Fiction - Thrillers - Crime

The Riddle Of The Sands is a classic adventure novel written by Erskine Childers. The book follows the story of two friends, Carruthers and Davies, who embark on a sailing trip across the North Sea. As they journey through the treacherous waters, they stumble...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our...

""Road To Survival"" is a gripping novel by William Vogt that tells the story of a group of survivors struggling to stay alive in a post-apocalyptic world. After a catastrophic event destroys most of the Earth's population and infrastructure, the remaining humans must band...

Experience a classic of hard-boiled crime fiction with John D. MacDonald's "A Bullet for Cinderella," a thrilling mystery set against the backdrop of 20th-century America. This suspenseful tale, meticulously prepared for republication, showcases MacDonald's mastery of the genre. Dive into a world of intrigue...

Delve into the shadowy world of English organized crime with Freeman Wills Croft's gripping novel, "The Pit Prop Syndicate." This classic work of crime fiction unveils a clandestine syndicate operating within England's underbelly. A masterful blend of mystery and suspense, the story explores the...

Dive into the thrilling world of international crime with Louis Joseph Vance's "The Lone Wolf: A Melodrama." This classic adventure follows the exploits of a notorious jewel thief, navigating a dangerous landscape of espionage and intrigue. First published in 1914, this timeless story blends...

A classic exploration of the dark side of human nature, this gripping novel by the author of The Woman in White and The Moonstone tells the story of a family torn apart by jealousy, greed, and betrayal. With its intricate plot, unforgettable characters, and...

Set in a quaint New York City bookstore, this novel tells the story of a bookseller who becomes embroiled in a mystery involving a stolen letter and a gang of anarchists. Witty, charming, and suffused with a love of literature, this is a delightful...

Set in a quaint New York City bookstore, this novel tells the story of a bookseller who becomes embroiled in a mystery involving a stolen letter and a gang of anarchists. Witty, charming, and suffused with a love of literature, this is a delightful...

The streets of Scottsdale were quiet at ten thirty that night. Sara Bocelli had a bone to pick with Scumbag, her ex-husband, and she was out to get him. But this wasn't her first murder. Sara was so good at what she did that...

Letty Valdez is a Chicana-Native American (Tohono O'odham) private investigator and Iraq War veteran in Tucson, Arizona. Letty is hired by her friend librarian Seri Durand to investigate a murder in Seri's library. Seri's work colleague had encountered an intruder in the library and...

One body per month. Stripped of all its possessions. Zero clues...Detective Van Loo, one of Amsterdam's best, is racing against time to track down and capture a serial killer creating unrest in Amsterdam leaving a trail of bodies. Nine bodies and counting - all...

Can a piece of music be cursed?When a young marine biologist is found dead of suicide, his father can't believe he took his own life and hires Scott Drayco to prove it was murder. But what of the strange song found with the young...

Ryan, Tyler, Avery and Jacob are high school football stars. Everyone looks up to them. They're living the life that young boys and men dream of and are right at the point of having it all: a state championship, college paid for, a chance...

From December 1884 to December 1885 a series of murders occurred in Austin, Texas which became known as the Servant Girl Annihilator murders. One of the suspects was a Malay cook, known only as Maurice. Before he could be apprehended, Maurice disappeared. It is...

If you think artificial intelligence is dangerous, then you don't know the real threat to humanity's future... Luna Valencia is the founder of the hottest artificial intelligence startup in history. She's about to become incredibly rich and powerful. But just when she's about to...

Eager to start fresh, Leigh accepts a teaching job in the remote northern community of Spruce Bay. The fading mining community is rife with abandoned homes that breed a class of listless alcoholics and violent gangs. Resentment and hopelessness fill the cold air. Nevertheless,...

An undercover assignment goes terribly wrong!In this exciting prequel to the heart-stopping series, The Marcie Kane Thriller Collection, Nathan Harris, an FBI Special Agent on assignment to find the kingpins of a meth lab in Canada, narrowly escapes a violent explosion. The explosion was...

A man found hanging by the neck until dead. A ship with a historic past. A killer with a deadly personal quest. DI Shona McKenzie is anticipating a peaceful Scottish summer when a hanging thrusts her into the midst of a fatal chase. As...

The latest, explosive installment in the Detective Kate Bowen mystery thriller series'A great storm is coming, ' the British ISIS messenger warns. 'As the Crusader seeks to destroy the lands of the Prophet, so we will lay waste a great city. Your greatest power...

A hunter uses traps to catch his prey but what happens when the prey is also using snares ... and his are more sophisticated? LA Detective Oskar Salo investigates a series of gruesome murders all of which point to the work of a serial...

When Napoleon is crowned King of Italy in 1805, a gypsy claims his troops have stolen a precious sapphire from her family. The gypsy curses Napoleon, predicting a future where he will be stripped of his power and banished from society.Fast forward 200 years....

​Sonia yearns for sharp objects and blood. But now that she's rehabilitating herself as a "normal" mother and mathematics teacher, it's time to stop dreaming about slicing people's throats. While being the wife of Melbourne's leading drug lord and simultaneously dating his best mate...

The stilted footage of Holocaust survivors marching through the gates of Auschwitz projects behind Benjamin Hoefer at the book launch of his father, Eli's biography. As it comes to the end and closes in on Eli Hoefer's gaunt face, four red words are scratched...

In The Case for Killing, Peter Bradley is Canada's top anti-trust lawyer. He has it all - a trophy wife, Rosedale mansion, idyllic summer home and national acclaim. He thinks of himself as a good man but his enemies, everywhere and close, beg to...

Graham has come to terms with his special gift. A telepathic connection with children needing help, but his efforts to help them are often accompanied by calamity. The tiny group who know his secret decide he needs their protection, but just how effective can...

Graham Parsons is a man ordinaire whose well-ordered life is changed beyond measure when he witnesses the manslaughter of a 7 year old boy, Christopher. Whilst holding the dying child he experiences a profound out of body experience and minutes later suffers a life...

It wasn't that Sid wanted to harm anyone, quite the opposite; he'd make a perfect grandad. He just needed to find the right grandchild. With paedophilia and child murder at the core, DI Johanson is the obvious choice to solve this crime. But is...

Three years ago, I lost my wife and family to this messed up economy. After that nothing was there to hold me back, with no more support from Uncle Sam; I decided to pave my own way. Never one to break the law, I...

Did a grizzly bear kill Melody Applegate? Or was it something else stalking the remote edges of Yellowstone Park?Searching for Bear Eyes is a mystery novel narrated by the enigmatic X. Wenn, Yellowstone Park's Chief Criminal Investigator. A gifted tracker of bear and man,...

A secret between friends. Divergent paths. Terror in the convergence. Two men return to their hometown on Lake Powell in Arizona, where record drought has exposed a missing Navajo cop and his cruiser on the lake bottom, sparking an investigation that unfolds across a...

A mysterious attack on a young, disabled girl leads to a sea of lies, secrets...and murder.Crime consultant Scott Drayco is in the middle of a thorny case in Washington, D.C., involving murder victims who were all wheelchair users. Then out of the blue, he...

The theme park was five years in development and touted worldwide as a golden destination for foreign tourists. It would offer everything a tourist desired to experience in Alaska-snow-capped mountain ranges, a gold rush town, whale watching, salmon fishing, an aquarium with dolphin and...

What do you do when you are a middle-aged retired spinster and your life is in a rut?You take yourself off for a holiday at an exotic location.And that is exactly what almost 50 year old spinster MARJORIE LEGGETT decides to do. Her new...

The Seventh Fury is a mystery thriller novel written by John Castle. The story revolves around a series of murders that take place in London, where the killer targets young women. Detective Inspector Jack McGovern is assigned to the case and soon realizes that...

"The ones who deflect the criminal activity they're involved in are usually that ones who are, uh . . . tainted."This is the first instalment of the Tainted Trilogy. Miguel, a middle-aged man of Puerto Rican descent, is employed by Delhaney to run an...

Percy thought he had it all figured out; good education, good job, good wife, work hard, play by the rules. But he discovered very late in life that not everyone has read the same rule book. Tired, angry, and bitter, Percy, for the first...

This story is about severe trauma and a woman's struggle to survive the aftermath. After 20 years of prison, Bobby is granted her freedom. With no recollection of her past and the events that led to her incarceration, she sets off to build a...

A young woman bombed out of her home and losing her parents, struggles to make a new life for herself. After meeting John, whom she thinks is her soul mate, then to be left alone once again. She disowns her daughter. Now being hunted...

Everyone has a breaking point. People all deal with this pressure differently. If you are a massagonic senior operations manager, Raymond St. Laurent, who has had a number of tragic events that occur in his life, methodically plans to serve revenge on the company...

When Xia Zhe, an ambitious trader at a state-owned securities company, is indicted for corporate fraud, lawyer Hong Jun takes on the case at the request of the young man's father. But as the trial date looms, it becomes clear that this case of...

A suspicious death. A brutal second murder. And too many people with something to hide.During a blistering summer heatwave, detectives Sam Freeman and Jenny Newcombe are called to an exclusive estate, where a fabulously wealthy woman lies dead at the foot of her stairs....

Author: Lexie ElliottISBN-10: 0593098730ISBN-13: 9780593098738Publisher: Penguin Publishing GroupLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/05/2026Pages: 400Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.91lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.19w x 0.89d

Praise for Mark de Castrique... "Comparable to James Lee Burke and Margaret Maron." -Library Journal starred review of Fatal Undertaking When his wife dies of ovarian cancer, Russell Mullins quits the Secret Service and joins a Washington, D.C. private protection company assigned to guard...

The specter of corruption has hovered over the Adams County Sheriff's Office for months. Criminal investigator Larry Macklin is convinced he's identified a mole for drug dealers within the department, but he doesn't have enough evidence to prove it.Larry's attention is diverted when a...

Though happy to be back at his job as a criminal investigator, Larry Macklin is struggling to adapt to life with his new partner. But concerns about his work relationship quickly take a back seat to his personal life when his irrational ex-girlfriend, Marcy,...

Following his resignation as an investigator with the Adams County Sheriff's Office, Larry Macklin is working part time as a reserve deputy and trying to decide what to do with his life.He's drawn back into investigating against his will when his friend, Shantel Williams,...

Still smarting from his disastrous last date with Cara Laursen, criminal investigator Larry Macklin is nevertheless thrilled to get a call from her. But when he arrives at her house, he finds the chief suspect in his latest murder case sitting in her living...

What does a romance-thriller look like in the Pandemic era? Welcome to a very possible near future with an unrelenting storm of murder and redemption.With the unexpected twists and turns of a thriller, Even a Pandemic Can't Stop Love and Murder takes a new...

Young, well-intentioned, introverted, intellectual, and socially inept, Tedmund "Ted" Strickland moves from Upstate New York to New York City. There he attends university, earns a degree in finance, and lands a plum job with a brokerage firm. He unwittingly finds himself flung into social...