Historical Psychological Thriller

Gammon is under immense pressure in his latest quest to find a horrendous serial killer stalking the Peak District. The killings are mounting up, and the pressure that goes with his DCI position with Bixton Police is beginning to tell.

August 6, 1945: the day Enola Gay unleashed an atomic inferno over Hiroshima. In the wake of its devastation, two stories unfold. There’s Jim, an American soldier who was entrusted with taking care of Yoro, a Japanese girl who then disappears after the atomic bomb falls. And there’s H, a Japanese child who is at school when the bomb drops and is indelibly marked by its destruction. Both victims of the bomb, H and Jim meet for the first time in New York years later - their paths cross by chance, they fall in love, and together they continue Jim’s search for Yoro.

Acclaimed-author Elizabeth Harrower's stunning debut, first published in 1957. Esther Prescott has seen little of life outside her wealthy family's Rose Bay mansion - until flashy Stan Peterson comes roaring up the drive in his huge American car and barges into her life. Within a fortnight they are living in his Kings Cross flat. Moody and erratic, proud of his well-bred wife yet bitterly resentful of her privilege, Stan is involved with his former girlfriend and a series of shady business deals.

Across the room, through the fog of tobacco smoke, Betty notices him. His teacup is empty, his eyes are low and he doesn't speak. She wants him to notice her. She wants to impress. Fifteen-year-old Betty Broadbent helps her erratic and beautiful mother run the Hotel Eden, a boardinghouse now besieged by reporters, keen for juicy gossip and eye-catching headlines. They are there because the Cornish seaside town has recently witnessed a string of murders, young girls stabbed to death.

Schweden 1981: In einer forensischen Psychiatrie - nahe Stockholm - sitzt der gefährlichste Serienmörder seiner Zeit: KURT SENGE. Obwohl er insgesamt sechs Frauen tötete, bereut er bis heute nichts und legte nie ein Geständnis ab. Trotzdem löste dieser Mann einen wahren Tumult um seine Person aus, denn Kurt war jung, gutaussehend und charismatisch. Seit seinem Gerichtsprozess vor 17 Jahren, kennt ihn in Schweden jedes Kind. Noch heute erhält er täglich Post von liebeshungrigen Frauen und anderen Verehrern.

FrontierWorld follows Tommy Ray and Willie Parker and a half dozen other characters as they meet in Seattle to begin their wagon train adventure. Once they arrive at the wagon camp, the group meets Brad Jefferson, the young wagon master who will lead the neo-pioneers through their 14-day journey. Jefferson gives the group strict instructions that everything from the 21st century must stay at the base camp. From this point on, everything will be just as it was in the early 1800s.

Adair Stanton grew up in the peaceful hamlet known as North Western. While she ran barefoot through wildflowers, her family ran a prosperous inn on the stagecoach route. As an adult with a child of her own, Adair is ready to take her place at the inn. One of the guests, a man named Robert Fawn, is convinced he’ll find gold in the Mohawk River that flows through North Western. Everyone believes him to be daft. Then one day, Robert Fawn vanishes. Adair is convinced someone has harmed him for the gold. But who in her hometown would be so sinister?

This touching story is based on real events, it takes place in Ukraine during the Holodomor, a man-made famine in Soviet Ukraine in 1932 and 1933 that killed millions of Ukrainians. At the center of the story is the beautiful Paraska, her loving husband Ostap, and the chairman of the collective farm Prokop, who lusts for Paraska. Can she take advantage of her beauty to save her children from starvation? Can she, still buried alive in a grave, rise from the dead?

It isn’t just a wrong number. It’s her own. And it’s calling at exactly 3:28 AM. Every night. When Terri Reeves moves to the picturesque town of Pinecrest, she expects quaint shops and quiet streets—not her dead ex-boyfriend knocking on her door or calls from her own phone number in the dead of night. Unbeknownst to Terri, Pinecrest’s charming facade hides an ancient occultic pattern—one traced directly to Terri’s apartment and the middle of the night calls. “Don’t answer,” warns the local parapsychologist. “Don’t engage.” But the calls keep coming… and the texts...

How can you pack for the journey of a lifetime? George Baxter has settled for a comfortable life, content as the years unfold predictably - until Win, his wife of 26 years, dies. With his loyal dog Monty by his side, George throws himself into his work as an antiques dealer. His business is at the heart of the village and all sorts pass through the doors, each person in search of their own little piece of history. When George meets local widow Sylvia Newsome, he imagines a different kind of future. But life has more revelations to offer him.

It’s 1970, and young Annette Cooley is part of a small team working on an archaeological dig on the New South Wales south coast - a site that appears to prove that Aboriginal societies in the late Holocene were becoming less nomadic, even sedentary. The discovery is thrilling in its significance, and the atmosphere in the group is one of charged excitement. The team is led by a husband-and-wife pair, stars in their field, Aled Wray and Marilyn Herr, and working on their sites promises to be the making of Annette as an archaeologist.

Jeremy Case è un reduce del Vietnam ossessionato da Johnny Boy, morto durante un'imboscata. Ogni notte Case sogna di essere trascinato all'inferno dallo spirito del commilitone, che non gli perdona di essersi salvato dai Viet Cong. A distanza di anni, Jeremy non riesce a dormire, e passa le sue notti guardando un programma, "True Crimes", che indaga su uno spietato serial killer che ha preso di mira i clochard della zona. La vita di Jeremy sembra cambiare quando Milla viene a vivere nell'appartamento sopra al suo. Il reduce si innamora di lei immediatamente, ma la donna sembra preferire le attenzioni di Hank, un rozzo energumeno che si stabilisce da lei. L'esistenza di Jeremy sembra così ripiombare nell'abisso, fra le manifestazioni di Johnny Boy sempre più insidiose e dormiveglia che lo mettono in uno stato di prostrazione: come se non bastasse, Hank comincia a fare violenza a Milla.

A young homeless woman suffering from memory loss begins to realize that she is actually actress Marilyn Monroe - who is supposed to be dead. Why is she out here on the streets? Who did this to her? As she begins her own investigation into the real truth behind her so-called "death", the truth behind it all is almost too bizarre - and terrifying - for her to handle without losing her mind altogether.