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Some places look ordinary until one impossible detail changes everything. Rain falls across an entire valley except around one isolated house. A light appears inside an apartment with no electricity. Three antique keys belong to a house demolished decades ago. An abandoned railway platform is missing from modern maps. A drought reveals a forgotten village beneath a reservoir. And those are only the beginning. The Rain Stopped at One House is a collection of ten atmospheric mystery and suspense stories in which ordinary people encounter strange clues hidden inside familiar places.

Sci-Fi: The Definitive Collection is a collection of 29 classic science fiction novels and stories, read by esteemed cast of award-winning narrators. Included here are stories by some of the most iconic science fiction writers of all time, including H.G. Wells; Jules Verne; H.P. Lovecraft; Maragret Cavendish; Yevgeny Zamyatin; and more.

Graham is a detective inspector with London’s Metropolitan police force. He’s a career police officer, an educated, reserved, thoughtful, some might say, complex man. He has suffered tragedy in his life that serves to exaggerate his more introspective characteristics and, like many of us, has to look his demons in the eye from time to time and make tough choices. This box set contains the first four mysteries in this bestselling series.

This audiobook, read by Audie award-winning narrators, includes unabridged recordings of all Fyodor Dostoyevky's greatest works: 15 novels and novellas, 18 short stories, a short study of Dostoyevsky by Virginia Woolf, and two books of non-fiction - his Letters and European travel journal.

Fully-dramatised adaptations of all 60 Sherlock Holmes stories, brought to life with a full cast of actors, sound effects and music 'A remarkable undertaking... applauding them, and particularly Clive Merrison's Holmes, made my hands sore' The Times Arthur Conan Doyle's legendary detective...

Brought to you by Penguin. THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER FROM THE PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING, BOOKER-SHORTLISTED AUTHOR SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE 2025 It’s autumn in Maine, and the town lawyer Bob Burgess has become enmeshed in an unfolding murder investigation...

Three gripping investigations — where the stakes rise, the cases darken, and the truth becomes harder to uncover.

Carried by a wind that never hurries and never rests, the passage begins above quiet farmland, where fields drift slowly beneath the morning sky and hedgerows trace the memory of hands long gone. What follows is not a journey in the usual sense, but a gentle movement across landscapes that reveal themselves without urgency, each one giving way to the next with a calm inevitability.

The Josephine Tey Collection includes unabridged recordings of all 6 of the novels in the Inspector Alan Grant series.

A collection of vintage thrillers from popular crime writer RD Wingfield Well known as the creator of Inspector Jack Frost, RD Wingfield scripted numerous twisty, suspenseful dramas for BBC Radio between 1968 and 1995. Many of the thirteen tales in this collection were originally thought to be...

Zwei entführte Klingen. Eine tödliche Jagd. Der Weg des Schwertes: der zweite Band der Schwarzklingen-Saga. Foreas und Nokos erwachen in einem Käfig und finden sich in den Fängen von Doulos, der Kupfernen. Währenddessen streifen Suam und Pachet auf der vergeblichen Suche nach ihren Freunden durch die brennenden Gassen Aelars. Doch die Zeit ist knapp, denn der Morgen naht, an dem die aelarischen Schwarzklingen in die Schlacht ziehen. Dunkle Pfade führen in ein Reich aus Sand. Verbirgt sich zwischen blutigen Speeren und hungrigen Bestien ein Weg in die Freiheit?

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Warning! Wildlife may be dangerous. Proceed beyond this point at your own risk. Book 1 – Alien Safari: To solve a mystery with galaxy-shaking implications, Detective Ferrix Vaughn joins a wildlife safari on Hesperidia, an alien world of savage beauty. It’s supposed to be a protected planet, but evidence of a deadly breach poses troubling questions. What links a crashed ship, five murders, and precious stolen biotech? Jan, the ranger who accompanies Vaughn, warns of something even deadlier: an apex predator that roams the remote region they’re about to enter. This is its killing season.

भारतीय उपमहाद्वीप के बंटवारे का सबसे मार्मिक कथाकार। मंटो की कहानियां इंसानियत के पतन का एक विचलित करने वाला...

You Die Alone If You're Lucky brings together four nightmare-packed volumes of Elford Alley's horror—Ash and Bone, Find Us, The Last Night in the Damned House, and We Will Find a Place for You—in one massive collection of 53 tales. Haunted houses. Restless dead. Monsters in the woods. Old rituals. Twisted faith. Curses and local legends. Impossible places. Cosmic dread. Strange rules. And people who realize—usually too late—that something is very wrong.

Charles Paris - unsuccessful actor, bad husband, and dipsomaniac - is back, and getting into trouble once more. As he tries to woo back his semi-detached wife, Frances, and land a few half-decent roles, he finds himself embroiled in murder and mayhem and forced to turn detective. Luckily, his sleuthing is much better than his acting.

One of the most significant books ever written by a head of state, the Meditations are a collection of philosophical thoughts by the Emperor Marcus Aurelius (121-180 ce). Covering issues such as duty, forgiveness, brotherhood, strength in adversity and the best way to approach life and death, the Meditations have inspired thinkers, poets and politicians since their first publication more than 500 years ago. Today, the book stands as one of the great guides and companions—a cornerstone of Western thought.

Book 1: The Icehouse A Murderer on the Loose. A Detective Haunted by the Past. A Race Against Time. DCI Jonathan Walker is a senior detective for the Lancashire Constabulary in North West England. He’s haunted by events of the past and hell bent on redemption.

Actor, alcoholic and amateur sleuth Charles Paris returns in another quintet of humorous theatrical thrillers. All Charles asks for is a nice juicy part in a successful play - but wherever he appears on the bill, murder and mystery always play a starring role.

A dystopian field guide to the end of the world from the author of AUTUMN and HATER. Ninety-nine per cent of the population are dead, struck down by a deadly virus. Experience the apocalypse from the perspectives of who've survived through luck, not skill. They are a desperate bunch: cheating lovers, workshy civil servants, permanently drunk publicans, teenage rebels, obsessive accountants, failed husbands, disrobed priests, and more...The only thing they have in common is the fact they're still alive (for now).