Maxima Library

High-Octane Stories from the Hottest Thriller Authors

Con men and killers, aliens and zombies, priests and soldiers – just some of the characters that kill and thrill in this compelling collection of gun-toting, double-crossing, back-stabbing, pulse-pounding stories. Jeffrey Deaver investigates the suspicious death of a crime-writer in 'The Plot'; Karin Slaughter's grieving widow takes revenge on her dying ex-husband in 'Cold, Cold Heart'; Stephen Coonts discovers a flying saucer in the depths of the ocean in 'Savage Planet' and John Lescroat's secret field agent finds himself caught up in a complex game of cat-and-mouse in 'The Gate Conundrum'. Handpicked by world number one Lee Child, celebrity authors and stars of the future are brought together, writing brand-new stories, especially commissioned for this must-have collection. Whether you're reading today's bestseller or tomorrow's phenomenon, grisly horror or paranoia thriller, historical suspense or supernatural crime, one thing's for certain. You'll be thrilled to the core.

LAS NUEVAS AVENTURAS DE SHERLOCK HOLMES Es un homenaje de eminentes autores de misterio -Stephen King, John Gardner, Michael Harrison y otros- realizado en el año 1987 con motivo del centenario de la primera aparición pública de Sherlock Holmes en el Beeton’s Christmas Annual de noviembre de 1887, donde se dieron a conocer los hechos y la resolución del misterio conocido como Un Estudio en Escarlata

Brand-new stories by: Jeffery Deaver, Lawrence Block, Charles Ardai, Carol Lea Benjamin, Thomas H. Cook, Jim Fusilli, Robert Knightly, John Lutz, Liz Martínez, Maan Meyers, Martin Meyers, S.J. Rozan, Justin Scott, C.J. Sullivan, and Xu Xi.

An anthology of stories

These all-new short stories of movies, music, murder, and mayhem by today's brightest talents will take you from vaudeville to Vegas, and make it chillingly clear that in the world of entertainment, if you want to make it, you may have to step on some people-or over their dead bodies…

Includes first-run stories from

€ Carolyn Wheat

€ John Lutz

€ Elaine Viets

€ Parnell Hall

€ Stuart M Kaminsky

€ Edward D Hoch

€ Annette Meyers

€ Angela Zeman

€ David Bart

€ Bob Shayne

€ Mark Terry

€ Gary Phillips

€ Suzanne Shaphren

€ Libby Fischer Hellman

€ Charles Ardai

€ Gregg Andrew Hurwitz

€ Steve Hockensmith

€ Shelley Freydont

€ Robert Lopresti

€ Mat Coward

Pulp fiction has been looked down on as a guilty pleasure, but it offers the perfect form of entertainment: the very best storytelling filled with action, surprises, sound and fury. In short, all the exhiliration of a roller-coaster ride. The 1920s in America saw the proliferation of hundreds of dubiously named but thrillingly entertaining pulp magazines in America: Black Mask, Amazing, Astounding, Spicy Stories, Ace-High, Detective Magazine, Dare-Devil Aces. It was in these luridly-coloured publications, printed on the cheapest pulp paper, that the first gems began to appear. The one golden rule for writers of pulp fiction was to adhere to the art of storytelling. Each story had to have a beginning, an end, economically-etched characters, but plenty going on, both in terms of action and emotions. Pulp magazines were the TV of their day, plucking readers from drab lives and planting them firmly in thrilling make-believe, successors...