The supernatural, unmissable new novel by the ALA Best Horror award nominee. In nineteenth-century Germany, one young man counts down the days until he can marry his beloved . . . until she is found brutally murdered, and the young man is accused of the crime. Broken on the wheel and left for dead, he awakens on a lab table, transformed into an abomination. Friedrich must go far to take his revenge --only to find his tormentor, Victor Frankenstein, in league with the Marquis de Sade, creating something much more sinister deep in the mountains. Paranormal and gripping in the tradition of ...
Terri is in a race against time as everyone around her starts to change: her mother, her uncle, her new best friend. She has to save them. But to do so she must head back to the old boathouse and unlock the secrets to the lake and it's horrible creatures. Creatures she thought could never exist... Monsters!
By day, Harper Cole works as a commodities trader and at night he leads quite a different life, serving as a systems operator for an exclusive erotic online service that caters to the rich and famous. But a stranger has now penetrated the network's state-of-the-art security, brutally murdering six celebrated female clients. Falsely accused of these horrible crimes, Harper realizes he must lure an elusive madman into the open--and place everything he holds dear directly in the killer's path! Amazon.com ReviewRaymond Chandler once proclaimed that the first-person narrator should never turn out to be the ...
The more you watch Moscow, the more it looks like a huge chameleon that keeps changing its face—and it isn’t always pretty. Following Akashic Books’ international success with , , , and others, the Noir series explores this fabled and troubled city’s darkest recesses.Features brand-new stories by: Alexander Anuchkin, Igor Zotov, Gleb Shulpyakov, Vladimir Tuchkov, Anna Starobinets, Vyacheslav Kuritsyn, Sergei Samsonov, Alexei Evdokimov, Ludmilla Petrushevskaya, Maxim Maximov, Irina Denezhkina, Dmitry Kosyrev, Andrei Khusnutdinov, and Sergei Kuznetsov. was born in 1978 in Moscow. In 2006, together with Julia Goumen, she founded Goumen&Smirnova Literary Agency, representing Russian authors worldwide. was born in St. Petersburg, Russia, in 1977. She holds a PhD in English and has worked in publishing since 2001.
For four years, from the election of John Fitzgerald Kennedy in November 1960 until after the election of Lyndon Johnson in 1964, Clint Hill was the Secret Service agent assigned to guard the glamorous and intensely private Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy. During those four years, he went from being a reluctant guardian to a fiercely loyal watchdog and, in many ways, her closest friend.Now, looking back fifty years, Clint Hill tells his story for the first time, offering a tender, enthralling, and tragic portrayal of how a Secret Service agent who started life in a North Dakota orphanage became ...
?aj? gr?mat?, kas pirmo reizi izn?ca 1511. gad?, izcil?kais ?rpusit?lijas Renesanses dom?t?js un rakstnieks Roterdamas Erasms aspr?t?gi un kod?gi izzobo gan visiem laikiem un vis?m taut?m rakstur?gus netikumus, gan ar? sava laika negat?v?s par?d?bas, vienlaikus sniegdams pla?u ieskatu cilv?ces kult?ras v?stur?. T?p?c t? tulkota un daudzas reizes izdota visu kult?rtautu valod?s, bet l?dz ar to, bez ?aub?m, ir ietekm?jusi cilv?ces domas progres?vo att?st?bu.Darbs paredz?ts studentiem, skol?niem, skolot?jiem, k? ar? visiem las?t?jiem, kuri v?las asin?t savu skatu apk?rt?jo par?d?bu v?rt??an? un paaugstin?t visp?r?jo zin??anu l?meni.
Aim?e Leduc is happy her long-time business partner Ren? has found a girlfriend. Really, she is. It's not her fault if she can't suppress her doubts about the relationship; Ren? is moving way too fast, and Aim?e's instincts tell her Meizi, this supposed love of Ren?'s life, isn't trustworthy. And her misgivings may not be far off the mark: Meizi disappears during a Chinatown dinner to take a phone call and never comes back to the restaurant. Minutes later, the body of a young man, a science prodigy and volunteer at the nearby Mus?e, is found shrink-wrapped in an alleyway--with Meizi's photo in his wallet.Aim?e does not like this scenario one bit, but she can't figure out how the murder is connected to Meizi's disappearance. The dead genius was sitting on a discovery that has France's secret service keeping tabs on him. Now they're keeping tabs on Aim?e. A missing young woman, an illegal immigrant raid in progress,...
Tension runs high in this working-class neighborhood as a hunger strike to protest strict immigration laws escalates among the Algerian immigrants. Aim?e barely escapes death in a car bombing in this tale of terrorism and greed in the shadows of Paris.
"Cara Black books are good companions, andespecially so. Fine characters, good suspense, but, best of all, they are transcendentally, seductively, irresistibly French. If you can't go, these will do fine. Or, better, go and bring them with you."--Alan Furst"Charming. . . . Aim?e is one of those blithe spirits who can walk you through the city's historical streets and byways with their eyes closed."--Marilyn Stasio,"Paris is one of my favorite cities in all the world; Black's books are a fine way to revisit it."--
When a mysterious visitor promises contact with her long-lost mother, Aim?e Leduc finds herself hot on the trail of the Seventies radicals with whom her mother was evidently associated. The result is not just good suspense but an affecting and realistic psychological study of a daughter's coming to terms with an absent parent. This is another high-class mystery from Black, whose previous works in the series (, ) have the same indelible sense of place and sophisticated political context.
A great holiday gift for mystery fans, this new short story collection of over thirty Christmas tales of crime contains contributions from some of the best writers of the genre: Patricia Moyes, John D. MacDonald, Rex Stout, Julian Symons, Georges Simenon, Margery Allingham, Lawrence Block, John Mortimer and many others. These holiday tales with a murderous twist include suspicious Santa's helpers; a Christmas pageant player who assumes the role of a killer; and evil elves with malicious intentions. Beware of hanging mistletoe and stuffed stockingsseason, as you celebrate a creepy Christmas with.
When school psychologist Skye Denison stumbles over the body of pushy “Promfest” chairperson Annette Paine during a Halloween fundraiser, it looks like a clear-cut case of promicide. Annette was not the only prom mom desperate to see her daughter crowned queen. But she was also wearing the same witch costume as Skye, so which witch was the intended victim?
When school psychologist Skye Denison investigates the death of a popular teenager who was cast as Sleeping Beauty in the school play, she uncovers some shocking revelations about prominent Scumble River citizens. And even ever-optimistic Skye knows that in this case, finding the killer won't end this tale happily-end-after...
"A delightful mystery that bounces along with gently wry humor and jaunty twists and turns." --When Skye Denison left Scumble River years ago, she swore she'd never return. But after a bout with her boyfriend and credit card rejection, she's back to home sweet--homicide....
In Louis L’Amour takes Nolan Sackett on a dangerous journey into family betrayal, greed, and murder.When Nolan Sackett met Penelope Hume in a cantina at Borregos Plaza, the girl immediately captured his attention. That she was heir to a lost cache of gold didn’t make her any less desirable. But Penelope isn’t the only one after her grandfather’s treasure; Sylvie, Ralph, and Andrew Karnes, distant relatives with no legal claim to the gold, are obsessed with claiming the Hume fortune for themselves. Their all-consuming sense of entitlement recklessly drives them to ambush and ...
