Crime Suspense Anthology

In the title story, a white aspiring professor is convinced she is being followed. No need to panic - she has a handgun stowed away in her purse, just in case. But when she turns to confront her black male shadow, the situation isn't what she expects. In "The Rescuer" a promising graduate student detours to inner-city Trenton, New Jersey, to save her brother from a downward spiral. But she soon finds out there may be more to his world than to hers.

This guerilla-glue release tells a short story about the lives of Mercy Ngozia and her daughter Niami, who learns well-hidden truths just in time to reclaim her own life. Set in a small town outside a big city, THE BILLIONAIRE delves into topics including family secrets, a birth scandal, and fraud as it exposes details of a failed love affair and present new opportunities all centered around a life-altering inheritance.

Casi siempre, Puerto Rico se nos presenta como una isla rodeada de playas de arena clara, casinos, hoteles de lujo; un lugar para el descanso y el placer. Es la isla que satisface todos los sentidos y todos los apetitos.

This is a story from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes II collection. In this collection are four of the finest cases of Mr. Sherlock Holmes, narrated by his faithful friend and admirer Dr. Watson. What was the mystery of the engineer's thumb? What was behind the disappearance of the race horse? Why did masked royalty walk up to see Holmes in Baker Street? These and other puzzles are solved in this collection by this bloodhound of a genius.

In the quaint community of Poetry, Texas, Belinda Bauer spies an opportunity. The tiny town is filled with loggers and railroad men in need of wives, so she sets herself up as a marriage broker. At her invitation, potential brides begin to arrive in Poetry. Unfortunately, Belinda doesn't have a clue what she's doing and all the brides marry the wrong men! One client is particularly unhappy. George Kaufman, the local barber, has lost more than one prospective wife to Belinda's fumbled attempts. For some reason, she just can't seem to find George's "perfect match," though it's not for lack of trying. Is there a poetic ending in store for George, and for Belinda, herself?

Akashic Books continues its award-winning series of original noir anthologies, launched in 2004 with Brooklyn Noir. Each book comprises all new stories, each one set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the respective city. Now, West Africa enters the Noir Series arena, meticulously edited by one of Nigeria's best-known authors. The 13 stories that comprise this volume stretch the boundaries of "noir" fiction, but each one of them fully captures the essence of noir, the unsettled darkness that continues to lurk in the city's streets, alleys, and waterways.

Believing herself responsible for her father's fatal diving accident, Rachel Lyons has withdrawn from the world and assumed a safe position at a foundation office. When called upon by a museum director to assist Trident Ventures with the recovery of a priceless relic from a sunken Chinese merchant ship, she has no intention of cooperating - especially after discovering her former love interest is involved.

For lovers of the supernatural and the macabre comes this collection of ghostly and chilling tales from Agatha Christie. Acknowledged the world over as the undisputed Queen of Crime, in fact she dabbled in her early writing career with mysteries of a more unearthly kind - stories featuring fantastic psychic visions, spectres looming in the shadows, encounters with deities, eerie messages from the Other Side, even a man who switches bodies with a cat....

In the stories of Havana Noir, current and former residents of the city - some international sensations such as Leonardo Padura, others exciting new voices like Yohamna Despestre - uncover crimes of violence and loveless sex, of mental cruelty and greed, of self-preservation and collective hysteria.

Diese "Erzgebirgischen Dorfgeschichten" stammen aus Mays frühester Schaffenszeit. Er zeigt sich hier von ungewohnter Seite...

Der Höllenhund ist zurück: In drei neuen Kurzromanen und zahlreichen Stories und Artikeln richtet Ellroy sein Mega-Spotlight vor allem auf L.A. und erzählt bissig und schonungslos über dunkelste Obsessionen, korrupte Bullen, ungelöste Mordfälle und seinen eigenen Werdegang. Er berichtet über seinen Vater, die Todesstrafe, die Justiz und die Opfer von vierzig Jahre zurückliegenden Verbrechen. Wir begegnen einem verrückten Detective, der von einer Schauspielerin aus Hollywood besessen ist, und auch Danny Getchell läuft uns über den Weg.

Tex Larimee is a grizzled Arizona sheriff who’s leaving the deserts of Cactus County behind, blazing a trail east to mix it up with The Slickers in the canyons of Manhattan. Tex’s welcome to New York is a rude one. Robbed of his cash, gun and badge, he’s locked in a room in back of a run-down bar. Breaking out of the bar, he goes looking for his best friend...only to find him dead, his throat cut. And the cops accuse Tex of committing the murder.

Written in the form of two letters, 'Dear Mr. Editor...' showcases Christianna Brand’s skill for crafting inventive plots with a limited cast of characters. In this story, a woman receives a letter from an editor requesting a submission for an anthology of horror stories. Keen to provide an original piece, she plans to kill her sister for the perfect plot.

Meet Cal Murphy. He's an intrepid reporter who refuses to let go of a story, no matter what the cost. Killers best beware. Murphy has high hopes and aspirations of becoming a high-profile sports columnist at a major metro newspaper, until something else grabs his attention: the hunt to uncover the truth and find justice for the dead.

"The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes" is a collection of twelve short stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, featuring his fictional detective Sherlock Holmes. It was first published on 14 October 1892; the individual stories had been serialised in The Strand Magazine between July 1891 and June 1892. The stories are not in chronological order, and the only characters common to all twelve are Holmes and Dr. Watson.

An original and entertaining selection of crime stories all committed on the railways. Authors include Baroness Orczy (most famous for The Scarlet Pimpernel) and Maurice Leblanc (most famous for Arsene Lupin.)

A collection of the best and most popular programs from the Golden Age of Radio, digitally remastered, and including performances from some of Hollywood’s most beloved stars, like Jack Benny, Dorothy Lamour, Mel Blanc, and many more.

Combining stories from ebook story collections Short Shockers One and Short Shockers Two, and with never-before-seen new material, this is a story collection you won't forget. From a woman intent on revenge, to a restaurant critic with a fear of the number thirteen, and from a story of ghostly terror to the first ever case of his best-loved Detective, Roy Grace, James exposes the Achilles heels of each of his characters, and makes us question how well we can trust ourselves, and each other.

Hay que esperar lo inesperado... un preso falsamente acusado de asesinato ejecuta un plan de venganza impecable... faros en el espejo retrovisor siguen a una viajera a través de un solitario tramo de carretera... una mujer cimienta su futuro casándose con una larga ristra de hombres adinerados... un prófugo iraquí a cuya cabeza han puesto precio realiza una visita involuntaria a su patria... dos extraños poseídos por un deseo a primera vista consideran la miríada de posibilidades que se abren ante ellos el día en que se conocen.

"Another Role" is a short story from the collection Indian Country Noir. Step into Indian Country. Enter the dark welter of troubled history throughout the Americas, where the heritage of violence meets the ferocity of intent.