Showing results by author "AUTHOR" in Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Desire leaves a man destroyed.... A young girl's curiosity reveals secrets better left hidden.... An accidental encounter on a train ends violently.... Ambition leads to a curious exchange.... An uncanny likeness changes two lives forever.... Here is a novel in 16 chilling parts, linked by a glittering charm bracelet that brings misfortune to everyone who handles it. In Like a Charm, the cream of British and American crime writers combine for a must-have collection.

This collection contains Aliens vs ASS, Thicker than Blood, Action Kadabra, Jack-O-Pumpkins, G. I. R. L.: Guy in Real Life, and The Little Arsonist Girl.

Midnight. Some call it the witching hour. Others call it the devil’s hour. Here in the graveyard, midnight is a very special time. It is a time when ghostly spirits are at their strongest, when the veil between our world and theirs is at its thinnest. Legend has it, that while most of the world is asleep, the lack of prayers allow the spirits to communicate under the cover of darkness, among the headstones, their whispers rustling in the leaves of the old oak trees. But if you’re here in the graveyard, you can tell yourself it’s just the wind....

Shania's dreams are put on hold when her teacher awakens an ancient evil. Does she have what it takes to break the Mummy's Curse? Peggy wished her dad dated an actual human woman and not one of the creepy sex dolls that are appearing all over town. But Peggy's domestic problems might be the least of her worries as the patented Real Companions begin to get a little too real. Judy longs to follow in her father's footsteps as a scientist, but she learns a hard lesson when she accidentally releases a horde of demon pigs upon the town.

The best-selling Extinction Cycle series by Nicholas Sansbury Smith first introduced listeners to a world ravaged by an engineered virus that turned men into monsters. Humanity's only hope was not a cure, but another bioweapon. When deployed it killed 90 percent of the infected, but the remaining 10 percent transformed into even more terrifying creatures called Variants. Here's a collection of Extinction Cycle short stories that explore the human spirit and the fight for survival in the face of overwhelming odds from some of the leading voices in the post-apocalyptic genre.

He's a Navy SEAL. She's his sister's annoying best friend...and now she's missing. In Tijuana. And he has to find her. During his leave. When he does, things get wild - and not just from the chemistry they’ve been trying to ignore for more than a decade. What happens in Tijuana...might just kill you.

Business empires will rise, deals will be made, lives will be lost as money changes hands, but one treasure will remain the most precious in all of China: a diamond known as the Eye of Fucanglong, the Dragon God of lost jewels and buried treasures. The diamond is flawless. It is priceless. It is cursed. And it is about to be stolen in the heist of the century. Can Professor Fathom's team of gay adventure-seekers find the diamond before this perfectly executed crime leads to a cataclysmic event of mass destruction?

Detective stories existed for centuries before the concept of the detective itself—amateur or professional— was fully formulated, and tales of mystery and intrigue have been thrilling readers since ancient times. The Lock and Key Library is the classic overview of the history of the mystery genre, at once a rousing listen for fans of the unsolved and unknown as well as an essential literary resource for those seeking to understand the roots of modern pulp fiction. This volume is sure to delight and enthrall armchair detectives and fans of classic mysteries alike.

Season Three comes with serious firepower. The genre of adventure, science fiction, fantasy, horror, romance, melodrama, and the psychological are all present, turning the collection into a kaleidoscope of characters, plot twists, emotions, and revelations. Magicians hurl lightnings at each other, talking rabbits and vanishing cats talk to a little girl, while mad scientists try to create life from dead body parts. One of the most prominent names in this season is the American master of horror H. P.

A kaleidoscope of genres, themes, topics, and motifs await the listener here. From comedy and mystery, to horror and children’s stories, Season Four abounds in fairy tales adventures, challenges to the listener’s imagination, and joyrides through the unknown realms of the psyche. One of the most famous short stories in horror fiction, "The Call of Cthulhu" sits next to the funny characters of "Right Ho, Jeeves" by Wodehouse, while the eponymous sleepyhead from "Rip Van Winkle" is very much awake, facing H. G. Wells’ "The Door in the Wall".

The first season focuses on the short story tradition, and B. J. Harrison has selected some of the most prominent representatives of the genre. As far as the thematic aspect is concerned, the stories cover crime and mystery episodes like Arthur Conan Doyle’s "The Speckled Band", or revenge-driven ones like Shakespeare’s "Hamlet". There are also supernatural and horror classics such as Hawthorne’s "The Devil and Tom Walker" and W. W. Jacobs’ masterpiece "The Monkey’s Paw".

Den 5. juli 1948 forsvandt den dengang 15-årige bogbinderlærling Henning Carøe Jensen sporløst under en cykelferie på Silkeborg egnen.

Et forsøg på væbnet bankrøveri, herunder forsøg på dobbelt manddrab, forøvet den 14. november 1974 kort før kl. 16.00 overfor en bankafdeling beliggende i tilslutning til Vejle Eksportstalde nær havnen i Vejle, skulle vise sig at få et helt usædvanligt opklaringsforløb, - hvilket ikke mindst beroede på differerende og i visse tilfælde direkte usande vidneudsagn.

Den 45-årige, enarmede Ahmet Alusan var en driftig mand, som havde skabt sig en agtet stilling på sin hjemegn, en lille landsby i Tyrkiet. Han var gift, ejede jord, forretning og penge. Hvor meget af den gode økonomi skyldtes hans illegale narkotikaaffærer unddrager sig nærmere bedømmelse. Men Ahmet var alligevel ikke tilfreds med sin lod i tilværelsen, han ville vinde mere gods og guld.

Det siges ofte, at vanen er menneskets halve liv, og det gælder også det kriminelle menneske, der ofte et helt liv igennem anvender samme fremgangsmåde under kriminelle handlinger, såsom indbrud, bedrageri, plattenslageri og lignende.

Havde drabet fundet sted i vore dage, havde det med den op gennem årene stadig stigende og i sin brutalitet stedse voksende vold næppe givet anledning til mere end en kortfattet omtale i dagspressen.

Under hensyn til, at udbyttet af udåden kun blev sølle 420 kroner til deling mellem de to gerningsmænd, kunne man vel på forhånd anse disse for endog særdeles afstumpede, men hertil må det dog retfærdighedsvis – hvis dette ord da kan benyttes i denne forbindelse, siges, at ugerningsmændene ikke uden grund havde regnet med et udbytte af helt anderledes omfang.

Mange forbrydelser kommer først efter lang tids forløb for dagens lys. Dette gælder blandt andet bedragerier, hvor der kan gå år, inden revisionen kommer til klarhed over stedfundne uregelmæssigheder. Mange tyverier erkendes ligeledes ofte efter længere tids forløb, og hvor der er tale om drab, og gerningsmanden har skjult sit offer, kan det ske, at dette aldrig findes eller først efter lang, lang tid – og ofte kun ved en tilfældighed, findes.

Da det første kup var gået godt og drømmen om en sorgløs tilværelse ved at gå i opfyldelse, tog man munden for fuld, og så gik det galt.

Fokus rettes i højere og højere grad mod virksomheder, der forurener vores omgivelser. I 1971 blev der i Nyborg på Fyn startet en virksomhed – A/S Kommunekemi – til destruktion af særligt farlige miljøgifte, og der er i Danmark fastsat regler om afleveringspligt for sådanne stoffer, som derefter forbrændes på virksomheden.