It's 1992 and three people's lives are about to collide against the flaming backdrop of the Rodney King riots in Los Angeles. Vietnam vet Harry Hudson is a journalist fleeing his past: the war, a failed marriage, and a fear-ridden childhood. Rootless, he stutters, wrestles with depression, and is aware he's passed the point at which victim becomes victimizer. He explores the city's lowest dives, the only places where he feels at home. He meets Mama...

Santa Relli (Jour de Fête) plays a young woman named Cécile, who keeps coming to Quai des Orfèvres to see Inspector Maigret about disturbing events in her household. The esteemed detective and his colleagues are annoyed…until Cécile winds up dead. Maigret must crack the mystery in this stylish film noir from director Maurice Tourneur (Lorna Doone).

Colin is a cash game poker pro, so is Jordan, but Jordan has something that Colin does not. A beautiful girlfriend named Isabelle. What happens when sex, money and deceit fill the air between them? This story is a original screenplay written by James Paul Nelson. In this story, James writes about themes he knows quite well. Gambling, drugs, sex, and fast money. Characters are forced to look at themselves and their situations and deal with the consequences....

"Fans of Lawrence Block's Keller stories are going to love One More Kill. I certainly did. Matt Hughes kept me up all night, turning pages."-George R.R. MartinHe was a trained killer, an orphaned kid who rose from raw recruit to the rank of major in the US Army Rangers. He was looking forward to retiring at the end of a thirty-year hitch, but when he developed a low-grade form of leukemia, the Army pushed him out and left him feeling alone and useless...

"Truly chilling, Flynn's stories will stick with you long after reading."-Matthew Hutton, The Scare Room Podcast The town of Drachton is crumbling, with crime and violence perpetuating around the clock. Prisons are at bursting point, and morale is at an all time low. The government's answer is Swarm-a revolutionary new prison.Swarm is a correctional facility like no other, harnessing the power of the inmates' subconscious minds for the benefit of...

Si Dejas Una Puerta Entreabierta Pronto Escucharás Los Susurros... Hace quince años un psicópata conocido como el Hombre de los Susurros sembró el caos en el apacible pueblo de Featherbank. Ahora, con el asesino entre rejas, el pueblo es un lugar seguro para que Tom y su hijo Jake, de siete años, empiecen de nuevo. Hasta que otro chico desaparece. La historia parece repetirse. ¿Estará el asesino fuera? ¿Podrá Tom proteger a su hijo?

Short stories about the path that life can lead us, the harm it can do and the justice in our minds and souls. How often are we dismissed and used for someone else's wants and needs. Life is hard, cold, demeaning and gives no thought to our feelings hopes, or dreams. There are those very few who receive help from some unseen force that gives them back hope, but many many more who receive only the terrible destructive and painful memories of life....

With the launch of the surveillance probe behind him, Paul Tringley is free to focus on profitable business ventures once again. He still doesn't know who blackmailed him, but his hired henchmen are on the job, searching for the culprit. Meanwhile, Professor David Kingston is finding it hard to walk away from his recent experiences. A certain name continues to haunt him-Dolph Veale. In the third and final book of the Exodus of Evil Trilogy, join David...

From soil to cloud, from valley to peak,From dark to bright, in this complex and changeable world,What one could take as life,What one could take as an enlightenment.The story revolves around two characters: Guang He and Sheng He: Guang He was abandoned by his mother and abused by his stepmother when he was a child, and after he grew up, he was sentenced to ten years' imprisonment for injuring a person by mistake, and after his release from prison,...

Whilst moving into her new Paris apartment, Madame Dumont discovers a dead body in her wardrobe. Soon more corpses pile up near the metro station Picpus and the eponymous street: a clairvoyant, a blind man, a doctor, a real estate agent. These people have certainly got something in common, but what can it be? Maigret is summoned to investigate in this thrilling whodunit from director Richard Pottier (Fanfare d’Amour).