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  What Happened That Night

  Susanna Beard

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  THAT NIGHT.Lisa remembers the first part of the night: an evening in the pub with her best friend.Then nothing.She wakes up, days later. She's in hospital. Her best friend is dead.WHAT HAPPENED?Lisa holes up in a remote country cottage, plagued by guilt and flashbacks: how did their assailant know them? Why were they attacked? And what really happened that night?With only vague memories of the event, she cuts herself off from friends and family, spending her days wandering the hills with her dog, Riley.Lisa realises there's another truth still hidden to her, a truth she can't escape from. A truth that may have been right in front of her all along.

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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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  This Other Country - More Heat...

  John Wiltshire

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  Nikolas is the sanest, straightest person Ben knows, so can anyone tell him why he is on a gay-therapy course? 
  Nikolas Mikkelsen could make a very long list of unpleasant things he's endured in his life. Then order it from "nearly killed me" to "extremely horrific and don't want to do again". And what does it say about his 45 years, that being hit by a tsunami would be considerably way down on this list? But nothing - not torture, imprisonment, or starvation - has prepared him for what he now has to endure for Ben Rider's sake - attendance on a residential gay-therapy course. 
  At least he has a new contender for the top spot on his "my awful life" list.

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  The Mapmaker's Secret - A...

  John Pilkington

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  Pick up the next thrilling instalment in this gripping Elizabethan mystery series from John Pilkington. Fans of Andrew Taylor and C. J. Sansom will not want to miss this! 🩸☠️ 
  'Pilkington’s latest takes this long-running and popular series to a new level' - Booklist 
  A HAWK SOARS TO KILL... 
  Thomas Finbow is sent to help with a tragic fire at one of his master's tenant farms, but is soon embroiled in something far more sinister. The body of Simon Haylock is dragged from the blazing barn - and it appears he was dead before the fire even started... 
  All is not well on the Berkshire Downs, as a number of fearful murders are discovered, baffling the authorities and striking fear into villagers' hearts. Suspicion falls on strangers in the area, like the dour mapmaker Christopher Mead and the flamboyant travelling showman Paulo Schweiz. 
  But Thomas sees what others cannot, and with the help of Paulo's astonishing magic lantern show he starts to unravel the web of secrets and desire for revenge that have led to the murders - with astounding consequences. 
  Prepare to be gripped by this thrilling murder mystery! 🩸🔍 
  *Previously published as The Mapmaker's Daughter 
  Praise for the Thomas the Falconer series: 
  ‘Larger-than-life characters and authentic 16th-century ambience… Pilkington successfully draws readers into his world and keeps them turning the pages.’ - Booklist 
  'The story moves at a great pace ... it made a welcome change to discover Elizabethan England through the eyes of a lesser mortal.' - The Historical Novels Review 
  ‘A sturdy and entertaining historical for fans of Elizabethan mysteries’ - Library Journal 
  ‘This latest entry in Pilkington’s Thomas the Falconer series is a vigorous adventure featuring a likeable hero, an intriguing plot and a fine sense of period ambience.’ - Booklist 
  'The quality of the writing and evocation of the Elizabethan Age is right up there with C J Sansom - and that could be no higher recommendation. I devoured it with relish and a buzz of contentment! ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Reader Review 
  Brilliant! A master of descriptive prose! ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Reader Review 
  Interesting tale of intrigue, murder and mystery. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Reader Review 
  I was gripped from start to finish. A very well crafted read which was unputdownable. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Reader Review 
  Well-drawn characters in a colourful and dangerous world, drawn into a plot that will keep you guessing (and keep the pages flying by). Thoroughly recommended. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Reader Review

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  After She Wrote Him

  Sulari Gentill

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  The captivating psychological thriller Dean Koontz calls "pure delight, a swift yet psychologically complex read" by Sulari Gentill, author of #1 LibraryReads pick The Woman in the Library 
   
   
   
  It's an author's job to create a new world in the pages of a book. But when lines start to blur and reality begins to fade, getting lost in a story can be dangerous—especially if you can't find your way back . . . 
   
   
   
  Madeleine d'Leon doesn't know where Edward came from. He is simply a character in her next book. But as she writes, he becomes all she can think about. His charm, his dark hair, his pen scratching out his latest literary novel . . . 
   
   
   
  Edward McGinnity can't get Madeleine out of his mind—softly smiling, infectiously enthusiastic, and perfectly damaged. She will be the ideal heroine for his next book. 
   
   
   
  But who is the author and who is the creation? And as the lines start to blur, who is affected when a killer finally takes flesh? 
   
   
   
  After She Wrote Him is a piece of meta-fiction with a wildly inventive twist on the murder mystery that takes listeners on a journey filled with passion, obsession, and the emptiness left behind when the real world starts to fall away.

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  Detectives and Dilemmas

  Winnie Reed

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  Emma’s heading out for an assignment. One she’s been looking forward to until a phone call derails her plans and gives her a different agenda. And with it comes a dilemma. Deke’s back. Detective McHottie’s been absent. And now there’s a dead body in a portapotty. 
  Dilemmas? That’s quite the understatement as Emma finds herself embroiled in the drama of a new murder and at the same time confuzzled by the absence of a heartthrob and the reappearance of another!

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