European Thriller

When Charlotte McKay wakes up in a hospital bed with no memory of how she got there, all she wants is to go back to the perfect London flat she shares with her husband, and the impressive career she’s worked so hard to build. But something’s not right. Her husband David is at her bedside - but so is a three-year-old girl, and she’s calling Charlotte "Mummy"....

The mystery of the modern thriller pervades the twists in the plot of this remarkable Victorian novel about the disappearance of a young man and the lady who is haunted by more than one terrible secret.

Forty breathtaking short stories of gripping adventures, secrets and strange conspiracies. 'The Dust That Was Barren' by P. C. Wren. 'The Deserter' by Stacy Aumonier. 'The Lighthouse on Shivering Sand' by J. S. Fletcher. 'The Secret of the Smoked Spectacles' by William Le Queux. 'The 39 Steps' by John Buchan. 'Three Pennyworth of Luck' by Basil Murray. 'The Secret of Dr. Vaux’s Intrigue' by William Le Queux. 'A Thread of Scarlet' by J. J. Bell. 'How I Became a Secret Agent' by Dr. A. K. Graves.

"Don Blas s'avançait lentement dans la rue d'Alcolote, regardant de côté et d'autre les maisons avec ses yeux de lynx. Comme il passait devant l'église on sonna une messe ; il se précipita de cheval plutôt qu'il n'en descendit, et on le vit s'agenouiller auprès de l'autel. Quatre de ses gendarmes se mirent à genoux autour de sa chaise ; ils le regardèrent, il n'y avait déjà plus de dévotion dans ses yeux. Son œil sinistre était fixé sur un jeune homme d'une tournure fort distinguée qui priait dévotement à quelques pas de lui."

Lastrado por una última misión policial en Madrid que no acabó de la mejor manera, el policía Lucas Acevedo regresa a Galicia para poner en orden su cabeza. Cuando cree que lo ha conseguido, una noche conoce a una mujer que le hará plantearse la solitaria existencia que ha llevado hasta entonces. Sin embargo, pronto se complican sus planes. Mucha gente comienza a morir en su entorno y, en el momento en que se da cuenta de que él también está en el punto de mira, se verá obligado a librar una batalla de la que no conseguirá salir indemne.

In Murder (and Baklava), when London Rose, 33, is proposed to by her long-time boyfriend, she realizes she is facing a stable, predictable, pre-determined (and passionless) life. She freaks out and runs the other way—accepting instead a job across the Atlantic, as a tour-guide on a high-end European cruise line that travels through a country a day. London is searching for a more romantic, unscripted, and exciting life that she feels sure exists out there somewhere.

FBI Agent Sarah Brightwater and journalist Tyler Ford must team up once more to stop the evil machinations of mass serial killer Dwight Spalding. Two sets of unrelated murders in Virginia begin to become entwined as Spalding's web begins to be unraveled. Sarah is working both cases but can't let the link be known for fear of being taken off them and losing her chance to catch the man who killed her mother. Tyler's involvement in the case become more personal than he imagined possible. Will he be able to escape the plans of the vile murderer who is using him a plaything?

A mansion with a hellish past. A serial killer with a shadow. A city about to boil over. Having received a letter about a murder in the country mansion of Wild Boar Hall, Alderman James is only too happy to leave the city to investigate. For too long the seemingly endless cycle of murders in the Liberties has weighed on him. While the Alderman investigates this pastoral distraction, a sinister plan is set in motion back in Dublin. One that has James at the very heart of it all! Fear and paranoia return to the streets and things are made worse still when a new killer realizes he has a fan.

From the outside, Frank and Grace seem to have the perfect family. He’s a loving husband, she’s a devoted wife, and together they have two happy children. But appearances can be deceiving. A strange series of misfortunes has left them reeling: an unexplained break-in, a catastrophic handgun accident, and a bizarre poisoning that’s left Grace feeling especially unnerved. Packing up their RV for a move across the country, they’re ready for a fresh start, expecting to leave all their problems safely behind.

"Elles étaient au nombre de douze. Douze méduses qui plongèrent parmi les bulles éclairées au néon dans l'aquarium. Leurs tentacules flottant comme des fourreaux de fantômes." Dans les rues serpentines du Vieux-Nice, Rosa déambule au bras de son fils, Lino. Ensemble ils rêvent de posséder un hôtel dans lequel un immense aquarium accueillerait des méduses. À peine dix-neuf ans d'écart, ils forment un duo inséparable. Jusqu'au jour où Lino est arrêté et emprisonné pour le meurtre d'un enfant. Pour Rosa, l'innocence de son fils est incontestable.

Corrupt elements of the South African Intelligence Services are stalking Morne Delport, a South African industrialist and his eclectic band of friends. When no one is watching, their phones are tapped, they are followed, and violence is sanctioned against them. They are in a race to save their countrymen, and forever separate themselves from the legacy of Apartheid, but powerful forces have other plans. They are watching and wanting their wealth for their own.

Late one night, a man calls the local emergency line. He's in a cemetery, and he's just discovered a freshly dug grave marked with a wooden cross bearing his name. The dispatcher thinks it's the ravings of a drunk - until the police find the man's body the next day. What seemed like a morbid prank soon becomes a living nightmare for Berlin detective Jan Tommen. Recently reinstated to the force after a harrowing case's tragic conclusion, Jan enlists his friends.

The Beetle tells the tale of an evil, ancient Egyptian spirit seeking revenge on an up-and-coming British politician, Paul Lessingham. The shape-shifting creature that pursues Lessingham is possessed of hypnotic powers and takes different forms, both male and female, as well as morphing into a beetle - a figure that induces terror in its victims.

When novelist Manuel Ortigosa learns that his husband, Álvaro, has been killed in a car crash, it comes as a devastating shock. It won’t be the last. He’s now arrived in Galicia. It’s where Álvaro died. It’s where the case has already been quickly closed as a tragic accident. It’s also where Álvaro hid his secrets. The man to whom Manuel was married for fifteen years was not the unassuming man he knew.

London, 2016, and the lead-up to the EU referendum. The liberal consensus in Europe is breaking down and no one knows exactly what will replace it. As always, there are those with an eye to the main chance. In the course of investigating the disappearance of a prominent Eurosceptic MP, MI7 agent John Mordred finds himself under hostile scrutiny from obscure figures within his own organization. It quickly turns out that his investigation and theirs may not be entirely independent of each other.

Viktor Lavrov es un joven talento perteneciente al KGB destinado en Berlín durante el periodo más crudo de la Guerra Fría. Pronto recibirá un delicado encargo que pondrá a prueba sus conocimientos en psicología criminalista y sus virtudes como agente de inteligencia. El caprichoso destino hará que su camino se cruce con el del inspector jefe de la Kriminalpolizei, Otto Bauer, empecinado en resolver las terribles muertes de cinco menores que parecen estar relacionadas entre sí, unos asesinatos que se niegan a reconocer desde las más altas instancias de la RDA.

When London Rose, 33, is proposed to by her longtime boyfriend, she realizes she is facing a stable, predictable, predetermined (and passionless) life. She freaks out and runs the other way, accepting instead a job across the Atlantic, as a tour-guide on a high-end European cruise line that travels through a country a day. London and her crew sail into the beautiful northern city of Oslo, admiring its gorgeous archipelago of islands and its local architecture and cuisine. It is the perfect stop - until, on a fishing outing, London reels in not the local cod, but a dead body.

When London Rose, 33, is proposed to by her longtime boyfriend, she realizes she is facing a stable, predictable, predetermined (and passionless) life. She freaks out and runs the other way - accepting instead a job across the Atlantic, as a tour guide on a high-end European cruise line that travels through a country a day. London is searching for a more romantic, unscripted, and exciting life that she feels sure exists out there somewhere.

When London Rose, 33, is proposed to by her longtime boyfriend, she realizes she is facing a stable, predictable, pre-determined (and passionless) life. She freaks out and runs the other way - accepting instead a job across the Atlantic, as a tour-guide on a high-end European cruise line that travels through a country a day. London is searching for a more romantic, unscripted, and exciting life that she feels sure exists out there somewhere.

In book three, Crime (and Lager), the cruise takes them into Germany, into its historic towns and fabled beer festivals. But when a festival goer - a loud, arrogant local - turns up dead from drinking too much beer, suspicion falls on the touring passengers. The death is quickly ruled a murder, and London realizes her future - and that of the ship - hinges on her solving the crime.