Evil Mystery

Collins brings the Queen of Crime, Agatha Christie, to English language learners. Agatha Christie is the most widely published author of all time and in any language. Now Collins has adapted her famous detective novels for English language learners. These readers have been carefully adapted using the Collins COBUILD grading scheme to ensure that the language is at the correct level for an intermediate learner. This book is Level 4 in the Collins ELT Readers series. Level 4 is equivalent to CEF level B2 with a word count of 20,000-26,000 words.

Hunter of the Light Series: Book 2 of 15 The light is not your friend. Rachel awakens to find herself back in the hospital, her memory foggy and disorienting. Images of a door and an irresistible urge to open it flood her mind. She can still hear the bloodcurdling screams that followed and feels a chill run down her spine. As Rachel and Adam inch closer to the truth, they encounter new, more formidable enemies who try to impede their progress. Despite their resilience, Rachel cannot shake off the feeling of death lurking close by, waiting for something. But what does it want? She fears she ...

When a semi-naked man is discovered walking a remote country road, smothered in another person's blood, Detective Inspector Robbie Chilcott is brought in to find answers. The stranger is giving up nothing–except the alias name of a murderous character in a West End show. But Chilcott has bigger problems–he can't find a victim, he hasn't discovered a crime scene. And unless he can find them soon, he will be forced to let his suspect walk free.

Only a vampire can solve these crimes—an undead private eye named Samantha Moon. Private investigator Sam Moon is working undercover for the Fullerton Police Department’s new top-secret Vampire Crimes Special Unit (VCSU). With the increasing number of supernatural-type crimes in and around Orange County, Detective Sherbet needs Samantha’s special talents to help solve and prosecute the real and growing threats to the citizens of Fullerton. Sam’s first case for the VCSU threatens to expose her life as a vampire. When a 200-year-old mummified corpse turns up on the grounds of an ...

In best-selling author George Higgins' electrifying legal thriller, Jerry Kennedy, the guy his ex-wife calls "the classiest sleazy criminal lawyer", must defend the man that no one else will: Billy Ryan.

Inspector Bloodstone storms Holmes's privacy at midnight, urgent about a crime he has to investigate. Two happily married people have suddenly and tragically been murdered. When Holmes and Watson travel to a remote part of England to solve the mystery.... They discover that evil has been at play unlike any other!

Julie Rivers has a passion for antiques. She won’t stop until she knows everything about the antiques that come through her shop. While renovating her shop, Julie uncovers something that was never meant to be found. And now someone wants it back, and to keep her quiet. As the newest detective for the Drake Harbor PD, Cole Dekker jumps head first into a case that seems unsolvable. With very little to go on, Cole does a search for similar cases, triggering the FBI to get involved. The man who coldly murdered two sisters in the seemingly quiet town of Drake Harbor is a serial killer.

Private investigator Samantha Moon is working undercover for the Fullerton Police Department’s new top-secret Vampire Crimes Special Unit (VCSU). Children are disappearing right where they stand. When four local kids vanish into thin air, Sam suspects a registered sex offender of heinous crimes. But the deeper that Sam and her partner, Brent Cole, investigate, the more perplexing the mystery becomes. And when children begin disappearing internationally—and with the same modus operandi—Sam knows that a powerful paranormal enemy is behind the disappearances. In order to prevent more ...

Chyna Stone and her Found History begin a quest for the Ivory Bow, a supernatural artifact of raw power that once belonged to Queen Christina of Sweden. The Ivory Bow hasn’t been seen since World War II. Turns out, Chyna Stone isn’t the only interested party. Someone ruthless will do anything to obtain it. When the Found History team members race to Lithuania after the Ivory Bow, they find themselves amid political upheaval. Worse, their contact is about to be killed and to escape the same fate, they must deceive the locals. As Chyna and her team get closer to the Ivory Bow, the danger ...

A rural upstate Florida sheriff is shot to death by a young woman who flees in his car and continues to kill. The victims, men lured into sexual confrontations by the wild and predatory young woman, are found dumped in ditches and woodlands and along the roadside. The flirtatious killer, who leaves lipstick traces on the bullets she uses, is swiftly dubbed the Kiss Me Killer by the press.

Only a vampire can solve these crimes–a vampire private eye named Samantha Moon... Samantha Moon leaves the VCSU and the United States to pursue the evil inside a cursed castle that has marked her daughter for something sinister. Samantha Moon and Brent Cole prepare for their next case where shadows of the past merge with the present, and ancient mysteries threaten her family. It’s not the castle that stirs Sam’s soul. It’s the sinister mark etched upon her daughter’s flesh that sends her on the hunt for the disappearing castle. Brent delves deeper into the depths of his newfound ...

Eureka’s tears have flooded the Earth, and now Atlantis is rising, bringing with it its evil king, Atlas. Eureka is the only one who can stop him, but first she must learn how to fight. She travels across the ocean with Cat, her family, and Ander, the gorgeous and mysterious Seedbearer who promises to help her find Solon, an enigmatic lost Seedbearer who knows how to defeat Atlas. Once on land, Eureka is taunted by gossipwitches, a group of displaced Atlantean sorceresses, and ambushed by locals struggling to survive amid the destruction her tears have wrought.

When an unexpected death occurs in the teachers’ lunchroom, the school’s maintenance man is the obvious suspect, but Michael Bishop has his doubts. He quickly realizes that several people had the opportunity and the motive to commit this heinous act, but who had the means? As the investigation unfolds, one of the administrators is struck down by a rare illness, and another is victimized by a stalker. Bishop must deal with rumors of a past affair with a former student whose daughter is the voluptuous assistant principal, Lulu Pitts. In his classroom, Bishop’s students discuss the moral...

Was a noose tightening around a horrified Deborah Foster? It was the night of evil ritual. The worshippers of the devil danced around the ruined abbey, now transformed into a temple of terror. Deborah had come there hoping to unmask her sister’s killer. Suddenly against her will, Deborah felt herself succumbing tothe unholy spell woven by the frenzied witches. Relentlessly they began to encircle her. Panic gripped her for she knew they had chosen her as their next victim.

Who is hiding the shadow ball? And where are they hiding it? In California? Back in New York? Is it still even in the United States? Gabe White and his descendants have planted seeds of its whereabouts around the world. Mark's original daughters, the Three Sisters who descend upon his life like Horsemen of the Apocalypse, hunt his new daughters for the shadow ball... and they will not rest until they track the truth of its hiding place. Battle lines are being drawn and Mark must protect his children from a Hell which threatens the globe in the guise of Terrance Diamond, a self-proclaimed ...

Hunter of the Light Series: Book 1 of 15 Haunted by chilling nightmares, Rachel questions her sanity as the line between fact and fiction begins to blur. For a year, Rachel slept. Forced into a coma after the horrific crash which claimed her family. Her body worked to heal while the memories of her loved ones vanished. She wakes to terrifying experiences that make settling back into a normal life impossible. Blackouts. Sleepwalking. Gruesome dreams. Terror coils in her gut at what could be behind it. Things take a far more sinister turn when her nightmares begin spilling into her waking ...

Evil in Our Midst provides a chilling glimpse of 50 dark angels, each of which represents a culture’s greatest fears. Every section opens with a story that shares the legend of a demon, and then offers fascinating information on the culture that, in many cases, perpetuates this belief. For those who believe in these creatures, this audiobook gives reason to fear the unknown. For those who do not believe in demons, it provides terrifying listen for a stormy night.

In this latest Sheriff Dan Rhodes adventure, Bill Crider sends the small-town Texas lawman to investigate the apparent theft of a set of false teeth from one of the elderly residents of the Sunny Dale Nursing Home. The case, which begins as one merely embarrassing ("Ah ain't got no TEEF!") quickly turns serious when the owner of the missing dentures, one Lloyd Bobbit, is found suffocated with a plastic grocery bag.

She sleeps with a Colt Python in her nightstand and her senses on alert. Jessica is a bounty hunter who brings lowlifes to justice. But not even she can imagine what she'll face when she tracks an online predator who has abducted a naive teenage girl.... Former NFL quarterback Payton Archer swore to his sister that he'd find her only child. But the police have no leads, and the teen's trail has turned cold. Joining forces to save the 17-year-old girl, Payton and Jessica discover that she's nothing but a pawn in an insidious, terrifying global conspiracy.

The Blood Covenant is a journey into the sacred blood ceremonies that have bound men, tribes, and nations in solemn agreements across diverse cultures and civilizations throughout history. In this audiobook, you will be amazed to discover how Godhead has ordered the Bible and history through a series of covenants and oaths that began from eternity. These forgotten and profound truths are the key to finding freedom from every evil weapon formed against you.