Wells Thriller

1931. Fifteen-year-old Kate witnesses her mother, Millicent, push a stranger from a station platform into the path of an oncoming train. There was no warning, seemingly no reason and absolutely no remorse. 1940. Exactly nine years later, Kate returns to the station and notices a tramp laying flowers on the exact spot that the murder was committed; the identity of the victim still remains unknown.

Iris Caldwell and Nell Ryland were never meant to be friends. From two very different backgrounds, one the heir to the Caldwell estate, the other a humble vicar's daughter. Both have their secrets, both have their pasts, but they each find solace with one another and soon their futures become irrevocably intertwined. Until May Day 1912, a day that haunts Missensham. The day two girls disappeared. The day the girls were murdered. Now, many years later, old footage has emerged which shows that Iris Caldwell may not have died on that spring morning.

ISIS is on the rampage, and the slaughter of the innocents has begun. The Islamists have an agenda, the creation of a Sunni Islamic Caliphate across Iraq and Syria. A caliphate that will turn the Middle East into a field of corpses. They must be halted, before their blood-soaked crusade becomes unstoppable. Yet the US government refuses a full-scale military response, and the Iraqi government is too weak to act. The problem is passed to the Navy Seals.

When the body of famed true-crime writer Julian Wells is found in a boat drifting on a Montauk pond, the question isn't how he died, but why. The death looks like an obvious suicide, but why would Wells take his own life? And was this his only crime? Wells' best friend, Philip Anders, wants to know more. His first clue is an Argentinean crime, which may have been Wells' last book idea. As Anders gathers the missing parts of Wells' life, the man he knew - or thought he knew - becomes increasingly obscured.

Over a hundred years ago, the citizens of F - did something rather bad. And local school teacher Catherine Evans has made writing the definitive account of what happened when Ilsbeth Clark drowned in the well her life's work. The town's people may not want their past raked up, but Catherine is determined to shine a light upon that shameful event. For Ilsbeth was an innocent, after all. She was shunned and ostracised by rumour-mongers and ill-wishers and someone has to speak up for her. And who better than Catherine, who has herself felt the sting and hurt of such whisperings?

Retired Chicago homicide detective Jack Starkey is living his retirement dream in Fort Myers Beach, a little town on Florida’s Southwest Gulf Coast, where he owns a bar called the Drunken Parrot and resides on a houseboat named Phoenix. But, every now and then, life in paradise can get a bit boring, so Jack agrees to help local police departments with murder investigations. When Henry Wilberforce, an 82-year-old Chicago billionaire, is murdered execution-style in his winter home in nearby Naples, Jack takes on the case.

În 1957, Sebastian câştigă o bursă la Cambridge şi o nouă generaţie a familiei Clifton merge înainte. Va deveni el oare milionar? Va merge la Cambridge? Este oare viaţa lui în pericol? "Un secret bine păstrat" va răspunde tuturor acestor întrebări dar, din nou, va pune altele. Mult înainte de a atinge ultima pagină a acestui roman atrăgător, veţi fi lăsaţi nedumeriţi de întorsăturile de situaţie şi de misterele care v-au surprins şi în volumele anterioare.

After a deadly ambush in Iraq leaves two soldiers in terrorist hands, intelligence officer Eric Ritter journeys into hostile territory to rescue them. The Caliban Program, a covert arm of the CIA, gives him permission to use any means necessary in his search. Means forbidden by his oaths as an officer. Faced with hostile Iraqis and a terrorist leader bent on revenge against him, Ritter must navigate through a perilous counterinsurgency and keep his true allegiance hidden from his brothers-in-arms.

Wild Child, Book 2 - Lilith takes up where the first story left off. Join Kyle, Briana, Brawn and Brains for another hair-raising adventure with the "green water." Several new, intriguing characters are introduced. Written in the same lean, fast-paced style as the original, this sequel will keep you breathlessly turning the pages, wondering what will happen next.

Happy Holiday has a new life, a new job, and a new look. The US Marshals Service is hiding her in a small town in the Allegheny Mountains of Western Maryland. She is slowly adjusting. Her job plowing snow from dangerous mountain roads provides the thrills she craves. And Maryland State Trooper Jimmy Bittinger is now a friend. Life is getting better. Until the snowy night she plows up a dead man.

La oscuridad de Guayaquil que muestra Gabriela Alemán en su novela Poso Wells, parece surgir del sedimento (el poso) del cuento de Wells. El país de los ciegos ambientado en Los Andes ecuatorianos. La novela continúa ese mito, el resabio de ese mito, y hace aflorar del fondo, lo monstruoso latinoamericano, a través de lo grotesco, la fantasía desaforada, el comic.

Hard-hitting talk show host Augustus Seeza has become a household name in Ghana, though notorious for his lavish overspending, alcoholism and womanizing. He's dating the imposing, beautiful Lady Araba, who leads a self-made fashion empire. Fearing Augustus is only after her money, Araba's religious family intervenes to break them up. A few days later, just before a major runway show, Araba is found murdered in her bed. Her driver is arrested after a hasty investigation, but Araba's favorite aunt, Dele, suspects Augustus Seeza was the real killer.

When seven-year-old Angela Harris is rushed to a hospital emergency room in an unexplained coma, Dr. Ben Allen, the young pediatrician assigned to her case, welcomes the diagnostic challenge. His enthusiasm turns to frustration when confronted with the child's overbearing father, her phlegmatic mother, her senile great-aunt, a knife-happy surgeon, and a hospital administrator who values fund-raising above patient care. Consumed by his efforts to save Angela, Allen must do so in the face of a series of events that threaten to end his budding career.

منذ سبع ليال، وإتماماً لما اعتزمت عليه من إنهاء حياتي للتخلص من الحزن والكآبة، والأفاعي التي تفيض في أوردتي، أسكرت بعرق البلح عنتر، وأحكمت غلق غرفته بالأقفال بعد وداعه، ثم فرشت اللبلاب على صدري وصعدت فوق الكرسي وأحكمت الحبل الغليظ حول رقبتي ثم تلوت الشهادة، لكن الطرقات المزعجة مالبثت أن انهالت على الباب.

In the quiet Scottish town of Forres, D.I. Fiona MacLeod is called to investigate a chilling murder at the ancient Clootie Well, a place steeped in local legend and folklore. The victim, Douglas Bain, a wealthy businessman with ties to a secretive group known as the Circle of Shadows, is found stabbed to death during a mysterious Halloween night ritual. As Fiona and her young, eager partner, D.S. Duncan Fraser, dig deeper into the case, they uncover a web of financial fraud, fear, and desperation that ultimately led to Bain’s tragic death.

Another ideal tale for listeners trying to outthink primary investigator Fleming Stone, who uses logical deductions to nab greatly unexpected murderers. This follows The Clue: Fleming Stone Mystery #1; The Gold Bag: Fleming Stone Mystery #2; A Chain of Evidence: Fleming Stone Mystery #3; The Curved Blades: Fleming Stone Mystery #4; and The Mark of Cain: Fleming Stone Mystery #5.

There is nothing about Eve Sinclair, apart from her beauty, that would make her a typical heroine. In this riches to rags adventure, Eve travels and unravels dark secrets hidden in the cellars and vineyards of the Grand Chateaux of France. Accompanied by her chauffeur and a talented young photographer, can she reach her destination unscathed and solve the problems in her own life?

When the Archangel Michael invites Lucifer to a Miami bar for a drink, the Prince of the Damned is confused but excited. He doesn't miss his old home in Heaven, but he does like to chat with his brother Michael. When Raphael, Enoch, and Gabriel show up, Lucifer is at first angry, then concerned. These kinds of celestial meetings don't happen often, and when they do, it's usually due to some existential emergency. His concerns are well-founded when Michael informs Lucifer that the Gaia, mother to all life on Earth, and God have had an argument.

It’s been six months since Neal Becker was convicted of the murder of his mother-in-law. He’s been committed to the Central State Psychiatric Hospital for life. Meanwhile, "poor, innocent" Baby Natasha is in the custody of Susan Matlow, the compassionate nurse who helped "rescue" her from her criminally insane father. Neal knows what his daughter is. And he knows he only has one chance to stop her from causing more death and destruction.

An EMP means the end of the world as they know it for a family who fights to survive. When disaster strikes in the form of an EMP, Marcus' family flees to their remote cabin in the mountains.