From Ann Cleeves—bestselling and award-winning author of the Vera and Shetland series, both of which are hit TV shows—comes the first in a gripping new series. "Ann Cleeves is one of my favorite mystery writers."—Louise PennyIn North Devon, where two rivers converge and run into the sea, Detective Matthew Venn stands outside the church as his father's funeral takes place. Once loved and cherished, the day Matthew left the strict evangelical community he grew up in, he lost his family too.Now, as he turns and walks away again, he receives a call from one of his team. A body has been found on the beach nearby: a man with a tattoo of an albatross on his neck, stabbed to death. The case calls Matthew back into the community he thought he had left behind, as deadly secrets hidden at its heart are revealed, and his past and present collide.An astonishing new novel told with compassion and searing... Views: 195
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Under the limpid skies of a Parisian summer morning, the funeral takes place, closed casket and under locks. Shortly afterwards, Billy's three sisters begin to suffer from recurring visions.The nightmares are eerily identical. In their dream, the coffin is empty and a ticking clock sits where their brother's head should have been. Convinced that their brother is still alive, calling out to them in their sleep, they put their lives on hold and go looking for answers in the Land of Smiles, in faraway Thailand.Frog Leap Productions was Billy's last chance at a normal life. However, a fortuitous encounter in a Bangkok bar with a charismatic stranger and an enigmatic Eurasian beauty invite him to redeem the past and start over.Will Billy come to accept the proposal designed to offer him a future or will he turn into another deadly pawn? When his sisters finally come looking for him, they are all too soon drawn into a web of murder and intrigue where the disappearance of foreign... Views: 195
These are the stories of people who live at night: under neon and starlight, and never the light of the sun.These are the stories of poets and police, tourists and traders; the hidden and the forbidden; the lonely and the lovers.This is their time.The Outcast Hours gathers over two dozen brand-new stories from award-winning writers across genres and continents, including bold new fiction from Marina Warner, Frances Hardinge, China Miéville, Sami Shah, Omar Robert Hamilton, Kuzhali Manickavel, Will Hill, Indrapramit Das, Silvia Moreno Garcia, Jeffrey Alan Love, Maha Khan Phillips, and many, many more. Views: 195
