A man is certain his friends are about to play a practical joke on him ...

When one of the winter caretakers of an isolated mountain inn goes missing, loneliness beings to take its toll on the other.

A man is asked to collect some items from a house where the lover of an old acquaintance recently died.

Johnson has always been fascinated by spiders.

During the French Revolution, three nuns and a priest live in fear of a man who appears to be watching them.

Pandemic, protests, and presidency. But here it was, the countdown to New Year. New Year in New York. Times Square at New Year.

It wasn’t fury that vitalised Hannah, it was loss, grief even – though heaven knows she shouldn’t be the one grieving. But she couldn’t bear him just carrying on without her.

After the success of his first novel and the flop of his second novel, he knew he needed to write a compelling story or his publisher would drop him.

Hughie Erskine is good-looking but penniless and needs ten thousand pounds to wed the love of his life. Then he drops in on a painter friend......

“Guess who’s coming to the campus coliseum?” Zora greeted Zarius in the hall with a wide-eyed grin as he left the classroom.

Though he would normally look away from such people, for some reason he kept examining them from the back of the elevator. Do I know these losers? He wondered.

Dr. Vandermeer laughed. First to himself because he was a true capitalist. Then out loud because he simply wanted to.

What happened at Devil’s Cape no longer surprised anyone. At least once a year, a body washed ashore.

“This is the one with the four suspects – all students of the watercolour artist who was found dead on the floor after teaching an art class.

Sitting on the plane to Chicago, Mila wondered when exactly the idea had taken hold of her. Did the idea have an infancy or a childhood, or did it ground itself in the soil of her imagination like a full-grown poison tree?