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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.

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...

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.

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...

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.

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.

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.

An elderly couple living in Victorian London struggle against despair as their small resources dwindle. When an eccentric and mysterious gentleman answers their advertisement for a lodger, they celebrate. But as women begin dying at the hands of "The Avenger", they start to suspect something too horrific for words.

More than a century ago, the sea islands of Georgia's coastline were the playground of the ultra-wealthy. Rockefellers, Carnegies, and other aristocrats of the Industrial Age built luxurious southern beach retreats on islands like Jekyll and Cumberland to escape icy New York winters. In time, the grand mansions were abandoned and fell into disrepair, surrendered to the weather and the wilderness.

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...

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Sherlock Holmes tente de disculper Scott Eccles, un homme soupçonné du meurtre d'Aloysius Garcia. Retrouvé la tête fracassée à quinze cents mètres de chez lui, Garcia aurait réveillé Eccles vers une heure du matin alors que l'heure de sa mort a été estimée plus tôt dans la soirée. Sherlock Holmes arrivera-t-il à innocenter Eccles, et surtout à dénicher le véritable meurtrier ?

According to legend, in 1910, Marie Belloc Lowndes attended a London dinner party where a guest told her that his mother’s butler and cook claimed they had once rented rooms to Jack the Ripper, the notorious mass murderer. The idea for “The Lodger” was born. Mr. and Mrs. Bunting have sunk their savings into their house with plans to let rooms. But no lodgers have materialized, and they are on the verge of penury when, one foggy night, a knock on the door brings Mr. Sleuth, an unassuming gentleman whose needs are perfectly suited to the suite of rooms the Buntings have to rent.

A mysterious tenant, her face hideously disfigured, haunts her landlady with midnight cries of "Murder! You cruel beast!" Holmes must unravel the dark past behind Mrs. Ronder's torment, an unsettling tale of tragedy, vengeance, and the human heart's darkest secrets.

Sechs Freunde. Ein Mörder. Wem kannst du trauen? Südengland an einem heißen Juliabend des Jahres 1983. Sechs Schulfreunde treffen sich, um gemeinsam im Wald zu zelten. Sie alle sind aufgeweckte Jugendliche und anarchisch, unerschrocken, schön, scheinbar für höhere Ziele geboren. Die erst vierzehnjährige Aurora kann kaum glauben, für ein paar Stunden zu ihrer Clique gehören zu dürfen. Am nächsten Morgen ist sie spurlos verschwunden. Dreißig Jahre später taucht in eben jenem Wald eine Leiche auf.

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of The Chalk Man by C. J. Tudor, read by Andrew Scott and Asa Butterfield. None of us ever agreed on the exact beginning. Was it when we started drawing the chalk figures, or when they started to appear on their own? Was it the terrible accident? Or when...

A woman uploads her DNA online, searching for her father—but the man who contacts her is Detective Chief Inspector Jonah Sheens. From the acclaimed author of Little Sister, this endlessly twisty crime novel asks: What might a family do to protect or expose a serial killer in its midst? When...

You never saw him. But he saw it all. When a vibrant young woman is murdered while on a video chat, a small-town detective wades into a circle of friends and lovers with dangerous secrets—from the acclaimed author of the “enjoyably chilling” (The New York Times Book Review) She Lies in...

Brought to you by Penguin. Someone in your family isn't who they say they are... Aisling's two sons, Ethan and Finn, mean everything to her. Ever since becoming estranged from her own parents, though, she's always felt like a piece of her is missing. Desperate to find answers - about her family...