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Embittered by past failures and broken dreams, American fighter pilot David Duane believes in but one cause - his own. Europe is at war, and he’ll fight it for a price, selling his deadly flying skills to the highest bidder. Duane has come to the icy white wastes of Scandinavia to wage a private war in the skies. But he’s about to take off on a flight and undertake an unforgettable journey - On Blazing Wings - to a place beyond the imagination...leading to a revelation that will open his eyes and his heart.

Itauk the Madman has spread death to the Yukon, throwing the bodies of his victims to his sled team of 12 wolves. Tracking him down are Canadian Mountie Tommy McKenna and his partner, Simmons. But when the pair separate to hunt for food, Itauk attacks Simmons and lets his wolves make an unmentionable feast that Tommy later discovers on his return to camp.

Elles també maten no és un exercici de literatura criminal femenina, que ja existeix i rutlla molt bé. Simplement és un recull de relats que demostra que les autores catalanes escriuen allò que els surt de l’ànima, però que si cal matar, maten. Tretze escriptores han compost un relat ben negre. Fora manies i supersticions. El tretze és un bon número i entre totes han construït una antologia que enlluerna per la diversitat de les veus que la integren.

Una joven monja pierde su fe al sentirse vulnerable en medio de una epidemia, en Etiopía. De regreso a casa es perseguida por un ser que ella siente, pero no conoce. Al final tendrá que enfrentarse a este ser para descubrir su propósito en este mundo.

Con ánimo de vengarse de una pasada humillación, Montresor busca a Fortunato en plenos carnavales de alguna ciudad italiana (al parecer, Venecia) del siglo XIX. Ambos van disfrazados y gracias a que Fortunato está ebrio, el narrador logra convencerlo de que lo acompañe a la cueva de su palacio, las catacumbas de los Montresor, con el pretexto de probar un nuevo vino amontillado. Anímate a descubrir cómo el vengativo narrador, con una notable maligna inteligencia, humor negro, ironía y sadismo, consuma la más horrible venganza.

Francis Marion Crawford, an only child, was born on 2nd August 1854 at Bagni di Lucca, Italy. He was a nephew to Julia Ward Howe, the American poet and writer of "The Battle Hymn of the Republic". Crawford was educated at St Paul's School, Concord, New Hampshire, and then on to Cambridge University, the University of Heidelberg and the University of Rome. In 1879, he went to India, to study Sanskrit and then to edit The Indian Herald. In 1881, he returned to America to continue his Sanskrit studies at Harvard University.

I fiori sbocciano, le giornate si fanno sempre più lunghe e tiepide, nell'aria c'è una frizzante eccitazione che già promette l'estate: la primavera è il momento ideale per rilassarsi e immergersi in questi racconti ispirati alla stagione più amata. Ma non mettetevi troppo comodi, il delitto è sempre in agguato... Un'antologia di storie che vedono tra i protagonisti i detective creati da Agatha Christie: oltre agli amatissimi Poirot e Miss Marple, anche Mr Quin, Parker Pyne e l'inossidabile coppia Tommy e Tuppence.

Uno de los grandes maestros en el arte de contar historias nos trae esta colección de catorce fascinantes cuentos repletos de elaborados timos, argucias políticas, comportamientos inmorales y aventuras peligrosamente ilícitas; todas ellas aderezadas de los sorprendentes giros inesperados que son signo de identidad de Jeffrey Archer.

Welcome to Fight Like Final Girls, a multi-author collection of standalone Thriller and Horror short stories and novellas. In this series, you'll find badass characters fighting until they're the last one standing, doing anything necessary, in order to live until tomorrow. Could you do what they had to? Listen and find out!

Frida Hagens Leben entwickelt sich zum Albtraum, als die vierjährige Tochter ihrer besten Freundin Tuva vermisst wird und alle Spuren direkt zu ihr führen. Eine Insel, abgeschnitten vom Rest der Welt. Ein einsames Hotel in den Dünen, in dem ein Paar alter Schulfreundinnen ihr Wiedersehen feiern wollen. Als einer von ihnen etwas zustößt, ist den anderen klar, dass sie in der Falle sitzen, denn das blutige Spiel hat längst begonnen!

This mesmerizing original short story—a prequel to The Sleepwalker—from Chris Bohjalian, bestselling author of The Sandcastle Girls and The Guest Room, tells the tale of one strange summer when a pair of horses die, an odd boy moves to a small Vermont town, and a woman rises from her bed and...

Das Mitternachtstaxi wartet auf dich! Es bringt dich an die dunkelsten Orte deines Verstandes und vielleicht … noch ein Stück weiter. Ein bösartiger Pfleger in einem Altenheim bekommt seine gerechte Strafe. Eine Taxifahrt direkt aus der Hölle. Eine kurze Momentaufnahme des Todes. Ein Mann erliegt dem Gift des Verlangens. Ein Ehepaar auf direktem Weg in den Abgrund. Neue Erzählungen von A.M. Arimont.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Gillian Flynn’s Edgar Award-winning homage to the classic ghost story, published for the first time as a standalone. A canny young woman is struggling to survive by perpetrating various levels of mostly harmless fraud. On a rainy April morning, she is reading...

It’s the hottest winter on record, but Raymond’s demanding, bedridden mother doesn’t mind. She likes it warm. Lately, however, control over the thermostat has become a nasty struggle. And each morning that she’s still alive is a suffocating new challenge for Raymond. How high can the mercury climb before he boils over?

A multicultural nexus, Toronto hosts Indian, Portuguese, African, Italian, and Chinese communities that provide fertile backdrops for Toronto Noir's corrosive exposés. Features brand-new stories by RM Vaughan, Nathan Sellyn, Ibi Kaslik, Peter Robinson, Heather Birrell, Sean Dixon, Raywat Deonandad, Christine Murray, Gail Bowen, Emily Schultz, Andrew Pyper, Kim Moritsugu, Mark Sinnet, George Elliott Clarke, Pasha Malla, and Michael Redhill.

When forensic psychiatrist Abigail Lee meets a baby-killing mother who has been declared criminally insane and acquitted, she discovers something lurking beneath the surface. Something far deeper and more insidious than mere psychopathy. But can she come to terms with her own struggle with science and faith in time to confront it?

Pilot Pete England used to think there was nothing more exciting in the world than flying off into the wild blue yonder. But lately, the blue yonder hasn’t been wild at all...it’s been downright dull. Pete’s hungry for adventure - and he’s about to get his fill. Pete has fallen into a rut, flying the same route - New York to DC - with the same passengers, day after day after day. He might as well be driving a bus...until “her highness” climbs aboard. Apparently a princess, and for one flight, she’s bought up every ticket on the plane.

A collection of legal short stories featuring works by Lawrence Block, Lia Matera, Richard North Patterson, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and others. In this collection of courtroom mysteries, the legal profession is put on the stand by some of the finest mystery writers, both classic and contemporary...

In dieser selten gehörten Kurzgeschichte von H.G. Wells geht es nicht um Science-Fiction-Technologie, sondern um nacktes Überleben. Ein britischer Leutnant wird im unwegsamen Dschungelgebiet von feindlichen Stämmen in die Enge getrieben. Gefangen auf einem Felsvorsprung, mit dem sicheren Tod im Nacken und einem gähnenden Abgrund vor den Füßen, fasst er einen wahnsinnigen Plan. Eine Geschichte darüber, wie aus Verzweiflung eine Legende wurde – die Legende vom Mann, der fliegen konnte.

In diesem Buch warten finstere Wälder, flüsternde Schatten und die grausigen Fratzen menschlicher Abgründe darauf, dich einzuholen. Jede der packenden Horrorkurzgeschichten bohrt sich tief in uralte Urängste – bis du das unsichere Flackern der Nachttischlampe plötzlich als letzten Schutzschild wahrnimmst.