Today’s high schools aren’t about books. They’re about texts, Tweets, and social media postings… silly, gossip, and sometimes mean, until the random murder of a well-like high school teacher.But is it random?Vinnie Briggs can’t find any explanation other than the wrong place, wrong time… except he notices links to other accidents among teachers, principals, and high school parents. He recruits a martial arts expert, Rita Light, to help the investigation.Vinnie and R...

An American Marine recounts his ordeal as a World War II POW forced by the Japanese to build the railway immortalized in The Bridge on the River Kwai.From June 1942 to October 1943, more than 100,000 Allied POWs who had been forced into slave labor by the Japanese died building the infamous Burma-Thailand Death Railway, an undertaking immortalized in the film The Bridge on the River Kwai. One of the few who survived was American Marine H. Robert Ch...

**“Fiction readers who crush on blue-blooded British detectives will fall hard for Victorian-era sleuth Charles Lenox." —The Washington PostFrom the critically acclaimed and USA Today bestselling author Charles Finch comes The Vanishing Man, a prequel to his Charles Lenox Victorian series,** in which the theft of an antique painting sends Detective Lenox on a hunt for a criminal mastermind.London, 1853: Having ear...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.A haunting tale of fate, mystery, and the supernatural, The Signal-Man is one of Charles Dickens’s most memorable ghost stories. First published in 1866, this short work combines the chilling atmosphere of Victorian horror with Dickens’s mastery of psychological suspense.The story follows a traveler who encounters a lonely railway signal-man working in a deep, isolated cutting. Haunted and visibly distu...

‘Recommended. I read it one breathless sitting’ Ian RankinA gripping new standalone spy thriller, recalling the classic film Casablanca, from the winner of the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger for Best Thriller of the Year and ‘the master of the modern spy thriller’ (Mail on Sunday).A SIMPLE TASKSuccessful novelist Kit Carradine has grown restless. So when British Intelligence invites him to enter the secret world of espionage, he willin...

Step into a world where the boundaries between reality and the unknown blur, with "The Signal-Man and Other Stories," a digital audiobook collection that brings together classic tales of suspense, science fiction, and the eerie wonders of the mind.Featured Stories:"The Signal-Man" by Charles DickensJourney into the haunted depths of a remote railway station with Charles Dickens’ timeless ghost story. This tale of foreboding visions and the terror of the unseen will ...

‘Recommended. I read it one breathless sitting’ Ian RankinA gripping new standalone spy thriller, recalling the classic film Casablanca, from the winner of the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger for Best Thriller of the Year and ‘the master of the modern spy thriller’ (Mail on Sunday).A SIMPLE TASKSuccessful novelist Kit Carradine has grown restless. So when British Intelligence invites him to enter the secret world of espionage, he willin...

Vinnie Briggs HOT series No 1 contains strong language and mature content. Readers sensitive to such material are advised to not listen to this book. Everyone else, enjoy!When a rising-star senior analyst is falsely accused of sexual assault, the evidence mounts against him… Meanwhile, assistant Vinnie Briggs is determined to clear his boss’s name — but the story is about to become far more twisted and dangerous than he could ever imagine.

Vinnie Briggs went to Sicily for love. Instead he found murder.Salt & Pepper Man is an excursion into betrayal and what seems like a lost cause.A chance meeting of a former high school best friend causes Vinnie Briggs' Sicilian vacation to fall apart even before he checks into his hotel. One friend asks for a "simple" favor, the other dies.Vinnie knows it's a bad idea to get involved, yet he can't refuse. He'...

First published in 1871, The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex sees Darwin apply his evolutionary theory to the human race, controversially placing apes in our family tree. The book covers a range of adjacent themes, including differences between different peoples, the dominance of women in mate choice, and the relevance of evolutionary theory to general society. After the criticism of his On the Origin of Species, Darwin was apprehensive about the possible public reception ...

The Thin Man films are one of the most highly regarded and successful series of films from Hollywood's classic era. This book looks at the people who populated the films, including full chapter profiles of its stars, William Powell and Myrna Loy, whose chemistry together was a huge reason for the success of the films. As Nick and Nora Charles they knocked the stereotypes of on-screen marriage out of the park and replaced the stiff and formal with fun and sexy. But not to be forgotten are t...

The Signal-Man is a first-person horror/mystery story by Charles Dickens, first published as part of the Mugby Junction collection in the 1866 Christmas edition of All the Year Round.The railway signal-man of the title tells the narrator of an apparition that has been haunting him. Each spectral appearance precedes a tragic event on the railway on which the signalman works. The signalman's work is at a signal-box in a deep cutting near a tunnel ent...