Download or read book A Deadly Education written by Naomi Novik and published by Del Rey. This book was released on 2020-09-29 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the author of Uprooted and Spinning Silver comes the first book of the Scholomance trilogy, the story of an unwilling dark sorceress who is destined to rewrite the rules of magic. FINALIST FOR THE LODESTAR AWARD • “The dark school of magic I’ve been waiting for.”—Katherine Arden, author of the Winternight Trilogy I decided that Orion Lake needed to die after the second time he saved my life. Everyone loves Orion Lake. Everyone else, that is. Far as I’m concerned, he can keep his flashy combat magic to himself. I’m not joining his pack of adoring fans. I don’t need help surviving the Scholomance, even if they do. Forget the hordes of monsters and cursed artifacts, I’m probably the most dangerous thing in the place. Just give me a chance and I’ll level mountains and kill untold millions, make myself the dark queen of the world. At least, that’s what the world expects. Most of the other students in here would be delighted if Orion killed me like one more evil thing that’s crawled out of the drains. Sometimes I think they want me to turn into the evil witch they assume I am. The school certainly does. But the Scholomance isn’t getting what it wants from me. And neither is Orion Lake. I may not be anyone’s idea of the shining hero, but I’m going to make it out of this place alive, and I’m not going to slaughter thousands to do it, either. Although I’m giving serious consideration to just one. With flawless mastery, Naomi Novik creates a school bursting with magic like you’ve never seen before, and a heroine for the ages—a character so sharply realized and so richly nuanced that she will live on in hearts and minds for generations to come. The magic of the Scholomance trilogy continues in The Last Graduate “The can’t-miss fantasy of fall 2020, a brutal coming-of-power story steeped in the aesthetics of dark academia. . . . A Deadly Education will cement Naomi Novik’s place as one of the greatest and most versatile fantasy writers of our time.”—BookPage (starred review) “A must-read . . . Novik puts a refreshingly dark, adult spin on the magical boarding school. . . . Readers will delight in the push-and-pull of El and Orion’s relationship, the fantastically detailed world, the clever magic system, and the matter-of-fact diversity of the student body.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)

Download or read book The Lake written by Natasha Preston and published by Delacorte Press. This book was released on 2021-03-02 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The instant New York Times bestseller! Hot on the heels of The Twin, the undisputed queen of YA thrillers is back with a scary and suspenseful read about a summer camp filled with dark secrets. Esme and Kayla once were campers at Camp Pine Lake. Now they’re back as counselors-in-training. Esme loves the little girls in her cabin and thinks it’s funny how scared they are of everything—the woods, the bugs, the boys...even swimming in the lake. It reminds her of how she and Kayla used to be. Before... Because Esme and Kayla did something terrible when they were campers. Something they’ve kept a secret all these years. They vow that this summer will be awesome. Two months of sun, s’mores, and flirting with the cute boy counselors. But then they get a message: THE LAKE NEVER FORGETS. The secret they’ve kept buried for so many years is about to resurface. “[T]he strong buildup…leads to a shockingly satisfying finale. An eerie thriller reminiscent of summer horror movies that will keep readers on edge.”—Kirkus "Pays homage to classic summer camp slasher films...horror fans will likely appreciate this paranoia-fueled tale."—Publishers Weekly

Download or read book Great Lakes Serial Killers written by Wayne Louis Kadar and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book is a collection of true stories of some of the most horrific crimes to occur in the Great Lakes Region. The text includes graphic descriptions of murder, rape, mutiliation and sexual depravity"--P. [4] of cover.

Download or read book Killer Lake written by David Benton and published by Deadite Press. This book was released on 2019-08-15 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recipe for a Satanic panic: Take a medium-sized cult and their best demonic summoning. Mix with a dash of strange psychic powers. Generously add murderous reanimated corpses, inbred cannibal rednecks, sex-starved half-naked coeds, horny football players, and a surprise creature or two. Sprinkle in a fancy log cabin mansion, a labyrinthine set of tunnels, and a secret ritual chamber. Stir. Bake on high at 666 degrees. You know it's gonna be one killer party...

Download or read book What Happened at the Lake written by Phil M. Williams and published by Phil W. Books. This book was released on 2018-03 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They went on vacation. Not everyone made it back. The Palmers went to the lake for a week of fun in the sun. But Alex Palmer had an agenda. He wanted his brother to reconcile with their hypercompetitive father. He wanted his daughter to break up with her shady boyfriend. Most of all, Alex wanted them to be a family one more time before he faced his predicament at home. Evil incarnate and a brutal double murder shifted Alex's focus from wants to needs. He needed to keep his family safe. He needed to find her. He needed to know what happened at the lake. His pastor often said, "God won't give you more than you can bear." This had nothing to do with God. NOTE TO THE READER: This is a dark psychological thriller that delves into depraved acts of humanity. For adult readers only who can handle these subject matters. Adult language and explicit sexual violence.

Download or read book Starvation Lake written by Bryan Gruley and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-03-03 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finalist for the Edgar Award for Best First Novel, Harlan Coben meets early Dennis Lehane in this “smashing debut thriller” (Chicago Tribune), set in a small northern Michigan town by a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist. In the dead of a Michigan winter, pieces of a snowmobile wash up near the crumbling, small town of Starvation Lake—the same snowmobile that went down with Starvation’s legendary hockey coach years earlier. But everybody knows Coach Blackburn's accident happened five miles away on a different lake. As rumors buzz about mysterious underground tunnels, the evidence from the snowmobile says one thing: murder. Gus Carpenter, editor of the local newspaper, has recently returned to Starvation after a failed attempt to make it big at the Detroit Times. In his youth, Gus was the goalie who let a state championship get away, crushing Coach's dreams and earning the town's enmity. Now he's investigating the murder of his former coach. But even more unsettling to Gus are the holes in the town’s past and the gnawing suspicion that those holes may conceal some dark and disturbing secrets—secrets that some of the people closest to him may have killed to keep.

Download or read book Killer Cane written by Robert Mykle and published by Taylor Trade Publishing. This book was released on 2006-06-23 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Killer 'Cane takes place in the Florida Everglades, which was still a newly settled frontier in the 1920s. On the night of September 16, 1928, a hurricane swung up from Puerto Rico and collided, quite unexpectedly, with Palm Beach. The powerful winds from the storm burst a dike and sent a twenty-foot wall of water through three towns, killing over two thousand people, a third of the area's population. Robert Mykle shows how the residents of the Everglades had believed prematurely that they had tamed nature, how racial attitudes at the time compounded the disaster, and how in the aftermath the cleanup of rapidly decaying corpses was such a horrifying task that some workers went mad. Killer 'Cane is a vivid description of America's second-greatest natural disaster, coming between the financial disasters of the Florida real-estate bust and the onset of the Great Depression.

Download or read book Paradox Lake written by Vincent Zandri and published by Vincent Zandri. This book was released on 2024-06-17 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beware the Big Bad Wolf. He's Coming for You When You Least Expect it. When an art professor mom and her pre-teen daughter rent a quiet house on an idyllic Adirondack lake for a full semester sabbatical, they become the target of two serial killers who believe the women are the reincarnation of a mother and daughter whom they terrorized to death back in the mid-1980s. For fans of Stephen King, Lawrence Block, Joe Konrath, and more, comes a pulse-pounding thriller that combines psychological suspense with pure horror, and intense action--a thriller only New York Times and USA Today bestselling Thriller and Samus Award winning author Vincent Zandri could concoct. Scroll up and nab your heart-pounding copy now. "Vincent Zandri hails from the future." --The New York Times "Sensational . . . masterful . . . brilliant." --New York Post

Download or read book The Lake of the Dead Valancourt International written by André Bjerke and published by . This book was released on 2022-02-15 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A 1942 classic that has been voted Norway's all-time best thriller, a brilliant mix of mystery and the supernatural Deep in the darkest part of the Norwegian woods stands Dead Man's Cabin, where 110 years ago a madman slew his sister and her lover, throwing their decapitated corpses in a nearby lake before drowning himself to join them in death. Ever since, the cabin has been cursed, and anyone who spends the night there is possessed by the killer's spirit and infected with his madness. Bjørn Werner, a young scholar from Oslo, ignored the old superstitions and bought the cabin as a place to read and work in quiet. Now he has disappeared, and the evidence suggests he threw himself in the lake in a fit of insanity. The police write it off as a suicide, but those who knew him are not so sure. Could the curse actually be real? Bjørn's sister and five of his friends travel to the cabin to look into his death, but not all of them will return alive from their stay at the Lake of the Dead ... André Bjerke's The Lake of the Dead (1942) was voted the all-time best Norwegian thriller, and its atmospheric 1958 film adaptation is regarded as one of Norway's best films. This new translation is the first-ever American publication of Bjerke's classic, which features an unusual mixture of murder mystery and supernatural horror that will keep readers guessing until the thrilling conclusion.

Download or read book Eco autopsy of the Lake Nyos Disaster in Cameroon written by Gideon Aghaindum Ajeagah and published by Editions L'Harmattan. This book was released on 2017 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Nyos disaster is a terriic and unprecedented environmental tragedy that took in 1986.This is a synopsis of highly specialized scientific research, information in newspapers, documents and articles in specialized media, information from the radio, the television or oral literature from concerned scientists, anthropologists, sociologists or victims that are directly linked to this geo-hazards that killed thousands in Nyos.

Download or read book Lake Erie Murder Mayhem written by Wendy Koile and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2021-08-30 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lake Erie is known for its beauty and tranquility, but a dark, deadly undercurrent lurks beneath its surface. Bordering four states and two countries, the inland ocean offers the perfect getaway for criminals of all kinds. The bandits who held up the Ashtabula National Marine Bank as well as Ontario's most elusive con man used the lake to avoid capture. Pirate Joseph Kerwin relied on his knowledge of the shipping industry to evade the law. Narene Mozee's murderer quietly slipped away on a luxury cruise ship after completing his heinous deed, and when a lighthouse keeper found a corpse floating in the shallows near his post, all signs pointed to the killer fleeing by boat. Local author Wendy Koile wades into the depths of this great but deadly lake.

Download or read book Killer written by Andrew R. Piligian and published by . This book was released on 2008-06 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Cain Lake written by Terry Fisher and published by . This book was released on 2021-01-21 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While everyone in town searches for a missing teenage girl, a ruthless serial killer stalks the only person that can find her. Falsely accused of murdering his wife, Cody Savage has returned to his hometown to prove his innocence and restore his life to normal. While searching for the truth, Cody discovers a supernatural phenomenon within Cain Lake, which bestows him with the unique ability to sense individuals in danger. Now, Cody and Cain Lake are connected in mysterious ways that could be a blessing or a curse. But Cody isn't the only one who's discovered Cain Lake's power. A serial killer, dubbed the Sin-Eater, is on the loose and his connection to the lake is far greater. Cody's new ability is out of his control, but it might be the only way to find the missing nineteen-year-old girl, Darcy Poole. With a serial killer hunting Cody Savage, searching for Darcy could be fatal, and the rest of the town wants nothing to do with it. Cody may be the girl's only hope, but to find her and the person that killed his wife, he'll need to team-up with an unlikely ally. Together, they'll face the Sin-Eater, but the ugly truth they stumble upon might be the real enemy.

Download or read book The Digby Lake Killer written by Naomi Chapman and published by . This book was released on 2006-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One day a group of college students named Cody, Sonya, Kim, Matt, Brady, Gwen, Lucas, and Valerie head to Digby Lake to relax and have some fun. When they arrive at the lake itas already crowded. They start swimming and having fun like everyone else. They are all clueless to the fact that there is a killer lurking in the woods just waiting for them to step foot on the nearby trail so he can kill them. The killer watches them from the trees and randomly selects people to kill. While doing so, he becomes fascinated with Sonya and Cody because they remind him of his mother and one of her boyfriends. He gets his chance to abduct Sonya. Itas up to Cody and Matt to find her and rescue her before he kills her.

Download or read book The Lake Killer written by Randy Goddard and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-12-27 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joe Litchfield, a successful architect, and his brother Danny, a reputable police officer, are immersed head first into a whirlwind mystery filled with suspense, betrayal, and even murder when they come face to face with the illusive Lake Killer. For years now they have been making the trip down to Summer Breeze Lake to spend the weekend with their Aunt Mary and Uncle Jack. A place of relaxation and much needed rest. They have made this trip hundreds of times...and they thought this one would be like all the others. Little did they know that they were about to be thrown into a mystery that would change their lives forever.

Download or read book Murder at Sunrise Lake written by Christine Feehan and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2022-05-24 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 New York Times bestselling author Christine Feehan reaches new heights of passion and suspense in this thrilling novel that takes readers deep into the California backcountry, where a woman is tormented by visions of a killer. It starts in her dreams. Hideous flashes from a nightmare only she can stop. Images of a murderer stalking the ones she cares about most… Stella Harrison thought she got away from the traumas of her past. Running the Sunrise Lake resort high in the Sierra Nevada mountains has brought her peace, even though she doesn’t truly share her quiet life with anyone. Not even Sam, the hired handyman that notices everything and always seems to know exactly what she needs. Stella doesn’t know anything about Sam’s past, but somehow over the last two years his slow, steady presence has slipped past her defenses. Still, she knows she can’t tell him about her recent premonitions. So far there’s been no murder. No body. No way to prove what’s about to happen without destroying the life she’s built for herself. But a killer is out there. And Stella knows that this time she’ll do whatever it takes to stop him.

Download or read book Cain Lake written by Terry Fisher and published by . This book was released on 2021-01-21 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While everyone in town searches for a missing teenage girl, a ruthless serial killer stalks the only person that can find her.Falsely accused of murdering his wife, Cody Savage has returned to his hometown to prove his innocence and restore his life to normal. While searching for the truth, Cody discovers a supernatural phenomenon within Cain Lake, which bestows him with the unique ability to sense individuals in danger. Now, Cody and Cain Lake are connected in mysterious ways that could be a blessing or a curse. But Cody isn't the only one who's discovered Cain Lake's power. A serial killer, dubbed the Sin-Eater, is on the loose and his connection to the lake is much stronger. Cody's new ability is out of his control, but it might be the only way to find the missing nineteen-year-old girl, Darcy Poole. With a serial killer hunting Cody Savage, searching for Darcy could be fatal, and the rest of the town wants nothing to do with it. Cody may be the girl's only hope, but to find her and the person that killed his wife, he'll need to team-up with an unlikely ally. Together, they'll face the Sin-Eater, but the ugly truth they stumble upon might be the real enemy.