Mystery Thriller Collection

As the newest target of Somerdale’s most popular girls, Carmen Winstead is herself alone, unhappy, and prone to self-destructive thoughts. Maybe that’s why Carmen’s presence seems to have awakened something dark and sinister - a supernatural horror that has been hidden in the cornfields of Somerdale for a long time. Befriended by another outcast, Carmen finds the courage to face her demons. But when the pranks go too far, Carmen soon becomes intimately familiar with the town’s darkness - a darkness that is reaching out from beyond the grave.

Natalie Spencer was giving a dinner. She was not an easy hostess. Like most women of futile lives, she lacked a sense of proportion, and the small and unimportant details of the service absorbed her. Such conversation as she threw at random, to right and left, was trivial and distracted. Yet, the dinner was an unimportant one. It had been given with an eye more to the menu than to the guest list, which was characteristic of Natalie's mental processes.

Some doors are better left unopened. Some doors, you don’t want to find out what lies behind them. In the Forbidden Doors series by best-selling author Bill Myers, teenager Rebecca “Becka” Williams, her younger brother, Scott, and her friend, Ryan Riordan, are swept into heart-stopping encounters with an all-too-real invisible world - a world fraught with deception and spiritual adversaries that promise goodness and enlightenment but will stop at nothing to destroy life, sanity, and human souls. Witchcraft. Reincarnation. Ouija Boards. UFOs. Shamanism.

Detective Jack Nightingale fights his battles in the shadows, in the grey areas where demons and monsters seek their prey. In this collection of nine short stories, Nightingale matches wits against demons from Hell, monsters created by humans, and Satanists who have done their own private deals with the devil.

Navy SEAL unit Mobile 4 does not exist. The US military does not acknowledge them. The White House has never heard of them. And no one who has ever seen them in action has lived to tell about them...Lt. Robert Getts heads a combat team of hard-edged raw recruits from the best of the armed services that will launch a search-and-destroy mission that will pit his SEAL team against the most remorseless killer the world has ever seen....

The greatest pulp spy of them all returns in four brand new adventures by Kevin Noel Olson, Mark Justice, Brian Meredith, and Andrew Salmon.

During his third year of college, Jim returns to the family farm, only to face one hardship after another. Broke and with debt mounting, Jim’s world falls apart. Then, one day, while cleaning out the attic of his now empty colonial home, Jim discovers an envelope - yellowed with age. The letter is from a grandfather he’s never met, and it instructs Jim to go to Allagash Lake and retrieve an heirloom “for the sake of the family"! Follow along as Jim treks deep into the Maine wilderness to recover a grandfather’s keepsake and stumbles onto a mystical path to the past.

Benjamin was abused most of his life. Upon his mother's death bed, she tells him a secret that sends him on a journey of no return - he was adopted. Benjamin hires a PI to find his biological mother but learns she's passed away, too. But she did have another son whom the PI locates. Benjamin leaves his small town to New York to find his brother. When he sees his twin brother for the first time, Benjamin snaps and turns into something else - a killer. Will Benjamin be his own destruction? Will the ghost of his brother be the hand that pushes him over the edge?

Five sensational Sherlock Holmes stories by Orlando Pearson followed by three meditations hinting at the most radical theory yet about the Great Baker Street Detective. The stories include: "A Type of Infamy"; "The Fourth Student"; "A Question of Time"; and more.

A collection of short mystery stories by award-winning author Bill Pronzini. In "The Man Who Collected the Shadows", a mild-mannered file clerk with a passion for pulpy detective stories learns that he has supernatural powers. In "Shade Work", a con man picks the wrong marks. Fans of mysteries and detective novels will enjoy listening to these 14 entertaining stories.

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.

It has taken over 80 years, but at long last, the British government’s embargo on reporting this slice of diplomatic history has been lifted. It was in November 1940 that a senior minister at the British foreign office in blacked-out London commissioned Holmes and Watson to go to Berlin to negotiate a prisoner of war swap with the German high command. And the price demanded by Nazi Propaganda Minister, Joseph Göbbels, for any prisoner's release? That the two work with the Berlin police to capture a serial killer who is stalking the city’s railway network.

Two novellas and two short stories featuring Mystery Writers of America Grandmaster Bill Pronzini's iconic Nameless Detective. Zigzag is an original novella in which a safe and simple accident investigation becomes the unraveling of a twisted murder scheme.

Für Kriminalkommissar Alexander Enders geht eine eher gewöhnliche Nachtschicht ihrem Ende entgegen, doch kurz vor Feierabend werden er und sein Partner noch zu einem dritten Sterbefall mit ungeklärter Todesursache gerufen. Das Opfer, Sohn eines stadtbekannten, hochkriminellen Drogenbarons, lebte bis zu seinem Tod ungewöhnlich versteckt in einer Berliner Stadtvilla. Noch routiniert mit der Spurensicherung beschäftigt, hört Alexander plötzlich ein Geräusch hinter einer Wand und ahnt nicht, dass die darauf folgende Entdeckung sein ganzes Leben beeinflussen wird.

A witch’s familiar must protect London from the monsters that lurk in the shadows; the creatures that seek to unravel the fabric of things and send a city to hell. Stella Familiar was created by the London Coven out of spit and blood. She’s a fighter, a blunt instrument, built to destroy the forces of evil and keep peace in the capital. She’s carried out her duty for decades, but when the witches who gave birth to her are butchered, it’s up to her alone to save a city of nine million people. Mystery, scares, and fast-paced action collide in this thrilling urban fantasy.

After months spent chasing down one haunted item after another, historian Victor Daniels is exhausted. His relentless battles with the sadistic Stefan Korzh have taken a heavy toll, and he longs to end their supernatural feud once and for all. But first, he must deal with one last cursed item released from Korzh’s collection. With no time to rest or recover from their last paranormal encounter, Victor and his adopted son Tom travel to the shadowy streets of Groton, Massachusetts. There, they face a familiar enemy - a malevolent spirit Victor has fought before and failed to defeat.

A young hero from Wyoming tries to unravel the mystery of the suicide of a "fallen" woman while also deal with a ghost, a villain, an actress, a lying servant, and a lot of misunderstandings.

Otto Penzler presents a collection of 19 unsolved mystery stories by a number of noted authors, including Ray Bradbury, Roald Dahl, and Mark Twain, where the ending is left up to the listener to determine.

From literary icon Joyce Carol Oates comes a brand-new collection of haunting and, at times, darkly humorous mystery and suspense stories. These are tales of psyches pushed to their limits by the expectations of everyday life - from a woman who gets lost on her drive home to her plush suburban home and ends up breaking into a stranger's house, to a first-person account of a cloned 1940s magazine pinup girl being sold at auction and embodying America's ideals of beauty and womanhood.

In her fifth book, Chill of Deception: A Colbie Colleen Cozy Suspense Mystery, award-winning author Faith Wood transports listeners to the Deep South where Colbie tackles a mystery of murder and intrigue. In life, there are two constants - time and change. One begets the other - so, when Colbie's life shatters in the middle of a high-profile case, she reacts by retreating to her shadow world, closing off herself and her intuitive mind.