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  Top 10 Short Stories The -...

  Victor Hugo, Oscar Wilde,...

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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 the pens of our European authors examine murder.  This dark and evil deed is carried out for many reasons.  Our authors, including Guy de Maupassant, Victor Hugo, Mikhail Bulgakov, Arthur Conan Doyle and many others are those charged with revealing each and every crime scene.  
   
  1 - The Top 10 Short Stories - European Murder - An Introduction 
  2 - Claude Gueux by Victor Hugo 
  3 - Lord Arthur Saville's Crime - Part 1 by Oscar Wilde 
  4 - Lord Arthur Saville's Crime - Part 2 by Oscar Wilde 
  5 - The Murderer by Mikhail Bulgakov 
  6 - The Force of Blood by Miguel de Cervantes 
  7 - The Vendetta by Guy de Maupassant 
  8 - Markheim by Robert Louis Stevenson 
  9 - The Legend of Saint Julian the Hospitaller by Gustave Flaubert 
  10 - The Lie by Leonid Andreyev 
  11 - Mateo Falcone by Prosper Merimee 
  12 - The Story of B 24 by Arthur Conan Doyle

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  A Bouquet of Thistles

  L. J. Greatrex

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  Grade ‘A’ law graduate Millicent Prendergast created the perfect storm. A dalliance with her boss taught her a lesson she would never forget. Her subsequent dismissal by Silvia O’Donnall, her nemesis, forced her onwards to reach her goal. 
  With financial assistance from Daniel Faversham, her law practice grew, along with her reputation, until a gruesome murder. 
  Throwing oil on troubled waters, her assistant Brian broke judicial rules, leaving an insurmountable conundrum in its wake. 
  Will fortitude, honesty and integrity win the day?

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  Murder at a Scottish Wedding

  Traci Hall

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  As her friend's matron of honor, Paislee Shaw vows to solve the mystery of a missing brooch and a dying wedding guest . . . 
   
   
   
  Paislee's specialty sweater shop and yarn business Cashmere Crush, in the charming Scottish village of Nairn, is closed today for a special occasion. Her bonnie bestie Lydia is moments away from walking down the aisle of the church at Old Nairn Kirk to wed Corbin Smythe. Gramps and Paislee's eleven-year-old son Brody are seated in the pews with the other guests—the only family not in attendance is their black Scottish terrier Wallace. As matron of honor, Paislee is at her friend's side when Lydia lets out a frantic cry. The Luckenbooth brooch her betrothed gave her is missing. A traditional Scottish love token, the gold heirloom has been in his family for generations and not wearing it could bring bad luck—according to the superstitious Smythes. 
   
   
    
  But the real misfortune falls on a distraught cousin who suddenly disrupts the ceremony and dies with the brooch in her hand. The Smythes insist it's the curse. But Paislee must broach the subject of . . . murder. And was the intended victim the guest—or the bride? Only Paislee can determine who to pin the murder on . . .

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  Valley of Death: The gripping...

  Scott Mariani

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  FROM THE #1 BESTSELLING AUTHOR 
  ‘If you like your conspiracies twisty, your action bone-jarring, and your heroes impossibly dashing, then look no farther’ MARK DAWSON 
  This time it’s personal… 
  People going missing in the remote wilds of India is not unusual. But when the son of a wealthy Delhi businessman is kidnapped just weeks after his brother fell victim to an alleged bandit attack in the mountains of Haryana, it raises eyebrows. 
  With the local police doing close to nothing, there’s only one man for the job: ex-SAS major Ben Hope. But for Ben, this is no ordinary rescue case. Because this plea for help is coming from a special person from his past, who now has nobody else to turn to. 
  Ben’s mission will take him into the heart of the arid Indian wilderness, pitting him against ruthless gangs and desperate men. But Ben is determined to save the day. Whatever it takes. 
  The Ben Hope series is a must-read for fans of Dan Brown, Lee Child and Mark Dawson. Join the millions of readers who get breathless with anticipation when the countdown to a new Ben Hope thriller begins… 
  Whilst the Ben Hope thrillers can be read in any order, this is the nineteenth book in the series. 
  Scott Mariani's Valley of Death is an international bestseller that takes readers on a suspenseful adventure filled with detective work, mystery, and espionage. The military and crime elements add depth to this top-rated fiction. 
  For fans of Andy Mcdermott (The Knights of Atlantis), Dan Brown (Angels And Demons), James Rollins (Arkangel), James Swallow (Dark Horizon), and Don Bentley (Capture or Kill).

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  The Last Seat - A thriller

  Jenifer Ruff

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  A standalone psychological thriller from USA Today
  Bestselling author Jenifer Ruff.
   
  The spotlight is dangerous when everyone has something to
  hide.
   
  When ER nurse Haley James saves a stranger’s life on a train,
  the heroic moment is captured on video and goes viral overnight. Suddenly
  thrust into the media spotlight, Haley becomes the center of a national frenzy.
  Reporters dig into her past. Detectives ask difficult questions. Secrets about
  her failing marriage threaten to surface.
   
  But the biggest lie may be the one closest to home.
   
  As the pressure builds, a devastating revelation from her
  mother shatters everything Haley believed about her family. With her life
  unraveling, she begins to question everyone around her—the detectives
  investigating the case, her estranged husband, and the charming lawyer who
  seems too good to be true.
   
  In this twisty domestic psychological thriller packed with
  deception, hidden motives, and shocking revelations, trust is a luxury Haley
  can’t afford. Because when the truth finally comes out, it will change
  everything.
   
  The Last Seat is a gripping psychological suspense
  novel with a jaw-dropping ending that will leave you questioning every
  relationship and secret until the final page.

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  The Dig - A Novel

  Anne Burt

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  When Sarajevo-born siblings Antonia and Paul were adopted by a wealthy Midwestern family in the 1990s, a series of events with deadly consequences was set in motion. Now, with her career on the line and her idealistic brother missing, Antonia must race against the clock to uncover a sinister secret and prevent history from repeating itself. 
   
   
   
  Antonia King has a complicated relationship with the past. She and her brother were found amid the rubble of a bombed-out apartment in Sarajevo and taken in by a family of contractors in Thebes, Minnesota. Eager to escape the constraints of her adopted town, Antonia embarks on a high-powered legal career. But it isn't long before her brother's mysterious disappearance pulls her back home. There, over the course of a single day, Antonia unearths decades of secrets and lies, leading to shocking revelations about her adoptive family—and the sinister truth behind her biological mother's death—that will alter the course of her life and change her definition of family forever. 
   
   
   
  Informed by timely issues of immigration, capitalism, and justice, yet timeless in its themes of love, identity, and competing loyalties, The Dig, inspired by the Greek tragedy Antigone, portrays a woman at odds with her history, forced to choose between her own ambitions and her loyalty to her beloved, idealistic brother.

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