In a riveting tale of suspense and terror on the high seas, Bram Stoker Award nominee Jonathan Moore pits human beings against nature—and something far deadlier: one another.Kelly Pratihari-Reid and her husband sail their yacht into Antarctic waters, thinking their gravest concerns will be ice and storms—and their cracked marriage. A British girl shrieking across a short-range VHF frequency ends that illusion. It’s coming, she screams. It saw us and it...

“The book’s tone is Chandleresque, the conspiracy worrying Carver and Jenner expands to Pynchonian proportions, and the physical ick they encounter might have oozed out of a Cronenberg movie.”—Washington Post“It’s Miami Vice meets The Matrix, and George Orwell is hosting the party.”—Pittsburgh Post-GazetteIt’s late Thursday and Inspector Ross Carver is at a crime scene: a dead man covered in an unknown substance that’s eating through his ...

'I haven't read anything so terrifying since Red Dragon' Stephen KingImagine an updated Vertigo: darker, more scary but just as hypnotically seductive. A dark psychological crime thriller for fans of Dennis Lehane's Shutter Island.Selected for BBC Radio 2 Book Club with Simon Mayo.Toxicologist Caleb Maddox has two puzzles to solve. What connects the series of dead bodies found floating i...

“If you like Michael Connelly’s novels, you will gobble up Jonathan Moore’s The Dark Room.*”—James Patterson*“Channels the moody intensity of Raymond Chandler’s crime fiction.”—Washington PostGavin Cain, an SFPD homicide inspector, is at an exhumation when his phone rings. The mayor is being blackmailed and has ordered Cain back to the city; a helicopter is on its way. The casket, and Cain’s cold-case investigation, must wait.

"An enigmatic woman comes between a toxicologist and a murderer in this hypnotic and disturbing thriller" set in the shadowy fog of San Francisco ( Guardian, UK).Caleb Maddox is a San Francisco toxicologist studying the chemical effects of pain. He's out drinking after a bad breakup when a hauntingly seductive woman sits down beside him. He talks to Emmeline over absinthe, but their encounter is fleeting. She brushes her lips on his ear and disappears. He ...

A California heiress's death leads a PI into her powerful family's unsettling secrets in a "gritty neo-noir with an all-too-plausible speculative twist" ( Publishers Weekly).Who is Claire Gravesend? So wonders PI Lee Crowe when he finds her dead, in a cocktail dress, on top of a Rolls Royce, in the most dangerous neighborhood in San Francisco. Claire's mother, Olivia, is one of the richest people in California. She doesn't believe the coroner's rul...

A gripping new thriller from the author of Simon Mayo's BBC Radio 2 Book Club choice The Poison Artist.They thought they'd buried their secretsHomicide inspector Gavin Cain is standing by a grave when he gets the call. Cain knows there's something terrible in the coffin they're about to exhume. He and his team have received a dying man's confession and it has led them here.But death doesn't guarantee silence

'Do you ever think there's maybe something that's gone wrong with the world?'A man is found dead in one of the city's luxury homes. Homicide detective Ross Carver arrives at the scene when six FBI agents burst in and forcibly remove him from the premises.Two days later...Carver wakes in his bed to find Mia a neighbor he's hardly ever spoken to, reading aloud to him. He has no recollection of the crime scene, no memory of how he got home, an...

'Suspense that never stops' - James PattersonWho is Claire Gravesend?The first thing that catches PI Lee Crowe's eye is the Rolls Royce. The second is the body of a beautiful young woman lying dead on the crushed roof. Neither belongs in this neighbourhood.The woman is Claire Gravesend - the daughter of one of the richest, most powerful women in California. She doesn't believe what the police are saying - that Claire killed herself ...

Best known for his epic Lord of the Rings trilogy and The Hobbit, J.R.R. Tolkien was born in British-occupied South Africa. His early life was full of action and adventure. Tolkien spent his childhood roaming the British countryside with his family and could read and write by age four. He was naturally gifted with languages and used this skill as a signals officer in World War I as well as in his fantasy writing. By creating alternate universes and inventing languages in ...

The "I Am Well" series attempts to explain the architecture of all that is created, and reaches toward the wisdom that may be found to understand, apply, and leverage the interactions and interdependencies between those creations. God Almighty (Father, Son, and Holy Spirit) have always existed. Everything other than the one true God (the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob) was created by Him and for Him. Framework and rules exist within His creation. An accurate understanding of this framewo...

I Am Physical What does the word "physical" even mean? If the physical world, and all physical "things" in it were designed, what are the design specifications? How do these physical "things" interact with each other, considering all of our unique characteristics? Once we understand how "things" work, can we interact with the physical world in such a way that we produce more order, and less chaos? What is life? What does it take to perpetuate life? Once the perpetuation of life is stable, ...