Evil Mystery

Collins brings the Queen of Crime, Agatha Christie, to English language learners. Agatha Christie is the most widely published author of all time and in any language. Now Collins has adapted her famous detective novels for English language learners. These readers have been carefully adapted using the Collins COBUILD grading scheme to ensure that the language is at the correct level for an intermediate learner. This book is Level 4 in the Collins ELT Readers series. Level 4 is equivalent to CEF level B2 with a word count of 20,000-26,000 words.

Five years after the death of Stan “Cutter” Clark, the worst serial killer the town has ever known, residents in Munday, Texas are still trying to cope with nightmares of the morbid acts that occurred in Clark’s basement. When Elaine Miller, a dynamic new real estate agent moves to Munday, she ignites fury, ignoring the town’s pleas, and sells the house the town believes is evil.

Listeners know that few authors are able to create an atmosphere of unease and terror as well as Oates, a fact confirmed by the four novellas presented here. All the novellas in this collection revolve around the theme of love gone wrong - horribly, shockingly wrong.

A supernatural entity that has been imprisoned in the Earth for millennia is released in a small town. It quickly spreads, leaving a trail of blood and carnage in its wake. Harlan is the local sheriff, and he is in a race against time to save the woman he loves, his town, and the rest of the world from this horrifying evil.

A renowned psychiatrist, Dr. Rafael Neruda is troubled by a patient's death. He investigates the circumstances and discovers that he must delve into his own unimaginably painful childhood and confront the nature of evil itself. Now, endangering both his personal and professional future, Dr. Neruda will devise the ultimate test for his cure for evil a cure that becomes a shocking journey of eroticism, manipulation, and danger.

Azriel Creed is having a baby—and he’s horrified. He senses something fiendish and diabolical about his unborn child. Even the sonogram suggests a devilish grin on its lips—as if it’s scheming to commit murder and genocide fresh out of the womb. Is it connected to Azriel’s dark destiny as Lucifer’s favorite? Or just a result of his unholy Predator heritage? Meanwhile, a creature of pure evil created by Nimrod when the Tower of Babel was built awakens in a cold basement. An evil that eats monsters, Predators, and people alike.

With cold, unblinking precision, Evil Rises takes you all the way inside the beginnings of this icy criminal empire. This prequel novella sets the stage for the Noah Reid series, packed with breath-taking thrills and international adventures from secret monasteries in China to the vibrancy of New York.

Enticed to Evil is about a very dysfunctional family, and may look like other dysfunctional families that you know. Rick cheats on his wife, bringing his girlfriends to his own home. Vanessa turns a blind eye to his cheating for the sake of their son, David. David ends up falling for his father's latest conquest, Christie. Jake, Vanessa's new lover is.... Problems erupt between David and Rick.

Is the town eccentric an evil genius or model citizen? Rumors about his past include adventures overseas, Interpol, money laundering, gun running, international terrorism, witnesses disappearing without a trace, artificial intelligence, publishing empire, private jets, luxury hotels, hot women, sex research, an underground complex hidden behind a mausoleum hand-carved into a limestone cliff, and weaponization of humor.

Nadine finds herself in the hands of a human trafficker and must use all her wits to escape and seek revenge.

An extensive work on demonic activity in the human arena: diabolical temptation, infiltration, obsession, oppression - all things that precede potential possession. Well researched; the definitive guide. Previously reviewed and given the Imprimatur by former Bishop Elden F. Curtiss of the Diocese of Helena, Montana.

An historic trader’s cabin has been found in the woods in Northern Ontario and archaeologist Steve Dawson has been asked to investigate. Disturbed by the unpleasantness he and his co-worker Theo experience there, they quickly finish their work and move on, camping at Shekarkistergoan Lake, where they encounter the deeply unsettlingly, vigorous ghost of Charles Janvier, an 18th-century voyageur with a bullet hole in the middle of his forehead.

From creepy abandoned prisons to fully functional, operating prisons, these twisted, true tales will haunt your waking moments. Whether you’re preparing to go visit a haunted sight, or simply want to learn about frightful encounters from some of the most eerie and inhumane detention centers from around the world we’ve got you covered.

Dive into the searing underworld of 1990s New York, where the crack cocaine explosion fuels a fierce power struggle. A daring DEA agent risks everything to infiltrate the infamous Peruvian Rojas Cartel, only to find himself entangled in a decades-old family vendetta.

The small town of Lakeshore was always quiet until the tourist season hit in the winter. That was the only reason for media attention...until now. Ten-year-old Katie Elkton was a sweet child, in spite of the mental and physical abuse she suffered at the hands of her father. One fateful day, Katie was found dead at the bottom of the stairs in the basement with almost all of her bones broken. Her parents disappeared. Some said accident. Some cried foul play.

Erika Lopategui y Ólafur Olafsson continúan su camino para destapar la organización criminal que se esconde tras la Congregación de los Hombres Puros. La realidad y la ficción se confunden para ofrecer al lector incógnitas cuyas respuestas podrán encontrarse entre los muros del edificio Barolo, un rascacielos levantado para albergar las cenizas de Dante Alighieri.

Two NYPD detectives get involved in a murder case that turns out to be the strangest case that Lt. Stevens and Lt. Rizzo ever tried to solve. There is a romance between Lt. Clancy and a woman named Susan Roselle who happens to be Lt. Rizzo's cousins. The case takes the three of them on a strange chase above and below the city of New York.

Kera is between two powerful factions. One wants her power or they want her dead. One just wants her dead. While trying to use her abilities to keep the streets clean, she must fight a witch who needs to make her suffer to regain her credibility. Will Kera be able to juggle a criminal kingpin, a witch who knows her, and her possible boyfriend all at the same time? At least she doesn't suffer from indecision. The question isn't if she will try. The only question is how hard is it going to be? With everything happening, Kera is balancing on the edge of her sanity.

When Walter Hartright encounters the "solitary figure of a woman, dressed from head to foot in white garments" on a lonely road, he is haunted by her. He falls in love with his employer's niece, Laura, because she resembles the mysterious woman. Laura, however, is betrothed to the evil Sir Percival, who wishes to marry her for her money. The woman in white, it turns out, is Anne Catherick, who was confined in an asylum by the evil Sir Percival because she knew a devastating secret about him.

Now unleashed, the “Baron” is resurrecting history’s notorious serial killers, giving them a second life in the bodies of hacked and reprogrammed Personal Assistant Androids, then turning them loose to terrorize the city. While detectives Jake and Maddie of the police department’s Artificial Crimes Unit scramble to stop the carnage with the Baron’s arrest, the cyberpunk head of the Counter IT Section, Q, struggles to de-encrypt his mad scheme to infect world data centers with a virus that represents a collective cyber unconsciousness of evil.