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A fiendish, classic locked room murder mystery, from one of Japan's greatest crime writers, that's perfect for fans of Lucy Foley and Ruth Ware "An exceptional whodunit... The brilliant and intricate plot will keep readers turning the pages." --Publishers Weekly, starred review "Seishi Yokomizo...

A fast-paced thriller in the tradition of John Grisham, Joseph Finder, and John Lescroart For Nick "Deke" Deketomis, going where angels fear to tread in waging legal battles has long been a way of life. As managing partner for one of the nation's largest...

Winner Shelf Unbound Best Independently Published Book 2018 Solo Medalist Winner New Apple Awards for Excellence 2017 Winner Crime Fiction Beverly Hills Book Awards 2017 Winner Best Mystery Book Excellence Awards 2017Detective Hiroshi Shimizu investigates white collar crime in Tokyo. When an American businessman...

37 HOURS...TO STOP A MADMAN...HELLBENT ON TEARING NOBLE DOWN. L.T. Ryan's Jack is back in the second epic page-turning novel in the USA Today bestselling Jack Noble Thriller Series.Washington, D.C. Midday. A man waits at a bus stop, his intentions unknown. Two government operatives...

At once grotesquely comic and unflinchingly violent: the final entry in the trailblazing Harlem Detectives series, set in New York in the sweltering summer heat. "A sensual, surreal, cartoonishly violent and breathtakingly bawdy comic universe." --Los Angeles TimesNew York is sweltering in the summer...

"It's fascinating to watch this Norwegian author adapt our homegrown monster [the serial killer] to a foreign culture.... When things go wrong, Harry goes on a bender, but when he's on his game, no one is better than this obsessive detective. He systematically works...

Detective Carson Ryder returns, on the trail of a brutal killer with mysterious motives.Two psychologists are murdered 2000 miles apart - one in Phoenix, Arizona, one in Miami, Florida.Amazingly, both have noted down the name of Carson Ryder - a detective with the Florida...

In Overkill, Sheriff Ed Hughes and Investigator Steven Campbell just do not see eye-to-eye. But murders in their small Wyoming town force them to set aside their extreme dislike for one another and work together to save not only the civilians they've sworn to...

Callaghan awoke and looked at the ceiling. His lips were dry and his tongue felt like a yellow plush sofa. Outside he could hear the rain pattering on the windows. He looked at his wrist-watch. It was eight o'clock.Vivacious Mrs. Riverton has hired Slim...

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER Perfect for fans of Ruth Ware and Lisa Jewell, this dazzlingly clever (The Sunday Times) murder mystery follows a community rallying around a sick child--but when escalating lies lead to a dead body, everyone is a suspect.The Fairway Players, a local theatre...

MARCO IS A HUSTLER'S HUSTLER. Loyalty proves more than a word when his plug, Genesis, commands him to kill a traitor in his Atlanta-based crew during the Christmas season. Marco agrees because he is willing to do anything to carve out a place as...

The sun sets. The moon takes its place, illuminating the most evil corners of the planet. What twisted fear dwells in that blackness? What legends attach to those of sound mind and make them go crazy in the bright light of day? Only Suspense...

"One hell of a suspense novel." --Stephen KingThe New York Times bestselling author of A Noise Downstairs and No Time for Goodbye returns with an edge-of-your-seat thriller that does for elevators what Psycho did for showers and Jaws did for the beach--a heart-pounding tale...

'She lifted the flap of the envelope and pulled out the single white page. As she opened it up she stared, open mouthed. Four words were typed on the page. I am watching you.' When Amy Whyte and Penny Brogan leave a local nightclub...

IF YOU ONLY READ ONE BOOK THIS YEAR, MAKE IT THE NEXT GIRL... You thought he'd come to save you. You were wrong. 'Absolutely the best thriller I've read this year ' Goodreads Reviewer, 5 stars 'I absolutely, totally and utterly LOVED reading The...

The mystery thriller series that inspired the Netflix crime drama Young Wallander - From the dean of Scandinavian noir, comes the fourth riveting installment in the internationally bestselling and universally acclaimed Kurt Wallander series. After killing a man in the line of duty, Kurt...

This family has a very dark secret-but even with a retired NYPD cop next door, they can't hide from danger forever . . . The Sanderson family has been forced into hiding after one of them stumbled upon a criminal plot. Or so they...

A Greek tragedy in modern England, Val McDermid's A Place of Execution is a taut psychological thriller that explores, exposes, and explodes the border between reality and illusion in a multi-layered narrative that turns expectation on its head and reminds us that what we...

From New York Times bestselling author Kate White comes a gripping novel about one woman's dangerous quest to recover lost memories someone would rather she never find. The key to her missing memories could bring relief--or unlock her worst nightmares.On a cold, rainy morning,...

Sam Marsh's beloved Palm Springs hotel is hanging on by a string. Sam is running out of funds, and he's looking down the barrel of a prospect he doesn't want to imagine, selling his stake to his ex-wife. So when his friend, Tony, suggests...

If you have nerve enough to kill someone, you have nerve enough for anything.Three dazzling sisters are suspects in the murder of their own mother. If only Viola could have predicted the potential danger when she drafted the will - which prevented any of...

Effie said: 'You're expecting trouble?' She felt scared.Callaghan said: 'I've been expecting trouble all my life, Effie, and I usually get it.'Slim Callaghan, of Callaghan Investigations, the world famous detective and connoisseur of women, is at work again. Ruthless, tough, cynical, Slim was just...

"It's about that dame. I thought I oughta tell you. Somebody's bumped her."It's wartime London. Inspector Gringall of the Yard, long-time friendly rival of private detective Slim Callaghan, sends Slim on a mission to meet Doria Varette, a torch singer at Ferdie's Place.Callaghan knows...

Paul Dodge is no stranger to the dark side of crime. As a parole agent and a member of the local Sex Crimes Task Force, he knows what depravity lies in the shadows. But when an investigation into a local sexual predator leads him...

Fans of Rachel Abbott, Val McDermid, and Mark Billingham will be gripped by this exceptional voice in this bestselling crime fiction series.Two girls go missing. Only one will return. The couple that offers the highest amount will see their daughter again. The losing couple...

The darkest secrets often hide in plain sight...When a body is found on a lonely cliff top path, the angelic face of a murdered teenager lies facing the rising sun. Strangled by the hands of an unknown killer, it falls to DI Tom Janssen...

This explosive standalone thriller from the world's #1 bestselling author follows ex-Secret Service agent Cain Lemaire as he uncovers dark secrets hidden beneath the Tokyo streets.The Bayou is a unique place to live and it provides a grit and passion to any who hail...

This time it's personal. "Make some coffee. You'll read all night." Lee Child FBI Special Agent Kim Otto receives a kidnapper's cryptic message in the middle of the night. The Hunt for Jack Reacher turns personal when the victims have a tenuous connection to...

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER"Dark August is a tightly-paced cauldron of a thriller about small town corruption, murder and mayhem, in the vein of Sharp Objects and All The Missing Girls. A macabre and confidently twisty debut." -- Lisa Gabriele, internationally bestselling author of The WintersAn electrifying,...

***Shortlisted for the CrimeFest Last Laugh Award*** ***Book of the Year in The Times*** Things don't go entirely to plan when undercover ace detective Jan Nyman is sent to the 'hottest beach in Finland' to investigate a suspicious death. Fargo meets Baywatch in a...

In this heart-pounding suspense novel set in the same world as Nest, #1 New York Times bestselling author Terry Goodkind introduces the world to his most unforgettable and deadly character yet. Angela Constantine is a girl born broken. When Angela was young, before she...

The Women's Murder Club is stalked by a killer with nothing to lose. San Francisco Detective Lindsay Boxer is loving her life as a new mother. With an attentive husband, a job she loves, plus best friends who can talk about anything from sex...

The mystery thriller series that inspired the Netflix crime drama Young Wallander - From the dean of Scandinavian noir, the eighth riveting installment in the internationally bestselling and universally acclaimed Kurt Wallander series. A body is found at an ATM the apparent victim of...

An impossible case. A killer secret. And a lawyer who will not rest until she finds the truth...When a young woman accuses college-football superstar Blaine Hastings of sexual assault, the DNA evidence against him is overwhelming. Yet the athlete swears his innocence and threatens...

The most anticipated novel to date; Money, Murder, and Mayhem is a hardcore saga of the quick rise of a young ambitious hustler, who grew up in the surfeit, cocaine pestilent Montana Terrace Housing Project in the N.E. quadrant of Washington D.C. Dontay Beltre'...

A Nor'easter blows into Paradise and churns up the past in this stunning new addition to Robert B. Parker's New York Times-bestselling series featuring police chief Jesse Stone. In the wake of a huge storm, three bodies are discovered in the rubble of an...

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER NUMA crew leaders Kurt Austin and Joe Zavala must beat the clock to stop the world's most dazzling new technological advance from becoming mankind's last in this action-packed thriller from the #1 New York Times-bestselling grand master of adventure....

From award-winning, New York Times bestselling novelist Ben H. Winters comes a mind-bending novel set in a world governed by absolute truth, where lies are as dangerous as murder.In a strange alternate society that values law and truth above all else, Laszlo Ratesic is...

"A stellar novel of action, adventure, and intrigue." --Steve Berry, New York Times bestselling author The presumed president-elect has been assassinated. The fate of the United States is at stake.And Detective Jim Murphy of the Chicago PD is to blame. Serving as extra security...

With two major investigations now closed, fish and wildlife police officer Luke McCain is called upon for his most high-profile case yet. En route to the Washington State Fair, an exotic cat show's trailer is stolen. After some of the big cats are released...

San Diego Writer's Festival Mystery Writer of the Year for 2021 Winner of the Shamus Award and nominated for Macavity, Barry, and Lefty Awards A friend arrested for murder. A vicious killer lurking in the shadows. A world of darkness. Blinded by a gunshot...

Best-selling author of the Bruno Johnson Crime Series "Bruno Johnson believes so passionately in justice that he'll lie, cheat, and steal to achieve it--and he'll pulverize anybody who gets in his way" --Booklist Former cop and ex-con Bruno Johnson and his wife Marie, living...

The highly anticipated twenty-first FBI thriller by #1 New York Times bestselling author Catherine Coulter presents Agents Savich and Sherlock with two baffling mysteries. Working with Agent Cam Wittier (Insidious) and New York-based former Special Forces agent Jack Cabot, they must race against the...

With money and hope in short supply, newly minted attorney Brigham Theodore decides it's time to lower his standards. He joins a seedy fly-by-night firm in Salt Lake City out of desperation. After he loses his first case--a speeding ticket--he's convinced his career is...

In New York Times-bestselling author Johansen's latest work, Eve Duncan returns in this thriller that pits her against the most evil mind she has ever encountered--a ruthless killer who taunts her with his every move and who has a special affinity for blood.Author: Iris...

"Intriguing...fans of paranormal suspense will be rewarded." --Publishers Weekly From Iris Johansen, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Silencing Eve comes Shattered Mirror, an explosive thriller featuring forensic sculptor Eve Duncan. Forensic sculptor Eve Duncan is once again thrown into a deadly...

Some people will stop at nothing to make a killing.You know how they're always telling us to pay attention to our pensions? Well, some ex-employees of the US government are really taking that advice to heart by using their mayhem-creating abilities to maximise their...

A deadly serial killer that goes by the name Uncle Sam is on the loose terrorizing the city. By day he's a regular working man, but by night he transforms into a vicious killer that preys on single women. Everything is fine until Detective...

The United States Capitol is overtaken by terrorists during the State of the Union speech and the nation's leadership are held hostage. Precautions are taken for such an extreme event. One cabinet member is chosen by the president to be away from the Capitol...

"See paints a fascinating portrait of a complex and enigmatic society, in which nothing is ever quite as it appears, and of the people, peasant and aristocrat alike, who are bound by its subtle strictures."--San Diego Union-Tribune While David Stark is asked to open...