Fiction - Thrillers - Crime

From debut author Amy K. Green comes a devastating tale of psychological suspense: A teen pageant queen is found murdered in a small New England town and her sister's search for answers unearths more than she bargained for. Days after a young pageant queen...

Sometimes it takes a stranger to find a killer... In a small farming town in rural Wisconsin--where generations of families have lived in peace for decades--no one expects trouble to come calling. But then a farmer's beautiful young wife is found brutally murdered, with...

Running private-investigator and funeral-home businesses means trouble is never far away, and the Skelf women take on their most perplexing, chilling cases yet in Book Two of the darkly funny, devastatingly tense and addictive Skelfs series! ***Longlisted for Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of...

A heinous conspiracy--a volcano exacting revenge--an island paradise in anguish Having killed his father's nemesis and gotten away with it, Hilo, Hawaii Chief Detective Koa Kane, is not your ordinary cop. Estranged from his younger brother, who has been convicted of multiple crimes, he...

Why do people close to Roscoe Conklin keep showing up dead--and on the paradise island of Bonaire? After 25 years on the job, Detective Roscoe Conklin trades his badge for a pair of shorts and sandals and moves to Bonaire, a small island nestled...

"The Sculptor is one of the most grimly terrifying serial killers in recent literature."--Horror scholar and editor ST Joshi At age seven, Michael Leonard Robinson commits his first murder, turning tragedy into an aesthetic. By the time he turns eighteen, he has become an...

Del Rio District Attorney Callie McCall is determined to solve the murder of a migrant teen, but what will she do when her search for the killer leads her straight to the most powerful family in town-her own?Author: Jane RosenthalISBN-10: 1647420555ISBN-13: 9781647420550Publisher: She Writes...

A fast-paced and action-packed ride through upstate New York for fans of CHRIS RYAN and STEPHEN LEATHER. When Nicolas 'Po' Villere runs into Elspeth Fuchs, an old flame, he's surprised to find who's by her side. It's her son, Jacob, and he's a dead...

The second book in the legal thriller about Spencer Tallbridge. A baby is taken, a mother left to die and Spencer, must go up against the FBI to save a life In this gripping legal thriller, local county prosecutor Spencer Tallbridge interferes with a...

Rebecca and Brian Unsworth appear to have it all. A nice house in the suburbs of Washington, DC. Two well-behaved, healthy teenage children. Important government jobs — Rebecca working in counterterrorism for the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Brian serving as a coder for the...

Half-buried in the muddy earth and surrounded by puddles of water lies the naked body of a beautiful young girl. Her pale skin looks like porcelain in the early morning light. Her fragile arms bent and crooked like a broken doll. When Detective Katie...

What would you do to keep your past a secret?When the mutilated remains of a woman are retrieved by local fisherman, it falls to DI Tom Janssen and his team to identify how she came to be in the water and what put her...

A hardboiled valentine to the Golden State, That Left Turn at Albuquerque marks the return of noir master Scott Phillips. Douglas Rigby, attorney-at-law, is bankrupt. He's just sunk his last $200,000--a clandestine "loan" from his last remaining client, former bigshot TV exec Glenn Haskill--into...

"Ryder Creed--along with his dogs --is a true inspiration: tough, smart, dynamic." --James RollinsFifteen years ago Ryder Creed's sister, Brodie disappeared from an interstate rest stop. She was only eleven and Creed was fourteen. Since then her disappearance has haunted him, so much so,...

You could have saved her. Sure as the tide against his Highland shores, the refrain beats into Constable Angus 'Dubh' MacNeil's mind. For years it has haunted him, accompanied by the faces of those he could not save--the Burned Man, the Strangled Woman, the...

It's 1978 in Bakersfield, California. Suzanne Ricci, a widow who escaped a rough-and-tumble childhood in the oil fields, is struggling to raise her fourteen-year-old son, Danny. When she discovers the stabbed and beaten body of her neighbor, Reggie, she conceals evidence Danny attended the...

NOW AN AMC+ TV SERIES--SANCTUARY: A WITCH'S TALE!"What would you get if you crossed Big Little Lies with 90s teen flick The Craft?...The answer is something like this addictive novel." --The IndependentSanctuary is the perfect town...to hide a secret.When young Daniel Whitman is killed...

And Then There Were None meets The Last Time I Lied in this dark and twisty psychological thriller. In 1995, six university students moved into the house at 215 Caldwell Street. Months later, one of them was found dead on the sofa the morning...

Shortlisted for the CWA New Blood Dagger AwardTwo murders. An abandoned asylum. Will a mysterious former patient help untangle the dark truth?The body of an elderly woman has been found in the bowels of a derelict asylum on the banks of the Thames. As...

Jack Reacher is no Serial Killer. Why is he being framed? A serial killer returns after years of inactivity in this gripping new thriller. The green paint bathtub killer had Reacher Running Blind back in the day. The New York FBI team says Reacher...

Authorized and Recommended by Lee Child Diane Capri's Award-winning and Bestselling Hunt for Jack Reacher Series continues "Make some coffee. You'll read all night." -- Lee Child, #1 World-Wide Bestselling Author of Jack Reacher Thrillers FBI Special Agent Kim Otto finds the perfect bait...

From the co-author of the New York Times-bestselling novelization of The Shape of Water comes the blood-curdling story of a Halloween night where trick-or-treat becomes life-or-death In a ruined house at the end of Yellow Street, an angry outcast hatches a scheme to take...

The light fades as she runs for her life, the forest now becoming quieter around her. The only noise she hears is the sound of footsteps following her... It's hiking season in Black Rock Falls and the small town in Montana is flooded with...

'Don't you agree Detective? That some people deserve to die? I've killed the first. I've killed the second. Now will you catch the others, or do I have to kill them too?' The body of Amos Price lies in a pool of blood on...

She didn't know he was watching. Until it was too late. She'd walked this path hundreds of times before, she knew every twist and turn. But today was different. She didn't know someone was waiting for her, hidden away from view. She didn't know...

The floor was stone cold on her bare skin. Her heart pounded in her chest. 'Not a soul knows where I am, ' she thought as she took in the darkness around her. And then she heard his footsteps... When a body is found...

Welcome to Rikers Island and Bellevue Hospital Prison ward for the criminally insane where all problems can be solved with a certain degree of violence. As a Jailhouse Therapist for over thirty years, I have seen and experienced firsthand violence that the average civilian...

Jack looked up at the giant, dead body brazenly hung on the quaint Welcome to Darrington sign. He turned to the town's mayor. "Mayor Lewis, when you said people had nothing to fear, it pricked the killer's vanity. He's using this latest victim to...

Jack felt the familiar burn of shame in his chest. Why do I keep doing this...thinking about her? It was so long ago, but I can't get what happened out of my head. I shouldn't let any of that junk define me, but I...

"Powerful." --The Washington Post "Fiercely astute." --Tayari Jones, O, The Oprah Magazine "A voice for the invisible." --Essence A sister seeks to uncover the truth about her twin's disappearance in this critically acclaimed novel hailed as "a powerful song about what it means to...

One killer: A psychopath who flies under the radar, moving from city to city, preying on the lost and forgotten.Three investigators: Detective Stacy Killian from the New Orleans P.D., Nashville homicide lieutenant Taylor Jackson, and FBI profiler Maggie O'Dell--who've witnessed some of the worst....

Voted greatest mystery novel of all time by the Crime Writers' Association in 1990, Josephine Tey recreates one of history's most famous-and vicious-crimes in her classic bestselling novel, a must read for connoisseurs of fiction, now with a new introduction by Robert Barnard. Inspector...

What if you had to relive your most terrifying memory...over and over? A detective and a psychiatrist investigate in Thriller Award-winning author Brian Freeman's gripping psychological novel.Homicide detective Frost Easton doesn't like coincidences. When a series of bizarre deaths rock San Francisco--as seemingly random...

From the acclaimed author of "the most compelling new series in crime fiction" (Michael Koryta, New York Times bestselling author) comes "a sharply observed novel" (New York Times) that explores race, law enforcement, and justice in mid-century Atlanta. Officer Denny Rakestraw and "Negro Officers"...

DOLLY, LINDA, SHIRLEY AND BELLA ARE BACK. AND THIS TIME IT'S A FIGHT TO THE FINISH. Against all the odds, Dolly Rawlins and her gangland widows managed the impossible: a heist their husbands had failed to pull off - at the cost of their...

They led the Dirty South's most infamous crew. One became a rap superstar. One ruled the streets. But when the king comes back hard for his throne, who will be left standing? Life couldn't get better for the Crescent Crew. With an exclusive Mexican...

In the latest thrilling novel in the Ava Lee series, Ava launches an investigation into a fraudulent investment scheme that sends her around the globe on the trail of illegal diamonds, drug smuggling, and offshore banking.Ava and Pang Fai are in Toronto to attend...

From Wall Street Journal bestselling author Melinda Leigh.After corporate attorney Hannah Barrett tries--and fails--to stop a kidnapping in Vegas, she can't shake the haunting image of the terrified young girl she couldn't save. She tells herself that a visit to her hometown in Scarlet...

Peter Strand is half Chinese and half Cherokee and was adopted by an elderly white couple from Phoenix. Now he's a forensic accountant in San Francisco, where he's struggling with his identity. When his employer asks him to investigate a San Francisco-based nonprofit organization,...

After failing a critical assignment overseas, Will Robie must investigate a murder accusation against his father--but to save him, he'll have to face a violent and deadly fallout in this New York Times bestselling thriller. Will Robie escaped his small Gulf Coast hometown of...

In James Patterson's sensational mystery, NYPD Red discovers a chilling conspiracy that terrifies the city's most powerful.NYPD Red is the elite, highly trained task force assigned to protect the rich, the famous, and the connected. And Detective Zach Jordan and his partner Kylie MacDonald-the...

Candice Fox's thrilling Crimson Lake, the basis for the series Troppo starring Thomas Jane, now streaming on Freevee! How do you move on when the world won't let you? 12:46: Claire Bingley stands alone at a bus stop12:47: Ted Conkaffey parks his car beside...

Author of Jar City and HypothermiaAn Inspector Erlendur Novel Arnaldur Indri ason is universally recognized as one of the top Scandinavian crime novelists writing today, and in Outrage he is at the top of his form. Haunted by personal demons, Detective Erlendur decides to...

From New York Times bestselling author Thomas Perry comes a whip-smart and lethally paced standalone novel, Forty Thieves. Sid and Ronnie Abel are a husband-and-wife detective team, both ex-LAPD. Ed and Nicole Hoyt are assassins-for-hire living in the San Fernando Valley. Except for deadly...

"Tantalizing." -- Washington Post "One of the standouts of the Nordic thriller boom." -- New York Magazine "No one can thoroughly chill the blood the way Karin Fossum can." -- Los Angeles Times "A truly great writer and explorer of the human mind." --...

ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE'S 100 BEST MYSTERY AND THRILLER BOOKS OF ALL TIME - A fantastical crime novel set in an alternate Seoul where assassination guilds compete for market dominance."The Plotters's first convenient comparison may be to the ever-expanding John Wick movies" --Los Angeles...

A political assasin is ready to make his move. The police department's only clue is a single, perfectly typed bomb threat. And worse yet, the police aren't sure they can trust their own people. In a few short days, the corruption of one cop--and...

Thomas Kilbride is a schizophrenic who spends his days and nights on a Web site called Whirl360. He travels the world without ever leaving his bedroom and memorizes the details of every street in every city. Then one day, he sees an image that...

From the bestselling author of Bad Monkey and Razor Girl and Bill Montalbano comes this compelling thriller set in Key West on the southern most end of America. With its dozens of outlying islands and the native Conchs' historically low regard for the law,...

Hap and Leonard investigate a racially motivated murder that threatens to tear apart their East Texas town. While Hap, a former 60s activist and self-proclaimed white trash rebel, is recovering from a life-threatening stab wound, Louise Elton comes into Hap and Leonard's PI office...