By C.M. Elliot
By C.M. Elliot
By Silke May
By Mel Vil
"[I]f you need to find out about the distinction days of partying in a spot like this.. this is often your ebook" Joshua (5* review)
Three associates stand on the front to the members-only membership that's the Buenos Aires underworld. They trip previous the purpose of no go back followed by means of a cicerone of doubtful quality.
The tale occurs within the mid-naughties, a time whilst Buenos Aires used to be facing the autumn out of a political and monetary main issue that had engulfed the full kingdom. such a lot Argentinians remained in a kingdom of post-traumatic surprise, others protested in useless. the single to learn from the chaos have been the minions of the underworld. The consultant to this demi-monde, although, is a guy battling to avoid wasting not just his personal morality but additionally his v.i.p. credentials.
Buenos extraterrestrial beings is the tale of a friendship solid within the unlikeliest of crucibles. it's the tale of acts that can't be defined by way of their intentions. it's the tale of gear being fed on and medication being offered. specially, it's the tale of indecision and the unforeseen dating among Englishmen, an American and an Argentinian..
By Reiny Pierson
Sarah Tazewell, a cerebral, hugely intuitive girl, knew from an early age that she was once psychic. while she and her husband David purchase a confessional sales space from The Governor's Antiques in Mechanicsville, VA and convert it right into a cell sales space for his or her Queen Anne Victorian, Sarah senses a presence within the confessiona. Later, the voices turn into just one voice: that of a assassin that rapes and strangles his sufferers. even though fed on with worry and nervousness, Sarah refuses to be a sufferer and units out on a trip to profit extra in regards to the confessional. Sarah's antagonist is an excellent, charismatic sexual psychopath who conforms to a ritual of homicide and confession. The confessional within the 100-year-old church the place he confessed was once a vital part of the ritual. while he involves confess after one other homicide, he unearths "his" confessional long gone and starts off a frantic seek to discover it.
By Guido Eekhaut
By Philip D. Langhe
Clara, jeune femme de chambre, vient d’être affectée au Château. Depuis, elle ne donne plus signe de vie à son amie Selena. Celle-ci s’inquiète. Aidée de Torn, un veilleur de nuit taciturne, elle entame une enquête périlleuse. Derrière les portes de l’hôtel se cache l’inimaginable. Une ruche grouillante où un présent glaçant rejoint un crossé effrayant.
EXTRAIT
Il marchait dans un couloir interminable. Ses jambes se dérobaient à chacun de ses pas dans un univers où tout semblait avoir l. a. consistance du coton. Des deux côtés du couloir, de nombreuses portes dont il ne savait pas où elles menaient. Toutes refusaient de s’ouvrir.
Jusqu’à ce qu’il entende cette musique. Cette musique qui le hanterait jusqu’à los angeles fin de ses jours. Il sentit son cœur battre plus vite, son ventre se nouer. Un mauvais pressentiment commençait à l’envahir. Les notes poursuivaient leur chorus lancinant, comme si rien ne pouvait désormais infléchir le cours de son destin.
Elles venaient de cette pièce dont los angeles porte était entrebâillée, l. a. seule qui l’invitait à entrer.
Il commença par s’arrêter sur le seuil, pour écouter si d’autres bruits étaient perceptibles à l’intérieur. Rien ne filtrait, que cette maudite mélodie !
Il poussa l. a. porte tout doucement, laissant ses yeux s’habituer à los angeles pénombre. Tout avait l’air common. Tout… Sauf cette… Il distinguait cette ombre au-dessus de l’escalier… Mon Dieu… Il se sentit vaciller et brusquement… il se redressa sur le lit, en nage, les yeux révulsés… Les photos que lui renvoyait un moveé où il avait tout perdu donnaient un visage particulier à ses angoisses. Son esprit ne parvenait plus à se détacher de cette photograph d’enfant trouvée dans l. a. poche de l’architecte en perdition. Et s’il avait raison ?
À PROPOS DE L'AUTEUR
Né dans le Nord dans les années 1970, Philip D. Langhe vit aujourd’hui en Picardie. Cet ingénieur de formation a toujours targeté écrire. Après s’être essayé à l. a. poésie et aux livres pour enfants, il publie avec Le sommeil des nymphes son leading polar. Il y convoque crossé et présent pour illustrer les dérives de l. a. société contemporaine.
By Sigrun Arenz
By D. W. Larsen
While out for the night William Carterell and his sister are attacked by means of thugs. he's left in a coma; his sister is dragged away screaming, her physique present in a dumpster days later. whilst William ultimately opens his eyes approximately 3 years later, he has no notion why he's in a personal clinical middle, nor what has occurred to his sister. After restoration, he embarks on a vengeful quest to trace down his sister’s killers.
Meanwhile, midway internationally, Zhuo Tan toils in vegetable patches, below the watch of her merciless chinese language father, who resents her for being born girl. He makes a decision to promote either Zhuo and her more youthful sister to human traffickers, and the ladies are pressured to trip around the ocean in a stifling transport box to the USA, the place they're separated and compelled into modern-day slavery. As Zhuo struggles to evolve to her new id, locate her sister, and become aware of freedom, her direction finally crosses with William’s, the place their destinies collide.
Redemption’s Wrath is the poignant tale of 2 drastically varied humans from contrary ends of the area. they have to trip divergent roads in the direction of an identical vacation spot to confront their universal enemies.
By Dr. Francis Bandettini,Matt Nilsen
In this disagreement with corruption, Ann Higgins stumbles into the underworld lifetime of a high-ranking South Dakota statesman; and she or he catapults her psychiatrist, Troy Stoker, M.D., into the clash. whilst her chilling discovery threatens to devastate a politician’s mystery dominion, Ann finally ends up dangling from a makeshift noose and battling for her survival, whereas plunging Dr. Stoker even deeper into the conflict of minds, muscular tissues and new tech.
Dr. Stoker enlists Errol Rivera, a fellow doctor and armed forces connecté to assist get to the bottom of the secret and tackle the demanding situations set earlier than them. jointly Stoker and Rivera use their extraordinary instinct, psychiatric savvy and armed forces abilities to pursue the veiled, corrupt baby-kisser and seek out his felony pack.
Still, Stoker is unaware that his Cuban-born, patriot pal, Rivera, is far greater than a physician with a hero’s previous. At his command, Rivera unleashes an elite band of warriors who have interaction their education, guts, expertise and weaponry to confront the corruption.
Hold on and bounce into this gritty thrill trip because the new hero, Troy Stoker, M.D., emerges in an explosive new political and psychiatry mystery, American Jackal.
Who's Troy Stoker? he is a psychiatrist . yet, to appreciate who Stoker is now, it is helping to appreciate who he used to be as a rookie military medic circa 1992.
“I don’t supply a rattling if it’s an order or no longer an order. It’s simply definitely the right thing!” Stoker thought of his drawback. “Let’s pull this jeep correct up in entrance of his comfortable little sunshade. you're taking over this wound! i will take an officer’s reprimand, yet I can’t reside with this guy dying.”
Forty-five seconds later, the driving force skidded the jeep to a cease correct in entrance of the radio operator’s sunshade. “Call again that helicopter!” yelled Stoker because the driving force jumped again to the sufferer and took over the 1st relief. “This guy is set to die!”
“I can’t!” protested the radio operator, as he watched corporal Stoker leap out of the jeep with bloody fingers. “I have orders from the overall to—” Stoker’s gory hand reached for the radio and the operator lurched again in worry.
Stoker took over the radio and hit the transmit button. “Deathstalker, this is often Medic Alpha Six. Over.”
A second later, the pilot spoke back to Stoker’s name. “Medic Alpha Six, this can be Deathstalker.”
“Roger,” Stoker acknowledged. “I’m a medic with an Airborne Ranger in severe , asking for you switch that helicopter round. i would like medevac and that i want that healthcare professional. Over.”
“Standby, Medic Alpha Six,” got here the pilot’s answer. Silently, Stoker waited and was hoping. “That’s a roger, Medic Alpha Six.” reduction flooded via Stoker. “Ground keep an eye on. this can be Deathstalker. touchdown website transparent, over?” Stoker began to hand the blood-covered radio microphone again to the radio operator, yet he wouldn't contact it. So Stoker shoved the machine to inside of 3 inches of the radio operator’s mouth, became his head to look on the empty touchdown quarter, and began to key the microphone so the squeamish radio operator may factor the reaction.
Who is Stoker's mentor, Errol Rivera, M.D.? Now Colonel Rivera, he recalls a few of his 1992 helicopter pilot history.
“Are you ignoring a right away order, Captain?”
“No, sir. i used to be ignoring you momentarily whereas I think about your direct order,” Rivera stated, turning his cognizance to a few navigation platforms for a couple of seconds.
“I will court docket martial you, Captain!”
Rivera smiled optimistically and despatched the helicopter right into a quick foot descent. After leveling out, he became to the accountant who additionally occurred to be a colonel, who was once now very nauseated. “Now, I’m ignoring your order! I’ll see you on the complaints, sir!”
By Petra Ivanov
Sebastians Leben ist eine einzige Abwärtsspirale. Seine Eltern sind von seinen schulischen Leistungen enttäuscht, Freunde hat er kaum. Eine Lehrstelle findet er nur dank der Beziehungen seines Vaters, eines Zahnarztes an der Zürcher Goldküste. Einzig im Billardspielen ist Seb wirklich intestine. Als er dabei Isabella kennenlernt, scheint sein Leben eine Wende zu nehmen. Doch es kommt anders als erwartet. Statt auf sicheren Boden, führt ihn diese Beziehung aufs Glatteis. Unfähig, sich aufzufangen, schlittert Seb geradewegs in eine Katastrophe.