Three chilling stories from the world's bestselling thriller writerThe House Next Door (with Susan DiLallo): Married mother of four Laura Sherman was thrilled when her new neighbour invited her on some errands. But a few quick tasks became a long lunch - and now things could go too far with a man who isn't what he seems...The Killer's Wife (with Max DiLallo): Six girls have gone missing. Detective McGrath knows the only way to find them is to get close to the suspect's wife... maybe too close.Th...
Night Train to Murder (The Ishmael Jones Series, #8) (An Ishmael Jones Mystery)
by Simon R. Green
When a body is discovered in a locked toilet cubicle on the late-night train to Bath, Ishmael Jones is faced with his most puzzling case to date.When Ishmael Jones and his partner Penny are asked to escort a VIP on the late-night train to Bath, it would appear to be a routine case. The Organisation has acquired intelligence that an attempt is to be made on Sir Dennis Gregson's life as he travels to Bath to take up his new position as Head of the British Psychic Weapons Division. Ishmael's missio...
The Ultimate Heist Belisarius is a Homo quantus, engineered with impossible insight. But his gift is also a curse – an uncontrollable, even suicidal drive to know, to understand. Genetically flawed, he leaves his people to find a different life, and ends up becoming the galaxy's greatest con man and thief. But the jobs are getting too easy and his extraordinary brain is chafing at the neglect. When a client offers him untold wealth to move a squadron of secret warships across an enemy wormhole...
From debut-author CJ Rivera, comes a harrowing tale of a parent risking it all for her child. The Final Orchard is perfect for those looking for a novel that captures them like television shows Silo and Black Mirror. In a society where bionic enhancements are the epitome of wealth and power, scientific researcher Dr Rosio Arata threatens to topple the status quo with her pioneering organic enhancements. Yet when a horrific accident kills her daughter, Ro's quest for answers leads her to becomin...
Carolyn’s parents did not, after all, make genomics history by synthesizing her genome in a lab. She has known she is the "Human Hoax" ever since a high school genetics exercise revealed she has trisomy X—a chromosomal abnormality—yet no synthetically constructed genome would have such clear traces of natural conception. Many years later, as molecular biologist, she hopes her colleagues never learn of her embarrassing origins. But when someone ransacks her office and lab, she finds professional...
Paranoia (Ldp Thrillers) (Romans, Nouvelles, Recits (Domaine Etranger), #6089577)
by Joseph Finder
A cada cual le llega su hora de traicionar. Maquiavélica intriga corporativa en la convulsa era digital. Adam Cassidy odia su trabajo en Wyatt Telecom pero, tras cometer un error, es forzado a convertirse en un espía corporativo a cambio de evitar la prisión. Entrenado y preparado, en la nueva empresa asciende rápidamente. Se muda a vivir a un lujoso apartamento, le es asignado un Porsche, conoce a la chica de sus sueños. Su vida es por fin perfecta. Todo lo que debe hacer ahora es traicionar a...
Life could not have been better for Mike and Jill Nail. After raising two daughters and launching them out on their own, the empty-nesters prepare to begin the next chapter of their lives living abroad in the historic and romantic Italian city of Florence. Mike's discovery of $1.5 million and a mysterious letter leads him to a massive global conspiracy. Mike goes on the hunt to halt a series of terrorist acts and soon the hunter becomes the hunted. The twists and turns that follow change their l...
Crooked V.2 (Crooked Anthologies, #2)
by G J Ogden, Austin Dragon, and C E Clayton
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (Dirk Gently)
by Douglas Adams
What do a dead cat, a computer whiz-kid, an Electric Monk who believes the world is pink, quantum mechanics, a Chronologist over 200 years old, Samuel Taylor Coleridge (poet), and pizza have in common? Apparently not much; until Dirk Gently, self-styled private investigator, sets out to prove the fundamental interconnectedness of all things by solving a mysterious murder, assisting a mysterious professor, unravelling a mysterious mystery, and eating a lot of pizza - not to mention saving the e...