Fiction - Thrillers - Crime

The official screenplay of Maggs 52. At age ten, Maggie May O'Brian witnesses the overdose death of her older brother. This tragic event shapes the rest of her life. Upon graduating from the DEA academy, she vows to lock away 52 criminals in her...

There is a new definition of danger when your enemy is in the military.It's one thing when you go up against crooks, gangsters and businesses. It's a completely different situation when your enemy can send black-ops teams to end your existenceNow the path leads...

As identical twins Annie and Amanda Crow celebrate their fourteenth birthday, their father Harry is involved in a fiery three-car crash that leaves all occupants dead.Four years after the accident, Amanda suddenly vanishes, and her boyfriend is found murdered. Getting little assistance from the...

Detective Brett Jacobs is a good cop. He's honest, hardworking, and intent on bringing down a major criminal organization. But he's soon going to have his limits tested. After he finishes an undercover assignment, resulting in the arrest of a major crime boss, he'll...

Sometimes it's all about making connections...Olivia Osgoode steps off an elevator in a deserted parking garage to witness a masked man stuffing a woman's body into the trunk of a car. She narrowly escapes the killer but he's seen her face.When no trace of...

Stanley's life was ideal up until two years ago - or so he thought. He had married his high school sweetheart and their future seemed bright together. Then, out of the blue, she tells him that she has fallen in love with another man...

The one place she never wanted to go back to. The one place she can't escape.When she was just five years old, Lucy Murphy witnessed her mother's brutal murder in their home on London's notorious Griffin Estate. The case was never solved. Now a...

When a paintball player gets hit with a real bullet, Dave Brandstetter catches the case.Insurance investigator Dave Brandstetter has spent the last few years drifting in and out of retirement. For the sake of his boyfriend, Cecil, he has attempted to forgo dangerous jobs....

She faces an impossible choice: Become a snitch or go back to prison. Shea Stevens thought she'd shut the door on the chaos and violence of her past. She just wants to build custom motorcycles and spend time with her girlfriend and orphaned niece.But...

Denver homicide detective Nick Teffinger has made mistakes before, lots of them, but never as bad as this one. This time he's put a witness in harm's way by inadvertently disclosing her identity to a killer. She's protected herself as much as she could...

'Highly recommended.' Dr Noir (aka Jacky Collins)'This is a tense parliamentary thriller with the sour tang of authenticity.' Annamarie Neary author of Sirens'Fascinating and authoritative insider view of modern power politics that is all too frighteningly prescient. A gripping read.' VB Grey, author of...

IN THE RED-HOT FINALE TO PETER MAY'S CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED ENZO FILES, ENZO MACLEOD WILL FACE HIS MOST CHALLENGING COLD CASE YET."ENDS MACLEOD'S QUEST WITH A FLOURISH." ---MARILYN STASIO, THE NEW YORK TIMES"A SATISFYING SURPRISE." --PUBLISHERS WEEKLY (STARRED REVIEW)"THE LAST SHALL BE BEST." --KIRKUS REVIEWSWestern...

Tess Grey is tasked with investigating a plane crash in the Great North Woods after rumors surface of a survivor... but she and her partner Po aren't the only ones heading there. Three field biologists are distracted from their studies when a plane crashes...

In this latest thriller featuring the intrepid Los Angeles PI, Malone gets reacquainted with some old friends and meets new enemies in a troubling case that threatens to shake the City of Angels to its core.An aspiring investigative reporter, Piper Lang has her cornflower...

W.L. Ripley takes the reader on a ride inside the glitzy, sideways world of Las Vegas to deliver a first-rate caper novel A mysterious attach case is stolen during a convenience store robbery. Unfortunately, for the robbers the attach belongs to Red Cavanaugh, a...

Liz Boyle Mystery: Book 2When Detective Liz Boyle receives an urgent phone call from her lieutenant on her day off, she knows the news won't be good. She and her partner, Tom Goran, arrive at the new crime scene, which is in a cemetery...

From New York Times Bestselling author and Queen of Suspense, Lisa Jackson, comes If Only She Knew, a novel that will having you holding your breath as you turn each page. Perfect for readers of The Silent Patient and Then She was Gone If...

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Lisa Jackson comes the chilling, riveting novel that first introduced Detectives Selena Alvarez and Regan Pescoli, hunting for a serial killer who is both savior and executioner...In the lonely woods around Grizzly Falls, Montana, the first body...

In this "chilling, edge-of-your seat thriller", a suburban mom suspects her new neighbors aren't who they claim to be, setting the stage for a horrifying chain of events.Abbie Rambally is a stay-at-home mom who can barely balance it all. She's preparing her Ph.D. dissertation...

How far would you go to help your children?That's the dilemma retired bomb-disposal expert Steve Foley faces when his son, 'Crazy' Eddie, finds his life in danger...When Eddie and his friend Road Kill accept work as bodyguards in Afghanistan, Steve knows that something doesn't...

Eileen Albano, a newly admitted attorney, has landed a job at Weiss & Dorfman, a plaintiff's personal injury law firm located in lower Manhattan. For Eileen, who had always wanted to be a personal injury lawyer so she could help injured people get their...

City girl Amy seems to have it all-the high-flying job, the designer wardrobe, a beautiful home. But beneath the successful fa ade, Amy has secrets she'd rather her bully-boy boss Ed didn't discover-like her troubled past and the little voice she hears in her...

Detective Senior Sergeant Lucielle ( Lucky) Lambert looked down at the naked body lying in the bath. The eyes were closed, the dark hair was plastered to her head with strands flattened against her cheeks and forehead and blood had trickled down the right...

The only thing more deadly than the Chicago Mob is a United States Marine whose best friend they just killed.Gunshots echo down the brick canyon walls of Wrigleyville. Jess Archer runs toward the sound, hoisting her scuffed leather briefcase as a battering ram, shoving...

A serial child killer plays with authorities and plans his next kill...Investigative reporter Tess McClintock and FBI Special Agent Michael Carter track down clues in the most important cold case to them both -- the disappearance of Tess's friend Lisa Tate, who went missing...

Maine Sunday Telegram #1 BestsellerThe latest gripping installment of the award-winning, #1 bestselling Detective Byron mystery series: a grisly crime captivates Portland, sending John Byron and his team on a wild chase to catch the killer before it's too late"These books are absolutely superb,...

An American actress arrives in London to find herself the target of a ruthless assassin in this compelling standalone thriller. Actress Adelaide Banks is swapping her native New York for London to spend Christmas with her widowed Aunt Rose. Rose wrote in her note...

When Baltimore police sergeant Myles Miller arrested serial killer Phineas Crane, he thought that was the end of the Metro Mutilator. Now, one year later, an ambitious FBI agent needs Miller's help investigating a copycat targeting federal agents, and he wants Crane on the...

Megan has to climb round and step across the body to get a proper view. What's left is like a chalk white mask in the rough shape of a face. The innocence is still there, and a hint of the cheekiness. But perhaps she...

In Cold Crash, when Archaeologist Max Falkland, the Anglo-American daughter of a British peer, meets American John Knox in London in April 1952, her already troubled life takes on mystery. As the Cold War thriller progresses, Max finds herself in increasing danger, but three...

Kyle McKinley is a former RCMP undercover cop and internationally acclaimed artist. While spending the summer at his cabin and studio on a northern New Brunswick river, a dead girl turns up on a beaver lodge with an interesting tattoo. Then, a missing hermit's...

IBPA Ben Franklin Silver Award Winner for Best Mystery/ThrillerIBPA Ben Franklin Silver Award Winner for Best New VoiceCalvin Russel and Richie Glass don't know each other, but they have the same job: wait outside American Federal Bank...with the engine running. The problem is they've...

She knows she's going to die when he's finished with her, but there's nothing she can do to save herself. Her head is spinning, and her eyes are heavy. She never should have accepted his offer to escape to his place in the country....

A killer targeting people of Asian descent in a city fed by xenophobia and intolerance threatens a race war in this crime thriller set in London London is angry, divided, and obsessed with foreigners. A dead Asian and some racist graffiti in Chinatown might...

It's been a long time between drinks for our merlot-swilling ghostwriter Roxy Parker, but she's back, this time in the belly of her mates and on a 20-year-old missing person's case. Roxy's client--PR princess Phoebe Fisher--was just a child when her entire family vanished....

A turn-of-the-century Jewish boy works his way up through the gangs of New York.When Alex Cohen arrives in 1915 America, he seizes the land of opportunity with both hands and grabs it by the throat. But success breeds distrust and Alex must choose between...

In 1978 East Germany, nothing is as it seems. The state's power is absolute, history is re-written, and the "truth" is whatever the Stasi say it is. So when the murder of a woman is officially labeled an "accidental death," Major Karin M ller...

Alicia Hawkins is back in Aspen. Alicia Hawkins didn't become a serial killer in the usual manner. She didn't tear the wings off butterflies when she was a kid, and she never killed a neighbor's cat. She even used to volunteer at the Pitkin...

Lisa Hatchett, a very devoted wife and successful psychotherapist, feels that she is the most blessed woman ever. After living in and out of foster homes most of her adolescent life after the sudden death of her parents, she'd always dreamed of having a...

Retired DC homicide cop Marty Singer witnesses a horrific murder and the family of the victim hires him to find the killer. But when he peels back the cover on the case, Marty discovers a rotten core of corruption, graft, and violence that runs...

Four unrelated murders. Nothing special in Washington DC. Not even good enough to make the evening news. But then a concerned police lieutenant approaches retired homicide detective Marty Singer with a simple fact that changes everything.They were all cops.In a race to stop the...

It's only as haunted as you are.After two raids turn up zero evidence, narcotics detective Dwayne Spare infiltrates a crumbling apartment building where a suspected manufacturer of krokodil is hiding--but finds something much worse. The chemist Gerald Metzger isn't after money; he's lulling his...

A psychologist looking for closure after her horrific kidnapping. An untested detective desperately seeking to prove himself. And a killer who could be anyone...Raine Walsh has escaped the Warden, but the ghosts of her wrongful incarceration still haunt her. While she has her freedom,...

" . . . a fast paced, page turning story of a black community determined to rid itself of the drug-driven plague of crime and violence. . . . It entertains, ennobles, and inspires." --Darlene Clark Hine, co-author, The African-American Odyssey"Ballard keeps it real...

Some people can't let go of a grudge. Homicide Detective Sean Trann is learning this the hard way. He made the mistake of interrupting the killing spree of Boston's most notorious serial killer, Spider. Intent on finishing what he started and infuriated at Sean's...

Strange symptoms. Bloody secrets. Can one reporter solve a medical mystery before she ends up in a body bag? Jordan Reed put her world on hold to hunt down corruption. So when the gutsy journalist gets tipped off about blood money changing hands at...

From the bestselling author of the acclaimed DCI Lambert series comes The Controller, a gripping serial killer thriller introducing Sam Lynch and Special Agent Sandra Rose. It is six years since special agent Samuel Lynch left the FBI following the disappearance of his son,...

After a miscarriage, a young couple move from San Francisco to the Sacramento suburbs to restart their lives. When the vacant house across the street is taken over by who they think are squatters, they're pulled into a battle neither of them bargained for....

Hurricane Harvey lashed North Padre Island National Seashore exposing tons of silver coins lost since three Spanish Galleons sank in 1554. News about the coins, located in a Park Service archaeological protection area, goes viral on internet treasure hunting sites. Swarms of treasure hunters,...

The sun is just coming up, and the sniper's hands are sweaty as she looks through the rifle's scope to the streets below. In mere minutes, her target will be dead. A prosecuting attorney is murdered in a sniping that takes place in Arlington,...