A Messerschmitt 109 aircraft crashes on a remote Scottish mountainside and a lone parachutist descends. On landing, he demands to see the Duke of Hamilton, whose castle is nearby. It is 1941, and a bizarre mission, one so sensitive that its full...
When your mob families are at war, what are the risks of giving love a shot?
In this explosive short story, international bestselling author Jeffery Deaver brings readers a classic tale of star-crossed lovers who defy the boundaries of enemy...
An unexpected meeting and a simple landscaping job swiftly pull Miguel into a dangerous new world...
This story originally appeared in Thriller: An Anthology of New Mystery Short Stories edited by Don...
Fresh off the runway at Teterboro, Stone Barrington arrives home to find an unexpected new client on his doorstep, anxiously soliciting Stone’s help. But everything is not as it seems, when the client reveals the true nature — and value — of...
John Vallancourt, the cool, calm diplomat, was worried stiff. A dear friend was dead and his daughter Nancy was missing. John feared the worst and the worst was Nancy’s sweetheart Keith Rollins. Keith was the prime suspect in the case and he was...
In the Spring of 1926 we published Cornell Woolrich’s novel Cover Charge. It was presented to us in the previous autumn, by a young man, just nineteen, still attending courses at Columbia University and it was one of the very few unsolicited...
The Humming Bird Comes Home, a touching story about blind farm woman Ma Adams who just wants her son back. He’s a gangster on the run, and when he finally comes home, he brings trouble with him. Ma Adams relies on touch, hearing and all her wits,...