Fiction - Thrillers - Crime

With a bang--or rather, a barrage--Jacob Neptune finds his remote cabin in the Adirondacks besieged by a gun-toting gang of murderous bikers. With the help of his supersized sidekick Dennis, the hard-headed, wise-cracking Abenaki private detective traces the source of his troubles to a...

Fear hits her like a wave crashing against the sheer cliffs nearby. She sees the woman's feet first, then the legs bent like broken driftwood. Then, the blouse strewn open; the marks on her beautiful neck. Her knees buckle as a hand grabs her...

This time, Dan's putting everything on the line. Will his dangerous scheme reveal a killer...or cause a fatal injustice?Defense lawyer Daniel Pike believes he's closer than ever to proving his late father was no murderer. But with key witnesses snuffed out and his archnemesis...

Dark truths uncovered . . . The buried contents of a Nazi train. An aging SS killer-with a final sting in his tail. And the World War II secrets of a US presidential hopeful's Jewish family, hidden in London for 70 years.★★★★★ "A great...

* National Bestseller and Dublin Literary Award winner* Hailed by Edmund White as "a brilliant new novel" on the cover of the New York Times Book Review* Lauded by Jonathan Franzen, E. L. Doctorow and many others An intimate portrayal of the drug wars...

In this "flawless," fast-paced crime thriller, Scandinavia's hottest new writing duo, Michael Hjorth and Hans Rosenfeldt, present the first book in the Sebastian Bergman series (Politiken). It all begins with a call to the police. A sixteen-year-old boy, Roger Eriksson, has gone missing in...

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERInterfering with the presidential election was just the first step. The target was the American Airlines Center, the home of the Dallas Mavericks. The FBI had told Ahmed Shakir that his drug bust would go away if he helped them,...

"Joss Whedon...can't possibly write All The Things That Are Kind Of Like This. So hallelujah that Edgar Cantero - a Barcelona native whose first language is Spanish, but who spits pop-culture in English like the savviest geek in, say, Sheboygan posting on Tumblr -...

W.E.B. Griffin's bestselling series, THE CORPS and BROTHERHOOD OF WAR, have captured the pride and glory of the military community. Now he reveals a city police force with the same unique blend of realism, drama, and action. Here are the brave men and women...

Turn-of-the-century Detective Isaac Bell takes on the upstart leader of a vicious crime organization in this novel in the #1 New York Times-bestselling series. It is 1906, and in New York City, the Italian crime group known as the Black Hand is on a...

Detective Harriet Blue is chasing down a violent killer on a university campus in a terrifying case that's far more sinister than she ever imagined.Harriet Blue, the most single-minded detective since Lindsay Boxer, won't rest until she stops a savage killer targeting female university...

An explosive novel of high finance and underworld villainy from Ken Follett, the grand master of international action and suspense. Crime, high finances, and journalism are interconnected in this early thriller by the author of On Wings of Eagles and Lie Down With Lions....

"Propulsive. . . . Highly enjoyable. . . . It sets up a sequel, one that I very much look forward to reading." --The New York Times Book ReviewA fresh, smart, and fast-paced revenge thriller about a college basketball player who discovers shocking truths...

An urgent cry for help brings Hercule Poirot to France. But he arrives too late to save his client whose brutally stabbed body now lies facedown in a shallow grave on a golf course. But why is the dead man wearing an overcoat that...

A New York Times Bestseller "A smart, edge-of-your-seat story with plot twists you'll never see coming. Stacy Willingham's debut will keep you turning pages long past your bedtime." --Karin Slaughter When Chloe Davis was twelve, six teenage girls went missing in her small Louisiana...

Macy isn't looking for trouble. She just wants to help an old family friend find out who's blackmailing him over something that happened decades ago - without getting wrapped up in her own ancient history. But the mysterious (and far too handsome) Thomas keeps...

From the #1 New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today bestselling author comes another book in the gripping Detective Megan Carpenter series. When the body of Leann Truitt is found in a secluded cove in Mystery Bay, Detective Megan Carpenter is one...

New York, 1995Cop Callum Burke arrives in New York from Hong Kong, drafted in as part of an international investigation into organised crime.With the handover of Hong Kong to China only a couple of years away, gangsters are moving their operations out of the...

Awash in partisan rhetoric, facing bankruptcy and a federal takeover of its police department, Chicago is thirty-six hours from imploding into a race war. Canaryville will be the flashpoint-violent, insular, bare-knuckle Irish, and fiercely defensive of what little neighborhood it has left. As the...

The girl looked so peaceful, she could have been asleep. Except her eyes were open, blankly reflecting the flickering flames spreading towards her...When firefighters discover the body of a teenage girl at an abandoned house, Detective Amanda Steele hurries to the scene. Dumfries, Virginia...

Everything stays the same for the tenants of The Beresford, a grand old apartment building just outside the city ... until the doorbell rings... Will Carver returns with an eerie, deliciously and uncomfortably dark standalone thriller. 'A gripping novel laced with humour and cutting...

Calm down. You're overreacting. Make me a sammich. Don't get so emotional. What, are you on your period or something? Nice tits. You should smile more. Moody bitch. I said I was sorry, didn't I? Feminazi.If a man has said any or all of...

*Instant National Bestseller In this explosive new thriller from international bestselling author Daniel Kalla, an experimental vaccine is deployed to battle a lethal outbreak--until patients start dying of unknown causes. An ordinary day The city of Seattle is stunned when a deadly bacteria tears...

In this follow-up to the #1 bestselling thriller Invisible, every perfect murder looks like an accident, but as bodies start to pile up across the country, two FBI agents realize that something horrible is happening. FBI agent Emmy Dockery is absolutely relentless. She's young...

Bestselling and award-winning author Lisa Scottoline reaches new heights with this riveting novel about how a single decision can undo a family, how our past can derail our present, and how not guilty doesn't always mean innocent. Allie Garvey is heading home to the...

"Don't miss it. This is a great one " -- Stephen KingSoon to be an Amazon TV seriesI am the legion of the night ...He appears in the darkness like a ghost, made of shadows and fear--the Midnight Man. He comes for the parents...

New York Times and USA Today Bestselling Author Diane Capri returns with a collection of #1 Bestselling short books never before presented in one volume."Full of thrills and tension - but smart and human too." Lee Child, #1 World Wide Bestselling Author of Jack...

They thought they were safe. They were wrong. The murder of a young prostitute and a baby found abandoned on the same winter night signals the start of a disturbing investigation for Detective Kim Stone - one which brings her face to face with...

JAILED FOR A JOKE It isn't easy going to jail for a practical joke. Of course, this particular joke left 20 cars wrecked on the highway and two politicians' careers in tatters - so jail is where Harold K nt landed. Now he's just...

Edgar Award-winner Steve Hamilton takes his acclaimed series to new heights in A Stolen Season. If you thought you knew Alex McKnight and how far he'll go for the people he cares about . . . think again. On a freezing night in Michigan's...

A murder close to home...Nature lovers Kyla Quintana-Johnson and her mother Kim Quintana have been brutally murdered on a popular trail in the Cascade Mountains of Washington State, and grief weighs heavily on Summer "Sam" Westin.Duty calls...Kim and Kyla ran Washington Wilderness Quest, an...

A young artist returns to her cabin in the deep woods of Canada to concentrate on her illustrations. But somehow, strange and beautiful creatures are slipping into her drawings and sketches. The world of Faerie is reaching out to her for help--and she may...

A thriller of the ex-Yugoslavia Wars. "Bodrozic, mediated by Ellen Elias-Bursac's assured translation, chronicles what a country chooses to remember, and what it consciously forgets, with confidence and grace." --Sarah Weinman, New York Times Book Review The city of Vukovar, situated on Croatia's easternmost...

In a propulsive thriller by the #1 internationally bestselling author of The Bazt n Trilogy, a female detective follows a psychopathic killer into the eye of a storm.Amaia Salazar, a young detective from the north of Spain, has joined a group of trainees at...

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...

In a smart, sexy spin-off from her Unconditional Series, Briana Cole continues to explore unconventional relationships and question all assumptions about love, lust, and monogamy in this tantalizing drama that takes the "what if" of a free pass to a whole new level...Can you...

"A thoroughly riveting two-novel debut introducing a compelling new hero," says JAMES PATTERSONCredited with successfully stopping a terror threat in 2017, FBI staffer Ben Porter has been promoted to Special Agent. But, within days of receiving his credentials and weapon, the tables are turned,...

Meet Mike Daley. Ex-priest. Ex-public defender. And as of yesterday, ex-partner in one of San Francisco's most prominent law firms.Today he's out on his own, setting up practice on the wrong side of town. Then his best friend and former colleague is charged with...

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...

Murder, She Wrote meets Fargo in the Northwoods of Wisconsin in the nineteenth "gripping, atmospheric, and smart" (T. Jefferson Parker, New York Times bestselling author) installment of the Loon Lake series. When the bodies of a wealthy Chicago industrialist and his wife are discovered...

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Cartel, The Force, and The Border A New York Times, Entertainment Weekly, and Chicago Sun-Times Favorite Book of the Year "A revelation...This is Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid on autoload." --Stephen King, Entertainment Weekly...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER - Murders present meet murders past in this harrowing, thought-provoking thriller - Part of the bestselling mystery series that inspired Dalgliesh on Acorn TV "Suspenseful, atmospheric.... No shortage of surprise twists." --The New York Times Book Review Commander Adam Dalgliesh is already...

The dazzling, award-winning debut in a series that delivers mystery, romance, suspense, and fascinating forensic detail. When farmers cutting turf in an Irish peat bog make a grisly discovery--the perfectly preserved head of a young woman with long red hair--Irish archaeologist Cormac Maguire and...

The number 1 New York Times-bestselling author is back with an electrifying new entry in the FBI series featuring Savich and Sherlock. FBI Special Agent Griffin Hammersmith, last seen in Backfire, has been recruited by Dillon Savich to join his unit in Washington, D.C....

A jockey unravels nasty secrets of corruption, blackmail, and murder in this mystery from grand master of crime fiction Dick Francis. Longtime jockey Philip Nore is no hero. But when he begins to suspect that a racetrack photographer's fatal accident was really murder, he...

Maine Sunday Telegram #1 Bestseller * Winner of the Maine Literary Award for Best Crime Fiction * Winner of the Killer Nashville Silver Falchion for Best InvestigatorThe latest gripping installment of the award-winning, #1 bestselling Detective Byron mystery series: a grisly crime captivates Portland,...

Ravenhill Correctional Institute, a notorious, maximum-security prison in Miami, Florida, home to the abandoned military prison, the Glasshouse. Hurricane Anna--a superstorm made up of two Category 5 hurricanes coming together to wreak unprecedented havoc along the eastern seaboard. When the superstorm hits, the corrections...

'This series is a must-read for anyone who loves the sea, or islands, or joyous, intricate story-telling.' ANN CLEEVES '[An] atmospheric story steeped in the stunning scenery and traditions of Scotland's wildest place.' PETERBOROUGH TELEGRAPH Marsali Taylor returns with the ninth gripping mystery in...

A wealthy business owner asks investigator Claire Chastain to solve a simple case. Is his employee stealing or not?From the moment she's hired, subtle clues tell her something's wrong: the unbusinesslike business owner, the lingering scent of a woman on the stairs, the rustle...

SOON TO BE A MAJOR TELEVISION EVENT FROM NBC, STARRING RUSSELL HORNSBY, ARIELLE KEBBEL, AND MICHAEL IMPERIOLI. From the #1 international bestselling author of The Bone Collector and The Devil's Teardrop comes this spine-chilling thriller that pits renowned criminalist Lincoln Rhyme against the ultimate...