Books like 'Mystery Tales'
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Coffey's Hands by Stephen King
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsWelcome back to E Block, the deadliest place this side of the electric chair, where assaults are a daily grind and miracles are about to happen. Paul Edgecombe has become increasingly curious about John Coffey, the brutal killer of two girls. But Coffey is about to reveal something extraordinary, and life on the Green Mile may never be the same again... -
Coffey on the Mile by Stephen King
Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars · 35 ratingsCold Mountain Penitentiary has seen its share of death through the years. Now it's John Coffey's turn to take that final walk down the Green Mile. Yet prison guard Paul Edgecombe has uncovered a devastating truth, which means he could be too late to save both himself and Coffey. You see, death by execution may be the easy way out. It's living with the consequences that may last an eternity . . -
The Two Dead Girls by Stephen King
Rated: 4.52 of 5 stars · 42 ratingsThey were sisters, and the picture-perfect image of innocence. No one understood their brutal deaths, not even the man who killed them. But John Coffey is about to gain a new insight, about his life in prison, and about the one man who will walk him down that green mile . . . toward destiny.Prepare yourself for Stephen King's boldest exercise in nerve-twisting suspense... -
Night Journey by Stephen King
Rated: 4.53 of 5 stars · 36 ratingsTruth time is approaching at Cold Mountain Penitentiary. Paul Edgecombe is taking a huge gamble, one where the stakes are high and the consequences deadly. He and his fellow guards take convicted killer John Coffey away from Death Row in the dead of night and bring him to the bedside of a woman weighing in torment... -
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The Bad Death of Eduard Delacroix by Stephen King
Rated: 4.53 of 5 stars · 36 ratingsTime has run out for one of the inmates at Cold Mountain penitentiary. Eduard Delacroix is set to take that final walk down the Green Mile. But first he must say good-bye--to the guards, to his fellow inmates, and to a strange creature that forever changed his life. Little does he know of the terrible fate that awaits him, and of a devilish plan of revenge... -
The Mouse on the Mile by Stephen King
Rated: 4.48 of 5 stars · 36 ratingsCold Mountain Penitentiary has been home to many troubled souls. E Block, where the electric chair waits for those who must pay the ultimate price, has been home to the most troubled of all. And here, not all the evil is behind bars. Sometimes it carries a gun and wears a badge.Cold Mountain is a place of the damned, but it can also be a place where salvation comes from the most unlikely source... -
Failure Mode by Craig Alanson, R.C. Bray
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsWhen a mission ends in disaster and there is no way to achieve the objective, no way to regroup and try again, no plan B, no hope, all you can do is fall back into FAILURE MODE: try to salvage what you can.If it is even possible to save anything. Or anyone.The galaxy is doomed... -
The Mammoth Book of New Sherlock Holmes Adventures by Mike Ashley
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe biggest collection of new Sherlock Holmes stories since Sir Arthur Conan Doyle laid down his pen - nearly 200,000 words of superb fiction featuring the Great Detective by masters of historical crime, including Stephen Baxter, H. R. F. Keating, Michael Moorcock and Amy Myers. Almost all the stories here are specially written; the cases presented in the order in which Holmes solved them... -
Light Has Weight, but Darkness Does Not by Dean Koontz
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsInstinct and violent visions compel Nameless to embark on an unplanned mission to help a desperate mother and daughter on the run. Why is this rescue so strangely familiar to a man with no memories?Evie and her daughter, Asteria, are fleeing an abusive cult when they meet a stranger in an abandoned Arizona shopping mall. Fate hasn’t set Nameless on their trail... -
Del tiempo y sus demonios by Diego Armando Arciniegas Malagón
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsDEL TIEMPO Y SUS DEMONIOS: PERSIGUIENDO LA VERDADEsta novela se desarrolla en un pequeño y misterioso pueblo. En un territorio hermoso, inhóspito a la luz de aquellas certezas que las mayorías consideran irrefutables. Lejos del tiempo que, arbitrariamente, tomara la sabia decisión de separar el bien del mal... -
Rebekka Franck Series Box Set: Vol 1-5 by Willow Rose
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFive Amazon Bestselling Mystery Novels. The Queen of Scream Novels channels Wes Craven in this 5-in-1 boxed set! ˃˃˃ One, Two ... He is coming for you Set in the Danish coastal town of Karrebaeksminde, journalist Rebekka Franck returns to her hometown with her six-year-old daughter...Categorized as:
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Cardinal Black by Robert McCammon
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsCardinal Black is the latest installment in Robert McCammon's unique series of historical thrillers featuring Matthew Corbett, professional problem solver, who has been called "the Early American James Bond." December 1703 finds Berry Grigsby living as Mary Lynn Nash in a small English village where she has fallen victim to Professor Fell's involuntary drug experiments... -
The Book of Death by Anonymous
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsBelieving the Bourbon Kid to be dead, the Egyptian Mummy Rameses Gaius has formed an undead army to take over the city of Santa Mondega. Vampires and werewolves are swarming the streets killing thousands of innocents. The local cops have all been murdered and replaced by.... Sanchez the bartender and his new sidekick Flake... -
Last Light by Dean Koontz
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsWith just a touch, Makani Hisoka-O’Brien can see the deepest secrets that others conceal—and it frightens her. There’s danger in the terrible knowledge that floods her mind and haunts her conscience.With just a touch, Rainer Sparks can learn the biggest problems that others bear—and it thrills him. There’s profit to be made making problems go away, by any means . . . including murder... -
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Whitechapel Rising by Anthony M. Strong
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAn impossible killer stalks the streets of London.Jack the Ripper faded into history over a century ago, his identity lost to the ages. Until a work crew restoring a Mayfair home make a shocking find. A secret basement room walled up since Victorian times. The Whitechapel murderer's lair. And inside, a corpse that has waited in silent darkness for over a hundred years. But it won't stay that way. -
Quick Fixes: Tales of Repairman Jack by F. Paul Wilson
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWho do the world’s most exciting authors turn to when they need a shot of adrenaline? F. Paul Wilson’s Repairman Jack! "One of the all-time great characters in one of the all-time great series." — Lee Child“Repairman Jack is one of my favorite characters—I’m full of happy anticipation every time I hold a new RJ novel in my hands... -
The Bachman Books by Richard Bachman, Stephen King
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 57 ratingsOmnibus collection of four early Bachman novels (Rage, The Long Walk, Roadwork, The Running Man) and the essay "Why I Was...Categorized as:
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Amazing Grace by John G. Hartness
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsJessica Fletcher meets Aunt Bea meets Odd Thomas in this Southern Gothic Paranormal Mystery with a dose of romance from award-winning novelist John G. Hartness. Lila Grace Carter is your favorite new detective, you just don’t know it yet. She’s determined, smart, caring, and sassy as the day is long. She also talks to dead people. Of course, as she puts it, “I’m Southern... -
A Gift of Thought by Sarah Wynde
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAt seventeen, Sylvie Blair ran away from the small town of Tassamara, Florida. She joined the Marines, traveled the world and made a life for herself, but she never forgot what she left behind. Now a close protection security consultant (aka bodyguard) for a spoiled teenager in Washington DC, her empathic gift helps her keep her charge safe, if not out of trouble... -
The Lighthouse by Ron Ripley
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsEx-marine Shane Ryan is a ghost hunter whose troubled past haunts him almost as much as the ghosts he encounters in the line of duty. He’s the best. And his reward for excellence? The punishment of being in high demand for jobs to eradicate the worst kind of ghosts – the kind that kill... -
Dark City by F. Paul Wilson
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsDark City is the second of a new prequel trilogy, Repairman Jack: The Early Years by F. Paul Wilson.It's February 1992. Desert Storm is raging in Iraq but twenty-two-year-old Jack has more pressing matters at home. His favorite bar, The Spot, is about to be sold out from under Julio, Jack's friend... -
Mind Bullet by Jeremy Robinson
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsA telekinetic assassin’s quest to avenge his parents’ murders triggers an all-out war between an eccentric cast of killers, from the New York Times bestselling author of INFINITE and THE DARK.Jonas kills people…with his mind. He reaches out, focuses for a moment, and feels a snap of pain between his eyes. Then his target falls over dead, a hole in the center of their brains... -
Blood Victory by Christopher Rice
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsOn a cross-country journey to hell, fear is the engine and vengeance is the destination as Christopher Rice’s Amazon Charts bestselling series continues.As the test subject of an experimental drug, Charlotte Rowe was infused with extraordinary powers. As the secret weapon of a mysterious consortium, she baits evil predators and stops them in their tracks... -
Bad Things by Tamara Thorne
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe house has been in his family for generations. But it really belongs to them…The Piper clan emigrated from Scotland and founded the town of Santo Verde, California. The Gothic Victorian estate built there has housed the family for generations, and has also become home to an ancient evil forever linked to the Piper name…As a boy, Rick Piper discovered he had “the sight... -
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Good Neighbors by Russell C. Connor
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWinner of the Silver Medal for Horror in the 2016 Independent Publishing Awards HOW WELL DO YOU KNOW YOUR NEIGHBORS? Elliot Jefferson moved to the isolated Estates of North Hills to work on his sobriety and avoid other people at all costs. But when the electric transformers around the complex begin emitting a horrible buzz that he calls ‘the Squall,’ neither is easy to achieve... -
Ultimate Kill by Kristine Mason
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhen the past collides with the present, the only way to ensure the future lies in the ultimate kill… Naomi McCall is a woman of many secrets. Her family has been murdered and she’s been forced into hiding. No one knows her past or her real name, not even the man she loves... -
Dying is a Wild Night by Edward Fallon
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsTHEY SEE WHAT NO ONE ELSE SEESEvery crime scene has a smell. A look. A trail of DNA.It also has a feel. An emotional residue that lingers... floating unseen, like bacteria in the air, just waiting to be absorbed. To be experienced.To be interpreted.And only the man and the boy know this... -
The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Holmes by Loren D. Estleman
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsSherlock Holmes has already encountered the evil young hedonist Edward Hyde, and knew he was strangely connected with Henry Jekyll, the respectable young doctor. It was not until the Queen herself requested it, however, that Holmes was officially on the case of the savage murder of Sir Danvers Crew. Here, then is the account of that devilish crime as recorded by Dr Watson.. -
The Secret of Terror Castle by Robert Arthur
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsFinding a genuine haunted house for a movie set sounds like fun -- and a great way to generate publicity for the Three Investigators' new detective agency... -
Vengeance in Blood: Tribulations--Book 2 by Thomas A. Watson
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsBesseta is back, and stronger than ever. A 600 year old vampire with a strong sense of justice, Besseta is the ultimate predator, preying on the dregs of society that get away with murder. Her mate, Kenneth, is a former detective, with a talent for hunting down evil-doers. Together, they form a strong team, capable of defending the innocent. But nothing in life is ever easy... -
The Shadows of London by Nick Jones
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsA time traveler's work is never done.Likable antiques dealer Joseph Bridgeman is back in the present and dreaming of a quiet life. But when a mysterious and enigmatic time traveler arrives in his shop, Joe learns that his first trip was just the beginning and this time, the rules of the game have changed... -
The Moonlit Mind by Dean Koontz, Peter Berkrot
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsIn this chilling original stand-alone novella, #1 New York Times bestselling author Dean Koontz offers a taste of what’s to come in 77 Shadow Street with a mesmerizing tale of a homeless boy at large in a city fraught with threats . . . both human and otherwise... -
Estudio en escarlata/El sabueso de los Baskerville by Arthur Conan Doyle
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsLa popularidad de Sherlock Holmes ha sido inmensa e incesante... si muchos le parodiaron (a Conan Doyle) casi todos los escritores posteriores han moldeado sus héroes conforme a uno de los poliédricos aspectos del gran Sherlock. Este dejó de ser un personaje literario, se convirtió en una criatura viviente y borró la memoria de su creador... -
The Girl, the Gold Watch & Everything by John D. MacDonald, Dean Koontz
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsFrom John D. MacDonald, one of the enduring American novelists of the twentieth century, comes a science fiction classic with a timeless premise. An aimless young man discovers a way to stop the world in its tracks—and that’s when his life truly begins... -
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Mountain of the Dead by Jeremy Bates
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsTHE GREATEST UNSOLVED MYSTERY OF THE 20TH CENTURYFact: During the night of February 1, 1959, in the remote reaches of Siberia, nine Russian hikers slash open their tent from the inside and flee into a blizzard in subpolar temperatures. Fact: By morning all are dead, several having suffered gruesome, violent deaths. What happened to them has baffled investigators and researchers to this day...Categorized as:
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Come Along With Me by Shirley Jackson
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsA haunting and psychologically driven collection from Shirley Jackson that includes her best-known story "The Lottery"At last, Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery" enters Penguin Classics, sixty-five years after it shocked America audiences and elicited the most responses of any piece in New Yorker history... -
Island of the Dolls by Jeremy Bates
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsTHE CREEPIEST ISLAND ON EARTHDeep within an ancient Aztec canal system on the outskirts of Mexico City lies Isla de las Munecas...a reportedly haunted island infested with thousands of decrepit dolls.While there to film a television documentary, several friends discover a brutal murder... -
Arena 13 by Joseph Delaney
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe first book in the exhilarating new fantasy sequence from Joseph Delaney, the multi-million-selling author of The Spook's Apprentice.Welcome to Arena 13. Here warriors fight. Death is never far away . . .Leif has one ambition: to become the best fighter in the notorious Arena 13. Here, punters place wagers on which fighter will draw first blood... -
Black Mountain by Greig Beck
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsSome legends are real. Alex Hunter, code named Arcadian, wakes up with no knowledge of who he is, in the care of a woman he doesn't recognise, in a country not his own. But there is a calling deep within him, to return home to Black Mountain. Formed a billion years ago, the Appalachian's Black Mountain hosts a terrible legend... -
The Last Storm by Sam Sisavath
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsTHE GOOD. THE BAD. AND THE EVIL.The storm of the century. A ghost city. Law enforcement all but suspended.Hurricane Matthew is a force to be reckoned with. It has been forecasted to drown the city of Houston in an unrelenting torrent of rain. In the days before its arrival, the city was evacuated, leaving behind only a skeleton police force and civilians unable to flee its destructive path... -
Magic-Price by C.L. Schneider
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIan Troy is one of the Shinree, a fallen people with an inherent addiction to magic. Scorned and reviled for the deadly side of their spells, the Shinree are bred as slaves. Their magic is suppressed by drugs and used only as it serves the purposes of the other races... -
The Cabin by Amy Cross
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratings"There are stories about this place. It's said that something really bad happened here once, in the room where we're standing right now." When Anna arrives in Norway to visit a long-lost friend, she expects to spend a calm, relaxing weekend at a remote cabin. Soon, however, she learns that some of the other guests are not what they seem, and the cabin itself has a dark history... -
Nothing Good Happens After Midnight: A Suspense Magazine Anthology by Jeffery Deaver, Heather Graham
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe sun sets. The moon takes its place, illuminating the most evil corners of the planet. What twisted fear dwells in that blackness? What legends attach to those of sound mind and make them go crazy in the bright light of day? Only Suspense Magazine knows.. -
Grimm: The Killing Time by Tim Waggoner
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsPortland homicide Detective Nick Burkhardt discovers he is descended from an elite line of criminal profilers known as “Grimms”, charged with keeping balance between humanity and the mythological creatures of the world. A brand-new original novel set in the Grimm universe... -
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Sherlock Holmes and the Plague of Dracula by Stephen Seitz
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAfter Mina Murray asks Sherlock Holmes to locate her fiancee, Holmes and Watson travel to a land far eerier than the moors they had known when pursuing the Hound of the Baskervilles. The confrontation with Count Dracula threatens Holmes' health, his sanity, and his life... -
Black Water by T.J. MacGregor, Henry Strozier
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAs the sun sets on a deserted Florida beach, a desperate man prepares to take his next victim. The young girl seems just the right age to survive the journey through the black water. And if she doesn't, she'll end up like all the others. It's been a beautiful day for psychic Mira Morales and her daughter, Annie... -
The Beasts of Valhalla by George C. Chesbro
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe novel that radically altered the nature of the Mongo series, this book blends a classic detective style with elements of science fiction and fantasy. Chesboro takes readers on a wild roller-coaster ride, using the structure and elements of Wagner's Ring Cycle and Tolkien's "Lord of the Rings... -
The White South by Hammond Innes
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHuman conflict lies behind the tragedy unfolded in this epic story of the indomitable courage and endurance of a handful of English and Norwegians plunged through unforeseen circumstances into a fight with the pitiless forces of nature... -
This Darkness Light by Michaelbrent Collings
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA man with no past, but who holds the future of the world in his hands. A woman who has sworn to protect him, for reasons she does not understand. A killer who must destroy them, or lose all he holds dear. They are running—from each other, from the plague that is killing all around them, from the dark forces beyond their understanding. Running from shadow to shadow. From dark to dark... -
Extraction by Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child
Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsFrom #1 New York Times bestselling authors Preston & Child, an all-new short story featuring Agent Pendergast, available only as an ebook and audio download. In New Orleans' French Quarter, the Tooth Fairy isn't a benevolent sprite who slips money under your pillow at night....he's a mysterious old recluse who must be appeased with teeth--lest he extract retribution...
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