Crime Suspense Anthology

After more than a decade, the handsome amateur detective Xavier Kilgarvan has returned to Winterthurn just in time to see the fifth young woman’s body carried from Devil’s Half Acre. A brutal fiend has left her mutilated body in this desolate plot of land filled with hulking boulders, quicksand, and twisted trees. Can detective Kilgarvan discover the forces motivating the mysterious “Gentleman Suitor” who has lured five innocent women to their deaths?

Brand-new stories by: Diana Gabaldon, Lee Child, James Sallis, Luis Alberto Urrea, Jon Talton, Megan Abbott, Charles Kelly, Robert Anglen, Patrick Millikin, Laura Tohe, Kurt Reichenbaugh, Gary Phillips, David Corbett, Don Winslow, Dogo Barry Graham, and Stella Pope Duarte.

From the introduction to Philadelphia Noir: "America's first great city, first capital, and first industrial metropolis contained from the beginning the mix of poor workers and elite culture, of ethnic enclaves and religious intolerance, of easy skullduggery and flesh-pot possibilities, that led Lincoln Steffens in 1903 to famously rule it 'corrupt and contented'."

When the most hated man in Harmony Lake runs for mayor and turns up dead on election night, two of the people closest to me are suspects in his murder. But needling out the real culprit isn’t easy when everyone in town has a motive and an alibi. Someone has to dig deep into the lives of the residents of this tight-knit community and unravel their secrets. That someone is me. My name is Megan and I solve murders. People have a knack of dying where I happen to be, and evidence has a way of finding its way into my hands.

The Detective Story Club's first short story anthology is based around a London detective club and includes three newly discovered tales unpublished for 100 years, plus a story bearing an uncanny resemblance to a Conan Doyle Sherlock Holmes story but written some seven years earlier.

Bodies surface and disappear, seduce and corrupt in these original stories by best-selling, award-winning female crime writers. Keep your eyes peeled, your ears cocked and your wits about you as 20 deliciously twisted tales take you to surprising places....

This audiobook contains the Cooper short stories numbering 311 to 320. Sound interesting? The author thinks so too! Listen to The Cooper Saga Stories 311-320, and experience the compelling world of detective fiction.

This audiobook contains the Cooper stories 291 to 300. Sound interesting? The author thinks so too! Listen to The Cooper Saga 30 and experience the compelling world of private investigators stories and suspense thrillers.

Brand-new stories by: Tom Abrahams, Robert Boswell, Sarah Cortez, Anton DiSclafani, Stephanie Jaye Evans, Wanjiku Wa Ngugi, Adrienne Perry, Pia Pico, Reyes Ramirez, Icess Fernandez Rojas, Sehba Sarwar, Leslie Contreras Schwartz, Larry Watts, and Deborah D.E.E.P. Mouton.

Diese "Erzgebirgischen Dorfgeschichten" stammen aus Mays frühester Schaffenszeit. Er zeigt sich hier von ungewohnter Seite...

Not every crime is committed with intent, but each has one thing in common: The guilty party was asking for trouble. In "Making Ends Meet", Richard can’t stand the idea of supporting his deadbeat in-laws anymore, so he decides to remove them from his life - permanently. Matt is ready to reform his brawling ways, but the group he joins doesn’t turn out to be a typical 12-step program, in "The Taskmasters". "Protecting the Innocent" features Nick, who fails to heed the warnings of his girlfriend’s possessive brother....

This audiobook contains 15 enjoyable short stories.

Mies hyökkää markettiin sairaalasänky selässään. Vääryyttä kokenut nainen hautoo veristä kostoa. Ja maalaisidylli rakoilee rumasti nuoren nimismiehen silmien alla. Tummankarheat rikosnovellit näyttävät, miten kenestä tahansa voi tulla rikollinen. Niin asianajaja, putkimies, trukkikuski kuin siivoustyönjohtajakin voi sortua rikokseen ammattiroistoista puhumattakaan. Paatuneintakin rikollista soimaa kuitenkin armoton omatunto. Kasvot betonissa on kokoelma Tapani Baggen rikosnovelleja, joista osa sijoittuu aiemmille vuosikymmenille.

To the moon and back, here are 10 tales with a twist. The unlikely characters have one thing in common - they're ready and willing to do whatever it takes to achieve their goals. As the old saying goes, "You have to watch out for the quiet ones." From a quirky inventor, humored by his neighbors, to two old men out to dinner, to a more-than-meets-the-eye beverage maker, the stories will take you into the minds of the overlooked and unseen.

In this collection of stories from 1959 to 1961, Avram treats us to pieces on maritime tragedies, Prohibition-era gangsters, forgotten Americans, the Triangle Shirt Co. tragedy, and the Crimean Light Brigade blunder. He also has an intriguing theory about Jack the Ripper.

Deer hunting is not dangerous - unless the hunter becomes the prey....When young hunter John Rowinski goes missing from his deer stand, Niki Dupre volunteers to help find him. When she finds a pool of blood and no body, the plot thickens.

Ten stories from the case files of homicide detectives Turner Hahn and Frank Morales, these are tales of murder, deception, greed, and mayhem only this duo can solve. Murder is the operative word in this collection, from hardened criminals to deceitful damsels, to the cold minds of serial killers. Come along for the ride as Turner and Frank face off with the crazies, the cunning, and the brilliant as they try to get away with murder.

What makes Alice, well....Alice? From an early age, she was always “different”. People noticed it: from her unusual eyes that changed when she felt intense emotions, to her brain and her peculiar habits. Is a “serial killer” actually “born", or is she “made”? Here, we find out more about the youthful Alice - and why her early life experiences made her the woman who has intrigued us all.

A murder to solve, new family members visiting the US, a kidnapping and possible new directions all make for life changes for everyone. From best-selling author, G. Landy-Kordis comes story five in the Tapioca Style Series. Tap continues to juggle her full life quite successfully but when Gino’s past shows up it creates jealousy and doubt in Tap about their future and a murder case turns dangerous for Tap.

Ausgangsbeschränkungen lähmen das öffentliche Leben. Die Furcht vor einer Ansteckung schränkt die Bewegungsfreiheit der Menschen ein. Der Feind ist unsichtbar. Er verbreitet sich epidemisch und bedroht die Welt. Bis ein Gegenmittel gefunden wird, bleibt es beim Lock-down. Im eigenen Körper eingeschlossen ist das Opfer im Kurzkrimi "Locked-in". Auch in den anderen vier Hörkrimis verfehlen tödliche Substanzen nicht ihre Wirkung. - Fünf Kurzkrimis für den Weg zur Arbeit, für Pendler in Bus und Bahn, beim Fitnesssport oder bei der Hausarbeit.