Fiction - Thrillers - Crime

An Entertainment Weekly Must Read - One of the NPR Book Concierge's Best Books of the Year Twisty and told from multiple perspectives, this meaty thriller races to a satisfying finish. --People magazine The intensity of the storytelling is exhilarating and unsettling. --Booklist (starred...

Discover the classic thriller that launched the #1 detective series of the past twenty-five years, now one of PBS's "100 Great American Reads" Alex Cross is a homicide detective with a Ph.D. in psychology. He works and lives in the ghettos of D. C....

During World War II, at the selection ramp of Auschwitz, Dr. Joseph Mengele selects four-year-old Jakob Bauer and his sisters for his notorious experiments. Mengele takes keen interest in Jakob's intelligence and Nordic features, resulting in a paternal-like relationship that shelters Jakob from many...

Rocky Scarpati is a young, narcissistic womanizer and theatrical-school dropout who believes in the old Shakespearean adage that the world is a stage and everyone is playing a part. Rocky chooses his parts with wild abandonment and pursues them with vigor. First, he's the...

THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Another twisty bestselling thriller from Lisa Gardner featuring Pierce Quincy and Rainie Conner as they take on a case that hits far too close to home. Eight years ago, Sharlah May Nash's older brother beat their drunken father...

Jack Winchester was a notorious hitman for a ruthless New Jersey crime family until a job went wrong, and he wound up serving time. Four years later, Jack is free and he wants out of the game, but his boss won't let him go....

JACK MURPHY DELIVERS JUSTICE Detective Jack Murphy can read a crime scene like a book. When the naked, brutalized corpse of a narcotics cop is found, it's not the body that tells him a sick killer is on the loose, but the monkey figurine--of...

Pilot John Hardin has a dark history. He and his Cherokee girlfriend, Kitty Birdsong, are enjoying life in the Great Smoky Mountains when former BATF agent Nolan Rader emerges from John's violent past and demands help to save his younger brother, Clint, from the...

Stolen art. Rogue police officers. Drones. A video call from her dad leads top white-hat hacker Francine to four stolen masterpieces. And to a possible murder--in Brazil. Her frustration at being so far away is turned into anger when her loved ones are attacked...

The highly anticipated sixth book in the bestselling DI Nick Dixon Crime Series.The body of an elderly man is found in an abandoned World War Two pillbox beside the Bridgwater and Taunton Canal. With no obvious motive and no credible suspect, DI Nick Dixon...

In the early hours of Christmas Eve, the wife of parliamentary candidate Tom Perry is brutally murdered in an apparent burglary gone wrong.With the by-election campaign about to start in earnest, and the festive season in full swing, torrential rain brings with it flood...

It's a hot, early autumn evening in the small resort town of Mount Charleston, NV, where six firefighters are battling a massive blaze that threatens expensive homes . . . a blaze that will cost them their lives. Initially, the police determine that the...

In this gripping novel of suspense by #1 New York Times bestselling author Lisa Jackson, a small timber town nestled in the shadow of Oregon's Cascade Mountains is the perfect place for a killer to hide... For the wealthy Buchanans, the town of Prosperity...

In a town full of liars, who can you trust? When Detective Finnegan Beck is demoted from his high-powered job in Dublin and relocated in disgrace to the small Irish town of Cross Beg, he predicts boredom will be his biggest threat. But then...

The boy studied the bruise turning yellow at the base of his neck. With quick fingers his mother tightened his tie, and pulled his collar high above it. Her eyes alone said, We will not speak of this... Years later, a man is found...

Four friends. A house full of secrets. And a killer picking them off one by one... She tried to break her fall, twisting desperately, but there was nothing to catch hold of, nothing with which she could stop herself. Her single scream cut through...

You're young. You're in love. You're in terrible danger ... A completely unputdownable thriller from Amazon chart bestseller Arlene Hunt. 'The woman's body lay on the bed, hair fanned out in a golden halo, blue eyes open. On the table stood an unmistakable sign:...

'WOW! WOW! WOW! I LOVED this FABULOUS thriller ... I was hooked from the start! There were twists and turns and moments when my stomach churned and if I could have and read it in one go I certainly would have done.' Goodreads Reviewer,...

'WOW This book was fantastic, I loved it. I literally binge read it because I couldn't put it down... if I could give it 6 stars I would.' Bonnie's Book TalkTwo gone. One whose past could kill her.When the body of Lola Evans is...

'Oh. My. Fluffing. Lord. From the very beginning this book grips hold of you and once it does it will not let you go ... so dark, so twisted ... It's so bloody brilliant' 5* Jen Med's Book Reviews Her eyelids were the only...

A break-in at Wayne Manor. The death of a masked intruder. Amid the seething crime and corruption of Gotham City, Thomas Wayne fights to protect his family and his company from forces unknown. While detective Harvey Bullock investigates the incident as a simple burglary,...

P: Who is the real terrorist in this room?M: What're you saying?In a claustrophobic concrete cell, two men face each other across a bare table. One is a wanted terrorist, the other a British intelligence officer. But this is no ordinary interrogation, and as...

Cashed out from the NYPD after 24 years, Doak Miller operates as a private eye in steamy small-town Florida, doing jobs for the local police. Like posing as a hit man and wearing a wire to incriminate a local wife who's looking to get...

A heart pounding thriller for fans of Lee Child, Matt Hilton and James Hilton. EVEN PRAYER WON'T SAVE THEM NOW Brothers Danny and Clay Gunn were brought up an ocean apart. Both served in the military, and both know how to kill, taking work...

Jana Rieger uses her academic background to tell a chilling story of betrayal as seen through the eyes of Dr. Mackenzie Smith, who is devastated when a young colleague, Anbu Mathew, dies in a suspicious accident. When Mackenzie begins to find disturbing messages that...

In the third installment in Alen Mattich's highly addictive Marko della Torre series, Alen Mattich delivers a powerful political thriller that depicts the horrors and machinations of the Yugoslav civil war and the humanity of those who survive it.Autumn 1991. Civil war has broken...

Award Winning mystery author Anne Emery returns with another installment in the Collins-Burke mystery series "The writing bustles with energy, and with smart, wry dialogue and astute observations about crime and religion." -- Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine Father Brennan Burke's patience is tested to...

What 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 and uses...

Sex Crimes Inspector Jamie Vail is back. When the daughter of San Francisco socialites is brutally assaulted, Jamie Vail makes it her mission to find the attacker. A seasoned inspector with the SFPD, work is what Jamie does best. She isn't distracted by the...

Every boy needs an ally who will kill for him. And no boy could have a better ally than Todd Sweeney. When Todd's best friend, Toby Ragg, is threatened by guidance counselor Ashford Squeers, Todd swings into action. But he swings just a bit...

Carly Tabor thought she'd buried her gift with Freddy Richards, the orphan child whose remains were discovered in her King Street home two centuries after his murder. Her ability to communicate with the dead, especially deceased children, originally presented itself when the restless spirit...

For Louis Kincaid and his lover, female detective Joe Frye, the present and the past collide when they team up to find out what happened to Jean Brandt, who was reported missing by her husband from their Michigan farmhouse in 1981. Jean's daughter Amy,...

PJ Parrish is pleased to present OUR NOIR, a collection of short stories and a Louis Kincaid novella.The collection includes: LOST AND FOUNDMaybe there was something that happened to men when they stood on bridges, like standing in the middle of a bridge put...

A deep freeze is bearing down on the Florida Everglades, the kind of brutal storm the locals call a killing rain. For Detective Louis Kincaid, the coldest night of the year has brought a terrifying new chill--a grisly discovery that tightens his every nerve...

Betrayals. Secrets. Tragedy. It started as a day like any other for Alex Mercer. Then he heard the news. Something that only happens in other places is happening in his hometown. Just a few miles away at his daughter's middle school, a shooter is...

Two young women who share a past secret--one now an ambitious journalist, the other a cop--must join forces to stop a vicious killer no matter the risk in this nail biting debut from an international bestselling author. Recent graduate Freddie Venton is desperate to...

Even in the wilderness, trouble seems to find Karl Bergman. Years after his run-in with a serial killer on the Appalachian Trail, Bergman sets out with his dog, Blazer, on a thru-hike of the Pacific Crest Trail-hoping to return home a better man. But...

Channing Booker, a compulsive gambler, drug abuser, and philanderer whose marriage is failing, finally gets lucky and wins the Mega Millions lottery. Expecting an imminent divorce, and hoping to hide his new fortune from his wife Susan, Channing devises a scheme to have a...

Richard Hannay returns to action in this new spy thriller set in wartime Paris, as John Buchan's famed hero (from The 39 Steps) races to track down a mysterious figure holding vital war secrets before the Nazis beat him to it . . ....

No marriage is easy. The same was true of Renee and Samone's. Once high school sweethearts, they found themselves drifting apart, feeling trapped together, alone. Then, tragedy strikes, and Renee is left crumbling under the weight of the guilt of not having been a...

Emerging criminal defense attorney Sam Young has always known he had a gift. Or a curse. He thinks of them as minor psychic abilities. When Sam is hired by an attractive young nun named Camille Paradisi, he agrees to help discover the identity of...

An international literary sensation, this chilling thriller exposes . . . a world so dark that readers will come away terrified (Wall Street Journal, India). An American journalist has been kidnapped in Karachi, Pakistan, days before the American president is due to visit. Those...

Duncan Maclain is in Tampa with his wife, Sybella, and his partner, Spud Savage and his wife, Rena, to visit with old friends and investigate a murder. It has been seven years since his old friend, Ronald Dayland, Sr. had been murdered. The killer...

"This series is a small treasure." -BOOKLIST Chicago private eye Paul Whelan is hired by an elderly jazz musician to find a missing street hustler named Sam Burwell. As Whelan delves into Burwell's past, the world of street vendors and corner musicians, he uncovers...

It's the height of summer in Las Vegas. Everyone believes the serial killer Seven of Spades is dead--except Levi Abrams and Dominic Russo--and it's back to business as usual. For Levi, that means investigating a suspicious overdose at the Mirage that looks like the...

"Sixteen dealers, sixteen keys. What a nightmare " exclaimed the detective. A body has been discovered in a blanket chest at Cider Run Antiques. Could there be a murderer among the dealers at the popular and picturesque shop? Marv, retired history professor and founding...

"A funny, sexy, weird, scary book about vampire cults, murder, kinky sex, quack therapy and making movies in Los Angeles, all told with Laura Lee Bahr's blend of pants-offing charm and wicked genius."- Francesca Lia Block When Dominique Colt brutally murdered her fianc and...

When a beloved state senator plunges to his death at Alexa Williams' feet in the Capitol Rotunda, the authorities suspect suicide. Although the powerful chair of the Environmental Resources and Energy Committee was at the center of a controversial new bill to expand hydraulic...

A wickedly dark and funny gangster novel that "aspires to the heights of Elmore Leonard" set in a desert landscape as ruthless and barren as those who inhabit it (The New York Times). Sal Cupertine is a legendary hit man for the Chicago Mafia,...

From The Man Who Was Thursday ""Moderate strength is shown in violence; supreme strength is shown in levity."" ""The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all."" ""There is your preciousAuthor: G. K. ChestertonISBN-10:...