Showing results by publisher "Pegasus Elliot Mackenzie Publishers Ltd" in Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Avery Pine, an American college student, writes his final exam, followed by a "big blowout party". After being dumped by his online girlfriend, whom he was on his way to visit for the first time, he goes into a blues bar to drown his sorrows, chats up an attractive girl, blacks out, and wakes up half dead in a swamp. Miraculously, he finds his way out of the swamp, only to be captured by one of the slavers and forced into slavery.

Cecily Stalks is an 18-year-old girl trying to cope with the stress of her father's suicide. She hates her job at the local tourist spot, the infamous Bramble Hall, she has a terrible relationship with her mother and she feels like her childhood friends are leaving her behind. She also has to deal with the vivid nightmares she has been having since her father's death: dreams about battlefields, war, a struggle between good and evil forces, and shadows. The shadows are most disturbing and they seem to be coming ever closer.

Brittany: In the summer of 1928, 12-year-old Jack Graham and his brother, Francis, befriend the quiet German Otto Finkel, and together with the enigmatic Jean-Luc and virtuous Marco, they are involved in a serious case of misadventure that leaves a man dead and one of the boys disfigured. The memories for most of them fade with time, but for Otto, the mental scarring matches the physical scarring. Is this the reason why, years later, in the turmoil of war, he finds himself as an officer in the Waffen SS?

The girls have supported each other through emotional traumas, demanding parents, difficult boyfriends, and college deadlines. When Kym suffers a loss and Cara's boyfriend lets her down, Jenna and Allie decide they all need to go out, let their hair down, and have some fun. Jenna wakes up in hospital and is horrified to discover she is being arrested for drunk-driving and manslaughter. Back home with her parents as she struggles through the police interrogation and the trial, she finds herself relying more and more on the support of Officer Eric Copeland - the man who arrested her.

What caused Jack Quaid to slowly drive away the love of his life? What made him arrive home late one night, sit in front of a camera pouring out his soul, before taking a shotgun and ending his life? When Detective Alex Keaton arrives at the scene, it has all the signs of a straightforward suicide. Alex is struggling with her own demons following her partner's violent death some months earlier, but when Jack's suicide brings up some strange questions, the tenacious, no-nonsense cop she once was starts to show itself again.

Since investigating the disappearance of 15-year-old twin boys, Hingston - a young, talented detective sergeant - has been tormented by night terrors. On waking, he remembers a vast golden meadow that glows with warmth and carries the sound of rapid footfalls and trouser legs pushing through grasses. A curly haired boy runs tirelessly through the meadow. The promise of adventure is lost when the sickening ache of death seeps into Hingston's bones. Feeling suffocated and tortured, melodic chimes calm him, and his panic subsides.