True Thrillers

The first digital collection of true crime tales from Reader's Digest, featuring the most gripping thrillers and mind-blowing mysteries from its digitized archives.

Cada día crece más el pueblo musulmán en los Estados Unidos, implantando consigo su cultura y su religión. Cinco jóvenes, estudiantes sobresalientes de diferentes universidades, son asignados por el Gobierno para que hagan un estudio profundo sobre el porqué del aumento exagerado musulmán en el pueblo de Hamtramck, Michigan. Pero el enfoque de la investigación muy pronto toma otro rumbo, cuando descubren que varios jóvenes han sido enviados a cumplir una peregrinación a La Meca, en Arabia Saudita, pero nunca regresan.

n Stacey arrived at Bill Bateman's for her five year class reunion, she had no idea how a memory from her past would alter her future. In one innocent moment, a simple cordial act leads one on a path of jealous rage and another fighting for their life. Tempers flare, threats are exchanged, blood is shed, and the services of the homicide detectives are soon requested. In his second release, former homicide detective and award-winning author, Ken Lang, unveils the inner workings of a chaotic homicide unit.

Living in denial doesn't just make problems go away. Andrew Monroe is finally going to learn this when the past begins to call, reminding him of the murder of a child in his early years in Chicago. Firstly, after the mysterious disappearance of his wife one morning during their honeymoon and the police's refusal to take up their case, he would have to enlist the help of an old-time lover to help find her.

Dos jóvenes, Sam y Stacie, viven los años de Universidad en plena armonía. Pasan los años, cambian las circunstancias y las ambiciones. Los dos protagonistas se separan y llevarán vidas paralelas. Después de un tiempo, casualmente, sus destinos se cruzarán nuevamente pero en el fondo no será ya más aquel alocado de la Universidad.

I was stalked by a gorgeous female half my age. It was so unbelievable that no one believed me, my friends, coworkers, and family all abandoned me when I most needed them. And many of them did far worse that I am just finding out about.

Explore deeper inside the dark mind of Sea Caummisar. Inspired by true events, even though some names have been changed. A blur of reality and fiction. In my experience, it wasn't the fan that became obsessed with me. I became obsessed with her. Despite this book being inspired by true events, it is still a tale of blood of gore. Listener beware: Don't let the title fool you. This is extreme horror.

Pamela Morgan is afflicted with a moderate traumatic brain injury that has affected her memory. As the only witness to the death of her abusive cousin, Pamela lives with the guilt of not remembering the details of his demise. Julia, her best friend, is the only one who Pamela feels comfortable talking to about that night, so when Julia announces that she and her mother are moving to Jamestown, North Dakota, Pamela panics.

The bodies are piling high - 36 unsolved gangland murders at last count - and FBI Supervisor Hans Bauer has to do the unthinkable: put tough, independent Special Agent Frank Murray back on the squad he was twice kicked out of, Organized Crime. Mafia Kingpin Nick Scarponi is back from prison and orchestrating the bloodiest reign of mob killings in Philadelphia history and Frank Murray, who tossed Scarponi in the can three years earlier, is his number-one target. The taunt, tense, visually gritty story grabs you by the throat.

Cocaine and politics are a big part of life in the land of pleasant living. Maryland State Police Detective Christy Lee Vennetti and her newspaper reporter husband, T. J. Kent, share a life together. Join them as their paths cross more than a few times as major figures in a drug ring explode into the headlines when their gambling boat is blasted into the hereafter.

When three young filmmakers decide to make a movie based on a recent murder, they find through increasingly violent encounters with a masked man that telling this story may end up killing them.

What happens to a couple when they decide to move into a house with a locked cold storage room that they were told never to enter? A jail guard is hearing and seeing things that are not meant to be inside the cellblock with him on the ninth floor. In the 1980s, Detroit was in the throes of a crime and drug epidemic, but there is an urban legend that during this time something vicious was on the streets that defy logical explanation. A trucker stops off at a 24-hour convenience store for a quick bite and gets more than he can chew.

On a dark winter’s night in January 1898, the head cowman at the Express Dairy Company’s College Farm was shot dead. The picturesque dairy farm located on Regent’s Park Road in Finchley provided the unlikely crime scene. The victim, Thomas Webb, had no known enemies but eerily had predicted the shocking event.

One case that stood out to Flowers for its sheer brutality as well as shocking aftermath was that of Karla Faye Tucker and Daniel Garrett, who used a pickaxe to hack to death two people. It began in the wee hours of June 13, 1983, in Houston, Texas, as lovers Tucker and Garrett broke into the apartment of Jerry Lynn Dean. By the time the couple left, Dean and his companion, Deborah Thornton, were dead following a vicious attack with a pickaxe and hammer.

Courtney thinks she might finally be able to give the Curly Bay Pet Hotel and Rescue the true makeover it deserves when she hears about a community development project that’s holding a contest, but when a body turns up, she can’t help but get to the bottom of it one more time! A community development project fills Courtney with visions of expansion. If she can just find the time to put together a good presentation, she’ll be able to help many more cats and dogs in Curly Bay. But she also has some stiff competition with the proposed new community center in town.

A boy with a rifle walks into a middle school, intent on carrying out Western-style vigilante justice. A wife and mother of four kisses her twelve-year-old student and forever changes our definition of student-teacher conferences. The world's most famous serial killers put Washington on the map. A bathtub, a handgun, a meat grinder, and a burn barrel play a role in the murder of the captain of a freighter.

In the high-tech paradise of Indigo Sands, perfection exists. Or so they think.... For Bianca Blane, a young but jaded online influencer, the fame she once sought now weighs heavily on her shoulders. When she receives an exclusive invitation to spend a preview week in the cutting-edge tourist resort of Indigo Sands, Bianca seizes the opportunity to disconnect from her increasingly demanding followers. Indigo Sands strikes Bianca as truly pristine - perfect in every way. But before too long, a veil is lifted. Because behind the facade, nothing is as it seems....

If you enjoyed travel, seeing the world, and meeting new and exciting people, how could you package everything and make it a “career”? Simone, Marie, Jane, Adelina, Mary…or whatever name she’s using today, has a unique set of skills and a different outlook on life. Pretty but anonymous, she can use almost anything at her fingertips to get the job done.

Sherlock Holmes is probably the most famous detective in the world. The tales of his exploits have been seen in magazines, books, television screens, the movies and even in computer games. And yet, there is a mysterious side to this fictional character that has eluded and yet drawn us for decades.

Binge-worthy and paranormally exciting, Seeded from Evil delves into the depths of multiple modern hauntings. Two stories in this book were experienced by the author herself.