Showing results for "The Appointment" in Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Milly Barnes has just arrived in the seaside town of Seacliffe. Between windswept walks on the beach, she settles into lodgings and finds work as a Daily Help. Except this isn't her real name - 'Milly' is on the run from her past life, escaping a nightmare marriage. Abandoned by her first husband for another woman, she took revenge by marrying Gilbert: but this proved a terrible mistake. Trapped in a London basement flat, she became a victim of his increasingly paranoid delusions.

Grief-stricken following the death of his baby son, surgeon Dan Lewis is struggling to make sense of it all as his marriage collapses. His work is his lifeline. But when he fixates on a child patient he thinks has a potentially lethal disease, no one believes the diagnosis. They all think he’s losing his mind. When one of Dan’s critics is senselessly murdered and the evidence points to the damaged doctor as the prime suspect, his bad situation becomes desperate. But there’s a dark secret linking the ill child and the murder victim - one that no one other than Dan can see.

Among the towering red cliffs of Petra, like some monstrous swollen Buddha, sat the corpse of Mrs Boynton. A tiny puncture mark on her wrist was the only sign of the fatal injection that had killed her.

'You do see, don't you, that she's got to be killed? It's the only solution.' Even when on holiday in Jerusalem - the so-called City of Peace - Hercule Poirot can't seem to escape the strains of death and murder. His first evening at the King Solomon Hotel finds the above phrase floating into...

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When radical Iranian students seize the U.S. Embassy compound in Tehran and take over fifty diplomats hostage, the U.S. President has to negotiate with a government that wants only to humiliate the United States. When talks fail, the President must turn to the military to bring the Americans home by force.

Collins brings the Queen of Crime, Agatha Christie, to English language learners. Agatha Christie is the most widely published author of all time and in any language. Now Collins has adapted her famous detective novels for English language learners. These carefully abridged versions are shorter...

Elf wrede moorde oor ’n tydperk van vier jaar ruk die gemeenskap van Krugersdorp en haal landwyd nuusopskrifte. Eindelik word al hierdie moorde verbind met Cecilia Steyn en haar kultusgroep, Electus per Deus (uitverkies deur God). Lede van die groep aanbid die grond waarop Cecilia loop en sal selfs vir haar moord pleeg.

Collins brings the Queen of Crime, Agatha Christie, to English language learners. Agatha Christie is the most widely published author of all time and in any language. Now Collins has adapted her famous detective novels for English language learners. These carefully abridged versions are shorter...

APPOINTMENT WITH DEATH — The injustice of wrongful convictions. Rob Carson’s life had been turned upside down; his pregnant wife, Janey, was dead and he was imprisoned for her murder. From the day of the bludgeoning, Rob maintained his innocence but statistics put a target on his back. The data was all too clear, husbands kill wives. Kara, Rob’s childhood sweetheart, was in disbelief. The whole of it was inconceivable. Rob was not capable of such a heinous, brutal act. He was not a killer.

By Appointment Only marks the thrilling return of Grace, Sam, Maria-Teresa, and Margot—the fearless, wacky sleuths we’ve come to love. Thanks to Grace, the ladies can now proudly call themselves professional investigators. While three of them are content handling routine cases at the newly formed Liu Jones Group Investigations Agency, Grace Liu craves more to fuel her adrenaline. Grace’s ambition leads her to pursue a high-profile murder case, one she hopes will cement the agency’s reputation as one of the best in Mesa, Arizona.

Welcome to Mordora. It's a dark place with secrets so powerful they trigger a double abduction and a murder. And so toxic that revealing the truth would be worse than the crimes themselves. It's a convoluted tale of murder, twisted love, simmering hate, a screwed-up abduction, and a cop who falls in love with the mom of the abducted boy, only to realize that revealing the person behind the kidnapping would destroy her. It begins with a murder that isn't a murder. Soon a double abduction brings the police into the case.

Physician Cathy Moreland needs time to heal, having recently been diagnosed with bipolar disorder while struggling with a painkiller habit. The little village of Kinnaven promises respite, but after Cathy attempts to get an opiate prescription, things don't go well. When she discovers the body of the local Dr Cosgrove, her sanctuary is shattered. Before long, Cathy is swept up in local gossip about the death.

وهذه الرواية تحكى عن مقتل سيدة لا يدل على قتلها سوى وجود أثر حقن يمثل العلامة الوحيدة للحقنة المميتة التي أدت إلي مقتلها. ويحاول المحققهيركيول بوارو" الذي ابتكرته "أجاثا كريستي" من نسج خيالها والذي أصبح مشهورا على مستوى العالم وكأنه شخصية حقيقية حل لغز مقتل هذه السيدة في غضون أربع وعشرين ساعة فقط. فما هي الأسباب والملابسات التي أدت لمقتل تلك السيدة ؟"

It is a quiet Friday night in Bridgeport, New Hampshire, and massage therapist Sarah Woods is working late at her office. She checks her room. Everything is ready as she waits for her client Jeff Gardner to arrive. However, the night does not proceed as planned when Sarah discovers a shocking reality: a dead body. Terrified, Sarah finds herself in the middle of a murder investigation. But, who can she trust when it becomes apparent that the crime is not what it seems.

Max Archer is a hard-boiled private investigator with a broken past, a filthy office, and zero patience for modern technology. A former professional wrestler turned gumshoe, Max scrapes by on cheap cases, bad coffee, and stubborn pride—sleeping on his office couch while trying to stay out of trouble. That ends when a city councilwoman turns up dead—and the police quietly pull Max into a case no one else wants. At the same time, a beautiful stripper known as Sparkles hires him to track down her missing Saint Bernard and a diamond-studded collar worth a small fortune.