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  The Inheritance - A Novel

  Simon Tolkien

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  “Simon Tolkien’s grandfather is J. R. R., but his new novel” –a historical locked room mystery—“owes more to Agatha Christie—and Dan Brown.” (New York Times).   When a famed Oxford historian is found dead in his study one night, all evidence points to his son, Stephen. About to be disinherited from the family fortune, Stephen returns to home after a long estrangement—and it happens to be the night his father is shot to death. When his fingerprints are found on the murder weapon, Stephen's guilt seems undeniable. But there were five other people in the manor house at the time, and as their stories slowly emerge—along with the revelation that the deceased man was involved in a deadly hunt for a priceless relic in Northern France at the end of World War II—the race is on to save Stephen from a death sentence.   Everyone has a motive, and no one is telling the truth.   Unwilling to sit by and watch the biased judge condemn Stephen to death, an aging police inspector decides to travel from England to France to find out what really happened in that small French village in 1945—and what artifact could be so valuable it would be worth killing for.   “Absolutely compelling.” —Booklist, starred review   “A thinking person’s Da Vinci Code.” —Chicago Tribune   “A deft combination of Agatha Christie manor-house whodunit, Erle Stanley Gardner courtroom drama and Dan Brown thriller. Tolkien . . . proves himself worthy—and then some—of his literary pedigree.”  —Richmond Times Dispatch

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  Top 10 Short Stories The - The...

  Edgar Allan Poe, H G Wells, Guy...

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  Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart.  A few pages can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere. 
   
  In this series we try to offer up tried and trusted ‘Top Tens’ across many different themes and authors. But any anthology will immediately throw up the questions – Why that story? Why that author?  
   
  The theme itself will form the boundaries for our stories which range from well-known classics, newly told, to stories that modern times have overlooked but perfectly exemplify the theme.  Throughout the volume our authors whether of instant recognition or new to you are all leviathans of literature. 
   
  Some you may disagree with but they will get you thinking; about our choices and about those you would have made.  If this volume takes you on a path to discover more of these miniature masterpieces then we have all gained something. 
   
  In this volume our authors lead us through that most popular of genres – The Murder Mystery.  Tracking down the killer and the motive is examined by such masters as Robert Louis Stevenson, H G Wells, Susan Glaspell, Ryūnosuke Akutagawa and many others with twists of fate, deductions of ingenuity, and literary brilliance. 
   
  1 - The Top 10 Short Stories - The Murder Mystery - An Introduction 
  2 - Markheim by Robert Louis Stevenson 
  3 - The Cask of Amontillardo by Edgar Allan Poe 
  4 - The Cone by H G Wells 
  5 - The Moonlit Road by Ambrose Bierce 
  6 - Better Dead by J M Barrie 
  7 - A Jury of Her Peers by Susan Glaspell 
  8 - In A Grove by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa 
  9 - Was It An Illusion. A Parson's Story by Amelia Edwards 
  10 - August Heat by W F Harvey 
  11 - The Repairer of Reputations - Part 1 by Robert W Chambers 
  12 - The Repairer of Reputations - Part 2 by Robert W Chambers

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  The New Neighbor

  Carter Wilson

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  Aidan Marlowe is the superstitious type?he's been playing the same lottery numbers for fifteen years, never hitting the jackpot. Until now. On the day of his wife's funeral. Aidan struggles to cope with these two sudden extremes: instant wealth beyond his imagination and the loss of the only woman he's ever loved, the mother of his twin children. But the money gives him and his kids options they didn't have before. They can leave everything behind. They can start a new life in a new town. So they do. But a huge new house and all the money in the world can't replace what they've lost, and it's not long before Aidan realizes he's merely trading old demons for new ones. Because someone is watching him and his family very closely. Someone who knows exactly who they are, where they've come from, and what they're trying to hide. Someone who will stop at nothing to get what they want...

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  The Curse of the Holy Pail

  Sue Ann Jaffarian

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  Is the "Holy Pail" cursed? Every owner of the vintage Chappy Wheeler lunchbox―a prototype based on the 1940s television western―has died. And now Sterling Price, business tycoon and a client of Odelia Grey's law firm, has been fatally poisoned. Is it a coincidence that Price's one-of-a-kind lunch pail―worth over thirty grand―has disappeared at the same time?Treading cautiously since a recent run-in with a bullet, Odelia takes small bites of this juicy, calorie-free mystery―and is soon ravenous for more! Her research reveals a sixty-year-old unsolved murder and Price's gold-digging ex-fiancée with two married men wrapped around her finger. Mix in a surprise marriage proposal that sends an uncertain Odelia into chocolate sedation, and you've got an unruly recipe for delicious disaster.

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  Summer - They created him

  Jens-Peter Sjöberg

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  A group of friends convenes at a cabin in the Stockholm archipelago for a much anticipated vacation. But all is not well on the island of Svartoga. A sinister presence stalks them even as tensions rise and friendships are tested. 
  Created by Jens Peter Sjoberg 
  Creative Consultant, TJ Marquis 
  Narrated by Victoria Jeffrey 
  Produced by Tell A Tale AB

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  Fade to Black

  P A Wilson

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  Money and power run these cosmic headquarters. When a high-class leader is found dead, this cop will stop at nothing to upend sinister schemes. 
  Detective Sofie Allen believes anarchy is only a scandal away. With lucrative crime lurking around every gangway of the elite-ruled space station, closing cases requires a delicate balance of politics and justice. But she sees the local power equilibrium shifting dangerously when the head of a ruling family is brutally murdered. 
  Facing pressure to pin the homicide on a lowlife, Detective Allen desperately tries to contain the stress that could reveal her hidden genetic medical disorder. But as she relentlessly pushes the investigation forward and uncovers dirty business, she fears the lethal consequences will rain down on a complete innocent… 
  Can this besieged woman nail the perp before key evidence falls into a black hole? 
  Fade to Black is the exhilarating first book in The Mallet science fiction mystery series. If you like driven heroines, complex characters, and gritty settings, then you’ll love P A Wilson’s interstellar whodunit. 
  Buy Fade to Black to set the controls for truth today!

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