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A gripping short psychological thriller from USA Today bestselling author Lucinda Berry about how our safest routines can become our deadliest traps. Riley Fletcher’s morning run should have been ordinary—muscle memory, fresh air, home by breakfast. Instead, she wakes bound and bleeding in a...

Jane Stuart is a widowed young mother and literary agent with a knack for solving mysteries. Winky, her tortoiseshell cat, has a nose for trouble. In Missing Marlene, they team up to solve the mystery of a missing nanny who may have met with foul play. The last thing a working mom like Jane...

Susan Becker keeps finding herself mixed up in mysteries when she should be busy cooking up something sweet in her bakery in the small tourist town of Lakeside, Missouri. Her best feline friend, Mr. Giles, is one of those curious cats who can't keep away from a fresh crime scene. Detective Kip Fletcher has the unpleasant job of finding out who dug up and stole the corpse of one of the town's leading citizens. A missing body. A mysterious skeleton key. Unexplained lights that could be the town's first ghost....

Step into the golden age of imagination with A Vintage Science Fiction Short Stories Collection, a masterfully curated anthology featuring some of the most influential voices in classic science fiction. This timeless volume brings together visionary storytelling from Frank Herbert, Philip K. Dick, Fredric Brown, E. E. Smith, John W. Campbell Jr., Murray Leinster, Robert Sheckley, Stanley G. Weinbaum, and William Tenn—authors who helped shape modern speculative fiction.

Some gifts can't be put down. Some gifts won't let you. Calla has been a remote viewer for as long as she can remember. She has built a quiet life on the edge of a Washington state park — an ordered house, a careful routine, a single unbreakable rule: no active cases involving children. She learned that rule the hard way. She intends to keep it. Then seven-year-old Iris Vance disappears into the woods sixty feet from her back fence, and the sheriff calls.

A collection of seven stories, each an unexpected piece in a puzzle.

A collection of vintage thrillers from popular crime writer RD Wingfield Well known as the creator of Inspector Jack Frost, RD Wingfield scripted numerous twisty, suspenseful dramas for BBC Radio between 1968 and 1995. Many of the thirteen tales in this collection were originally thought to be...

A collection of suspenseful dramas from award-winning Northern Irish writer Eoin McNamee Eoin McNamee is the author of 19 novels, two trilogies for young adults and three thrillers written under the pseudonym John Creed, one of which won him the Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award. He has also...

A collection of suspenseful standalone radio thrillers by Edward Boyd Scottish writer Edward Boyd was well known for his TV and radio plays, including The Corridor People and The View from Daniel Pike, and he also penned several episodes of Z-Cars. He specialised in the thriller genre, and this...

Tracking the Missing A search for three abducted teens—and a K-9 on the case. After surviving a vicious attack in the woods, Tori Campbell awakes to her worst nightmare—her son and his two friends are missing. She calls the one person she knows she can trust, her late husband’s best friend...

From the beloved award-winning author Paul Yoon comes a spectacular collection of unique stories, each confronting themes of identity, belonging, and the collision of cultures across countries and centuries. A boy searches for his father, a prison guard on Sakhalin Island. In Barcelona, a woman...

The Selected Short Stories of Frank Herbert brings together a fascinating collection of early speculative fiction from the legendary author of Dune. Featuring “Missing Link,” “Old Rambling House,” “Operation Haystack,” “The Nothing,” and “Try to Remember,” this volume showcases Herbert’s sharp intellect, psychological depth, and early exploration of ideas that would later define his iconic career.

When lives hang in the balance, three K-9 heroes fight to keep the innocent safe. Can love survive in the crossfire? Tracking the Missing by Sami A. Abrams A search for three abducted teens—and a K-9 on the case. After surviving a vicious attack in the woods, Tori Campbell awakes to her worst...

Three cozy crime romances perfect for fans of sexy investigators and small town mysteries No one is what they seem… When Allie Foster becomes the prime suspect in a murder, she reaches out to the only person she can trust. Convinced of Allie’s innocence, Colby Agency investigating attorney...

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of The Deal of a Lifetime by Fredrik Backman, read by Santino Fontana. The father has a story he needs to share before it's too late. As he tells his son about a courageous little girl lying in a hospital bed a few miles away, he reveals even more about...

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST A sharp and haunting collection of twelve stories about people who live far outside the American Dream, while wondering which decision, which path, or which accident brought them to this place. “Unforgettable . . . hums with life and wry humor . . . The stories...

Sixteen years ago, Susan Muller’s world crumbled when her daughter, Tessa, vanished during a routine trip to the grocery store. The life she knew shattered into pieces she’s never been able to fully put back together. Over the years, Susan clings to the faint hope that Tessa might still be alive, even as the rest of the world tells her to let go.

Emily Blackmore has loved Philip Sinclair since she was fourteen, but life and war have kept them apart for years. When Philip returns to England, he is shocked to find Emily betrothed to another man. As their childhood love is tested by duty, family expectations, and the passage of time, Emily and Philip must fight to reclaim the love they once shared. Can they defy their families and society to make a love match, or will they be separated forever? Missing The Lady is a heartfelt, clean Regency romance about second chances and enduring love against all odds.

When a six-foot-tall tan giant of man comes into Albert Blunt's International Detective agency, Tommy and Tuppence—married couple and detective aficionados—are in for a treat. Not only has Mr. Stavansson emerged after a two-year Arctic adventure, but he's lost his fiancée Hermione too. What telegrams and scraps of information Tommy and Tuppence can gather are all the hope the adventurer has in finding her. But this information leads the duo into dangerous situations, investigating secluded country houses in the dead of night, and that's only the start of it.

In the dark corners of our world, where the light dies and shadows take root, lies a collection of tales that will haunt your waking hours. J.C. Moore weaves stories that pull back the veil on our reality, revealing the horrors that linger just beneath the surface. From a Polaroid camera that captures more than memories to a blood-soaked bar where secrets spill alongside gin, each story is a doorway to a different nightmare. In this book, you'll meet souls on the edge, twisted fates, and ancient evils waiting for their moment to strike.