Fiction - Thrillers - Crime

Cal McGill is a unique investigator and oceanographer who uses his expertise to locate things--and sometimes people--lost or missing at sea. His expertise could unravel the haunting mystery of why, 26 years ago on a remote Scottish beach, Megan Bates strode out into the...

Two little girls, frozen in black and white. One picture worth killing for.The Civil Rights Movement is less than a distant memory to Lisa Waldren--it is someone else's memory altogether, passed on to her through the pages of history. Her life as a federal...

A gripping and timely novel that follows Sigrid--the dry-witted detective from Derek B. Miller's best-selling debut Norwegian by Night--from Oslo to the United States on a quest to find her missing brother.She knew it was a weird place. She'd heard the stories, seen the...

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATUREA thrilling tale of desire and Peruvian corruption swirls around a scandalous expos that leads to murder From the Nobel Laureate comes a politically charged detective novel weaving through the underbelly of Peruvian privilege. In the 1990s, during...

Bloodline: a gritty historical novel about the Mafia in 1920s New York, from Edgar Award-winning author Warren Murphy. The Falcones are an immigrant family living in New York City in 1920. Their patriarch, Tony, is a respected policeman. His sons, Tommy and Mario, both...

A riveting new novel from New York Times bestselling and Edgar Award-winning author C. J. Box. The ties that bind can burn you. Former sheriff's investigator Cassie Dewell is trying to start her life over as in private practice. She's her own boss and...

Before Thorn fell in love with crime-scene photographer Alexandra Rafferty, he was involved with Anne Joy, a beautiful woman who abandoned a violent life to forge a new, happier one in the Florida Keys. But her past includes her sadistic brother Vic, now a...

Maggie Barbieri will mesmerize readers with Once Upon a Lie, a gripping novel about family, justice, and the choices we make that define who we are. Maeve Conlon's life is coming apart at the seams. Her bakery is barely making ends meet, and one...

You can't keep a good thief down . . . Charlie Howard is back and robbing the city of Berlin blind, until he witnesses a murder being committed right before his eyes Charlie Howard, part-time writer, part-time thief, has been engaged in a veritable...

"Compelling, dark and intense, this story of a friendship gone wrong will keep you guessing until the end."--B. A. Paris, New York Times bestselling author of Behind Closed Doors For fans of The Widow and The Girl on the Train A dazzling work of...

Detective Helen Grace faces her own dark compulsions in the twisty new thriller from the author of Pop Goes the Weasel and Eeny Meeny. In the darkest corners of the city, there is a thriving nightlife where people can let loose and cross the...

From the creator of the TV show Bones comes a smart and funny debut thriller. "Everything a great thriller should be--always smart, often funny, and relentlessly exciting. I loved every page."--Scott Turow Michael Skellig is a limo driver waiting for his client in the...

Even the deadliest gangs in Chicagoland fear the Cross Crew and carefully avoid their cinderblock bunker headquarters: Red 71 is well known as the last place you'd want to go . . . unless you're willing to risk it being the last place you'll...

"Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves" - Confucius Heart crushing international thriller from a bestselling Scandinavian author. In 1944 a snitch denounced a couple and their eldest son for resistance activities. The mother was separated from her husband and...

On a winter night in New Jersey, a husband is shot in his home, a father is murdered on the street, and a baby is stolen. Lisa is an ex-detective whose husband can't be brought back from the dead, but there is still a...

Screw the consequences. She belongs to me.RoccoThey gave me an order.My instructions were crystal clear, the threats painfully real.Find the people who shattered her world.Keep her safe.Don't lay a finger on her.And don't even think about falling in love.That last part was all me.Mission...

A Murderer Stalks Music Row. "Go with the flow," Jill always said. "Get swept up in it. Let it take you where it will. That's the excitement of this business." Jill Edgerton's eye for talent and Sarah Ann Boswell's nose for business have made...

When Daisy Sandoval, a young mother who teaches school on a Native American reservation in Arizona, is found near death in a ravine, tribal members suspect foul play. They focus on Harlan Sandoval, Daisy's ex-husband, a defrocked Pente- costal preacher who now heads a...

A beautiful Russian double agent narrowly escapes certain death on a Russian waterfront. She subsequently uses her Olympic high bar experience to vault past two assassination attempts. Anastasia has no idea who has betrayed her and intends her harm - are her enemies Russian,...

While a forest fire rages out of control in a pristine Colorado forest, CBI Agent Buck Taylor, dealing with the death of his wife from breast cancer, is called back to duty by the Governor of Colorado to find the arsonists responsible for setting...

When a local wildlife ranger goes missing in the rugged mountains south of Aspen, Colorado the local sheriff launches a massive manhunt. Buck Taylor volunteers to help in the search and what the searchers uncover will shake this small mountain town to its core.With...

When news of Mexican gang activity reaches local authorities in Durango, Colorado, the bucolic peace of the small town is shattered. Realizing the severity of the threat, the sheriff's office reaches out for assistance. With years of hard-earned experience, Senior Agent Buck Taylor from...

Annie Chapman led a hard, lower class life in filthy 19th century London. Late in life, circumstances and and her choices led her to earn her crust by solicitation. After a bruising brawl with another woman over money and a man, she lost her...

An imaginative reconstruction of the life of Elizabeth Stride, the third victim of Jack the Ripper. The beast of poverty and disease had stalked Elizabeth all her life, waiting for the right moment to take her down. To survive, she listened to the two...

"Any readers who have been fans of Dan Brown's conspiracies will enjoy."--New York Journal of Books on Sunfail Alibi Island is the one place on earth where the rich and famous are kings. Back in America they're just rich. They're surrounded by the cult...

Linda has woken up from a six-year coma and faces more challenges than she has ever faced before. She works for the Charleston Police Department full time now to try and catch a man who is her worst nightmare yet. He ties into her...

Two books, one anthology.The grift. The scam. The double-cross. Blackmail and burglary; murder and larceny. Blood Business tracks the underbelly of human nature as it drags itself through the muck of our lesser angels in twenty-seven crime stories set in this world... and beyond.Author:...

Rayne Kilpatrick has everything. A job she's dreamed of since a little girl. The perfect house. And a man she loves and is about to marry... Until he never returns from a humanitarian mission. Gone. Disappeared. Vanished. When footage of his gruesome murder by...

A serial killer is on the loose. Cabarita Beach residents want an arrest. But with no clues, no budget and an inexperienced investigating team, Detective Jack Creed has his back to the wall. The killings started a decade ago. However with five murders in...

Dan Taylor is trying to keep a low profile when an old friend contacts the Energy Protection Group seeking his help. The man's daughter is alone in North Africa, and her life is in grave danger. Thrust back into active duty, Dan realises that...

"If you want to see your daughter alive again, listen carefully." When the body of a snatched schoolgirl is found in an abandoned biosciences building, the case is first treated as a kidnapping gone wrong. But Detective Kay Hunter isn't convinced, especially when a...

While attending a crime scene on the outskirts of Maidstone, DI Kay Hunter makes a shocking discovery. The victim has been brutally cut to pieces, his identity unknown. When more body parts start turning up in the Kentish countryside, Kay realises the disturbing truth...

"Mrs Markov, where is your husband?"Beth's life is perfect. Newly married to FBI Special Agent Nick Markov and building her career as a forensic botanist, Beth has it all.Until Nick betrays his fellow agents and abandons her.Beth is left alone to face the devastation...

"From the Dump" is a story about two young friends like brothers really getting it out the mud. The decisions Flint makes while young changes his life and the people around him that love him. Flint and Mike commits a murder while in their...

Homicide detective partners Barbara Lassiter and Susan Martinez return in this third edition of the Lassiter/Martinez Case Files series. Called in to investigate a mysterious death in a retirement center, Lassiter and Martinez find themselves entangled in a case that might very well involve...

What happens when a clandestine group of politicians and intelligence operatives run prototype weapons through Lieutenant Peter Bank's jurisdiction? Nothing, they're clandestine, no one knows they exist or what they do... Right? Correct, right up until one of their prototype weapons turns up at...

Following the award-winning mystery thriller, SOLEMNLY SWEAR...Alex Porter is back...and the stakes just got higher A greedy corporation rigs a multi-million dollar raffle, creating false hopes for ticket buyers...but they aren't winning, they're dying. What comes next will shock the world DELIBERATE DECEPTION heralds...

A woman is butchered in the streets of Manhattan while residents of a nearby apartment building neglect to call the police. Head Detective Lily Faye and rookie Officer Stilinski of the NYPD join forces to solve a case identical to another murder in the...

A grim look at the ugly underbelly of life as a Hollywood copy It's the wildest bar in Chinatown, run by a proprietor named Wing who will steal your bar change every chance he gets. On payday the groupies mingle there with off-duty LAPD...

"Third Rail gets off to a ripping start and never lets off the gas. Rory Flynn is a suspense writer to watch."--Jess Walter, author of the best-selling Beautiful Ruins Harvard-educated Eddy Harkness was a rising star in an elite Boston Police Department narcotics unit--until...

The unforgettable protagonist of Lola returns in a gritty, high-octane thriller about a brilliant woman who will stop at nothing to protect her growing drug empire, even if she has to go to war with a rival cartel...or her own family It took sacrifice,...

"Fiendishly inventive." --The Wall Street Journal Chengdu, China: The vibrant capital of Sichuan Province is suddenly held hostage when a shocking manifesto is released by an anonymous vigilante known as Eumenides. It is a bold declaration of war against a corrupt legal system, with...

From Catherine Coulter, the #1 New York Times-bestselling author of the FBI Thriller series, and J.T. Ellison, bestselling author and ITW Award winner, comes the first book in a brilliant new international thriller series featuring a new hero: American-born, UK-raised Nicholas Drummond.Scotland Yard's new...

Eager to establish an efficient money-laundering organization, a Mafia family acquires a Swiss bank. But their almost-legitimate enterprise soon incorporates the schemes of a billionaire American speculator living in England, the hustles of a pair of smugglers running an illicit Iranian silver mine, and...

His career has been a long one, Arthur Conan Doyle notes of his immortal creation, Sherlock Holmes. Doyle made his observation in the 1920s, when the detective had already been thrilling readers for 40 years, and he modestly attributed his hero's success to the...

When murder is profitable.From inside his high-rise office, ruthless sociopath Justin Truth surveys his panoramic view of New York City. This is his city. His country. His America. Justin is on a mission to conquer the corporate giant, Soda-Cola. He will threaten, backstab, manipulate,...

The internationally bestselling thriller with an audacious blend of science, history, and suspense from the author of The Marks of Cain and The Lost Goddess. War-reporter Rob Luttrell is expecting a soft assignment when he's sent to Kurdistan to cover the excavation of the...

Critically acclaimed author Alex Dahl explores how love can turn darkly sinister when a desperate mother looks to reconnect with her lost daughter in this riveting Norwegian set psychological suspense novel.Two mothers. Two daughters. One heart. When Alison's beloved daughter Amalie drowns, her world...

Based on the hit USA network series- from edgar(r) Award - nominated Monk screenwriter lee Goldberg Adrian Monk and his assistant Natalie are in Paris, touring the shadowy catacombs that wind beneath the city streets, lined with millions of centuries-old human bones. Of course,...

When forensic anthropologist Elizabeth MacPherson becomes the official P.I. for her brother Bill's fledgling Virginia law firm, she quickly takes on two complex cases. Eleanor Royden, a perfect lawyer's wife for twenty years, has shot her ex-husband and his wife in cold blood. And...