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Mr Sleuth is a good guest, pays handsomely and in advance, needs very little looking after and seems to be a harmless gentleman. But when the murderous exploits of a serial killer known only as 'The Avenger' start occurring closer to home, Mrs Bunting begins to worry about her guest, his curious experiments and nocturnal habits.

Un nouveau départ. C'est ce qu'Emily espère lorsqu'elle suit son mari, Freddie, dans leur maison récemment acquise au cœur du Dartmoor. Loin du monde, cernée par la lande, Larkin Lodge est l'endroit idéal pour que la jeune femme se rétablisse après avoir échappé de justesse à la mort. Mais à peine le couple est-il installé qu'Emily est confrontée à de terrifiants phénomènes : la température passe d'un extrême à l'autre, le parquet grince sous des pas invisibles et les livres tombent seuls des étagères... Sans compter cette présence, glaçante, qu'elle perçoit au dernier étage.

Ryan and Sophie are a golden couple in Melbourne, the charming, salt-of-the-earth country boy and the charismatic, gorgeous social butterfly. When Ryan’s father dies, leaving them the family farm, it seems like a chance for Ryan to get back to his roots and for Sophie to embrace the bucolic country life she always dreamed of. But reality proves very different, and years spent struggling against an implacable drought have pushed their marriage – and finances – to the absolute limit.

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. A classic psychological thriller and early serial-killer novel, set in foggy Victorian London. A quiet, respectable London landlady begins to suspect her mysterious, reclusive lodger is responsible for the string of brutal "Ripper" murders terrorizing...

The Lodger, a new HarperCollins book, full description to follow when available...

Desmond a des problèmes d'ouïe. Et d'ennui. Professeur de linguistique fraîchement retraité, il consacre son ordinaire à la lecture du "Guardian", aux activités culturo-mondaines de son épouse, dont la boutique de décoration est devenue la coqueluche de la ville, et à son père de plus en plus isolé là-bas dans son petit pavillon londonien.

#1 New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling author Natasha Preston is back with another twisted tale of icy isolation, deadly secrets, and pulse-pounding twists! Hallie and her friends wanted a carefree ski getaway—powdery slopes, cozy cabins, endless laughs. But when a storm traps them and...

A twisty psychological thriller from NUMBER ONE, MILLION-COPY BESTSELLER Valerie Keogh. Perfect for fans of Sue Watson, Shalini Boland and K.L. Slater 📚 She’s in your home… Leigh Simon can’t say for sure what made her do it. A moment of madness, perhaps, but when the young, loud and...

Mukesh Mathur is an independent criminal lawyer. Kamlesh Dixit has been accused of killing his exemployee Abhay Singh Rajpuria, the owner of Crystal Lodge. Mukesh decides to defend Kamlesh Dixit. His investigation leads him to several other suspects, whom the police have conveniently chosen to ignore. Despite all evidence against Dixit, he continues to plead innocent. Will Mukesh Mathur be able to defend Dixit? Why are the police so keen to nail him? Find out in another nail-biting thriller from the master of crime fiction in Hindi.

It is a truth universally acknowledged that the disastrous first meeting of Fitzwilliam Darcy and Elizabeth Bennet at the Meryton Assembly provided each with a ready-made set of prejudices to apply to the other. But when a horrific rural accident reveals Darcy to be a man of active, intelligent benevolence, and Elizabeth, in the absence of her appalling family, to be an extraordinary lady of courage and decision - then, surely, the course of true love will run smoothly. But alas, the lovers' meeting is not the end, but a new beginning. 

It’s the perfect getaway. Until there’s no way out. You have been dreaming of an unforgettable weekend escape, and Black Tarn Lodge seems to offer everything—a magnificent Gothic mansion with towering turrets nestled in the misty Lancashire hills. Expecting elegant dinners, vintage wines and a screening of a legendary lost film in the private cinema, all seems perfect. Until night falls and a thick fog isolates you from the world. Your phones go missing. Guests start vanishing. And then you find the body.

A detective’s dream vacation is interrupted by a child who desperately needs help in this irresistible psychological thriller from the writer who “should be on every crime fiction fan’s must-read list” (Chris Whitaker). A teenager at an idyllic resort in Cyprus is shocked to receive an...

As an investigative journalist, she’s faced corruption, lies, and relentless threats. But nothing could prepare her for the real terror. Her husband Adrian Holloway, a charming psychology professor, hides his cruelty behind a mask of care. Their marriage is a battlefield, and Harper is losing ground.

Maggie Wilson was only 33, but life in the teeming streets of Walworth was not that easy in 1908 - not if you were a widow with four young daughters. It was pretty much a hand-to-mouth existence, and without the lodger Maggie really wouldn't have managed at all. Constable Harry Bradshaw thought the Wilsons were a gutsy and brave little family.

In 1612, Shakespeare gave evidence at the Court of Requests in Westminster - providing us with the only surviving record of his spoken words. The case seems routine - a dispute over an unpaid marriage-dowry - but it opens up an unexpected window into the dramatist's famously obscure life-story. Charles Nicholl applies a powerful biographical magnifying glass to this fascinating but neglected episode in Shakespeare's life.

USA TODAY BESTSELLER From the author of The Reunion, a cozy rom-com about a writer who decamps to a Vermont lodge for work but finds herself distracted by the charming ski instructor next door. Alix Morgan just got her big break as the ghostwriter of a memoir by Sebastian Green, a former member...

Two days ago, the Wilson family checked into the imposing, glass-fronted Lodge, surrounded by snow and perched perilously on the edge of a cliff looking out to a gray sea. Not everyone was looking forward to the family get-together. But mother-in-law Angela insisted the winter trip would help heal their rifts....

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The Lodger is a 1913 novel by English author Marie Adelaide Belloc Lowndes, based on the Jack the Ripper murders of 1888. It is a novel-length version of Lowndes' short story "The Lodger", first published in McClure's Magazine in 1911.

As all London is gripped by the horrific series of murders committed on its fog-bound streets by the self-styled "Avenger", respectable retired servants Robert Bunting and his wife Ellen are on the brink of personal disaster, in the ruin of their business. But then - miraculously as it seems - they are saved when the enigmatic Mr. Sleuth turns up at the door of their lodging house looking for rooms...but Ellen soon begins to suspect that Mr. Sleuth may be the very man who holds the capital in terror.