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What does it mean to take action? To bear witness? What does it cost? These stories take us into the heart of contemporary New York City and its residents’ lives. We meet children, grandmothers and even ghosts as they strive to connect, to stand up for, and to really see each other. Their relationships shape not only their own futures but those of their families and their city. In its portraits of families and friendships, Witness enacts its own testimony.

Agatha Christie's shocking courtroom drama, read on audio by her grandson, Mathew Prichard. When wealthy spinster Emily French is found murdered, suspicion falls to Leonard Vole, the man to whom she hastily bequeathed her riches before she died. Leonard assures the investigators that his wife, Romaine Heilger, can provide them with an alibi. However, when questioned, Romaine informs the police that Vole returned home late that night covered in blood.

Hunter Gray and Lainie Mayes were each other's first, last, and only love. Until tragedy and their feuding families drove them apart. Eleven years vanish when Hunter learns that Lainie has gone missing in the Colorado mountains. Now the former army pilot must pull off his most perilous mission. Can he rescue Lainie and uncover the truth before the woman he loves is once again lost to him...this time forever?

Eva Gray has a secret. Eight years ago her sister entered the Brothers of Sin Motorcycle Club and never came back. Seven years ago she vowed revenge, even if she had to change everything about her life to do it - her look, her name, her face. Now she's stalking the Brothers and looking for weakness. She's close to achieving her goal, so close she can taste it. But a prominent federal judge is now in ICU, and Eva's the only one who can prove the club hired the hit.

This short thriller takes Joe Ledger into the mysterious, troubled town of Pine Deep, Pennsylvania, the setting for Maberry’s chilling Pine Deep Trilogy. In Pine Deep, nothing is what it seems.

"The Case of the Irate Witness," the mystery which is the star of this collection of 4 novelettes, is the only one that the incomparable Erle Stanley Gardner ever wrote featuring Perry Mason in short story form. Each of the stories revolves around the subject of stolen jewels and each story is a gem in itself.

John Updike reads six stories he has selected from the 100-odd he has published. Mr. Updike, when asked to described his method of reading aloud, said "I try to picture the things described and to speak the words distinctly, and to let the emotion come through on its own." The method works beautifully.

Presenting an American voice for this legendary Agatha Christie mystery with one of her best denouements.

Mark is the accused rapist. Miss P. is the victim, his former teacher. Moira M. is an apathetic juror. As the trial unfolds in this intense short story, three personal histories emerge, along with three alarmingly different points of view: Obsessed and angry. Menaced and disillusioned. Disaffected and searching through an unexamined life for moral conviction.

The Dead Witness gathers the finest adventures among private and police detectives from the 19th century and into the early 20th - including a wide range of overlooked gems creating the finest ever anthology of Victorian detective stories. "The Dead Witness", the 1866 title story by Australian writer Mary Fortune, is the first known detective story by a woman, a suspenseful clue-strewn manhunt in the Outback. This forgotten treasure sets the tone for the whole anthology....

How does witnessing a crime change a person? This powerful collection of stories by a star-studded roster of contributors examines this very question.

After Marielle Coleman’s foster son witnesses his mother’s murder, he becomes a killer’s next target. Escaping into a raging Montana snowstorm, Marielle and her little boy hide at a remote camp—and unexpectedly reunite with her ex-fiancé, Graham Flynn, an undercover DEA agent. Now Graham and Marielle must put aside their distrust to save the child from dangerous pursuers. But Graham’s still hiding secrets from Marielle…ones that could tie them all to a conspiracy that will end their lives.

After two months of protective custody, bodyguard Arianna Jackson is days away from testifying at a murder trial when the unthinkable happens. Her Alaska safe house is attacked, and Arianna is forced to go on the run with United States Marshal Brody Callahan. Arianna is used to issuing orders, not taking them, but now, out in the wild, with a bounty on her head and a killer on her heels, she has only one hope of making it to testify—the handsome protector at her side.

Defending The Child & Hiding The Witness & Protecting The Orphan has descriptive copy which is not yet available from the Publisher.

Join these women as their lives are intertwined through purpose and divine destiny. You'll meet the Pastor's wife Dora, the misguided teen Danielle, the prayer warrior Evangelist Koffee, and a host of other women who's stories will show you the power that one can find in living life as a witness to the true and living power of God.

Enclosed in this volume are five tales and short narrations of spirits and specters that seem to linger in the land of the living. Such as a the spirit of a grandfather wishing to connect with the grandson he never met, an entity hell bent on taking the innocence of young girl as she lies terrified in her bed and of the little girl trying to give her sister an important message! Some are false while some are based on fact, can you tell them apart?

A classic Agatha Christie short story, available individually for the first time in digital audio, performed by Christopher Lee. When wealthy spinster Emily French is found murdered, suspicion falls to Leonard Vole, the man to whom she hastily bequeathed her riches before she died. Leonard assures the investigators that his wife, Romaine Heilger, can provide them with an alibi. However, when questioned, Romaine informs the police that Vole returned home late that night covered in blood.

You would think that the easiest crimes to solve would be the ones where you have several eyewitnesses who saw what happened and are willing to tell the police about it. However, as DI Peter Johns discovers in this short story, witnesses don't always always remember what they saw - and sometimes they even remember things that they did not see!

எல்லாவற்றிலும் பல இக்கட்டான சூழ்நிலைகளும் வாய்ப்புகளும் ஓடிக்கொண்டிருக்கின்றன: உடைந்த உறவுகள், சிதைந்த மதிப்புகள், எல்லைக்குட்பட்ட பிரிவுகள், இயற்கையிலிருந்து முற்றிலும் துண்டிக்கப்பட்ட இயந்திர வாழ்க்கை. இவை அனைத்திற்கும் மத்தியில், ஒரே ஒரு நம்பிக்கை மட்டுமே உள்ளது, தீவிரத்துடன் அதிர்வுறும்.

"Rasskazy ochevidcev, ili Arhivy Nadzora Semeryh" - sbornik fantasticheskih rasskazov Genri Lajon Oldi, zhanr boevoe fjentezi. Sobranie istorij, sluchivshihsja v Rettii i ejo okrestnostjah. Zloupotreblenija magiej, mifologija, obman naselenija, njuansy prokljatij, dujel' magov i t. d. Jeti i drugie podobnye sluchai tshhatel'no sobiraet i izuchaet tainstvennyj orden-nevidimka "Nadzor Semeryh". Hranit teksty verhovnyj arhivarius Guval'd Motloh.