The Storyteller

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Joyce Carol Oates

A collection of darkly compelling tales from the unique imagination of Joyce Carol Oates. A young professor is convinced she's being followed, but when she confronts her shadow events take an unexpected turn ... A promising student attempts to save her brother from his descent into madness, but she soon finds out there may be more to his world than to hers ... A renowned author embarks on a grand tour of Europe, but soon his bad manners threaten to cost him more than he has to give ... These biting and beautiful stories force us to confront, one by one, the demons within.

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J.M. Redmann

Lesbian detective Micky Knight agrees to help a friend's daughter, who is believed to have been sexually abused, a case that takes Knight from New Orleans' wealthiest environs to its poorest clubs, and into her own dark past

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Bernard Minier

"In a snowbound valley, deep in the French Pyrenees, a dark story of madness and revenge is unfolding. The first victim is a horse: its headless, flayed body hangs suspended from the edge of a frozen cliff. On the same day as the gruesome discovery takes place, Diane Berg, a young psychiatrist starts her first job at a high security asylum for the criminally insane, just a few miles away. She is baffled by the slightly unorthodox methods the asylum's director uses, and then greatly alarmed when she realizes that drugs are disappearing from within the fortified institution while someone seems to be slipping out at night. Commandant Martin Servaz, a charismatic, Toulouse city cop fond of quoting Latin, can't believe he has been called out over the death of an animal. But there is something disturbing about this crime that he cannot ignore. Then DNA from one of the most notorious inmates of the asylum, a highly intelligent former prosecutor who is accused of killing and raping several women, is found on the corpse... and a few days later the first human murder takes place. Servaz and his colleague, the mysterious Irene Ziegler, must use all their skill to solve the terrifying mystery"--

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Judith Skillings

Rebecca Moore thought she left violent death behind her, but the bodies keep mounting ...and they're begging for justice.Having abandoned her career as a Washington, D.C., reporter to run her late uncle's classic car restoration shop, Rebecca wants peace. Then the brutally stabbed corpse of a lovely dancer is discovered in the back seat of a vintage Bentley being towed by her ex-con workers -- the cops' preferred suspects. When a second young dancer is pulled from the Potomac, Rebecca throws down her wrenches.Ignoring the advice of her admiring lawyer, Joachim Delacroix, and the concerns of her erstwhile detective boyfriend, Mick Hagan, she goes undercover in a gentlemen's club. Embroiled in the tawdry world of flesh and fantasy, Rebecca tries to unravel the dark secrets that have killed too many women already -- before she becomes the next victim.