Mystery Thriller Collection

Accepting the opportunity will destroy you. Women all over the world are going into business with Bribre - a multilevel marketing company. Selling clothes at home parties, some find it a great way to earn an income for their families. But, the vast majority go into debt, blaming themselves when the odds were always against them. Fay is an academic researching Bribre and their cult-like actions. The longer she’s involved, the more immersed she is in a world of secrets and betrayal. The deeper she goes, the closer she gets to destroying everything for those around her.

Michael Chabon, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, has joined forces with the editors of McSweeney's Quarterly Concern to create a collection of action-packed short stories by some of today's most talented names in literature.

In the spirit of the demolition derby, where drivers take heedless risks with reckless abandon, welcome to the first convocation of The Secret Society of Demolition Writers. Here is a one-of-a-kind collection by famous authors writing anonymously and dangerously. With the usual concerns about reputations and renown cast aside, these 12 daredevils have each contributed an extreme, no-holds-barred, unsigned story, each shining as brightly and urgently as hazard lights.

A small-town treasure hunt consumes a man with greed. Sinister music drives the inhabitants of a quiet little town to slaughter. And a deadly spirit stalks a group of local boy scouts through the woods. Scare Street is proud to present the best in spine-tingling supernatural horror. This volume contains three bone-chilling tales of terror. Each story is a ticket to the shadowy streets of a quiet little town, a place not found on any map. A place that exists only in your nightmares.

Eighteen suspenseful short stories with a twist for lovers of Twilight Zone and Black Mirror. Journey into strange worlds and meet their unusual and sometimes terrifying residents in these stories spanning suspense, horror, paranormal, science fiction, and supernatural from the dark mind of short story award-winning author Susan May.

Three Compelling Sherlock Holmes Mysteries In One Book. Narrated by the celebrity actor P.J. Ochlan who has also won numerous voice audio awards. Story One: The Hex of a Gypsy Woman. He raised his disheveled head from his hands. The face was that of my friend, but the expression it bore was unrecognizable. He was indeed out of countenance. "All that I have seen and all that I know, dear fellow, for it to come to this. The great Sherlock Holmes undone by a gypsy woman."

Story One: Bumbling Caper on the Swiss Alps. "Watson! Watson!" I shouted in dismay, thinking I was close to the surface. Alas, I could not find my way out of the snow, packed thick and heavy all around me. My legs were pinned in place, and I could scarcely breathe with each passing moment.

Fortune hunter Billy Newman is not a man of great strength or physical courage. Like a young Johnny Depp, he gets by on his wit, wiles and good looks. And he’s had quite a good run—striking gold in the Philippines and buying his very own island in the South Seas. . . . But there’s trouble in paradise, and Billy’s in the thick of it. The island’s crops are failing. The island’s people are dying. And the island’s owner—Billy—is taking the heat. Why? Because he’s angered the 75-foot-tall big-boss god of the island.

Imagine if Asia, Australia, the Pacific Ocean, and the Indian Ocean vanished with the wrong turn of a key! As a silver blood soldier, it is Roy's mission to stop that from happening. As the alpha of a werefox clan, Mori uses all of her skills to help her husband prevent the catastrophe to both Earth and the paranormal worlds. Together, they tread the dangerous water, fighting the most notorious supernatural forces from the multiverse and the magical land.

Imagine if it was hot in Antarctica! Watching the polar caps burn. Madeline is no longer a journalist in New York, but her connection during the peak of her career deems to be useful when she needs to assist her husband, Ciaran, to stop a plot in the paranormal world that might destroy the Antarctica and Earth. The only weapon they have is their Silver Blood. The only contact they have is a retired journalist living in Argentina. Yet they fight the vicious paranormal and space creatures to obtain the Virgo key to save Earth.

C.T. Ferguson wishes his parents would get off his case. Forced to use his brilliant hacking skills to play detective, he hopes that each investigation is a cinch. But a body near a Baltimore chapel is only the beginning, and the better the rich kid gets at his job, the more dangerous his work becomes….

Elliott and his son Matt are hired to babysit an important witness and make sure he makes it to court to testify Monday morning. Elliott takes him to a rented cabin in the mountains and quickly realizes that someone else knows he's there...and they're after the witness.

Gloria and Elliott are on their way to Las Vegas to get married, but will they make it? A lot of things can happen between Los Angeles and Las Vegas. To make matters more hectic, they've just taken on two new cases. How to fit it all in?

Elliott finds a briefcase on the elevator and upon opening it in his office, finds $50,000.00, a .45 automatic and a list of five names. Could this case belong to a hit man? You'd be surprised.

In these five unabridged short stories, Stephen Crane masterfully depicts the human condition. Through his keen observations of the simple, unnoticed aspects of life, he deftly describes man’s relationship to society, human nature, and the power of transformation. In each of the stories, he creatively reveals the internal battles, conflicts, and awakening that man collectively experiences. Grab your copy today to discover how he reveals man’s sense of dignity, optimism, grit, courage, and greed.

The stories included in this collection are: "Cracked", "I Exist", "The Author", "Mother", "Sasquatch", "The Doctor", "Bugs", "The Cemetery", "The Final Gem", "Amnesia", "Bobby", "Santa Clause", "Bloodthirsty", and "Autonomous".

Enter the spell-binding worlds of best-selling author Robert Stanek and dream a new dream. The book contains two novellas, two short stories and a special feature exclusive.

Das erstaunlichste Abenteuer des Meisterdetektivs Sherlock Holmes hat eigentlich nicht Conan Doyle erfunden: es besteht vielmehr darin, daß diese Phantasiegestalt zu eigenem Leben erwacht ist und eine Existenz erlangt hat, an die Ungezählte felsenfest glaubten und glauben. Als der Detektiv 1887 erstmals in einer längeren Geschichte auftauchte, konnte niemand ahnen, welches glorreiche Schicksal ihm beschieden war...

In The Guardian, book five in Bill Myers’ Forbidden Doors series, when Becka Williams’ best friend Julie is struck by a car and nearly dies, everyone is convinced Julie has a guardian angel living within her, but Becka fears her friend is actually in grave spiritual danger.

Das erstaunlichste Abenteuer des Meisterdetektivs Sherlock Holmes hat eigentlich nicht Conan Doyle erfunden: es besteht vielmehr darin, daß diese Phantasiegestalt zu eigenem Leben erwacht ist und eine Existenz erlangt hat, an die Ungezählte felsenfest glaubten und glauben. Als der Detektiv 1887 erstmals in einer längeren Geschichte auftauchte, konnte niemand ahnen, welches glorreiche Schicksal ihm beschieden war.