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The bestselling author Jeffrey Archer once again astonishes, delights, and electrifies with this audio collection, Twelve Red Herrings. Featuring bonus interviews with the author. Archer, the internationally bestselling author of Honor Among Thieves and Kane & Abel, serves up this inventive...

Vous n'en ferez qu'une bouchée ! Nicolas Beuglet, Christian Blanchard, Pierre Bordage, Patricia Delahaie, R. J. Ellory, Jacques Expert, Jérémy Fel, Nicolas Jaillet, Anouk Langaney, Ian Manook et Cédric Sire : onze auteurs prestigieux, maîtres incontestés du frisson, nous entraînent dans une cinquième exploration sensorielle inédite autour du goût. Autant de nouvelles originales, singulières et terrifiantes à la rencontre de personnages succulemment cruels ; autant d'histoires délicates qui satisferont papilles et méninges les plus affûtés.

Poe tells the story of a nervous character, alleged to be “crazy” refusing all claims. He believes that his disposition arises from a heightening of the senses: "Above all was the sense of hearing acute" (74). The narrator takes care of a rich old man whose diseased eye he becomes obsessed with. He becomes so obsessed with this EvilEye that eventually, he decides to kill the old man. But what and how he will do it, is a mystery for you to find out.

"The Freaks Are Out" is a collection of spine-tingling stories featuring vampires, witches, werewolves, monsters, and freaks! Gear up for Halloween and let your imagination run wild. We are taking our listeners on a spine-tingling journey through the supernatural world, filled with twists and turns that will leave them gasping for breath.

"The Saggar" is a riveting narrative that plunges listeners into the gritty, vibrant life of Teddy Saggar, a man wrestling with the shadows of his past in Stoke-on-Trent. Through a series of vivid, compelling episodes, we journey with Teddy as he navigates a world teeming with old friends, uneasy reunions, and the stark realities of a life spent on the fringes.

Mysteries of Golfton Hills is a set of sixteen gripping psychological suspense, crime, and thriller audio short stories by bestselling author R. Barri Flowers, set in the fictional town of Golfton Hills, Florida, situated in the Panhandle.

Decenas de turistas asisten atónitos a la escena: uno de los monjes del antiquísimo y enigmático monasterio conocido como La Ciudadela sube a lo alto de la montaña, forma con su cuerpo la figura de una cruz en T y se lanza al vacío. Para algunos, es la señal que llevaban décadas esperando para entrar en acción. Para el agente Arkadian, el comienzo del caso más extraño de su vida.

I fiori sbocciano, le giornate si fanno sempre più lunghe e tiepide, nell'aria c'è una frizzante eccitazione che già promette l'estate: la primavera è il momento ideale per rilassarsi e immergersi in questi racconti ispirati alla stagione più amata. Ma non mettetevi troppo comodi, il delitto è sempre in agguato... Un'antologia di storie che vedono tra i protagonisti i detective creati da Agatha Christie: oltre agli amatissimi Poirot e Miss Marple, anche Mr Quin, Parker Pyne e l'inossidabile coppia Tommy e Tuppence.

JD Hamilton's debut book contains a collection of entertaining and gripping short stories that will delight, shock and enthrall crime fans everywhere. From a deaf woman alone in a dark house with a suspected intruder to a mother's battle with catastrophic grief, JD's stories will both chill and devastate. In each story there is intriguing mysteries and a signature twist.

Get your copy of "Wonders Unveiled: A Collection of Marvelous Short Stories" today and embark on a journey of enchantment, time travel, emotion, and parallel worlds that will leave you spellbound. This collection of short stories is filled with motivational tales of magical realism, twists, adventure, hope, deep meaning, and heroes' journeys which are great for all ages: kids, young adults, and seniors.

Episode six continues with a climbing body count. A secret is revealed about the journalist, and what is the trouble with Kelly?. Unbelievable discoveries are found out touching on the insane, or even the supernatural and a human trafficking case unravels.

Karel Čapek, zu Recht einer der berühmtesten und beliebtesten tschechischen Autoren, hat die Welt nicht nur mit dem Begriff des "Roboters" bereichert - er hat auch zahlreiche Krimi-Kurzgeschichten geschrieben, die an Witz und Raffinesse ihresgleichen suchen! Mit dabei: Der gestohlene Kaktus, Das Verschwinden des Herrn Hirsch, Tschintamanin und Vogel, Vom Kassenknacker und vom Brandstifter, Der gestohlene Mord, Der Fall mit dem Kind, Die Geschichte vom Heiratsschwindler, Das Gericht des Herrn Havlena, Die Briefmarkensammlung, Der Geschworene.

Mit Auguste Dupin schuf Edgar Allan Poe einen der ersten Detektive, dessen Fälle er in drei Geschichten erzählte. Die erste handelt von einem rätselhaften Doppelmord, dessen Ausführung sich niemand erklären kann.

DES MEURTRES IMPOSSIBLES ! 9 nouvelles ou courts romans célèbres, mettant en scène des meurtres commis dans des lieux hermétiquement fermés. 9 énigmes qui sont autant de défis aux capacités de déduction et d'imagination de l'audiolecteur.

A man finds his happiest life in the world inside his coma. He also finds that the difference between heaven and hell can be a very thin line. A man wakes on a cold basement floor staring at two women who are bound to their chairs. Across the room, a dead man lies in a pool of blood.

La ragazza venne fatta entrare, scortata dall'ispettore Sciacchitano. Altissima, un filo di trucco a incorniciare gli occhi verdi, lunghi capelli castani, seno tondo e sodo, cosce ben tornite. Sebastiani la fece accomodare su una delle due sedie rigide dell'ufficio. Era quasi mezzogiorno, ma sin dal primo mattino uno stuolo di giornalisti stava accampato davanti al portone, in via Fatebenefratelli, con i taccuini e i flash spianati: un calciatore ammazzato fa audience.

John has been labelled an overnight success after one of his novels was adapted into a box-office movie. But lately, John has been struggling with writer’s block and is finding it difficult to write something that will satisfy his fans. He’s been dealing with unsettling messages from an obsessed fan, and his ungrateful wife is constantly trying to find ways to spend his money. But John’s life is about to get much, much harder when a menacing stranger starts banging on the door late at night.

A husband and wife find themselves repeating the same scene over and over as something large looms in the sky above them. An old woman who takes care of her Alzheimer’s inflicted husband is exasperated when she realizes he believes that his mother is at their front door. Her mother-in-law, who has been dead for many years. She wants to show him he’s wrong, however, opening the door to prove it to him is a bad idea

La matanza de los selknam durante el siglo XIX inició un proceso de violencia que lleva a unos jóvenes nostálgicos a formar una comunidad neo-selknam en el sur del país. El desconocimiento de la tradición desencadena crueles rituales místicos, la autoquema de camiones, el surgimiento de una organización paramilitar y el desborde de la situación política. Esta novela obtuvo el Premio Roberto Bolaño 2015.

McDermids allererste Weihnachtsanthologie: winterlich, festlich, tödlich! Val McDermid zeigt sich als Meisterin der kurzen Form. Von St. Petersburg über Sarajevo bis zu den schottischen Highlands – von vergangenen Jahrhunderten bis heute – jede Geschichte ist anders als die vorherige. Von einem verantwortungslosen Baron, dessen Leiche neben einer Sandbirke gefunden wird, zu einem Autor, der vom bösen Geist eines neidischen Co-Autors verfolgt wird: die Charaktere, die Val McDermid heraufbeschwört, sind rätselhaft und gefährlich.