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Wyatt Riggins, the boyfriend of rising Maine artist Zetta Nadeau, has gone missing, leaving behind a cell phone containing a single-word message: RUN. Private investigator Charlie Parker is hired to find out why Riggins has fled, and from whom. Parker discovers that Riggins, an ex-soldier, has been involved in the abduction of four children from Mexico: three girls and a boy, all belonging to the cartel boss Blas Urrea - except Urrea's family is safe and well in Mexico, which means the abductees cannot be his children.

Wyatt Riggins, the boyfriend of rising Maine artist Zetta Nadeau, has gone missing, leaving behind a cell phone containing a single-word message: RUN. Private investigator Charlie Parker is hired to find out why Riggins has fled, and from whom. Parker discovers that Riggins, an ex-soldier, has been involved in the abduction of four children from Mexico: three girls and a boy, all belonging to the cartel boss Blás Urrea—except Urrea’s family is safe and well in Mexico, which means the abductees cannot be his children. Yet whoever they are, Urrea wants them back.

Phoebe, 8 ans, est dans le coma. À son chevet, sa mère, Cérès, lui lit les contes qu'elle affectionne dans l'espoir qu'elle se réveille. Mais il est difficile de garder espoir, si difficile...Non loin de l'hôpital où Cérès passe ses soirées se dresse une vieille demeure. Poussée par une force étrange, la jeune femme pénètre dans la maison et se retrouve propulsée dans un monde fantastique.

Phoebe, an eight-year-old girl, lies comatose following a car accident. She is a body without a spirit, a stolen child. Ceres, her mother, can only sit by her bedside and read aloud to Phoebe the fairy stories she loves in the hope they might summon her back to this world. But it is hard to keep faith, so very hard. Now an old house on the hospital grounds, a property connected to a book written by a vanished author, is calling to Ceres. Something wants her to enter, and to journey - to a land coloured by the memories of Ceres's childhood, and the folklore beloved of her father.

In Maine, Colleen Clark stands accused of the worst crime a mother can commit: the abduction and possible murder of her child. Everyone—ambitious politicians in an election season, hardened police, ordinary folk—has an opinion on the case, and most believe she is guilty. Defending Colleen is the lawyer Moxie Castin, and working alongside him is the private investigator Charlie Parker, who senses the tale has another twist, one involving a husband too eager to accept his wife’s guilt.

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In Maine, Colleen Clark stands accused of the worst crime a mother can commit: the abduction and possible murder of her child. Everyone - ambitious politicians in an election season, hardened police, ordinary folk - has an opinion on the case, and most believe she is guilty. But most is not all. Defending Colleen is the lawyer Moxie Castin, and working alongside him is the private investigator Charlie Parker, who senses the tale has another twist.

Young Samuel Johnson and his dachshund, Boswell, are trying to show initiative by trick-or-treating a full three days before Halloween which is how they come to witness strange goings-on at 666 Crowley Road. The Abernathys don't mean any harm by their flirtation with the underworld, but when they unknowingly call forth Satan himself, they create a gap in the universe.

È il 1997 e qualcuno sta massacrando giovani donne nella contea di Burdon, in Arkansas. Ma nessuno nello Sporco Sud vuole ammetterlo. In una cella di prigione dell’Arkansas siede un ex detective della polizia di New York, affranto dal dolore. Sta piangendo la morte di sua moglie e sua figlia e cerca invano il loro assassino. Ossessionato dall’idea di vendicare la famiglia, la sua vita sta per prendere una piega sconvolgente. La nuova alba di una coscienza, la nascita di un cacciatore, la trasformazione di Charlie Parker.

Un ragazzino approda in un mondo di fiabe distorte e deve ritrovare la strada di casa. L’unica compagnia di David sono i libri sul suo scaffale. Ma da un po’ di tempo quei libri hanno iniziato a sussurrargli nell’oscurità. Arrabbiato e in un costante stato di solitudine, si rifugia nei miti e nelle fiabe tanto amati dalla madre defunta e scopre che il mondo reale e quello fantastico hanno iniziato a fondersi tra loro.

Night & Day takes us from the dusty shelves of an uncanny library filled with fictional characters to a bunker deep beneath the earth where scientists seek revenge on old Nazis, from an English marsh haunted by a mother and her son to a country house where a grieving widower finds comfort in a most unlikely source. Concluding with the author's account of how an obscure horror film brought him closer to his lost father, and how nostalgia can help through our hardest times, this is a collection that will move, entertain, and keep you listening late into the night.

Ad Amsterdam, quattro persone vengono massacrate, i resti di tre di loro sono disposti intorno alla forma crocifissa del loro leader, De Jaager, intermediario e vecchio alleato dell’assassino di nome Louis. I responsabili sono criminali di guerra serbi che credono di poter sfuggire alla giustizia ritirandosi in patria, ma si sbagliano. Perché Louis è arrivato in Europa per dare loro la caccia: cinque assassini da stanare e punire prima che si disperdano verso est. C’è solo un problema. Ne manca uno. Il sesto. Il più dannato.

Filled with eerie surprises and dark delights, Night and Day takes us from the dusty shelves of an uncanny library filled with fictional characters to a bunker deep beneath the earth where scientists seek revenge on old Nazis; from an English marsh haunted by a mother and her son to a country house where a grieving widower finds comfort from a most unlikely source. Concluding with the author’s account of how an obscure horror film brought him closer to his lost father, and how nostalgia can help to keep us sane, this is a collection that will move, entertain, and keep you listening.

Una giovane donna scompare per le strade di New York. Chi l’ha rapita crede che a nessuno importi di lei, che nessuno la cercherà. Si sbaglia. È la cugina di Louis l’assassino, braccio destro del detective privato Charlie Parker, che ridurrà in brandelli chiunque intralci i suoi sforzi per ritrovarla. Mentre la violenta ricerca di Louis procede, Parker si rende conto che questa sparizione fa parte di un mistero più antico, legato a una chiesa ornata di ossa situata nell’Europa orientale.