"Following her father's sudden death -- after having not heard from him for decades -- Ilka Jensen has impulsively abandoned her quiet life in Denmark to visit the rural Wisconsin town where he ran the local funeral home. There, she's devastated to discover her father's second family: a stepmother and two half sisters she never knew existed. Now a local woman has been killed, seemingly the unfortunate casualty of a home invasion turned violent. But...

On a searing summer's day paramedic Holly Garland rushes to an emergency to find a man collapsed with a bullet wound in the back of his head, CPR being performed by two bystanders, and her longestranged brother Seth watching it all unfold. Seth claims to be the dying man's best friend, but Holly knows better than to believe anything he says and fears that his reappearance will reveal the bleak secrets of her past. Detective Ella Marconi suspects Seth...

Franklin has gathered four of Jackson's novels, with which she began her irreplaceable, all too-brief career. Originally published between 1948 and 1958, they are published here without change except for the correction of typographical errors. Within these stories Jackson explores the recessed concealed within the prosperous world of the postwar 1940s and 50s-- and withing our own unacknowledged selves. -- adapted from front flap and Note on the Texts,...

"Howell writes short, tight scenes with authentic-sounding dialogue and relentless pacing. Howell deftly illustrates the way insights into the ways of life and death are a new religion to crime readers." "Weekend Australian" Two female paramedics murdered in a month. Is it coincidence, or are they victims of a serial killer? Detective Ella Marconi isn't sure, but goes hard after her key suspects, including police officer John Morris. But each turn...

"Antes de que Owen Michaels desaparezca, logra pasar de contrabando una nota a su amada esposa de un año: Protégela. A pesar de su confusión y miedo, Hannah Hall sabe exactamente a quién se refiere la nota: Bailey, la hija de dieciséis años de Owen. Bailey, quien perdió trágicamente a su madre cuando era niña. Bailey, que no quiere absolutamente nada que ver con su nueva madrastra. Mientras las llamadas cada vez más desesperadas de Hannah...

1970, Ciudad de México. Maite trabaja como secretaria, pero solo vive para una cosa: la siguiente entrega de «Romance secreto». Las protestas estudiantiles y la inestabilidad política asedian la ciudad, pero ella se evade de todo gracias a esas maravillosas historias de pasión y riesgo. La vecina de la puerta de al lado, una atractiva estudiante de arte llamada Leonora, parece llevar una vida repleta de intriga y romance, algo que Maite envidia....

The bridesmaid: Twenty-seven-year-old Joanna Kurtz has made several trips to the altar, but never as a bride. The single young Amish woman is a closet writer with a longing to be published something practically unheard of in her Lancaster County, Pennsylvania community. Yet Joanna's stories aren't her only secret. She also has a beau who is courting her from afar, unbeknownst even to her sister, Cora, who, though younger, seems to have suitors to...

"The mystery deepens... As the reclusive and troubled young man Norton becomes more immersed in his quest for the secret of the legendary Black Barn, washed-up Catholic priest Father Fred unravels the secret behind a series of grisly murders." --

Aella begins to embrace her dark side as she sets sail with her mother's old crew to discover the secret of where she comes from.

"There's a peeping tom prowling the neighborhood. Eyewitness reports vary, but one thing is agreed upon: he wears a Devil mask. This is the story of Val Castillo, a promising gymnast with a strange hobby: she is secretly the neighborhood peeping tom. At first she is alone in this, but when a male friend discovers her doings he joins her in a dark journey of spying and making discoveries about their neighbors that may have been better left alone. Especially...