Showing results for "Fairy Tales" in Crime Fiction

As Jan Fabel, of the Hamburg murder squad, interprets this twisted imagery at a crime scene, it becomes clear that each new crime is a grisly reference to folk stories collected by the Brothers Grimm. The hunt is on for a serial killer who is exploring the darkest, most fundamental fears hidden in ancient fairy tales.

Nine months have passed since psychic Mira Tejedor last walked the halls of Anthony Faircloth's adolescent mind. All but family now, Mira is relocating to Charlotte, NC, not only for a much-needed change of scenery, but to further her burgeoning relationship with Dr. Thomas Archer. On the eve of her move, however, a new threat emerges. Young girls from every corner of Charlotte are falling catatonic, a condition eerily similar to the illness from which Mira rescued Anthony the previous fall.

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.

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.