Publisher: Wildside Press
Ruth of the U.S.A. is very much in the E. Phillips Oppenheim suspense-novel tradition, with a plucky young American woman getting involved with spies through a chance street encounter. It’s a fast, fun read and holds up well as a historical novel. “Spying, fighting, danger, and love ... all breezily told.”—Indianapolis Star
I look back on my childhood with a mixture of emotions. They were the best and worst years of my life. My friends Chris Lester, Charlie Beaumont and Louis Johnson would probably agree. We were the best of friends, always together and there for each other. Our bond would be tested one dismal October morning, when we’d commit a murder in the woods around our hometown. What followed was a cover-up whilst trying to pretend nothing had happened. During this time, I watched my friends succumb to their emotions, and also the lingering presence of the person we had killed.Show book
When a gossip blogger joins a tour party along with victims of her malicious words, there can only be one outcome! A river cruise from Amsterdam turns deadly. When Lady Marjorie Snellthorpe embarks on her first river cruise with companions Rachel Prince and Sarah Bradshaw, she's not expecting murder for company! It's bad enough knowing there might be a murderer among their travelling party, but then Lady Marjorie finds herself saddled with a most unwelcome guest. Edna Parkinton, Marjorie's estranged cousin-in-law is loud, brash, and tells it as it is. Marjorie can't wait to be shot of her. With Rachel and Sarah intent on enjoying a holiday for once, Marjorie decides to investigate a guest's suspicious death herself. Will she find the killer before the killer finds her? Laugh-out-loud fun and mayhem, this prequel provides an appetising taster for the series to follow. Edna Parkinton is a welcome addition to Dawn Brookes' intriguing characters.Show book
Saving the world makes you a hero—and a target. After a tragedy befalls his team, Wolfgang is on the hunt to find the people responsible and bring them to justice. The search will take him to some unlikely places, while old secrets and decades of deception make even his closest friends appear like potential enemies. When everybody is in the business of subterfuge, who can you really trust? Wolfgang will have to decide quickly, because more is at stake than his hunger for revenge. Another terrorist attack is in the works, and this time Wolfgang is the only person on the planet with the knowledge and ability to stop it. And he may be too late.Show book
When criminals are convicted, they go to jail. When they have parahuman abilities, they go to Deep Six, the most secure prison facility in the world. Six thousand feet underground, nobody has ever escaped from the maximum security facility. Until now. A parahuman terrorist called Misrule engineers a mass breakout, and it falls to a pair of prison guards to stop the world's most dangerous criminals from reaching freedom, and Just Cause won't be able to help them. Despite being overmatched and underpowered, the two guards must find a way to prevent the escapees from their ultimate goal.Show book
Guilt can be a loathsome word. It riddles us with its blend of torment and despair in various hues. Whether we call it a guilty secret or we have really done an act to inspire such a feeling, it is an emotion difficult to escape. In this volume of classic stories our authors examine and explore all types of guilt. From Katherine Mansfield, Nathaniel Hawthorne, James Joyce and a host of other literary talents, flow works with dark shadows that reveal the true nature of man. 1 - Short Stories about Guilt 2 - The Tell Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe 3 - Eveline by James Joyce 4 - Roger Malvin's Burial by Nathaniel Hawthorne 5 - The Three Sisters by W W Jacobs 6 - Markheim by Robert Louis Stevenson 7 - The Lady's Maid by Katherine Mansfield 8 - The Lady with the Dog by Anton Chekhov 9 - The Stones of the Village by Alice Dunbar Nelson 10 - The Cold Embrace by Mary Elizabeth Braddon 11 - In The Dark by Edith Nesbit 12 - God Sees The Truth But Waits by Leo Tolstoy 13 - The Middle Toe of the Right Foot by Ambrose Bierce 14 - The Monkey's Paw by W W Jacobs 15 - The Black Cat by Edgar Allan Poe 16 - A Painful Case by James Joyce 17 - Young Goodman Brown by Nathaniel HawthorneShow book
“Simenon could produce endless variations, as similar and as different as Shakespeare’s sonnets or Monet’s haystacks.” —Adam Kirsch When the glamorous wife of an American industrialist is murdered at a luxury Paris hotel, her past life as a nightclub dancer is the key to finding the killer. As Maigret traces surprising connections between the dead woman and the hotel’s belowstairs staff, a story of unrequited love, self-reinvention, and blackmail emerges—with one tragic, luckless suspect at the center.Yet as Maigret knows, even the most compelling evidence isn’t infallible. Might a murkier, more disquieting truth lie behind the apparent facts of the matter? A riveting mystery and a startling journey into the darker corners of human nature, The Cellars of the Majestic showcases the full range of Georges Simenon’s uncanny psychological insight.A Macmillan Audio production from Farrar, Straus and GirouxShow book
