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A multicultural nexus, Toronto hosts Indian, Portuguese, African, Italian, and Chinese communities that provide fertile backdrops for Toronto Noir's corrosive exposés. Features brand-new stories by RM Vaughan, Nathan Sellyn, Ibi Kaslik, Peter Robinson, Heather Birrell, Sean Dixon, Raywat Deonandad, Christine Murray, Gail Bowen, Emily Schultz, Andrew Pyper, Kim Moritsugu, Mark Sinnet, George Elliott Clarke, Pasha Malla, and Michael Redhill.

MURDER A millionaire philanthropist is shot while he sleeps. His terrified wife made a narrow escape. Or did she? MYSTERY A crime writer's violent fictions start to come chillingly true. Has he unwittingly inspired a murderer? SUSPENSE A young woman is trapped in a tunnel deep underground. Two...

Unspeakable rituals are performed by an occult group residing in the Red Hook region of New York City in this haunting short story by H P Lovecraft, and told by Mike Vendetti.

An imprisoned man is certain that his supposed murder victim is very much alive . . . A female driver is pursued relentlessly by a menacing figure in another vehicle . . . A young artist gets the biggest break of her career . . . A restless beauty manages the perfect birthday celebration...

This collection of twelve short stories will draw the listener into each story, whether it is Old Love, the tale of two undergraduates at Oxford in the thirties and their bitter rivalry that ends in a memorable love story or Broken Routine, which tells of an insurance claim advisor and his...

Tragiquement connue pour son histoire violente et chaotique ainsi que pour la catastrophe qui l’a frappé en 2010, Haïti est le pays le plus pauvre des Amériques - et l’un des plus riches sur le plan littéraire. Cette anthologie de dix-huit nouvelles, projet lancé avant le tremblement de terre, réaffirme le talent des auteurs contemporains haïtiens, aussi bien francophones qu’anglophones, qu’ils vivent sur place ou qu’ils soient issus de la diaspora, sur un terrain où ils ne sont pas forcément attendus : le genre noir.

Huit nouvelles qui vont vous glacer le sang... "Écrire une nouvelle, c'est tenter, en quelques lignes, de donner vie à un personnage, de faire passer au lecteur autant d'émotions qu'en plusieurs centaines de pages. C'est en cela que la nouvelle est un genre littéraire exigeant, difficile et passionnant." Karine Giebel Si les romans de Karine Giebel sont parmi les plus lus en France et ont fait le tour du monde, celle-ci excelle depuis quelques années dans un genre tout aussi exigeant : la nouvelle.

On the night before their execution during the French Revolution, twenty-one condemned prisoners and their friends are permitted a last banquet before their trip to the guillotine on the morrow. While they feast and jest on their last night alive, they begin to speculate about the hour of the execution the next day. Only one prisoner, Duprat, is quiet on the subject. His friend Marginy questions him on the subject, and Duprat asserts than he knows the exact time at which he will die on the next day.

Jeeves and Wooster return! In this collection of short stories, P.G. Wodehouse - the Master of British Comedy - puts his affable but daffy protagonist Bertie Wooster through the wringer time and again, only to be saved (usually in the nick of time) by his trusty manservant Jeeves. Featuring such favorites from the series as Bingo Little, Aunt Agatha, and the chaotic twins Eustace and Claude, The Inimitable Jeeves brings Bertie to America and back as he attempts to assist is friend Bingo to finally tie the knot.

Don’t miss the latest Natchez Burning novel, SOUTHERN MAN Death is the end, and if a man doesn't speak before it silences him, then his deepest secrets go with him. From #1 New York Times bestselling author Greg Iles comes an e-original novella featuring former prosecutor Penn Cage, a story of...

Of the real-life serial killers whose gruesome acts have been splashed across headlines, none has reached the mythical status of Jack the Ripper. In the Ripper's wake, terror swept through the streets of London's East End in the fall of 1888. As quickly as his nightmarish reign came, Saucy Jack vanished without a trace - leaving future generations to speculate upon his identity and whereabouts. He was diabolical in a way never seen before - a killer who taunted the police, came up with his own legendary monikers, and, ultimately, got away with his heinous crimes.

A decade after Nocturnes first terrified and delighted listeners, John Connolly, best-selling author of 13 acclaimed thrillers featuring private investigator Charlie Parker, gives us a second volume of tales of the supernatural. From stories of the monstrous for dark winter nights to fables of fantastic libraries and haunted books, from a tender account of love after death to a frank, personal and revealing account of the author's affection for myths of ghosts and demons, this is a collection that will surprise, delight, and terrify.

Throughout his years with the LAPD, Peter Decker has handled a number of tough cases and strange killers. But few of his previous assignments compare to his latest case. When Hobart Penny is found dead in his apartment, the cops think that his pet cat—an adult female tiger—attacked the...

“[Kellerman] does for the American cop what P. D. James has done for the British mystery, lifting it beyond its genre.” —Richmond Times-Dispatch “No one working in the crime genre is better.” —Baltimore Sun In Gun Games, the sensational Faye Kellerman once again showcases Peter...

A cold case turns red hot, threatening to consume detective Peter Decker and his wife, Rina Lazarus in the spellbinding new thriller from New York Times bestselling author Faye Kellerman. Billionaire genius Genoa Greeves never got over the shocking death of her favorite teacher, Bennett ""Dr...

Deadly Anniversaries celebrates the 75th anniversary of the Mystery Writers of America with a collection of stories from some of the top names in crime fiction. An anniversary can honor many things: a birth, a wedding and sometimes even a death. In Deadly Anniversaries, editors Marcia Muller and...

An imprisoned man is certain that his supposed murder victim is very much alive... a female driver is pursued relentlessly by a menacing figure in another vehicle... a young artist gets the biggest break of her career... a restless beauty manages the perfect birthday celebration... an escaped Iraqi on Saddam Hussein's death list pays an involuntary visit to his homeland... How will they react? How would you? "Twelve Red Herrings" is the third collection of irresistible short stories from master storyteller, Jeffrey Archer.

Eine Frau erwacht in einem vollkommen dunklen, stillen Raum. Es ist ihr unmöglich festzustellen, wo sie ist. Da keinerlei Licht an ihre Augen dringt, ihre Ohren nicht das geringste Geräusch wahrnehmen, fragt sie sich in ihrer Panik, ob sie erblindet oder plötzlich taub ist. Ganz langsam aber vermag sie winzige Unterschiede in der Schwärze zu erkennen; winzige Lichtmengen scheinen sich sporadisch in den Raum zu verirren. Sie weiß jetzt, sie muss weg von diesem schrecklichen Ort. Aber wer hat sie dort hingebracht? Und warum?

Berlin, Treptowers, BKA-Einheit "Extremdelikte": Ein Anruf reißt Rechtsmedizinerin Sabine Yao jäh aus ihrem Arbeitsalltag im Sektionssaal. Ihre seit Tagen verschollene Tante wurde im Umland von Kiel tot aufgefunden. Die Kollegen in der Kieler Rechtsmedizin, darunter auch Yaos ehemaliger Lebenspartner, gehen von einem unnatürlichen Tod aus. Yaos Chef, Professor Paul Herzfeld, führt einige Telefonate mit der Kieler Staatsanwaltschaft, um ihr sehr unbürokratisch Akteneinsicht in den Todesfall zu gewähren.

Ist es Zufall, der Professor Charles Ward in einer alten Buchhandlung zu einem gebrauchten Reiseführer greifen lässt, der mit seltsamen Notizen kommentiert wurde? Als Fan von HP Lovecraft ist der Professor sofort Feuer und Flamme für die Geister-Geschichte, die die Notizen erzählen: Auf einem mysteriösen Berg in Schottland soll der Geist des für seine Grausamkeit bekannten "schwarzen Prinzen" umgehen - und wenn man den Berg exakt am 21.12. aufsuche, so würde der Geist des Prinzen Einblick in kosmische Geheimnisse gewähren, die kein Mensch zuvor erfahren hat.