Mark Campbell

Since her debut in 1920 with The Mysterious Affair At Styles, Agatha Christie has become the chief proponent of the English village murder mystery. Although she created two enormously popular characters - the Belgian detective Hercule Poirot, and the inquisitive elderly spinster and amateur sleuth Miss Jane Marple of St Mary Mead - it is not generally acknowledged that she wrote in many different genres: comic mysteries (Why Didn't They Ask Evans?),...

These five stories could've maybe happened. In spring 2006, a rural Texan sees a car broken down on the roadside and stops to help. His discovering the occupant is famous is just the beginning of a wild day. In 1985, a man meets a woman with a startling secret. Through the ensuing years, she demonstrates her unique abiity until a chance encounter changes everything. In 2005, a happily married man who loves music ventures off to Austin to seek the...

To the outside world, author Jacob Matheson appears to have it made. With numerous bestsellers under his belt, a lavish house, and a sizable bank account, he lives a lifestyle that most could only dream about. Yet despite outwardly appearances, Jacob is a troubled soul whose only glimmer of happiness sits at the bottom of a glass. Then, after a night of lavish celebration, Jacob wakes up to discover that he can't remember the events from the night...

A year has passed since the biological agent dubbed "PT-12" ravaged the United States of America. The tide of undeath caused by the outbreak has receded, and what remains of society has splintered between those living in FEMA camps and those risking life in a world without walls. Jerri is one young woman living in such a camp, aged beyond her years by what she witnessed during the viral apocalypse and what life in the camps has become. Here in this...

If Enrico, who is gay, and his twin brother, Fabrizio, who is straight, can make a success of their B&B on Lago Maggiore in northern Italy, they can save their family home from their conniving half sister. Can good intentions and lots of heart make up for what they lack in money and experience? On the other side of the Atlantic, in Syracuse, New York, Owen is buckling under an unrequited crush and the pressures of starting an event-planning business....