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The first book in Mark Ellis's DCI Frank Merlin series, a wartime London crime thriller in which DCI Frank Merlin investigates deaths linked to the American Embassy during the early months of the Second World War. This work was previously published as Prince’s Gate.
BOND SAVE THE KING It's the 4th of May, two days before the coronation of King Charles III and the world's favourite spy has his work cut out for him. Bond is sent at the last minute to thwart an attempt to disrupt the coronation by the deadly megalomaniac Æthelstan of Wessex, who is on a mission of his own to rule the United Kingdom and rewrite history. Can Bond thwart his plans by infiltrating Æthelstan’s private army and ending his reign of terror before it begins? *This all-new 007 adventure is produced to celebrate the Coronation and all royalties from the sale of the book will go to support the work of the UK charity, the National Literacy Trust.*
According to the FBI, I was considered a serial murderer after three kills. What do they call me after fifty-two? They call me the Silencer. One final bullet would have been all it took to stop me from taking another soul, and I would have been doing Meridian City a service by pulling that trigger. An angel crying for help stopped me, and that night, I took three lives for her. Then three turned into eight. Then eight turned into twenty. Twenty turned into twenty-one. Twenty one turned into twenty-three. Elena Young is the hero in my story, but I’m the villain in hers. And this is the kind of story where the villain gets the girl, even if it kills her.
“You know that saying? Don’t judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, or whatever. Same goes for me, baby. Don’t judge a thief by his ability to follow rules.” Luna is going through her typical nightly routine; return home from work, contemplate her entire existence, masturbate in the shower, and head to bed. As she works through her mundane regimen, she hears a thump, and then another thump. Someone has broken into her apartment, and now he’s coming for her. Vic is on a job with his brothers, robbing an old apartment in a neglected part of town in search of money for the mysterious organization. He’s preparing to knock out the tenant in the shower when he pulls back the curtain and lays eyes on a creature so beautiful he falls to his knees. Surely she’s a gift from the universe, all for him. Over the course of the next week, Vic forces himself into Luna’s life in more ways than one, and Luna, quite disturbed with herself, realizes she doesn’t hate it as much as she should. As things start to unravel, questions of honesty, identity, and perspective come into play.
Mona Awad's Bunny meets Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt in Lauren Danhof's captivating debut, in which a daughter races to save her mother from a dangerous cult before it's too late. Glinda Glass is truly trying her best. After dropping out of her graduate school program, she moves back to her childhood home with her mom—who has not only joined a cult, the Starlight Pioneer Society, but has also become enraptured by its charismatic and menacing leader, Arlon. When she’s not trying to get her twin sister Dorothy to finally speak to her or keep her younger sister West out of trouble, Glinda spends her days working in the Drench-the-Wench dunking booth at the local Renaissance fair with her only friend and co-worker Troy, who may or may not be falling in love with her. Once Glinda learns that the cult will be turning her family’s home into their commune, she suspects there’s more to Arlon than meets the eye and decides to take matters into her own hands—even if that means infiltrating the cult herself. There, she realizes things are far more sinister than she could have ever imagined and that she must get her mom out from under the spell of Arlon by any means necessary. But Glinda can’t do it on her own; in order to save her mother, she’ll have to come to terms with her own history of trauma and grief and repair her relationships with her sisters and Troy. Glinda always has the best intentions, even if her emotionally clumsy efforts to fix things constantly end in disaster. With the fate of her family on the line, will this time be different?
A haunting collection of short fiction from the bestselling author of The Pallbearers Club , A Head Full of Ghosts , and The Cabin at the End of the World. Paul Tremblay has won widespread acclaim for illuminating the dark horrors of the mind in novels and stories that push the boundaries of storytelling itself. The fifteen pieces in this brilliant collection, The Beast You Are , are all monsters of a kind, ready to loudly (and lovingly) smash through your head and into your heart. In “The Dead Thing,” a middle-schooler struggles to deal with the aftermath of her parents’ substance addictions and split. One day, her little brother claims he found a shoebox with “the dead thing” inside. He won’t show it to her and he won’t let the box out of his sight. In “The Last Conversation,” a person wakes in a sterile, white room and begins to receive instructions via intercom from a woman named Anne. When they are finally allowed to leave the room to complete a task, what they find is as shocking as it is heartbreaking. The title novella, “The Beast You Are,” is a mini epic in which the destinies and secrets of a village, a dog, and a cat are intertwined with a giant monster that returns to wreak havoc every thirty years. A masterpiece of literary horror and psychological suspense, The Beast You Are is a fearlessly imagined collection from one of the most electrifying and innovative writers working today.
Willi Geismeier thought he’d faced the worst of humanity on the battlefield in World War I, but when he returns to Munich he is drawn into an investigation that proves to be just as chilling. 1913, Munich. Nineteen-year-old Willi Geismeier is showing great promise as a rookie detective in the Munich police department when he is sent to fight in World War I. After narrowly surviving the horrors of the conflict, Willi returns home, where the challenges he faces seem just as grave. The Spanish flu or ‘Grippe’ rips through Munich with devastating consequences and Willi, now back in the police force, finds himself investigating an insurance scam, missing drugs and the mysterious death of a prisoner. As chilling links emerge between all three, Willi confronts a grotesque scientific theory and a dangerous ideology taking root in society that could lead him to a killer, but there are those who are just as determined to stop him in his tracks . . .
Anwältin Fentje Jacobsen ist auf die Hochzeit ihres Freundes aus Kindertagen eingeladen. Als eine Nachbarin am nächsten Morgen das frisch vermählte Paar auf dem Hof der Familie aufsuchen will, findet sie die Eltern des Bräutigams ermordet, den Sohn schwer verletzt vor. Nur die Schwiegertochter konnte sich retten.War es ein Überfall oder ein Familiendrama? Als die Polizei Letzteres vermutet, will Fentje die Unschuld ihres Freundes beweisen. Dabei trifft sie auf den Journalisten Niklas John, der im Interesse der überlebenden Ehefrau ganz eigene Ziele verfolgt.Dieses Mal werden sie bestimmt nicht gemeinsam ermitteln. Aber dann bricht ein Feuer aus ...
Per primera vegada, en Dave Gurney està investigant un assassinat ja resolt i jutjat als tribunals, aparentment de manera impecable. Portat al límit i acusat d'assassinat, en Gurney s'haurà d'enfrontar al seu adversari més gran per resoldre un misteri que està destruint el seu món.
The worst thing to ever happen on Hemlock Circle occurred in Ethan Marsh’s backyard. One July night, ten-year-old Ethan and his best friend and neighbor, Billy, fell asleep in a tent set up on a manicured lawn in a quiet, quaint New Jersey cul-de-sac. In the morning, Ethan woke up alone. During the night, someone had sliced the tent open with a knife and taken Billy. He was never seen again. Thirty years later, Ethan has reluctantly returned to his childhood home. Plagued by bad dreams and insomnia, he begins to notice strange things happening in the middle of the night. Someone seems to be roaming the cul-de-sac at odd hours, and signs of Billy’s presence keep appearing in Ethan’s backyard. Is someone playing a cruel prank? Or has Billy, long thought to be dead, somehow returned to Hemlock Circle? The mysterious occurrences prompt Ethan to investigate what really happened that night, a quest that reunites him with former friends and neighbors and leads him into the woods that surround Hemlock Circle. Woods where Billy claimed ghosts roamed and where a mysterious institute does clandestine research on a crumbling estate. The closer Ethan gets to the truth, the more he realizes that no place—be it quiet forest or suburban street—is completely safe. And that the past has a way of haunting the present.
18-year-old Bel has lived her whole life in the shadow of her mom’s mysterious disappearance. Sixteen years ago, Rachel Price vanished and young Bel was the only witness. Rachel is gone, presumed dead. The case is dragged up from the past when the Price family agree to a true crime documentary. Bel can’t wait for filming to end, for life to go back to normal. But then Rachel Price reappears, and life will never be normal again …
A gut-wrenching story following a trans autistic teen who survives an attempted murder, only to be drawn into the generational struggle between the rural poor and those who exploit them. On the night Miles Abernathy—sixteen-year-old socialist and proud West Virginian—comes out as trans to his parents, he sneaks off to a party, carrying evidence that may finally turn the tide of the blood feud plaguing Twist Creek: Photos that prove the county’s Sheriff Davies was responsible for the so-called “accident” that injured his dad, killed others, and crushed their grassroots efforts to unseat him. The feud began a hundred years ago when Miles’s great-great-grandfather, Saint Abernathy, incited a miners’ rebellion that ended with a public execution at the hands of law enforcement. Now, Miles becomes the feud’s latest victim as the sheriff’s son and his friends sniff out the evidence, follow him through the woods, and beat him nearly to death. In the hospital, the ghost of a soot-covered man hovers over Miles’s bedside while Sheriff Davies threatens Miles into silence. But when Miles accidentally kills one of the boys who hurt him, he learns of other folks in Twist Creek who want out from under the sheriff’s heel. To free their families from this cycle of cruelty, they’re willing to put everything on the line—is Miles?
**She thinks she understand stalkers. Until she becomes a target . . .** Elly is an expert in stalking – an academic at Cambridge University and a popular media pundit. She knows the subject intimately: what motivates a stalker, how they behave, how to rehabilitate them. But now it’s personal. Someone is following her, making silent phone calls and sending her ominous notes. The message is always the same – me or you. Elly can’t trust anyone – not her family, her friends or her colleagues. She knows that her stalker must be someone close to her. And when they suddenly turn violent, she realizes she’s running out of time to find out who it is. Because it looks like only one of them will survive.
She left her family, her friends, and her whole life behind to follow the man she adored convinced love would heal the wounds of her past. Haunted by the scars of a traumatic childhood and years of emotional and physical abuse, Veronica begins a new life abroad, chasing hope and freedom. What she finds instead is heartbreak, betrayal, and the strength she never knew she had. The Veronica's Story is a powerful true-life memoir about survival, resilience, and healing from trauma. Through pain and perseverance, Veronica discovers that rebuilding yourself after abuse isn't about forgetting, it's about transforming your scars into strength. This deeply moving story connects with readers of domestic abuse survivor stories, immigrant memoirs, and women's empowerment books. It speaks to anyone searching for courage, second chances, and emotional freedom. For readers who Educated by Tara Westover, A Piece of Cake by Cupcake Brown, and other inspirational memoirs about overcoming trauma and finding purpose. abuse survivor memoir, immigrant story, inspirational true story, trauma recovery, women's self-discovery, healing after abuse, resilience and empowerment, overcoming trauma, domestic violence awareness, emotional healing memoir, strong women nonfiction. If you believe in the power of survival and second chances, The Veronica's Story will stay with you long after the final page.
¿Qué hay mejor que un buen cuento para irse a dormir? Estos tres relatos, por el contrario, te dejarán a las puertas de las pesadillas. ***Historia de un crimen perfecto*** es la confesión en primera persona del asesino Eric Rot. A través de cien páginas redondas —en las que se adivinan ecos de Hitchcock y Poe—, este relato nos habla sobre el peso insoportable de algunos secretos. En ***Noche de almas***, el lector acompaña a una pareja de mochileros que han medido mal sus fuerzas en una travesía por el desierto. Cuando, al borde de la extenuación, al fin llegan a una antigua casa colonial rodeada por un extraño círculo de piedras, piensan que están a salvo. Sin embargo, será entonces cuando empiece la verdadera pesadilla. Por último, ***Sycamore Avenue*** nos presenta a un narrador insomne que pasa las noches en vela mirando por la ventana. Hasta que una madrugada cree ver una enigmática silueta en la mansión abandonada del final de la avenida, un lugar vacío desde hace décadas y envuelto por absurdas leyendas.
One year ago, on a rainy night, I made a horrible mistake. A mistake that would haunt my every waking moment. I accidentally killed Nate, the star quarterback. Or so I thought. Now he’s back from the dead. Nothing will quench his thirst for revenge. Not until my broken pieces lie scattered by his feet and he’s inhaled my last breath. The only way out is in a body bag. Come Out, Come Out, Wherever You Are is a Halloween-themed horror story intended for mature audiences. It's very dark and contains graphic sexual content and violence. Reader discretion is advised. Please see the book preview for complete CW.
In the heart of rural Australia, seventeen-year-old Darwin stumbles upon a secret that will change his life forever. After rescuing an injured kangaroo and its joey, he uncovers a shocking underground network of illegal kangaroo fights run by a corrupt organization. As Darwin delves deeper, he discovers that the group’s reach extends beyond his small town, driven by greed, power, and brutality. With the help of a determined journalist, a skilled hacker, and his loyal companions, Darwin embarks on a dangerous mission to expose the truth. But the stakes grow higher as the criminals fight back, targeting everything Darwin holds dear. What begins as a fight for justice quickly escalates into a battle for survival. Facing relentless threats and the dark secrets of his own past, Darwin must rely on his courage and resourcefulness to bring the criminals to justice. Along the way, he forms an unbreakable bond with the joey, Dean, who becomes a symbol of hope in their fight against cruelty.
