Fiction - Thrillers - Crime

Be careful who you love ...It's the year 2000 and while Bunny McGarry is theoretically on sabbatical from the police, he just can't help sticking his nose in where it doesn't belong.Rosie Flint is an old acquaintance of Bunny's whose boyfriend mysteriously disappears off...

The body slumps over the steering wheel. Pools of blood going tacky on the dash. Two shots to the back of the head.A mafia-style hit in a small town.Special Agent Violet Darger must make sense of this savagery. Figure out how brutality like this...

The first standalone Swedish crime novel by Hans Rosenfeldt, creator of the TV series The Bridge as well as Netflix's Emmy-winning Marcella.A dead wolf. A drug deal gone wrong. A female assassin of rarely seen skill. Hannah Wester, a policewoman in the remote northern...

Al Ader is dying and doesn't have much time left. Determined to leave a legacy behind, he devises a plan to mystify the masses...and the authorities. Armed with a bomb, he hijacks a commercial airliner on Thanksgiving Eve of 1971. If he can survive...

A Blind Eye is a story of finding truth through the lies of suspects, witnesses, and those unwilling to help. Paris fights his own demons in his relentless drive to uncover the secrets within this tight-lipped community, find the missing tourist before winter takes...

When a depressed, alcoholic single mother disappears, everything suggests suicide, until her body is found on the lava fields. Icelandic Detective Elma and her team are thrust into a perplexing, chilling investigation in book two in the award-winning, international bestselling Forbidden Iceland series... 'Chilling...

Murder at a writing retreat in the Pacific Northwest, but this one isn't imaginary. Authors only kill with words. Or do they?Author: Laurie BuchananISBN-10: 1684630711ISBN-13: 9781684630714Publisher: SparkpressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/06/2021Pages: 304Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.80lbsSize: 8.40h x 5.40w x 1.00dReview Citation(s): Kirkus Reviews 01/01/0001Booklist 03/01/2021 pg. 30

Bubbles of cold sweat trickled down Faye's spine. The hole wasn't empty. Before she could turn and run, she caught the two sightless eyes staring up at her. Only then did she scream. When Faye Baker discovers a fragile child's skull behind the walls...

"A thoroughly riveting two-novel debut introducing a compelling new hero," says JAMES PATTERSONOn the morning of July 12, 2017, the FBI Boston field office receives what appears to be a hoax call: a man rescued from the waters off Massachusetts has claimed that his...

From the world's #1 bestselling author comes a story of revenge as a former SAS soldier is ready to settle into civilian life when he's hired to solve the mysterious death of a daughter, diving into a seedy world that a parent never expects...

Remember those people that destroyed the economy and then cruised off on their yachts? Well guess what - someone is killing them. Dublin is in the middle of a heat wave and tempers are running high. The Celtic Tiger is well and truly dead,...

Jazz will stop at nothing to save her brother. Their foster mother, Carol, has always been fanatical, but with Jazz grown up and out of the house, Carol takes a dangerous turn that threatens thirteen-year-old Joaquin's life. Over and over, child services fails to...

A cold case involving a missing private investigator threatens to unearth skeletons from Rebus's past in this "must-read" mystery (Tana French). Former Detective John Rebus' retirement is disrupted once again when skeletal remains are identified as a private investigator who went missing over a...

Two missing girls. Two brutal murders. All connected to one farmhouse. Who is to blame? When pretty and popular teenagers Piper Hadley and Tash McBain disappear one Sunday morning, the investigation captivates a nation but the girls are never found. Three years later, during...

Judge Avery Lassiter is back-this time engulfed in a story of death, debt, and deception in Dallas. First, a wealthy Texas hedge fund manager, Cade Graham, is suspected of insurance fraud and mysteriously goes missing in Mexico. He is believed to have faked his...

Sadie and Will Foust have only just moved their family from bustling Chicago to small-town Maine when their neighbor Morgan Baines is found dead in her home. The murder rocks their tiny coastal island, but no one is more shaken than Sadie. But it's...

Told by a tart-tongued young woman with a love of Bruce Springsteen, Lies in Bone is at once a mystery and coming-of-age tale fueled by dark secrets involving love, murder, and the truths worth lying for. On Halloween 1963, eleven-year-old Chuck Coolidge and his...

Her husband is killed by the Taliban, now Rukhsaar is a widow with a ten-year-old child, Masih, in a land where the colour drains from faces when they hear, "It's a girl."Reminiscing about her past, Rukhsaar and her son wander the bazaars of Kabul,...

Erik Lingoss is found dead in his west London flat. His heartlessly dumped girlfriend, blood on her clothes and hands, is the prime suspect - she had means, opportunity, and motive. But is the case as clear-cut as it seems? The deeper Slider and...

People don't just disappear without a trace ...Shelby Tebow is the first to go missing. Not long after, Meredith Dickey and her six-year-old daughter, Delilah, vanish just blocks away from where Shelby was last seen, striking fear into their once-peaceful community. Are these incidents...

In this gripping mystery, an FBI Agent's search for her sister clashes with a military investigator's high-stakes case, leading them both deep into a global conspiracy--from which neither of them will escape unscathed. For many long years, Atlee Pine was tormented by uncertainty after...

"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...

A new novel celebrating the second season of the Sundance TV Hap and Leonard series starring Michael K. Williams (The Wire), James Purefoy (The Following), and Christina Hendricks (Mad Men). Hap Collins is becoming a man?just not the man he's expected to be. His...

An Amazon Charts bestseller.From the bestselling author of The Neon Lawyer comes a gripping thriller about a prosecutor confronted with the darkest part of her past and the worst fears for her future...Fourteen years ago, prosecutor Jessica Yardley's husband went to prison for a...

A psychiatrist, a mother, and an expert hitman each race against time in these three fast-paced thrillers from the world's #1 bestselling writer, James Patterson.Dead Man Running: Psychiatrist Randall Beck specializes in PTSD cases -- and his time is limited. Especially when he uncovers...

With her life on the line and nothing left to lose, Detective Harriet Blue runs from the law -- and a vicious killer -- in this thrilling New York Times bestseller. In the space of a week, she has committed theft and fraud, resisted...

Critically acclaimed and bestselling crime writer James Lee Burke returns to Louisiana where his ever-popular hero, Dave Robicheaux, sleuths his way through a hotbed of sin and uncertainty. For Dave Robicheaux, life in Louisiana is filled with haunting memories of the past--images from Vietnam,...

When the mother of a missing two-year-old girl is seriously injured in a suspected terrorist attack in Oslo, crime-fighting duo Blix and Ramm join forces to investigate the case, and things aren't adding up ... The second instalment in the addictive, atmospheric, award-winning Blix...

CityLine Book Club Pick for September From the former Chief Justice of Canada and #1 bestselling author of Full Disclosure comes a taut new thriller starring tough-as-nails defense attorney Jilly Truitt in a murder case that makes her question her own truths. When everyone...

Winner of the 2019 NEBRASKA BOOK AWARD in fictionWinner of the 2019 TCK Publishing Reader's Choice for Best Mystery"The Ryder Creed books are absolutely phenomenal." -Suspense Magazine "A flawed, fierce protagonist whose first and absolute loyalty is to his dogs, plus compelling storylines: a...

'Til death do us part... All Jack Stratton wants to do is get married to the woman he loves--and make it through the wedding. It seems like he is finally getting his wish until he responds to a police distress call and discovers his...

The New York Times bestselling Brit in the FBI series returns with a highly anticipated thriller, featuring special agents Nicholas Drummond and Michaela Caine in their new roles as heads of the Covert Eyes team--but will their first case be their last when the...

First One Dead Body. . .A prostitute lies strangled in a seedy French Quarter hotel room. Miles away, in a rambling plantation house on the sultry shores of Lake Ponchartrain, popular late-night radio host Dr. Samantha Leeds receives a threatening crank call. All in...

Doc Ford has long lived a double life. But in this electrifying New York Times bestselling novel, it may finally have caught up to him... On a moonless night on Sanibel Island, Florida, marine biologist Marion "Doc" Ford carefully watches a video of a...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - "Imaginative and fulfilling . . . an addictive contemporary crime procedural."--Michael Connelly, The New York Times Book Review (Editors' Choice) Caleb Carr, the author of The Alienist and The Angel of Darkness, returns with a contemporary, edge-of-your-seat thriller featuring...

"Wildly imaginative."--The New York Times "Adamsberg is a terrific creation and his team of misfits a joy to watch in action."--Peter Robinson, New York Times bestselling author of the Inspector Banks series When blue chalk circles begin to appear on the pavement in neighborhoods...

Maine Sunday Telegram #1 BestsellerIn this latest gripping mystery from bestselling author Bruce Robert Coffin, Detective Sergeant John Byron is back--and ready to prove that no one on his beat is above the law. When the body of prominent Portland attorney Paul Ramsey turns...

"Nesb 's storytelling abilities are incomparable. Nemesis is crime novel as art form and great entertainment." --USA TodayDetective Harry Hole must use his maverick methods once again as he investigates a slew of brutal bank robberies and the suspicious suicide of a female artist...

A despicable client hell-bent on being executed, a vengeful and formidable opponent, and a reluctant Supreme Court, confront Jake Clearwater as he undertakes a daunting and unforgiving challenge.Clearwater, a law professor and former prosecutor, is urged by a group named the Death Penalty Project...

In the follow-up to That Was Before, Randolph Spiers barely has time to breathe and recover from the con that changed everything-and he's not alone.Sheila Backe has vanished, and the chase is on. Foes become friends as Randolph and Benji Griffin team up as...

All Her Little Secrets is a brilliantly nuanced but powerhouse exploration of race, the legal system, and the crushing pressure of keeping secrets. Morris brings a vibrant and welcome new voice to the thriller space. --Karin Slaughter, New York Times and international bestselling author...

Starting a new life in Snowdonia was always DI Ruth Hunter's dream. Until a twisted killer turned it into her worst nightmare. Detective Inspector Ruth Hunter lives with the pain of her partner's mysterious and unsolved disappearance. About to hit fifty, the veteran police...

In Jen J. Danna's gripping suspense series, NYPD detective Gemma Capello is called to Rikers Island, where a prison riot threatens to become a bloodbath... On Rikers Island, tensions always run high, especially in the Enhanced Supervision Housing unit. The ESH is home to...

She left the NYPD in the firestorm of a high-profile case gone horribly wrong. Three years later, the ghosts of her past roar back to terrifying life. When NYPD undercover cop Laney Bird's cover is blown in a racketeering case against the Russian mob,...

The sunroom at the back of the house is just as I remember. I can't taste homemade lemonade or smell oatmeal cookies without thinking of home, of the beautiful cliffs of Martino Bay, and I feel welcomed. But all thoughts of a happy family...

From the bestselling author of What Have You Done comes a real whodunit about the bloody crimes that keep families together and tear them apart.Eighteen-year-old Jenny Moore is looking forward to a fresh start at college. There's just one problem: the people in her...

AN ABSOLUTELY UNPUTDOWNABLE THRILLER WITH A BRILLIANT ENDING YOU WON'T SEE COMING - if you like Lisa Gardner, Robert Bryndza or Clare Mackintosh, Her Final Hour will keep you reading well into the night. Melissa Sanderson is the perfect wife and mother. She dotes...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER - "A delightfully lighthearted caper ... [a] fast-moving, entertaining tale."--Pittsburgh Post-Gazette A gang of thieves stage a daring heist from a secure vault deep below Princeton University's Firestone Library. Their loot is priceless, but Princeton has insured it...

PI Spenser, knight-errant of the Back Bay, takes on corruption in the justice system in this stellar New York Times bestselling thriller in Robert B. Parker's series. What started out as a joke landed seventeen-year-old Dillon Yates in a lockdown juvenile facility in Boston...

An insurance mathematician's carefully ordered life is turned on its head when he unexpectedly loses his job and inherits an adventure park ... with a whole host of problems. A quirky, tense and warmly funny thriller from award-winning Finnish author Antti Tuomainen, FIRST in...