Ужасы и Мистика
14439 кн.
Cathy Roberts has it all—an exciting life in a fabulous retirement community, a beautiful home, an expensive automobile, a doting husband, and five wonderful grandchildren. But it isn’t enough for the attractive, well-spoken Cathy. Filled with an insatiable desire for self-gratification, she wants more. Then, as fate would have it, she meets a handsome and single ex-truck driver, Eric Lowe, and the sparks begin to fly. Captivated by the exciting and much younger Lowe, she wants to spend the rest...
| Автор | R. B. Conroy |
Borderland is the story of a young assistant bank manager, Logan Massey. She discovers hundreds of thousands of dollars missing from several elderly customers’ accounts while meeting with the daughter of one of the customers, Travis Morton, who has recently died. The missing money can be traced to an unscrupulous lawyer with an expensive cocaine habit, Jake Turner. After he is confronted with the evidence that will ruin his career and send him to prison, Jake commits suicide while in a...
| Автор | Jennifer Seet |
Shades of the old west. Horse stealing, cattle rustling, arson and murder, and it’s happening today. The people of Lake County, Montana are willing to be good neighbors but are being harassed by thieves and invaders on their property. Modern day politics are involved and it’s shocking when the ranchers discover who is the head of these gangs. Ginger Proudfoot inherited a huge ranch after the death of her ancestors. She is a recent college graduate and has been away from the ranch for a few...
| Автор | Sioux Dallas |
THE AEGIS CONSPIRACY is a fictional account of a covert organization hidden within the Central Intelligence Agency. The cabal is composed of men who are convinced the policy precluding assassinations exposes the nation to grave peril. Ignoring established directives, these men quietly plan and cause the deaths of those they deem to represent a clear and present danger to the Republic. Clandestine Service Agent Den Clark joins with the conspirators but he becomes a threat to them. He is pursued...
| Автор | Galen Winter |
From the author of A PALER SHADE OF RED – Memoirs of a Radical; FLIGHT FROM EIN SOF and THE INVENTOR comes this collection of gritty, satirical, chilling, iconoclastic, always ferocious and unrepentant dystopias. Death and virgin birth, immortality and cannibalism, paradise and hell, the cosmos, bigotry and vigilantism, close encounters, wars to end all wars, hallucinations, disquieting prophecies and insanity – mainly insanity – are the forces that drive ONE NIGHT IN COPÁN. Oscillating between...
| Автор | W. E. Gutman |
A cache of trouble lies hidden in the woods near Cassidy’s canyon hideaway. The stash of banknotes has turned a greedy man to the wrong side of the law. With Cassidy in the mix, even the local search and rescue is drawn into the hunt. Will Cassidy live to see her wedding day? Will this be a cache of trouble, or the catch of trouble? And by whom? About the Author: Kelly Rysten is the author of three Cassidy Callahan novels. She lives in Southern California with her husband and a crazy Shetland...
| Автор | Kelly Rysten |
Sugar Land and Galveston, Texas are facing horrifying news. Twenty-three-year-old Daniel Cortland is disgusted with the mothers who push their daughters on him in hopes of cashing in on his family’s fame and wealth. He agonizingly cries, “I wish a nice girl would fall for ME and not my family name or wealth.” His desperate wish is answered, but it brings trouble and threats to several lives. How can Daniel overcome the vicious law breakers and enjoy his life? About the Author: Sioux Dallas, a...
| Автор | Sioux Dallas |
Liisa is a young artist, orphaned at a young age. A family friend took her and raised her with their own children. She visits her father’s hometown in Drammen, Norway and returns to Waterbury, Connecticut with amnesia. She begins to get threatening phone calls and death threats. Her employer, a dear old family friend, is killed and her foster father and foster brother are shot. The messages only tell her that if she tells what she knows she and her friends will suffer. What does she know? Why is...
| Автор | Sioux Dallas |
Young and impetuous, Kristine Larkin sets out to fulfill her dreams of becoming an award winning journalist – never mind the consequences. With the help of an unexpected source, she uncovers the story of a lifetime. She charges full-steam ahead certain this byline will bring her the fame, fortune, respect and adoration for which she longs. More concerned with one-upping her rivals than the consequences of her actions, Kristine gets her byline but loses everything in the process – even who she...
| Автор | Kimberly Vinje |
Open gunfire in an elementary school with Cassidy “Trouble” Michaels around and you better run. Run for the hills, but don’t leave tracks and don’t take time to look back. She will track you down, send you to the pen, and throw away the key. You never know when she might strike because adventures and mishaps ambush her as well, but eventually, when you are not expecting it, she will catch up and when she does she arrives with force… the entire police force. About the Author: Kelly Rysten was...
| Автор | Kelly Rysten |
The discovery of a body floating in New York City’s East River leads to the re-opening of the murder of Lacy Wooden, an aspiring young dancer. As NYPD Lieutenant James Francis Moran and his team follow each clue, they are brought face-to-face with some of the city’s most influential powerbrokers. As each layer of the case is peeled away, the secret life of each of these individuals is revealed, as well as their mutually unbeknown connection to the deceased woman. Finding the murderer against...
| Автор | Joseph Sinopoli Steven |
Repression, Imprisonment, Escape . . . Ivey Jane Doede is about to turn eighteen and is trying to leave home. She lives with her younger brother, Louie, and parents in Kansas with nothing but miles of cornfields in every direction. Ivey’s mom is abusive and her father is an alcoholic. Family life gets worse after a religious cult comes into the neighboring town, offering salvation. “Escape to Anywhere Else” connects to that part in all our lives when numbing is no longer enough. Ivey Doede must...
| Автор | Robert Rippberger |
Donald Youngblood is a rich, bored ex-Wall Street whiz kid that returns to his East Tennessee hometown and on a whim gets a Private Investigator's license. Billy Two Feathers is a full-blooded Cherokee Indian, ex-convict and Don's best friend. Together they open Cherokee Investigations and for a few years just hang out. Then Don is summoned by the rich and powerful Joseph Fleet to find his missing daughter and son-in-law. All is not as it seems as Don and Billy go through the motions...
| Автор | Keith Donnelly |
It's a few days before Christmas, and Meg's grandfather is hosting a scientific conference on owls at the Caerphilly Inn. Most of the family are there, helping out in one capacity or another, including Meg's grandmother, Cordelia-invited by Grandfather in a rare gesture of peace-making, to share her expertise on rehabilitating large birds, including owls. An unexpectedly severe snow storm traps the conference-goers in the hotel, and one of the visiting ornithologists is murdered....
| Автор | Donna Andrews |
Von Tokio nach Hamburg Als die Eheleute Haubach tot in ihrer Wohnung in Hamburg-Altona gefunden werden, scheint der Fall auf den ersten Blick klar: Selbstmord. Deshalb hat man auch Inspektor Kenjiro Takeda, Mitarbeiter der Mordkommission Tokio und zurzeit als Hospitant in Deutschland tätig, zum Tatort geschickt. Doch Takeda ist skeptisch. Zu recht, wie sich bald herausstellt, denn es finden sich Spuren, die auf Mord hindeuten, und Verdächtige gibt es auch genug. Gemeinsam mit seiner deutschen...
| Автор | Ксюша Ангел |
The perfect books for when you have a few minutes to kill. If you've got the time, we've got the crime. Test your detective skills and powers of deduction with 80 of the best quick-read whodunits in the popular Five-minute Mysteries series. Here's the idea: take about five minutes and read a mystery. The stories – some about the crime, some about evidence left behind, or perhaps the getaway or the investigating detective, and so on – are told with all the clues you need to...
| Автор | Ken Weber |
When you have a few minutes to kill. Armchairs sleuths can test their powers of deduction with 40 of the best quick-read whodunits in this fifth volume of the popular Five-minute Mysteries series. Here's the idea. Readers take about five minutes to read a short mystery. Next, they must solve the question posed at the end by putting themselves in the shoes of the detective to examine the evidence and figure out who done it. All the clues they need are found somewhere in the story. A...
| Автор | Ken Weber |
40 more felonies to solve. Here is the perfect book for when you have a few minutes to kill. Test your powers of deduction with 40 of the best quick-read whodunits in the third installment of the popular Five-minute Mysteries series. Here's the idea: take about five minutes and read a mystery. The stories – some about the crime, some about the evidence left behind, or perhaps the getaway or the investigating detective, and so on – are told with all the clues you need to solve the...
| Автор | Ken Weber |
Древность далека и близка, время течёт по-разному. Кто сказал, что существование древних Богов невозможно и ныне? Вечная мечта каждого – жить вечно, есть те, кто расскажет, каково это. В центре повествования люди обыкновенные и наделённые редкими способностями. Два брата, царевич и беззащитная дочь мельника. Каждый по-своему велик и мелок, каждого манит золото и власть над людьми. Сам Сатана является соблазнять их. И как быть? Остаться отшельником или открыть сердце любви? Кому-то собственное...
| Автор | Татьяна Вячеславовна Иванько |
London, 1554. Light-fingered Jack Blackjack wakes in a tavern's yard with a sore head, his knife smeared with blood and a dead stranger lying beside him. Jack may have robbed the man but he's certain that he didn't kill him. Unfortunately, the man's purse contains something much more valuable than money and, as the prime suspect for the murder, everyone is on Jack's tail. He needs to get out of the city, and fast, but a rebel army is marching on London: the bridge is...
| Автор | Michael Jecks |
In der Nähe eines Waldstücks bei Västerås in Schweden finden Kinder eine Leiche. Bei der Identifizierung stellt sich heraus, dass der aufgefundene Junge Schüler eines Elitegymnasiums war und seit Tagen als vermisst galt. Da die örtliche Polizei mit dem Fall überfordert ist, reist der Stockholmer Kommissar Torkel Höglund an und nimmt gemeinsam mit seinem Team die Ermittlungen auf. Die Spuren der Tat führen zu mehr als nur einem dunklen Geheimnis … Doch auch ein alter Bekannter Torkels ist mit...
| Автор | Michael Hjorth |
“David Edge is a Chinese Whisper.” So Constable Carol Porter learns while digging into one of Edge’s cold cases, unsure if she’s investigating the crime, the crim or the ex-cop. But to petty thief Ben Bovell, Edge is his only friend, his hero, and the one person he can trust – to keep the promise he extracts from Edge when Ben walks into his daughter’s day-care centre wearing a bomb. In the aftermath, a cast of cops, crims, muscle for hire, sex workers, street kids and bystanders encounter Edge...
| Автор | Ross Gray |
June Wright wrote this lost gem in the mid-1950s, but consigned it to her bottom drawer after her publisher foolishly rejected it. Perhaps it was a little ahead of its time? Because while it’s a tour de force of the classic ‘country house’ murder mystery, it’s also a delightful romp, poking fun at the conventions of the genre. When someone takes advantage of a duck hunt to murder publisher Athol Sefton at a remote hunting inn, it soon turns out that...
| Автор | June Wright |
First published in 1948, when it was the best-selling mystery of the year in the author’s native Australia, Murder in the Telephone Exchange stars feisty young operator Maggie Byrnes. When one of her more unpopular colleagues is murdered — her head bashed in with a “buttinski,” a piece of equipment used to listen in on phone calls — Maggie resolves to turn sleuth. Some of her coworkers are acting strangely, and Maggie is convinced she has a better...
| Автор | June Wright |