Over the course of two award-winning collections and a
critically acclaimed novel, The Croning, Laird Barron has arisen as one
of the strongest and most original literary voices in modern horror and the dark
fantastic. Melding supernatural horror with hardboiled noir, espionage, and a
scientific backbone, Barron's stories have garnered critical acclaim and have
been reprinted in numerous year's best anthologies and nominated for multiple
awards, including the Crawford, International Horror Guild, Shirley Jackson,
Theodore Sturgeon, and World Fantasy awards.
Barron returns with his third collection, The
Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All. Collecting interlinking tales of sublime
cosmic horror, The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All delivers enough
spine-chilling horror to satisfy even the most jaded reader. Views: 24
ROGER SHERINGHAM'S MOST FAMOUS CASE. In 1920s London, six members of the Crime Circle set out to solve a murder that has baffled Scotland Yard. Equipped with all of the facts, as told to them by Chief Inspector Moresby, club president Roger Sheringham and his armchair detectives pool their collective talents to formulate theories about the death of Mrs. Joan Bendix by nitrobenzene poisoning. Over six successive nights, each member puts forward a plausible theory, but will any of them be able to reveal the truth? Views: 24
Alex McAuliff has received an offer he can't refuse: two million dollars for a geological survey of Jamaica. All Dunstone Limited requires is his time, his expertise, and his absolute secrecy. No one--not even McAuliff's handpicked team--can know of Dunstone's involvement. But British Intelligence is aware of the deal, and they've let Alex in on a secret of their own: The last survey team Dunstone dispatched to Jamaica vanished without a trace. Now it's too late to turn back. Alex already knows about Dunstone--which means he knows too much. From the moment he lands in Jamaica, Alex is a marked man. On an island paradise where a beautiful woman might be a spy and every move could be his last, Alex's only clue to survival is a single mysterious word: Halidon. Praise for Robert Ludlum "Don't ever begin a Ludlum novel if you have to go to work the next day."--Chicago Sun-Times "Ludlum stuffs more surprises into his novels... Views: 24
From the bestselling author of Black Run comes Antonio Manzini's mesmerizing second mystery novel featuring detective Rocco Schiavone.Six months after being exiled from his beloved Rome, Deputy Police Chief Rocco Schiavone has settled into a routine in the cold, quiet, chronically backward alpine town of Aosta: an espresso at home, breakfast in the piazza, and a morning joint in his office.A little self-medication helps Rocco deal with the morons that almost exclusively comprise the local force. Especially on a day like today. It's his girlfriend's birthday (if you could call her that; in his mind, Rocco's only faithful to his late wife), he has no gift—and he's about to stumble upon a corpse.It begins when a maid reports a burglary in Aosta. But there's no sign of forced entry, and after Rocco picks the lock, he notices something off about the carefully ransacked rooms. That's when he finds the body: a woman, the maid's employer, left hanging after a... Views: 24
The chief of police of Jarrett Creek, Texas, doubles as the town drunk. So when Dora Lee Parjeter is murdered, her old friend and former police chief Samuel Craddock steps in. He discovers that a lot of people had it in for Dora Lee. The conniving rascals on the farm next door want her land for nefarious purposes; her estranged daughter could be seeking vengeance; her grandson wants money for art school; and then there's that stranger Dora Lee claimed was spying on her. Does Craddock still have what it takes to find the killer? In this debut novel, the strong, compelling voice of Samuel Craddock illuminates the grandeur and loneliness of the central Texas landscape and reveals the human foibles of the residents in a small Texas town-their pettiness and generosity, their secret vices and true virtues. Views: 23
E-book exclusive extras:1) Christie biographer Charles Osborne's essay on The Murder of Roger Ackroyd2) "The Poirots": the complete guide to all the cases of the great Belgian detectiveThe Murder of Roger Ackroyd broke all the rules of detective fiction and made Agatha Christie a household name. There are two things you must do if you know nothing of this book: discuss it with no one, and read it with all speed—because it contains one of the biggest surprises in crime fiction.In the quiet village of King's Abbot a widow's suicide has stirred suspicion—and dreadful gossip. There are rumours that she murdered her first husband, that she was being blackmailed, and that her secret lover was Roger Ackroyd. Then, on the verge of discovering the blackmailer's identity, Ackroyd himself is murdered. Views: 23
