Frank de Groot Books

Een privé-detective wordt door de ouders van een vermoorde vrouw ingeschakeld om te zorgen dat de moordenaar zijn gerechte straf niet ontloopt.

Prosecutor Rusty Sabich is transformed from accuser to accused when he is handed an explosive case--that of the brutal murder of a woman who happens to be his former lover.

Douglas E. Winter, de samensteller van deze bundel opmerkelijke verhalen, is een vooraanstaand recensent van horrorliteratuur. Dertien schrijvers kregen vrije baan wat betreft onderwerp en verhaallengte. Meesters van het Kwaad is het resultaat: een kleurrijke verzameling horrorverhalen, waarin zeer uiteenlopende stijlen vertegenwoordigd zijn.

Twenty-three short works include vampire thrillers, ingenious imitations of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle mysteries, a teleplay from "Tales of the Darkside," and a nonfiction Little League story

Every night the whole nation watched the ultimate live game show on TV, as the contestants tried to beat annihilation at the hands of the hunters in order to win the billion dollar jackpot. And now there was a new contestant, the latest Running Man, staking his life while a nation watched.

They call the ancient hills of Jerusalem the butcher's theater. Here, upon this bloodstained stage, a faceless killer performs his violent specialty: The first to die brutally is a fifteen-year-old girl. She is drained of blood, then carefully bathed and shrouded in white. Precisely one week later, a second victim is found. From the sacred Wailing Wall to the monasteries where dark secrets are cloistered, from black-clad bedouin enclaves to labyrinthine midnight alleys, veteran police inspector Daniel Sharavi and his crack team plunge deep into a city simmering with religious and political passions to hunt for a murderer whos insatiable taste for young women could destroy the delicate balance on which Jerusalem's very survival depends. A brilliant novel by a master of the genre, a vivid look at the tortured complexities of a psychopath's mind, a rich evocation of a city steeped in history -- this, and more, is The Butcher's Theater . From the Paperback edition.

Murder, politics, and G-strings collide in this caper from the bestselling author of Tourist Season. Hilarity and chaos break out in a strip joint when a bachelor party gets out of hand, making the drunken guest of honor a threat to "big money" and "big government". Critics rank Hiaasen with Ross Thomas and Donald Westlake.

No. 1 bestselling author Stephen King's unforgettable novella - first included in his 1990, award-winning collection Four Past Midnight and made into a highly acclaimed miniseries - about a terrifying plane ride into a most unfriendly sky is now available as a stand-alone publication. The flight attendants were gone; almost all the passengers were gone; Brian Engle was willing to bet the 767's two-man cockpit crew was also gone. He believed Flight 29 was heading east on automatic pilot. On a red-eye flight from L. A. to Boston, ten passengers wake up to discover everyone else has disappeared. Brian Engle, a trained pilot, remembers something about a strange aurora borealis and turbulence reports over the desert. Now he has to try to land the plane. But the safe haven of Bangor airport is not what it seems. It's eerily empty. The clocks have stopped. The food and drink is tasteless. The fuel doesn't burn. And the sound, like 'radio static', is getting closer. Craig Toomy, an investment banker, believes he knows what's coming. The Langoliers. Which means time is, quite literally, running out . . . A spine-tingling, propulsive novella, The Langoliers is a brilliant read from the masterful Stephen King.

Deze verhalen, eerder verschenen in "Nachtmerries en Droomlandschappen" laten King op zijn best zien: als geen ander is hij in staat om ogenschijnlijk alledaagse gebeurtenissen en herkenbare situaties uit te laten groeien tot een nachtmerrie... 1. Regentijd (Rainy Season) 2. Mijn prachtige paard (My Pretty Pony) 3. Hallo, met wie spreekt u? (Sorry, Right Number) 4. Het Volk van Tien Uur 's Ochtends (The Ten O'Clock People) 5. Crouch End (Crouch End) 6. Het huis aan Maple Street (The House on Maple Street) 7. Het vijfde kwart (The Fifth Quarter) 8. De zaak van de doctor (The Doctor's Case) 9. Umney's laatste zaak (Umney's Last Case) 10. Kop omlaag! (Head Down!) 11. Augustus in Brooklyn (Brooklyn August) 12. De bedelaar en de diamant (The Beggar and the Diamond)

De verhalen in Nachtmerries laten King op zijn best zien: ogenschijnlijke alledaagse gebeurtenissen enherkenbare situaties veranderen in een nachtmerrie...