A collection of the year's best mystery short fiction selected by New York Times best-selling and Edgar Award–winning author C. J. Box. Views: 570
In paradise nothing is simple... ...not even murder. For Jessica, this time it's personal. The knock at the door shook her from a deep sleep. When she saw the cops, Jessica knew why they were there. As a LA Detective, she'd been on the other side of the door plenty of times. Someone she loved was dead. Time slowed. Her heart sank. They knew she knew. Before they could get to the news, her mind raced. Growing up in Hawaii, half of her family in law enforcement and the other half gang members, she'd known the darker side of life. As the detectives explained why they'd come, Jessica was only partly listening until they said it was her father who'd died... ...in a plane wreck. And in that moment, the instinct to grieve was gone. He was meticulous in his maintenance. She didn't believe it was an accident. Who murdered her father? Jessica was going home to Hawaii.... Views: 570
Joanna Coffee is living up to her name, planning the grand opening of her coffee shop in Bennett Falls. At least until local millionaire Sherman Cromwell winds up dead in the street holding a macchiato from Jo's shop. Not exactly the kind of press she wanted for her new business.Now the prime suspect in Cromwell's murder, Jo is determined to prove her innocence, even if it means donning her own detective cap and solving this mystery herself. If she doesn't clear her name soon, she'll be turning in her apron for an orange jumpsuit. Views: 570
Get ready for The Undoing, soon to be the most talked about TV of 2020. From the creators of Big Little Lies, The Undoing premieres this autumn starring Nicole Kidman, Hugh Grant and Donald Sutherland. 'A great psychological thriller ... I couldn't put it down.' Daisy Goodwin'A brilliant addition to the Oops-I-Married-a-Sociopath genre, started by Gillian Flynn's Gone Girl.' MetroA New York Times bestsellerGrace Sachs, a happily married therapist with a young son, thinks she knows everything about women, men and marriage. She is about to publish a book called You Should Have Known, based on her pet theory: women don't value their intuition about men, leading to serious trouble later on.But how well does Grace know her own husband? She is about to find out, and in the place of what she thought she knew, there will be a violent death, a missing husband,... Views: 570
First published as Firing LineOctober, 1940. Bombs are falling on Stratford when air-raid warden Sylvia Parks sees a house with a light shining like a beacon to the enemy aircraft overhead, violating the strict blackout regulations. With no answer at the door she manages to break in, only to discover the body of a young woman – and she's been strangled with a stocking. For Detective Inspector John Jago, the scene brings back memories of the gruesome Soho Strangler, who murdered four women in the mid-1930s but has never been caught. Is there a connection? As the investigation develops, it leads him into a web of family jealousies, violence, robbery and the underworld of political terrorism. Views: 570
