Thomas Piccirilli war ein amerikanischer Romanautor und Kurzgeschichtenschreiber. Er veröffentlichte über 150 Erzählungen in den Genres Krimi, Thriller, Horror, Erotik und Science-Fiction. Seine Werke befassten sich oft mit dunklen und beunruhigenden Themen, erforschten die Tiefen der menschlichen Psyche und die ambivalenten Grenzen der Moral. Piccirillis Stil wurde häufig als suggestiv und atmosphärisch beschrieben, wodurch er die Leser in Welten voller Spannung und Unsicherheit entführen konnte.
Ein knallharter Thriller Der schlimmste Winter seit Menschengedenken. Der Sozialarbeiter Flynn fährt durch den dichten Schneesturm zum abgelegenen Haus der Familie Shepard. Die kleine Tochter Kelly soll angeblich in Gefahr sein, zeigt jedoch keine Spuren einer Misshandlung. Flynn spürt instinktiv, dass hier etwas nicht stimmt. Und er soll recht behalten. Ausgezeichnet mit dem „International Thriller Writers Award 2008“.
Für alle Leser von Richard Laymon und Jack Ketchum Finn lebt in totaler Finsternis - denn er ist blind. Seit dem gewaltsamen Tod seiner Frau versucht er als Lehrer an einem Internat seiner Vergangenheit zu entkommen. Bis er eine junge Frau grausam zugerichtet auf einem Friedhof findet. Mit dem Geruch von Blut kehren auch Schuld und Rache in sein Leben zurück.
Irgendwann schlägt jeder zurück 'Was du auch tust, was immer du bereit bist aufzugeben, wie sehr du dich auch bemühst – du wirst ihn niemals finden. Er ist wie Luft. Er ist das Monster im Dunkel.' Vor fünf Jahren wurde Eddie Whitts kleine Tochter von einem Serienkiller getötet, der nie gefasst wurde. Das Morden endete, doch der perfide Täter, der sich Killjoy nennt, schreibt Whitt seither kryptische Briefe, in denen er ihn seinen einzigen Freund nennt. Und er hat angefangen, misshandelte Kinder zu entführen und den Eltern seiner damals getöteten Opfer zu übergeben. Das Grauen erreicht eine neue Dimension.
Raised to be a thief and getaway driver, Chase left the bent life after he found his true love, Lila. For ten years he walked the straight and narrow—until Lila was murdered. Now Chase is looking for his grandfather Jonah, the stone-cold-killer con man who raised him anis the last living repository of his family’s darkest secrets. In returning to his criminal roots, Chase hopes to save Jonah’s infant daughter from the life that Chase himself can’t escape.But first he’ll need a score. Chase thinks he’s found it as a driver for a dysfunctional crime family that’s anything but organized. With the Langans’ patriarch dying, the once powerful syndicate may unravel before Chase can rip it off. If he survives the bloodbath to come, he’ll face an even uglier showdown. Because his grandfather Jonah is waiting for him at the coldest family reunion this side of hell.
Terry Rand, cut free from his family after his older brother, Collie, went on a senseless killing spree, returns home to piece together the day his brother turned rabid, delving into a blood history that reveals the Rand family tree is rotten to the roots, and the secrets his anchestor buried are now coming furious and vengeful to the surface.
An alternative cover for this ISBN can be found hereThis lyrical tale of evil, loss, and redemption is a stunning addition to the Southern gothic tradition of Flannery O’Connor and Harry Crews.A Choir of Ill Children is the startling story of Kingdom Come, a decaying, swamp backwater that draws the lost, ill-fated, and damned. Since his mother’s disappearance and his father’s suicide, Thomas has cared for his three brothers—conjoined triplets with separate bodies but one shared brain—and the town’s only industry, the Mill.Because of his family’s prominence, Thomas is feared and respected by the superstitious swamp folk. Granny witches cast hexes while Thomas’s childhood sweetheart drifts through his life like a vengeful ghost and his best friend, a reverend suffering from the power of tongues, is overcome with this curse as he tries to warn of impending menace. All Thomas learns is that “the carnival is coming.”Torn by responsibility and rage, Thomas must face his tormented past as well as the mysterious forces surging toward the town he loves and despises.
From the moment he saw the girl in the snowstorm, Flynn had less than an hour to live. But he’ll remember his last fifty minutes long after he’s dead. As an investigator for Suffolk County Child Protective Services, Flynn has seen more than his share of misery, but nothing could prepare him for the nightmare inside the Shepards’ million-dollar Long Island home. In less than an hour, that nightmare will send him plunging into a frozen harbor—and awaken him to a reality even more terrifying.They’ve nicknamed Flynn “The Miracle Man” because few have ever been resuscitated after being dead so long. But a determined homicide detective and a beautiful, inquisitive reporter have questions about what really happened at the Shepard house—and why the people around Flynn are suddenly being murdered. Flynn has questions of his own, especially when one of the victims dies while handing him a note: This is all your fault Flynn has returned from The Midnight Road—and someone wants to send him back.
