E-böcker / Deckare & spänning
Mary, Mary
Det är en het sommarkväll i Dublin när en orolig mamma ringer till polisen och anmäler att hennes 20-åriga dotter är försvunnen. En vecka senare gör en gammal man som rastar sin hu ...
Mannen från Albanien
Det är hösten 1990 och järnridån har nästan helt rämnat. I Stockholm faller en man ned från Erstaterrassen och omkommer. Han har ett albanskt pass på sig men hans existens förnekas ...
Bröllopsfesten
Årets bröllopsfest.Ett oväntat dödsfall.Tretton misstänkta.På en avlägsen ö utanför Irlands kust ska årets mest omtalade fest äga rum. Jules Keegan och Will Slater ska äntligen gif ...
Perjantai, kolmastoista päivä
Toimittaja ja etsivä Kalle Kanto joutuu keskelle murhamysteeriä, kun vuorineuvos Georg William Harmaja löytyy kuolleena kartanostaan. Ruumiin löytävät Harmajan siskonpoika Halme se ...
Täydellinen murha: kaksitoista kertomusta
Benjamin, nuori juutalainen juristi, rakastuu palavasti saksalaiseen Christinaan. Heidän salainen romanssinsa päättyy, kun Christinan juutalaisvastainen isä määrää tämän naimisiin ...
Carrara
När en visselblåsare kontaktar Advokatbyrån Steiner angående ett till synes rutinmässigt ärende, blir det startskottet för en kedja av händelser med oanade konsekvenser. Laura More ...
Skimrande eljest
I Skimrande eljest samlar författaren Emilia Wahlgren noveller som alla kom till liv parallellt i samband med hennes debutroman Moraliskt fördärvade. Den är således en fristående f ...
Operation Notvarp - ubåtsjakten i Hårsfjärden
Boken är en verklighetsbaserad militärpolitisk thriller som kontrast till alla ogenomträngliga ubåtsutredningar. En äventyrsroman med Sveriges överbefälhavare, Sveriges statsminist ...
Dödlig hämnd
Alice Wiklund och hennes kolleger på Scotland Yard ställs återigen ansikte mot ansikte med ondskan. När en mördad kvinna hittas i en nedlagd tunnelbanestation visar det sig att det ...
The Man That Was Used Up
A short story that is shrouded in mystery, "The Man that Was Used Up" follows a narrator who wants to learn more about an important military figure. A satirical tale that mocks a r ...
The Devil in the Belfry
A classic horror story that follows the arrival of a fiendish figure in a small town, "The Devil in the Belfry" draws its potency from the amusing, ironic, and extremely creative a ...
A Predicament
The story is often labelled a sequel to "How to Write a Blackwood Article", and deals with Signora Zenobia, who comes across a stately cathedral and a giant clock, that soon will t ...
The Mantle
With his sense of humor and ability to observe, Nikolai Gogol presents the world with stories of little people: the weak and fragile people who try to hold on to life in the gloomy ...
St. John's Eve
How far will a man go for love? The short story 'St. John's Eve' by Nikolai Gogol from the 19th century recounts the sinister events that transpired in a poor hamlet generations ag ...
The Red and the Black
M. de Rênal is the mayor of a provincial town named Verrières, who hires Julien Sorel as a private teacher for his child. Sorel desires to become a real man and follow the steps of ...
Collected Stories
Teeming with dark humour, supernatural elements, and hard-to-believe situations, Nikolai Gogol’s "Collected Stories" is a highest form of short story fiction. With stories like "Th ...
Balsamo, the Magician
Twenty years before the French Revolution. The Monarchy has already started to lose some of its supporters, even though young Marie Antoinette has just married the King Louis XVI. ...
May Night, or the Drowned Maiden
In Nikolai Gogol's short story 'May Night, or the Drowned Maiden,' a single night ends up changing the lives of many. Young Levko is the son of the head of a Ukrainian village and ...
The Fair at Sorochyntsi
'The Fair at Sorochyntsi' by Nikolai Gogol is a short story set in a Ukrainian village in 1800. A man travels with his daughter and wife to a fair to sell some of their belongings. ...
The Thousand-and-Second Tale of Scheherazade
Have you ever wondered what would have happened if Scheherazade had not ceased with her tales and told the king another story that is actually a retelling of a previous story, but ...
The Dream
Constance de Villeneuve is a young woman with a heartbreaking problem. She is in love with a man called Gaspar De Vaudemont, but Constance’s and Gaspar’s fathers were mortal enemie ...
The Cask of Amontillado
"The Cask of Amontillado" is a classic revenge story where an insulted man, Montresor, exacts his vengeance upon the drunk Fortunato. Just like "The Tell-Tale Heart" and "The Black ...
The Mystery of Marie Rogêt
A classic detective short story shrouded in mystery, "Marie Rogêt" features Poe’s famour investigator C. Auguste Dupin trying to solve a murder case. Based upon an actual murder, t ...
A Tale of the Ragged Mountains
An example of Poe’s mystery-laden and dream-oriented short stories, "A Tale of the Rugged Mountains" offers unique perspective on important notions at the time – mesmerism, alterna ...
Morella
Poe’s symptomatic need to portray dying or already dead women is evocative of his own failed and miserably spent marriage life to his young cousin. "Morella", in a way similar to " ...