A dead child - sadistically murdered - his twin missing. A ring procuring children for the rich and powerful. A sinister organisation led by a shadowy figure known only as 'The Stoatmaster' whose cold tentacles seemingly stretch unendingly so that no place and no one is safe - not even the police. A Muslim detective, himself a twin, whose background renders others suspicious of him. His ruthless intelligence and tenacity converge to an obsession with finding the missing child and her brother's killer. His problem - he wants to leave the police. One last case can be a case too far when a child's face relentlessly haunts you - pulling you further into the abyss and your own family is in danger of disintegration. When depravity is licenced by money and everything, even a child, has a price, the only word left is 'evil'.

Memories are tricky. What if the memory is of something that happened more than ninety years ago? When does a memory that won't leave you alone become a haunting? Who is the tearfully pleading child whose voice she hears time and time again? The young volunteer on a reminiscence project is slowly drawn into the ever changing and uncertain world of the woman he visits. At first he is fascinated by the quirky and quixotic view of the previous century seen through the eyes of this former journalist. He struggles with her bewildering preoccupation with ideas of consciousness and self and the role that memory might play. He has to work hard to keep up with the peppering of episodes that have abandoned any sense of linearity in time in the lottery of her lucidity. Slowly her concern with what she thought she saw becomes his obsession, gradually submerging him in her world till neither of them is any longer sure if he is from her past or present, is a fiction or an aspect of a psychosis.

E-artnow presents to you this unique collection of the greatest classics of thriller and mystery every fan of the genre should experience at least once in their life: The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (Agatha Christie) The Mysterious Affair at Styles (Agatha Christie) The Secret Adversary (Agatha Christie) The Murders in the Rue Morgue (Edgar Allan Poe) The Masque of the Red Death (Edgar Allan Poe) The Purloined Letter (Edgar Allan Poe) A Study in Scarlet (Arthur Conan Doyle) The Sign of Four (Arthur Conan Doyle) The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Arthur Conan Doyle) The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (Arthur Conan Doyle) The Innocence of Father Brown (G. K. Chesterton) The Abbey Court Murder (Annie Haynes) The Man Who Knew Too Much (G. K. Chesterton) The Woman in White (Wilkie Collins) Bleak House (Charles Dickens) Jane Eyre (Charlotte Brontë) Tess of the D'Urbervilles (Thomas Hardy) Heart of Darkness (Joseph Conrad) Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (Robert Louis Stevenson) Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Jules Verne) The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Mark Twain) Tom Sawyer, Detective (Mark Twain) The Turn of the Screw (Henry James) Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoyevsky) The Shooting Party (Anton Chekhov) Guy Mannering (Walter Scott) The Picture of Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde) The Invisible Man (H. G. Wells) The Four Just Men (Edgar Wallace) The Red Thumb Mark (R. Austin Freeman) The Leavenworth Case (Anna Katharine Green) The Circular Staircase (Mary Roberts Rinehart) Bulldog Drummond (Sapper) Martin Hewitt Investigator (Arthur Morrison) The Lodger (Marie Belloc Lowndes) Whose Body? (Dorothy L. Sayers) The Thirty-Nine Steps (John Buchan) The Count of Monte Cristo (Alexandre Dumas) Arsène Lupin (Maurice Leblanc) The Phantom of the Opera (Gaston Leroux) The Widow Lerouge (Émile Gaboriau) Fantômas (Marcel Allain) Dracula (Bram Stoker) Uncle Silas (Sheridan Le Fanu) The Call of Cthulhu (H. P. Lovecraft) The House on the Borderland (William Hope Hodgson) The Willows (Algernon Blackwood) The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (Washington Irving) The Mystery of Edwin Drood (Charles Dickens)

From Kevin Brockmeier, one of this generation's most inventive young writers, comes a striking new novel about death, life, and the mysterious place in between. The City is inhabited by those who have departed Earth but are still remembered by the living. They will reside in this afterlife until they are completely forgotten. But the City is shrinking, and the residents clearing out. Some of the holdouts, like Luka Sims, who produces the City’s only newspaper, are wondering what exactly is going on. Others, like Coleman Kinzler, believe it is the beginning of the end. Meanwhile, Laura Byrd is trapped in an Antarctic research station, her supplies are running low, her radio finds only static, and the power is failing. With little choice, Laura sets out across the ice to look for help, but time is running out. Kevin Brockmeier alternates these two storylines to create a lyrical and haunting story about love, loss and the power of memory.