Your story is your life. As human beings, we continually tell ourselves stories — of success or failure; of power or victimhood; stories that endure for an hour, or a day, or an entire lifetime. We have stories about our work, our families and relationships, our health; about what we want and what we’re capable…

By Peter de Kuster Introduction: When the Past Haunts, Who Will You Trust? Karen Rose’s Cheater plunges readers into the sun-drenched yet sinister world of Shady Oaks Retirement Village, where Detective Kit McKittrick confronts a killer preying on the vulnerable. As Kit navigates a labyrinth of lies, stolen legacies, and a slow-burning romance with psychologist Dr. Sam…

By Peter de Kuster Introduction: When Secrets Become Weapons, Who Will You Become? Camilla Läckberg’s Silver Tears thrusts Faye Adelheim—self-made billionaire and survivor of abuse—into a vortex of revenge, corporate sabotage, and the unearthing of a traumatic past. As Faye battles her violent ex-husband, a hostile takeover, and the ghosts of her childhood, her journey mirrors every…

This remarkable and monumental seminar of Peter de Kuster at last provides a comprehensive answer to the age-old riddle of whether there are only a small number of ‘basic stories’ in the world. Using a wealth of examples, from ancient myths and folk tales via the plays and novels of great literature, it shows that…

What Story Are You Living? Explore with Peter de Kuster the power of the stories you tell yourself. With the concept of archetypal stories Peter explores with you the deep, unconscious patterns in the ways we perceive, organize, and interpret the events of our lives. A wide variety of these shared human themes are reflected…

Whether you need someone to support your organization, get behind your idea, or get excited about following your lead, refining your storytelling skills can help. In this online course, you’ll learn in the footsteps of great storytellers about how to shape your idea into a story. You’ll create a story brief, iterate and evolve your…

Hello Storytelling! Learn the foundational skills and mindsets of business storytelling Develop a common language and understanding of business storytelling across your organization. This flexible, online experience introduces non-storytellers to the concepts of the storytelling process and offers business storytellers (in design, innovation, creativity, advertising, marketing, communication, PR) a tried-and-tested approach to creative problem solving….

“You Like It Darker: A Hero’s Journey Through Grief, Guilt, and the Stories We Survive”By Peter de Kuster Introduction: When Darkness Knocks, What Story Will You Open? Stephen King’s You Like It Darker plunges readers into a labyrinth of grief, supernatural reckonings, and the haunting question: Can we rewrite our fate, or are we prisoners of the stories…

“The Snow Girl: A Hero’s Journey Through Darkness, Truth, and Redemption”By Peter de Kuster Introduction: When Innocence Disappears, What Story Will You Tell? Javier Castillo’s The Snow Girl is more than a thriller—it’s an odyssey through trauma, obsession, and the relentless pursuit of truth. When three-year-old Kiera Templeton vanishes during the Thanksgiving Parade in New York, the…

“The Secret: A Hero’s Journey Through Conspiracy, Courage, and the Stories We Choose”By Peter de Kuster Introduction: When the Truth Is Buried, What Story Will You Unearth? Lee Child’s The Secret plunges us into a world of hidden agendas, relentless killers, and the high-stakes pursuit of justice. Set in 1992, the novel follows a younger Jack Reacher—still…

The long-awaited sequel to A Column of Fire, The Armor of Light, heralds a new dawn for Kingsbridge, England, where progress clashes with tradition, class struggles push into every part of society, and war in Europe engulfs the entire continent and beyond. The Spinning Jenny was invented in 1770, and with that, a new era of manufacturing…

Change is coming to Sweden’s far north: its untapped natural resources are sparking a gold rush with the criminal underworld leading the charge. But it’s not the prospect of riches that brings Lisbeth Salander to the small town of Gasskas. She has been named guardian to her niece Svala, whose mother has disappeared. Two things…

Whether working as a team or solo, Preston & Child are incapable of producing an uninteresting story. Typically, their work is that of sheer brilliance made all the more satisfying because I come away learning quite a lot. What better edification for a reader than that? With the release of this 21st entry in the…

This killer will get inside your head. Brilliant rogue police investigator Harry Hole is back, this time as an outsider assembling his own team to help find a serial killer who is murdering young women in Oslo in the next novel in the New York Times best-selling series. THE HUNT IS ON AND THE POLICE ARE RUNNING…

Judith Winter is a geriatric medical doctor who works in a hospital. One day, when her shift is over, she is greeted by her first love, Liam. Jude is flabbergasted to find him waiting for her and has mixed feelings about his showing up at her place of employment. Jude and Liam were teenagers when…

Tess Gerritsen has mastered many different genres throughout her career, but it’s always special when she returns to the Boston area for another Rizzoli & Isles novel. In LISTEN TO ME, the highly anticipated 13th installment in the series, homicide detective Jane Rizzoli and medical examiner Maura Isles are working what appears to be a…

John Grisham once again proves himself to be not only a bestselling and an award-winning writer, but also clairvoyant. Recently the nation learned of a growing scandal in Mississippi. Well-known public figures and politicians are alleged to have improperly used state funds for private benefit. It is believed that they diverted money earmarked for the…

In Stephen King’s latest novel, FAIRY TALE, readers will take an instant liking to 17-year-old Charlie Reade. Seven years ago, Charlie lost his mother in a hit-and-run accident. Sadly, his father turned to alcohol as a way of coping with this heartbreaking loss. In the present day, Charlie is walking to school when he hears…

A new mystery is afoot in the third book in the Thursday Murder Club series from million-copy bestselling author Richard Osman.  It is an ordinary Thursday, and things finally should be returning to normal. Except trouble is never far away where the Thursday Murder Club is concerned. A decade-old cold case — their favorite kind — leads…

It is a beautifully written story that will stay with me. The character of Kya Clark is called the “Marsh Girl” by locals. She lives alone in the marshlands off the North Carolina coast in a town called Barkley Cove. She is abandoned there first by her mother, who had endured years of domestic abuse,…

Whenever December rolled around, Manhattan transformed itself into a city that Maggie didn’t always recognize. Tourists thronged the shows on Broadway and flooded the sidewalks outside department stores in Midtown, forming a slow-moving river of pedestrians. Boutiques and restaurants overflowed with shoppers clutching bags, Christmas music filtered from hidden speakers, and hotel lobbies sparkled with…

A dazzling novel about all the choices that go into a life well lived, from the internationally bestselling author of REASONS TO STAY ALIVE and HOW TO STOP TIME. Somewhere out beyond the edge of the universe, there is a library that contains an infinite number of books, each one the story of another reality….

Karin Slaughter resurrects Andrea Oliver in this tense thriller, first encountered in Pieces of Her, but her character has been developed and transformed as she completes her training and becomes a US Marshal here, something her parents, Laura and Gordon, are far from happy about. 4 decades ago, at Longbill Beach in 1982, kind, conscientious…

From a bold new voice in international crime fiction, a chilling debut in which two detectives must hunt down a vengeful killer–and uncover the secret that ties each of them to the crime A six-year-old girl is found in the Norwegian countryside, hanging lifeless from a tree with a jump rope around her neck. She…

#1 New York Times bestselling author John Grisham is the acknowledged master of the legal thriller. In his first collection of novellas, law is a common thread, but America’s favorite storyteller has several surprises in store. “Homecoming” takes us back to Ford County, the fictional setting of many of John Grisham’s unforgettable stories. Jake Brigance is back,…

It has been more than 40 years since Ken Follett first topped bestseller lists with his classic World War II thriller, “Eye of the Needle.” He followed that success with crisp international thrillers including “Triple” and “The Man from St. Petersburg,” books that placed him in the company of such contemporaries as Frederick Forsyth and…

From New York Times bestseller Tess Gerritsen and acclaimed thriller writer Gary Braver comes a sexy murder mystery about a reckless affair and dangerous secrets. Taryn Moore is young, beautiful and brilliant. So why would she kill herself? When Detective Frankie Loomis arrives on the scene to investigate the girl’s fatal plunge from her apartment balcony, she…

In THE KINGDOM, Jo Nesbø unspools an almost Shakespearean tragedy of two brothers and their ill-fated reunion. This slow-burning novel, set against the unassuming backdrop of a small town in the Norwegian mountains, will quietly, steadily captivate its readers. Nesbø’s masterful character development and assured plotting deliver an utterly original, subtly propulsive new crime novel…

The internationally bestselling author of PARIS and NEW YORK takes on an exhilarating new world with his trademark epic style in CHINA. Edward Rutherfurd has enthralled millions of readers with his grand, sweeping historical sagas that tell the history of a famous place over multiple generations. Now, in CHINA, Rutherfurd takes readers into the rich…

The new novel from Harlan Coben, #1 New York Times bestselling author and creator of The Stranger on Netflix. From a #1 New York Times bestselling author comes this thrilling story that shows what happens when a dead man’s secrets fall into the hands of vigilante antihero—drawing him down a dangerous road. Over twenty years ago, the heiress Patricia…

In this new heart-pounding standalone from the internationally bestselling author that People calls “razor sharp,” a single mother suspects her young daughter has witnessed a horrible crime when she draws a disturbing picture—but the deadly path to unravel the truth could cost her everything.  Maybe Tess is overprotective, but passing her daughter off to her ex and…

Every Dark Corner is the new thriller from Karen Rose, and Book 3 in the Cincinnati series, following on from Closer Than You Think and Alone in the Dark. When FBI Special Agent Griffin “Decker” Davenport wakes from his coma, he is desperate to find the missing children he knows are in danger. At the end of his last…

South Africa’s preeminent crime fiction writer, Deon Meyer is internationally acclaimed for his razor’s-edge thrillers, unforgettable characters, and nuanced portrayals of contemporary life in his native country. The fifth pulse-pounder starring Captain Benny Griessel, a lead detective in South Africa’s priority crimes unit, delves into the country’s burgeoning tech and wine industries. A week before…

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Stephen King, the most riveting and unforgettable story of kids confronting evil since IT — publishing just as the second part of It, the movie, lands in theaters. In the middle of the night, in a house on a quiet street in suburban Minneapolis, intruders silently murder Luke Ellis’ parents and load him…

  Grisham has chosen Ford County, Mississippi, as the venue for his latest offering. While clearly not as exotic as some of his other locations, it was the setting for A TIME TO KILL (his first novel), SYCAMORE ROW, and FORD COUNTY, a collection of short stories. Just as in his debut, Grisham begins THE…

  A. J. Finn’s debut novel begins with an ominous epigram: “I have a feeling that inside you somewhere, there’s something nobody knows about.” This is a line from the 1943 classic Alfred Hitchcock thriller, Shadow of a Doubt, and THE WOMAN IN THE WINDOW, in more ways than one, pays homage to the venerable master of…

It has been 16 years since Stephen King announced his retirement. One can be forgiven for forgetting that, given that his bibliography has continued to grow seemingly exponentially and with barely a pause. The results, whether good, bad or indifferent (and yes, all three categories have been well-represented), have been noteworthy in that King, for…

Set in the 1970s in a run-down, rainy industrial town, Jo Nesbo’s MACBETH centers around a police force struggling to shed an incessant drug problem. Duncan, chief of police, is idealistic and visionary, a dream to the townspeople but a nightmare for criminals. The drug trade is ruled by two drug lords, one of whom…

  Whoever You Are.  Whatever You Believe.  Everything Will Change.  The stunningly inventive new novel from the world’s most popular thriller writer. Bilbao, Spain Robert Langdon, Harvard professor of symbology and religious iconology, arrives at the ultramodern Guggenheim Museum Bilbao to attend a major announcement — the unveiling of a discovery that “will change the…

  International bestselling author Ken Follett has enthralled millions of readers with THE PILLARS OF THE EARTH and WORLD WITHOUT END, two stories of the Middle Ages set in the fictional city of Kingsbridge. The saga now continues with Follett’s magnificent new epic, A COLUMN OF FIRE In 1558, the ancient stones of Kingsbridge Cathedral…

  THE CHALK MAN is set in the small tourist town of Anderbury, England. The narrative, which alternates between 1986 and 2016, is provided by Eddie Adams, a lifelong resident of Anderbury who is a participant and indeed the nexus of what occurs. Eddie was 12 years old in 1986, and with his small group…

  Tess Gerritsen’s  ‘I Know a Secret’ begins with a discussion of human monsters. This is the thought running through the mind of Dr. Maura Isles as she looks at the cancer-riddled body of a woman she only found out a few years earlier was her mother. She also learned that Amalthea Lank was a…

For a few people, naming one’s quest comes with remarkable ease. The individual feels it in the deepest part of his or her soul; the quest has always been there, even if it got lost for a very long while, remaining unexpressed to oneself and to those who are the objects of one’s quest. A…

  The premise of the novel ‘Sleeping Beauties’ is both simple and horrifying in its simplicity. Women around the world are going to sleep and not waking up. Their bodies become entombed by some lacey, spider-web-like mesh that appears to grow out of their own faces. The question for those left behind, mostly men, is…

  Back in high school, Napoleon “Nap” Dumas lost his twin brother, Leo, to a tragic accident. Leo and his girlfriend, Diana, went out one night and ended up dead by the side of the railroad tracks, horribly mangled. It has always been said that twins have a special bond, so Nap took the loss…

Ildefonso Falcones’ first novel, Cathedral of the Sea follows the dramatic and tragic journey of Arnau Estanyol from rags to riches in 14th century Barcelona. Estanyol’s mother is enslaved by Lord Navarcles, and as an infant he is rescued from the castle stable by his father, Bernat. As fugitive serfs, father and son escape to Barcelona where…