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Agatha's away with the fairies . . . And the little folk are causing big trouble for her! Angry at being jilted by new husband James, Agatha follows a fortune-teller's advice and rents a cottage in pretty Fryfam. There, she hopes, true love will come chasing after her. But her romantic notions...

After her brush with death on a frozen mountain and an upsetting conversation with her boyfriend Eamon Stone, Detective Isobel "Bel" Emerson is desperate for her life to return to some semblance of normalcy. So when Aesop's Files, Hollywood's most popular paranormal crime drama, announces it'll be filming its upcoming episodes on location in Bajka, she hopes the excitement, the famous actors, and the overtime pay will be a welcome reprieve from the madness.

On the very first day of 2019 a ten-year-old girl is found murdered in a backyard in Odense, Denmark. Her body is set up as a morbid work of art; a detailed copy of the final scene in H. C. Andersen's fairy tale; The Little Match Girl; crippled, frozen to death, crunching a pile of burned-out...

Brought to you by Penguin. The deliciously creepy Sunday Times bestseller from the author of The Chalk Man. Driving home one night, Gabe sees the face of a little girl he knows in the rear window of the car in front. She mouths one word - 'Daddy'. It's his five-year old daughter, Izzy. He never...

On Christmas Eve in 1988, seven-year-old Alfie Marsden vanished in the Wentshire Forest Pass when a burst tyre forced his father, Sorrel, to stop the car. Leaving the car to summon the emergency services, Sorrel returned to find his son gone. No trace of the child, nor his remains, have ever been found. Alfie Marsden was declared officially dead in 1995. Elusive online journalist Scott King, whose Six Stories podcasts have become an internet sensation, investigates the disappearance, interviewing six witnesses, to try to find out what really happened that fateful night.

1943: the newly formed Homicide division of the Victoria Police has been struggling to counter little-known fascist groups, particularly an organisation called Australia First that has been festering since before the war. And now there's an extra problem: the bitter divide between Catholics and Protestants, which is especially raw in small rural communities. Detective Joe Sable and Constable Helen Lord are working to track down the ruthless George Starling, who in turn is planning to wreak vengeance on them for the downfall of his nationalist group and mentor.

Gnadenlos. Animalisch. Blutrünstig. Ich bin nicht umsonst als das Biest der Bratva bekannt. Und sie ist mein Geschenk. Wir hatten einen Deal mit den Japanern, jeder hatte seine Gebiete, seine Geschäfte ... Bis sie einen aus unseren Reihen umbringen und mir Kimi wie ein verdammtes Jungfrauenopfer übergeben. Sie ist schwach, zart wie eine Blume ohne Dornen. Jemand wie ich könnte sie nur allzu leicht zerdrücken.

Kenneth har kommit ut ur fängelset där han suttit inne för mord. Suzanne, kvinnan som han älskade, har sedan länge gift sig med någon annan och tagit deras son med sig. Det är jul, och Kenneth arbetar som jultomte och besöker familjer. När han får chans att besöka Suzanne och hennes familj tar han den. Hon kommer trots allt ändå inte kunna känna igen honom i sin klädnad. Men när han kommer dit går allt fel, och han känner hur raseriet börjar växa i honom... "Det röda" är en nervkittlande och spännande novell från början till slut. Inger Frimansson är en svensk journalist och författare.

"Don Blas s'avançait lentement dans la rue d'Alcolote, regardant de côté et d'autre les maisons avec ses yeux de lynx. Comme il passait devant l'église on sonna une messe ; il se précipita de cheval plutôt qu'il n'en descendit, et on le vit s'agenouiller auprès de l'autel. Quatre de ses gendarmes se mirent à genoux autour de sa chaise ; ils le regardèrent, il n'y avait déjà plus de dévotion dans ses yeux. Son œil sinistre était fixé sur un jeune homme d'une tournure fort distinguée qui priait dévotement à quelques pas de lui."