Mind Thriller

Verano de 1969. La guerra causa conmoción entre los jóvenes estadounidenses. Terry Ives, la estudiante de un tranquilo campus universitario en el corazón de Indiana, no puede estar más lejos del frente de Vietnam y de las protestas en Washington. Pero el mundo está cambiando y Terry no se conforma con ser una mera espectadora. Cuando se entera de que el gobierno llevará a cabo un importante experimento en la pequeña población de Hawkins, se presenta voluntaria.

Has notado que las cosas no son siempre como parecen? La vida siempre te lanza una pelota en curva cuando menos lo esperas. Sólo vemos lo que esperamos ver, y a veces podemos tener una gran sorpresa. Yo sí tuve una gran sorpresa, te lo aseguro y con creces. Una sorpresa que condujo a chantaje y muerte. Allí es cuando tuve....problemas en mente.

Adam Dalgliesh debe investigar el asesinato de la señora Bolam, la antipática administradora de la clínica Steen, un selecto centro psiquiátrico donde ingresan pacientes adinerados que valoran en igual medida la atención médica y la discreción.

For years Terri’s mother and sister have abused her mind and she let it go, but now answers are being dropped in her lap, and so are dead bodies. Someone wants to make sure their secrets are never told, and they will go to any lengths to make sure that happens. Renee wants Terri to know that payback is a bitch, and she is the bitch that pays back when she shows up to stop Terri’s wedding to let her and her guests know that two can play that game. Kamal is in the hot seat, and Terri is getting payback.

A reckless driver tries to cut in front of Jayle, but she refuses to let that happen. The driver blows his horn loud and long as she passes by him. She turns into the parking lot, finds a spot, and parks. When she gets out, the same man is parked across the back of her parking space yelling at her. Seeing his red, angry face, she turns and goes around the front of her car toward the store. Jayle falls asleep later at home and awakens, frightened by what she's seen. She's sure it's not a dream. She was there and saw a dead body in a box. Where? How was that possible? What did it mean?

Terri Dozier is not considered the prettiest girl in the family or amongst her friends, but she is, however, the wealthiest. Her father left her a fortune and she can buy herself a new body, new cars, and homes, but what she really desires is a family. She's 50 and single. An unexpected romance turns out to be just what she needed. But nothing lasts forever, right? Not even money can buy family loyalty, love, and true friendships. Terri decides to stop being nice, and now all hell is breaking loose. The heir to the empire is striking back and the peasants will fall.

Wade is only nine. He’s had a rough life. In 1944 Mississippi, there is nowhere for him to turn. After years of surviving on his own, a nice, well-dressed man offers young Wade a place to stay for a few days, thinking his wife would be overjoyed. Whatever Wade expected, this isn’t it. Luthor and his wife, Gabrielle, are charming people. At first. But as young Wade soon discovers, people are not always what they seem. Did Wade jump from the frying pan into the fire? And if so, will he survive to tell about it? A Winchester County novella.

Caleb Lambert kills people for a living. The money is nice, but it comes a distant second to his primary reason for choosing such a vocation: Caleb often calls it “scratching an itch”. Here’s the thing, though: Caleb won’t just accept any contract. He and his team thoroughly vet each and every prospective mark to make sure they deserve to be punished.

Tick-tock, the hour is almost up. Can these two lovers who work for LAPD stop a psycho who seems to just slip away every time?

A short story that bends the mind and strengthens the soul, as a young man named Jinx becomes trapped in a demented prison of his own creation until strangers arrive to assist him in a seemingly hopeless task that will allow him to escape the torments of his imagination.