Books True Crime Books The Inside Story of Serial Killer Ted Bundy. Ann Rule was a writer working on the biggest story of her life, tracking down a brutal mass murderer. Little did she know that the young man who was her close friend was the savage slayer she was hunting... Ted Bundy was everyone's picture of a natural 'winner'
- handsome, charming, brilliant in law school, successful with women, on the verge of a dazzling career. Fast-forward to 24 January 1989, Ted Bundy is executed. He had confessed to taking the lives of at least thirty-five young women, coast to coast. This is his story: the story of his magnetic power, his unholy compulsion, his demonic double life & his string of helpless victims. It was written by a woman who thought she knew Ted Bundy, until she began to put all the evidence together & the whole terrifying picture emerged...   Product Information:  •†ISBN:† 9780751578096 •†Author: Ann Rule  •†Publisher:†  Sphere •†Format:†  Paperback •†Pages:† 528 •†Dimensions:† 12.6 x 3.8 x 19.8 cm
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Books Thriller Books A dark story has been brought to terrifying life. Can the ending be rewritten in time? This is what the police know: English teacher Clare Cassidy's friend Ella has just been murdered. Clare & Ella had recently fallen out. Found beside the body was a line from The Stranger, a story by the Gothic writer Clare teaches, & the murder scene is identical to one of the deaths in the story. This is what Clare knows: No one else was aware of her fight with Ella. Few others have even read The Stranger. Someone has wormed their way into her life & her work. They know her darkest secrets. & they don't mean well. This is what the killer knows: Who will be next to die...   Product Information:  •†ISBN:† 9781786487414 •†Author:†  Elly Griffiths •†Publisher:†  Quercus •†Format:†  Paperback •†Pages:† 416 •†Dimensions:† 12.8 x 2.8 x 19.8 cm ...

Orson Welles' tale of Nazi war criminals hidden away in Smalltown, USA. Wilson (Edward G Robinson), an officer with the Allied War Crimes Commission, is on the trail of Franz Kindler, one of the Nazi leaders responsible for the holocaust. Following another suspected Nazi to Harper, Connecticut, Wilson thinks he recognises Kindler in the person of Charles Rankin (Orson Welles), a local man with plans to restore the town clock to its former glory. Wilson stays around to investigate, & meanwhile, Kindler's fiancée Mary Longstreet (Loretta Young), becomes increasingly suspicious of her future husband's strange behaviour. ...

A stunning psychological thriller set in Cumbria past & present, from the award-winning author of the Dalziel & Pascoe series ...

I have everything money can buy. I’m a good wife, but sometimes I feel trapped.

And when I start an affair with a stranger

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In 1986, twenty-year-old Christopher Knight left his home in Massachusetts, drove to Maine, & disappeared into the woods.

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When Shannon Moroney married Jason Staples in October 2005, she had no idea that her happy life as a newlywed was about to come crashing down around her. One month after her wedding, a police officer arrived at her hotel door while she was out of town with the news that her husband had been arrested & charged with the brutal sexual assault & kidnapping of two women, taking them to the house he shared with Shannon to commit the acts of violence. In the aftermath of the crimes, Shannon dealt with a heavy burden of grief, the stress & publicity of a major criminal investigation, & the painful stigma of guilt by association
- all the while attempting to understand what had made Jason commit such violence. In this intimate & gripping journey into the human heart, Shannon reveals the far-reaching impact of Jason's crimes & the agonizing choices faced by the loved ones of offenders. She also tells the powerful story of how she made the amazing transition from being a member of the 'trauma club' to completely rebuilding her life. This is an impassioned, harrowing & ultimately hopeful story of one woman's pursuit of justice, forgiveness & healing.
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In the late summer of 1913 the aristocratic young poet Cecil Valance comes to stay at ' Two Acres', the home of his close Cambridge friend George Sawle. The weekend will be one of excitements & confusions for all the Sawles, but it is on George's sixteen-year-old sister Daphne that it will have the most lasting impact, when Cecil writes her a poem which will become a touchstone for a generation, an evocation of an England about to change for ever. Linking the Sawle & Valance families irrevocably, the shared intimacies of this weekend become legendary events in a larger story, told & interpreted in different ways over the coming century, & subjected to the scrutiny of critics & biographers with their own agendas & anxieties. In a sequence of widely separated episodes we follow the two families through startling changes in fortune & circumstance. At the centre of this often richly comic history of sexual mores & literary reputation runs the story of Daphne, from innocent girlhood to wary old age. Around her Hollinghurst draws an absorbing picture of an England constantly in flux. ...

Adam Price has a lot to lose: a beautiful family, a big house, a good job
- a perfect life.

But then he meets a stranger

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Horror film starring Scott Speedman & Liv Tyler, marking the debut of writer/director Bryan Bertino. When young couple Kristen (Tyler) & James (Speedman) arrive at an isolated holiday home belonging to James' parents, they are looking forward to getti ...