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Seven authors enter the manorCan they survive the story within?When legendary horror author Mortimer Queen passes, a group of writers find themselves invited to his last will and testament reading expecting a piece of his massive fortune. Each have their own unique connection to the literary icon, some known, some soon to be discovered, and they've been waiting for their chance to step into the author's shoes for some time. Instead, they arrive at his grand manor and are invited to play a game. The rules are simple, solve the riddle and progress to the next room. If they don't, the manor will take one of them for itself. You see, the Queen estate was built on the bones of Mortimer's family, and like any true horror story, the house is still very, very hungry. With the clever, locked-room thrills of Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone with the ghostly horror of The Fall of the House of Usher, How to Survive a Horror Story is a bright, biting, thrill-ride that begs us to contemplate how the best horror stories come to be.

"We must be careful with Occam's Razor, lest we cut ourselves on our own blades."In How to Solve True Crime: Occam's Razor and the Limitations of Simplicity in Investigations, we delve into the intriguing realm of criminal investigations where the seemingly straightforward principle of Occam's Razor is both a guiding light and a potential pitfall. Venture on an intellectual journey that explores the delicate balance between simplicity and complexity in unravelling mysteries, as the razor-sharp tool of Occam's Razor is wielded with both precision and, at times, with unintended consequences. This compelling non-fiction work meticulously dissects a collection of lesser-known true crime cases, skilfully examining instances where Occam's Razor was either masterfully applied or regrettably misused. Through riveting narratives and insightful analysis, discover how pursuing the simplest explanation can lead investigators astray, leaving crucial details and alternative scenarios overlooked. From high-profile investigations to obscure and overlooked cases, How to Solve True Crime uncovers the hidden nuances of Occam's Razor, shedding light on its power to illuminate truth and its potential to obscure it. Prepare to be captivated by the untold stories behind the scenes of criminal justice, as this book challenges preconceptions and questions the simplicity that often shrouds the complexities of true crime.

The Fire. The Fallout. The Aftermath. Seamus Monaghan is still haunted by the unexplained fire that killed his vibrant but troubled wife, Carole, three years ago. Why was she taken from him in such a horrific way? Dominic has protected his brother, Seamus, since they were orphaned as young boys. But is that bond strong enough to survive the fallout from the fire? Andrea loves her fiancé Seamus, but will the fire's aftermath destroy their future together? Time moves on, but can the embers of the past ever be truly extinguished? Read the stunning new standalone thriller from Paul Gitsham, creator of the DCI Warren Jones series. "Intense, chilling and filled with a creeping menace, The Aftermath is a book that will keep readers turning the pages long into the night. I couldn't put it down." - Lisa Hall author of Between You And Me.

A judge must control his courtroom, and Ray is no exception. To maintain order, he leaves emotion at the door, remaining stern and unfaltering. But his family is his only weakness, a vulnerability he fiercely protects - until the unthinkable happens. His daughter is kidnapped.The kidnappers aren't after money; they demand that Ray keep someone out of jail. Yet, they refuse to reveal who. To ensure their anonymity, they instruct Ray to give everyone remanded in custody a light sentence for one day, two days from now. With his daughter's life hanging in the balance, Ray faces an agonizing dilemma. Can he trust the kidnappers to release her? His experience tells him that criminals will stop at nothing to get what they want, often leaving a trail of destruction.Ray must continue his duties as if nothing is amiss, knowing someone is watching his every move. Struggling with the moral implications of potentially freeing a dangerous criminal, he searches desperately for any clue that might lead him to those responsible. Every action he takes now will determine his daughter's fate.

"A true-crime masterpiece." —Don WinslowFrom the FBI’s former assistant director, a shocking journey to the dark side of America’s highways, revealing the FBI Highway Serial Killings Initiative’s hunt for the long-haul truckers behind an astonishing 850 murders–and counting.In 2004, the FBI was tipped off to a gruesome pattern of unsolved murders along American roadways. Today at least 850 homicides have been linked to a solitary breed of predators: long-haul truck drivers. They have been given names like the “Truck Stop Killer,” who rigged a traveling torture chamber in the rear of his truck and is suspected to have killed fifty women, and “The Interstate Strangler,” who once answered a phone call from his mother while killing one of his dozen victims. The crisis was such that the FBI opened a special unit, the Highway Serial Killings Initiative. In many cases, the victims—often at-risk women—are picked up at truck stops in one jurisdiction, sexually assaulted and murdered in another, and dumped along a highway in a third place. The transient nature of the offenders and multiple jurisdictions involved make these cases incredibly difficult to solve.Based on his own on-the-ground research and drawing on his twenty-five-year career as an FBI special agent, Frank Figliuzzi investigates the most terrifying cases. He also rides in a big-rig with a long-haul trucker for thousands of miles, gaining an intimate understanding of the life and habits of drivers and their roadside culture. And he interviews the courageous trafficked victims of these crimes, and their inspiring efforts to now help others avoid similar fates.Long Haul is a gripping exploration of a violent, disordered world hiding in plain sight, and the heroes racing to end the horror. It will forever unsettle how you travel on the road.

Readers of all stripes will find something to appreciate in this collection, which illuminates how King's horror literature as a media form has shifted in relation to cultural understandings over time. Many chapters touch upon how surrounding texts, such as film/TV adaptations, have played into these mediations throughout King's storied career. For the first-time reader of King, this volume offers a doorway into his works: an array of exciting critical frameworks with which to make sense of King's fictional universe. For literary critics, this volume argues that King's corpus remains a site for robust intellectual inquiry. And for all of us, the book provides an occasion-one that is long overdue-to rethink King's relationship to critical theory as well as his legacy as a major American author. While it may prove impossible to reconcile King and the academy, we might nonetheless explore the evolution of their inescapable bond in hopes of negotiating a greater understanding between them.

A light-hearted crime novel set within the little-known Inland Revenue's clandestine Boards Investigation Office (BIO). It examines the murky world of fraud investigation from a new perspective of crime investigation.

Raising the Poisoned Dead maps out the complex contours of a still unresolved mid-Victorian murder mystery which challenges the reader to work out just what took place in an obscure corner of nineteenth-century Lincolnshire.

When a famous novelist falls for the wrong woman, all his demons come up for review.Damien Spur, charismatic thriller writer, is the rock star of the literary world. Yet behind his public façade lies a troubled soul, addicted to the devil's trinity: sex, drugs, and alcohol. When he meets ruthless beauty, Lady Elizabeth Maitland, who wins a night with him at a charity auction, his life spirals out of control. Consumed by obsessive love and jealousy, Damien's descent culminates in a desperate act. Saved from the brink by chance, he embarks on a journey of redemption.Along the way he encounters the women who shape his path, from Sophie, a beautiful widow who is drawn into the depths of Damien's dramatic life, her sister Anna, an aspiring novelist whom he mentors - and beds, to the ghost of his first wife, whose past lies finally unravel.Amidst it all, The Voice, the wisecracking companion inside his head, guides him through the stormy seas of his existence. A Night with Damien Spur is a romantic comedy tinged with darkness, delving into the tumultuous realm of unrequited love.

The police call him Merkury. He’s a killer who seems to choose his victims at random. He leaves no evidence behind, and no witnesses. Except for one. But what did she really see?When Kate Summerlin was eleven years old, she climbed out her bedroom window on a spring night, looking for a taste of freedom in the small college town where she was living with her parents. But what she found as she wandered in the woods near her house was something else: the body of a beautiful young woman, the first of Merkury’s victims. And before she could come to grips with what she was seeing, she heard a voice behind her—the killer’s voice—saying: “Don’t turn around.”Now, at the age of twenty-nine, Kate is a successful true crime writer, but she has never told anyone the truth about what happened on that long-ago night. When Merkury claims yet another victim—a college student named Bryan Cayhill—Kate finds herself drawn back to the town where everything started. She sets out to make sense of this latest crime, but the deeper she gets into the story, the more she comes to realize that it’s far from over. Her search for the truth about Merkury is leading her down into a dark labyrinth, and if she hopes to escape, she’ll have to meet him once again—this time face to face.

In this follow-up to the #1 New York Times bestselling author Ruth Ware’s multi-million copy mega-hit The Women in Cabin 10, Lo Blacklock returns to attend the opening of a luxury hotel, only to find herself in a white-knuckled race across Europe.

Amidst the squalor of 1960s East End London, this visceral novel plunges readers into the young life of John Best, a boy whose path leads to a life of crime forged on the poverty-stricken streets. From the bustling docks to derelict council estates, A Kid Out the Flats chronicles Best's descent into the city's turbulent criminal underbelly. Stealing to survive alongside his gang of mates, John soon finds himself caught between warring factions of the IRA and Jamaican Yardie drug gangs. The narrative brings an unflinching authenticity to this tale of resilience against deprivation, violence, and familial strife. John's misadventures unfurl in a close-knit yet volatile community, pulling no punches in depicting his brushes with these murderous organisations and London's outlandish criminal outfits. Anecdotes of the East End's most notorious personalities and crimes lend a gritty realism to this immersive journey through the area's darkest eras and ugly drug trade realities. Yet it remains John Best's story of triumph - a tenacious battle for survival, friendship, and family loyalties in a world where Irish paramilitaries clash with Jamaican drug lords on London's unforgiving streets. Raw and uncompromising, A Kid Out the Flats plunges into the abyss of London's criminal depths and one man's resolute determination to conquer the demons that breed there, even as he navigates the dangerous waters between opposing criminal forces.

Katia Lief’s Women Like Us is a sharply-rendered literary thriller that examines the complexities and responsibilities of female friendship—what brings women together, and what drives them apart.Joni Ackerman was tired of being invisible.It’s been one year since Joni Ackerman tipped the antifreeze into her husband’s cocktail. One year since he was found dead on the stairs. One year since she got away with murder. At first, Joni feared the consequences of her transgression, but she’s learned to embrace the power of recklessness in a way she would have hated to see in anyone else. It was that recklessness, after all, that took her to this rewarding new life.Joni now runs Sunny Day Productions alongside her daughter, Chris, and her best friend, Val. All is well in life and work until, one day, their balance is rocked when an unexpected, and unwelcome, visitor appears.When Joni’s brother, Marc, resurfaces after a twenty-year estrangement, Joni braces for the sibling she knew—a cruel, vindictive conman who deftly switched between personas. But this Marc on her doorstep is different. He’s older, softer. And he seems to have overcome the self-inflicted traumas of his past.But Val isn’t fooled. She knows exactly what sort of man Marc is, and she warns Joni to keep her guard up. When Mark inevitably betrays Joni’s trust, Joni is forced to look inward. As dark thoughts, and darker compulsions, take form, Joni can’t help but wonder: ‘Is psychopathy a family trait?’

A bullied young man, Cauley Christian, develops a relationship with a very intelligent crow named Sawtok. Together they plot vengeful actions to be carried out against the boy's enemies. With the crow's help and some assistance from his seemingly stupid best friend, Cauley strikes out at individuals who have wronged him.These acts and something very different about Cauley catch the attention of a very smart and beautiful classmate who feels a strange connection to the boy.Things get more involved when the leader of the Freemen, a doomsday group, starts to mentor Cauley and his violent plans escalate. The authorities get into the mix, including the FBI, but so far, their efforts to catch the responsible parties have had no success.Can anything or anyone stop this young man's spiraling attraction to violence and his growing plans to expand his horizons.

It's not just the polar bear that's on thin ice on this voyage to the end of the earth