Ghost Mystery Crime

Twelve-year-old Madeleine "Lainie" Stanton is about to make headlines. She was the first baby born at the new millennium, and a local TV station wants an interview. But when the reporter uncovers the dark history of Lainie's great-grandmother Maddie, who was executed for murder, the interview takes a dangerous turn.

Gracie Flynn may be dead. But she's not gone. Three university friends are divided by a tragic death. Eighteen years later, chance reunites them. Robyn is still haunted by memories of her best friend Gracie, and Cohen's heart has never healed. Only Sam seems to have moved on and found success and happiness. But death rocks their lives again when Sam's body is found in mysterious circumstances. And the ghost of Gracie Flynn has a story to tell about the night that changed their lives forever.

"Je m'appelle Anna Livia" est le récit âpre, tendu entre noir et lumière telle une tragédie grecque, de l'irracontable, l'inceste. Deux voix - celle d'une femme depuis longtemps partie du domaine, la mère d'Elisabeta, qui questionne ; celle du serviteur Josefino qui revit la découverte, un matin, du corps suicidé de son maître -, et un silence hanté : "Ainsi c'était déjà là. C'était là avant que de se faire. Comme dérivant à la surface d'un rêve obscur. Avant même qu'elle ait pu penser. Un jour peut-être."

Tras quedar huérfana, Leigh se va a vivir con unos parientes muy adinerados, de cuya existencia no estaba enterada. En su lucha por encajar en este nuevo mundo, no puede ignorar su dolor. Cuando la policía le informa de que la investigación sobre el asesinato de sus padres se ha topado con un obstáculo, sabe que la única forma de encontrar paz será resolver el misterio por sí misma. Con una nueva familia y nuevos amigos —entre ellos un fantasma con múltiples problemas de personalidad—, Leigh lo arriesga todo para encontrar respuestas.

Nothing newsworthy had ever happened in Liverpool, Nova Scotia until one day a murder shook the little town. It occurred on opening night of the stage play, Perkins’ Ghost, at the Astor Theatre, leaving many residents of the sleepy hollow to suspect that the murderer might have been that of the ghost of Simeon Perkins. There were virtually no clues to follow, apart from the unexplained sightings of a Perkins look-alike, clairvoyants, fortune cookies, intuitions, and a seemingly odd connection between the murder and the Kings Orange Rangers.

On the day the villagers were forced to flee Hensu, not everyone got out alive. Jackson Stone is touring the abandoned Chinese city when he slips away from the group to spend the night, determined to publish an account of his ghostly experiences there. Then he meets Yuèhai, a strange, soft-spoken woman who can tell him the city’s secrets - secrets the Chinese government would kill to keep hidden. As Jackson uncovers the truth about Yuèhai and the ghost city, he’s drawn into a web of conspiracy, betrayal, and murder.

Sixteen years ago PI John Craine's wife, Stacy, was brutally murdered. Since then he has buried himself in work by day, and whisky by night. But one phone call changes everything. The mother of a missing young woman asks for his help, and Craine finds himself at the centre of a sinister web of corruption that leads back into the murky waters of the past...

In 1983, deep in New Mexico’s Gila National Forest, the bodies of a young woman and two children were found. Who were they? How did they get there? Thirty years later, two women find themselves drawn to the cold case. Librarian Laura MacDonald begins her own investigation as a way to distract herself from breast cancer treatments and becomes consumed by her search for answers. Jean Martinez is a veteran detective determined to keep working cold cases for the Sierra County police force even as her family begs her to retire.

It’s 1805, and as a result of two tragic incidents, the legend of the ghost of Bowdoin College is born. Over a century and a half later, Bowdoin graduate Vincent Mark, a young lawyer who works for The Sterling Works in New York City, is reeling from a series of suspicious deaths of the senior officers at Sterling.

Forfatter Sean Reeve, hans kone og deres 4-årige datter flytter ind i et gammelt engelsk hus. Hurtigt vender glæden sig til mistro, da naboerne fortæller dem, at huset er bygget på en gammel kirkegård, og at alle de tidligere beboere har mødt en tidlig og uhyggelig død. Da overnaturlige fænomener begynder at dukke frem i dette "haunted house" bliver Sean forvirret. Han lider nemlig også af alvorlige eftervirkninger af en bilulykke. Han har hukommelsestab og ved ikke, hvem han er.

Det er en mørk og dunkel nat. Uvejret raser og vinden får træernes grene til at slå imod ruderne. Fritz ligger i sin seng og kan høre alle slottets lyde. Men pludselig er der en lyd udover det sædvanlige. Fritz står op for at undersøge, hvad det er, og ser en kvinde stå ude ved voldgraven. Pludselig begynder hun at skrige af sine lungers fulde kraft! Fritz løber forskrækket væk fra vinduet, men mysteriet er først lige begyndt.

Death has come twice to Ravenbank, a remote community in England’s Lake District, each time on Halloween. Just before the First World War, a young woman’s corpse was found, with a makeshift shroud frozen to her battered face. Her ghost - the Faceless Woman - is said to walk through Ravenbank on Halloween. Five years ago, another woman, Shenagh Moss, was murdered, and again her face was covered to hide her injuries.

Stevenson's brilliantly macabre yet profound story of a man seemingly trapped in evil.

Seven guests. One killer. A holiday to remember. A dark and addictive psychological thriller about seven strangers who find themselves cut off from civilisation in a remote guesthouse in Ireland. You use an app, called Cloud BNB, to book a room online. And on a cold and windy afternoon you arrive at The Guesthouse, a dramatic old building on a remote stretch of hillside in Ireland. You are expecting a relaxing break, but you find something very different. Something unimaginable. Because a killer has lured you and six other guests here, and now you can’t escape.

Crystal's Dreams is a tangled web of spooky, paranormal thriller and multiple murder mysteries that take place in Texas and Louisiana. Crystal Moon had been having dreams that would come true since she was a young girl. Crystal begins having dreams about a serial killer who is brutally murdering women in Goliad, Texas, and causing the entire town to live in constant fear. The murders have chilled this small historic town to the bone, and people are afraid to go to sleep at night.

Years ago, Thomas Edison invented the psycho phone, a crude device he believed was capable of reaching dead people; but now, Heather Ross has his old phone number, and the dead are calling her non-stop. Heather wants to get rid of the phone but learns they can still reach her through email, television, and billboards. Heather is not averse to talking to lost souls, but will they save her life or destroy it?

It is the tale of a DC cop's on and off-duty ghostly encounters with a childhood friend who died in his youth. Hauntings can be murder.

It's been nearly 25 years since Sarah has had to come to grips and face reality, she has finally made up her mind to come back to Alabama and take both Remington and April from the psychiatric ward and place them in her total care back home in Atlanta, GA. However, there are two major dilemmas holding her back and that's a major custody battle between her and the state of Alabama, plus, ironically, the same time she's in town a few Alabama State University college students are hosting a huge graduation party.

Everyone tells you that there's a Heaven and a Hell when you die. What no one tells you is that Hell isn't full of flames and demons. For Mike Reese his Hell is reliving the death of his family over and over again. After being accused of their murders and sentenced to death, Mike must now live out his afterlife reliving that day as punishment. The only problem is, he wasn't the killer....

Christmas: a time for family and festivity. Unless you’re in Adder’s Fork, home of the Essex Witch Museum, where it’s a time for ghostly spirits and demonic visits. In these 12 short stories, menacing ghosts and supernatural terrors haunt Rosie Strange and Sam Stone, as well as characters past and present from beyond the Essex Witch Museum. Featuring stories from The Strange Casebook as well as original short stories.