Fiction - Thrillers - Crime

In a city rattled with violence, John Simons is a crime reporter with a career built on facts. He knows how to separate rumor from evidence, truth from noise.But when the noise acknowledges him, the truth grows teeth.A man in a dark hat emerges...

Some house are haunted. Others are witnesses.For more than a century, the hospital on Blackthorn Hill has housed the most troubled minds in the state. But long before it became a modern forensic psychiatric facility, it was an asylum where the unwanted were sent...

THIS WILD DESIRE: Brad's radio station is failing so he figures he's got to find someone to give him a loan. And this is why he finds himself at Charlie Fulton's rustic hunting lodge. Ostensibly he's there to hunt for deer. Brad, however, is...

Don't miss this "breakneck thriller" examining "our culture's obsession with serial killers and true crime" (Harper's Bazaar) following two women on the pursuit of justice against all odds. "A fascinating look at true crime and tabloid culture that's as thoughtful as it is gripping"...

When the past comes for blood, you either draw first or die trying.Tom Callahan was once the government's deadliest secret-a lethal gun-for-hire leading a team of assassins no one knew existed. Now those days are long gone. Or so he thought.Now an aging cowboy...

THE THAW COMES EARLY TO STONEVEIL.A body in a drainage culvert. A young man's face beneath thinning frost, eyes open on nothing at all. Someone designed this scene. Someone designed the investigation that would follow.Galen Voss came to Stoneveil to disappear. Former Air Force...

Trinkets - 4th Book in the Brogan seriesBrogan has settled into his new job as Chief Investigator for Worcester County's State's Attorney's Office. He and his sidekick, Private Investigator Kelly Hart, played a significant part in clearing two recent cases that put Worcester County...

Her life is no fairy taleA dark and twisted subversion of Little Red Riding Hood.After her parents are arrested, a street-smart teenager sets out on her own, only to be picked up by a seemingly friendly school counselor. But behind his respectable façade lurks...

" ... it started off by finding a few floaters in the harbour, but that caused a huge amount of attention in the press. It's only a theory that they're linked, but we've found six men, almost skeletons, in the past seven months dumped...

New York Times bestselling author Stacy Willingham unearths a Southern town's darkest secrets in her latest twisty thriller Back in 1999, four ten-year-old girls were kidnapped in Fairhope, Alabama, one at a time. Three of them never came home, but Rachel Pratt, the sole...

Perfection requires the ultimate sacrifice in the brand-new crime thriller starring homicide detective Lt. Eve Dallas from the #1 New York Times bestselling author J.D. Robb. When a naked, beheaded body is found discarded like trash on a dark cobblestoned street, Lieutenant Eve Dallas...

Author: Alex SigmoreISBN-10: 006349227XISBN-13: 9780063492271Publisher: Harper PerennialLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/26/2027Pages: 304Format: Paperback

Six tales of horror to make your own holiday season feel a little more...bearable. This collection features a story about a detective trying to solve the murders of several families before his town erupts into chaos (There Arose Such A Clatter); A young woman...

DAN THOUGHT HE'D GOTTEN AWAY WITH MURDER. BUT DID HE?Dan believed he and Sandra were Soul Mates-until she betrayed him. Now, with her blood on his hands, he's on the run, desperate to reach a remote cabin where he hopes to disappear.But his plans...

As the body count rises, London's Criminal Investigation Department is under pressure to determine who is responsible for a string of grisly murders. Veteran agent Eli Tacedaro and brand new solicitor Catherine Diele race against the clock to find a connection among the victims.The...

Detective Jay Singh is a newly minted Michigan State Police Detective assigned to Michigan's Upper Peninsula. When a murder victim is found in a nearby National Forest the case lands in his lap. Questions already swirled about his lack of experience and youth, now...

A chance encounter changes everything.During a trip to the mountains of Himachal Pradesh, a young adventurer finds himself caught in a mystery he never intended to solve. What begins as a simple attempt to help a stranger soon turns into a desperate search for...

When a satellite behaves strangely, secrets turn deadly.Graeme Fletcher, Director of Sales Engineering for a global satellite company, gets an alarming late-night call from his friend Steve Nguyen-one of the firm's brightest engineers. Hours later, Steve is dead.Determined to uncover the truth, Fletcher finds...

In Robert Macan's gripping crime thriller Argentario, the dark underbelly of recent Italian history collides with a devastating family legacy across three decades. In May 1972, two fishermen, Gianfranco Zampa and Pasquale Dalla Chiesa, break into an upmarket Tuscan villa and alongside millions of...

OUT AT SECONDA Mystery Thriller⚾ A dead sports agent. A future baseball superstar. A killer hiding behind Cape Cod's perfect summer postcard.Deacon Cross came to Cape Cod for one reason: evaluate the nation's top baseball prospect before the upcoming draft.He wasn't looking for trouble.Trouble...

In a world of shadows, a sinister ritual awakens...Just as Sheriff Rebecca West starts to relax after a harrowing hostage situation, she's thrown into another demanding case. This one is even more ominous.Maybe the curse is real.Shadow Island lore insists that anyone who steps...

The Dain CurseBeeGee Noir Classics - Premium Annotated Editionby Dashiell HammettEdited, Annotated & Curated by Saha AvijitA family haunted by tragedy.A detective who refuses to believe in curses.A mystery where every answer leads to another deception.When the Continental Op accepts what appears to be...

A brand new season of the bestselling Shadow Island series by international multi-million bestselling author Mary Stone begins now!Carmen Crowe came to Shadow Island to rest. The island had other plans.After a difficult year, Carmen, her husband, and their two daughters are spending time...

Which is more dangerous...Mother or Human Nature?Twelve hours earlier, Interim Sheriff Rebecca West was enjoying a casual lunchtime burger. Now she's preparing for a hurricane headed straight for Shadow Island. While hauling sandbags and calming town officials, the last thing she needs is a...

When you can't find the victim... was there really a crime?Six days a week, for nearly a year, a young woman rode the same route-the last bus leaving Dana Point. Quiet and polite, she exchanged nothing more than a courteous nod with the driver......

A cemetery. A coffin. A dead woman clutching a blood-red rose.When private investigator Angelus Walker stumbles upon Alice Downhardt's body in an open grave, he thinks he's found a one-off killer with a twisted signature. She's been laid out with unsettling care-dressed in white,...

She thought her past was buried. She was wrong.Claire Miller is fighting to hold her family together. Between three daughters, crushing debt, and the wreckage of her husband's crimes, the illusion of the perfect life is long gone. She tells herself she can still...

AMBUSH RANGEA stolen herd. A murdered ranch hand. A trail that disappears in the Nebraska Sand Hills.Former U.S. Marshal and bounty hunter Eldridge Sample knows the difference between a simple cattle theft and something much bigger.When ranch foreman Clete Barden is murdered and forty...

When the county coroner rules a farmer's death an unfortunate machinery accident, everyone is ready to move on.Everyone except Dr. Simone Aldridge.As the state forensic pathologist serving three rural counties, Simone has learned one unshakable rule: paperwork tells you what people believe. Bodies tell...

She survived the night. That was supposed to be the end of the story.Instead, it was only the beginning.Eleven months ago, Wren Kessler was moments away from becoming another forgotten victim. Then someone stepped out of the shadows, ended her attack with chilling precision,...

Hold Your Breath follows FBI Behavioral Analysis Unit agent Jovi Hurst as she hunts a meticulous serial killer operating deep within the isolated swamplands. The killer carefully stages his victims in hauntingly beautiful settings, treating them with ritualistic care that suggests something far more...

They murdered his family. Now he is hunting them down.Mark "The Tank" Lawson was once a soldier, then an FBI agent. Now, he has transformed into something entirely different-a phantom moving through the darkness, invisible and unstoppable. After the Tejada cartel executes his wife...

The moors don't just hold the dead. They keep the secrets of the living.For decades, the name of the couple who turned the moors into a tomb has haunted every doorway in the valley. The nightmare of Brady and Hindley was supposed to be...

After his wife and daughter are brutally murdered, J watches the justice system fail them completely. Driven by grief and rage, he forges an alliance with a brilliant hacker and a ruthless dominatrix trainer. Together, they build a secret underground operation deep within the...

Veteran homicide detective Rowan Dacre has spent his career trusting facts. But in a city where every prime suspect has an airtight alibi-complete with receipts, witness testimony, and unshakeable digital records-the facts are becoming too perfect.As a series of unrelated murders leaves the department...

Detective Jovi Hurst has spent years burying her past beneath discipline and control. But when a young woman is found posed beneath the River Bridge - the case feels disturbingly personal. When a second body surfaces with the same chilling signature, it's clear they're...

Hell hath no wrath like a woman scorned...or determined to stop a killer.Several weeks after being set up for a crime she didn't commit and almost being killed by a fellow FBI agent in the process, Amelia Storm is ready for a new assignment....

Some nightmares never end...When a confidential informant hands FBI Agent Amelia Storm the flash drive containing the information he gave her brother Trevor before he was killed, Amelia realizes she's holding a time bomb waiting to explode. Especially when its contents reveal the extent...

Tenacious trucker Jojo Boudreaux and her co-driver beau Tyler Boone spend their days-and nights-delivering cargo coast to coast. Old Blue, their custom Peterbilt tractor-trailer makes the perfect home for a man who never had one and a Louisiana tomboy who thinks an oven is...

Taking justice into your own hands can be deadly...After receiving a mysterious note from the man claiming to be her brother's confidential informant, Special Agent Amelia Storm decides to trust fellow agent Zane Palmer with the truth. But as Amelia tells Zane about her...

Who do you trust when you can't trust yourself?Despite being the prime suspect, Dr. Catryn Scott knows she wasn't involved in her husband's disappearance. Until her developing memories suggest otherwise. Now she's racing to find the truth before her seemingly inevitable arrest.Author: Jenny ShortISBN-10:...

A notorious yet charismatic thief has long relished the thrill of outwitting the law, but when he learns of a clandestine revolutionary movement threatening the nation, he finds a cause worth more than mere profit. Teaming up with his oldest friend-a detective inspector sidelined...

Bestselling Author of Flat Out Lies and The Dime Box, an Amnesty International Book Club novel.Ray had it all-a loving relationship with his wife June, a busy farm, and two beautiful grown children. Until the night June was shot on their fortieth anniversary during...

It's the Depression and things are tough all over. Private detective Lazarus Flynn takes on a simple job to pick up a valuable artifact in New York City, only find himself the chief suspect in a murder. As he struggles to clear his name,...

Every family has secrets. Some are worth killing for.When Seattle private investigator Max Boucher is hired to protect a nervous financial operator, he expects threats, lies, maybe a little blood. He doesn't expect murder in a quiet neighborhood bakery-or a grieving son caught at...

Marcus Sterling has spent fifteen years building an empire-and plotting revenge.As a charming philanthropist, he moves effortlessly through elite society, gathering the secrets he needs to destroy the man responsible for his father's downfall. Every smile is calculated. Every relationship, a means to an...

New York. Night of January 8, 2024.Forty-two overdoses in a matter of hours in Chinatown. Detective Jack Malone of the 5th Precinct and his new partner Ethan Rivera take the case before dawn.What they find in the alleys of Mott Street, Pell Street, and...

Ram is the CEO of a logistics company he built over eleven years. Shristi is his girlfriend and co-CEO. Riya is his ex, a criminal lawyer he has not spoken to in three years. One evening, all three end up in the same cafe.When...

The badge gave her authority. Losing it made her dangerous.When a child vanishes, Dannie Bauer, the youngest Deputy in the Geauga County Sheriff's Department, pushes past procedure and politics, chasing leads others dismiss.But a missing child is just the beginning.What she uncovers isn't a...

Last chance or last rites?When the corpse of a drug dealer turned federal informant is fished out of Lake Michigan, Special Agent Amelia Storm knows it's more than just a drug deal gone bad. Not only is the body hideously mutilated and the blood...