Verlag: Infinity Books Ltd, Malta
“My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other people do not know.” The four novels of Sherlock Holmes: A Study in Scarlet; The Sign of Four; The Hound of the Baskervilles; The Valley of Fear.
In Agatha Christie’s classic, Sleeping Murder, the indomitable Miss Marple turns ghost hunter and uncovers shocking evidence of a perfect crime. Soon after Gwenda moved into her new home, odd things started to happen. Despite her best efforts to modernize the house, she only succeeded in dredging up its past. Worse, she felt an irrational sense of terror every time she climbed the stairs. In fear, Gwenda turned to Miss Marple to exorcise her ghosts. Between them, they were to solve a “perfect” crime committed many years before.Zum Buch
For twenty-four-year-old Oliver Popp, autism is just another fact of life. As long as Oliver sticks to a comfortable itinerary planned in advance, he gets by just fine as a staff writer for Offbeat Traveler magazine. But a curveball drops into Oliver's budding career when his first feature assignment takes him to Washington, DC, to chronicle the latest tourism trends. His freelance project photographer is Ricky Warner, a gregarious and impulsively adorable shot of adrenaline. If the flirty gay photographer isn't enough to unbalance shy Oliver at the get-go, there's also an unsettling chance encounter with old acquaintance, Elise Perkins, and a congressional hearing that's shaking up both the capitol and an entrepreneurial billionaire. The unexpected distractions soon collide—quite literally—when Elise is struck dead by a speeding car. Forget the National Mall and Mt. Vernon Square. Oliver and Ricky are game for something much more interesting: solving a mystery and a murder. With their focus shifted and a deadline coming, they only have a few days to solve the crime. For Oliver, it's a weeks of firsts: first crush, first time without a schedule, first time playing amateur sleuth, and first time getting wrestled out of his comfort zone. But with a loosey-goosey new partner like Ricky, that might not be such a bad thing at all.Zum Buch
ABOUT THIS EPISODE Rising tensions between Malcolm, Seong-Jae, and Aanga Joshi reach a tipping point—and send our devilish duo on a rogue mission. Mal and Seong-Jae are off the radar, off the rails, and determined to track down the connection between Sila and the Golden Ratio Killer, no matter who stands in their way. One way or another, they'll put a name and a face to the nightmare. One way or another . . . they'll bring this to an end. But to unravel a decades-old case, they must walk the path of others' bitter memories. Unearth what's been buried. Rip the scars off old wounds. Yet amidst the pain, the loss . . . there is hope. Courage. Truth. And what they uncover will bring them face to face with the true nature of their suspect. A glimpse inside the white rabbit's mind. His past . . . And the clues that just might let Malcolm and Seong-Jae stay one step ahead, as they close the trap around their prey. Contains mature themes.Zum Buch
The swamp holds the darkest secretsOnly they dare to uncover. Intent on solving her mother’s murder, Monique Santori travels deep into the bayou in search of clues. Encountering Jacque LeBlanc is a surprise as he casts off his self-imposed seclusion to help Monique find the killer. When Monique is attacked in a bid to stop her sleuthing, she finds herself safe in Jacque’s home. Though Monique is unwaveringly drawn to the mysterious loner, she understands Jacque’s past is off-limits. He’ll help her find answers, even protect her with his life, but she fears he’ll never give her what she truly desires.From Harlequin Intrigue: Seek thrills. Solve crimes. Justice served.Discover more action-packed stories in the Bayou Investigation series. All books are stand-alone with uplifting endings but were published in the following order: Book 1: Murder in Dark WatersBook 2: Kidnapped in Dark WatersBook 3: Secrets in Dark WatersZum Buch
Gertrude Barrows Bennet is better known by her pen-name, Francis Stevens. With a career that only spanned three years between 1917 and 1920, when she stopped writing after her mother's death, she is credited as "the woman who invented dark fantasy". She was a direct influence on H.P. Lovecraft, and in the words of Sam Moskowitz was the "greatest woman writer of science fiction in the period between Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley and C.L. Moore"“Mysterious, beautifully written, at times hallucinatory, and with a creeping atmosphere of dread to spare, "Claimed" is most surely an impressive piece of imaginative work. The author does not shrink from the depiction of violence and bloodshed, either. As in "The Citadel of Fear," here, an ancient god appears in modern times to stir up trouble, but in "Claimed," that god is never named (although Poseidon/Neptune is strongly suggested) or even clearly seen.[we see] the horrendous fate that befell the continent of Atlantis, and just how the coveted box wound up in the drink to begin with, and it really is some fascinating stuff. Vanaman, Leilah and especially old Robinson, I should add, are all well-drawn characters, with the good doctor being especially likable and sympathetic. Stevens peppers her novel with many memorable and haunting scenes, including an early exploration of the newly risen, barren island where the relic is initially found; a clairvoyant's unfortunate attempt to perform a little psychometry on the arcane object; and, indeed, the entire final 1/3 of the book, comprising as it does a tense chase at sea. The book has great sweep and drive, and is fairly relentless once it gets moving. Personally, I could not wait to get home after work to get back to it, and the evenings that I spent reading "Claimed" were very gripping ones, to be sure.” [Sandy Ferber, fantasyliterature.com]Zum Buch
A bundle of books #2 (HER LAST CHANCE) and #3 (HER LAST HOPE) in Blake Pierce’s Rachel Gift Mystery series! This bundle offers books two and three in one convenient file, with over 100,000 words of reading. In HER LAST CHANCE (Book #2), with a rash of people dying suspiciously from high bridges, jumping to their deaths in apparent suicides, the FBI is called in to investigate. On suspicion of a serial killer, FBI Special Agent Rachel Gift is assigned the case, and soon realizes she is up against something more diabolical than she could have imagined. In an epic game of cat and mouse, can she stay healthy enough to outsmart the killer and catch him before it’s too late? And can she keep her own demons—and her own traumatic past—at bay? In HER LAST HOPE (Book #3), when a series of different organ donors are murdered, Rachel is determined to track down the killer. But Rachel herself is faltering, beginning to succumb to her illness. Can she keep it together long enough to catch this killer before her own death? And can she keep her own demons—and her own traumatic past—at bay? A riveting and chilling crime thriller featuring a brilliant and flailing FBI agent, the RACHEL GIFT series is an unputdownable mystery, packed with suspense, twists and shocking secrets, propelled by a page-turning pace that will keep you bleary-eyed late into the night. Books #4-#6 are also available!Zum Buch
