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The Hunter: A gripping and terrifying short story
By Chris Carter. 2013
A thrilling eBook exclusive short story from Sunday Times bestselling author Chris Carter. Meet Robert Hunter, the youngest Homicide Detective…
the Los Angeles Police has ever recruited, on his first day. As a rookie, he is given a simple suicide investigation to cut his teeth on. But when he arrives at the scene, he swiftly begins to suspect that something is not quite right. Despite the fact that the door was locked from the inside, and there is no other way out of the apartment, Hunter has a hunch that the victim did not commit suicide. But with a new Captain to impress and the evidence stacked against him, Hunter has a lot to prove if he is to solve the case and keep his place on the team.Forty-five adventure stories set in dangerous locales around the world, including nine Ponga Jim tales featuring a freighter captain who…
sails the Far East during World War II. Contains L'Amour's first published story "Death, Westbound" about a train-hopping, Depression-era hobo. Afterword by the author's son, Beau. Some violence. 2006Thirty-three tales of crime, suspense, and sports. In "Unguarded Moment" an honest man succumbs to the temptation to steal. In…
"A Friend of a Hero" a cop investigates the suspicious death of a fellow Korean War veteran. Includes "Fighters Don't Dive" and stories featuring sleuth Joe Ragan. Some violence. 2008Twenty-seven tales of drama, mystery, and suspense set in the American frontier. In "The Sixth Shotgun" the town of Canyon…
Gap prepares to hang outlaw Leo Carver for a murder many believe he didn't commit. Includes "The Ghost Maker," "No Man's Man," and Cactus Kid stories. Some violence. 2007The Cherry Tree Farm Story Collection (Bumper Short Story Collections #5)
By Enid Blyton. 2016
Enid Blyton's timeless collection of farm stories, perfect for holidays or rainy days, and an ideal gift for anyone who…
loved the stories during their own childhood to pass on to the next generation of readers.Benjy, Penny, Rory and Sheila are spending the holidays with their aunt and uncle at Cherry Tree Farm. They play with the animals and learn to feed them, roam the countryside and hunt for the mysterious Tammylan, who lives deep in the woods. Everywhere is teeming with adventure and the children are bound to get into mischief!This collections brings together some of Enid Blyton's earliest and most imaginative stories - The Children of Cherry Tree Farm (1940) and two further stories about the same children, The Children of Willow Farm (1942) and More Adventures at Willow Farm (1943).Summer Holiday Stories: 22 Sunny Tales (Bumper Short Story Collections #1)
By Enid Blyton. 2017
A wonderful selection of 22 fantastical summer stories to read and share by one of the world's best-loved children's authors,…
Enid Blyton.School's out! So go on a picnic in the woods, visit the seaside or take a trip on a magic aeroplane in this enchanting collection of stories perfect for summer holidays. Enid Blyton has been delighting readers for more than seventy years with her endless summers of magic, fun and adventure. Enid's best-loved characters include Noddy the wooden boy, Timmy the dog from The Famous Five and the mischievous twins Pat and Isabel O'Sullivan from the much-loved boarding school series St Clare's!This collection contains original stories dating back to the 1930s.The Cherry Tree Farm Story Collection (Bumper Short Story Collections #5)
By Enid Blyton. 2016
Enid Blyton's timeless collection of farm stories, perfect for holidays or rainy days, and an ideal gift for anyone who…
loved the stories during their own childhood to pass on to the next generation of readers.Benjy, Penny, Rory and Sheila are spending the holidays with their aunt and uncle at Cherry Tree Farm. They play with the animals and learn to feed them, roam the countryside and hunt for the mysterious Tammylan, who lives deep in the woods. Everywhere is teeming with adventure and the children are bound to get into mischief!This collections brings together some of Enid Blyton's earliest and most imaginative stories - The Children of Cherry Tree Farm (1940) and two further stories about the same children, The Children of Willow Farm (1942) and More Adventures at Willow Farm (1943).New recording by Abigail Hardiman.(P) 2019 Hodder Children's BooksSummer Holiday Stories: 22 Sunny Tales (Bumper Short Story Collections #1)
By Enid Blyton. 2017
A wonderful selection of 22 fantastical summer stories by one of the world's best-loved children's authors, Enid Blyton.School's out! So…
go on a picnic in the woods, visit the seaside or take a trip on a magic aeroplane in this enchanting collection of stories perfect for summer holidays. (P) 2017 Hodder Children's BooksThe Cherry Tree Farm Story Collection (Bumper Short Story Collections #5)
By Enid Blyton. 2016
Enid Blyton's timeless collection of farm stories, perfect for holidays or rainy days, and an ideal gift for anyone who…
loved the stories during their own childhood to pass on to the next generation of readers.Benjy, Penny, Rory and Sheila are spending the holidays with their aunt and uncle at Cherry Tree Farm. They play with the animals and learn to feed them, roam the countryside and hunt for the mysterious Tammylan, who lives deep in the woods. Everywhere is teeming with adventure and the children are bound to get into mischief!This collections brings together some of Enid Blyton's earliest and most imaginative stories - The Children of Cherry Tree Farm (1940) and two further stories about the same children, The Children of Willow Farm (1942) and More Adventures at Willow Farm (1943).Everyone deserves to get away for a bit Even the miscreants at St Mary s Astonishingly Dr…
Bairstow has declared a holiday Even more astonishingly - he s paying for it Needless to say there are strings attached The trip is to record the 1601 performance of Hamlet with Shakespeare himself in the role of the Ghost It doesn t go well of course With Dr Bairstow and Mrs Mack turning a simple visit to a street market into a public brawl Professor Rapson inadvertently stowing away on a vessel bound for the New World and Shakespeare himself going up in flames it would seem that Max of all people is the only one actually completing the assignmentThird installment of the author's collected short stories, following Volume 1 (DB 59711) and Volume 2 (DB 60143). Features twenty-eight…
classic westerns, including tales of a drifter who poses as a murdered man to solve a mystery and a grizzled recluse who protects a runaway from a brutal guardian. 2005The Collected Short Stories of Louis L'Amour, Volume 1: Frontier Stories (Frontier Stories)
By Louis L'Amour. 2003
With more than 120 titles still in print, Louis L'Amour is recognized the world over as one of the most…
prolific and popular American authors in history. Though he met with phenomenal success in every genre he tried, the form that put him on the map was the short story. Now this great writer--Wall Street Journal recently compared with Jack London and Robert Louis Stevenson--will receive his due as a great storyteller. This volume kicks off a series that will, when complete, anthologize all of L'Amour' s short fiction, volume by handsome volume. Here, in Volume One, is a treasure-trove of 35 frontier tales for his millions of fans and for those who have yet to discover L'Amour's thrilling prose--and his vital role in capturing the spirit of the Old West for generations to come.Paladins of Shannara: The Black Irix (Short Story)
By Terry Brooks. 2013
An old friend urges Shea Ohmsford to take a dangerous risk in the concluding story of this gripping Shannara eBook…
series by New York Times bestselling fantasy master Terry Brooks. Shea Ohmsford has had quite enough of quests. A year after surviving a harrowing odyssey, he is still plagued by troubling memories and dreams. A mysterious trafficker in spells and potions provides a restorative nostrum for the stricken Shea . . . along with a warning: Shea will break his vow to never again leave Shady Vale. And then the potion-maker's prophecy comes to pass. A thief, adventurer, and notoriously charismatic rogue, Panamon Creel unexpectedly appears in the Vale with a request for his longtime friend, Shea--journey into the untamed northland, infiltrate the stronghold of a sinister dealer in stolen goods, and capture a precious artifact: the sacred Black Irix. Creel wishes to return this treasure to its rightful owners. Shea cannot refuse such a just cause. But what lies behind the black castle walls they must breach? And will this quest truly be their last? Includes a preview of the final novel in Terry Brooks's Dark Legacy of Shannara trilogy, Witch Wraith! PRAISE FOR TERRY BROOKS "The Sword of Shannara is an unforgettable and wildly entertaining epic, animated by Terry Brooks's cosmically generative imagination and storytelling joy."--Karen Russell, New York Times bestselling author of Swamplandia! "If Tolkien is the grandfather of modern fantasy, Terry Brooks is its favorite uncle."--Peter V. Brett, New York Times bestselling author of The Desert Spear "I can't even begin to count how many of Terry Brooks's books I've read (and reread) over the years. From Shannara to Landover, his work was a huge part of my childhood."--Patrick Rothfuss, New York Times bestselling author of The Name of the Wind "Terry Brooks is a master of the craft and a trailblazer who established fantasy as a viable genre. He is required reading."--Brent Weeks, New York Times bestselling author of The Night Angel Trilogy "The Shannara books were among the first to really capture my imagination. My daydreams and therefore my stories will always owe a debt to Terry Brooks."--Brandon Mull, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Beyonders and Fablehaven seriesThe Premonition: A Short Story Prequel to The Sleepwalker
By Chris Bohjalian. 2016
This mesmerizing ebook original short story--a prequel to The Sleepwalker--from Chris Bohjalian, bestselling author of The Sandcastle Girls and The…
Guest Room, tells the tale of one strange summer when a pair of horses die, an odd boy moves to a small Vermont town, and a woman rises from her bed and disappears into the night. Lianna Ahlberg is seventeen when a thunderstorm snaps a power line to the earth, electrifying the ground, the rain spreading the current like wildfire across the wet grass. Two horses are killed in the nearby field, unnerving the neighbors, upsetting the peculiar boy who has just moved in, and filling Lianna with a deep and abiding sense of dread. This is not the first unusual thing to happen that summer--a summer when Lianna's mother begins to sleepwalk in the smallest hours of morning--and it will not be the last.The Intern: An Orphan X Short Story (Orphan X)
By Gregg Hurwitz. 2018
The Nowhere Man is a figure shrouded in secrecy—a near legendary figure who helps the truly desperate, those with nowhere…
else to turn who are lucky enough to be able to reach out to him. When darkness closes in, the Nowhere Man is your last, best hope.Before he was the Nowhere Man, Evan Smoak was a highly trained government operative known to a few as Orphan X. But he now lives by hiding in plain sight, keeping his head down and his eyes clear. So when a local summer intern for a tabloid news site finds herself trailing an aggressive reporter into a crime zone, things go terribly awry. The only person who can help her is a man with the background and the skills of the Nowhere Man.From New York Times bestselling author Gregg Hurwitz comes an electrifying, original story in his “nerve-shredding” internationally #1 bestsellling Orphan X series.Also contains an extended excerpt from the Orphan X thriller—Out of the Dark.The Twelfth Tablet: A Short Story (Ebook Original Ser.)
By Tom Harper. 2013
Twelve golden tablets sit in museums around the world, each created by unknown hands and buried in ancient times, and…
each providing the dead with the route to the afterlife. Each has taken its own journey, and each has its own story to tell. This is one of those stories.The Last Survivor (A Wilde/Chase Short Story)
By Andy McDermott. 2015
Join Nina Wilde and Eddie Chase in a digital exclusive short story from the international bestseller Andy McDermott. Also contains…
an exclusive extract from THE REVELATION CODE, the next in the Wilde & Chase seriesNina Wilde is pregnant and feeling very alone. Reeling from the events of her last mission, in which a close friend died in their attempt to stop a resurgent Nazi force from stealing a great archaeological treasure, all Nina can do is try and find solace in her work.But there is one last survivor. A man determined to take his revenge on Nina for all that befell his brethren. Now he is in New York, waiting for his chance. Can Nina's husband, former SAS soldier Eddie Chase, stop him?One Good Turn (A James Bishop short story)
By Jason Dean. 2014
An exclusive James Bishop digital short story from Jason Dean, author of THE WRONG MAN and BACKTRACK. Do you like…
Reacher? You'll love Bishop.She has already escaped her captors once. Surely twice would be impossible.Kidnapped and left for dead, Sylvia Caplan knows she will have one chance to get her life back. Having fled and found her way back to civilisation, Sylvia stumbles into a dingy bar. Wearing borrowed shoes and stolen clothes, she's not the usual kind of customer and its not long before two menacing figures catch up with her.Unnoticed, former Marine, James Bishop, witnesses the woman's struggle, stepping in before he knows what he's done. Now Sylvia is on the run again but this time she is not alone. Can Bishop help her keep one step ahead or will he come to regret risking his life for a stranger? Includes extracts from all three James Bishop novels including an exclusive from the upcoming THE HUNTER'S OATH, out in June.The Right Way (A James Bishop short story)
By Jason Dean. 2014
An exclusive enovella from Jason Dean, author of THE WRONG MAN, BACKTRACK and his new novel THE HUNTER'S OATH, and…
the eshorts ONE GOOD TURN and THE LAST QUARTER. Includes an exclusive extract from the highly anticipated upcoming James Bishop novel, THE OUTSIDER. James Bishop, ex-Marine, isn't looking for trouble. But trouble has a knack of finding him.,Dropping off a friend at Chicago's busy Union Station, Bishop sees a woman on the concourse acting suspiciously. She is clearly in distress, but when he tries to talk to her she disappears onto a train. With nothing but his gut instinct to rely on, he follows her and immediately becomes embroiled in a cat and mouse game in which nothing is as it appears to be. Bishop must figure out why this woman is on the train and why she is so determined to keep hold of the bag she brought onto it. Does she really need help or could she be involved in something far more sinister? Only Bishop can find the right way to deal with this problem. And he's prepared to do anything that it takes to fix it.