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  New Cases of Sherlock Holmes -...

  Arthur Conan Doyle, New Cases of...

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  What connection exists between a medieval Dutch painter like Hieronymus Bosch and a sinister series of murders in London in 1895? None, says Inspector Lestrade of Scotland Yard. But Sherlock Holmes disagrees. Together with Dr. John Watson, he investigates in sinister opium dens and a mysterious moated castle. Along the way, he meets a shady opera singer, an enigmatic gnome, and a derelict abortionist.

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  House of the Dead

  Adam J. Wright

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  When a mysterious flash drive arrives at the Murder Force headquarters, the team is unwittingly drawn into a deadly game of cat and mouse with a killer who bears a grudge against one of its members. 
   
   
   
  A series of deadly traps. A detective in danger. This will be Murder Force's most difficult case yet.

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  The Case of Savanna Thorne -...

  Jason R. Cash

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  This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice.  
  Brian Crossley thought he understood the rules of the cylinder. He thought time could be bent, managed, rewritten. But each jump only drags him deeper into shadows he cannot escape. 
  Haunted by grief and driven by the name Savanna Thorne, Brian risks everything to untangle a past that refuses to stay buried. Each choice he makes reshapes the present, but the cost grows heavier with every return. Blood stains, fractured timelines, and the threat of forces beyond his control close in on him from every side. 
  In this final chapter of Brian’s journey, the line between destiny and destruction blurs. The cylinder is no longer just a tool—it is a trap, and Brian may not be the one holding the pen to his own story anymore. 
  The Case of Savanna Thorne is a relentless, emotional, and chilling conclusion to the trilogy. It is a story about love that refuses to die, the wounds that time cannot heal, and the dangerous truth that second chances always come with a price.

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  Le Grande Bretèche - A man goes...

  Honoré de Balzac

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  Honoré de Balzac was born on the 20th May, 1799 in the French city of Tours into an upper middle class family.  
   
  At birth Balzac was wet-nursed and often then schooled away from home by parents who seemed remote.  So difficult was life that at 15 he attempted suicide. The family’s intention was for him to have a career in law but Balzac preferred literature.  An avid reader, he began writing but his early attempts showed little promise.  
   
  He thereafter settled in Paris and began to publish anonymously across political, philosophical, and historical novels. 
   
  In 1825, Balzac purchased a printing house.  He was soon bankrupt and forced to return to writing in order to reduce his debts.  But his literary fortunes had changed, and his writing was now to achieve considerable success.  He was accepted among the city’s literary élites and its salons and would play an important role in establishing the copyright law in France.  
   
  Balzac often worked on more than one project at a time and in his magnus opus ‘The Human Comedy’ all types of texts were collected to offer a rare narrative of different classes and social stereotypes of society.  For many Balzac is considered the father of French realism, yet his works also cover philosophical and psychological questions.  His writing was a fundamental source of inspiration for many distinguished and later writers such as Flaubert, Zola and Proust.  
   
  Balzac also tried his hand at magazine publication with ‘La Chronique de Paris’ and ‘La Revue Parisienne.’  Although he was partnered with others such as Victor Hugo, it was another complete financial failure.  
   
  As a committed Catholic, Balzac’s stories also dealt with themes of mysticism, esotericism and spirituality, as well as universality and humanism.  
   
  In politics, he was a staunch defender of the French Crown but unlike his contemporaries he was not an implacable enemy of the republicans.  He often presented disagreements between royalists and republicans as a tolerable difference in political opinion.  
   
  Despite many relationships Balzac married only towards the end of his life and it was in 1833 that he met the Polish Countess Hanska, who only became his wife 17 years later after an extensive relationship by correspondence and, by then, his health was ruinously bad.  
   
  Honoré de Balzac died on 18th August 1850 in Paris.  He was 51.

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  Fire of New York The - Part 1...

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Roger...

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  Having arrived safely in New York, Holmes' personal physician Doctor Watson is looking forward to some comfortable vacation days in the "New World." But that's not to be. Newspaper reports confirm that a terrible fire from the recent past has not yet been fully resolved. Sherlock Holmes wouldn't be particularly concerned about this, if more than one hundred and fifty people hadn't perished at the time. When the New York Police would rather know nothing more about the matter, Holmes becomes alert, and before he knows it, both are in the middle of their next criminal case.

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  Her Perfect Marriage - An...

  Maryann Webb

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  A perfect husband.An invitation to the party of the year.A web of lies that will tear it all apart.Since meeting Austin and marrying into the dazzling and powerful Avery family, Sienna has everything she could want - including an invitation to the most exclusive party of the summer, held on an idyllic and remote private island.But Sienna and Austin have a secret. And now someone wants to make them pay. But who?As the countdown to the party begins, Sienna begins to question who she can trust. Is her perfect marriage built on a lie? As she tries desperately to uncover the truth, Sienna finds herself in danger. She fears she is about to expose a web of lies so big it is worth killing for. And that killer could be at the party.Will she make it home alive?

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