Husbands and wives. Mothers and daughters. The past and the future.
Secrets bind them. And secrets can destroy them.
The author of Pretty Girls returns with an electrifying, emotionally complex thriller that plunges its fascinating protagonist into the darkest depths of a mystery that just might destroy him. With the discovery of a murder at an abandoned construction site, Will Trent of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation is brought in on a case that becomes much more dangerous when the dead man is identified as an ex-cop.
Studying the body, Sara Lintonâthe GBIâs newest medical examiner and Willâs loverârealizes that the extensive blood loss didn't belong to the corpse. Sure enough, bloody footprints leading away from the scene indicate there is another victimâa womanâwho has vanished . . . and who will die soon if she isnât found.
Will is already compromised, because the site belongs to the cityâs most popular citizen: a wealthy, powerful, and politically connected athlete protected by the worldâs most expensive lawyersâa man whoâs already gotten away with rape, despite Willâs exhaustive efforts to put him away.
But the worst is yet to come. Evidence soon links Willâs troubled past to the case . . . and the consequences will tear through his life with the force of a tornado, wreaking havoc for Will and everyone around him, including his colleagues, family, friendsâand even the suspects he pursues.
Relentlessly suspenseful and furiously paced, peopled with conflicted, fallible characters who leap from the page, The Kept Woman is a seamless blend of twisty police procedural and ingenious psychological thrillerâa searing, unforgettable novel of love, loss, and redemption.
There's no mystery about it: here before you is the ultimate collection of master sleuth Sherlock Holmes. This comprehensive collection includes the complete text of all four novels and forty-four short stories starring Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle, each elegantly formatted for ease of use and enjoyment.
Forty-Eight Complete Works
Novels:
A Study in Scarlet
The Sign of the Four
The Hound of the Baskervilles
The Valley of Fear
Short Story Collections:
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
The Return of Sherlock Holmes
His Last Bow
Immerse yourself in the world of Sherlock Holmes with special features for any Holmes enthusiast, including a list of films and television series starring the character and a reading guide to additional books about Sherlock Holmes by other authors.
For three years, Detective Jude Fontaine was kept from the outside world. Held in an underground cell, her only contact was with her sadistic captor, and reading his face was her entire existence. Learning his every line, every movement, and every flicker of thought is what kept her alive.
After her experience with isolation and torture, she is left with a fierce desire for justiceâand a heightened ability to interpret the body language of both the living and the dead. Despite colleaguesâ doubts about her mental state, she resumes her role at Homicide. Her new partner, Detective Uriah Ashby, doesnât trust her sanity, and he has a story of his own heâd rather keep hidden. But a killer is on the loose, murdering young women, so the detectives have no choice: they must work together to catch the madman before he strikes again. And no one knows madmen like Jude Fontaine.
End of Watch is the spectacular finale to the New York Times bestselling trilogy that began with Mr. Mercedes and Finders Keepers. In this thrilling conclusion, the diabolical "Mercedes Killer" drives his enemies to suicide, and if Bill Hodges and Holly Gibney donât figure out a way to stop him, theyâll be victims themselves.
In Room 217 of the Lakes Region Traumatic Brain Injury Clinic, something has awakened. Something evil. Brady Hartsfield, perpetrator of the Mercedes Massacre, where eight people were killed and many more were badly injured, has been in the clinic for five years, in a vegetative state. According to his doctors, anything approaching a complete recovery is unlikely. But behind the drool and stare, Brady is awake, and in possession of deadly new powers that allow him to wreak unimaginable havoc without ever leaving his hospital room.
Retired police detective Bill Hodges, the unlikely hero of Mr. Mercedes and Finders Keepers, now runs an investigation agency with his partner, Holly Gibneyâthe woman who delivered the blow to Hartsfieldâs head that put him on the brain injury ward. When Bill and Holly are called to a suicide scene with ties to the Mercedes Massacre, they find themselves pulled into their most dangerous case yet, one that will put their lives at risk, as well as those of Billâs heroic young friend Jerome Robinson and his teenage sister, Barbara.
Brady Hartsfield is back, and planning revenge not just on Hodges and his friends, but on an entire city. In End of Watch, Stephen King brings the Hodges trilogy to a sublimely terrifying conclusion, combining the detective fiction of Mr. Mercedes and Finders Keepers with the heart-pounding, supernatural suspense that has been his bestselling trademark. The result is an unnerving look at human vulnerability and chilling suspense. No one does it better than King.
The villagers of Chipping Cleghorn are agog with curiosity when the Gazette advertises: âA murder is announced and will take place on Friday, October 29th, at Little Paddocks at 6:30 p.m.â
Is it a childish practical joke? Or perhaps a spiteful hoax? Unable to resist the mysterious invitation, the locals arrive at Little Paddocks at the appointed time.
Without warning, the lights go out and a gun is fired. When they come back on, a gruesome scene is revealed. An impossible crime? Only the astute Miss Marple can unravel it.
The master of a Victorian mansion dies suddenly â and his sister is convinced it was murderâŚ. When Cora is savagely murdered with a hatchet, the extraordinary remark she made the previous day at her brother Richardâs funeral suddenly takes on a chilling significance.
At the reading of Richardâs will, Cora was clearly heard to say: âItâs been hushed up very nicely, hasnât itâŚBut he was murdered, wasnât he?â
In desperation, the family solicitor turns to Hercule Poirot to unravel the mystery.
From seat number nine, Hercule Poirot is almost ideally placed to observe his fellow air travelers on this short flight from Paris to London. Over to his right sits a pretty young woman, clearly infatuated with the man opposite. Ahead, in seat number thirteen, is the Countess of Horbury, horribly addicted to cocaine and not doing too good a job of concealing it. Across the gangway in seat number eight, a writer of detective fiction is being troubled by an aggressive wasp.
Yes, Poirot is almost ideally placed to take it all inâexcept that the passenger in the seat directly behind him has slumped over in the course of the flight... dead. Murdered. By someone in Poirot's immediate proximity. And Poirot himself must number among the suspects.
Elephants Can Remember is a classic Hercule Poirot investigation where the expert detective delves into an unsolved crime from the past involving the mysterious death of a husband and wife.
Poirot stood on the clifftop, the very place where, many years earlier, a tragic accident had occurred, followed by the grisly discovery of two bodiesâa husband and wife, both shot dead. But the question remained, who had killed whom? Was it a suicide pact? A crime of passion? Or cold-blooded murder?
As Poirot delves into the past, he discovers that old sins leave long shadows. With his sharp mind and keen instincts, he is determined to solve this old double murder mystery that still stands as an open verdict.
Set at the Jolly Roger, a posh vacation resort for the rich and famous on the southern coast of England, Evil Under the Sun is one of Agatha Christieâs most intriguing mysteries. When a gorgeous young bride is brutally strangled to death on the beach, only Hercule Poirot can sift through the secrets that shroud each of the guests and unravel the macabre mystery at this playground by the sea.
The beautiful bronzed body of Arlena Stuart lay facedown on the beach. But strangely, there was no sun and Arlena was not sunbathingâŚshe had been strangled. Ever since Arlenaâs arrival, the air had been thick with sexual tension. Each of the guests had a motive to kill her, including Arlenaâs new husband. But Hercule Poirot suspects that this apparent âcrime of passionâ conceals something much more evil.
It was an open and shut case. All the evidence said Caroline Crale poisoned her philandering husband, a brilliant painter. She was quickly and easily convicted and sentenced to life in prison.
Now, sixteen years later, in a posthumous letter, Mrs. Crale has assured her grown daughter that she was innocent. But instead of setting the young woman's mind at ease, the letter only raises disquieting questions. Did Caroline indeed write the truth? And if she didn't kill her husband, who did?
To find out, the Craleâs daughter asks Hercule Poirot to reopen the case. His investigation takes him deep into the conflicting memories and motivations of the five other people who were with the Crales on the fatal day. With his keen understanding of human psychology, he manages to discover the surprising truth behind the artist's death.
On the night before Christmas, cruel, tyrannical, filthy rich Simeon Lee is found in his locked bedroom with his throat cut. Now Hercule Poirot must put his deductive powers to the test to solve one of his most chilling cases - and to prevent a clever killer from spilling more blood.
Christmas Eve, and the Lee familyâs reunion is shattered by a deafening crash of furniture and a high-pitched wailing scream. Upstairs, the tyrannical Simeon Lee lies dead in a pool of blood, his throat slashed. When Hercule Poirot offers to assist, he finds an atmosphere not of mourning but of mutual suspicion. It seems everyone had their own reason to hate the old man.
The iconic Miss Marple must investigate the case of a girl found dead in Agatha Christieâs classic mystery, The Body in the Library.
Itâs seven in the morning. The Bantrys wake to find the body of a young woman in their library. She is wearing an evening dress and heavy makeup, which is now smeared across her cheeks. But who is she? How did she get there? And what is the connection with another dead girl, whose charred remains are later discovered in an abandoned quarry?
The respectable Bantrys invite Miss Marple into their home to investigate. Amid rumors of scandal, she baits a clever trap to catch a ruthless killer.
Convicted murderer Melvin Mars is counting down the last hours before his execution for the violent killing of his parents twenty years earlier when he's granted an unexpected reprieve. Another man has confessed to the crime.
Amos Decker, newly hired on an FBI special task force, takes an interest in Mars's case after discovering the striking similarities to his own life: Both men were talented football players with promising careers cut short by tragedy. Both men's families were brutally murdered. And in both cases, another suspect came forward, years after the killing, to confess to the crime. A suspect who may or may not have been telling the truth.
The confession has the potential to make Melvin Marsâguilty or notâa free man. Who wants Mars out of prison? And why now?
But when a member of Decker's team disappears, it becomes clear that something much largerâand more sinisterâthan just one convicted criminal's life hangs in the balance. Decker will need all of his extraordinary brainpower to stop an innocent man from being executed.
The last thing Jamie Watson wants is a rugby scholarship to Sherringford, a Connecticut prep school just an hour away from his estranged father. But thatâs not the only complication: Sherringford is also home to Charlotte Holmes, the famous detectiveâs great-great-great-granddaughter, who has inherited not only Sherlockâs genius but also his volatile temperament.
From everything Jamie has heard about Charlotte, it seems safer to admire her from afar. From the moment they meet, thereâs a tense energy between them, and they seem more destined to be rivals than anything else. But when a Sherringford student dies under suspicious circumstances, ripped straight from the most terrifying of the Sherlock Holmes stories, Jamie can no longer afford to keep his distance.
Jamie and Charlotte are being framed for murder, and only Charlotte can clear their names. But danger is mounting and nowhere is safeâand the only people they can trust are each other.