**"Dark and twisty, with white-knuckle tension and jaw-dropping surprises." --Riley Sager, New York Times bestselling author of Home Before Dark** **In this smart and chilling thriller, master of suspense Mary Kubica takes domestic secrets to a whole new level, showing that some people will stop at nothing to keep the truth buried.** People don't just disappear without a trace... Shelby Tebow is the first to go missing. Not long after, Meredith Dickey and her six-year-old daughter, Delilah, vanish just blocks away from where Shelby was last seen, striking fear into their once-peaceful community. Are these incidents connected? After an elusive search that yields more questions than answers, the case eventually goes cold. Now, eleven years later, Delilah shockingly returns. Everyone wants to know what happened to her, but no one is prepared for what they'll find... **Look for these other riveting thrillers by Mary

A CITY IN QUARANTINE London, the epicenter of a global pandemic, is a city in lockdown. Violence and civil disorder simmer. Martial law has been imposed. No-one is safe from the deadly virus that has already claimed thousands of victims. Health and emergency services are overwhelmed. A MURDERED CHILD At a building site for a temporary hospital, construction workers find a bag containing the rendered bones of a murdered child. A remorseless killer has been unleashed on the city; his mission is to take all measures necessary to prevent the bones from being identified. A POWERFUL CONSPIRACY D.I. Jack MacNeil, counting down the hours on his final day with the Met, is sent to investigate. His career is in ruins, his marriage over and his own family touched by the virus. Sinister forces are tracking his every move, prepared to kill again to conceal the truth. Which will stop him first — the virus or the killers?

In this tale from Locke’s teenage years, our nervous, hormonal, romantically-confused hero spends a few months working as a bar-back in one of Camorr’s most brutal Right People taverns. This is one of Father Chains’ endless series of training and personal enrichment schemes; as per usual, it’s full of fuckery, and as per usual, Locke is expected to work it all out himself. His only real ally of the moment is the aging mercenary Mazoc Szaba, a man addicted to risking his own life in a gambling spectacle involving poisoned wine. As Locke’s troubles boil over, so do Mazoc Szaba’s debts, and when you publicly flaunt your obligations to the one and only Capa Barsavi, Barsavi reaches out to publicly remind you of them… “Locke Lamora and the Bottled Serpent” will be a two-part extravaganza bridging the October 2024 and January 2025 issues of Grimdark Magazine

In this tale from Locke’s teenage years, our nervous, hormonal, romantically-confused hero spends a few months working as a bar-back in one of Camorr’s most brutal Right People taverns. This is one of Father Chains’ endless series of training and personal enrichment schemes; as per usual, it’s full of fuckery, and as per usual, Locke is expected to work it all out himself. His only real ally of the moment is the aging mercenary Mazoc Szaba, a man addicted to risking his own life in a gambling spectacle involving poisoned wine. As Locke’s troubles boil over, so do Mazoc Szaba’s debts, and when you publicly flaunt your obligations to the one and only Capa Barsavi, Barsavi reaches out to publicly remind you of them… “Locke Lamora and the Bottled Serpent” will be a two-part extravaganza bridging the October 2024 and January 2025 issues of Grimdark Magazine

Shot in the head by an unknown assailant, San Francisco private eye Sharon McCone finds herself trapped by locked-in syndrome: almost total paralysis but an alert, conscious mind. Since the late-night attack occurred at her agency's offices, the natural conclusion was that it was connected to one of the firm's cases. As Sharon lies in her hospital bed, furiously trying to break out of her body's prison and discover her attacker's identity, all the members of her agency fan out to find the reason why she was assaulted. Meanwhile, Sharon becomes a locked-in detective, evaluating the clues from her staff's separate investigations and discovering unsettling truths that could put her life in jeopardy again. As the case draws to a surprising and even shocking conclusion, Sharon's husband, Hy, must decide whether or not to surrender to his own violent past and exact fatal vengeance when the person responsible is identified

Over the Atlantic in the dark of night, the electronic brain of Pangia Airlines Flight 10 quietly and without warning disconnects all the cockpit controls and reverses course on its own. The crew of the huge Airbus 330 at first sense nothing, the flight displays still showing them on course to New York. But with puzzled passengers reporting stars on the wrong side and growing alarm over the sudden failure of all their radios — and when armed fighters pull alongside to force them to land — the confused pilots discover that Flight 10 is streaking back toward the hyper-volatile Middle East and there is nothing they can do about it. With an alphabet soup of federal agencies struggling for answers and messages flying between Washington, and Tel Aviv where the flight began, the growing supposition that Flight 10 may be hijacked is fueled by the presence of a feared and hated former head of state sitting in first class, a man with an extreme Mid East agenda who may somehow be responsible for the Airbus A-330’s loss of control. As frantic speculation spreads, the possibility that the unresponsive airliner could be the leading edge of a sophisticated attack on Iran designed to provoke a nuclear response drives increasingly desperate decisions. As time and fuel runs low, flying at full throttle toward a hostile border ahead, Captain Jerry Tollefson and First Officer Dan Horneman have to put their personal animosities aside and risk everything to wrest control from the electronic ghost holding them — and perhaps the world — on a course to certain disaster. And in the “Hole” — as the war room in Tel Aviv is called — the interim Prime Minister of Israel grapples with a horrifying choice in the balance between 300 airborne lives and the probability of nuclear war

Leyla findet nach dem Tod ihrer Mutter eine Einladung ihrer Familie vor, nach Pemberton Hurst zu kommen. Voller Zweifel und Beklommenheit reist sie; nicht ohne Grund: Denn sie weiß nur, daß dieser Landsitz der Ort ihrer Kindheit ist, aber an die Menschen dort, an ihre Familie kann sie sich nicht erinnern. Überrascht wird sie von ihrer Familie begrüßt und beobachtet, aber willkommen geheißen wird sie nicht. Als Leyla beginnt, nach ihrer Vergangenheit zu suchen, begegnet man ihr mit unverhohlenem Mißtrauen und hartnäckigem Schweigen. Gegen den Widerstand ihrer Familie versucht sie allein, die Wahrheit herauszufinden und den vielen Fragen auf den Grund zu gehen. Lastet auf der Familie wirklich ein Fluch, wie viele Leute behaupten? Warum waren ihre Vettern nicht verheiratet? Muß sie wirklich einem Leben ohne einen liebenden Mann und Kinder entgegensehen? Mutig kämpft Leyla Pemberton um ihre Erinnerungen und stößt dabei auf ein schreckliches Geheimnis…

The interconnected stones that form Felipe Alfau's novel LOCOS take place in a Madrid as exotic as the Baghdad of the 1001 ARABIAN NIGHTS and feature unforgettable characters in revolt against their young 'author' "For them," he complains, "reality is what fiction is to real people; they simply love it and make for it against ray almost heroic opposition" Alfau's "comedy of gestures" — a mercurial dreamscape of the eccentric, sometimes criminal, habitues of Toledo's Cafe of the Crazy — was written in English and first published in 1936, favorably reviewed for The Nation by Mary McCarthy, as she recounts here in her Afterword, then long neglected

Роман гениального французского писателя Рэймона Русселя (1877–1933), которого Андре Бретон называл «самым великим магнетизером нашего времени», «Locus Solus» публикуется на русском языке впервые. «Locus Solus» — это долгая, бесконечная прогулка, которую можно воспринимать и как некий путь к посвящению. Блестящий ученый — законченный образ писателя, художника или, согласно Русселю, гения — открывает нам на семи остановках семь захватывающих дух чудес, которые он задумал, создал и поместил в своем парке. Среди этих ошеломляющих находок — летающая трамбовочная «баба», составляющая мозаику из разноцветных… зубов, гигантский «алмаз», в котором плавает танцовщица с музыкальными волосами, ожившие покойники, разыгрывающие самые знаменательные эпизоды своей жизни… Но прежде всего «Locus Solus» — это интеллектуальный эксперимент, сколь просчитанный, столь и непредсказуемый

В этой книге собраны под одной обложкой произведения авторов, уже широко известных, а также тех, кто только завоевывает отечественную читательскую аудиторию. Среди них представители нового романа, сюрреализма, структурализма, постмодернизма и проч. Эти несвязные, причудливые тексты, порой нарушающие приличия и хороший вкус, дают возможность проследить историю литературного авангарда от истоков XX века до наших дней