie White’s home state of Nebraska—all shot in the back of the head, and all bearing the card “Barker Antiques.” The same card her father’s murderer left on his body years ago. With a sudden urgency in the...
“A dynamic story line that grips from the first chapter and doesn't let go.” –Midwest Book Review, Diane Donovan (regarding Once Gone) From #1 bestselling mystery author Blake Pierce comes a new masterpiece of psychological suspense. A bundle of books #1 (CAUSE TO KILL) and #2 (CAUSE TO RUN) in Blake Pierce’s Avery Black Mystery series! This bundle offers books one and two in one audiobook. In CAUSE TO KILL, Homicide Detective Avery Black has been through hell. Once a top...
Dresden im November 1918: Nach dem Ende des Ersten Weltkriegs leiden die Menschen Hunger, viele Familien sind verarmt, die Spanische Grippe fordert täglich neue Opfer. Auch in der sächsischen Metropole kündigen sich revolutionäre Veränderungen an. Da verschwindet plötzlich spurlos ein kleines Mädchen. Schnell meint man die Schuldigen ausgemacht zu haben: eine Familie von Roma, die am Rande der Stadt lagert. Der ermittelnde Kommissar ist ratlos und sucht Hilfe bei seinem alten Jugendfreund Konrad...
Bram Stoker’s “Dracula” is the novel that introduced the fictional creature known as the vampire to millions. It is considered by many as the single most important work in the gothic vampire horror genre. “Dracula,” while not the first appearance of the vampire in literature, is certainly the work that is most readily identified with the vampire genre and has spawned countless imitations and references. The novel is set sometime in the late 19th century and begins by being told from the...
Агата бежит из тюрьмы и пускается в опасную гонку за свободой и счастьем. Ее невольной спутницей становится Милли, и в один миг размеренная, упорядоченная жизнь девушки летит под откос. Долгий и опасный путь через всю Америку приводит их к разгадке давней тайны, разрушившей жизнь Агаты. А Милли узнает, что встреча со странной незнакомкой не была случайностью…
Предыстория сыщика-астролога Киёси Митараи, главного героя романов-головоломок «Токийский Зодиак» и «Дом кривых стен». Токио, 1978 год. Некий человек пришел в себя на скамейке в совершенно незнакомом месте и постепенно понял, что ничего не помнит о прошлой жизни и вообще не знает, кто он такой. Кроме того, обнаружил, что вместо своего лица видит в зеркалах нечто вроде пунцовой дыни. В безнадежной ситуации ему на помощь пришла девушка Рёко, они полюбили друг друга и поселились вместе....
Un misterio en la costa de Lancashire en el noroeste de Inglaterra. John «Slim» Hardy, bebedor y soldado caído en desgracia y convertido en torpe detective privado, es contratado para investigar a Ted Douglas, banquero de inversión que se escapa todos los viernes a visitar una cala desolada en la costa de Lancashire. Allí camina hasta la orilla, abre un libro Viejo y empieza a leer en voz alta. Su mujer piensa que está teniendo una aventura. Slim piensa que está loco. La verdad es más increíble...