Fiction - Thrillers - Crime

What if you could disappear forever?Pretense Abdicator is whip-smart, socially awkward and angry. When passed over for a well-deserved promotion at the prestigious financial firm of Crawford Spectrum, she hatches a get-even plan. Embezzle money from her wealthiest clients, assume a new identity, and...

In every mother, there is hidden courage that is unchained when her child is endangered.In the small town of Paris, Arkansas, a woman, whose husband, a Marine, is on a Tour of Duty in Afghanistan, and her small daughter are kidnapped by a mentally...

From the pen of legendary singer/songwriter/author Joe Keene, read about the exploits of international celebrity Francine Westmoreland, revealed in her own words, gleaned from the diary that this tall, statuesque beauty created as the final thirty days of her imprisonment slowly slipped away, ticking...

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...

"Kies's sequel to the Sue Grafton Award nominee Shadow Hill is a compelling story for readers who want to follow investigative reporters into the crime scenes."-- Library Journal Geneva encounters a deceptive cast of suspects who pull her into a high-speed chase into the...

San Diego Writer's Festival Mystery Writer of the Year for 2021 Anthony, Shamus, and Lefty Award-winning Author Will Rick Cahill survive an insidious disease long enough to see his first-born child--or will sadistic killers murder him first? Rick Cahill is finally living a settled,...

Bridges Down--Roads Impassable--Killer Trapped April in Florida and Benedicta (Ben) O'Keeffe is enjoying balmy temperatures during the last few days of a six month stint with a U.S. law firm. A week later, she returns to Glendara, Inishowen, where a charity cycle event is...

Hercule Poirot retires to a village near the home of a friend, Roger Ackroyd, to pursue a project to perfect vegetable marrows. Soon after, Ackroyd is murdered and Poirot must come out of retirement to solve the case. Includes a new introduction by Karl...

Freeman's Bourne novels might get more publicity, but his Stride novels are where his skills as a storyteller are really showcased. First-rate. -- BooklistA woman has been kidnapped.Now Jonathan Stride must decide if her husband wants her back ... dead or alive.After nearly dying...

Violet Winters was a master criminal. A one-woman crimewave. Until lockdown happened. Now she's stuck in the house catching up on box sets and ordering crap off the internet.And then she finds out about The Lakehouse. A former rehab facility, the residents have been...

DI Blackwell will do anything to keep her niece safe. And the bomber knows it.When a local school is the target of a bomb threat, DI Louise Blackwell finds herself embroiled in her most personal case to date. Not only is her niece among...

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...

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...

The latest dark and twisty thriller by the million-copy best-selling author of Silent Child.Housemaid wanted.Skills required: discretion, and the willingness to go the extra mile.It seems like the perfect job. Great wages, accommodation provided and all located within the walls of Highwood Hall, a...

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...

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...

Poirot retires to a village near the home of a friend he met in London, Roger Ackroyd, who agrees to keep him anonymous, as he pursues his retirement project of perfecting vegetable marrows. He is not long at this pursuit when his friend is...

Is building another casino worth dying for? Jewish gangster, Alex Cohen returns to America and settles in 1960s California to build a drug and prostitution empire in LA. When he gets a call from the mob to help the CIA invade Cuba, Alex must...

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "Keep writing the books, Michael Leese, and I'll keep reading." A reader in the UK IF YOU THINK SQUID GAME IS BAD . . . Please note this is a new and revised version of the book previously published as The Golden Shot....

Violet Winters was a master criminal. A one-woman crimewave. Until lockdown happened. Now she's stuck in the house catching up on box sets and ordering crap off the internet.And then she finds out about The Lakehouse. A former rehab facility, the residents have been...

Blackmail, sexual harassment, murder . . . and a missing dog: eccentric, eco-obsessed LA private eye Charlie Waldo is on the case in this quirky, fast-paced mystery. Paying a harsh self-imposed penance for a terrible misstep on a case, former LAPD superstar detective Charlie...

"In this world, you either become a shark, or you become lunch."- Jim DixonA decade after Jim Dixon's fall from grace, after the events that burnt his career on Wall Street, his past is catching up to him. Zurich had been the perfect place...

WHEN A SERIAL KILLER STALKS A SLEEPY OHIO TOWN, EVERYONE IS A SUSPECT.Nothing ever happens in Lincoln, Ohio. Sheriff Tim Burke likes it that way. That's why he moved to the tranquil town after a panic disorder, triggered by a gruesome unsolved case, forced...

"The Fire This Time is a vivid, harrowing portrait of 20th-century Boston in all its brutal tribal schisms, made deadly by old secrets, old lies, and old hatreds . . . a fascinating trip." - Joseph Finder, The New York Times Best Selling novelist"The...

C.T. Ferguson goes many extra miles for his latest client.But it's a threat closer to home which might kill him.When a widow hires C.T. to investigate her husband's suspicious death, he never thought he'd end up taking the man's old database job. A corporate...

**ALL NEW EDITION** Fully revised and edited to contain brand new chapters, don't miss this conclusion to the Time & Shadows series! Safely ensconced in the past, away from the Commonwealth Bureau of Investigation - away from Dr Emir's parallel reality machine - the...

Is murder ever morally right? And is a murderer necessarily bad? These two questions waltz through the maddening mind of Michael, the brilliant, terrifying, fiendishly smart creation at the centre of this winking dark gem of a literary thriller.When a grieving man searches for...

Is murder ever morally right? And is a murderer necessarily bad? These two questions waltz through the maddening mind of Michael, the brilliant, terrifying, fiendishly smart creation at the centre of this winking dark gem of a literary thriller.When a grieving man searches for...

What came first, the home or the desire to invade? A seasoned invader with multiple home invasions undertheir belt recounts their dark victories while offering tutelage to a newgeneration of ambitious home invaders eager to make their mark on the annals ofcriminal history. From...

There are days, in any community, when the most ordinary of deeds have an impact felt 'round the world'. So, it was on the Main Line of Philadelphia, that day, when this prosperous suburban area, only a short train ride from the big city...

Outlaw bikers, rogue police, brutal gangsters and a ruthless assassin converge in the city of Shoremont to claim the bounty on Ryan Hall's head and recover the girl he rescued-Taylor Brown. Detectives Jesse Wishman and Larry Manning must clear Hall's name and uncover the...

In this cozy mystery, Major Crimes Unit Rudy Beauregard is frustrated and suffering at the specter of investigative loss of control. Called to an assault of an unknown man, who is later identified as a well-known Atlanta Attorney Jed Mattias, the Captain meets citizen...

In this cozy mystery, Major Crimes Unit Rudy Beauregard is frustrated and suffering at the specter of investigative loss of control. Called to an assault of an unknown man, who is later identified as a well-known Atlanta Attorney Jed Mattias, the Captain meets citizen...

Can DS Karen Hart rely on the word of a little girl to save the life of a woman in grave danger?When a woman is abducted from a quiet suburban street and bundled into the back of a white van, the only witness to...

'Quirky and colourful' Times Crime Club 'An absolute delight' L C Tyler 'This intriguing but charming murder mystery is packed with psychological depth and wonderfully-drawn characters' Eleanor Ray Welcome to Roslazny - a sleepy Russian town where intrigue and murder combine to disturb the...

When a young girl is victimized by targets of an investigation, Jake must risk his life and career to save her from sexual exploitation. Following back-to-back, long-term undercover assignments in Indianapolis and Dallas, the latter resulting in four dead, FBI Special Agent Jake Kruse...

An inventive, page-turning crime thriller set in an alternate United States during the height of the Red Scare--with shocking parallels to America in the 2020s.USA, 1958. President Joseph McCarthy sits in the White House, elected on a wave of populist xenophobia and barely-concealed anti-Semitism....

You're trapped underground with a serial killer. Would you save their life to protect your own? The Artist No one knows who The Sculptor is. A successful artist, whose works sell for millions - each one with a deadly secret at the centre of...

If you're an American Gods binge-watcher, addicted to Ben Aaronovitch, or devoted to Discworld and Terry Pratchett, this smart, knowing, outrageously fun (and occasionally rather rude) supernatural romp by an award-winning stand-up comic is a must-read . . . There are Dark Forces at...

Could anything keep the memory of murder and terror buried in the cellar of Samantha's mind? Anticipating a romantic weekend at the cottage with Ben, Samantha couldn't know she would soon join the legions of mourners for the disappeared. The blood trail that led...

New York Times best-selling author Roy Johansen delivers a thrill-a-minute listen featuring a fearless heroine for hire.An army vet and former bodyguard for the rich and famous, Jessie Mercado has faced all kinds of danger and always emerged victorious. But one thing this motorcycle-riding...

Bury the hatchet... in your enemy's heart.I've reclaimed my throne, and Wylder Noble has demanded his. But war still rages all through Paradise Bend.It turns out this war involves powers from far beyond our little county. Powers determined to bring the fighting to an...

In this modern thriller about one of the most brutal tales of revenge ever told, SLMN returns against a backdrop of sex workers, cocaine traffickers and West African cults. In a war for survival two opposing syndicates find themselves locked in a faceless war....

Unleashed is a gripping and fast-paced crime thriller by Karl Hill.Meet Adam Black. A man betrayed. A man on a mission. Does anything matter more than justice?Adam Black, an ex SAS Captain, is randomly attacked while out for his nightly jog in the quiet...

One of Japan's great modern masters, Kaoru Takamura, makes her English-language debut with this two-volume publication of her magnum opus. Tokyo, 1995. Five men meet at the racetrack every Sunday to bet on horses. They have little in common except a deep disaffection with...

Anna Scavolini hasn't set foot in Glasgow for ten years - and she's not short of reasons...On her first night back in town, what should have been the start of a relaxing Christmas getaway takes a decidedly macabre turn when she stumbles upon an...

Zoe Callahan is having the summer from hell... and it's about to get a whole lot worse.She's stuck in a dead-end job, her relationship is going nowhere, and the long shadow of the Kelvingrove Park Murders - which, three years ago, upended the lives...

RQ es profesor de matemáticas en una universidad católica durante el día; por las noches se convierte en una de las figuras medulares dentro de un microcosmos de prostitución, muerte y crimen organizado. Se sabe lleno de odio e ira, y sin remordimiento alguno...

Malibu Creek State Park is a beautiful locale for campers, tourists, hikers, and Hollywood. For Detective Eve Ronin, it's a backdrop for murder in a riveting thriller by #1 New York Times bestselling author Lee Goldberg.For decades Malibu Creek State Park was the spectacular...

Malibu Creek State Park is a beautiful locale for campers, tourists, hikers, and Hollywood. For Detective Eve Ronin, it's a backdrop for murder in a riveting thriller by #1 New York Times bestselling author Lee Goldberg.For decades Malibu Creek State Park was the spectacular...