Fiction - Thrillers - Crime

Set against a stunning Scandinavian backdrop, a gritty novel of psychological suspense that asks the question how far would you go to hold onto what you have? Cecilia Wilborg has it all--a loving husband, two beautiful daughters and a gorgeous home in the affluent...

Detective Helen Grace is on the trail of a twisted serial killer in this riveting thriller in the "gripping" (USA Today) international bestselling series. Ruby wakes up in a strange room. Her captor calmly explains that no one is looking for her. No one...

New York Times bestselling author Joseph Finder delivers an exhilarating and timely thriller exploring how even the most powerful among us can be brought down by a carefully crafted lie and how the secrets we keep can never truly stay buried. The chief justice...

Here is an intriguing and sophisticated murder mystery of an upstanding military officer - the base commander's daughter - who's been leading an unsavory double life. When a professional military woman with a pristine reputation is found raped and murdered, a preliminary search turns...

One of Booklist's "Year's Best Crime Novels" After two years in federal prison, Jason Stafford is no longer welcome on Wall Street. But due to his financial crime expertise, one firm wants him to quietly look for irregularities in the books of one of...

Ex-Denver police detective Jesse Parker has returned home to Steamboat Springs, Colorado, to spend the winter working ski patrol and forgetting about his past. But somewhere out in the snow, a killer has other ideas. It begins when a skier is found brutally murdered....

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER - John Grisham's newest legal thriller takes you inside a law firm that's on shaky ground. Mark, Todd, and Zola came to law school to change the world, to make it a better place. But now, as third-year...

Detectives Coffin Ed and Grave Digger Jones are in the hot seat in one of the most chaotic, brutally funny novels in the groundbreaking Harlem Detectives series. - "A rattlingly good action melodrama spiced with a maximum of humor and a minimum of self-consciousness."...

On the opening night of New York's biggest Hollywood event, special task force NYPD Red is on high alert -- and they can't afford to make a single mistake.NYPD Red is a special task force charged with protecting the interests of Manhattan's wealthiest and...

The Women's Murder Club is stalked by a killer with nothing to lose. San Francisco Detective Lindsay Boxer is loving her life as a new mother. With an attentive husband, a job she loves, plus best friends who can talk about anything from sex...

Private investigator Jack Morgan is on the hunt for a murderer in Las Vegas-and the murder ring he uncovers is unlike anything he's ever seen.Las Vegas is a city of contradictions: seedy and glamorous, secretive and wild, Vegas attracts people of all kinds-especially those...

A crime lord has declared war on America. Only Detective Michael Bennett knows why. Manuel Perrine doesn't fear anyone or anything. A charismatic and ruthless leader, Perrine slaughters rivals as effortlessly as he wears his trademark white linen suit. Detective Michael Bennett once managed...

By the co-writer of the HBO miniseries The Night Of "A masterpiece, to stand with such earlier Price classics as Clockers and Lush Life . . . [The Whites has] a compelling plot, yet the real joy of the book lies page by page,...

The Fourth Durango is not your ordinary Durango. It's not in Spain, or Mexico, and it's not a ski town in the Colorado Rockies, although Durangos do exist in all of those places. This Durango has an industry, albeit a rather odd one-it is...

After spending sixteen years in prison for a crime of the heart, Shiro Kikutani is released into a world he no longer recognizes. He must readjust to the bright and vigorous stimulus of Tokyo while fending off his own dark memories. In a spare...

"As fast as a falling elevator...a shameless good time." --Joe Hill, #1 New York Times Bestselling Author It all begins on a Monday, when four people board an elevator in a Manhattan office tower. Each presses a button for their floor, but the elevator...

THE #1 BESTSELLER THAT GRIPPED THE WORLDMILLIONS OF COPIES SOLD AROUND THE GLOBESOON TO BE A MAJOR FILM FROM FOX STARRING AMY ADAMS"Astounding. Thrilling. Amazing."--Gillian FlynnIt isn't paranoia if it's really happening . . . Anna Fox lives alone--a recluse in her New York...

New York Times bestselling author Kate White returns with a gripping story about a true-crime reporter uncovering the secrets that lie beneath the surface of a placid small town, perfect for readers of Jessica Knoll, Alafair Burke, and Liv Constantine. Blonde. Beautiful. A loving...

"What a box of tricks! This full-throttle thriller, dark and driving, rivals Agatha Christie for sheer ingenuity and James Patterson for flat-out speed. Swift, sharp, and relentless." -- A. J. Finn, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Woman in the WindowA brilliant,...

In New York Times bestselling author Wendy Corsi Staub's riveting thriller, uncovering secrets in the past draws one woman into a killer's web. . .No Such Thing as Coincidence . . .Staring into his frightened blue eyes, investigative genealogist Amelia Crenshaw Haines vows to...

Instant New York Times BestsellerBest of 2017 - included on best-of lists by the New York Times, NPR, Barnes & Noble, Publisher's Weekly, LitHub, BookPage, Booklist, TheRealBookSpy.com, the Financial Times (UK) and the Daily Mail (UK) "The Force is mesmerizing, a triumph. Think The...

"Taut, propulsive and darkly gripping, Montanari is a master of suspense." -Chris EwanA haunting, nerve-jangling psychological thriller from Sunday Times bestselling author Richard Montanari, set in a small town hiding a very dark secretNew York psychologist Will Hardy had it all--a loving family, a...

Nothing will ever be the same again . . . In the heart of Philadelphia's badlands, Homicide Detectives Byrne and Balzano are called out to a particularly chilling crime scene. Once the pillar of the neighbourhood, an abandoned church has become a killing room....

*WINNER OF A 2018 EDGAR AWARD FOR BEST DEBUT NOVEL**WINNER OF AN ALEX AWARD FROM THE ALA* NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2017 BY St. Louis Post-Dispatch - BooklistA propulsive, gritty novel about a girl marked for death who must fight and steal to...

This atmospheric thriller is perfect for fans of Ian Rankin and Peter RobinsonA holiday weekend is ruined by a drowning in a picturesque village. The incident not only traumatizes Detective Cooper, a helpless witness to the tragedy, but leads him to become involved in...

Published in the United Kingdom and Canada as Abattoir BluesDetective Chief Inspector Alan Banks is back in this crackling novel of suspense, a moody and sophisticated mystery full of serpentine curves from New York Times bestselling, Edgar Award-winning author Peter Robinson.One of the world's...

New York Times bestseller James Grippando returns with a gripping new stand-alone novel: a story ripped from the headlines, in which a young financial adviser and his girlfriend uncover a conspiracy that reaches from Wall Street to Washington, from the trading floors of the...

"A lush novel, rich with tension and intricately woven, believable characters. Myers clearly loves the Congo--and you will love this book. I did!"--Mary Alice Monroe, bestselling author of Last Light over Carolina With The Witch Doctor's Wife, Tamar Myers delves into her personal history...

AS the twentieth century breathes its very last, with Britpop at its zenith, twenty-seven-year-old A&R man Steven Stelfox is slashing and burning his way through London's music industry. Blithely crisscrossing the globe in search of the next megahit--fueled by greed and inhuman quantities of...

She writes “high speed comic mayhem” (Detroit Free Press); she's “a blast of fresh air” (Washington Post), “side-splittingly funny” (Publishers Weekly) and “a winner” (Glamour). In other words, she's Janet Evanovich. And she's back with another blockbuster thriller. Alexandra Barnaby, mechanic extraordinaire. Sam Hooker,...

The #1 bestseller will keep you on the edge of your seat with a twisty, gripping crime thriller. Perfect for fans of Karin Slaughter and Angela Marsons.'All hail the new Queen of Crime' HeatTheir darkest secrets won't stay buried forever...The butchered body of a...

First published in 1926, "The Murder of Roger Ackroyd", widely considered one of the best works of detective fiction ever written, is among Agatha Christie's most enduring and engaging works. It is the third novel featuring the famous detective Hercule Poirot and finds him...

Has cyber-crime escalated to murder?Forensic accountant Kat Munro puts her traumatic past behind her and begins dating journalist Connor O'Malley, whose investigations into online crime attract the wrong kind of attention. When a colleague's teenage son goes missing, and his friend's body is discovered,...

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...

A young woman anxious to leave the control of her parents believes she can find solace at an old Midwest waterfront property previously owned by her ancestors. There, she quickly discovers all is not as she envisioned as her own sanity is put to...

After Jaq opens with the shocking discovery by family doctor, Kate, of the body of her long-lost friend, Jaq, in a pool of blood. Jaq's brutal murder rouses Kate's instincts as an ex-detective and she vows to solve the mystery of why her friend...

When down-at-heel Glasgow conjurer William Wilson gets booked for a string of cabaret gigs in Berlin, he's hoping his luck's on the turn. There were certain spectators from his last show who he'd rather forget. Like the one who's now a corpse. Amongst the...

It's 1993, and Peter has been suffering transphobic abuse all his life, and he's just about had enough.Bumping into Tony at 2am in the middle of Soho dressed as his female alter-ego, Petra, was a disaster. Not only is Tony his supervisor at work,...

Her body floats. A bloated thing half atop the river. Naked. Pale. Mouth and eyes open wide.When two fishermen discover a corpse floating in the Clackamas river, profiler Violet Darger heads to rural Oregon to hunt another serial killer. What she discovers in the...

An investigative journalist on the edge. A serial killer testing his limits. What they have in common can freeze the blood.Still reeling from a personal tragedy, investigative journalist Rooker Lindstr finds a grim hideaway from the world. It's the dilapidated cabin on Minnesota's Deer...

Detective Billy Harney's reputation as a dirty cop may be the only thing keeping Chicago clean in James Patterson's most critically-acclaimed thriller since The Black Book. ​For Detective Billy Harney, getting shot in the head, stalked by a state's attorney, and accused of murder...

Travis is the night manager at the Cross Motel in Sydney's notorious late-night district, Kings Cross. His life takes a drastic turn after a sex worker is brutally murdered on his shift.Having broken up with his girlfriend and lost his dream of becoming a...

Travis is the night manager at the Cross Motel in Sydney's notorious late-night district, Kings Cross. His life takes a drastic turn after a sex worker is brutally murdered on his shift.Having broken up with his girlfriend and lost his dream of becoming a...

The fourth installment in the bestselling Cassie Quinn mystery series from Wall Street Journal bestselling author L.T. Ryan & K.M. Rought. A gripping thriller with a touch of the paranormal that will keep you guessing until the last page.When a friend's relative passes away,...

What line would you cross for the one you love?When the body of a man is found dead in his remote, isolated home, DI Tom Janssen and his team struggle to understand what motive there could be to murder such an inoffensive, seemingly placid...

Reeling from the death of his beloved mother, at the hands of a drunk driver, thirteen-year-old Jonathan is struggling with the aftermath, while living with an abusive, alcoholic father.Past curfew one night, Jonathan, plagued by nightmares, ventures into the forest by his Pacific Northwest...

A serial killer has the city of Boston in his grip. He's killing with antique Revolutionary War weapons and leaving bodies at markers on the city's historic Freedom Trail. No one is safe - especially those with ancestry ties back to the Patriots. FBI...

A priceless manuscript. A missing scholar. A trail of riddles. Bombay, 1950 For over a century, one of the world's great treasures, a six-hundred-year-old copy of Dante's The Divine Comedy, has been safely housed at Bombay's Asiatic Society. But when it vanishes, together with...

Brambles catch her dress, scratch her legs, pierce her feet. To escape, she'd had no option but to go barefoot. They'd been laughing together a few minutes before, but things can change in the blink of an eye...The woman is dark-haired and young, judging...

There has been another mass shooting in America, and thirteen people are dead. One of the victims is the daughter of Marco Barros, a powerful U.S. senator. The killer is still at large. Their identity and motive remain a mystery. Rookie ATF Agent Miranda...