It’s a fear more paralyzing than falling. More terrifying than absolute darkness. More horrifying than anything you can imagine. It’s the one fear you cannot escape, no matter where you run… no matter where you hide. It’s the fear of yourself. It’s real. It can happen to you. And facing it can be deadly. Fear for your mind.

AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR ERIN HART DELIVERS A SEARING NEW NOVEL OF SUSPENSE, BRILLIANTLY MELDING MODERN FORENSICS AND IRISH MYTH AND MYSTERY IN THIS CHARGED THRILLER.

American pathologist Nora Gavin fled to Ireland three years ago, hoping that distance from home would bring her peace. Though she threw herself into the study of bog bodies and the mysteries of their circumstances, she was ultimately led back to the one mystery she was unable to solve: the murder of her sister, Tríona. Nora can’t move forward until she goes back—back to her home, to the scene of the crime, to the source of her nightmares and her deepest regrets.

Determined to put her sister’s case to rest and anxious about her eleven-year-old niece, Elizabeth, Nora returns to Saint Paul, Minnesota, to find that her brother-in-law, Peter Hallett, is about to remarry and has plans to leave the country with his new bride. Nora has long suspected Hallett in Tríona’s murder, though there has never been any proof of his involvement, and now she believes that his new wife and Elizabeth may both be in danger. Time is short, and as Nora begins reinvestigating her sister’s death, missed clues and ever-more disturbing details come to light. What is the significance of the “false mermaid” seeds found on Tríona’s body? Why was her behavior so erratic in the days before her murder?

Is there a link between Tríona’s death and that of another young woman?

Nora’s search for answers takes her from the banks of the Mississippi to the cliffs of Ireland, where the eerie story of a fisherman’s wife who vanished more than a century ago offers up uncanny parallels. As painful secrets come to light, Nora is drawn deeper into a past that still threatens to engulf her and must determine how much she is prepared to sacrifice to put one tragedy to rest… and to make sure that history doesn’t repeat itself.

JUST BECAUSE FOOTBALL’S A GAME, DOESN’T MEAN YOU HAVE TO PLAY FAIR.

Scott Manson needs to leave England. His career managing London City football team is over, and it cuts deep to watch them play on without him.

But finding a job in the star-studded world of international football is harder than it looks. A new position in Shanghai turns out to be part of an elaborate sting operation. And in Barcelona, he’s hired not as a football manager, but as a detective. Barca’s star player is missing, and they need to find him fast.

Scott has a month to track him down. As he follows the trail from Paris to Antigua, he encounters corrupt men, wicked women, and the rotten core of the beautiful game...

A blazingly original new novel from the undisputed dean of American crime fiction, featuring a sharp, tough, sexy new P.I., Sunny Randall.

Sunny Randall is a Boston P.I. and former cop, a college graduate, an aspiring painter, a divorcee, and the owner of a miniature bullterrier named Rosie. Hired by a wealthy family to locate their teenage daughter, Sunny is tested by the parents’ preconceived notion of what a detective should be. With the help of underworld contacts she tracks down the runaway Millicent, who has turned to prostitution, rescues her from her pimp, and finds herself, at thirty-four, the unlikely custodian of a difficult teenager when the girl refuses to return to her family.

But Millicent’s problems are rooted in much larger crimes than running away, and Sunny, now playing the role of bodyguard, is caught in a shooting war with some very serious mobsters. She turns for help to her ex-husband, Richie, himself the son of a mob family, and to her dearest friend, Spike, a flamboyant and dangerous gay man. Heading this unlikely alliance, Sunny must solve at least one murder, resolve a criminal conspiracy that reaches to the top of state government, and bring Millicent back into functional young womanhood.

Stone Barrington’s newest client seems to be a magnet for trouble. A poised lady of considerable wealth, she’s looking for help discouraging the attentions of a tenacious gentleman. But no sooner does Stone fend off the party in question than his client becomes involved in two lethal crimes.

With suspects aplenty, Stone must probe deep into his client’s life to find the truth, and he discovers that the heart of the mystery may be a famous missing piece of history, a stunningly beautiful vestige of a bygone era. It’s a piece with a long and storied past and untold value... the kind of relic someone might kill to obtain.

Among the upper crust nearly everyone has buried a skeleton or two, and it will take all of Stone’s investigative powers to determine whose secrets are harmless, and whose are deadly.

Sharon Fields, estrella de cine, es una mujer cuyo éxito parece irresistible a todo el mundo. Existe un silecioso grupo masculino de fans que está planeando raptarla. Su meta retorcida, sus aspiraciones, son satisfacer sus más oscuros deseos y frustraciones con ella. Sharon, a quien la vida sonreía, se ve secuestrada, atada, humillada y, lejos de rendirse, planea su propia escapada. Uno por uno engatusa a los secuestradores para salir sana y salva de su prisión.

A sequel to the very popular Stones, Fanatics is a thrilling story in which the past and present collide in terrifying, riveting ways.

Garnet Havelock has just finished his apprenticeship in furniture-making, and has found a workshop for his new business in an old coach house on the isolated estate of recently deceased Professor Eduardo Corbizzi. Garnet signs a contract with the late professor's long-time companion, the eccentric and inscrutable Mrs. Valentina Stoppini, who presides over the mansion and is its only occupant. The terms of the deal are excellent, but there's a catch: Garnet has to repair the library's fire damage and keep all details about the estate confidential. Only after he agrees does Mrs. Stoppini inform him that the professor died of a seizure in the library under mysterious circumstances involving "an accident" and "a small fire." It isn't long before a distressing collision of past and present drags Garnet towards a horrifying truth he could never have imagined.

Being a kid with wings-constantly on the run-has never been easy, and Max and her flock are getting tenser than ever. First, on a trip to Africa, they meet a mysterious billionaire whose intense scrutiny of the Flock makes her fear the worst. Then, a cryptic message from a young girl arrives, warning them "The sky will fall." And as if an impending apocalypse weren't bad enough, canny birdkid Angel makes a dire prophecy about Max's soul mate: Fang will be the first to die. Max's desperate desire to protect Fang brings the two closer than ever. But can the team weather the storm, or will the turmoil rip them apart for the last time?

Imogene es joven y guapa. Besa como una actriz y conoce absolutamente todas y cada una de las películas que se han filmado.

El caso es que también está muerta y a la espera de Alec Sheldon en el teatro Rosebud una tarde de 1945… Arthur Rod es un niño solitario con unas ideas brillantes y un don para atraer los malos tratos. No es fácil hacer amigos cuando eres el único chico hinchable de tu ciudad…

Francis no es feliz. Francis fue humano una vez, pero eso tuvo lugar hace ya algún tiempo. Ahora es una langosta de dos metros y medio de altura, y todo el mundo en Calliphora se estremece cada vez que lo escuchan cantar… John Finney está encerrado en un sótano lleno de manchas de sangre que pertenecen a los asesinatos de otra media docena de chicos. Con él en el sótano hay un viejo teléfono, desconectado desde hace mucho tiempo, pero que cada noche suena con llamadas de los muertos…

They were best friends, driven by one shared vision – to rule the world of virtual reality games. Cill, hard-edged and beautiful, Var and Benny, brains and business acumen, and Bart, the genius behind the idea. Their newest invention, developed to transport the player into a fantastical virtual world, is just about to be launched. Then, suddenly, Bart is found brutally killed, defeated by their own game. Their close-knit group is torn apart. Who could have engineered a virtual death with such devastating consequences? Even Eve Dallas, New York City's most cunning investigator, is hard-pressed for an answer. But as she digs deeper, peeling back layers of secrets, revenge and misplaced allegiances, she realises with growing dread the depth of the killer's master plan. And she knows his game is far from over…

Округ Хоуп, штат Монтана. Прибежище фанатиков культа Судного дня. Мэри Мэй Фэйргрейв, владелица местного бара, лишилась практически всего, что было ей дорого в жизни. Ее родители умерли при загадочных обстоятельствах, а брат исчез, привлеченный словами харизматичного лидера культа. Против умелого и опасного противника у Мэри Мэй практически нет шансов, но неожиданное вмешательство охотника Уильяма Бойда изменит все.

After the screen of a run-down drive-in movie theater collapses and kills four people, the daughter of one of the victims asks private investigator Cal Weaver to look into a recent break-in at her father’s house. Cal discovers a hidden basement room where it’s clear that salacious activities have taken place — as well as evidence of missing DVDs. But his investigation soon becomes more complicated when he realizes it may not be discs the thief was actually interested in...

Meanwhile, Detective Barry Duckworth is still trying to solve two murders — one of which is three years old — he believes are connected, since each featured a similar distinctive wound.

As the lies begin to unravel, Cal is headed straight into the heart of a dark secret as his search uncovers more startling truths about Promise Falls. And when yet another murder happens, Cal and Barry are both driven to pursue their investigations, no matter where they lead. Evil deeds long thought buried are about to haunt the residents of this town — as the sins of the past and present collide with terrifying results.

Su protagonista es Richard Baedecker, un antiguo astronauta del proyecto Apolo y uno de los hombre que caminaron por la Luna. Lo que se cuenta es su relación con sus antiguos compañeros de misión, uno convertido en evangelista y otro en senador, con su hijo, seguidor de un gurú hindú, y con la antigua novia de éste. Pero ante todo es la historia de un hombre que se busca a sí mismo después de su momento de gloria, el relato de su búsqueda de la trascendencia, de un sentido para el resto de la vida. No es una novela de acción, sino una historia de personajes y, como dice Spinrad, la resolución final no es física sino espiritual.

Hay mucho en esta novela (además de sobre vuelo y montañismo) sobre la vida entendida como una obra de arte, de intentar hacer que cada momento tenga sentido por sí mismo, de la búsqueda del ser propio. Hay una imagen recurrente: dos astronautas jugando al frisbee en la Luna. Y tenemos también a Richard, que se lanza, arriesgando la vida, en ala delta desde una montaña por el simple propósito de celebrar la naturaleza.

La novela es ciertamente mística, pero se trata de un misticismo real que jamás se manifiesta o se hace explícito en cosas tangibles. Permea la novela esa sensación de que el mundo es algo más de lo que vemos, esa incomodidad que sentimos al vivir día a día, que nos obliga a buscar nuevas metas en la vida. Hay cierta religiosidad en la actitud del personaje, una búsqueda de un lugar sagrado. Pero no es más que la reacción de una persona de mediana edad que se encuentra ejerciendo un trabajo que no le gusta, una simple manifestación psicológica. No se asuste el lector, no hay ningún elemento fantástico en la novela. Pero la mirada y la voz de Simmons sí que son fantásticas.

Dan Simmons es un escritor sorprendente, ya que en ningún momento renuncia a la tradición literaria de la lengua en la que escribe. Hay mucho en esta novela de lo mejor de la actual novelística americana. Un punto obvio de conexión es John Updike, pero donde Updike es irónico, Simmons es comprensivo: no aspira a juzgar a su personaje sino a entenderlo.

Stone Barrington is enjoying a boating excursion off the Maine coast when a chance encounter leaves him somewhat the worse for wear. Always able to find the silver lining in even the unhappiest circumstances, Stone is pleased to discover that the authors of his misfortune are, in fact, members of a prestigious family who present a unique business opportunity, and who require a man of Stone’s skills to overcome a sticky situation of their own.

The acquaintance is fortuitous indeed, for as it turns out, Stone and his new friends have an enemy in common. He’s the sort of man who prefers force to finesse, and who regards any professional defeat as a personal and intolerable insult. And when Stone’s sly cunning collides with his adversary’s hair-trigger-temper, the results are sure to be explosive...

It’s the original anthology series that weds horror and eroticism for a heart-stopping orgasm of consummate terror!

Here you’ll find stories of supernatural seductions, in which creatures unimagined— and unimaginably terrifying—commingle with humans for eternal nights of bliss . . . and blasphemy! And here too are stories set in our all-too-real world, where a one-night stand can end up spawning life-threatening consequences. Where today’s fantasies become tomorrow’s nightmares. Where the ultimate act of intimacy becomes the supreme act of betrayal—or worse.

From Publishers Weekly

If Cook's skills as a writer were as finely tuned as his sense of timing, his 14th medical thriller (after Terminal) would be a lot more rewarding. Current political events guarantee that a suspense novel centering on health care management will be topical and at least potentially fascinating. Unfortunately, stock characters, stilted dialogue and improbable heroes and villains make for difficult reading here. Idealistic young doctors David and Angela Wilson take positions at a state-of-the-art medical center in a small Vermont town partly because they see it as an ideal spot for their daughter, who suffers from cystic fibrosis. But the town is not as idyllic as it seems, and the hospital is in a desperate financial bind due primarily to its contract with a local HMO, David's new employer. Worse still, patients are dying unexpectedly almost daily, and no one seems to care very much. The deaths are not normal, of course, and astute readers will quickly determine who is behind them, why and-most likely-how. Cook raises troubling questions about the conflicts between medical and financial priorities in managed care (albeit in a somewhat distorted fashion), but it's difficult to get emotionally involved in a scenario as improbable as this one. Literary Guild and Doubleday Book Club main selection; Mystery Guild alternate; Reader's Digest Condensed Book.

From Library Journal

Recent medical school graduates David and Angela Wilson find the perfect setting for both their careers and family in rural Bartlet, Vermont. Not even the recent suicide and disappearance of two other physicians dampen their enthusiasm as they begin their jobs and buy their dream house. David's confidence is soon shaken, however, as his patients begin dying-not from their terminal diseases but from a mysterious illness. The deaths, coupled with attacks in the hospital parking lot, give the Wilsons the uneasy feeling that Bartlet is not what it seems. When a gruesome discovery prompts the Wilsons to hire a private investigator, the lives of several patients-and they themselves-are in danger. Physician and writer Cook once again terrifies and intrigues with this realistic and intense-to-the-end thriller, which is enhanced by actor Barry Bostwick's remarkable range of voices. For most popular collections.

The year is 1999 and Internet companies are springing up everywhere. Anything seems possible for those who think big.

So when David Lane — a quiet, cautious banker — is invited by his old friend Guy Jourdan to help start up ninetyminutes.com he decides that for once he will do something daring, something dangerous.

If only he’d realized quite how dangerous.

Because Guy falls out with Tony Jourdan, his father and their biggest investor, bringing the company close to collapse. Then Tony is murdered — and David’s rollercoaster ride into danger and disaster begins...