Mystery Books
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Sour Puss: A Mrs. Murphy MysteryRita Mae Brown and her feline partner-in-crime-detection, Sneaky Pie Brown, return to the scene of their bestselling crimes—pict
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Brimstone (A Cole and Hitch Novel)Cole and Hitch are back in a new Western classic... The guns-for-hire introduced in Robert B. Parker's Appaloos
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Ceremony (Spenser)The house looked right. And the neighborhood was perfect. And everything else was wrong. So Spenser took the parents' money and we
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Bullet ProofTHEY COULDN’T BUY NESS OR BREAK HIM...SO THEY TRIED TO KILL HIM. Cleveland’s a solid union town, but organized crime has put t
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"K" is for Killer: A Kinsey Millhone Novel (Kinsey Millhone Alphabet Mysteries)Lorna Kepler was beautiful and willful, a loner who couldn't resist flirting with danger. Maybe that's what killed her.H
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MoriartyIt is the turn of the century and, having survived the struggle with Sherlock Holmes at the Reichenbach Falls, Professor Ja
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The tables turned. A letter to the Congregational association of New York, reviewing the report of their committee on "The relation of the American tract society to the subject of slavery."This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pag
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Mystery Movies
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OrphanOrphan (DVD)Peter Sarsgaard and Vera Farmiga star as a couple who adopt a 9-year-old girl after losing their ow
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MementoPoint blank in the head a man shoots another. In flashbacks, each one earlier in time than what we've just seen, the two men's pas
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The Bone CollectorHe takes his victims' lives and leaves behind mysterious pieces of a bizarre puzzle. And the only person who may be able to make s
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Moon [Blu-ray]Sam Bell (Sam Rockwell) is nearing the completion of his 3-year-long contract with Lunar Industries, mining Earth's primary source
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DevilTrapped in an elevator high above Philadelphia, five people discover that the Devil is among them – and no one can escape their
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Mystery Authors
Book reviews - The Hours Before Dawn
The Hours Before Dawn
Author: Celia Fremlin
"Highly intelligent entertainment, beautifully written with wit and humor." — Frances Fyfield
"It grips like grim death." — The Spectator
"Fremlin is a major mistress of insight and suspense." — The New York Times
In this Edgar Award–winning thriller, a young housewife with two lively daughters and an endlessly crying baby battles domestic chaos as well as growing suspicions of the household's new lodger. Are Louise's fears the product of sleep deprivation, as her unsympathetic husband suggests, or is there really something sinister about the respectable-seeming schoolmistress?
During the hours before dawn, Louise suspects, people with a precarious grip on sanity are likeliest to slip over the edge into madness — especially if there's someone ready to give them a push. Without spilling a drop of blood, this psychological thriller transforms everyday events and settings into the extraordinary, evoking an atmosphere of sheer terror. Crime novelist Andrew Taylor hailed author Celia Fremlin as "Britain's equivalent to Patricia Highsmith … her novels are domestic, subtle, penetrating — and quite horribly chilling."
