Bliz #16

In the shadowed halls of a quiet hotel, Martine answers a cry for help and stumbles upon a murder frozen in time—her only witness the killer still standing over the body. As she unravels the victim’s hidden ties to a smuggling ring, the truth proves as dangerous as the blade that ended his life.

In "Okay, Gringo," a lone gringo drifts into Pedro’s outlaw camp with a proposition: help them rob the bank, and he’ll split the take. But as tensions rise and loyalties blur, Pedro can’t tell if the gringo’s playing both sides—or if he’s just playing him.

In "Bentornato, Padre Robert!", a London aristocrat assumes the identity of his long-absent brother, a Catholic missionary, to pass the time at his family's remote Scottish estate. When the man posing as Father Robert is found dead the next morning, Scotland Yard quickly suspects the real Sir James of murder—though no one knows the truth of who the victim truly was.

In "Parallele divergenti," two men fleeing their pasts cross paths on a freight train and make a radical pact: swap lives. One takes the path of academic promise, becoming a football star at a university, while the other embraces a violent turn, eliminating a courier and building a new empire in Denver. The story unfolds with quiet tension, exploring how two choices, made in a single moment, can split a life in half.

In a quiet corner of the frontier near Boston, Keith’s marriage to an Indian woman ignites simmering tensions in the town, turning neighbors into strangers. As distrust grows, old wounds from the major’s past resurface, leading to a dangerous confrontation that leaves Keith wounded and the fragile peace hanging by a thread.

In the gritty underbelly of 1977 Chicago, Helmuth lands in prison after a botched robbery, swearing his dead partner holds the missing cash—and no one believes him. Now trapped between a warden who sees him as a pawn, a girlfriend with her own agenda, and a cellblock full of predators, Helmuth must survive the web of deceit he didn’t create.