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On a six-mile hike on the Maine-New Hampshire branch of the Appalachian Trail, nine-year-old Trisha McFarland quickly tires of the constant bickering between her older brother, Pete, and her recently divorced mother. But when she wanders off by herself, and then tries to catch up by attempting a shortcut, she becomes lost in a wilderness maze full of peril and terror. As night falls, Trisha has only her... (more)

From a Buick 8

by Stephen King

WANT TO GO FOR A RIDE...? In a secret shed behind the barracks of the Pennsylvania State Police, Troop D, there's a cherry Buick Roadmaster no one has touched in years -- because there's more power under the hood than anyone can handle....

The Night Gardener

by George P. Pelecanos

The haunting story of three copsone good, one bad, one brokenand the murder that reunites them in a showdown decades in the making. Gus Ramone is good police, a former Internal Affairs investigator now working homicide for the citys Violent Crime branch. His new case involves the death of a local teenager named Asa, whose body has been found in a community garden. The murder unearths intense memories of a case... (more)

Thinner

by Stephen King, Richard Bachman

When an old Gypsy man curses Billy Halleck for sideswiping his daughter, six weeks later he's 93 pounds lighter. Now Billy is terrified. And desperate enough for one last gamble...that will lead him to a nightmare showdown with the forces of evil melting his flesh away.

Sleepers

by Lorenzo Carcaterra

"Undeniably powerful, an enormously affecting and intensely human story." --The Washington Post Book World "A GUT-WRENCHING PIECE OF WORK. . . Carcaterra's graphic narrative grips like gunfire in a dark alley." --The Atlanta Journal & Constitution "In his controversial memoir SLEEPERS, Carcaterra remembers harrowing months in the Wilkinson Home for Boys and the elaborate vengeance he and his friends exacted... (more)

Erast Fandorin: Book 1

The Winter Queen

(Azazel)

by Boris Akunin

This is the first book featuring Erast Fandorin, a gentleman sleuth who solves murders and mysteries in Tsarist Russia. Moscow 1876. A young law student commits suicide in broad daylight in Moscow's Alexander Gardens. But this is no ordinary death, for the young man was the son of an influential industrialist and has left a considerable fortune. Erast Fandorin, a hotheaded new recruit to the Criminal Investigation... (more)

Bad Monkeys

by Matt Ruff

Jane Charlotte has been arrested for murder. She tells police that she is a member of a secret organization devoted to fighting evil; her division is called the Department for the Final Disposition of Irredeemable Persons—"Bad Monkeys" for short. This confession earns Jane a trip to the jail's psychiatric wing, where a doctor attempts to determine whether she is lying, crazy—or playing a different game... (more)

Sleeping Dogs

by Thomas Perry

He came to England to rest. He calls himself Michael Shaeffer, says he's a retired American businessman. He goes to the races, dates a kinky aristocrat, and sleeps with dozens of weapons. Ten years ago it was different. Then, he was the Butcher's Boy, the highly skilled mob hit man who pulled a slaughter job on some double-crossing clients and started a mob war. Ever since, there's been a price on his head.... (more)

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RAGE

by Stephen King

The Turn of the Screw

by Henry James

THE TURN OF THE SCREW is the greatest and most subtle of all English-language ghost stories. H.P. Lovecraft praised its "truly potent air of sinister menace" and "mounting tide of fright" and subsequent critics have argued long and hard over the central "problem" of the story: if the motifs of the traditional ghost story, in the hands of a master, are used to probe the deepest depths of the human psyche, do the... (more)

Psycho

by Robert Bloch

It was a dark and stormy night when Mary Crane glimpsed the unlit neon sign announcing the vacancy at the Bates Motel. Exhausted, lost, and at the end of her rope, she was eager for a hot shower and a bed for the night. Her room was musty buy clean and the plumbing worked. Norman Bates, the manager, seemed nice, if a little odd....

The Overlook: A Novel

by Michael Connelly

In his first case since he left the LAPDs Open Unsolved Unit for the prestigious Homicide Special squad, Harry Bosch is called out to investigate a murder that may have chilling consequences for national security. A doctor with access to a dangerous radioactive substance is found murdered in the trunk of his car. Retracing his steps, Harry learns that a large quantity of radioactive cesium was stolen shortly... (more)

Death by Hollywood: A Novel

by Steven Bochco

From the acclaimed co-creator of Hill Street Blues , L.A. Law , and NYPD Blue , Death by Hollywood is a suspenseful, shocking, and darkly comic crime novel about a screenwriter, a billionaire's wife, a murder, and, of course, a cop. "There used to be a writer by the name of Merle Miller, who wrote that people in Hollywood are always touching you--not because they like you, but because they want to see how... (more)

Hannibal

by Thomas Harris

Invite Hannibal Lecter into the palace of your mind and be invited into his mind palace in turn. Note the similarities in yours and his, the high vaulted chambers of your dreams, the shadowed halls, the locked storerooms where you dare not go, the scrap of half-forgotten music, the muffled cries from behind a wall. In one of the most eagerly anticipated literary events of the decade, Thomas Harris takes us once... (more)

Shadowland

by Peter Straub

The #1 New York Times bestselling author's all-time horror classic Now with a new introduction by Peter Straub Few modern horror novels have been able to stand the test of time like Shadowland . Now, with a new introduction from Peter Straub, this classic becomes a collectible for his insatiable fans-and for new readers who have just discovered Straub through the bestselling Black House , co-written with... (more)

The Tommyknockers

by Stephen King

Bobbi Anderson and the other good folks of Haven, Maine, have sold their souls to reap the rewards of the most deadly evil this side of hell.

Black Sunday

A Novel of Terrorism

by Thomas Harris

From the genius of Thomas Harris, the #1 New York Times bestselling author who introduced the world to Hannibal Lecter, comes his terrifying and prophetic debut of an American who plans an act of terrorism at the Super Bowl—as the whole world watches. But in a mob of 80,000 people, how can they find him to stop him? The clock is ticking…

Poet: Book 1

The Poet

by Michael Connelly

Jack McEvoy is a Denver crime reporter with the stickiest assignment of his career.His twin brother, homicide detective Sean McEvoy, was found dead in his car from a self-inflicted bullet wound to the head--an Edgar Allen Poe quote smeared on the windshield.Jack is going to write the story.The problem is that Jack doesn't believe that his brother killed himself, and the more information he uncovers, the more it... (more)

Needful Things: The Last Castle Rock Story

Needful Things: The Last Castle Rock Story

by Stephen King

The #1 bestseller that raises the price of greed... A new store has opened in the little town of Castle Rock. It has just what you want. But you won't discover just how high the price is until it's too late.

The Regulators

by Stephen King, Richard Bachman

On a perfect summer afternoon in Wentworth, Ohio, many of the citizens who live on Poplar Street are killed mysteriously, and at the center of the mystery is a young boy named Seth Garon, whose supernatural powers are just awakening. 1,250,000 first printing. Lit Guild, Doubleday, & Mystery Guild Main.

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by Stephen King

by Stephen King

by George P. Pelecanos

by Stephen King, Richard Bachman

by Lorenzo Carcaterra

(Azazel)

by Boris Akunin

by Matt Ruff

by Thomas Perry

by Stephen King

by Henry James

by Robert Bloch

by Michael Connelly

by Steven Bochco

by Thomas Harris

by Peter Straub

by Stephen King

A Novel of Terrorism

by Thomas Harris

by Michael Connelly

by Stephen King

by Stephen King, Richard Bachman