HIDDEN RELICS. SUBMERGED SECRETS. BURIED EVIDENCE…

American pathologist Nora Gavin has come to the Irish midlands to examine a body unearthed by peat workers at a desolate spot known as the Lake of Sorrows. As with all the artifacts culled from its prehistoric depths, the bog has effectively preserved the dead man’s remains, and his multiple wounds suggest he was the victim of the ancient pagan sacrifice known as the triple death. But signs of a more recent slaying emerge when a second body, bearing a similar wound pattern, is found — this one sporting a wristwatch.

Someone has come to this quagmire to sink their dreadful handiwork — and Nora soon realizes that she is being pulled deeper into the land and all it holds: the secrets to a cache of missing gold, a tumultuous love affair with archeologist Cormac Maguire, the dark mysteries and desires of the workers at the site, and a determined killer fixated on the gruesome notion of triple death.

Hailed for her multiple award-winning debut novel , Erin Hart melds Irish history, archeology, and modern forensics in her eloquent, suspense-charged thrillers.

What sort of book is worth a man’s life? After a year away from working in the field, archaeologist Cormac Maguire and pathologist Nora Gavin are back in the bogs, investigating a ninth-century body found buried in the trunk of a car. They discover that the ancient corpse is not alone—pinned beneath it is the body of Benedict Kavanagh, missing for mere months and familiar to television viewers as a philosopher who enjoyed destroying his opponents in debate. Both men were viciously murdered, but centuries apart—so how did they end up buried together in the bog?

While on the case, Cormac and Nora lodge at Killowen, a nearby artists’ colony, organic farm, and sanctuary for eccentric souls. Digging deeper into the older crime, they become entangled in high-stakes intrigue encompassing Kavanagh’s death while surrounded by suspects in his ghastly murder. It seems that everyone at Killowen has some secret to protect.

Set in modern-day Ireland, reveals a new twist on the power of language—and on the eternal mysteries of good and evil.

You may know me best as Meredith Nic Essus, princess of faerie. Or perhaps as Merry Gentry, Los Angeles private eye. In the fey and mortal realms alike, my life is the stuff of royal intrigue and celebrity drama. Among my own, I have confronted horrendous enemies, endured my noble kin's treachery and malevolence, and honored my duty to conceive a royal heir — all for the right to claim the throne. But I turned my back on court and crown, choosing exile in the human world — and in the arms of my beloved Frost and Darkness.

While I may have rejected the monarchy, I cannot abandon my people. Someone is killing the fey, which has left the LAPD baffled and my guardsmen and me deeply disturbed. My kind are not easily captured or killed. At least not by mortals. I must get to the bottom of these horrendous murders, even if that means going up against Gilda, the Fairy Godmother, my rival for fey loyalties in Los Angeles.

But even stranger things are happening. Mortals I once healed with magic are suddenly performing miracles, a shocking phenomenon wreaking havoc on human/faerie relations. Though I am innocent, dark suspicions of banned magical activities swirl around me.

I thought I'd left the blood and politics behind in my own turbulent realm. I had dreamed of an idyllic life in sunny L.A. with my beloved ones beside me. But it becomes time to wake up and realize that evil knows no borders, and that nobody lives forever — even if they're magical.

The odd thing about Walter Schoen, German born but now running a butcher shop in Detroit, he's a dead ringer for Heinrich Himmler, head of the SS and the Gestapo. They even share the same birthday.

Honey Deal, Walter's American wife, doesn't know that Walter is a member of a spy ring that sends U.S. war production data to Germany and gives shelter to escaped German prisoners of war. But she's tired of telling him jokes he doesn't understand—it's time to get a divorce.

Along comes Carl Webster, the hot kid of the Marshals Service. He's looking for Jurgen Schrenk, a former Afrika Korps officer who escaped from a POW camp in Oklahoma. Carl's pretty sure Walter's involved with keeping Schrenk hidden, so Carl gets to know Honey, hoping she'll take him to Walter. Carl then meets Vera Mezwa, the nifty Ukrainian head of the spy ring who's better looking than Mata Hari, and her tricky lover Bohdan with the Buster Brown haircut and a sly way of killing.

Honey's a free spirit; she likes the hot kid marshal and doesn't much care that he's married. But all Carl wants is to get Jurgen Schrenk without getting shot. And then there's Otto—the Waffen-SS major who runs away with a nice Jewish girl. It's Elmore Leonard's world—gritty, funny, and full of surprises.

Ein schweres Unwetter zwingt den Himalaya-Führer Ike Crockett und seine Gruppe von Abenteuerurlaubern in eine abgelegene Höhle in den Bergen. Dort stoßen sie auf die Leiche eines Mannes, der mit mysteriösen Schriftzeichen bedeckt ist. Stunden später sind alle Bergsteiger verschwunden - irgendwo im unterirdischen Reich der geheimnisvollen Hadal. Jahre später, Ike konnte inzwischen aus seiner Gefangenschaft bei den Hadal entkommen, wird eine wissenschaftliche Expedition in die Tiefen gesandt. Unter den Teilnehmern befindet sich die junge Nonne und Sprachwissenschaftlerin Ali, die die Schriftzeichen der Hadal erforschen soll. Mit Ike als Kundschafter dringen sie in das Reich des Bösen vor ...

Der erfahrene Himalaya-Experte Dwight David Crockett, genannt Ike, sucht mit seiner Expeditionsgruppe Schutz vor einem Unwetter in einer Höhle in Nepal. Zu ihrem Entsetzen stoßen sie dort auf die Leiche eines Mannes, die über und über mit unbekannten Schriftzeichen bedeckt ist. Wenig später sind alle Mitglieder der Expeditionsgruppe tot, und Ike wird für lange Monate Gefangener der »Hadals«. Jahre später ist es fast schon zur Selbstverständlichkeit geworden, dass die Erde von einem tief liegenden Tunnelsystem unterminiert ist, das von den Hadals bewohnt wird. Niemand weiß, wer - oder was - sie sind, aber wenn sie erscheinen, verheißt das nichts Gutes. Eines Tages wird eine wissenschaftliche Expedition zusammengestellt, mit dem Auftrag, das Tunnelsystem zu kartografieren, Ressourcen zu entdecken - und das Geheimnis des Lebens in der ewigen Dunkelheit zu ergründen. Gibt es eine natürliche Erklärung, wie die Wissenschaftler hoffen? Oder hat das Phänomen übernatürliche Ursachen? Ist der rätselhafte Anführer der Hadals nur ein charismatischer Freak oder tatsächlich Satan, die Verkörperung des Bösen? Die junge Nonne Ali, die sich seit Jahren mit primitiven Sprachen und Kulturen beschäftigt, nimmt an dieser Reise in die steinerne Unterwelt teil. Und in diesen gefährlichen Abgründen, in denen Wissenschaftler und Militärs nicht nur Opfer ihrer Angreifer werden, sondern auch ihrer eigenen Gier und Unmenschlichkeit, trifft sie den einen Mann, der einen klaren Kopf behält: Ike ...

Jeff Long ist ein erfolgreicher Extrem-Bergsteiger, der seine eigenen Erfahrungen im Himalaya in seine Romane einfließen lässt. Jeff Long lebt in Boulder, USA.

Twenty-one stories for mature audiences only!

This collection of Joe R. Lansdale stories represents the best of the “Lansdale” genre—a strange mixture of dark crime, even darker humor, and adventure tales. Though varied in setting and theme, all the stories are pure Lansdale—eerie, amusing, and occasionally horrific. In “The Pit,” modern gladiators square off against one another using Roman methods. An alternate-history tale called “Trains Not Taken” shows Buffalo Bill as an ambassador and Wild Bill Hickok as a clerk. Lansdale’s love of large lizards and humor are evident in the stories “Godzilla’s Twelve Step Program” and “Bob the Dinosaur Goes to Disneyland.”

The career of Joe R. Lansdale has spanned more than twenty-seven years, in which period he has written over two hundred short stories. This collection is the best of these. As Lansdale states in his Introduction, ". these stories are the ones I think best reflect my work." Some of these are obviously horrific : others, the realization will slowly, surely creep upon one. Others will visit alternate history, humor, or dark crime. Mixing the impossible, the improbable, and the never-before-thought-of, Lansdale uses his innate East Texas storytelling abilities to perfection. As an added bonus, each story starts with an introduction by Lansdale, describing the story-behind-the-story.

Death Mask by prolific horror novelist Graham Masterton is a blood-bath thriller about an ugly, evil killer who appears out of thin air to bludgeon people, usually in elevators of all places. What makes the killer uncharacteristically scary is that he's untraceable and non-existent when the police are looking for him. He's nearly a ghost.

Meanwhile at her home, a young artist named Molly discovers she can paint pictures that come to life. Relying on help from her tarot-card reading mother-in-law Sissy, her husband Trevor, and a couple of fearless detectives, everyone puts their heads together to stop the crazy madman from striking over and over again.  

A supernatural thriller from the master of suspense.

Californian James Falcon's compelling Romanian mother told him so many folk stories that by the time he reaches college in 1943, he is something of an expert on the strigoi, the legendary, undying vampires who infested the most isolated forests of Wallachia. Mostly as a joke, he writes a term paper on the strigoi. But the joke turns serious when US counterintelligence approach him to recruit his expertise. James hunts down strigoi murderers in war-ravaged Europe, Nazi assassins hired to run down run down the French and Belgian resistance in exchange for Transylvanian independence, although the principal one, the terrible Dorin Duca, continues to elude him.

In the Cold War, he must fight once more, as Duca goes on the rampage, spreading his strigoi infection all across London, England. With Jill, a police dog handler of great beauty and resilience, James is assigned to Britain's MI6 to go on the hunt again. But even after the threat is driven away, James will still uncover more secrets about the immortal predators secrets that come ever closer to home…