Historical Psychological Suspense

If you think the only thing Ellison writes is speculative fiction, craziness about giant cockroaches that attack Detroit, or invaders from space who look like pink eggplant and smell like chicken soup, this dynamite novel of the emergent days of rock and roll will turn you around at least three times. No spaceships, no robots, just a nice kid from Louisville named Stag Preston with a voice like an angel, seductive moves like the devil, and an invisible monkey named Success riding him straight to hell.

A haunting and enigmatic tale that will keep you awake and wondering long after you've finished this classic mystery. Everyone agreed that the day was just right for the picnic to Hanging Rock - a shimmering summer morning warm and still, with cicadas shrilling.... St Valentine’s Day, in the midst of the hot summer of 1900, a party of schoolgirls went on a picnic to Hanging Rock. Some were never to return....

Living on her family’s gorgeous lakeside estate in Cornwall, England, Alice Edevane is a bright, clever, inquisitive, innocent, and precociously talented 14-year-old who loves to write stories. But the mysteries she pens are no match for the one her family is about to endure.... One midsummer’s eve, after a beautiful party drawing hundreds of guests to the estate has ended, the Edevanes discover that their youngest son, Theo, has vanished without a trace.

The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the #1 national bestseller Cleopatra unpacks the mystery of the Salem Witch Trials. “The Witches is the fullest and finest story ever told about Salem in 1692, and no one else could tell it with the otherworldly flair of Stacy Schiff.” ―Joseph J. Ellis...

A family is shaken to its core after the mysterious disappearance of a teenage boy in this eerie tale, a blend of literary fiction, psychological suspense, and supernatural horror from the author of A Head Full of Ghosts. A Head Full of Ghosts scared the living hell out of me, and I m pretty...

"Der lød et hjerteskærende skrig om hævn. En sjælelig smerte gav genlyd op gennem sprækkerne fra en mørk fangekælder i den dybeste klippegrund under Alborzbjergkæden, nord for det Persiske rige. Alene lå hun i det mørke, hun både forsvarede og frygtede. Det mørke hun ville nedkalde over alle de, der havde stjålet hendes frihed; stjålet hendes åndelige uskyldighed. Det sværgede hun." Tre årtusinder senere, i dette øjeblik, ligger hovedpersonen blodig, forreven og døende i en frossen svensk skovbund nord for Stockholm.

Salò, inverno del 1944. Reduce dall'avventuroso recupero del carteggio Mussolini-Churchill narrato ne "Il morto in piazza", il colonnello Martin Bora si ritrova sulle sponde del lago di Garda come ufficiale di collegamento tra la Wehrmacht e la Repubblica Sociale Italiana. Qui viene subito incaricato da un generale dell'Aviazione di investigare sull'incredibile furto della "Venere di Salò", un preziosissimo dipinto di Tiziano sottratto con troppa facilità dalle sale di una villa requisita dai tedeschi.

Continua la saga di Martin Bora. Siamo nel 1944. Lasciata Roma diretto a Bolsena, Bora viene catapultato a Faracruci, un paesino dell'Abruzzo, per una missione segretissima e rischiosa. Si tratta di recuperare dei documenti brucianti. A complicare la situazione, si intromette il cadavere di un giovane sconosciuto, trovato una mattina nella piazza del paese. Fra thriller e spionaggio, uno dei romanzi più avvincenti della serie, sullo sfondo della guerra e della Resistenza abruzzese.

Martin Bora, l'investigatore di casi delicati per i servizi segreti della Wehrmacht, si trova a Mosca. Mancano settimane all'attacco di Hitler alla Russia di Stalin, e l'ufficiale è aggregato al corpo diplomatico della capitale sovietica immersa ancora nel clima del patto Ribbentrop-Molotov. In questa veste, gli arriva una strana richiesta da parte del diabolico Beria: recarsi a Creta, appena presa dai tedeschi, per procurare al raccapricciante capo dello spionaggio sovietico sessanta bottiglie di un pregiatissimo vino cretese.

Come smascherare coloro che esercitano il potere nell'ombra? Come vendicarsi di chi ti ha inferto le ferite più sanguinose e umilianti? Ritroviamo in questo nuovo romanzo Melchor Marín, il poliziotto appassionato di libri protagonista di Terra Alta. Ad alcuni anni di distanza dalla morte dell'amatissima moglie Olga, torna insieme alla figlia Cosette nella sua Barcellona, dove dovrà affrontare l'indagine più spinosa e difficile: qualcuno infatti tiene sotto ricatto la sindaca della città, utilizzando un video hard che risale a molto tempo prima.

'Intoxicating, enthralling, compelling' Harriet Tyce ‘Bold and ambitious and consuming from start to finish’ Louise Candlish A stunning, intricately plotted and clever mystery’ Claire Douglas ‘Think The Secret History meets Saltburn’ Holly Watt ******** Some women can’t be erased...

When her disastrous Australian love affair ends, Lou heads to Edinburgh for a fresh start, moving in with her cousin. But after a week of partying, she starts the only job she can get...working at a halfway house for very high-risk offenders On her first solo night shift, Lou wakes to discover that she has been locked in her room, and is being held hostage. With no one to turn to but the other residents–all of them dangerous criminals–Lou is forced to rely on her own resources.

Gold fever has taken him. I believe he means to kill me... Canada, 1898. The Gold Rush is on in the frozen wilderness of the Yukon. Fortunes are made as quickly as they're lost, and Dawson City has become a lawless settlement. In its midst, three women are trying to find their place on the edge...

'Clever, immersive and utterly engrossing, The Dark Hours is a triumph' Andrea Mara ‘Subverted my expectations at almost every turn… Jordan shows how the aftermath of violence affects all those who witness it’ New York Times ***** 1994: When Gardaí Julia Harte and Adrian Clancy are called...

In Helen Callaghan s chilling, tightly-spun debut novel of psychological suspense, a teenage girl s abduction stirs dark memories of a twenty-year-old cold case... Margot Lewis is a teacher at an exclusive high school in the English university town of Cambridge. In her spare time, she writes...

What happens when every parent's worst nightmare comes true - and when the past is unwilling to be the past? Some memories are too powerful to live only in the past. During a ferocious storm, a red-haired stranger appears in the garden of a small farming cottage. Eliza and her parents take him in. But very soon, it's clear he has no intention of leaving. A century later, Mary and Graham have experienced every parent's worst nightmare.

Beautiful but impoverished Lina Dahlstrom is dying of tuberculosis and it seems that no one can save her. All hope is lost until an eccentric doctor, Carl Dance, becomes enthralled with Lina's charms and vows to do everything in his power to cure her. But when the illness inevitably claims Lina's life, Dance's obsession with her only grows and so begins a mad and criminal scheme to bring her back from beyond the grave and claim her as his own forever.

Schweden 1981: In einer forensischen Psychiatrie - nahe Stockholm - sitzt der gefährlichste Serienmörder seiner Zeit: KURT SENGE. Obwohl er insgesamt sechs Frauen tötete, bereut er bis heute nichts und legte nie ein Geständnis ab. Trotzdem löste dieser Mann einen wahren Tumult um seine Person aus, denn Kurt war jung, gutaussehend und charismatisch. Seit seinem Gerichtsprozess vor 17 Jahren, kennt ihn in Schweden jedes Kind. Noch heute erhält er täglich Post von liebeshungrigen Frauen und anderen Verehrern.

Patty Miller, a paraplegic, is discovered at home barely clinging to life. Her infant son, already dead, lies on her chest still clinging to his mother. On the morning that Patty is found, she is not expected to survive but is taken to the hospital where she eventually recovers. But, severely emotionally disturbed, Patty soon finds herself a patient at Hillside Asylum.

The action swings from London to Sweden, and then back into the past, to Franco’s Spain, as Roy and Castells hunt a monstrous killer...in the latest instalment of Johana Gustawsson’s award-winning series. Spain, 1938: the country is wracked by civil war, and as Valencia falls to Franco’s brutal dictatorship, Republican Therese witnesses the murders of her family. Captured and sent to the notorious Las Ventas women’s prison, Therese gives birth to a daughter who is forcibly taken from her.