Fiction - Thrillers - Crime

"You want to know what deceit tastes like?It's sweet. Like honey."Over the course of his shady legal career, Victor Carl has made a host of bad decisions, but letting his ex-fianc馥, Julia, fall back into his life and into his bed might be the...

Body of evidenceAfter months of menacing phone calls and feeling that her every move is being watched, successful writer Beryl Madison flees Key West when a terrifying message is scratched on her car. But the very night she returns to Richmond, she deactivates her...

It's not that used bookstore owner and part-time burglar Bernie Rhodenbarr believes the less legal of his two professions is particularly ethical. (It is, however, a rush, and he is very good at it.) He just thinks it's unfair to face a prison term...

The dead woman is an enigma -- a local lass who emigrated to America some years back, now perched atop a seven-hundred-foot cliff high above the pounding Irish surf . . . with two passports, a pistol, and $27,000 U.S. dollars in her coat...

When a well known film star is murdered during the M疝aga Film Festival, the Guardia Civil turn once more to Jacaranda Dunne and her team for help.Although Jacaranda-known to everyone as JD-is still basking in the success of solving her first case for the...

In the fifth novel in Malcolm Archibald's series of 19th century detective novels, Sergeant Watters finds himself overwhelmed with three simultaneous cases.With a case of poisoning, a series of child kidnappings and somebody with a seeming dislike to clocks and watches, Watters and his...

Margaret Lennox sold her home in Washington, D.C. and moved to Marfa, Texas, hoping to escape the insanity, the crime, and the traffic of our nation's capital. Marfa was a place that welcomed artists, and Margaret hoped to find a quiet life there. But...

Author: Trace CongerISBN-10: 0996826785ISBN-13: 9780996826785Publisher: Black Mill BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/18/2021Pages: 346Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.87lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.25w x 0.77d

Matt Graham's first novel, Hidden Behind the Robe, traverses the unexplored inner workings of the raunchy, salacious, often hilarious, happenings of the Los Angeles justice system. Graham's real-life anecdotes provide a rare Judge's view of the City of Los Angeles and the gritty world...

In the second book in Isobel Wycherley's The Dons Of Warrington Series, two novice gangsters are sent on their biggest mission yet: killing the notorious Helmut Baulsack.If they succeed, the entire world will be under attack. If they don't, the entire world will be...

Detective Inspector Wordsworth has been called in for an interview with the Internal Investigation Unit. They are making enquiries into his handling of Operation Clayton, an extensive operation originally sparked into life by the disappearance of fifteen-year-old Jodie Kinsella.The case, while at first seemingly...

Seven Keys to Baldpate (1913) is a mystery novel by Earl Derr Biggers. Although he is widely known as the author of a bestselling series of novels featuring Chinese American detective Charlie Chan, Biggers worked for years as a struggling mystery writer with moderate...

Hollywood is just another word for Hell on Earth! When Dick Moonlight PI and his professional impersonator sidekick, Fat Elvis, uncover the head of a decapitated, long blond-haired woman under the floorboards of an under-construction luxury home, they come into contact with a husband-and-wife...

Twenty-four-year-old Joe Creed, fresh from college in the 1970's, and raised in a conservative Catholic family, was hired as a downtown foot patrolman. After attending the police academy, his foot beat included numerous bars, adult bookstores, pool halls and businesses. Stockman's Bar, which was...

Captain Jim Cade, Lieutenant Jaime Ontiveros and Josie Du Puy of the Phoenix P.D. Homicide unit are engaged in a life and death struggle with a group of vigilante cops.The discovery of this group of killers is a task in itself, and the chase...

Caught in a web of assassins, Alex Cross enters the final battle with the all-knowing genius who has stalked him and his family for years. Dr. Alex Cross and Detective John Sampson venture into the rugged Montana wilderness--where they will be the prey. They're...

After stealing a famous Rembrandt painting, Terry learns that his daughter Angie has been kidnapped... and the canvas is the ransom.But Terry has his own ideas on how to get his daughter back. A master forger and thief, Terry devises a master plan to...

In the exhilarating penultimate thriller of the New York Times and #1 internationally bestselling Department Q series, the team must hunt for a nefarious criminal who has slipped under the radar for decades. On her sixtieth birthday, a woman takes her own life. When...

"AN EXPANSIVE COLLECTION OF WORLDS"A collection of every first release from their respective series. An omnibus designed for newcomers and collectors of the characters, stories, and worlds from Dark Titan Entertainment. From the horror and mystery of the Frightened! series, the detective tales of...

Working on multiple cases at the same time, homicide detectives Turner Hahn and Frank Morales have their plates full of problems.Turner is a man with an unnerving resemblance to a 30's movie matinee idol. He has the same jet-black hair, the same wiry, sardonic...

Working on multiple cases at the same time, homicide detectives Turner Hahn and Frank Morales have their plates full of problems.Turner is a man with an unnerving resemblance to a 30's movie matinee idol. He has the same jet-black hair, the same wiry, sardonic...

John Bradshaw has pushed aside his abusive childhood to build a global empire. A year after marrying his beloved Elizabeth, a car accident sees her plunged into the dark cloud of coma. Johns' devotion is unwavering, and they are gifted a miracle as Elizabeth...

Time 2 Die is an edge-of-your-seat thriller that goes from turn of the century New York to a modern day race against the clock with millions of lives at stake.Author: Brent LaddISBN-10: 1631958488ISBN-13: 9781631958489Publisher: Morgan James FictionLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/12/2022Pages: 354Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.14lbsSize: 9.00h x...

"Excellent...Box keeps Paradise Valley taut, with twists that are as suspenseful as they are believable." -- The Washington Post Box's fourth novel featuring Cassie Dewell, the inspiration for the hit TV show Big Sky on ABC, comes to trade paperback. She almost caught him...

From internationally acclaimed crime writer Deon Meyer, a new thriller that leads detectives Benny Griessel and Vaughn Cupido into the treacherous waters of government corruption at the highest level. When a cold case dossier lands on Captain Benny Griessel's desk, he and his partner...

Acclaimed Irish crime writer Ken Bruen has won numerous awards for his hard-charging, dark thrillers, which have been translated into ten languages. In Headstone, an elderly priest is nearly beaten to death and a special-needs boy is brutally attacked. Evil has many guises and...

In David Gordon's diabolically imaginative new thriller, The Bouncer, nothing and no one is as expected--from a vial of yellow fragrance to a gangster who moonlights in women's clothes. Joe Brody is just your average Dostoevsky-reading, Harvard-expelled strip club bouncer who has a highly...

From the acclaimed author of Twenty Years Later comes a twisting, impossible-to-put-down novel of suspense in which a filmmaker helps clear a woman convicted of murder--only to find she may be a puppet in a sinister game. Fans of Freida McFadden and Alice Feeney...

2011 Edgar Award Finalist for Best First Novel Liam Mulligan is as old school as a newspaper man gets. His beat is Providence, Rhode Island, and he knows every street and alley. He knows the priests and prostitutes, the cops and street thugs. He...

Queenie Sells is having what she thinks is a good day. After getting fired from her job at a calendar company for botching daylight saving time, she lands a job offer from a wealthy acquaintance who's trying to track down his girlfriend, a stripper...

***Honorable Mention 2016 Los Angeles Book Festival*** A PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER SET IN NEW ORLEANS Former child prodigy and aspiring psychologist, Sean Jordan, moves to New Orleans, putting his past behind him, until a conservative radio station in a bid for higher ratings outs him...

Raised as siblings by an itinerant "gypsy" family, knife expert Bobby Cain, trained by the US military in the lethal art of covert eliminations, and Harper McCoy, nurtured by the US Navy and the CIA to run black ops and wage psychological warfare, are...

From the bestselling author of My Husband's Wife, one man's disappearance throws four women's lives into chaos--who will survive? Vicki works as an aromatherapist, healing her clients out of her home studio with her special blends of essential oils. She's just finishing a session...

Off the Florida coast, Grace MacBride, partner in software company Monkeewrench, thwarts an assassination attempt on a retired FBI agent. A few hours afterward in Minneapolis, a young girl's throat is slashed. Later that day, two men are killed execution style. Minneapolis Homicide detectives...

"V.I. Warshawski is back--intelligent, tough, sarcastic and trouble-prone as ever....Body Work isn't just a satisfying whodunnit; it's a rich, well-written why-dunnit, striking some surprising chords that will resonate long after you finish the final page."--St. Louis Post-Dispatch Chicago's Club Gouge attracts an eclectic audience,...

Adrian Monk is on a roll?solving murders as fast as they come, and not counting his Wheat Chex until they?re in the bowl. But when his therapist, Dr. Kroger, leaves for Germany, Monk can't tie his shoes, forgets how to swallow, and loses track...

Inheritance becomes deadly in this gripping literary puzzle--the second installment of the Hilary Tamar mysteries that began with Thus Was Adonis Murdered. "Sarah Caudwell is one of my very favorite mystery writers."--A. J. Finn, New York Times bestselling author of The Woman in the...

A high-class New York madam hires Spenser to find a missing hooker, But when Spenser tracks down April Kyle, he uncovers the murder of yet another prostitute. Now Spenser is searching through a world of sex for sale. Because somewhere between Boston and a...

A jaw-dropping novel of psychological suspense that asks, If the love of your life disappeared without a trace, how far would you go to find out why? Hannah Monroe's boyfriend, Matt, is gone. His belongings have disappeared from their house. Every call she ever...

"Bell imagines a suburban world where no one really knows what's happening behind all those drawn blinds. In Bell's take, though, even the people inside don't really know what's happening. That's where his brilliance, and the brilliance of Bring Her Home, rests."--Providence Journal In...

From a master of science fiction comes a brand-new noir novel set in the Eight Worlds universe, where a detective hunts for the biohackers who have created a dangerous new disease. Christopher Bach was a policeman in one of the largest Lunar cities when...

After the death of Philadelphia's crime boss, Shug, Montega's ambition ignites. But instead of an all out takeover, the smart, handsome, leader decided to change his tactics, Operation Quiet Storm. With a Colombian drug lord backing him, Montega realizes it's time for his name...

The thriller sequel to Abandoned Homes: Vietnam Revenge Murders starts with the heinous murder of a participant in a billion dollar embezzlement of a Delaware company, the Liberty Credit Card Co. The action switches to the continuing romance of Margaret Hoffman and Paul O'Hare...

A strong...tale of operatic moral corrosion.-Kirkus Reviews on Gods & Gangsters Joey Diamonds is on the verge of being a "Made" man, with ice cold blue eyes that pierce through the hearts of women...and men. After being disowned by his mafia family, losing the...

Murder is no unusual phenomenon in Marina Delta, a fact former investigators Baltan and Eureka know all too well. But when Eureka brings home a wounded child bearing the mark of an infamous serial killer they put behind bars fifteen years ago, it's clear...

Aspiring journalist Copper Black is drawn into a high-profile Las Vegas murder investigation while juggling family, work, and boyfriend challenges in Megan Edwards' captivating debut "Getting Off on Frank Sinatra".Author: Megan EdwardsISBN-10: 0997236906ISBN-13: 9780997236903Publisher: Imbrifex BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/13/2017Pages: 309Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.75lbsSize: 8.40h x 5.50w...

What links the two largest Texas Universities to the disappearance of Laredo ATF agent, Stuart Dyson? When the investigation stalls, FBI Tracker Adrian Dillard is sent to Texas, and he's not greeted with open arms.Plagued by resentment from local agents, his uncanny intuition kicks...

Messengers of Death They ride the night wind and hear the cries of the dead.After a deadly shootout in Texas, FBI Tracker Cat Morgan heads to Washington, D.C. Her plan for a boring trip quickly goes awry when she stops in Clinton, MS., and...

A MATTER OF JUSTICEA Grey Justice NovelTheir past is complicated, their future is deadly.She came from nothing and was no one until an evil man formed her into the perfect weapon, a beautiful creature of destruction. Capturing her prey held few challenges, until her...

FIRST DEGREE BURN: It happens every day in the City. Gas is poured. A match is lit. Building, bodies and dreams go up in flames. FDNY Fire Marshal Eddie Burke walks among the wreckage. A different kind of detective for a different kind of...