Showing results by publisher "Author's Republic" in Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Sarah is a burnout. Her 20s have been wasted in a psychedelic haze. Now she wants to be sober and avoid temptation, so she joins a clinical trial to be sequestered away from the world. Paranoia flows. Weird experiments are carried out on the participants' waking and sleeping bodies. They realize the trial is changing them. Programming them. Installing false memories and removing emotions.

Jon Gilligan is the only man with a pulse in a city of the undead. It's his job to maintain order between the factions of walking corpses and disembodied spirits. The workload has been driving him a little insane, leading him to take on the persona of a noir detective. He narrates his adventures, casting himself as a hero to all those under his watch.

In this audiobook lives the final seven original stories of survival, suspense, and satire from the Sage of the Salish Sea - the most special season of a seasoned specialist. He will amuse you with his wit and wisdom, and the spontaneous combustion and thrust they generate, often mixed in unequal proportions, as he dances with the devil in the pale moonlight.

The Picture of Dorian Gray, first published in 1890, is still one of the most riveting novels ever written. The genius plot has everything to capture and hold the imagination, from lust, debauchery, and doomed romance though blackmail, murder, and the disastrous effect of a morally depraved French novel. That’s not even counting the visits to the opium den, the addiction, the stalking, or the string of deaths - accidental or self-inflicted.

Maud Ruthyn, the young, naive heroine, has a governess who is an enigmatic older woman, a liar, bully, and spy, who takes a dark secret with her when she leaves. Maud is then orphaned and moves in with her Uncle Silas, her father's mysterious brother and a man with a scandalous - even murderous - past. She is horrified to find her former governess appears in her life again, in this Gothic Victorian psychological thriller, with a touch of the occult.

“In Amundsen's Tent" is short horror fiction inspired in part by various expeditions to the South Pole, beginning in the late 1890s. These culminated in the famous effort led by Roald Amundsen, who was the first to reach the South Pole on December 14, 1911. "In Amundsen’s Tent" is about a three-man expedition to Antarctica arriving at the deserted camp of an earlier trio of explorers. In the tent is the journal of Robert Drumgold, who with two other men, perished mysteriously near the South Pole....

A collection of short stories from such favorites as Wilkie Collins, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and Rudyard Kipling are joined by others written anonymously in this anthology which will have you scratching your head and listening just a bit longer to discover the key to the mysteries.

Originally published in 1897, That Affair Next Door is Anna Katherine Green’s eighth book featuring the series detective Ebenezer Gryce and the first to feature the society spinster, Amelia Butterworth. Many consider the nosy Miss Butterworth to be the precursor to Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple or Patricia Wentworth’s Miss Silver. The story is told from Miss Butterworth’s perspective as she relates the story of a murdered young woman and how she sets out to unravel the mystery.

Ogni verità, per quanto incredibile, nasconde una menzogna. Sarah, nonostante le difficoltà, è un’attivista che gira per il mondo portando il suo messaggio di pace e progresso. Almeno fino a quando, un giorno, riceve un messaggio inaspettato. Qualcuno ha intenzione di fermarla con ogni mezzo. Qualcuno che forse conosce il suo segreto. Per fortuna Sarah non è sola. Può contare infatti sull’aiuto del leale Dottor Michael Zimmer.

Almost since the beginning of time, man has committed crimes that have defied our ability to explain. Among these are the most heinous crimes of all, murders. The taking of an innocent life goes against our most basic principles. Yet, murders continue to occur, and sometimes, they go unsolved. Following are some of the most famous and infamous cases that are still waiting. They are murders, unsolved, in audiobook form.

After a chance meeting between a European DJ and an elite Arabic businessman at an airport, the narrative unfolds, as we discover that all is not what it seems.

Worlds Apart tracks the Bride’s epic westward journey from California to the Straits of Gibraltar, with adventures in Hawaii, Japan, China, and India. The wrongs he encounters and the attempts to silence him are a constant reminder of his true mission: Ease the suffering of those unfortunate enough to be in the path of blind greed posing as God’s will. He and his men confront tyranny, lend a hand to resistance fighters, and attempt to overcome the savagery of a corrupt enemy impervious to the values that define humanity.

While being tracked by a well-known Manhattan investigator, Benjamin Holder won't stop at anything until he finds his daughter. After being imprisoned for 15 years, he finds himself in some financial distress. With Detective Matthew Raegan closing in on him at every turn, he uses the ultimate weapon he designed (while in prison) to help squelch many controversial injustices within the community.

Courtney Seabrook is about to turn 40. It has been quite a year for the Seabrooks, but it can only get worse. Doctor Thomas Seabrook is caught up in a robbery of a jeweler. Can former detective Sergeant Steven Potter convince the desperate thieves to give themselves up and release their hostages? Will Thomas' father-in-law, Darren Hunter, save the day, as he has a habit of doing? Or will Thomas pay the ultimate price for choosing his wife's birthday present on that particular day?

Just when US WAVE Livvy Delacourt thinks she and her team of psychic Nazi hunters are ready for whatever the Reich can throw at them, Hitler adds to the mix a spy who also happens to be a wizard. Now dark magic is being used to attack US facilities. Livvy must match wits with the evil wizard whose objective is to destroy Operation Delphi and all her team. She must sharpen her skills quickly - or risk dying and taking the team down with her.

After failing at being a cop and a not-so private investigator, Frank Jones is known as Double O 12, or 12 Gauge. Now a US international agent, his chaos continues to Paris and Moscow.

A monstrous infection is spreading worldwide. Is this a simple infection or a deliberate attempt to ruin the human population, or bioterrorism? What is this global infection, and who is spreading this? To know that, listen to this suspense-filled audiobook.

Historian Aldo Lombardi is a recent graduate of the Pontifical Gregorian University summoned to appear before Pope Benedict. Allison Gillespie is an investigator whose assignment leads her to Aldo and a 500-year-old secret whose discovery may unravel the very fabric of the Christian faith. The pair must uncover the truth behind the secret and reveal what the leaders of the modern Seventh-day Adventist Church know that could destroy the Catholic Church.

The Baskerville family curse tells of how a terrifying, supernatural hound roams the moors around Baskerville Hall and preys on members of the family in revenge for a terrible crime committed by one of their ancestors. When Sir Charles Baskerville is found dead in his grounds, with a large animal footprint near his lifeless body, the locals are convinced that the hound is back. It is up to Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson to uncover the truth and keep the new heir to Baskerville Hall safe from danger.

Nibiru, il dodicesimo pianeta del nostro sistema solare, ha un`orbita estremamente ellittica, retrograda e notevolmente più grande di quella di tutti gli altri. Infatti, per compiere un giro completo intorno al Sole impiega circa 3,600 anni. Azakis e Petri, due simpatici abitanti di questo strano pianeta, a bordo della loro astronave Theos, stanno tornando sulla Terra per recuperare un misterioso e preziosissimo carico lasciato nascosto l`ultima volta che sono stati qui.