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In 1922, Major Herbert Armstrong, a Hay-on-Wye solicitor, was found guilty of, and executed for, poisoning his wife, Katharine, with arsenic. Armstrong's case has all the ingredients of a classic murder mystery, from a plot by Agatha Christie or Dorothy Sayers (indeed some aspects of his story appear in Sayers' Unnatural Death). It is a near-perfect whodunnit.  

As the lead singer of the Doors, Jim Morrison’s searing poetic vision and voracious appetite for sexual, spiritual, and psychedelic experience inflamed the spirit and psyche of a generation. Since his mysterious death in 1971, millions more fans from a new generation have embraced his legacy...

Maxie soll eine Traumhochzeit organisieren! Leider auf der Insel, auf die Diego Acosta sich nach einem Unfall zurückgezogen hat. Der attraktive argentinische Polospieler ist gar nicht begeistert, dass sie seine Ruhe stört. Bis er die heilende Kraft ihrer Hände kennenlernt...

"The world is probably ending, but can we make it a better place with movies?" Writer Stephen Nothum and special guest tackle challenging themes and the real-world issues from all of your favorite films in this podcast for film overthinkers. Become a member of Film Club for the End of the World here: https://www.patreon.com/cw/filmclubfortheendoftheworld/membership

Most people spend their lives chasing one thing while neglecting the others. Health. Ethos. Love. Money. Together, they form HELM Theory —a philosophy built on the belief that a truly successful life requires all four. In HELM Theory, author Stephen Morton presents a practical framework for navigating life through these four essential pillars. Written as a deeply personal journal spanning several years, the book chronicles the victories, setbacks, lessons, and revelations that emerged while attempting to bring Health, Ethos, Love, and Money into alignment.

What is evil? Is it something supernatural that seeps into our world… or something far more human, lurking just beneath the surface? In The Evil Edition, Kevin J. Kennedy assembles a relentless collection of dark tales that blur the line between monster and man.

Ein verzweifelter Vater betritt das Haus in der Baker Street 221B, um Sherlock Holmes um Hilfe zu bitten, da seine Tochter entführt wurde. Holmes und Dr. Watson segeln auf die kleine Insel Prince Edward in Kanada, um das Mädchen zu suchen und geraten in den Kampf mit dem Ku-Klux-Klan. Doch sie erhalten Unterstützung einer entschlossenen und fantasievollen jungen Rothaarigen, sowie von der Royal Canadian Mounted Police.

Across the world, people are falling for pseudolaw: a fast-growing movement built on conspiracy theories, quasilegal rituals and the promise that ordinary people can outsmart governments, banks and courts. Its followers call themselves sovereign citizens, freemen, state nationals or...

FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF KILL ME Psychopath Michael McClelland escapes from a mental hospital to exact revenge against those responsible for his confinement, including psychologist Alan Gregory and his family. McClelland has the upper hand—secrets from Alan’s past that...

Bestselling author Stephen R. Lawhead's Dragon King Trilogy--now available in one volume. In the Hall of the Dragon King Carrying a sealed message from the war-hero Dragon King to the queen, Quentin and his outlaw companion, Theido, plunge headlong into a fantastic odyssey and mystic quest. In...

The Bright Empires series is a unique blend of epic treasure hunt, ancient history, alternate realities, cutting-edge physics, philosophy, and mystery. The result is a page-turning, adventure like no other. The Skin Map Kit Livingstone’s great-grandfather reveals an unbelievable story: the ley...

The return of the famous shared-world superhero books created and edited by George R. R. Martin, author of A Song of Ice and Fire The American Triad Series #1: Mississippi Roll #2: Low Chicago #3: Texas Hold 'Em Perfect for current fans and new readers alike, Mississippi Roll is an all-new...

Carrie White is no ordinary girl. Carrie White has the gift of telekinesis. To be invited to Prom Night by Tommy Ross is a dream come true for Carrie – the first step towards social acceptance by high school colleagues. But events will take a decidedly macabre turn on that horrifying and endless night as she is forced to exercise her terrible gift on the town that mocks and loathes her...

A lone man takes on the wheels of progress in a showdown of cataclysmic proportions. When a highway project puts him out of work and threatens to destroy his home, he has more than enough time on his hands to plot his revenge. Driving his wife and friends away with his growing obsession, he...

What happens when a 37-year-old office worker, who exercises marginally less than the average cheese sandwich, decides to walk 630 miles of challenging coastline in one go? Will he go on an epic voyage of self-discovery...or just get really knackered? Find out the answers to these important questions, and many more, by joining him on a grand adventure that takes in 26,719 steps, 921 stiles, 302 bridges, 91,000 feet of climbing and descending, one seal, zero basking sharks, lots of chips and one overweight, oversize backpack.

‘Thrilling … High-definition history: tight, thrilling and beautifully researched’ SUNDAY TIMES ‘This book is a triumph’ DAN SNOW 9.07 a.m., April 12, 1961. A top-secret rocket site in the USSR. A young Russian sits inside a tiny capsule on top of the Soviet Union’s most powerful...

JOYLAND is a whodunit noir crime novel and a haunting ghost story set in the world of an amusement park. It tells the story of the summer in which college student Devin Jones comes to work as a 'carny' in small-town North Carolina and has to confront the legacy of a vicious murder, the fate of a...

The eighth dramatized audiobook of this dark urban fantasy series follows necromancer Eric Carter through a world of vengeful gods and goddesses, mysterious murders, and restless ghosts.

It's been 10 years since the Battlemage War, where thousands died as mages sundered the earth and split the sky. Habreel believes eradicating magic is the only way to ensure a lasting peace. He will do anything to achieve his goal, even if it means murdering every child born with the ability. As deaths involving magic increase and the seat of magical learning - the Red Tower - falls under suspicion, two students and one lawbringer must do everything they can to combat Habreel and his followers before magic disappears from the world for good.

Diagnosed twice with ADHD, Jordan Stephens found his teens and twenties a whirl of career success and nurturing friendships but also a brutal pattern of self-harm, hedonism, destructive coping mechanisms and heartbreak. When he tried to live up to his own damaged expectations and his world exploded, he stepped away from his previous existence completely and allowed himself to explore the pain he'd repressed his entire life.