Anthologies
epub, azw3 |eng | 2014-01-26 | Author:Silvina Ocampo

THE PRAYER LAURA was in church, praying: Oh, my God, won’t You reward the good deeds of Your servant? I know that sometimes I wasn’t good. I’m impatient and deceitful. ...
( Category: Psychological Thrillers March 21,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:Lee Child

Scutwork CJ LYONS The dead guy was a skinny old fart who didn’t have the good sense to have a Do Not Resuscitate on file. He’d spend his last few ...
( Category: Anthologies March 21,2015 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2013-01-31 | Author:Barstow, Stan [Barstow, Stan]

He gave the waitress his name and she pulled out a table so that they could sit side by side with their backs to the wall. ‘Are you hungry?’ ‘Famished.’ ...
( Category: British & Irish March 21,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:Rick Bass

The Legend of Pig-Eye WE USED TO GO to bars, the really seedy ones, to find our fights. It excited Don. He loved going into the dark old dives, ducking ...
( Category: Short Stories March 21,2015 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2012-09-26 | Author:McAllister, Bruce

When he awoke, it was night. He didn’t want to move but he made himself get up, find the bathroom, and, fumbling, relieve himself. He took three extra-strength Excedrin IB—stuff ...
( Category: Horror March 21,2015 )
epub |eng | 2014-09-07 | Author:Graham Masterton

SPIRITS OF THE AGE Michael was sitting in Prince Albert’s writing room when he thought that he could hear a woman sobbing. He sat up straight and listened. It was ...
( Category: Anthologies March 21,2015 )
mobi, azw3, epub |eng | 2014-09-02 | Author:Paul Di Filippo

6. Artists and Models CLIMBING THE COOKING-REDOLENT STAIRS to Arbogast’s apartment, Crutchsump vented an unusually self-indulgent expression of her weariness in the form of a deep trembling sigh. Her feet ...
( Category: Anthologies March 21,2015 )
epub |eng | 2006-03-01 | Author:Ken Bruen [Bruen, Ken]

motion of slashing up, then planting that thing right in the cop’s thick neck. But the cop jumped back into the street yelling, “You fucking rice-grinding shite!” Without a glance ...
( Category: International Mystery & Crime March 10,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-11-04 | Author:Johnny Temple [Temple, Johnny]

* * * Charlie comes into the kitchen in his skivvies and a T-shirt and sits down at the table. “Aren’t you going to put some clothes on?” she asks. ...
( Category: Crime March 10,2015 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 1953-08-26 | Author:J.D. Salinger

Pretty Mouth and Green My Eyes WHEN the phone rang, the gray-haired man asked the girl, with quite some little deference, if she would rather for any reason he didn't ...
( Category: Anthologies March 8,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Dorothy L. Sayers

THE PRAYER VIOLET HUNT I “It is but giving over of a game. That must be lost.”—PHILASTERanhour— “Come, Mrs. Arne—come, my dear, you must not give way like this! You ...
( Category: Anthologies March 6,2015 )
epub |eng | 2006-01-02 | Author:Fluke, Joanne [Joanne, Fluke,]

Twelve Desserts of Christmas JOANNE FLUKE If you enjoyed reading about Hannah Swensen and the gang at The Cookie Jar, I’ve got some wonderful news. Hannah has her own cozy ...
( Category: Anthologies March 6,2015 )
epub |eng | 2010-07-01 | Author:Lee Child [Child, Lee]

The bestselling author of more than seventy novels, WENDY CORSI STAUB has penned multiple New York Times bestselling adult thrillers under her own name and more than two dozen young ...
( Category: Anthologies March 6,2015 )
epub |eng | 2010-07-01 | Author:Lee Child [Child, Lee]

“Something’s changed,” he said. “What do you mean?” “This isn’t the way we left this room,” Matosian said as soon as they’d come through the door and double-locked it behind ...
( Category: Anthologies March 6,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | | Author:Irving, Washington [Irving, Washington]

* * * A Ramble Among the Hills. I USED frequently to amuse myself towards the close of the day, when the heat had subsided, with taking long rambles about ...
( Category: Classics March 5,2015 )