David Morrell
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Pub. Date
2016.
Description
1855. The railway has irrevocably altered English society, effectively changing geography and fueling the industrial revolution by shortening distances between cities: a whole day's journey can now be covered in a matter of hours. People marvel at their new freedom. But train travel brings new dangers as well, with England's first death by train recorded on the very first day of railway operations in 1830. Twenty-five years later, England's first...
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Mulholland Books/Little, Brown and Co
Pub. Date
2013
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"Thomas De Quincey, infamous for his memoir, 'Confessions of an English Opium-Eater', is the major suspect in a series of ferocious mass murders identical to ones that terrorized London forty-three years earlier...Desperate to clearl his name but crippled by opium addiction, De Quincey is aided by his devoted daughter Emily and a pair of determined Scotland Yard detectives." --inside front cover.
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Warner Books
Pub. Date
2003
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Cavanaugh, a former member of Delta Force who now works as a protector for those rich enough to afford him and his team, is hired by a brilliant scientist named Prescott who needs protection from a powerful drug lord seeking the highly addictive drug he has invented. At least, that is what Cavanaugh is led to believe. After Cavanaugh trains the scientist in escape and evasion, the unthinkable occurs: Cavanaugh's team is viscously attacked and entirely...
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Pub. Date
1996
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A thriller starring Steve Decker, fall guy for a CIA operation gone wrong, forced to resign from its employ. He embarks on a peaceful life as a real estate agent in Santa Fe, only to be attacked by killers and see his girlfriend's home bombed. So it's back to war. By the creator of Rambo.
6) Creepers
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On a cold October night, five people gather in a run-down motel on the Jersey shore and prepare to break into the once-magnificent Paragon Hotel. Danger, fear, and death await them in a place ravaged by time and redolent of evil.
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Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2015.
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Legendary thriller writer David Morrell transports readers to the fogbound streets of London, where a killer plots to assassinate queen Victoria.
The year is 1855. The Crimean War is raging. The incompetence of British commanders causes the fall of the English government. The Empire teeters. Amid this crisis comes opium-eater Thomas De Quincey, one of the most notorious and brilliant personalities of Victorian England. Along with his irrepressible...
10) Blood oath
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St. Martin's/Marek
Pub. Date
c1982
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Houston must solve the murder of his wife and discover why his father's military grave in France has mysteriously disappeared.
12) The shimmer
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Pub. Date
2009
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Santa Fe police officer Dan Page tracks down his missing wife only to witness a bloodbath in Rostov, a remote town in Texas famous for a massive astronomical observatory, a long-abandoned military base, and unexplained nighttime phenomena that draw onlookers from every corner of the globe. Determined to solve the mystery of the Rostov Lights in order to save his wife, he discovers that the decaying military base may not be abandoned at all, and that...
16) Double image
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Publisher
Warner Books
Pub. Date
1998
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The adventures in love and war of photographer Mitch Coltrane. In one adventure, he becomes the object of revenge by a Balkan war lord whose crimes he recorded on film, in another he searches for a beautiful woman he saw in a photograph.
18) MatchUp
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Collects stories written by best-selling thriller authors, 11 women and 11 men partnered in male-female literary pairings, in anthology that includes contributions by such favorites as Sandra Brown, John Sandford and Eric Van Lustbader.
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Mysterious Press, an imprint of Penzler Publishers
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
"Under the auspices of New York City's legendary mystery fiction specialty bookstore, The Mysterious Bookshop, and aided by Edgar Award-winning anthologist Otto Penzler, international bestseller Lee Child has selected the twenty most suspenseful, most confounding, and most mysterious short stories from the past year, collected now in one entertaining volume."--Amazon.
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Sometimes the greatest horrors lurk in the most mundane places This collection features some of M. R. James's greatest tales of the supernatural world crossing over into our own. In "Number 13," an inn that previously belonged to an alchemist changes dimensions in the night. "The Mezzotint" features a painting of a house reenacting a gruesome scene from the house's history. In "The Treasure of Abbot Thomas," an antiquary who has discovered the location...