"Kurt Wallander becomes involved in the case of the disappearance of a retired naval officer--who is Wallander's daughter Linda's future father-in-law--which leads him into a story of Cold War espionage. Wallander also confronts his own age and mortality, while welcoming his first granddaughter"--Provided by publisher.

"John Brodie is a Guardian, a member of a secretive network devoted protecting the vulnerable psychics from a deadly, ruthless -- and virtually invisible enemy. Tasha Solomon is a gifted psychic unaccustomed to depending on anyone for anything. Now, the only person she can trust to guide her through a maze of danger and deception is Brodie"--

Originally published in 1956, this is a collection of chilling true stories of occurrences that have baffled the best minds of the world. They include:-The bullet that lay imbedded in a man and waited twenty years to kill him!-The thief who was in two places at the same time: hypnotized on a vaudeville stage and at the scene of his own crime.-The defenseless, besieged town that won a great victory without firing a single shot.-The man who was horribly...

When a friendly, well-loved, elderly main is murdered, St. Paul detectives Leo Magozzi and Gino Rolseth look to the family for suspects. When more murders of elderly people follow, however, it begins to appear that the motives behind the murders may be much more sinister.

When Hannah Griffin was a little girl her home went up in flames killing her mother. It was the nation's worst murder scene, now 20 years later Hannah is investigating a child abuse case when the past comes hurtling back. A killer with unfinished business is on the loose and that makes Hannah's blood run cold.

"A tightly plotted page-turner ripped from the headlines of history, as three very different women must work together to stop a killer and save the truest home they've ever known."-- Before hypnotism, there was Mesmerism. And in 1894 Minneapolis, in the wake of a national financial crisis, spiritualism of every stripe is all the rage, and women are dying under mysterious circumstances. But until a new guest arrives at the Bethany Home for Unwed Mothers,...

"A shocking murder in an affluent Helsinki suburb has ties to the occult in this thrilling US debut from Finnish author Max Seeck. A bestselling author's wife has been found dead in a gorgeous black evening gown, sitting at the head of a formally set dinner table. Her most chilling feature - her face is frozen in a ghastly smile. At first it seems as though a deranged psychopath is reenacting the gruesome murders from the victim's husband's bestseller,...

When two women are found murdered in the nation's capital, crime reporter Joe Wilcox invents a serial killer stalking the city, but the sudden appearance of his mentally ill brother, Michael, leads Joe to suspect that Michael could be the real thing.

The woman dubbed in the headlines "the Central Park Jogger," who was raped and brutally beaten in 1989 while jogging in New York's Central Park, recounts her assault and recovery and describes how the event changed her life.

The suspicious circumstances of her best friend's apparent suicide drive a young woman to the possibility that it was murder, and might involve the same man who killed her sister eighteen years ago.