Fiction - Thrillers - Crime

USA Today best-selling author Mortimer Angel, ex-IRS agent, PI-in-training has a reputation--he specializes in body parts IRS agent-turned-PI Mortimer Angel is relaxing in a hole-in-the-wall bar in a Reno casino when an attractive young girl hires him to find out who left her a...

Winner of the Shamus Award and Lefty Award Would you risk your own soul to avenge the death of a loved one? A phone call thrusts Rick Cahill's past and all its tragic consequences into his present. Krista Landingham, his former partner on the...

Jennifer Shannon discovers hundreds of diamonds hidden inside an innocent garage sale purchase in McLean, Virginia. Terrorists, furious at their treasure's accidental inclusion at the sale, must wrest the diamonds back in order to fund their explosive plot against America. From the strife-torn Middle...

Fire Captain Mack McWhirter is a busy man. Likewise, his girlfriend Samantha has her hands full with her Circle Star Cowboy Complex. The burden of responsibility is a wedge being driven into the heart of their relationship. She agrees to accompany him on a...

When Father Jake Austin is assigned to his hometown of Oberlin, Ohio, in July of 2002, he has been away for a long time. A physician and a war veteran before entering a Catholic seminary, he is now a member of the Camillian Order....

"Reed Writes As Only A Cop Can.... Impressive And Dramatic." --Nelson DeMilleKilling Has Become A Team Sport. To Win The Game, Detective Jack Murphy Will Have To Identify All The Players--Whatever The Cost.The body parts of a young woman have shown up in the...

Brice Simpson is a newly promoted heroic detective with a secret past. He's riding the waves of fame, but he still feels he has something to prove, so Detective Simpson picks up a cold case on the murder of a fourteen-year-old girl. He's convinced...

'I meant a real policeman, not you, Nathan.' Nathan Wrench is a police detective and a tortured soul. Self-destructive Nathan has a complicated relationship with everyone, especially his girlfriend, Esther Welles. She reports Nathan to the authorities. Esther alleges that Nathan is corrupt and...

"A tight, gripping, erotic thriller." --Philadelphia City PaperWhat do Gary Condit, Woody Allen, and O.J. Simpson have in common with Leslie Cauldwell, protagonist of Nersesian's latest offering? They are Suicide Casanovas. What compels powerful men in the prime of their professional lives to risk...

Professor Kate Hanson and the Unsolved Crime Unit unearth some shocking findings when they re-examine a 10-year-old murder case. For the past ten years, David Lockman has been serving a life sentence for the murder of Della Harrington. Now an appeal judge has decreed...

Three impossible births. Three incredible miracles. One deadly secret. Once again, Harvard Professor of religion and archaeology Cal Donovan has been summoned by Pope Celestine to investigate a seemingly impossible miracle. Three Catholic teenage girls, from different corners of the world, have fallen pregnant....

When the man who's hired Dek Elstrom disappears, the private investigator's search for his missing client unearths some shocking findings. The dead man is found spread-eagled on the top of a box car on an abandoned rail siding. He's dressed in a $2000 suit,...

A client with delusions of a deadly conspiracy draws attorney David Adams into a darkness where only the paranoid know how to get out alive.Former up-and-coming hotshot attorney David Adams left his glamorous corporate law firm to fight for the disenfranchised. With a caseload...

Kuba is a cocaine dealer in the dark, electric streets of Warsaw, believing he is smart enough to stay in control, unlike the top lawyers, doctors, TV personalities who are his client base.However, after calling in the debt of a failing nightclub owner, breaking...

I am drowning in darkness. My limbs submerged in inky tar, my lungs asphyxiated by the stench of death's hold. My eyes see nothing but black. Yet I see him. And I am not scared. I should be.Don't look into my eyes, for my...

She began to sing, the girl. Her voice was soft, so soft it was almost of the wind. It was a lullaby. She cradled her arms, rocking them gently back and forth. As if she was holding a baby. But she was not. Her...

I look down at her, lying fast asleep - always my little girl, and so beautiful. She gives a low moan as her head turns restlessly on the pillow. It reminds me of the soft growl of a cornered animal. Where is my poor...

Never forget. Never forgive. As a detective in the Metropolitan police, Zac is no stranger to murder cases, but this one is different. This is his daughter's murder. Years after Amelia died, Zac is still trying to trace the police office involved in his...

What if you made one mistake and it came back to kill you? Detective Zac Boateng's old friend, Troy McEwen, is found dead in his home. The official verdict is suicide. But Boateng believes it was murder. And he thinks he might be next...

'I will never forget the night I drowned...' Seventeen-year-old Eleanor Parker wakes up cold and alone in the river that twists through her quiet village. She remembers a hand on her chest, another on her head, water in her throat, those final gasps for...

Close your eyes ... Just pray you don't wake up. A killer stalks the streets of East London. All over the area, murdered young women are discovered, their bodies posed into a sickening recreation of fairytale princesses. Detective Ruby Preston is determined to hunt...

When nine-year-old best friends Charlie and Amy disappear, two families are plunged into a living nightmare. A text message confirms the unthinkable; that the girls are the victims of a terrifying kidnapping. And when a second text message pits the two families against each...

Detective Nic Costa finds himself a stranger in a strange land when he's sent to infiltrate the mob in a remote part of southern Italy. Roman police detective Nic Costa has been sent undercover to Italy's beautiful, remote Calabrian coast to bring in the...

Only one question needs to be asked: IS HARRY HOLIDAY LUCKY ENOUGH TO GET AWAY WITH THE PERFECT MURDER?Harry, like a lot of us, has been angry or backed against a wall enough times to think about killing someone.Like most of us, his thoughts...

William Defreno finally hits the big one after years of battles. Good friends and a successful business. Yet, something is still missing. William is still an outsider, he's no more than an upstart kid, unworthy of interest or respect. William wants to make big...

Large Print EditionWhat happens to all of the letters that kids send to Santa Claus through the U.S. Mail? In Detroit, Michigan, many of them end up in the hands of Chris Archer, a postal worker who spends his free time designing computer games...

A troubled sixteen-year-old girl from a dysfunctional family. The dark world of drugs, pimps, and teenage prostitution. A private investigator determined to make a difference.On the surface, except for a strict, ill-tempered step-father, Bridgette Carpenter seems to have everything a teenage girl could want....

This anthology of short crime fiction raises funds to help the ACLU fight voter suppression. Authors: Kris Calvin, Alison Catharine, Ray Daniel, David Hagerty, Mariah Klein, Derek Marsh, Jr., Catriona McPherson, Camille Minichino, Ann Parker, Travis Richardson, and James W. Ziskin.Stories are set from...

When a loved one is harmed, and the system lets you down, what would you do? John Hayes' life is perfect. He has a dream job in an exotic land, his career path is on an upward trajectory and at home he has a...

Brett Anderson Walkers debut novel, The Killing Name (first in a series), follows the exploits of Private Investigator Cubby Dillon, a cocky American living in Paris. Despite his desire to be an artist, he finds it impossible to complete a single painting. Fortunately, his...

When a body is found-dissolved in acid, a ring of finger bones cemented to the skull-Drake is floored. For over a year he's been telling the NYPD that the man he had killed, the man who had taken his partner's life, wasn't the real...

From the author of Elizabeth and Childgrave comes the chilling tale of a computer generated chain letter that instructs a group of emotionally ill recipients to kill a stranger, bringing about a series of grisly murders in the town of Dale Falls, New York...

A gripping psychological thriller full of heart-stopping twists and surprise ending you won't see coming, from NY Times Bestselling Author Kristen Middleton.Your worst nightmare as a parent - having your child stolen when your back is turned.What lengths would you go to get your...

Born to Bleed is the exciting sequel to the cult classic, The Summer I Died, which is soon to be a major motion picture!It's been ten years since Roger Huntington suffered through the bloody events in Skinny Man's basement. Ten years since the game...

He thought the story was over......Life doesn't work that way.How on earth did they find him?When he met Abby, he found he could love again. With new identities and a head start, they made it out of Colorado and put some distance between them...

Former U.S. Army investigator Mason Collins grapples with a web of lies, secrets, and murder as he races against time to save the lives of abducted teenagers in a case as twisted as the streets of Tangier's medina.1946. Tangier, MoroccoAfter Mason busted up a...

Mason Collins investigates a dangerous web of co-conspirators in a case that will take him from a Hollywood-style nightclub and a speeding train, to the icy slopes of the Bavarian Alps.When the Third Reich collapsed, the small town of Garmisch-Partenkirchen became the home of...

Psychologist Louis D'Maio's life is spiraling out of control. He's still recovering financially and emotionally after an ugly malpractice lawsuit when his girlfriend, Paula, disappears on vacation in St. Maarten after breaking up with him. Determined to ensure she's safe, Louis enlists the help...

BONUS LITTLE WHITE LIES, the 3rd book in The Keepers Series is included in this paperback For twenty-five years, the mystery of the missing Darling sisters has gone unsolved. Now it's time for answers... Traumatized as a child when she witnessed a grisly murder,...

As most of New York City sleeps, Athena Paradis, one of the most glamorous and desired women in the world, steps onto the red carpet at an exclusive nightclub. Suddenly a shot rings out, and Athena dies amidst hundreds of cameras and spotlights. When...

Philly hood Trigg is a one man wrecking crew. Alone in 'the game' and... alone in the world. The select few he called his brothers? Lost, to the streets. Trigg never bothered to rebuild his team. Trust is difficult to come by for those...

Mike Pritchard's daughter, Emily, is kidnapped by a sex trafficker, who delivers a concussive blow to Mike's head during the abduction. The brain trauma endows him with the ability to detect the scent of a girl's soul, the olfactory equivalent to seeing a person's...

Seducing a proper Bostonian was easy. Making him die of a heart attack a week after the wedding was hardly any trouble at all. Now she has money, social status, everything she has cunningly schemed to get since she was a poor little girl....

Jack Keller is back in the desert, trying to make a new life for himself and trying to heal from the wounds, both physical and emotional, he suffered from the events of Devils and Dust. But trouble has a way of finding Jack. When...

After taking a slug to the crown, street hood Menace has been out of commission for two long years. Now fully healed he aims to pick up where he and cohort Speedy left off, and there's no time like the present. With Menace on...

Shadow towns, smugglers and secret notes-this trio of New York authors are a TRIPLE SHOT of twists and turns in three novellas Payback leads to an unmarked grave in Ross Klavan's Thump Gun Hitched. A freak accident forces two L.A. cops to play out...

An American diplomat--reformed alcoholic, unreformed gambler, and inveterate smart-ass-- finds himself under threat of disgrace and murder even as he seeks love and redemption on the strange and spirit-ridden island of Madagascar. Author Steve Holgate brings the mystery and mysticism of Madagascar to life...

A stunning aviation thriller with a twist you won't see coming. When an NSA analyst finds herself transferred to a field operations unit known as Facility Nine, her up-grade quickly takes her from passive intelligence gathering and into a global trek through a dark...

Old Mrs. Ellison doesn't have much longer to live, and her scheming son Cedric is counting the days until he inherits her fortune. But his plans are upset by the arrival of his niece Varvara, a beautiful and wild young woman from a remote...

Greed kills. Who will be the next victim?Investigative Reporter Jess Kimball's impossible mission to find her kidnapped son and protect an elderly couple thrills in this new novel from New York Times and USA Today Bestselling Author Diane Capri.Fatal Error is the exciting follow...