In the tradition of The Girl on the Train, The Silent Wife, and Gone Girl comes an enthralling psychological thriller that spins one woman's seemingly good fortune and another woman's mysterious fate through a kaleidoscope of duplicity, death, and deception.
Emma:
Reeling from a traumatic break-in, Emma wants a new place to live. But none of the apartments she sees are affordable or feel safe. Until One Folgate Street. The house is an architectural masterpiece: a minimalist design of pale stone, plate glass, and soaring ceilings. But there are rules. The enigmatic architect who designed the house retains full control: no books, no throw pillows, no photos or clutter or personal effects of any kind. The space is intended to transform its occupant - and it does.
Jane:
After a personal tragedy, Jane needs a fresh start. When she finds One Folgate Street, she is instantly drawn to the space - and to its aloof but seductive creator. Moving in, Jane soon learns about the untimely death of the home's previous tenant, a woman similar to Jane in age and appearance. As Jane tries to untangle truth from lies, she unwittingly follows the same patterns, makes the same choices, crosses paths with the same people, and experiences the same terror as the girl before.
FBI special agent Mercy Kilpatrick has been waiting her whole life for disaster to strike. A prepper since childhood, Mercy grew up living off the landâand off the gridâin rural Eagleâs Nest, Oregon. Until a shocking tragedy tore her family apart and forced her to leave home. Now a predator known as the cave man is targeting the survivalists in her hometown, murdering them in their homes, stealing huge numbers of weapons, and creating federal suspicion of a possible domestic terrorism event. But the crime scene details are eerily familiar to an unsolved mystery from Mercyâs past.
Sent by the FBI to assist local law enforcement, Mercy returns to Eagleâs Nest to face the family who shunned her while maintaining the facade of a law-abiding citizen. There, she meets police chief Truman Daly, whose uncle was the cave manâs latest victim. He sees the survivalist side of her that she desperately tries to hide, but if she lets him get close enough to learn her secret, she might not survive the falloutâŚ
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo for teensâthis international bestseller is a thrilling, edge-of-your-seat Nordic noir that chills to the bone, and not just because of the bleak winter setting.
Lumikki Andersson has made it a rule to stay out of things that do not involve her. She knows all too well that trouble comes to those who stick their nose where it doesnât belong. But Lumikkiâs rule is put to the test when she uncovers thousands of washed Euro notes hung to dry in her schoolâs darkroom and three of her classmates with blood on their hands. Literally.
A web of lies and deception now has Lumikki on the run from those determined to get the money backâno matter the cost. At the center of the chaos: Polar Bear, the mythical drug lord who has managed to remain anonymous despite hosting lavish parties and having a notorious reputation. If Lumikki hopes to make it out alive, sheâll have to uncover the entire operation.
Even the cold Finnish winter canât hide a culprit determined to stain the streets red.
When the police started asking questions, Jean Taylor turned into a different woman. One who enabled her and her husband to carry on, even as more bad things began to happen...
But that womanâs husband died last week. And Jean doesnât have to be her anymore. Thereâs a lot Jean hasnât said over the years about the crime her husband was suspected of committing. She was too busy being the perfect wife, standing by her man while living with the accusing glares and the anonymous harassment. Now thereâs no reason to stay quiet.
There are people who want to hear her story. They want to know what it was like living with that man. She can tell them that there were secrets. There always are in a marriage. The truthâthatâs all anyone wants. But the one lesson Jean has learned in the last few years is that she can make people believe anythingâŚ
This is the tale of a missing child, narrated by the wife of the main suspect, the detective leading the hunt, and the journalist covering the case. It's a brilliantly ominous, psychologically acute portrait of a marriage in crisisâperfect for fans of The Silent Wife and The Girl on the Train.
The Matrix meets Interview with the Vampire in this sexy gothic thriller about two beautiful witch sisters and the love triangle that consumes the information thief who is drawn into their intrigues.
Season of the Witch tells the story of Gabriel Blackstone: hacker, information thief, and skilled âremote viewer.â Asked by a former lover to investigate the disappearance of her stepson, Gabrielâs suspicions fall on Minnaloushe and Morrighan Monk, two beautiful sisters who live in a rambling Victorian house in London.
Independently wealthy, the sisters spend their time dabbling in alchemy and the ancient Art of Memoryâinvented by the Greeks and used by alchemists and magi such as Giordano Bruno and Leonardo Da Vinci. The sisters are white, or âsolar,â witches, who aim to use alchemy not to turn lead into gold but to attain ultimate knowledge and therefore ultimate power.
Gabriel soon becomes convinced that his clientâs son had been murdered and that one of the women is the killer. But which one?
As Gabriel infiltrates the world of the sisters, he finds himself drawn inexorably deeperâ becoming entranced even as he realizes that he is in mortal danger. When he is caught snooping, Gabriel must race to unlock their secrets before they can retaliate.
To save himselfâand the one he loves, presuming she is not guiltyâGabriel will have to fight one of the sisters within the landscape of her own mind.
Good Me, Bad Me is a dark, compelling, voice-driven psychological suspense by debut author Ali Land.
How far does the apple really fall from the tree? Milly's mother is a serial killer. Though Milly loves her mother, the only way to make her stop is to turn her in to the police. Milly is given a fresh start: a new identity, a home with an affluent foster family, and a spot at an exclusive private school. But Milly has secrets, and life at her new home becomes complicated.
As her mother's trial looms, with Milly as the star witness, Milly starts to wonder how much of her is nature, how much of her is nurture, and whether she is doomed to turn out like her mother after all. When tensions rise and Milly feels trapped by her shiny new life, she has to decide: Will she be good? Or is she bad? She is, after all, her mother's daughter.
Dans leur tĂŠlĂŠphone, il y avait toute leur vieâŚ
New York. AĂŠroport Kennedy. Dans la salle dâembarquement bondĂŠe, un homme et une femme se tĂŠlescopent. Dispute anodine, et chacun reprend sa route. Madeline et Jonathan ne sâĂŠtaient jamais rencontrĂŠs, ils nâauraient jamais dĂť se revoir. Mais en ramassant leurs affaires, ils ont ĂŠchangĂŠ leurs tĂŠlĂŠphones portables.
Lorsquâils sâaperçoivent de leur mĂŠprise, ils sont sĂŠparĂŠs par 10 000 kilomètres : elle est fleuriste Ă Paris, il tient un restaurant Ă San Francisco. CĂŠdant Ă la curiositĂŠ, chacun explore le contenu du tĂŠlĂŠphone de lâautre. Une double indiscrĂŠtion et une rĂŠvĂŠlation : leurs vies sont liĂŠes par un secret quâils pensaient enterrĂŠ Ă jamais...
Entre comĂŠdie romantique et thriller de haute volĂŠe, une intrigue magistrale portĂŠe par des personnages bouleversants. Un final virtuose.
Dark Matter is a mindbending, relentlessly surprising thriller from Blake Crouch, author of the bestselling Wayward Pines trilogy. "Are you happy with your life?" Those are the last words Jason Dessen hears before the masked abductor knocks him unconscious. Jason awakens to find himself strapped to a gurney, surrounded by strangers in hazmat suits. A man he's never met smiles down at him and says, "Welcome back, my friend."
In the world he's woken up to, Jason's life is not as he knows it. His wife is not his wife. His son was never born. He's not an ordinary college physics professor but a celebrated genius who has achieved something remarkableâsomething impossible. Is this world or the other the dream? And even if the home he remembers is real, how can Jason possibly make it back to the family he loves?
The journey that lies ahead of Jason is more wondrous and horrifying than anything he could have imaginedâone that will force him to confront the darkest parts of himself even as he battles a terrifying, seemingly unbeatable foe. Dark Matter is a brilliantly plotted tale that is at once sweeping and intimate, mind-bendingly strange, and profoundly humanâa science-fiction thriller about choices, paths not taken, and the lengths we'll go to claim the lives we dream of.
Idaho, a sharp, stunning debut novel by Emily Ruskovich, explores themes of grief, loss, and redemption, and has been recognized as an Irish bestseller. Set against the backdrop of a hot August day, a family outing to collect birch wood in a mountain clearing becomes the scene of a harrowing event.
Jenny, the mother, is tasked with trimming the logs while Wade, the father, stacks them. Their daughters, June and May, try to enjoy their time with lemonade and songs amidst the sweltering heat. Amidst the mundane, something unthinkable occurs, a shocking act that will send the family spiraling in different directions and leave haunting questions lingering for years to come.
Idaho is a multi-layered narrative that is both beautifully crafted and devastating in its portrayal of the complexities of family life and the human condition. It is a tale that promises to captivate readers, leaving a lasting impression long after the final page is turned.
In Wall Street Journal bestselling author Melinda Leigh's edgy new thriller, Louisa Hancock thought she was safe...but there's a new killer in town. When a mysterious package lands on Louisa Hancock's doorstep, the Philadelphia museum curator can hardly anticipate the nightmare that's about to envelop her. The package is addressed to her fatherâan expert in Viking cultureâand inside is a ninth-century sword, a chilling thank-you note, and photos of two dead bodies in a tableau evoking a Nordic funeral. The gruesome images match a recent crime scene. But before the police can investigate the killer's connection to Louisa's father, Ward Hancock vanishes.
Sports bar owner Conor Sullivan wants nothing more than to spend his life with Louisa. Devoted and protective, he refuses to leave her side after her father's disappearance. When a troubled young boxer he's been coaching is suspected of the murders, Conor is pulled in even deeper. Desperate, Louisa and Conor take it upon themselves to find her father, but soon another ritualistic slaying makes it clear there's a Viking-obsessed serial killer on the loose. And he has a new target: Louisa.
All Etta Spencer wanted was to make her violin debut when she was thrust into a treacherous world where the struggle for power could alter history. After losing the one thing that would have allowed her to protect the Timeline, and the one person worth fighting for, Etta awakens alone in an unknown place and time, exposed to the threat of the two groups who would rather see her dead than succeed.
When help arrives, it comes from the last person Etta ever expectedâJulian Ironwood, the Grand Masterâs heir who has long been presumed dead, and whose dangerous alliance with a man from Ettaâs past could put them both at risk.
Meanwhile, Nicholas and Sophia are racing through time in order to locate Etta and the missing astrolabe with Ironwood travelers hot on their trail. They cross paths with a mercenary-for-hire, a cheeky girl named Li Min who quickly develops a flirtation with Sophia. But as the three of them attempt to evade their pursuers, Nicholas soon realizes that one of his companions may have ulterior motives.
As Etta and Nicholas fight to make their way back to one another, from Imperial Russia to the Vatican catacombs, time is rapidly shifting and changing into something unrecognizable⌠and might just run out on both of them.
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.
Cassandra, a 17-year-old girl, dreams of becoming a therapist for troubled children one day. Her parents' job takes them away from their children, leading to an unexpected adventure.
Cassie's father receives a call for him and his wife to take a trip to Australia, thousands of miles away. They accept the offer but realize they can't leave their seventeen and eight-year-old alone for a week, so they call a sitter.
Little did they know, they hired a dangerous psychopath killer. Will Cassandra and Ben escape the harmful hands of their psychotic sitter? Or has he already set his eyes on the young and pure Cassandra?
El Laberinto de los EspĂritus es un relato electrizante de pasiones, intrigas y aventuras. A travĂŠs de sus pĂĄginas llegaremos al gran final de la saga iniciada con La Sombra del Viento, que alcanza aquĂ toda su intensidad y calado, a la vez que dibuja un gran homenaje al mundo de los libros, al arte de narrar historias y al vĂnculo mĂĄgico entre la literatura y la vida.
En la Barcelona de finales de los aĂąos 50, Daniel Sempere ya no es aquel niĂąo que descubriĂł un libro que habrĂa de cambiarle la vida entre los pasadizos del Cementerio de los Libros Olvidados. El misterio de la muerte de su madre Isabella ha abierto un abismo en su alma del que su esposa Bea y su fiel amigo FermĂn intentan salvarle.
Justo cuando Daniel cree que estĂĄ a un paso de resolver el enigma, una conjura mucho mĂĄs profunda y oscura de lo que nunca podrĂa haber imaginado despliega su red desde las entraĂąas del RĂŠgimen. Es entonces cuando aparece Alicia Gris, un alma nacida de las sombras de la guerra, para conducirlos al corazĂłn de las tinieblas y desvelar la historia secreta de la familia aunque a un terrible precio.
How are you supposed to survive when you're trapped in a Lunatic Asylum with 13 demons and a deadly surgeon?
Dr. SinClair had no idea, but if she didn't do something soon, her demise would become just another tale for the Storyteller of Pain.
Joe Goldberg is no stranger to hiding bodies. In the past ten years, this thirty-something has buried four of them, collateral damage in his quest for love. Now heâs heading west to Los Angeles, the city of second chances, determined to put his past behind him.
In Hollywood, Joe blends in effortlessly with the other young upstarts. He eats guac, works in a bookstore, and flirts with a journalist neighbor. But while others seem fixated on their own reflections, Joe canât stop looking over his shoulder. The problem with hidden bodies is that they donât always stay that way. They re-emerge, like dark thoughts, multiplying and threatening to destroy what Joe wants most: true love. And when he finds it in a darkened room in Soho House, heâs more desperate than ever to keep his secrets buried. He doesnât want to hurt his new girlfriendâhe wants to be with her forever. But if she ever finds out what heâs done, he may not have a choiceâŚ
Moving to a space station at the edge of the galaxy was always going to be the death of Hanna's social life. Nobody said it might actually get her killed.
The sci-fi saga that began with the breakout bestseller Illuminae continues on board the Jump Station Heimdall, where two new characters will confront the next wave of the BeiTech assault.
Hanna is the station captain's pampered daughter; Nik the reluctant member of a notorious crime family. But while the pair are struggling with the realities of life aboard the galaxy's most boring space station, little do they know that Kady Grant and the Hypatia are headed right toward Heimdall, carrying news of the Kerenza invasion.
When an elite BeiTech strike team invades the station, Hanna and Nik are thrown together to defend their home. But alien predators are picking off the station residents one by one, and a malfunction in the station's wormhole means the space-time continuum might be ripped in two before dinner. Soon Hanna and Nik aren't just fighting for their own survival; the fate of everyone on the Hypatiaâand possibly the known universeâis in their hands.
But relax. They've totally got this. They hope.
When Bish Ortley, a suspended cop, receives word that a bus carrying his daughter has been bombed, he rushes to her side. A suspect has already been singled out: a 17-year-old girl who has since disappeared from the scene.
The press has now revealed that she is the youngest member of one of London's most notorious families. Thirteen years earlier, her grandfather set off a suicide bomb in a grocery store, a bomb her mother confessed to building. Has the girl decided to follow in their footsteps?
To find her, Bish must earn the trust of her friends and family, including her infamous mother, now serving a life sentence in prison--but as he delves into the deadly bus attack that claimed five lives, the ghosts of older crimes become impossible to ignore.
A gripping fusion of literary suspense and family drama, Tell the Truth, Shame the Devil is a fast-paced puzzle of a novel that will keep readers feverishly turning pages.
There was once a time when darkness shrouded the world, and the darkness had a queen.
Adelina Amouteru is done suffering. Sheâs turned her back on those who have betrayed her and achieved the ultimate revenge: victory. Her reign as the White Wolf has been a triumphant one, but with each conquest her cruelty only grows. The darkness within her has begun to spiral out of control, threatening to destroy all sheâs gained.
When a new danger appears, Adelinaâs forced to revisit old wounds, putting not only herself at risk, but every Elite. In order to preserve her empire, Adelina and her Roses must join the Daggers on a perilous questâthough this uneasy alliance may prove to be the real danger.
Welcome to the world of the Grisha. Kaz Brekker and his crew of deadly outcasts have just pulled off a heist so daring even they didn't think they'd survive. But instead of divvying up a fat reward, they're right back to fighting for their lives.
Double-crossed and badly weakened, the crew is low on resources, allies, and hope. As powerful forces from around the world descend on Ketterdam to root out the secrets of the dangerous drug known as jurda parem, old rivals and new enemies emerge to challenge Kaz's cunning and test the team's fragile loyalties.
A war will be waged on the city's dark and twisting streets - a battle for revenge and redemption that will decide the fate of the Grisha world.
Mitch Walker is in a desperate race against time to save his dying nephew. In a bold and risky move, he undertakes an insanely dangerous crime to secure life-saving medicine. However, things spiral out of control, triggering a chain reaction of chaos and murder.
Hunted by a ruthless crime syndicate, Mitch's only hope lies with a cop named Betts, who ironically wants him behind bars. As the crime syndicate employs dark technology, the investigation takes unexpected twists.
Driven by the faint hope of saving the sick child, Betts and Walker are forced into an unpredictable alliance in a fight for survival. If you crave a fast-paced, action-packed thriller, BRAZEN VIOLATIONS is your perfect pick.
Book 8 in the New Species series.
Dr. Allison Baker is obsessed with saving the comatose New Species male. She has tried everything, and there's only one option left. Alli will break every rule and put her life in danger by tempting 880 to wake, using only her feminine scent and touch. She just has to kidnap him and crawl into bed with him to make it work.
880 wakes in a different world with a small female who's been sleeping beside him, caressing him, and wrapping her sweet body around his, teasing his senses. He lies silent and still, listening and evaluating each arousing touch, fighting his body's reaction. Hatred flares when he discovers she's human, but Mercile stole everything from him, so he decides it's fair to take her in return.
But things quickly change, and he wants her at his side and in his bed. 880 has chosen a new nameâObsidianâthe personification of dark and dangerous. He'll fight them all to keep Alli. No one will stand in his way.
New York City as you've never seen it before. A thousand-story tower stretching into the sky. A glittering vision of the future where anything is possibleâif you want it enough.
Welcome to Manhattan, 2118. A hundred years in the future, New York is a city of innovation and dreams. Everyone there wants something⌠and everyone has something to lose.
Leda Coleâs flawless exterior belies a secret addictionâto a drug she never should have tried and a boy she never should have touched.
Eris Dodd-Radsonâs beautiful, carefree life falls to pieces when a heartbreaking betrayal tears her family apart.
Rylin Myersâs job on one of the highest floors sweeps her into a worldâand a romanceâshe never imagined⌠but will this new life cost Rylin her old one?
Watt Bakradi is a tech genius with a secret: he knows everything about everyone. But when heâs hired to spy for an upper-floor girl, he finds himself caught up in a complicated web of lies.
And living above everyone else on the thousandth floor is Avery Fuller, the girl genetically designed to be perfect. The girl who seems to have it allâyet is tormented by the one thing she can never have.
Amid breathtaking advancement and high-tech luxury, five teenagers struggle to find their place at the top of the world. But when you're this high up, there's nowhere to go but down....
Before the asteroid, we let ourselves be defined by labels: The athlete, the outcast, the slacker, the overachiever. But then we all looked up and everything changed.
They said it would be here in two months. That gave us two months to leave our labels behind. Two months to become something bigger than what we'd been, something that would last even after the end. Two months to really live.
The lives of four high school seniors intersect weeks before a meteor is set to pass through Earth's orbit, with a 66.6% chance of striking and destroying all life on the planet.
The sheriffâs son, Kellan Turner, is not the golden boy everyone thinks he is, and Romy Grey knows that for a fact. Because no one wants to believe a girl from the wrong side of town, the truth about him has cost her everythingâfriends, family, and her community. Branded a liar and bullied relentlessly by a group of kids she used to hang out with, Romyâs only refuge is the diner where she works outside of town. No one knows her name or her past there; she can finally be anonymous.
But when a girl with ties to both Romy and Kellan goes missing after a party, and news of him assaulting another girl in a town close by gets out, Romy must decide whether she wants to fight or carry the burden of knowing more girls could get hurt if she doesnât speak up. Nobody believed her the first timeâand they certainly wonât nowâbut the cost of her silence might be more than she can bear.
With a shocking conclusion and writing that will absolutely knock you out, All the Rage examines the shame and silence inflicted upon young women after an act of sexual violence, forcing us to ask ourselves: In a culture that refuses to protect its young girls, how can they survive?
Some imaginary friends never go away . . .
Ten years after starting Project Mayhem, he lives a mundane life. A kid, a wife. Pills to keep his destiny at bay. But it wonât last longâthe wife has seen to that. Heâs back where he started, but this go-round heâs got more at stake than his own life.
The time has arrived . . .
Jim Francis has finally found the perfect life â and is now unrecognisable, even to himself. A successful painter and sculptor, he lives quietly with his wife, Melanie, and their two young daughters, in an affluent beach town in California. Some say heâs a fake and a con man, while others see him as a genuine visionary.
But Francis has a very dark past, with another identity and a very different set of values. When he crosses the Atlantic to his native Scotland, for the funeral of a murdered son he barely knew, his old Edinburgh community expects him to take bloody revenge. But as he confronts his previous life, all those friends and enemies â and, most alarmally, his former self â Francis seems to have other ideas.
When Melanie discovers something gruesome in California, which indicates that her husbandâs violent past might also be his psychotic present, things start to go very bad, very quickly.
The Blade Artist is an elegant, electrifying novel â ultra violent but curiously redemptive â and it marks the return of one of modern fictionâs most infamous, terrifying characters, the incendiary Francis Begbie from Trainspotting.
Disappearance at Devil's Rock is an eerie tale that blends literary fiction, psychological suspense, and supernatural horror. Elizabeth Sanderson's world is turned upside down when she receives the devastating news that her fourteen-year-old son, Tommy, has vanished without a trace in the woods of a local park. The lack of answers from the search efforts leaves Elizabeth and her young daughter, Kate, grappling with the inconceivable.
Their distress is amplified by frustration and anger, as the local and state police fail to produce any leads. Tommy's friends, Josh and Luis, who were with him on that fateful night at Borderland State Parkâa place cursed according to local loreâmight not be completely forthcoming with what they know.
As Elizabeth lives through what seems like a never-ending nightmare, she encounters a series of bizarre occurrences. She believes she sees a ghostly apparition of Tommy in her bedroom; Kate and other residents also report sightings of a mysterious figure peering into their homes at night. Adding to the eeriness, pages from Tommy's journal start to appear out of nowhere, revealing his fascination with the supernatural, the tragic loss of his father, and a chilling folktale tied to the very woods where he disappeared.
The deeper the search for answers goes, the more haunting and malevolent the implications become. No one is ready to face the harrowing truth about the night Tommy disappeared at Devil's Rock.
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.
Abby has been through hell and has survived one of the most brutal childhoods imaginable... barely. To the outside world, she is just a loner with an attitude.
When her grandmother dies in a tragic explosion, Abby is left with questionsâand nothing else. Homeless, sleeping in a junkyard, and on the run from a system that has failed her over and over again, she meets Jake, a tattooed blue-eyed biker with secrets that rival her own.
Two broken souls that can't be healed. They can't be saved. Abby & Jake have to decide if they can accept the darkness not only within one another, but within themselves. If they can accept each other for who they really are, they might learn that love isn't always found in the light.
Caution: This is not your typical romance. The story of Abby & Jake contains disturbing situations, graphic violence, sex, strong language, drug use, and all types of abuse.
The enemy is Other. The enemy is us.
Theyâre down here, theyâre up there, theyâre nowhere. They want the Earth, they want us to have it. They came to wipe us out, they came to save us.
But beneath these riddles lies one truth: Cassie has been betrayed. So has Ringer. Zombie. Nugget. And all 7.5 billion people who used to live on our planet. Betrayed first by the Others, and now by ourselves.
In these last days, Earthâs remaining survivors will need to decide whatâs more important: saving themselvesâŚor saving what makes us human.
A Head Full of Ghosts is a chilling thriller that brilliantly blends psychological suspense and supernatural horror. The novel is reminiscent of Stephen King's The Shining, Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House, and William Peter Blatty's The Exorcist.
The lives of the Barretts, a normal suburban New England family, are torn apart when fourteen-year-old Marjorie begins to display signs of acute schizophrenia. To her parents' despair, the doctors are unable to stop Marjorie's descent into madness. As their stable home devolves into a house of horrors, they reluctantly turn to a local Catholic priest for help. Father Wanderly suggests an exorcism, believing the vulnerable teenager is the victim of demonic possession. He also contacts a production company that is eager to document the Barretts' plight for a reality television show.
With John, Marjorie's father, out of work for more than a year and the medical bills looming, the family agrees to be filmed, and soon find themselves the unwitting stars of The Possession, a hit reality television show. When events in the Barrett household explode in tragedy, the show and the shocking incidents it captures become the stuff of urban legend.
Fifteen years later, a bestselling writer interviews Marjorie's younger sister, Merry. As she recalls those long-ago events that took place when she was just eight years old, long-buried secrets and painful memories that clash with what was broadcast on television begin to surface. A mind-bending tale of psychological horror is unleashed, raising vexing questions about memory and reality, science and religion, and the very nature of evil.
The only way to grow up is to survive.
London has been destroyed in a blitz of bombs and disease. The only ones who have survived the destruction and the outbreak of a deadly virus are children, among them sixteen-year-old Gwen Darling and her younger siblings, Joanna and Mikey. They spend their nights scavenging and their days avoiding the deadly Maraudersâthe German army led by the cutthroat Captain Hanz Otto Oswald Kretschmer.
Unsure if the virus has spread past Englandâs borders but desperate to leave, Captain Hook is on the hunt for a cure, which he thinks can be found in one of the surviving children. He and his Marauders stalk the streets snatching children for experimentation. None ever return.
Until one day when they grab Joanna. Gwen will stop at nothing to get her sister back, but as she sets out, she crosses paths with a daredevil named Pete. Pete offers the assistance of his gang of Lost Boys and the fierce sharpshooter Bella, who have all been living in a city hidden underground. But in a place where help has a steep price and every promise is bound by blood, it might cost Gwen more than she bargained for. And are Gwen, Pete, the Lost Boys, and Bella enough to outsmart the ruthless Captain Hook?
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.
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.
Alice Bonham thinks she's finally found a balance in her life between the supernatural and real life with her brother Milo. Jack - her sorta vampire boyfriend - keeps her at arm's length to keep her safe. As for his brother Peter... she's not sure where he's at, or what he wants with her. Worse still, she's not even sure what she wants with Peter.
When tragedy happens, Alice finds herself struggling with a terrible choice. Her decision has consequences that reach farther than she'd ever imagined...
The Department of Scientific Intelligence (aka The Shop) never anticipated that two participants in their research program would marry and have a child. Charlie McGee inherited pyrokinetic powers from her parents, who had been given a low-grade hallucinogen called "Lot Six" while at college. Now the government is trying to capture young Charlie and harness her powerful firestarting skills as a weapon.
I Let You Go follows Jenna Gray as she moves to a ramshackle cottage on the remote Welsh coast, trying to escape the memory of the car accident that plays again and again in her mind and desperate to heal from the loss of her child and the rest of her painful past. At the same time, the novel tracks the pair of Bristol police investigators trying to get to the bottom of this hit-and-run. As they chase down one hopeless lead after another, they find themselves as drawn to each other as they are to the frustrating, twist-filled case before them.
Elizabeth Haynes, author of Into the Darkest Corner, says, âI read I Let You Go in two sittings; it made me cry (at least twice), made me gasp out loud (once), and above all made me wish I'd written it...a stellar achievement.â
When reclusive novelist Senna Richards wakes up on her thirty-third birthday, everything has changed. Caged behind an electrical fence, locked in a house in the middle of the snow, Senna is left to decode the clues to find out why she was taken. If she wants her freedom, she has to take a close look at her past. But, her past has a heartbeat... and her kidnapper is nowhere to be found. With her survival hanging by a thread, Senna soon realizes this is a game. A dangerous one. Only the truth can set her free.
Leland Gaunt opens a new shop in Castle Rock called Needful Things. Anyone who enters his store finds the object of his or her lifelong dreams and desires: a prized baseball card, a healing amulet. In addition to a token payment, Gaunt requests that each person perform a little "deed," usually a seemingly innocent prank played on someone else from town. These practical jokes cascade out of control and soon the entire town is doing battle with itself. Only Sheriff Alan Pangborn suspects that Gaunt is behind the population's increasingly violent behavior.
The town of Castle Rock, Maine has seen its fair share of oddities over the years, but nothing is as peculiar as the little curio shop thatâs just opened for business here. Its mysterious proprietor, Leland Gaunt, seems to have something for everyone out on display at Needful ThingsâŚinteresting items that run the gamut from worthless to priceless. Nothing has a price tag in this place, but everything is certainly for sale. The heartâs desire for any resident of Castle Rock can easily be found among the curiositiesâŚin exchange for a little money andâat the specific request of Leland Gauntâa whole lot of menace against their fellow neighbors.
Everyone in town seems willing to make a deal at Needful Things, but the devil is in the details. And no one takes heed of the little sign hanging on the wall: Caveat emptor. In other words, let the buyer bewareâŚ
For her eighteenth birthday, Alice Bonham takes a vacation to Australia only to have her trip cut short by an unexpected murder.
While Alice tries to understand what happened, she regrets some of the choices she's made, especially the more permanent ones.
On top of that, the child vampire is running loose, and she's attracting some very unwanted attention...
Twenty years ago, Claire and Lydia Scott's older sister, Julia, vanished without a trace. Her disappearance had a devastating effect on their family, tearing them apart. Now, another teenage girl is missing, and the circumstances of her disappearance are hauntingly similar to Julia's.
Claire is the glamorous trophy wife of an Atlanta millionaire, while Lydia is a single mother struggling to make ends meet. Despite their differences and years of estrangement, the sisters form a wary truce to uncover the truth.
The disappearance of a teenage girl and the murder of a middle-aged man, almost a quarter-century apart: what could connect them? As they delve into the past, they unearth secrets that destroyed their family all those years ago. In their quest for truth, they uncover the possibility of redemption and revenge where they least expect it.
Powerful, poignant, and utterly gripping, Pretty Girls is a masterful novel from one of the finest writers working today.
A girl named Rose is riding her new bike near home in Deadwood, South Dakota, when she falls through the earth. She wakes up at the bottom of a square-shaped hole, its walls glowing with intricate carvings. But the firemen who come to save her peer down upon something even stranger: a little girl in the palm of a giant metal hand.
Seventeen years later, the mystery of the bizarre artifact remains unsolved - the object's origins, architects, and purpose unknown. But some can never stop searching for answers. Rose Franklin is now a highly trained physicist leading a top-secret team to crack the hand's code. And along with her colleagues, she is being interviewed by a nameless interrogator whose power and purview are as enigmatic as the relic they seek.
What's clear is that Rose and her compatriots are on the edge of unravelling history's most perplexing discovery - and finally figuring out what it portends for humanity. But once the pieces of the puzzle are in place, will the result be an instrument of lasting peace or a weapon of mass destruction?