True Thrillers

A boy with a rifle walks into a middle school, intent on carrying out Western-style vigilante justice. A wife and mother of four kisses her twelve-year-old student and forever changes our definition of student-teacher conferences. The world's most famous serial killers put Washington on the map. A bathtub, a handgun, a meat grinder, and a burn barrel play a role in the murder of the captain of a freighter.

She was terrified...the pain was relentless. Nothing in her life prepared her for this. She desperately needed somewhere safe...someplace she could hide. Someone she could trust. It was dark...and getting darker. Ronan Hendricks didn’t recognize her voice. Not family...not friends. Probably not an enemy. But he didn’t need the years he’d spent as a detective to recognize what he did hear... Fear. In a desperate moment of hope, a single number saved her life. Then a complete stranger opened his home offering safety yet Grace knew danger surrounded them...when the pain allowed her few ...

Ein den 1920ern hatten nicht die Bewohner von New York oder Paris das höchste Pro-Kopf-Einkommen: die reichsten Menschen der Welt waren die Osage-Indianer im amerikanischen Bundesstaat Oklahoma. Das karge Land, das ihnen als Reservat zugewiesen worden war, barg gigantische Ölvorkommen. Doch der Reichtum brachte den Osage kein Glück: Eine mysteriöse Serie von Morden nahm ihren Anfang, der Dutzende Stammesmitglieder zum Opfer fallen sollten. Die Osage-Morde wurden zum ersten großen Fall für das noch junge FBI. Doch Korruption und Geldgier hatten auch hier bereits Einzug gehalten.

After testifying in a high-profile case, Gemma Saint, a young intern at an influential media outlet, is forced into WITSEC by corrupt DOJ officials to silence her when Gemma’s testimony at a retrial threatens their elaborate conspiracy to control the upcoming presidential election. Gemma learns from her WITSEC inspector that her identity was compromised and someone in the DOJ has sent a team to kill her. After her inspector is shot, Gemma sees only one chance to survive and resume her old life—expose the conspiracy, completely.

Emerging from the pile of rubble, larger-than-life Navy SEAL Bart Nelson stood confident. His admirers cannot believe their eyes, thinking he had been destroyed by the violent blast that was created by his own teammate, the “Hammer.” Indescribably swift thinking and precise intuition had saved this giant of a man, once again. Just as the dawn of a new day greeted them, the image of their hero could be seen. Without his efforts and bravery, all of these young victims of human trafficking would have perished. Yet, the long dangerous journey back home had only begun. There were two choices...

The first digital collection of true crime tales from Reader's Digest, featuring the most gripping thrillers and mind-blowing mysteries from its digitized archives.

Rodrigo Duterte was elected President of the Philippines in 2016. In his first 18 months in office, 12,000 people were murdered on the streets, gunned down by police officers and vigilante citizens - all with his encouragement. Duterte is a serial womanizer and a self-confessed killer, who has called both Barack Obama and Pope Francis "sons of whores." He is on record as saying he does not "give a shit" about human rights. Yet he is beloved of the 16.6 million Filipinos who voted for him, seen as vulgar but honest, a breath of fresh air, and an iconoclastic, anti-imperialist rebel.

Five hundred years ago, a deadly artifact called the Chains of Peter was stolen. Now, the chains have resurfaced in Mobile, Alabama, and the House of David, a secret organization that specializes in securing dangerous artifacts, has sent its most lethal operative to find them.

Mario DeLuca, a respected New Orleans detective for over 20 years, has put many criminals behind bars, and there is not a one that wouldn’t want to see him dead. Felipe Cruz, in court, promised he would get even with Mario - one day. He still controls the streets of New Orleans from a prison cell and makes good on his promise.

1797: Rachel Taylor lives a rather mundane existence at the way station her family runs along the Wilderness Road in Tennessee. She attends her friend's wedding only to watch it dissolve in horror as the groom, Wiley Harpe, and his cousin become murderers on the run, who drag their families along. Declaring a "war on all humanity", the Harpes won't be stopped, and Ben Langford is on their trail to see if his own cousin was one of their latest victims. How many will die before peace can return to the frontier?

This fantasy/horror/detective Novelette is the prequel to the case of 'LUCY RISING' (the first book in the Birch and Kane detective series, first two chapters included). The personal journal of tattooist Greg Bentley who, after a late-night visit by a mysterious young woman, becomes embroiled in a fantasy world in modern-day London. The document, later taken into evidence, tells the story of how the strange 'Lucy' uses her knowledge of angels, obtained through the book of The True Grimoire, to call upon the 18 Angels in service of her Master. The True Grimoire is the handbook of magic. A ...

THE OPPORTUNIST – AN ENTERPRISING LIFE IN SPAIN is Craig K. Kirkland’s account of his inventive and ignoble efforts to make his fortune. After a rather unscrupulous apprenticeship in the north midlands he is forced to flee abroad to further his ambitions and in this amusing chronicle he recounts his unethical exploits with brazen honesty. Mr Kirkland’s eye-opening tale of ingenuity and avarice, though not for the overly righteous, makes for an entertaining and thought-provoking read. This book is not intended as an instruction manual and the publisher does not condone the author’s ...

Set against the glittering backdrop of New York and London, this gripping novel unravels a tale of love, betrayal, and deception. When Victoria, a successful and elegant entrepreneur, meets the charming and enigmatic Steve Smith, she is drawn into a whirlwind romance filled with passion, sophistication, and shared dreams. But beneath Steve’s polished exterior lies a man living a carefully constructed double life - one filled with secrets, lies, and manipulation. As Victoria falls deeper, believing she has found a true partner, she begins to uncover the devastating truth -Steve is not the ...

Die eisige Kälte des Bösen: Zwei Freunde, 27 und 25 Jahre alt, beide verheiratet, beide Familienväter, begehen zwischen 1995 und 2001 eine Reihe kaltblütiger Morde an Unschuldigen, die das Pech hatten, zur falschen Zeit am falschen Ort zu sein. Die beiden Täter agieren ohne erkennbare Skrupel oder Gewissensbisse, teils sogar vor Zeugen. Die Polizei braucht lange, um dem Duo auf die Spur zu kommen, zu lange.

Shane Hanson was set up for a double homicide when he was only 13-years-old. His relative did it because she blames him for the death of her one true love. After spending five years in juvie, he’s released on parole and determined to reveal the truth about his relative. In the meantime, he meets a girl he develops feelings for. Shane's relative is a psychopath so good at manipulating people that she has managed to get everyone to believe Shane killed two people that she’s killed.

What happens to a couple when they decide to move into a house with a locked cold storage room that they were told never to enter? A jail guard is hearing and seeing things that are not meant to be inside the cellblock with him on the ninth floor. In the 1980s, Detroit was in the throes of a crime and drug epidemic, but there is an urban legend that during this time something vicious was on the streets that defy logical explanation. A trucker stops off at a 24-hour convenience store for a quick bite and gets more than he can chew.

An unfathomable double murder in the local ice cream shop. A small, Southern town in shock. And in denial. Fingers are pointed, and accusations leveled. Fifty years later, the questions remain. And no one is seeking answers. Until they have no choice. The answers find them.

As I sleep, my mind will erase everything I did today. I will wake up tomorrow as I did this morning. Thinking I'm still a child. Thinking I have a whole lifetime of choice ahead of me ...'Memories define us.So what if you lost yours every time you went to sleep?Your name, your identity, your past, even the people you love - all forgotten overnight.And the one person you trust may only be telling you half the story.Welcome to Christine's life.

If not for the bodies discovered in the woods behind their new home, Garrick and Olivia Lockwood couldn't have afforded to buy number 25 The Avenue. It's the fresh start they and their two children badly need. Soon, these terrible crimes will be solved, they tell themselves, and once Garrick has remodeled, he's confident they'll sell the house for a profit. But the darkest secrets can reside on quiet, ordinary streets like this - behind the doors of well-kept houses and neighbors' friendly faces....

This true-crime police procedural is the riveting story of the racially-motivated serial killings that terrorized San Francisco from 1973 to 1974 and how they were solved. Code named the Zebra Murders, the case involved a series of random violent attacks by African-American men against whites, resulting in fifteen deaths.