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The sensational novel which launched Collins’ Detective Story Club in 1929 was by Edgar Wallace, who wrote more crime stories in the 1920s, and more films, than any other author. This new edition of The Terror, with its original jacket artwork, also includes another classic Wallace text, White Face. A dangerous gang of criminals is imprisoned after a daring robbery, although the ringleader who masterminded the crime disappears with the loot.

Murder, jealousy, and deceit underscore three interlocking mysteries as Holmes and Watson take on a high-profile case at Windsor Castle, a boy drowned in the Serpentine, and a crusading women’s rights activist who suspects a traitor in her organisation. The cases send them into danger into locales as varied as the palace itself, a dockland cannery, an arts and crafts atelier, and a gypsy encampment. But is there peril underfoot as well – right at 221B Baker Street?

Terror Cops is a white-knuckle ride into the battle against extremism; the story gives unprecedented insight into what it's like to fight terrorism in Britain today. In his two-decades-long career with the Metropolitan Police, Detective Sergeant Harry Keeble has hunted child murderers and child abusers, drug dealers and hit men.

In Wiltshire, England, the Crime Review Team is headed by Gus Freeman, pulled back to the police force after three years in retirement. With old witness statements plus fresh clues, the hunt can be on again. Freeman and his team now have several successful cold-case investigations behind them. Ursula Wakeley, a seventy-eight-year-old spinster, was murdered in 2013. Why did the former librarian become a victim? Was it a robbery or something more sinister? Returning to the Crime Review Team is Alex Hardy, and Blessing Umeh is a new member, giving Gus Freeman new hands and new issues.

Dominick Maxwell had an average life...with one exception. Everyone he was close to ended up dead. When Dom's sister - his last living relative - is attacked and dying, Dom thinks he has lost it all, until he realizes that he is the prime suspect. Fearing he is next - and possibly about to end up in jail - Dom disappears and urgently tries to find out the answer to the question that has been haunting him for years.

Serial killer Frank Haid, dubbed the Painkiller by Chicago police and media, murders 18 people - all paralytics. Commanded by an unseen presence that he calls ''Father'' and that speaks in the voice of an uncle whose rotting corpse he keeps in the living room, Haid destroys his victims (what's left of them) and evidence in a way that puzzles police. Hardest hit are residents of Marclinn, a home for the handicapped, where survivors decide they must track down the madman themselves.

After surviving a gunshot wound to the head, San Francisco homicide detective Kurt Farin is placed in a medically induced coma. In his unconscious state, he can't shake the vivid image of a mysterious woman—Genevieve Lucas—who appears to be summoning him. How does he know her name, and is she even real? Kurt's unshakable quest to find her leads him to Puget Sound, where he discovers a shipwreck and a shocking secret that cant possibly be true.

From its opening scene, when hero cop Brian Remy wakes up to find he's shot himself in the head, novelist Jess Walter takes us on a harrowing tour of a city and a country shuddering through the aftershocks of a devastating terrorist attack. As the smoke slowly clears, Remy finds that his memory is skipping, lurching between moments of lucidity and days when he doesn't seem to be living his own life at all.

From the moment a crazed Nazi Doctor set foot in Chicago, he knew he was in the right place to finish the experiments he had started but never completed. His work began at a death camp, a camp of horrors in which he reigned with his own brand of terror. As soon as he committed his first act against an unsuspecting woman in the city, he knew there'd be a price on his head, and he didn't care. For this Nazi had the most beloved memory a man can have...the feeling of exhilaration as another's fear turns to panic.

When the body of a local church leader is recovered from the Grand Canyon, the Navajo reservation coroner calls it suicide. The family suspects murder, but the remains are cremated before they can bury their loved one. Out of caution, church headquarters sends out Orson Kincaid and Haley Parker to find out if this is the beginning of hardcore prejudice against church members or an isolated crime…or is it something more?

It's just past six a.m., and the Rutledge family is gathering for breakfast, unaware of the two bombs that have been planted outside their home. They're about to start eating when a fireball bursts through the windows, and the house is blasted to dust, leaving only one survivor. In the last six weeks, the Rutledges are the seventh family to be attacked - and the onslaught is just beginning. A terrorist group is intent on bringing the citizens of Washington, D.C. to their knees.

Thirteen-year-old Mylee is killed during a slave auction, while five other young Asian girls flee from the men who profit from selling them as slaves in the ballroom of an upscale San Francisco hotel. Inspector Kate Dawson is called to investigate the heinous crime. From what appears to be the simple murder of a sex worker, she follows the clues to human trafficking, organ harvesting, and ultimately the Asian sex trade. Then, as the date of the G-20 Summit in San Francisco draws closer, Dawson struggles to connect the lives of five young Asian women with that of the Morag Tong.

Hugo Martins é policial há menos de um mês quando dois corpos que tiveram os corações arrancados são encontrados em uma propriedade rural de um pequeno município catarinense. Enquanto avança em sua primeira investigação, ele é transportado para dentro de um perigoso jogo de vida e morte, no qual precisará enfrentar um adversário cruel, que não mede esforços para acobertar seus rastros.

The little creatures came to play, and now in fresh-dug graves they lay. Cynthia and her three little brothers had heard the stories of their grandpa, who could summon demons and compel people to die with a curse. So, when the children discovered they, too, had the ancient power, they knew what to do.

Holly Saemann es una mujer agradable que, habiéndose ganado la simpatía del pueblo de Oyster bay gracias a su apariencia amable e inofensiva, da rienda suelta a sus apetitos por la carne humana. En su diario registra todos y cada uno de sus crímenes con un detalle aterrador, así como la parte más dolorosa de su infancia y adolescencia.