Fifteen years ago Ellen Smith vanished from the woods near her small Welsh village. Never to be seen again.Eight people were in the woods that night: eight splintered lives, eight people hiding a terrible secret. But who can remember the truth?Now, Ellen’s best friend, Detective Ava Cole is all grown up back in the village where it all began, and everyone is asking the same question.What really happened to Ellen?Filled with shocking ...

A BRAND NEW heart-pounding, high-concept locked-room thriller from bestselling author DE White, perfect for fans of Ruth Ware and Lucy Foley.‘A full-on, heart-belting disaster movie right there on the page!’ Rachel Sargeant, bestselling author of The Perfect NeighboursEveryone is trapped. Someone is lying.A luxury hotel in the heart of London. A routine journey to the twenty-ninth floor. The lift shudders… and stops.Insi...

As the temperature drops, the body count rises...Firefighters race to put out a blaze at a remote farmhouse. They discover two young girls alone in the house. Their mother is gone, and in her place is the dead body of a man, frozen naked in the fetal position. Two chess pieces made of ice have been left on the doorstep.Then it happens again.A missing woman. A frozen body. Chess pieces made of ice. Detective Dove Milson and her team are on the case, ...

This collection consists of the greatest British mystery novels and detective stories, all concocted by the masterminds of the mystery genre: Arthur Conan Doyle: Sherlock Holmes Series A Study in Scarlet The Sign of Four The Hound of the Baskervilles The Valley of Fear The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes The Return of Sherlock Holmes His Last Bow The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes Other Mysteries True Crime Stories Edgar Wallace: Four Just Men Series Mr. J. G. Re...

The "Vampire Tales" is the biggest, hungriest, undeadliest collection of vampire stories ever assembled. Dark, stormy, and delicious, once it sinks its teeth into you there's no escape. Vampires! Whether imagined by Bram Stoker or Anne Rice, they are part of the human lexicon and as old as blood itself. They are your neighbors, your friends, and they are always lurking. Now we have compiled the darkest, the scariest, and by far the most evil collection of vampire stories ever, with over 80...

100 Mystery Classics of World Literature maps the extraordinary breadth of mystery writing, from Gothic menace and sensation fiction to detective puzzles, espionage, psychological suspense, adventure, and tales of the uncanny. Its hundred selections place celebrated investigations beside narratives of crime, disguise, inheritance, urban danger, and moral ambiguity. The volume's range reveals mystery not as a narrow formula but as a capacious literary mode, encompassing the locked-room prob...

A holistic approach to analyzing distinct grassland habitats that integrates ecological, historical, and archaeological dataToday the southeastern United States is a largely rural, forested, and agricultural landscape interspersed with urban areas of development. However, two centuries ago it contained hundreds of thousands of acres of natural grasslands that stretched from Florida to Texas. Now more than 99 percent of these prairies, glades, and savannas have been...

People are like rainbows - each colour is different, and you can choose to be any colour of the rainbow. A gentle look at gender diversity and acceptance by non-binary transgender poet Rae White, with illustrations from award-winning artist Sha'an d'Anthes.Jem is a kid who sometimes loves wearing yellow dresses and sometimes loves wearing blue jeans. They feel like a girl when searching for bugs and lizards in the rain, and like a boy when running ...

After raising her siblings, Kari Savoy is ready to begin living life, beginning with a new job at a luxurious beach side resort on picturesque Black Diamond. The only standing in the way of this new era? Her devastatingly handsome but uptight boss, Davis Scott.Davis never mixes business with pleasure...anymore. Despite his efforts to resist a growing attraction to his new marketing and events manager, he finds himself in an unusual partnership to keep a failing resort afloat and le...

What if you could empathize and deeply understand the people around you from one day to the next?How would your life change if people saw you daily with different eyes than ordinary people?Are you intrigued as you ask yourself these questions and want to know more?While it is always easier to interact in the virtual world, people find it more challenging to establish and maintain relationships in the real world....

Supercharge your Social Skills and become the Master of any social situation!Do you suffer from chronic shyness?Want to uncover proven and highly-effective strategies for drastically improving your ability to communicate with others?Or do you want to master the art of body language and charisma?Then this audiobook is for you!Inside this profound guide, you’ll uncover...

British Mysteries Collection: The Complete 7 Novels & Detective Story gathers Ethel Lina White's major contributions to interwar crime fiction, where country villages, boarding houses, railway carriages, and seemingly respectable households become theatres of dread. Her prose is brisk, atmospheric, and psychologically acute, combining the puzzle elements of the Golden Age with a darker "woman-in-peril" suspense tradition. Across these novels, ordinary routines are destabilized by disappear...