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The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, Volume 2 by Edgar Allan Poe
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsTHE PURLOINED LETTER THE THOUSAND-AND-SECOND TALE OF SCHEHERAZADE A DESCENT INTO THE MAELSTRÖM. VON KEMPELEN AND HIS DISCOVERY MESMERIC REVELATION THE FACTS IN THE CASE OF M. VALDEMAR THE BLACK CAT. THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER SILENCE—A FABLE THE MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH. THE CASK OF AMONTILLADO... -
![Lone Wolf by Robert Muchamore]()
Lone Wolf by Robert Muchamore
Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsFay has spent eighteen months locked up in a Secure Training Centre. Drug deals and rip-offs are the only things this teenager knows. Now she's back on the street, looking to settle old scores.CHERUB agents Ryan and Ning need Fay's knowledge to unearth a major drug importer... -
![Two Women by Martina Cole]()
Two Women by Martina Cole
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsDanger and violence have always been part of Sue Dalston's East End upbringing. Unloved by her mother, abused by her father, and brutalised throughout her entire marriage, she's convicted of smashing her husband's skull in a final act of desperation. All that keeps her sane is knowing that she's done it to protect her four children. At last, they are safe from harm... -
![The Flaw by Antonis Samarakis]()
The Flaw by Antonis Samarakis
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsA man is seized from his afternoon drink at the Café Sport by two agents of the Regime - though what exactly he is suspected of we do not know, and neither, apparently, does he.What follows is a journey by car toward Special Branch headquarters, and the interrogation that undoubtedly awaits him there... -
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![Cianură pentru un surâs by Rodica Ojog-Braşoveanu]()
Cianură pentru un surâs by Rodica Ojog-Braşoveanu
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsÎntr-un imobil oarecare din strada Crăiței, cu ocazia unei inundații, cinci locatari dau peste două tablouri de o valoare inestimabilă. Cei cinci fac planuri pentru a se îmbogăți, dar, unul câte unul, încep să moară otrăviți. De fiecare dată, cei rămași trebuie să ascundă cadavrele și să fenteze Miliția, ducând mai departe, în paralel, planul pentru a vinde tablourile peste hotare... -
![Crossing the Line by Meghan Rogers]()
Crossing the Line by Meghan Rogers
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIN THIS TEEN SPY THRILLER, JOCELYN STEELY IS AMERICA'S LAST SHOT TO BEAT THE NORTH KOREANSWhen Jocelyn Steely was kidnapped by a North Korean spy agency, she was only a little girl. Young. Scared. Powerless. And completely moldable.Now, ten years later, she’s a ruthless assassin. Yet her target isn't who you might think...Categorized as:
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![What's Bred in the Bone by Robertson Davies]()
What's Bred in the Bone by Robertson Davies
Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsFrancis Cornish was always good at keeping secrets. From the well-hidden family secret of his childhood to his mysterious encounters with a small-town embalmer, an expert art restorer, a Bavarian countess, and various masters of espionage, the events in Francis's life were not always what they seemed... -
![Dance and Dream by Javier Marías]()
Dance and Dream by Javier Marías
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsYour Face Tomorrow, Javier Marias's dazzling unfolding magnum opus, is a novel in three parts, which began with Volume One: Fever and Spear. Described as a "brilliant dark novel" (Scotland on Sunday), the book now takes a wild swerve in its new volume. Skillfully constructed around a central perplexing and mesmerizing scene in a nightclub, Volume Two: Dance and Dream again features Jacques Deza... -
![All Fun and Games Until Somebody Loses an Eye by Christopher Brookmyre]()
All Fun and Games Until Somebody Loses an Eye by Christopher Brookmyre
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsJane Fleming, forty-six and three years a grandmother, has always played by the rules, never hurt anybody, never lied, never even had a parking ticket. But she’s about to put all that right in a very big way…Intrigue. Espionage. Advanced technology. Clinical violence. Hoovering.It’s all fun and games until somebody loses an eye... -
![Anima by Wajdi Mouawad]()
Anima by Wajdi Mouawad
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsA man, returning home one evening after work, discovers his wife brutally murdered, lying in a pool of blood. A cat, their cat, a domesticated animal, tells the man the macabre tale of what happened, and in the second chapter, birds at the window continue the tale... -
![The Overcoat, and Other Tales of Good and Evil by Nikolai Gogol]()
The Overcoat, and Other Tales of Good and Evil by Nikolai Gogol
Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars · 23 ratingsWith the publication of "The Overcoat" in 1842, Nikolai Gogol (1809-1852) inaugurated a new chapter in Russian literature, in which the underdog and social misfit is treated not as a figure of fun or an object of charity, but as a human being with as much right to happiness as anybody else...Categorized as:
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![Enemy Exposure by Meghan Rogers]()
Enemy Exposure by Meghan Rogers
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA spy and action thriller featuring a teenage girl who kicks butt and outsmarts with the best of them. To accomplish her mission, though, she'll need to team up with those she trusts the least in this latest Raven File case.Jocelyn Steely (code name: Raven) may have escaped the clutches of KATO and won the trust of the IDA, but she isn’t out of danger yet...Categorized as:
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![The Insider by Craig Schaefer]()
The Insider by Craig Schaefer
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsMove over, Jack Reacher and Kinsey Millhone: cast-iron bodyguard Charlie McCabe is back in Craig Schaefer’s gritty sequel to The Loot.Hard-bitten bodyguard Charlie McCabe is lucky to be alive after her recent foray into Boston's criminal underworld... -
![The Untethered by S.W. Southwick]()
The Untethered by S.W. Southwick
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWhat Roble wants to create is illegal...if not impossible.And everyone seems determined to stop him from trying. But when a few unrepentant ladies join his fight to live free, the Las Vegas desert is going to light up like the 4th of July. ----------------------- "If you want a cross-breed between an Ayn Rand novel and a techno-thriller, this is the best you'll read...Categorized as:
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![The Ajax Protocol by Alex Lukeman]()
The Ajax Protocol by Alex Lukeman
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsASIN B00IOQQZQU moved to the most recent edition hereWhen an assassination attempt takes the President out of commission, the Project is caught up in a conspiracy that threatens to spark a world war.The Project team discovers a cold-hearted plot to turn America into a totalitarian police state... -
![High Lonesome: Selected Stories, 1966-2006 by Joyce Carol Oates]()
High Lonesome: Selected Stories, 1966-2006 by Joyce Carol Oates
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAn unprecedented collection of the best of Joyce Carol Oates's short stories combined with eleven new storiesNo other writer can match the impressive oeuvre of Joyce Carol Oates, and High Lonesome: Selected Stories, 1966-2006 gathers stories from Oates's seminal collections, including The Wheel of Love (1970), Marriages and Infidelities (1972), and Heat (1991), arranged by decade...Categorized as:
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![No Time To Blink by Dina Silver]()
No Time To Blink by Dina Silver
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA profoundly moving story of impossible risks and love without boundaries. Told from alternating points of view––that of a daughter whose past is a mystery, and that of a mother with painful secrets to share.Catherine Clarke defied her family’s expectations when she married Gabriel, a handsome Lebanese businessman... -
![The Center Cannot Hold: A Ray Elkins Thriller by Aaron Stander]()
The Center Cannot Hold: A Ray Elkins Thriller by Aaron Stander
Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsIn the depths of winter, Cedar County is on occasion literally frozen in place. Roads are impassable; the area schools are closed for days at a time. And the bad guys and gals, they’re hunkered down like everyone else until the weather breaks. But this winter isn’t the usual. There’s arson and murder...Categorized as:
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![Shadowless by Hasan Ali Toptaş]()
Shadowless by Hasan Ali Toptaş
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsHasan Ali Toptas exquisitely weaves an enigmatic, mystical tale of memory and identity, displacement and belonging 'I'm a barber,' he said. 'I come from afar. Across lands already forgotten…' In an Anatolian village forgotten both by God and the government, the muhtar has been elected leader for the sixteenth successive year... -
![The Final Cut by Catherine Coulter, J.T. Ellison]()
The Final Cut by Catherine Coulter, J.T. Ellison
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsScotland Yard’s new chief inspector Nicholas Drummond is on the first flight to New York when he learns his colleague, Elaine York, the "minder" of the Crown Jewels for the "Jewel of the Lion" exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, was found murdered. Then the centerpiece of the exhibit, the infamous Koh-i-Noor Diamond, is stolen from the Queen Mother’s crown...Categorized as:
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![Selected Poems & Tales by Edgar Allan Poe, Neil Gaiman]()
Selected Poems & Tales by Edgar Allan Poe, Neil Gaiman
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFor more than a century-and-a-half, Edgar Allan Poe's poems and tales have thrilled readers with chilling accounts of matters mysterious and macabre... -
![Night Games: And Other Stories and Novellas by Arthur Schnitzler, John Simon]()
Night Games: And Other Stories and Novellas by Arthur Schnitzler, John Simon
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThese artful new translations of nine of Schnitzler's most important stories and novellas reinforce the Viennese author's remarkable achievement... -
![The Hunter by Tana French]()
The Hunter by Tana French
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIt’s a blazing summer when two men arrive in a small village in the West of Ireland. One of them is coming home. Both of them are coming to get rich. One of them is coming to die.Cal Hooper took early retirement from Chicago PD and moved to rural Ireland looking for peace...Categorized as:
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![Payment Upon Delivery by Hackley Hammett]()
Payment Upon Delivery by Hackley Hammett
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsRecent college graduate Jake Williams takes a job with a mysterious trading company in Mexico City. He overlooks the obvious red flags because he needs the money to save his parents’ home. By the time he realizes he’s in over his head, it’s too late to make a clean break. Along the way, Jake falls for the gorgeous Sandra - a Mexican actress who, just like the trading company, has a dark secret...Categorized as:
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![A Taste for Death by Peter O'Donnell]()
A Taste for Death by Peter O'Donnell
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe rugged team of Modesty Blaise and her loyal lieutenant, Willie Garvin, take on impossible odds as they battle Simon Delicta, a man with a taste for death, and Swordmaster Wenczel in a duel to the death. As the adventure unfolds, and they travel from London to Panama to the depths of the Sahara desert, the pair will need all their killing skills to survive... -
![The Birthday Girl by Stephen Leather]()
The Birthday Girl by Stephen Leather
Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsTony Freeman rescued Mersiha when she was fighting for her life in war-torn Yugoslavia. Now she's his adopted daughter, the perfect all-American girl, and it seems like her past is another country.But Mersiha has been trained to kill. And when she discovers that Freeman's company is being subjected to a sinister takeover bid, she decides to help - whatever the risks... -
![White Dog by Peter Temple]()
White Dog by Peter Temple
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsJack Irish—gambler, cook and cabinetmaker, finder of people who don’t want to be found—has a new job, hunting for evidence that might save the beautiful sculptor Sarah Longmore from a murder rap.Jack soon discovers there was nothing straightforward about Mickey Franklin’s death, and falls headlong into a world of shady deals, sexual secrets and country rednecks... -
![The Rules of Backyard Cricket by Jock Serong]()
The Rules of Backyard Cricket by Jock Serong
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIt starts in a suburban backyard with Darren Keefe and his older brother, sons of a fierce and gutsy single mother. The endless glow of summer, the bottomless fury of contest. All the love and hatred in two small bodies poured into the rules of a made-up game. Darren has two big talents: cricket and trouble... -
![Small World by Martin Suter]()
Small World by Martin Suter
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsAt first, they put Konrad's absentmindedness down to an immoderate fondness for alcohol. For years he had been a benign parasite on the Koch family, first as the childhood playmate of Thomas, heir to the Koch family fortune, later as caretaker of the Koch family holiday villa on Corfu. And they, in their turn, had used him as the mood took them... -
![The Bone Field by Simon Kernick]()
The Bone Field by Simon Kernick
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsFrom the best-selling author of Stay Alive, The Final Minute and The Witness.When the bones of a 21-year old woman who went missing without trace in Thailand in 1990, are discovered in the grounds of an old Catholic school in Buckinghamshire, an enduring mystery takes on a whole new twist... -
![The Halo Effect by Anne D. LeClaire]()
The Halo Effect by Anne D. LeClaire
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsIn this tour de force, a father, shaken by tragedy, tries to avenge his daughter’s murder—and restore his family’s shattered life. It was supposed to be a typical October evening for renowned portrait artist Will Light... -
![When I Was Ten by Fiona Cummins]()
When I Was Ten by Fiona Cummins
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsShe had lived a lie for thirteen years, and the perfect life as she had known it was about to change forever.Everyone remembered Sara and Shannon Carter, the little blonde haired sisters. Their Dad was the local GP and they lived in the beautiful house on the hill. Their best friend, Brinley Booth, lived next door... -
![Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less by Jeffrey Archer]()
Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less by Jeffrey Archer
Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsThe conned: an Oxford don, a revered society physician, a chic French art dealer, and a charming English lord. They have one thing in common. Overnight, each novice investor lost his life's fortune to one man. The con: Harvey Metcalfe!!A brilliant, self-made guru of deceit. A very dangerous individual. And now, a hunted man...Categorized as:
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![Anonima de miercuri by Rodica Ojog-Braşoveanu]()
Anonima de miercuri by Rodica Ojog-Braşoveanu
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsAl patrulea roman din seria MELANIA LUPUDupă ce a fost amnistiată, Melania Lupu și-a reluat viața obișnuită, cu toate tabieturile ei, în garsoniera din strada Toamnei. Iar de când l-a recuperat și pe Mirciulică, găzduit provizoriu de niște prieteni, bătrâna a avut sentimentul că viața e într-adevăr frumoasă... -
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![Plays, Prose Writings, and Poems by Oscar Wilde]()
Plays, Prose Writings, and Poems by Oscar Wilde
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratings(Book Jacket Status: Not Jacketed)Introduction by Terry EagletonOscar Wilde has been acknowledged as the wittiest writer in the English language. This collection proves that he was also one of the most versatile... -
![Marathon Man by William Goldman]()
Marathon Man by William Goldman
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsTom "Babe" Levy is a runner in every sense: racing tirelessly toward his goals of athletic and academic excellence--and endlessly away from the specter of his famous father's scandal-driven suicide. But an unexpected visit from his beloved older brother will set in motion a chain of events that plunge Babe into a vortex of terror, treachery, and murder--and force him into a race for his life . .Categorized as:
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![The Little Drummer Girl by John le Carré]()
The Little Drummer Girl by John le Carré
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 25 ratingsJohn le Carre's classic novels deftly navigate readers through the intricate shadow worlds of international espionage with unsurpassed skill and knowledge, and have earned him unprecedented worldwide acclaim...Categorized as:
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![The Accident by Natalie Barelli]()
The Accident by Natalie Barelli
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsIf only she'd said no... Katherine knew she’d had too many drinks, but they were only going a short distance. And as Eve pointed out, it was late, there was no traffic anyway... Now, Katherine would do anything to turn back the clock. If anyone ever found out about the accident, it would ruin Katherine’s life... -
![Seven Types of Ambiguity by Elliot Perlman]()
Seven Types of Ambiguity by Elliot Perlman
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsSeven Types of Ambiguity is a psychological thriller and a literary adventure of breathtaking scope. Celebrated as a novelist in the tradition of Jonathan Franzen and Philip Roth, Elliot Perlman writes of impulse and paralysis, empty marriages, lovers, gambling, and the stock market; of adult children and their parents; of poetry and prostitution, psychiatry and the law... -
![Never Coming Back by Tim Weaver]()
Never Coming Back by Tim Weaver
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsA bestseller in the UK, this gripping thriller of a family that vanishes into thin air is Tim Weaver’s American debut Emily Kane arrives at her sister Carrie’s house to find the front door unlocked, dinner on the table, and the family nowhere to be found—Carrie, her husband, and two daughters have disappeared... -
![Country Of The Blind by Christopher Brookmyre]()
Country Of The Blind by Christopher Brookmyre
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe murder of a media mogul in his country mansion appears to be the result of his disturbing a gang of would-be thieves. The robbers are swiftly caught, but when they are unexpectedly moved to a different prison they escape. Back in Edinburgh, a young solicitor reveals to the press that one of the subjects had left a letter with her some time before the break-in which proves his innocence... -
![Blood Line by Lynda La Plante]()
Blood Line by Lynda La Plante
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsUnder the watchful eye of DCS James Langton, DCI Anna Travis takes charge of an investigation for the first time. But is it purely a missing person's case - or a full blown murder enquiry? An ominous pool of blood and no victim lead Anna on a desperate hunt for a man who has disappeared without trace... -
![Duel by Richard Matheson, Ray Bradbury]()
Duel by Richard Matheson, Ray Bradbury
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe late Richard Matheson's classic tale of highway terror.He was heading west, en route to San Francisco. It was Thursday and unseasonably hot for April. He had his suitcoat off, his tie removed and shirt collar opened, his sleeve cuffs folded back. There was sunlight on his left arm and on part of his lap...Categorized as:
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![Gantenbein by Max Frisch]()
Gantenbein by Max Frisch
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA stranger walks out of a bar and is later found dead at the wheel of his car. The narrator creates the story of this man -- or, rather, two stories, based on the two personae that he has imagined. One of these is named Enderlin; the other, Gantenbein.Originally published as A Wilderness of Mirrors... -
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![Memento by Radek John]()
Memento by Radek John
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsMemento je román o narkomanech. Tato věta říká sice to nejdůležitější, ale zdaleka ne všechno. Především nevypovídá o tom, že autor pojal svou prózu jako svědeckou výpověď - nikoli jako příběh "o nich", ale jako "jejich" příběh...Categorized as:
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![Fault Line by Robert Goddard]()
Fault Line by Robert Goddard
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe new race-against-the-clock thriller from the master of the triple cross. Not all scars are visible. Jonathan Kellaway needs no reminding of that on the verge of his retirement from china clay conglomerate Intercontinental Kaolins. The company has left its mark in pits and spoil heaps around the world... -
![The Lady in the Car with Glasses and a Gun by Sébastien Japrisot]()
The Lady in the Car with Glasses and a Gun by Sébastien Japrisot
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsDany Longo is blonde, beautiful, disturbed, passionate--and nearsighted. As she speeds through the south of France in a purloined Thunderbird on an errand for her employer and his wife, no one, including Dany herself, knows where she is headed--or why she is going there... -
![Head Count by Ingrid Noll]()
Head Count by Ingrid Noll
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsMaya's only memory is being at odds with her mother and brother. Her father seemed to love her but he disappeared. Maya's life is embattled until she meets Cora. The two form a friendship founded on a conviction that they are somehow separate from society and do not have to abide by its rules... -
![Eenie, Meenie by Willow Rose]()
Eenie, Meenie by Willow Rose
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsJohnny is a criminal. He has been locked up before - but never in a place quite like this. Now he wonders if he will ever make it through to his release date - alive...EENIE, MEENIE is a 15,000 word thriller novella from Willow Rose, author of the International Bestselling horror-series starring the Danish reporter Rebekka Franck. It is not for the faint at heart...Categorized as:
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![The Breakdown by Arianne Richmonde]()
The Breakdown by Arianne Richmonde
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsOne day she had the perfect life. The next it was gone…I stand at the very edge of the cliff face, looking at the roaring ocean below my feet. I’m in no danger, in fact my husband and his sister talk just feet away from me, watching my every move.Behind them sits a place my husband refers to as our summer house. Apparently it’s my favorite place in the world, not that I can remember...
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