Fiction - Thrillers - Crime

A thriller that balances the conflict of good versus evil, right versus wrong, and sanity versus madness on a fine grey line.Author: Robert M. DavisISBN-10: 161170135XISBN-13: 9781611701357Publisher: Robertson PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/13/2013Pages: 212Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.70lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.48d

The "razor-sharp political thriller set during the dying days of Berlusconi's regime" that inspired the Netflix original series (New Statesman). This "fast-moving crime thriller" takes a deep dive into a politically and financially corrupt contemporary Italy, where crime families, corrupt politicians, and new rabid...

PI Marco "the Alligator" Buratti returns in a "raucous, delicious ride" from the celebrated Italian crime writer and author of Bandit Love(Cedar Rapids Gazette). Padua, Italy. An unremarkable man, a husband and father, disappears without a trace. After a few months of searching, the...

Two brothers engaged in drug smuggling cross the U.S. Mexican border so often that they know precisely when and where U.S. Border Patrol agents are watching.In The Night Sun, Miguel and Cesar Ramirez-Barrios come under fire from rival drug cartels and the American Border...

USA Today best-selling author Mortimer Angel, ex-IRS agent, PI-in-training has a reputation--he specializes in body parts IRS agent-turned-PI Mortimer Angel is relaxing in a hole-in-the-wall bar in a Reno casino when an attractive young girl hires him to find out who left her a...

Jennifer Shannon discovers hundreds of diamonds hidden inside an innocent garage sale purchase in McLean, Virginia. Terrorists, furious at their treasure's accidental inclusion at the sale, must wrest the diamonds back in order to fund their explosive plot against America. From the strife-torn Middle...

Fire Captain Mack McWhirter is a busy man. Likewise, his girlfriend Samantha has her hands full with her Circle Star Cowboy Complex. The burden of responsibility is a wedge being driven into the heart of their relationship. She agrees to accompany him on a...

When Father Jake Austin is assigned to his hometown of Oberlin, Ohio, in July of 2002, he has been away for a long time. A physician and a war veteran before entering a Catholic seminary, he is now a member of the Camillian Order....

"Reed Writes As Only A Cop Can.... Impressive And Dramatic." --Nelson DeMilleKilling Has Become A Team Sport. To Win The Game, Detective Jack Murphy Will Have To Identify All The Players--Whatever The Cost.The body parts of a young woman have shown up in the...

Brice Simpson is a newly promoted heroic detective with a secret past. He's riding the waves of fame, but he still feels he has something to prove, so Detective Simpson picks up a cold case on the murder of a fourteen-year-old girl. He's convinced...

Professor Kate Hanson and the Unsolved Crime Unit unearth some shocking findings when they re-examine a 10-year-old murder case. For the past ten years, David Lockman has been serving a life sentence for the murder of Della Harrington. Now an appeal judge has decreed...

When the man who's hired Dek Elstrom disappears, the private investigator's search for his missing client unearths some shocking findings. The dead man is found spread-eagled on the top of a box car on an abandoned rail siding. He's dressed in a $2000 suit,...

Kuba is a cocaine dealer in the dark, electric streets of Warsaw, believing he is smart enough to stay in control, unlike the top lawyers, doctors, TV personalities who are his client base.However, after calling in the debt of a failing nightclub owner, breaking...

She began to sing, the girl. Her voice was soft, so soft it was almost of the wind. It was a lullaby. She cradled her arms, rocking them gently back and forth. As if she was holding a baby. But she was not. Her...

Never forget. Never forgive. As a detective in the Metropolitan police, Zac is no stranger to murder cases, but this one is different. This is his daughter's murder. Years after Amelia died, Zac is still trying to trace the police office involved in his...

What if you made one mistake and it came back to kill you? Detective Zac Boateng's old friend, Troy McEwen, is found dead in his home. The official verdict is suicide. But Boateng believes it was murder. And he thinks he might be next...

'I will never forget the night I drowned...' Seventeen-year-old Eleanor Parker wakes up cold and alone in the river that twists through her quiet village. She remembers a hand on her chest, another on her head, water in her throat, those final gasps for...

Only one question needs to be asked: IS HARRY HOLIDAY LUCKY ENOUGH TO GET AWAY WITH THE PERFECT MURDER?Harry, like a lot of us, has been angry or backed against a wall enough times to think about killing someone.Like most of us, his thoughts...

William Defreno finally hits the big one after years of battles. Good friends and a successful business. Yet, something is still missing. William is still an outsider, he's no more than an upstart kid, unworthy of interest or respect. William wants to make big...

Large Print EditionWhat happens to all of the letters that kids send to Santa Claus through the U.S. Mail? In Detroit, Michigan, many of them end up in the hands of Chris Archer, a postal worker who spends his free time designing computer games...

This anthology of short crime fiction raises funds to help the ACLU fight voter suppression. Authors: Kris Calvin, Alison Catharine, Ray Daniel, David Hagerty, Mariah Klein, Derek Marsh, Jr., Catriona McPherson, Camille Minichino, Ann Parker, Travis Richardson, and James W. Ziskin.Stories are set from...

When a body is found-dissolved in acid, a ring of finger bones cemented to the skull-Drake is floored. For over a year he's been telling the NYPD that the man he had killed, the man who had taken his partner's life, wasn't the real...

From the author of Elizabeth and Childgrave comes the chilling tale of a computer generated chain letter that instructs a group of emotionally ill recipients to kill a stranger, bringing about a series of grisly murders in the town of Dale Falls, New York...

A gripping psychological thriller full of heart-stopping twists and surprise ending you won't see coming, from NY Times Bestselling Author Kristen Middleton.Your worst nightmare as a parent - having your child stolen when your back is turned.What lengths would you go to get your...

Born to Bleed is the exciting sequel to the cult classic, The Summer I Died, which is soon to be a major motion picture!It's been ten years since Roger Huntington suffered through the bloody events in Skinny Man's basement. Ten years since the game...

He thought the story was over......Life doesn't work that way.How on earth did they find him?When he met Abby, he found he could love again. With new identities and a head start, they made it out of Colorado and put some distance between them...

Former U.S. Army investigator Mason Collins grapples with a web of lies, secrets, and murder as he races against time to save the lives of abducted teenagers in a case as twisted as the streets of Tangier's medina.1946. Tangier, MoroccoAfter Mason busted up a...

Mason Collins investigates a dangerous web of co-conspirators in a case that will take him from a Hollywood-style nightclub and a speeding train, to the icy slopes of the Bavarian Alps.When the Third Reich collapsed, the small town of Garmisch-Partenkirchen became the home of...

Psychologist Louis D'Maio's life is spiraling out of control. He's still recovering financially and emotionally after an ugly malpractice lawsuit when his girlfriend, Paula, disappears on vacation in St. Maarten after breaking up with him. Determined to ensure she's safe, Louis enlists the help...

BONUS LITTLE WHITE LIES, the 3rd book in The Keepers Series is included in this paperback For twenty-five years, the mystery of the missing Darling sisters has gone unsolved. Now it's time for answers... Traumatized as a child when she witnessed a grisly murder,...

As most of New York City sleeps, Athena Paradis, one of the most glamorous and desired women in the world, steps onto the red carpet at an exclusive nightclub. Suddenly a shot rings out, and Athena dies amidst hundreds of cameras and spotlights. When...

Philly hood Trigg is a one man wrecking crew. Alone in 'the game' and... alone in the world. The select few he called his brothers? Lost, to the streets. Trigg never bothered to rebuild his team. Trust is difficult to come by for those...

Mike Pritchard's daughter, Emily, is kidnapped by a sex trafficker, who delivers a concussive blow to Mike's head during the abduction. The brain trauma endows him with the ability to detect the scent of a girl's soul, the olfactory equivalent to seeing a person's...

Seducing a proper Bostonian was easy. Making him die of a heart attack a week after the wedding was hardly any trouble at all. Now she has money, social status, everything she has cunningly schemed to get since she was a poor little girl....

After taking a slug to the crown, street hood Menace has been out of commission for two long years. Now fully healed he aims to pick up where he and cohort Speedy left off, and there's no time like the present. With Menace on...

An American diplomat--reformed alcoholic, unreformed gambler, and inveterate smart-ass-- finds himself under threat of disgrace and murder even as he seeks love and redemption on the strange and spirit-ridden island of Madagascar. Author Steve Holgate brings the mystery and mysticism of Madagascar to life...

Old Mrs. Ellison doesn't have much longer to live, and her scheming son Cedric is counting the days until he inherits her fortune. But his plans are upset by the arrival of his niece Varvara, a beautiful and wild young woman from a remote...

Greed kills. Who will be the next victim?Investigative Reporter Jess Kimball's impossible mission to find her kidnapped son and protect an elderly couple thrills in this new novel from New York Times and USA Today Bestselling Author Diane Capri.Fatal Error is the exciting follow...

A kidnapped baby. A mother's will to find her. A killer targeting them both.Three years ago, Tina Alvarez was trapped in a sex-trafficking ring. Three years ago, she bore a daughter who was sold on the black market. But three years didn't erase her...

Sometimes you know things you're not supposed to know. Things that you can never un-know. Things that will change the course of your life...and the fate of the ones you love.I found her in our living room, bleeding and close to death, but alive....

"A masterwork of thrills and suspense." --Gayle Lynds, New York Times bestselling author of The Assassins #1 KINDLE BESTSELLER in "MYSTERIES & THRILLERS" WHO IS HUNTER? WHO IS PREY? WHO WILL SURVIVE? Award-winning true-crime author Robert Bidinotto makes his stunning fiction debut with a...

This book has so many twists, turns, mis-directions and layers of plot that I even forgot to eat where I was so involved. The characters are larger than life and when you think you know them there is another surprise just around the corner....

Author: Karelia Stetz-WatersISBN-10: 1939062659ISBN-13: 9781939062659Publisher: Sapphire Books PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/22/2014Pages: 486Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.35lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 1.08d

"Vividly real and quite compelling...fans of legal-thriller stars like John Grisham, John Lescroart, William Lashner, and especially Scott Turow will want to add this fine novel to their must-read lists."--Library JournalThis paperback edition of the fast-paced legal thriller set in the Mad Men era...

He tried to make things better...and failed. Miserably.Ex-cop Frank Harper is battling his addictions and wondering if his missteps in a recent case caused the horrific death of an innocent family. Meanwhile, a Dayton drug task force is struggling to contain hostile street gangs...

On the eve of the Cuban Revolution, headstrong 18-year-old Francesca Pacelli flees from her ruthless Mafia-boss father in Havana to the arms of her lover, a rebel fighting with Fidel Castro. Her father, desperate to send her to safety in the US, resorts to...

There are times when the truth invites evil, and there are times when the truth can get you killed. Few residents in the secluded mountain-town of Winston, Colorado, have kind words to say about local troublemaker Sean Coleman. He's a bully, a drunk, and...

Rubem Fonseca's Crimes of August offers the first serious literary treatment of the cataclysmic events of August 1954, arguably the most turbulent month in Brazilian history. A rich novel, both culturally and historically, Crimes of August tells two stories simultaneously. The first is private,...

For Lieutenant Reim of the Stasi, life in East Berlin is a satisfying blend of days behind a desk and nights in front of a bottle.But when a senior officer has a messy affair, it falls to Reim to do the clearing up. It...

Two students' impossible debt. One outrageous plan. Jake is just out of university and right out of cash. His former classmates are off on adventures or getting on with their lives, while he's stuck in a dead end job and can't get a break....