A bundle of books #1 (NEXT DOOR), #2 (A NEIGHBOR’S LIE), and #3 (CUL DE SAC) in Blake Pierce’s Chloe Fine Psychological Suspense Mystery series! This bundle offers books one, two, and three in one convenient file, with over 150,000 words of reading. In NEXT DOOR, FBI Evidence Response Team intern Chloe Fine, 27, finds herself forced to confront her own dark past when her troubled twin sister needs her help—and when a body turns up dead in her small, suburban town. Chloe feels life is finally perfect as she moves back into her home town, and into a new house with her fiancé. Her career with the FBI looks promising, and her wedding is on the horizon. But, she learns, all is not as it seems in suburbia. Chloe begins to see the underside—the gossip, the secrets, the lies—and she finds herself haunted by her own demons: her mother’s mysterious death when she was 10, and her father’s imprisonment. And when a fresh body is found, Chloe soon realizes that her past, and this small town, might hold the key to solving both. In A NEIGHBOR’S LIE, FBI Violent Crimes Division Special Agent Chloe Fine, still reeling from the secrets of her past, finds herself thrown into her first case: the murder of a nanny in a seemingly perfect suburban town. Immersed in a world of secrets, of unfaithful couples, of pretense and artifice, Chloe soon realizes that anyone—and everyone—may be guilty. Yet at the same time, with her own father still in jail, she must battle her own demons and unravel her own secrets, which threaten to bring her down before her own career even begins. In CUL DE SAC, Chloe Fine must immerse herself in a suburban world of cliques, gossip and lies, as she races to solve the murder of a seemingly picture-perfect wife and mother on the night of her 20th high school reunion, Can Chloe Fine solve the murder—while wrestling with the demons of her own past, and the potential release from jail of her own father? An emotionally wrought psychological suspense with layered characters, small-town ambiance and heart-pounding suspense, the Chloe Fine psychological suspense series is a riveting new series that will leave you turning pages late into the night.

Jason Birchall can't wait for Valentine's Day. His parents are going away for the weekend, and Grandma is coming! Jason has big plans. Will he be able to sneak some of his mother's yummy valentine chocolates? Can he trick Grandma into allowing him to change his bedtime?Strange things happen in the Cul-de-sac when Jason pigs out on gooey chocolates and stays up late for a scary show!

Spirits trapped in his head plague a man with no past… For Vincent Donnelly, waking up in a field in the middle of nowhere was just the beginning. Frantic and terrified, he has no idea who he is, or how he got there. Nor does he know the five dead bodies lying next to him. All he knows for sure is that he hears whispering in his head. Voices that are not his own… This digital box set contains books 1–3 of the Jigsaw of Souls series: Curse of the Necromancer (Book 1): With no memories or friends to rely on, Vincent finds himself drawn to the town of Alder Falls. Somehow, he is certain this place is connected to his hazy past. But the local townsfolk urge him to leave before nightfall. For when the sun sets, the dead walk these shadowy streets and prey upon the living... The Witch’s Wrath (Book 2): As he struggles to piece together his dark past, Vincent finds out he is not the only one who hears the whispers of the dead. A local townswoman from the quaint town of Burnham, Massachusetts has found a way to communicate with a powerful ghost. And this malevolent force is bent on transforming everyone into something less than human… The Blood Bargain (Book 3): Still with no idea who he really is or what led him to his fate, Vincent travels back to where it all started. There, discovers that he was part a ritual gone wrong in the past… A ritual intended to use him as a host for a being of pure Chaos... Join Vincent as he pieces together the puzzle of his past. Grab your copy of Jigsaw of Souls Series Books 1–3 today!

Mao: The Unknown Story by Jung Chang and Jon Halliday was published in 2005 to a great fanfare. The book portrays Mao as a monster – equal to or worse than Hitler and Stalin – and a fool who won power by native cunning and ruled by terror. It received a rapturous welcome from reviewers in the popular press and rocketed to the top of the worldwide bestseller list. Few works on China by writers in the West have achieved its impact. Reviews by serious China scholars, however, tended to take a different view. Most were sharply critical, questioning its authority and the authors’ methods , arguing that Chang and Halliday’s book is not a work of balanced scholarship, as it purports to be, but a highly selective and even polemical study that sets out to demonise Mao. This book brings together sixteen reviews of Mao: The Unknown Story – all by internationally well-regarded specialists in modern Chinese history, and published in relatively specialised scholarly journals. Taken together they demonstrate that Chang and Halliday’s portrayal of Mao is in many places woefully inaccurate. While agreeing that Mao had many faults and was responsible for some disastrous policies, they conclude that a more balanced picture is needed.

Les Misérables is widely regarded as the greatest epic and dramatic work of fiction ever created or conceived: the epic of a soul transfigured and redeemed, purified by heroism and glorified through suffering; the tragedy and the comedy of life at its darkest and its brightest, of humanity at its best and at its worst. The novel elaborates upon the history of France, the architecture and urban design of Paris, politics, moral philosophy, antimonarchism, justice, religion, and the types and nature of romantic and familial love. This is part one of two, containing the first two volumes (“Fantine”, “Cosette”) and the first seven books of volume three (”Marius”).