Sjukhusbiblioteken i Västerbotten

HAN TITTAR. HAN VÄNTAR. HAN TAR. VEM BLIR NÄSTA OFFER?Medan han utreder ett mord i ett fängelse får polisen och GBI-utredaren Will Trent veta något som sätter en kedja av händelser ...

Det har passerat tio år sedan den unga Mary hittades brutalt mördad, men det går inte en dag utan att hennes mamma Margaret tänker på det. För att konfrontera sina demoner återvänd ...

Det är en het sommarkväll i Dublin när en orolig mamma ringer till polisen och anmäler att hennes 20-åriga dotter är försvunnen. En vecka senare gör en gammal man som rastar sin hu ...

Det är hösten 1990 och järnridån har nästan helt rämnat. I Stockholm faller en man ned från Erstaterrassen och omkommer. Han har ett albanskt pass på sig men hans existens förnekas ...

Del 1: Torekovserien.En sen söndagskväll i början av december försvinner en sjuttonårig tjej spårlöst i snöstormen efter en körkonsert i Torekovs kyrka.Tolv år senare blir polisen ...

Årets bröllopsfest.Ett oväntat dödsfall.Tretton misstänkta.På en avlägsen ö utanför Irlands kust ska årets mest omtalade fest äga rum. Jules Keegan och Will Slater ska äntligen gif ...

Toimittaja ja etsivä Kalle Kanto joutuu keskelle murhamysteeriä, kun vuorineuvos Georg William Harmaja löytyy kuolleena kartanostaan. Ruumiin löytävät Harmajan siskonpoika Halme se ...

Benjamin, nuori juutalainen juristi, rakastuu palavasti saksalaiseen Christinaan. Heidän salainen romanssinsa päättyy, kun Christinan juutalaisvastainen isä määrää tämän naimisiin ...

A short story that is shrouded in mystery, "The Man that Was Used Up" follows a narrator who wants to learn more about an important military figure. A satirical tale that mocks a r ...

A classic horror story that follows the arrival of a fiendish figure in a small town, "The Devil in the Belfry" draws its potency from the amusing, ironic, and extremely creative a ...

The story is often labelled a sequel to "How to Write a Blackwood Article", and deals with Signora Zenobia, who comes across a stately cathedral and a giant clock, that soon will t ...

Twenty years before the French Revolution. The Monarchy has already started to lose some of its supporters, even though young Marie Antoinette has just married the King Louis XVI. ...

With his sense of humor and ability to observe, Nikolai Gogol presents the world with stories of little people: the weak and fragile people who try to hold on to life in the gloomy ...

In Nikolai Gogol's short story 'May Night, or the Drowned Maiden,' a single night ends up changing the lives of many. Young Levko is the son of the head of a Ukrainian village and ...

How far will a man go for love? The short story 'St. John's Eve' by Nikolai Gogol from the 19th century recounts the sinister events that transpired in a poor hamlet generations ag ...

'The Fair at Sorochyntsi' by Nikolai Gogol is a short story set in a Ukrainian village in 1800. A man travels with his daughter and wife to a fair to sell some of their belongings. ...

M. de Rênal is the mayor of a provincial town named Verrières, who hires Julien Sorel as a private teacher for his child. Sorel desires to become a real man and follow the steps of ...

Teeming with dark humour, supernatural elements, and hard-to-believe situations, Nikolai Gogol’s "Collected Stories" is a highest form of short story fiction. With stories like "Th ...

Have you ever wondered what would have happened if Scheherazade had not ceased with her tales and told the king another story that is actually a retelling of a previous story, but ...

"The Cask of Amontillado" is a classic revenge story where an insulted man, Montresor, exacts his vengeance upon the drunk Fortunato. Just like "The Tell-Tale Heart" and "The Black ...

A classic detective short story shrouded in mystery, "Marie Rogêt" features Poe’s famour investigator C. Auguste Dupin trying to solve a murder case. Based upon an actual murder, t ...

An example of Poe’s mystery-laden and dream-oriented short stories, "A Tale of the Rugged Mountains" offers unique perspective on important notions at the time – mesmerism, alterna ...

Poe’s symptomatic need to portray dying or already dead women is evocative of his own failed and miserably spent marriage life to his young cousin. "Morella", in a way similar to " ...

An example of Poe’s melancholic and morbid poetic pieces, "A Dream Within a Dream" is a poem that pitifully mourns the passing of time. The poet’s own life, teeming with depression ...

The story unanimously voices Poe’s obsessive concern with premature burial. Dwelling on humanity’s fear of being buried alive, Edgar Allan Poe provides not only examples of such di ...