Fiction - Thrillers - Crime

A mysterious music puzzle. A murdered co-ed. Sinister secrets.Three years ago, Scott Drayco left the FBI after an incident involving his partner, Mark "Sarg" Sargosian. Now a freelance crime consultant, Drayco often helps law enforcement on cases, but he never imagined his estranged former...

A mysterious attack on a young, disabled girl leads to a sea of lies, secrets, and murder.Crime consultant Scott Drayco is in the middle of a thorny case in Washington, D.C., involving murder victims who were all wheelchair users. Then out of the blue,...

They were small, simple choices. Seemingly insignificant yes-or-no decisions. Each one leading her one small step further from where she was supposed to be, from where she truly wanted to be. Step by simple step. Piled together, the choices were one huge mountain of...

When an old friend of Billy Bell's is killed in a hunting accident, Rainey feels obligated to attend the memorial service. The forecasted blizzard cannot deter her from fulfilling what she believes would be her father's wishes. What begins as a trip to pay...

Rome's serial killer has a way with the ladies...first he wines and dines them, then he carves and plasters them-alive. Preying on the brilliant, voluptuous grad students of Rome's universities, the Sculptor excises and molds their finest features for his personal gallery of adulation....

A wild and raucous ride through the crazy world of Florida politics Kelly reported the news. But when a bomb is left on her desk, she becomes the news. Someone wants her to stop reporting on proposed developments that threaten to destroy the landscape...

Mackenzie and Jasper are finally Married and preparing for their honeymoon. Unfortunately, Mackenzie is being tormented...again. Malachi 'The Butcher' Townsin was dead - she killed him - but someone new has taken over the victim pool. Photos of Mackenzie as a young child, before...

On February 9th 1964, the Beatles are set to play The Ed Sullivan Show. While a distracted city of New York gets ready to tune in and watch, ex-con Sonny Carter wonders, "Who will be watching the banks?"Released from prison after serving twenty-five years...

Transplanted from New York City to the tiny mountain town of Waterton, Alberta with the task of saving a floundering new hotel, Rich Evans is desperate to return to the city as soon as he can. The locals seem unusually hostile towards his efforts,...

A novel about love, marriage, and the murder it takes to make it last... Tag and Lori are the couple on the top of the wedding cake. Everything about their relationship is perfect and they're both deliriously happy - except for one tiny little,...

"Could not put it down " - Amazon reviewer The last woman to walk in her shoes has been missing for years... Emily Geiser walks into a trap. The new world she sees is sugarcoated. A group of merciless killers hiding behind smiles welcome...

Philadelphia homicide detective, Bruce Wallace.Joines forces with the F.B.I. special agent Craig Hines in pursuit of a villainous bank robbery crew responsible for a string of heist and murders.Lloyd Anderson is the brains behind the gang.His mission is to acquire enough money to pay...

Paul Bacon, ex-Navy boxer and fun-loving, Jazz-Age fashion plate, moved to 1920s California for the endless sunshine, oranges, and bright, white beaches. But all he finds is loneliness and misery in the chilly, fog-choked canyons of San Francisco.One night, homesick and miserable, he meets,...

Who had shot down Paul Johansen on a deserted street in Oslo? Why would anyone plan with such precision the murder of an unimportant Norwegian shipowner? The police had no answers and neither did Johansen's Finance Director, John Henriksen, who had been left in...

Newly promoted CEO Max Riley boards the corporate jet in Denver. When it lands in Omaha he is dead - murdered by an unseen assailant. As the people closest to Max are investigated we learn relationships are rarely what they seem. While police compile...

She was beautiful and naked and dying...Mike Romeo finds her in the fog, on the beach, staggering around like a drunk. But it's not alcohol that's in her - it's poison.After getting this mysterious woman to the hospital, Romeo figures that's the end of...

A never-before-published chapter in Mickey Spillane's classic series of hard-boiled crime, featuring tough-guy PI Mike Hammer When Mike Hammer and his secretary-turned-lover, Velda, go on vacation to a Long Island beach town, Hammer becomes embroiled in the mystery of a missing New York party...

A year after having been reactivated, Matt Helm receives a message from his ex-wife, asking for his aid. The threat is an enemy agent named Martel, disguised as a mob hitman. To protect his family, Helm must "remove" the threat before his own children...

A brand-new edition of the classic novel. A quiet mission of assassination is no sweat for legendary agent Matt Helm, until a shapely foreign agent he never got around to finishing off lures him into a strange trek in the wilds of northern Mexico,...

"A spine-tingling read that makes you question all your assumptions from one page to the next. Imagine if The Girl on the Train and The Hours had a baby, it would be The Woman in the Park." -- Adam Mitzner, author of A Matter...

The widely acclaimed debut novel--about three sisters, three tales, and a very dark secret--that's a chilling bedtime story for adults.--People (three stars) Fiona Walsh thought her family's secrets would follow her to her grave, but when her diary is found by a young postman,...

Chicago--the reigning #1 city in homicides--has no shortage of deadly gangs. And all those gangs know well that the Cross crew occupies a cinderblock bunker called Red 71 . . . the last place you want to go, unless you're willing to risk it...

When a young journalist named Bernardo Blanco is killed in the fictional Mexican port city of Paracu n, investigation into his murder reveals missing links in a disturbing multiple homicide case from twenty years earlier. As police officer Ram n "el Macet n" Cabrera...

From "one of the most consistently entertaining, insightful crime writers working today" (Gillian Flynn), The Killing Habit again brings together favorite wild-card detective Tom Thorne and straight-laced DI Nicola Tanner on a pair of lethally high-stakes cases. While DI Nicola Tanner investigates the deadly...

A spellbinding thriller pitting a U.S. federal marshal against the mob's most resourceful killer--in a race to save the woman he loves Six years ago, witness protection marshal Roland Larson did the unthinkable: He fell in love with a protected witness, Hope Stevens, whose...

Years ago, Lou Boldt's wife Liz had an affair with David Hayes, a young computer specialist at the bank where she is an executive. When Liz ended the relationship after reconciling with Lou, Hayes engaged in a daring embezzlement scheme. Now, years later, Hayes...

What happens when ambition trumps the truth? A town reeling in the wake of tragedy An arsonist is on the loose in Colmstock, Australia, most recently burning down the town's courthouse and killing a young boy who was trapped inside. An aspiring journalist desperate...

From the mega-bestselling author of The O'Reilly Factor, The No Spin Zone, and Who's Looking Out for You?, a mystery thriller about the fast-paced and ruthless world of TV journalism.With three consecutive number one bestsellers, Bill O'Reilly has proved that he's the king of...

Cleverly plotted, with wry wit, a likable copper hero, and an ingenious plot, this one will keep even seasoned mystery fans off-balance A deadly fire at a nudist club plunges DCI Harry Brock and DS Dave Poole into an explosive mix of deception, betrayal...

Three impossible births. Three incredible miracles. One deadly secret. Once again, Harvard Professor of religion and archaeology Cal Donovan has been summoned by Pope Celestine to investigate a seemingly impossible miracle. Three Catholic teenage girls, from different corners of the world, have fallen pregnant....

The winters of '76 and '77 in the greater Detroit and Oakland County area of Michigan were extremely harsh, with record snowfall, brutal temperatures, and incessant howling winds. During these winters, a deranged serial killer preyed upon preteen and early teen victims, both male...

Michael Doc Reaves is a bail bondsman in North Carolina. He hears first hand information from the people he bails out and also from the police. His ability to understand each side but also keep his distance. Helps him in his captures of people...

A "fast-moving topical thriller. Its surprising twists add up to a highly suspenseful read." --Publishers Weekly "A gripping and intelligently executed political drama." --Kirkus ReviewMatthew Yamashita, a young researcher, uncovers a series of suspicious deaths among Electors while collecting polling data. Seven have died,...

As a teenager, Maci Willis fled the poverty and sexual abuse of her Louisiana childhood with the hope of finding a new life as a Nashville recording star or greasy spoon waitress. Despite the odds, the former fate unfolded, and Maci recorded hit songs...

"It wasn't pretty, but rarely is death as glamorous as we've been lead to believe by movies. Death, up close, isn't beautiful. It is gritty. Death pushes its way into life, snatching loved ones at inopportune times, taking hearts with it and leaving in...

Will Anderson and Elizabeth Hume get caught up in the political turmoil over women's suffrage in Detroit Shuffle, the fourth book in D. E. Johnson's critically acclaimed 1910s Detroit series Will Anderson inadvertently breaks up a key suffrage rally when he thwarts a gunman...

Dangerous obsessions take center stage when a former assassin and a homicide detective race against the clock to find a missing girl before she's sold to the highest bidder.dentified as a person of interest in three cold case murders she didn't commit and required...

Belles of the Hot Grill Cook-off sounded like such a good idea at the time. Now Kate Stark, head of Cooks Network, must uncover who keeps annihilating her chefs.Ingredients: - Dee Dee DeRue - the perfect Southern hostess - Priscilla Danz - her best...

Al Qaeda in North America, awash with money and in possession of a stockpile of radioactive cesium, is stymied in their plans for a massive July 4th attack on America because of intense scrutiny by Homeland Security. The homegrown terrorist group, White Aryan Resistance,...

In the lobby of a prestigious Wall Street investment firm, one man is dead and another seriously wounded. The individual accused of the crime, a fugitive. FBI profiler Special Agent Sean Kruger is called in to find the suspect. He soon discovers the only...

When ice-fishing becomes a lethal sport Minnesota's Annual Lake Winnibigoshish Ice-Caught Fish Chowder-Off.Ingredients: Hamilton Waring - Chairman U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee Marvin Maxwell - Chairman U.S. House Armed Services Committee Lew Llewellyn - State Governor They all want to cook the best chowder....

For many years we have heard stories about Italian, Irish, Russian and other organized crime families. This fictional tale delves into the life of Jamaican organized crime. Like other groups that migrated to the United States, some Jamaicans were faced with anguish as they...

Drugs....murder....voodoo Four men are found brutally slain in an abandoned house on Cleveland's east side, one with ties to City Hall and all marked with a mysterious symbol. When Detective Nicholas Silvano is called to the case, he finds this drug-deal-gone-wrong is anything but...

I get paid to erase problems.Did your extramarital affair produce an unwanted complication? Family problems? Just want to enjoy your midlife crisis by yourself?That's where I come in. For a fee I'll take care of it. A big fee.Only, I'm not going to do...

A lonely librarian seeking romantic adventure gets caught up in a kidnapping!In Barcelona, a heady cocktail of romance and adventure awaits Sarah Brown when she meets a womanizing photographer who unleashes the full force of his charm upon her, seducing the naive, small-town Texas...

Dwight Evans is a state trooper with a grave medical prognosis and the lone law enforcement for the small town of Colebrook, Connecticut. When his niece, a recovering heroin addict, falls in love with a local pot dealer, he is drawn into the underworld...

Among the emerging generation of crime writers, none is as stylish and intelligent as Michael Dibdin, who, in Dead Lagoon, gives us a deliciously creepy new novel featuring the urbane and skeptical Aurelio Zen, a detective whose unenviable task it is to combat crime...

Hester Louise Day: high school graduate, almost-wife, would-be mother, soon to be wanted for kidnapping a ten-year-old with a comb-over. Apprehensive about spending the rest of her existence in a void of nothingness in Nowheresville, Florida, where she cuAuthor: Mercedes HelnweinISBN-10: 1416574662ISBN-13: 9781416574668Publisher: Simon...

In New York Times bestselling author Sherrilyn Kenyon's thrilling novel of romantic suspense, a gutsy female agent from the Bureau of American Defense encounters an elusive killer who isn't at all what he seems. After losing her mother to a vigilante killer, Terri Mitchell...

Last night I betrayed my husband. This morning my daughter disappeared. My husband may have forgiven my first mistake. But he will never forget this. And so I have to find her. Before it's too late. For all of us.Author: Niki MacKayISBN-10: 1409174654ISBN-13: 9781409174653Publisher:...