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Thriller 2: Stories You Just Can't Put Down

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Rescue Me

Cherry Adair, Lora Leigh, Cindy Gerard · 352 pages

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Dangerous Women: Original Stories from Today's Greatest Suspense Writers

Otto Penzler, Lorenzo Carcaterra, Michael Connelly, John Connolly, Thomas H. Cook, Jeffery Deaver · 384 pages

Prepare to meet the most seductively female and the most shockingly fatal of femmes fatales, brought to you by seventeen of today's finest authors of mystery and suspense fiction. Award-winning editor Otto Penzler presents a collection of short and sizzling masterpieces of kisses and kiss-offs, gams and gats, published for the first time anywhere. In "***Third Party***," Jay McInerney takes you on

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Stalkers

Martin H. Greenberg · 351 pages

Short story anthology by various authors on the subject of stalking, edited by Gorman and Greenberg.

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Full Dark, No Stars

Stephen King · 419 pages

Full Dark, No Stars is a collection of four intense short stories with retribution as the central theme. Released in the fall of 2010 in hardcover and audiobook formats, Full Dark, No Stars is a powerful read featuring some of Stephen's most graphic and merciless content to date. ([source][1]) Contains: - [1922][2] - [A Good Marriage][3] - [Big Driver][4] - Fair Execution [1]:

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Many Bloody Returns

Christopher Golden, Bill Crider, Kelley Armstrong, Jim Butcher, P.N. Elrod, Rachel Caine, Jeanne C. Stein, Tanya Huff, Carolyn Haines, Tate Hallaway, Elaine Viets · 361 pages

Never-before-published vampire stories by Charlaine Harris, Jim Butcher, Kelley Armstrong, and many others.Suspenseful, surprising, sometimes dark, sometimes humorous-these all-new stories will ensure that readers never think of vampires (or birthdays) in quite the same way again.In New York Times bestselling author Charlaine Harris's "Dracula Night," Sookie Stackhouse is the only human at the ann

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Thriller

Jon Scieszka, James Patterson, Walter Dean Myers, Gennifer Choldenko, Anthony Horowitz, Matt de la Pena, Margaret Peterson Haddix, Bruce Hale, Patrick Carman, M.T. Anderson, Jarrett J. Krosoczka

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McSweeney's Mammoth Treasury of Thrilling Tales

Jim Shepard, Glen David Gold, Dan Chaon, Kelly Link, Elmore Leonard, Carol Emshwiller, Neil Gaiman, Nick Hornby, Stephen King, Michael Crichton, Laurie R. King, Chris Offutt, Dave Eggers, Michael Moorcock, Aimee Bender, Sherman Alexie, Harlan Ellison, Karen Joy Fowler, Rick Moody, McSweeney's Publis · 497 pages

A Vintage Contemporaries Original Includes: Jim Shepard's "Tedford and the Megalodon" Glen David Gold's "The Tears of Squonk, and What Happened Thereafter" Dan Chaon's "The Bees" Kelly Link's "Catskin" Elmore Leonard's "How Carlos Webster Changed His Name to Carl and Became a Famous Oklahoma Lawman" Carol Emshwiller's "The General" Neil Gaiman's "Closing Time" Nick Hornby's "Otherwise Pand

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Faceoff

Linwood Barclay, Heather Graham, Peter James, Raymond Khoury, Dennis Lehane, John Lescroart, Steve Martini, T. Jefferson Parker, Douglas Preston, Ian Rankin, James Rollins, Steve Berry, M.J. Rose, John Sandford, R.L. Stine, F. Paul Wilson, Lee Child, Lincoln Child, Michael Connelly, Jeffery Deaver, · 384 pages

23 best-selling suspense writers pit their most popular characters against one another in eleven stories.

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No Middle Name: The Complete Collected Jack Reacher Short Stories

Lee Child · 418 pages

"A collection of pulse-pounding Jack Reacher stories--one never-before-seen novella, plus eleven others collected for the first time in print--each with original introductions from the twelve-time #1 New York Times bestselling author"--

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First Thrills

Gregg Hurwitz, Michael Palmer, Grant McKenzie, John Lescroart, Bill Cameron, Stephen Coonts, Ryan Brown, Sean Michael Bailey, Heather Graham, Rebecca Cantrell, Kelli Stanley, C.J. Lyons, Wendy Corsi Staub, J.T. Ellison, Marc Paoletti, Karin Slaughter, Karen Dionne, Rip Gerber, Alex Kava, Ken Bruen, · 408 pages

New York Times bestselling author Lee Child and International Thriller Writers, Inc., present a collection of remarkable stories in First Thrills. Showcasing many of the organization's bestselling authors as well as rising stars in the genre, here are twenty-five brand-new, never-before-published stories packed with murder, mystery, and mayhem. Including... -- A cunning criminal thinks he can us

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Creepshow

Stephen King, Bernie Wrightson · 64 pages

**CREEPSHOW - STEPHEN KING EM QUADRINHOS É MUITO DARKSIDE®** Por Stephen King e Bernie Wrightson. Adaptado do filme de George A. Romero. Tudo começou em 1982. King juntou forças com outro gênio das sombras, o diretor George A. Romero (A Noite dos Mortos-Vivos), para realizarem um filme inspirado em quadrinhos clássicos dos anos 1950, como Contos da Cripta, da EC Comics. O longa-metragem m

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Troubled Daughters, Twisted Wives: Stories from the Trailblazers of Domestic Suspense

Sarah Weinman · 356 pages

A salute to the real femmes fatales of the domestic suspense genre, and the deceitful children, deranged husbands, vengeful friends, and murderous wives they unleashed. Sarah Weinman, one of today's preeminent authorities of crime fiction, brings together fourteen chilling stories by women who -- from the 1940s through the mid-1970s -- took a scalpel to contemporary society and sliced away to rev

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999: New Stories of Horror and Suspense

Kim Newman, Tim Powers, Nancy A. Collins, Ramsey Campbell, Edward Lee, P.D. Cacek, Thomas Ligotti, Rick Hautala, David Morrell, Peter Schneider, Ed Gorman, Joyce Carol Oates, Edward Bryant, Steven Spruill, Michael Marshall Smith, Joe R. Lansdale, Bentley Little, Thomas F. Monteleone, Dennis L. McKie · 688 pages

A collection of stories on the supernatural. They range from Thomas Disch's story, The Owl and the Pussycat, which is on the marriage of an owl and a cat, to Kim Newman's Amerikanski Dead at the Moscow Morgue, which is about American zombies in Russia.

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MatchUp

Charlaine Harris, John Sandford, Kathy Reichs, Eric Van Lustbader, Gayle Lynds, Nelson DeMille, Lisa Jackson, Sandra Brown, Christopher Rice, J.A. Jance, Lisa Scottoline, Steve Berry, Peter James, Michael Koryta, Diana Gabaldon, David Morrell, Karin Slaughter, Andrew Gross, Lara Adrian, Val McDermid · 464 pages

"In this incredible follow-up to the New York Times and USA TODAY bestseller FaceOff, twenty-two of the world's most popular thriller writers come together for an unforgettable anthology. MatchUp takes the never-before-seen bestseller pairings of FaceOff and adds a delicious new twist: gender. Eleven of the world's best female thriller writers from Diana Gabaldon to Charlene Harris are paired with

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Fear: 13 Stories of Suspense and Horror

R.L. Stine, James Rollins, Heather Graham, Walter Sorrells, Tim Maleeny, Suzanne Weyn, Jennifer Allison, Heather Brewer, Peg Kehret, Alane Ferguson, Ryan Brown, F. Paul Wilson, Meg Cabot · 313 pages

A collection of thirteen scary stories by bestselling and award-winning authors, including Ryan Brown's "Jeepers Peepers," Meg Cabot's "The Night Hunter," and others. In this thrilling collection of heart-stopping original stories from thirteen masters of adult and young adult thriller writing, anyone can be a villain, and no one is who or what he or she seems. The plots contain sexual references

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First Thrills: Volume 1

Lee Child, Michael Palmer, Daniel James Palmer, Karen Dionne, J.T. Ellison, Ryan Brown, Rip Gerber, Sean Michael Bailey

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The Grownup

Gillian Flynn · 71 pages

A canny young woman is struggling to survive by perpetrating various levels of mostly harmless fraud. On a rainy April morning, she is reading auras at Spiritual Palms when Susan Burke walks in. A keen observer of human behavior, our unnamed narrator immediately diagnoses beautiful, rich Susan as an unhappy woman eager to give her lovely life a drama injection. However, when the "psychic" visits t

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Love Is Murder

Allison Brennan · 544 pages

An edge-of-your-seat anthology, written exclusively by members of International Thriller Writers, Inc., features 30 tales of suspense from today's hottest writers.

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Rogues

Gardner Dozois · 832 pages

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Tales of the Bounty Hunters

Kevin J. Anderson · 368 pages

In a wild and battle-scarred galaxy, assassins, pirates, smugglers, and cutthroats of every description roam at will, fearing only the professional bounty hunters—amoral adventurers who track down the scum of the universe…for a fee. When Darth Vader seeks to strike at the heart of the Rebellion by targeting Han Solo and the Millennium Falcon, he calls upon six of the most successful—and feared—hun

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Silent Night

J.D. Robb, Susan Plunkett, Dee Holmes, Claire Cross · 340 pages

J.D. Robb's "Midnight in Death" features Lieutenant Eve Dallas hunting for an escaped serial killer... Susan Plunkett's "Christmas Promises" brings two lovers back together as they search for a missing child... Dee Holmes's "The Unexpected Gift" is a tale of a woman and her son, who discover the spirit of the holidays after finding a "body" in their backyard... Claire Cross's "A Berry Mer

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Kaiju Rising: Age of Monsters

Peter Clines, Timothy W. Long, Peter Stenson, Kane Gilmour, Erin Hoffman, Paul Genesse, Edward M. Erdelac, Jonathan Wood, Shane Berryhill, Natania Barron, Pete Rawlik, James Swallow, Jaym Gates, Patrick M. Tracy, Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam, Mike MacLean, Larry Correia, Sean Sherman, Gini Koch, James Love · 531 pages

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Mystery Writers of America Presents Ice Cold: Tales of Intrigue from the Cold War

Joseph Finder, J.A. Jance, Laura Lippman, John Lescroart, T. Jefferson Parker, Sara Paretsky, Alan Cook · 384 pages

Collects twenty short stories depicting spies, double agents, femme fatales, and the weaponry of the Cold War written by such modern authors as Joseph Finder, Sara Paretsky, and T. Jefferson Parker.

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