Fiction - Thrillers - Crime

Maureen Coughlin is complicated--tough and naive, street-smart and vulnerable. And, way too often, reckless. When we meet her, she's in rough shape. A rookie beat cop in the New Orleans Police Department, she's already been suspended once, and things are about to get worse....

Literate crime thrillers don't get much better than this. --Publishers Weekly (starred) on L'Assassin Peter Steiner has thoroughly impressed sophisticated thriller mavens everywhere with his critically acclaimed novels featuring ex-CIA operative Louis Morgon. Now, in what is indubitably Steiner's finest book to date, Louis...

A contract killing. A missing fortune. She'll stop at nothing for revenge. Natalia Nicolaeva is off to study in St. Petersburg, Russia, but when another student is murdered, her life goes spiraling out of control once more. She could choose to just stay out...

An extremist cult is threatening Seattle. Can an ex-soldier put aside his own demons to stop them?Ex-military contractor Harper Knox has taken over his family's farm in eastern Washington, ripped up the cherry trees and planted grape vines, hoping that the wine life will...

They call him The Pretender. He's one of the best undercover agents in the DEA.But breaking into high-society Charleston might just kill him.After his fiancé leaves him on Christmas Eve, DEA Agent T.A. Reddick leaves Miami for Charleston, SC, hoping a return to his...

Fans of The Expats will love Making Ghosts Dance US Embassy, Cambodia. Junior American diplomat Chris Kelly spends his days behind blast-proof glass interviewing visa applicants--not exactly the glamorous lifestyle he'd had in mind when he joined the State Department. And Cambodia, while not...

Marshal Sweeney Delaney was just a rookie in his small Iowa town when Congress ratified the 18th Amendment. Prohibition threw the whole nation into a tailspin. Even teetotaling Christians jumped on the bandwagon and began making panther piss in a still behind the barn....

At 18, Sheryle worked in a massage parlor on the outskirts of Wichita, Kansas. At 20, she traveled the Midwest and graduated to a job as a stripper shortly before marrying into the notorious Martin family. While working a family-owned placer goldmine in Montana,...

Macduff Brooks works hard at being a decent fly fishing guide in Wyoming and Montana, plays the oboe marginally, drinks too much Gentlemen Jack, and struggles with relationships with women. But he hasn't been Macduff Brooks for very long and often he wants to...

Abandoned Homes: Vietnam Revenge Murders is a suspenseful serial killer crime novel.U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War ended in 1975 when the U.S. abandoned its embassy in Saigon.However, the hate developed during the war years, especially at major universities continued. Proponents of the war,...

Financial advisor Robbie Bradford has just landed the biggest client of her career, a $20 million account that puts her on the fast track to partnership at wealth management firm Fairburn, Crandall. Then a family tragedy shatters her world.While Robbie grieves, her colleague Vivian...

One of Newsweek's Favorite Books of 2016Finalist, 11th Annual National Indie Excellence Awards It's been two years since Jamie Carter escaped captivity and saved Charlotte Grand, the infant daughter of New York Governor Phillip Grand, becoming a national hero for foiling the kidnapping plot...

Runner-up, 2016 Shelf Unbound Best Indie Book Competition Honorable Mention, Genre Fiction, 21st Annual Writer's Digest Self-Published Book Awards A compelling, fast-moving contemporary thriller: In Albany, New York, the governor's infant daughter disappears without a trace from her crib at the Executive Mansion. Hours...

When a bomb is discovered in the White House during the first year of Phillip Grand's tenure as president of the United States, press secretary Jamie Carter takes her daughter, Faith, to the one place she believes to be safe--an address in Wyoming given...

What if a large part of your past turned out to be a lie?Detective Scott Drayco is already in the middle of a possible career-ending legal battle when word comes that his mother, who disappeared 30 years ago, is very much alive-and charged with...

A serial arsonist is setting the parched hills on fie. Plunge into the infernos, and face the heat, smoke and danger with the men on the fire lines. While NiteHeat prowls in the darkness, setting fires and taunting investigators, the Los Angeles County Fire...

The third entry in the Martin Preuss Mystery series finds Preuss called to search for a van that has disappeared along with the woman who was driving and her passenger, a young handicapped man. Working through layer upon layer of secrets, Preuss exposes a...

https: //youtu.be/TinLQOI2PZA (Book Trailer)Kerry Branson, ex-homicide detective turned private investigator, inadvertently rescues a six-year-old boy on a fog-laden backroad in the Piney Woods of East Texas.When she discovers Tristan is the kidnapped son of a U. S. Senator, her call to the FBI is...

In the fast-paced world of cybersecurity, Juliana al-Dossari is a woman with a mission. When terrorist hackers threaten to disrupt water and power systems in Boston, Dallas and Los Angeles, she joins her husband and a team of white hat hackers to track them...

Lucy Prestipino has only minutes to deliver a lawsuit to the Baltimore City courthouse. She's a bicycle messenger on a mission--saving a crying lawyer from missing the statute of limitations. She's promised to file the lawsuit before the court closes, no matter what.No matter...

"It wasn't a pill or drug like in the movies - he was a philosopher not a pharmacist. It was an actual course of work that would help make a person more intelligent." Incite Insight is a speculative crime thriller. Newly promoted 'Country Boy'...

A British girl with a secret. A New York cop with a past. And a Mob that wants revenge. When maverick New York detective, Tommy Connell, picks up a witness to murder, he finds himself with more than he bargained for. Mysterious British girl,...

Fortune in Blood: A Mystery Suspense Crime ThrillerPrequel to Amazon Best Seller Mona Lisa's SecretA NOVEL OF MURDER, THEFT, BETRAYAL AND MONEY ... LOTS OF IT ...Joey used to be a carefree surfer kid on Venice Beach. But as the youngest son of a...

Fortune in Blood: A Mystery Suspense Crime ThrillerPrequel to Amazon Best Seller Mona Lisa's SecretA NOVEL OF MURDER, THEFT, BETRAYAL AND MONEY ... LOTS OF IT ...Joey used to be a carefree surfer kid on Venice Beach. But as the youngest son of a...

The problem with Alex Nicholas is he won't stay dead. Death Never Sleeps is a unique crime thriller featuring artificial intelligence; a story of two very different brothers, Michael Nicholas, a corporate CEO and, Alex Nicholas, a major NYC illegal gambling figure. When Alex...

The #1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLING ADVENTURE AN ANCIENT TREASURE: While visiting the scenic country of Malta, Jonathon Payne and David Jones bump into an old friend, who has come to the islands to search for a long-lost treasure of the Knights Hospitallers, an organization that...

When a gringo ex-pat foolishly steps in to defend an Indian woman from an obsessed drug trafficker, he finds a still living world of ancient myths. With the drug trafficker's henchmen on their trail, they flee to her village in the mountains where an...

Simmering resentment in a small coastal town. A missing manuscript. A dark family secret.Scott Drayco isn't a typical detective: a former concert pianist with synesthesia, he turned to law enforcement when a violent attack put an end to his music career.After Drayco inherits a...

Donnie Ray Cuinn returns to Austin to defend a war hero accused of murder. David Lewis lost both legs in Iraq, but he has overcome his nightmares and his disabilities by sheer willpower. He has learned to run and to box and is a...

GOLD Medal WINNER in the 2014 READERS' FAVORITE INTERNATIONAL AWARDS Geocaching mystery. (Note: This novel is hidden in cache sites around the US and Canada.) Readers' Favorite said, "I highly recommend this book to any readers who are looking for a new, excellent crime...

Fast cars, a little grand theft auto, and blending in with the wrong kind of crowd. It's just another day in the life for private investigator Alexis Parker. A dozen cars have been stolen, and Alex is hired by a high-end firm to identify...

A Relaxing vacation cruise through Alaskan waters is just what Detective Marcus Jefferson and his family needs. They meet International best-selling author, James Blackthorne, who is on board as a guest of the cruise line. In his stateroom after a speaking engagement, a strange...

It's a wild ride...Are you ready?⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐Private investigator Katerina Carter uncovers a sinister connection between blood diamonds and organized crime. Can she stay alive long enough to expose the criminals...or will her first case be her last?"An international tale of diamonds, danger and disappearance, a...

When a long-time friendship dies, will murder follow? Decades past junior high, Caroline Batzer is suddenly snubbed by her best friend. At first confused, she's later stunned to learn Sarah Leigh betrayed her in a way she'd never have suspected. In an all-too-public setting,...

Andy's a bartender in North Austin in the late 1970s. For years, he's been slinging beers to corrupt cops and fat Zenith employees, but given the neighborhood's ongoing decline (and his own serious health issues), he's starting to wonder how long it can go...

Harry Cisneros desperately wants to escape moribund Cuba, but he is trapped by circumstances - a wife, a daughter and a lack of money. A dead ringer for Leonardo Di Caprio, Harry's three years in New Jersey as a teenager and perfect English make...

In Greg Zeigler's environmental thriller "The Straw That Broke," Lyndall Burke, a vulnerable young scientist and free spirit, gets caught up in a battle between ecoterrorists and corrupt public officials over water in the drought-stricken desert Southwest. Lyndall's disappearance leads police officer Susan Brand...

In the late 1950s, state police recruit Frank Mahan reports for duty at the Grafton barracks. Based on historical events, An Appointed Time is an accounting of Mahan's challenging and violent journey to a fateful meeting with fugitive John Coyle in the swamps and...

The most innovative and daring theft of America's most critical resource is underway. Initiated by a ruthless oil man during one of the industry's cyclic downturns, the theft is not what you might think. The foundation of the crime starts at the local level...

Murder is the catalyst pushing Carrie Overton headlong into the arms of the hitman sent to kill her.Determined to escape her alcoholic and drug-addicted mother and distance herself from the memory of the son she lost, Carrie leaves home with Travis Montgomery, a man...

Almost six long years have passed since Carmela Santiago witnessed the hitman she loved assassinate her father. Now she is ready to exact her plan of revenge against him and the people he loves. Carmela will stop at nothing to tear his family apart.Running...

In Hit on the House, acclaimed by Jim Harrison as "an unqualifiably brilliant novel," Hal Good, a contract killer, is hired to whack Big Sid Sedlacek--a mob heavy who's been on the take. Picked up as a possible witness, Hal switches IDs with a...

Two distinctive killers, two detectives with distinctly different styles--Thorne and Tanner again end up joining forces in the new thriller from internationally bestselling author Mark Billingham From "one of the most consistently entertaining, insightful crime writers working today" (Gillian Flynn), The Killing Habit again...

"A dry, sharp x-ray of the horror of life in the Gulf, the network of complicity, the scope of tragedy. A gritty, direct, exciting novel that is a must-read for anyone who wants to look at the hell that the Gulf (and Mexico at...

"The Last Hack is vintage Brookmyre--equal parts adrenaline and empathy, a plot that opens out like a Japanese flower dropped in hot water, and characters so real you want to reach through the page and save them."--Diana Gabaldon Published in the UK as Want...

James Carlos Blake has long been one of my favorites, but his Wolfe family saga may be his best work to date.--Ace Atkins, on The House of Wolfe Los Angeles Times Book Prize winner James Carlos Blake delves back into the dark realms of...

From Joyce Carol Oates, an exquisite, psychologically complex thriller about opposing forces within the mind of one ambitious writer and the delicate line between genius and madness. Andrew J. Rush has achieved the kind of critical and commercial success most authors only dream about:...

Seattle police psychologist Daphne Mathews has her hands full with a pregnant, addicted, runaway teenager, a murder victim's brother whose strange behavior unnerves her, and a deputy sheriff she once treated who's now stalking her. She's frightened enough to move in with Detective John...

"The most engaging pair of detectives I've seen in a long while." --David Morrell SOME SECRETS WILL NOT DIE For three agonizing decades, seasoned manhunter Jacob Rein has been consumed by one case--a missing girl never found and two cops dead, one murdered, the...

"Compelling, gruesome . . . a great read." --Mystery Scene "OLSEN WILL SCARE YOU--AND YOU'LL LOVE IT."--Lee Child "OLSEN WRITES RAPID-FIRE PAGE-TURNERS."--The Seattle Times Seduction. Mind control. Murder. These are the weapons that have made Brenda Nevins one of the most wanted--and feared--criminals in...