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‘Addictive. Fast-paced. Thrilling. It kept me on the edge of my seat!’– Angel Erin’s Book ObsessionA daughter’s secret. A mother’s betrayal.Every mother knows never to let their child out of their sight. But Freya has been distracted recently, and now her teenage daughter, Zoe, is missing.Freya knows that the only way to bring Zoe back is to tell the truth, but when your whole life is built on secrets and lies, the truth could destroy everything.Surely there’s no harm in telling just one more...
| Автор | Louise Stone |
Mouse-like Mitsi Linden arrives in Paris only to encounter tragedy and disaster – until Larry Curtis takes her life, and her heart, in the palm of his hand. Larry transforms Mitsi into a glamorous Parisian star, and launches her on London, where she faces the dazzling world of Mayfair, restaurants and nightclub life. There, she falls under the spell of the fascinating Bob Raymond. But, as she becomes entangled in blackmail and jealousy, will she find real love and happiness?
| Автор | Ernest Dudley |
Colonel Hugh North faces cold war foes and intrigue on one of his most deadly missions. The Hugh North series is «high powered…unflagging entertainment!» (The New York Times).
| Автор | Van Wyck Mason |
The town was dark and heavy with doom. Hate, generations old, flowed through it like a malevolent river. Julie knew the force of that hate… and the violence which had issued from it in the past. It could erupt again; she lived in terror.<P> Ben, the stranger, saw Julie and fell in love. A secret voice warned him to stay away, but he did not. They clung together in the darkness; meanwhile, through the midnight shadows of the town a killer moved to wreak his vengeance on them both.
| Автор | Leslie Ford |
‘Dark, clever, terrifying’Paula Hawkins, author of The Girl on the Train*The Top Ten Bestseller*‘Gripping and moving’ Erin Kelly‘You won’t want to eat, sleep or blink’ Tammy CohenImagine your doorbell rings in the middle of the night.You open the door to the police.With them is your husband’s eleven-year-old love child. A daughter you never knew he had.Her mother has been found dead in their south London flat.She has nowhere else to go.WOULD YOU TAKE HER IN?Compulsive, dark and devastating, Give...
| Автор | Mel McGrath |
Fifteen years ago Ellen Smith vanished from the woods near her small Welsh village. Never to be seen again.Eight people were in the woods that night: eight splintered lives, eight people hiding a terrible secret. But who can remember the truth?Now, Ellen’s best friend, Detective Ava Cole is all grown up back in the village where it all began, and everyone is asking the same question.What really happened to Ellen?Filled with shocking discoveries and traumatic memories this fast paced thriller is...
| Автор | D. White E. |
Somewhere in Vixenhead, I’m certain the truth lies…A sudden disappearance…When Roz Outlaw's partner Tom mysteriously vanishes, she knows his life is in danger. Tom has been distracted lately, afraid, as though he is being hunted…A desperate search…With the police showing little interest Roz knows it falls to her to find Tom. But as Tom's secrets are uncovered nothing can prepare Roz for the dark lies and twisted truths she finds. She thought she loved Tom, but quickly realises she has been...
| Автор | E. Seymour V. |
As a favour to an old friend, Hercule Poirot finds himself at a summer fete in Devon, taking part not in a Treasure Hunt, but a Murder Hunt, in this never-before-published novella version of Dead Man’s Folly. Now released for the first time as an eBook exclusive publication.Sir George and Lady Stubbs, the hosts of a village fête, hit upon the novel idea of staging a mock murder mystery. In good faith, Ariadne Oliver, the well known crime writer, agrees to organise their murder hunt. But at the...
| Автор | Агата Кристи |
A Red Sox rookie is accused of murder in the first Mickey Rawlings historical mystery “that will leave readers eager for subsequent innings” (Publishers Weekly).  Boston, 1912. Fenway has just opened, Ty Cobb is a nationwide sensation, and rookie Mickey Rawlings has finally made it to the majors. But just when he sets foot inside the confines of the green monster, his all-star dreams come crashing down—Rawlings is fingered for the monstrous murder of his...
| Автор | Troy Soos |
Rufus King returns to the maritime mystery genre with «Murder on the Yacht.» A lawyer disappears from a taxi cab on the way to join a party aboard the giant luxury yacht «The Crusader.» Where did he go and what happened to him? Lt. Valcour joins the cruise to find out, mixing with a varied bunch of eccentric guests and crewmen, including a psychic. But will she provide clues or a smokescreen for the culprits? Another thrilling Lt. Valcour mystery!
| Автор | Rufus King |
Terror lay heavy on that strange household on the Canadian border – but not until Lt. Valcour of the New York Police arrived did the hand of murder strike. Soundlessly, inexplicably – and then Valcour's strangest, most perilous case began!<P> Valcour Meets Murder is is the 6th Lt. Valcour novel. It includes a preview of #7, The Lesser Antilles Case.
| Автор | Rufus King |
It's March of 1978 and a battered, steaming wreck lays at the bottom of a 50-foot cliff. Former boxing champion and football star Johnny Beam is found crumpled and broken behind the steering wheel. Beam was a gambler, in trouble with the law—and now dead. Was it an accident? Suicide? Murder? How did the former hero end up like this? In the lily-white northern town of Zenith, Minnesota, only one thing was certain: Johnny Beam stood out like a fly in a bottle of milk....
| Автор | T.K. O'Neill |
We all have a breaking point and Michael Richardson has reached his. His girlfriend has left him and he is being made redundant. Worse, he discovers that the businessman putting him out of work is the bully who tormented him as a child and attacked his 16-year-old sister. <br><br>Michael plots revenge but he needs an alibi for murder and who better than a psychologist to vouch for him? Enter Bronwen, who has a questionable dress sense and an even more questionable code of conduct. As...
| Автор | Graham Boone's Adams |
The adage that 'the rich are different from you and me' is crystallized in BAD DAD, a psychological crime novel that explores the dark side of wealth and privilege.<br><br>Lester Fuller, as BAD DAD, is heir to a Wyoming natural gas fortune who hires his ranch foreman to murder his daughter-in-law. Mary Lou has provoked Fuller's scorn by luring son Danny away from an upper class existence, transforming him into a Southern redneck who sweats at a menial job to...
| Автор | Alice Shane |
Compiled in one essential collection, the best books by Algernon Blackwood:<br><br>The Centaur<br><br>The Damned<br><br>The Empty House and Other Ghost Stories<br><br>The Extra Day<br><br>Four Weird Tales<br><br>The Garden of Survival<br><br>The Human Chord<br><br>The Man Whom The Trees Loved<br><br>A Prisoner In Fairyland<br><br>The Wendigo
| Автор | Algernon Blackwood |
Dan Weston is a simple, hard working family man. That quickly and violently changes when he is forced to watch the senseless murder of his wife and child at the hands of demons hiding in human form. As the man/demon responsible toys with Weston as if he were a simple pawn, Weston swears a vow of vengeance on all of the demon kind. With nothing left to lose, he immerses himself in the dangerous world of preternatural creatures.<br><br>On his quest to find some inner peace, Weston...
| Автор | Gavin Hughes |
Colonel Hugh North is sent to destroy a lost missile – and finds nothing but trouble in Burma! The Hugh North series is “high powered . . . unflagging entertainment!” (The New York Times).
| Автор | Van Wyck Mason |
Colonel Hugh North’s wildest andmost baffling assignment leads to Zanzibar Intrigue! The Hugh North series is “high powered . . . unflagging entertainment!” (The New York Times).
| Автор | Van Wyck Mason |
When a wealthy New Yorker with a young bride is shot in his Manhattan mansion, then a blackmailing valet perishes in Easthampton, only Lt. Valcour can unravel the mystery. <P> "A clever solution…[the] tale has more than usual amount of chipper chatter." – The Saturday Review
| Автор | Rufus King |
A blackmailer with religious mania and a decayed actor are murdered – one by land and one by sea. Despite the challenges, Lt. Valcour is not daunted by his latest case! <P> "The thrills and polished deducing are there in quantity." – The Saturday Review.
| Автор | Rufus King |
When the driver of the aging conversion van he just pulled over rabbits off into the brush, Texas State Trooper Dan Henning knows there must be something of value hidden in the vehicle.<br><br>A quick search turns up a mountain of cash poorly hidden behind the wall paneling. But someone's found money is someone else's lost money, and before long, an odd pair of alleged awning salesmen pays Henning's wife a visit. Now the trooper finds himself back in a Gulf...
| Автор | T.K. O'Neill |
Frank Ford is a survivor of 10 long years at the Metropole Bar, where he's babysitter and alcohol dealer to Zenith City's derelict class: the misfits, the losers, the crazies, the old fading lushes, and, of course, the budding young alcoholics unaware or indifferent to what lies ahead.<br> <br>We first see Frank in the aftermath of his little brother's funeral. Ray was an addict and a constant irritant. Forgotten, is how Frank wanted to remember Ray. The...
| Автор | T.K. O'Neill |
Hidden in the desolate woods on the Central California coast, lost to time and memory, is a WPA mural unlike any other created during the 1930s. This one was not simply fashioned from charcoal and paint; it was crafted out of undying evil–the evil of an ancient demonic army called Legion. When structural inspector Jack Hayden stumbles upon the mural in a ruined civic building, he tries to convince himself that it might add to the crumbling structure’s value. But that note of hopefulness is...
| Автор | Michael Mallory |
?My missing person did not hunt, fish, or engage in any type of sport that one would do in a Louisiana fishing village. And after a cursory look at what was called Pointe Nueve, I doubted a decent antique could be found to buy in the entire collection of rusty, metal-roofed buildings. At least I knew not to expect to find a body there. The alligators would have taken care of that weeks ago. OK, so I can be wrong once in a while…?<P>Louisiana antique dealer Marc DeVarney, a well-respected...
| Автор | Lloyd Biggle jr. |