Literary thrillers

A young woman disappears without a trace. What begins as a kidnapping spirals into a nightmare where the true horror doesn't lurk in the darkness—it lives inside her captor's mind.

A Shocking Verdict. A Stigmatized Husband.A Woman’s Ruthless Quest for Justice. Valeria Brinton has just married the love of her life, Eustace Woodville, believing a future of absolute happiness awaits them.

A family vacation turns deadly in Windwise, Manhunt book 5 by Sophie Ester and Carolyn Nicolas. An old friend returns, threats target a rock band, and DI-RECT joins the fray in this high-stakes mystery thriller.

Discover a gripping chapter in the Vanhoven crime series. When dark family secrets unravel via old letters in Sydney, a dangerous truth emerges. A tense psychological thriller packed with suspense, mystery, and a shocking climax.

SOME of the caddies were poor as sin and lived in one-room houses with a neurasthenic cow in the front yard, but Dexter Green's father owned the second best grocery-store in Black Bear—the best one was "The Hub," patronized by the wealthy people.

Discover Lateral, the thrilling second book in the Manhunt mystery series. Carol is finally happy, but the hunger for revenge remains. A gripping story about family, survival, and a cold-blooded game. Will secrets from the past destroy everything?

The Waves, first published in 1931, is Virginia Woolf's most experimental novel. It consists of soliloquies spoken by the book's six characters: Bernard, Susan, Rhoda, Neville, Jinny, and Louis.

YOU must rise early in the morning," said Dame Louhi, the Wise Woman of the North. She stood at the door of her chamber and looked back into the low-raftered hall where her daughter was spinning.

The moving was over and done. Professor St. Peter was alone in the dismantled house where he had lived ever since his marriage, where he had worked out his career and brought up his two daughters. It was almost as ugly as it is possible for a house to be.

They come across many interesting people in their travels and are often met with the kindness of strangers. Yet, underneath an animated and colorful world, they also encounter the bleak reality of the industrial age.

She was almost grown-up—to me, a child of six or seven, she seemed quite grown-up; in reality, she was, I suppose, about fifteen or sixteen. She was a bright, kind, good-natured girl, very anxious to please and amuse her little English cousins..

"Home" says the sweet voice, and warm Comfort rises, Holding my soul with velvet-fingered hands; Comfort of leafy lair and lapping fur, Soft couches, cushions, curtains, and the stir Of easy pleasures that the body prizes,

Discover the secrets of the Manhunt series in Connections. Caz uncovers a shocking link to his cousin, rock star Vincent Jones. A search for family history turns into a dangerous scandal full of hidden truths and international fame.

“The Punishment Post” is set in the former Dutch East Indies and tells a powerful story of oppression, resistance, and healing, as a community transforms a colonial instrument of suffering into a symbol of justice, hope, and inner liberation.

What if your greatest wish comes true, but reality is a trap? In Timeline, Vincent must escape a surreal dream where his lost loved ones are still alive. A gripping mystery about hope, loss, and the dark side of paradise.

Siddhartha is a novel by Hermann Hesse that deals with the spiritual journey of self-discovery of a man named Siddhartha during the time of the Gautama Buddha. The book, Hesse's ninth novel (1922), was written in German, in a simple, lyrical style.

The bereft husband had exacted swift retribution of the murderer, on that very rock, and the Indian’s heart blood had left that deep stain in the darker granite as a perpetual memorial of the swift vengeance of the Jacquelin Grays.

Pride and Prejudice is a novel by Jane Austen, first published in 1813. The story follows the main character Elizabeth Bennet as she deals with issues of manners, upbringing, morality, education, and marriage in the society of the landed gentry of early.

"Walter Elliot, born March 1, 1760, married, July 15, 1784, Elizabeth, daughter of James Stevenson, Esq. of South Park, in the county of Gloucester, by which lady (who died 1800) he has issue Elizabeth, born June 1, 1785; Anne, born August 9, 1787.

Esmeralda, a beautiful Gypsy street dancer with a kind and generous heart, captures the hearts of many men, including those of Captain Phoebus and Pierre Gringoire, a poor street poet, but especially Quasimodo and his adoptive father, Claude Frollo.

THE YEAR 1400 opened with more than usual pea-cefulness in England. Only a few months before, Richard II—weak, wicked, and treacherous—had been dethroned, and Henry IV declared King in his stead.

Repatriation: When the truth is your worst enemy. Vincent Jones is a stranger in his own life. Lost identity, a shattered past, and a truth too painful to survive. Can he build a future on a nightmare? Discover part 3 of the gripping Manhunt series.

As I Lay Dying is a 1930 Southern Gothic novel by American author William Faulkner. Faulkner's fifth novel, it is consistently ranked among the best novels of the 20th century. The title is derived from William Marris's 1925 translation of Homer's Odyssey

The Sound and the Fury is a novel by the American author William Faulkner, published in 1929. Faulkner's fourth novel, it is the second to be set in Yoknapatawpha County and the first featuring the Compson family, both of which would reappear in his later

A Farewell to Arms is a novel by American writer Ernest Hemingway, set during the Italian campaign of World War I. First published in 1929, it is a first-person account of an American, Frederic Henry, serving as a lieutenant (Italian: tenente).

A Room of One's Own is an extended essay by Virginia Woolf, first published in 1929.[1] Divided into six chapters, the work is based on two lectures Woolf delivered in October 1928 at two women's colleges, Newnham College and Girton College.

To the Lighthouse is a 1927 novel by Virginia Woolf. The novel centres on the Ramsay family and their visits to the Isle of Skye in Scotland between 1910 and 1920. The novel is set in the Ramsays' summer home in the Hebrides, on the Isle of Skye.

Madame Bovary (1856) is the French writer Gustave Flaubert's debut novel. The story focuses on a doctor's wife, Emma Bovary, who has adulterous affairs and lives beyond her means in order to escape the banalities and emptiness of provincial life.

How often, in answer to my repeated intreaties that you would give my Daughter a regular detail of the Misfortunes and Adventures of your Life, have you said "No, my freind never will I comply with your request till I may be no longer in Danger..

A river is the most human and companionable of all inanimate things. It has a life, a character, a voice of its own, and is as full of good fellowship as a sugar-maple is of sap. It can talk in various tones, loud or low, and of many subjects, grave.