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The Daughter of Time is a detective novel by Josephine Tey, concerning a modern police officer's investigation into the alleged crimes of King Richard III of England. It was the last book Tey published...

“Nessun comportamento umano è inspiegabile” Alan Grant. L’ispettore Grant non possiede nessuna delle caratteristiche di moda durante l’epoca d’oro dei romanzi gialli. Niente lunghi baffi impomatati, nessun...

'An ingenious book' SARAH WATERS'Permanent classics in the detective field . . . no superlatives are adequate' THE NEW YORK TIMESMarion Shape and her mother are quiet and ordinary villagers, enjoying...

A stranger enters the inner sanctum of the Ashby family posing as Patrick Ashby, the heir to the family's sizeable fortune. The stranger, Brat Farrar, has been carefully coached on Patrick's mannerisms,...

“Miss Pym” è una tranquilla insegnante di francese che, invitata a una conferenza in un collegio di educazione fisica, si ritrova coinvolta nella frenetica vita delle studentesse alle prese con gli esami...

Beneath the sea cliffs of the south coast, suicides are a sad but common fact. Yet even the hardened coastguard knows something is wrong when a beautiful young film actress is found lying dead on the...

A classic murder mystery from the Golden Age of detective fiction, written by genre legend Josephine Tey.Leys Physical Training College is famous for its excellent discipline and its spectacularly athletic...

On his train back to Scotland for a well-earned rest, Inspector Grant learns that a fellow passenger, one Charles Martin, has been found dead. It looks like a case of misadventure - but Grant is not so...

La famosa actriz Christine Clay aparece muerta en una aislada playa de la costa británica. Un nuevo caso para el inspector Alan Grant, el gran personaje de Josephine Tey. En una playa aislada cerca del...

Londres, años treinta. Una larga cola frente al teatro Woffington espera impaciente para ver la comedia musical del momento. De pronto, un hombre cae al suelo apuñalado por la espalda. Ni el estado de...

Tras convertirse de la noche a la mañana en escritora de éxito gracias a su libro de psicología popular, la menuda e insegura señorita Pym es invitada a dar una charla en Leys, un prestigioso colegio...

Postrado en una cama de hospital, el inspector Alan Grant se aburre mortalmente. Ni las anémonas de la señora Tinker, su ama de llaves, ni el ruibarbo estofado de la enfermera Darroll logran animarlo....

Una exclusiva fiesta de artistas no es precisamente el plan ideal de Alan Grant, Inspector de Scotland Yard. Él es más de meriendas con apacibles tazas de té y buena conversación. Pero cuando su amiga,...

Robert Blair, abogado en un pequeño y apacible pueblo británico, da ya por terminada su tranquila jornada laboral en el despacho cuando suena el teléfono. Es Marion Sharpe, vecina de la localidad, una...

Los Ashby son terratenientes ingleses dedicados a la cría de caballos. Llevan una vida apacible capitaneada por la tía Bee, tutora de sus cuatro sobrinos tras el fallecimiento de su hermano y su nuera....

De baja por fatiga mental, nuestro elegante inspector Alan Grant, de Scotland Yard, viaja rumbo a Escocia para disfrutar de unas fugaces vacaciones en la granja de su prima Laura. Sus planes no van más...

Callie Monroe is a twenty-five-year-old barista with bold dreams, a beat-up coffee cart, and a knack for stirring up trouble—especially for a certain silver-haired stranger who orders his coffee black...

In this gripping international spy thriller, Sherlock Holmes uncovers a chilling conspiracy after the mysterious killings of Sikh leaders in the UK. As Holmes and Watson dive deep into the shadows, they...

Modern Love - Ancient Foes With vampires on the rise and the city under threat, who would have thought love – and a long lost recipe for pesto - could bring everything undead to a head? Lola Morelli enjoys...

Life is unpredictable, the afterlife even worse.Thrust too early into death (only thirty-two!), Leo Cooper wrestles with the confusion of how things work on the other side. It's an impossible undertaking,...

Ce livre est traduit de l'anglais original.Elle vit l'instant présent… jusqu'à ce que son passé monte à bord.Cela fait trente ans qu'il a disparu, la laissant le cœur brisé—et avec un secret qu'elle n'a...

Two drug dealers, one serial killer, zero chance of playing it safe.Mark and Toby aren't your average entrepreneurs. Their business is drugs. Mark, a smooth-talking hustler, thrives in the fast-paced...

This book defies classification in that, while it is a deeply poetic depiction of two contrasting locations - the crowded, bustling Lisbon during the final years of dictatorship in the early 1970s and...

A boss in need of a fake girlfriend. A man in love with his best friend's little sister. A hot-headed chef attracted to his manager. Faking It with my Billionaire BossI've been in love Silas for the longest...

From the Book of Atmospheres by Robert Scotellaro is a collection of micro and flash stories that explore life at a slant.  Often surreal/fabulistic, there is a universality that threads their fabric...

How well do you know your neighbours?Small towns can be deadly. Linda Burton is house-sitting for her aunt's friend in the pretty little town of Glenhaven. Linda, who has spent her career in the city,...

I'll lose everything if I give in to my desire, so why am I drawn to him like a moth to a flame?MarcusMy senior year, I made a deal with the devil. Or, my father, as he's commonly known. I get to spend...

Niapachad Island is a place lost in time—a haunting echo of a forgotten era. Its people cling to the old ways, draped in antiquated fashion, speaking in peculiar tongues, and abiding by an outdated hierarchy...

Geoff King was excited to be coming home from prison soon, until his long-time girlfriend dropped a bombshell. This VERY SHORT STORY was first published in Words Worth Reading Issue 2.

Adler and Gordon's relationship deepens, but before long, they have to adjust to unforeseen circumstances. As if that weren't enough, everyone's favorite vampire hunter calls the couple to a murder scene. Gordon...

In Devon and Lenore's world, magic is as common as turning a pot or fletching an arrow. What isn't common is a man with thread magic. When Devon starts weaving prophetic tapestries, his royal family tries...

Clara sat quietly on the porch, the evening breeze rustling the leaves of the trees around her. Mark was inside, finishing up some work, and Larissa was happily playing in the yard with the babysitter....

As an Everyman, John Stapleis easy to dismiss if he isn't looking for you.At 5'10" and 190 pounds he isn't particularly tall or well-built. Other than practicing Krav Maga, he doesn't work out, and he...

When the good girl fakes itKenzieHe's hot. Too hot to touch. But because he's a firefighter, I can't be with him. I know my anxious self too well. Yet when he asks me to be his fake girlfriend to make...

The Others have been around for over a century now. A hunter that is descended from Al Capone has a drunken affair with a woman that is a werecat. His daughter is born half werecat and half her father...

How far would you go to help an enemy?Anna and Lev are enjoying a rustic fall hike when a rainstorm forces them into proximity with a testy teenager. When River's disdain for technology in general and...

Three sisters couldn't be more different, but they share one thing in common — a taste for crime!It's 1921, and Americans are still reeling from the effects of World War I. In Gyver, CA, on the California/Nevada...

A fake prince. A royal scam. An unbelievable true story.Anthony Gignac spent decades living a lie, posing as a Saudi prince to fund a life of luxury. From stolen credit cards and high-limit scams to conning...

A broken man. A divine call. A legacy reborn.  When jaded ex-con Malik hears a voice in a ruined church calling him by an ancient name—Malik ben Levi—his life shatters. Guided by a scholar, he uncovers...

The course of true love never did run smooth... In this Shakespearean Western, warrior-for-hire (and pregnant) Juliet Capulet is hired to protect a border town nunnery from the evil forces led by her...

He thought he understood who he was.Then the stars whispered something else.He was just trying to escape a dead-end life. But what he finds instead is a gateway—one that changes his body, blurs the lines...

In a world where feelings are data and emotions can be bought, hacked, or deleted, trust has become the most dangerous currency of all.Tess Riley is a certified empathy engineer — a designer of customized...

Buried beneath the scars of war lies a forgotten truth, a lost revelation with the potential to end all conflicts. A philosophical soldier stumbles upon this truth during his first tour in the Vietnam...

Welcome to Wattle Bay…Could the boy Libby has despised for years be the man she loves?Libby Campbell thinks she has her life figured out. She loves her surf shop and café in the idyllic town of Wattle...

Decadent cyberpunk cities. Giant mechs and monsters. Greek mythology retold like no other. Before the rampage of the colossi, before the killer cyborg Persephone was made... there was the rule of the...

She thought it was just another business trip. A short escape from the quiet streets of Greenville, Mississippi, to the open skies of rural California. But little did she know, fate had something far...