Charlotte Armstrong
Author
Publisher
MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
A shadow of doubt is cast over a California bride when dire warnings about her fiancé arise in this thriller from "the mistress of day-lit terror" (The New York Times). Johnny Simms, a young biology student from Columbia University, has just arrived in San Francisco for a wedding. The lucky bride-to-be is a childhood friend: twenty-year-old Nan Padgett. But the shy, unsure girl he used to know has suddenly blossomed into a radiant, confident, and...
Author
Publisher
MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
A disaster in a Michigan mining town throws a close-knit community into chaos in this novel from an Edgar Award--winning author. The small mining town of Thor is nestled in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, near the Wisconsin border. Its only source of income is the two ore mines--one to the east, one to west--that its citizens cling to for security. Then, one calm day, the town's routine is shaken. One of the mines collapses, and five men are trapped...
Author
Publisher
MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
A government secret about the end of the world will change what's left of a man's suburban life in this thriller by an Edgar Award--winning author. California businessman J. Middleton Little is on company assignment in Chicago when he's caught eavesdropping on a top-secret confab between high-level government officials. J. knows he isn't just hearing things; they actually referred to the coming Armageddon. To ensure his silence, J.'s been offered...
Author
Publisher
MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Edgar Award Finalist: The explosive politics of the Middle East shatter a California family in this "wonderful thriller" (The New York Times). Among the Tylers of Santa Clara are a matriarch lauded as the first lady of American theater, a judicial appointee of the president, a noted fundraiser for international charities, a university vice-chancellor, and an esteemed and admired surgeon. The Tylers are, in their own words, "worthy of Paradise." Then,...
Author
Publisher
MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Nine stories of revenge, compassion, love, and loathing in a collection "to be cherished" from an Edgar Award--winning author (Dorothy B. Hughes). A child is unwittingly introduced to the very meaning of terror. A teenage girl eyes her mother's lover with curiosity and caution. A nasty rumor poisons the reputation of a guarded neighbor. A schoolteacher's attempt to reach four bullying students results in a wicked sting. An elderly woman's patience...
Author
Publisher
MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
A madwoman holds a professor prisoner in this frightening thriller by the Edgar Award--winning "mistress of day-lit terror" (The New York Times). California University mathematics instructor Pat O'Shea is horrified to learn that a fellow faculty member is responsible for the theft of a valuable piece of lab equipment. But biology professor Everett Adams hasn't just turned thief; he's also become a stark raving madman. After a confrontation, Adams...
Author
Publisher
MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
A nameless woman arrives in L.A., only to fall into a coma and be positively identified as three completely different people, in this twist-filled thriller. She arrived at Peggy Cuneen's Los Angeles boarding house with no ID. She asked for a room, fell asleep silently, and has yet to wake up. Even doctors are baffled. The only thing they know for sure is there are no signs of physical illness and no evidence of bodily trauma. In fact, she's so flawlessly...
Author
Publisher
MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
From "the mistress of day-lit terror": A couple invites two indigent women into their Hollywood home--and lives to regret it (The New York Times). In a roadside Santa Clara motel, Tom and Esther Gardner wake up to an intruder lurching toward Esther's bed in the dark. No one blames Tom for taking down the stranger with a single blow to the head--least of all the victim himself, an embarrassed real estate broker from Arcadia, too drunk to realize he's...
Author
Series
Publisher
MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
This MacDougal Duff Mystery launched the career of the Edgar Award--winning "American queen of suspense novelists" (New York Telegraph). Feeling unmoored since the death of her father, twenty-year-old Bessie Gibbon has left upstate New York to live with an aunt and uncle, Lina and Charles Cathcart, in their four-story Manhattan home. Bessie has heard tales about her eccentric uncle: that he was a millionaire theater magnate and the black sheep of...
10) The Protégé
Author
Publisher
MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
A young drifter charms his way into the confidence of an older woman in this twisting novel by "a pioneer in domestic suspense" (Lisa Unger). Seventy-four-year-old widow Mrs. Moffat lives in a quiet and idyllic California town, accustomed to routine and solitude in her country home. But everything changes when she runs into a charismatic young transient in church one Sunday morning. He claims to be Simon Warren, the son of a former neighbor and the...
11) The Balloon Man
Author
Publisher
MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
A woman attempts to flee her abusive husband in a thriller The New York Times Book Review calls "an unforgettable reading experience." Overworked cocktail waitress Sherry Reynard doesn't expect much anymore from her husband, Ward, whom she's supported for years. A struggling writer and sometimes-junkie coddled by his wealthy parents, Ward spends his days lost in a fog of self-pity and hallucinations. Then, one morning, he attacks his wife in a sudden,...
12) The Dream Walker
Author
Publisher
MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
A New York City drama teacher risks her life to expose a potentially deadly public hoax in this "most uncommon thriller" (New York Herald Tribune). Olivia Hudson, a drama teacher at a Manhattan girl's school, refuses to let her uncle John Paul Marcus play the role of dupe in a real-life revenge story. Uncle John is a beloved war veteran, a New York institution, and a hard-working philanthropist with an unimpeachable reputation. His mistake--an honorable...