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The Roommate by Andrea Mara – A Gripping, Short Thriller Story

The Roommate is a short story, a psychological thriller written by Andrea Mara, published recently as part of the Deadly Ambition collection by Amazon Original Stories. Elena lives with her husband Richard and two kids in Dublin. She is grateful for all the luxury and peace they have. Richard is the perfect husband, but he does not know about a dark incident from her past. When the two sit down to watch a crime show on TV, Elena is shocked to learn that the show is an exact narrative of what happened in her past, what she has tried to forget and has told nobody about. Her past comes back to haunt her? But who is behind this and what do they want?

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The Affair at the Victory Ball – Hercule Poirot’s First Short Story

The Affair at The Victory Ball is one of the many short stories written by Agatha Christie featuring the brilliant Belgian detective Hercule Poirot. This is also the first Hercule Poirot short story, first published on 7th March, 1923. This was also part of the TV adapatation of “Agatha Christie’s Poirot”. There was a costume party based on an Italian play Commedia dell’arte, in which six friends participated, and two of them end up dead. This is a light and amusing read for a fiction or thriller fan to have your little grey cells exercised when you do not have the time to read an entire novel.