Fiction - Thrillers - Crime

Runner-up, 2016 Shelf Unbound Best Indie Book Competition Honorable Mention, Genre Fiction, 21st Annual Writer's Digest Self-Published Book Awards A compelling, fast-moving contemporary thriller: In Albany, New York, the governor's infant daughter disappears without a trace from her crib at the Executive Mansion. Hours...

When a bomb is discovered in the White House during the first year of Phillip Grand's tenure as president of the United States, press secretary Jamie Carter takes her daughter, Faith, to the one place she believes to be safe--an address in Wyoming given...

What if a large part of your past turned out to be a lie?Detective Scott Drayco is already in the middle of a possible career-ending legal battle when word comes that his mother, who disappeared 30 years ago, is very much alive-and charged with...

A serial arsonist is setting the parched hills on fie. Plunge into the infernos, and face the heat, smoke and danger with the men on the fire lines. While NiteHeat prowls in the darkness, setting fires and taunting investigators, the Los Angeles County Fire...

The third entry in the Martin Preuss Mystery series finds Preuss called to search for a van that has disappeared along with the woman who was driving and her passenger, a young handicapped man. Working through layer upon layer of secrets, Preuss exposes a...

https: //youtu.be/TinLQOI2PZA (Book Trailer)Kerry Branson, ex-homicide detective turned private investigator, inadvertently rescues a six-year-old boy on a fog-laden backroad in the Piney Woods of East Texas.When she discovers Tristan is the kidnapped son of a U. S. Senator, her call to the FBI is...

In the fast-paced world of cybersecurity, Juliana al-Dossari is a woman with a mission. When terrorist hackers threaten to disrupt water and power systems in Boston, Dallas and Los Angeles, she joins her husband and a team of white hat hackers to track them...

Lucy Prestipino has only minutes to deliver a lawsuit to the Baltimore City courthouse. She's a bicycle messenger on a mission--saving a crying lawyer from missing the statute of limitations. She's promised to file the lawsuit before the court closes, no matter what.No matter...

"It wasn't a pill or drug like in the movies - he was a philosopher not a pharmacist. It was an actual course of work that would help make a person more intelligent." Incite Insight is a speculative crime thriller. Newly promoted 'Country Boy'...

A British girl with a secret. A New York cop with a past. And a Mob that wants revenge. When maverick New York detective, Tommy Connell, picks up a witness to murder, he finds himself with more than he bargained for. Mysterious British girl,...

Fortune in Blood: A Mystery Suspense Crime ThrillerPrequel to Amazon Best Seller Mona Lisa's SecretA NOVEL OF MURDER, THEFT, BETRAYAL AND MONEY ... LOTS OF IT ...Joey used to be a carefree surfer kid on Venice Beach. But as the youngest son of a...

Fortune in Blood: A Mystery Suspense Crime ThrillerPrequel to Amazon Best Seller Mona Lisa's SecretA NOVEL OF MURDER, THEFT, BETRAYAL AND MONEY ... LOTS OF IT ...Joey used to be a carefree surfer kid on Venice Beach. But as the youngest son of a...

The problem with Alex Nicholas is he won't stay dead. Death Never Sleeps is a unique crime thriller featuring artificial intelligence; a story of two very different brothers, Michael Nicholas, a corporate CEO and, Alex Nicholas, a major NYC illegal gambling figure. When Alex...

The #1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLING ADVENTURE AN ANCIENT TREASURE: While visiting the scenic country of Malta, Jonathon Payne and David Jones bump into an old friend, who has come to the islands to search for a long-lost treasure of the Knights Hospitallers, an organization that...

Simmering resentment in a small coastal town. A missing manuscript. A dark family secret.Scott Drayco isn't a typical detective: a former concert pianist with synesthesia, he turned to law enforcement when a violent attack put an end to his music career.After Drayco inherits a...

Donnie Ray Cuinn returns to Austin to defend a war hero accused of murder. David Lewis lost both legs in Iraq, but he has overcome his nightmares and his disabilities by sheer willpower. He has learned to run and to box and is a...

GOLD Medal WINNER in the 2014 READERS' FAVORITE INTERNATIONAL AWARDS Geocaching mystery. (Note: This novel is hidden in cache sites around the US and Canada.) Readers' Favorite said, "I highly recommend this book to any readers who are looking for a new, excellent crime...

Fast cars, a little grand theft auto, and blending in with the wrong kind of crowd. It's just another day in the life for private investigator Alexis Parker. A dozen cars have been stolen, and Alex is hired by a high-end firm to identify...

A Relaxing vacation cruise through Alaskan waters is just what Detective Marcus Jefferson and his family needs. They meet International best-selling author, James Blackthorne, who is on board as a guest of the cruise line. In his stateroom after a speaking engagement, a strange...

It's a wild ride...Are you ready?⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐Private investigator Katerina Carter uncovers a sinister connection between blood diamonds and organized crime. Can she stay alive long enough to expose the criminals...or will her first case be her last?"An international tale of diamonds, danger and disappearance, a...

When a long-time friendship dies, will murder follow? Decades past junior high, Caroline Batzer is suddenly snubbed by her best friend. At first confused, she's later stunned to learn Sarah Leigh betrayed her in a way she'd never have suspected. In an all-too-public setting,...

Andy's a bartender in North Austin in the late 1970s. For years, he's been slinging beers to corrupt cops and fat Zenith employees, but given the neighborhood's ongoing decline (and his own serious health issues), he's starting to wonder how long it can go...

Harry Cisneros desperately wants to escape moribund Cuba, but he is trapped by circumstances - a wife, a daughter and a lack of money. A dead ringer for Leonardo Di Caprio, Harry's three years in New Jersey as a teenager and perfect English make...

In Greg Zeigler's environmental thriller "The Straw That Broke," Lyndall Burke, a vulnerable young scientist and free spirit, gets caught up in a battle between ecoterrorists and corrupt public officials over water in the drought-stricken desert Southwest. Lyndall's disappearance leads police officer Susan Brand...

The most innovative and daring theft of America's most critical resource is underway. Initiated by a ruthless oil man during one of the industry's cyclic downturns, the theft is not what you might think. The foundation of the crime starts at the local level...

Murder is the catalyst pushing Carrie Overton headlong into the arms of the hitman sent to kill her.Determined to escape her alcoholic and drug-addicted mother and distance herself from the memory of the son she lost, Carrie leaves home with Travis Montgomery, a man...

Almost six long years have passed since Carmela Santiago witnessed the hitman she loved assassinate her father. Now she is ready to exact her plan of revenge against him and the people he loves. Carmela will stop at nothing to tear his family apart.Running...

In Hit on the House, acclaimed by Jim Harrison as "an unqualifiably brilliant novel," Hal Good, a contract killer, is hired to whack Big Sid Sedlacek--a mob heavy who's been on the take. Picked up as a possible witness, Hal switches IDs with a...

Two distinctive killers, two detectives with distinctly different styles--Thorne and Tanner again end up joining forces in the new thriller from internationally bestselling author Mark Billingham From "one of the most consistently entertaining, insightful crime writers working today" (Gillian Flynn), The Killing Habit again...

"A dry, sharp x-ray of the horror of life in the Gulf, the network of complicity, the scope of tragedy. A gritty, direct, exciting novel that is a must-read for anyone who wants to look at the hell that the Gulf (and Mexico at...

"The Last Hack is vintage Brookmyre--equal parts adrenaline and empathy, a plot that opens out like a Japanese flower dropped in hot water, and characters so real you want to reach through the page and save them."--Diana Gabaldon Published in the UK as Want...

From Joyce Carol Oates, an exquisite, psychologically complex thriller about opposing forces within the mind of one ambitious writer and the delicate line between genius and madness. Andrew J. Rush has achieved the kind of critical and commercial success most authors only dream about:...

Seattle police psychologist Daphne Mathews has her hands full with a pregnant, addicted, runaway teenager, a murder victim's brother whose strange behavior unnerves her, and a deputy sheriff she once treated who's now stalking her. She's frightened enough to move in with Detective John...

"Compelling, gruesome . . . a great read." --Mystery Scene "OLSEN WILL SCARE YOU--AND YOU'LL LOVE IT."--Lee Child "OLSEN WRITES RAPID-FIRE PAGE-TURNERS."--The Seattle Times Seduction. Mind control. Murder. These are the weapons that have made Brenda Nevins one of the most wanted--and feared--criminals in...

In this chilling psychological thriller, one woman's dark past becomes another's deadly future In 2003, sixteen-year-old Rebecca Winter disappeared. She'd been enjoying her summer break: working at a fast-food restaurant, crushing on an older boy and shoplifting with her best friend. Mysteriously ominous things...

For bank teller Charlie Colquitt, it was just another Saturday. For Hobe Hicklin, an ex-con with nothing to lose, it was just another score. For Hobe's drug-addled, sex-crazed girlfriend, it was just more lust, violence, and drugs. But in this gripping narrative, nothing is...

Bruce DeSilva's A Scourge of Vipers is at once a suspenseful crime story and a serious exploration of the hypocrisy surrounding sports gambling and the corrupting influence of big money on politics. To solve Rhode Island's budget crisis, the state's colorful governor, Attila the...

A decade before her dazzling breakthrough novel, The Birth of Venus, author Sarah Dunant won Britain's prestigious Silver Dagger award for Fatlands, a Hannah Wolfe mystery. In Fatlands, private investigator Hannah Wolfe, who's independent though not invincible, idealistic but definitely not naive, has taken...

Cabo San Lucas looked to be a great get-away. Until bodies started falling off roofs. The Judge found himself caught amongst shifting loyalties as police and politicians scrambled to hide corruption reaching to the highest levels of Cabo Society. Murder in the Board room,...

A retired assassin is called in when a celebration south of the border turns into a nightmare. Everything's for sale... Former assassin Leine Basso is hired by a wealthy Beverly Hills power couple to find their missing daughter, Elise, last seen partying with her...

If they move you, they will kill you. When Kate Foster secures a lucrative new job, her boss insists that she undertake a pre-deployment security and hostage survival course - a course that's not meant to be easy, and one that Kate almost fails,...

If you knew what the truth could do, would you lie?Returning to work after an enforced absence, Detective Kay Hunter discovers she wasn't the only victim of her previous investigation.DI Devon Sharp remains suspended from duties, and the team is in turmoil.Determined to prove...

Robert Stone's remarkable novel is a psychological thriller of razor-sharp intensity: mysterious, erotic, and deeply readable. Michael Ahearn, a professor at a rural college, sheds his comfortable assumptions when he becomes obsessed with a new faculty member from the Caribbean, Lara Purcell. An expert...

The shadow crossed in front of the car so fast I didn't have time to stop. I hit the brakes hard and swerved into the mud at the side of the road.Looking out through the deluge it was difficult to make out the figure...

High in the Sibillini Mountains of central Italy, famous since Roman times for their curative waters, a killer deposits his victim's bodies within the ancient local churches. An environmental fanatic, a mystical cult, a pragmatic business plan...? "A story made of crimes, corruption, madness,...

NOW THE MAJOR MOTION PICTURE JAMIE MARKS IS DEADPart thriller, part ghost tale, part love story, One for Sorrow is a novel as timeless as The Catcher in the Rye and as hauntingly lyrical as The Lovely Bones. Christopher Barzak's stunning debut tells of...

In Felix Francis's latest horseracing thriller in the Dick Francis tradition, a London crisis manager gets caught up in a tragic fire, a murder, and a dark family drama. Harrison Foster, a crisis manager for a London firm, is summoned to Newmarket after a...

A number one bestseller in Sweden, Jens Lapidus's Top Dog is a thrilling, character-driven look at Stockholm's drug-and-sex-fueled underworld. A Vintage Crime/Black Lizard Original. Emelie is a young lawyer who's just started her own firm. Teddy is a reformed criminal looking for a fresh...

The sixth novel in international bestselling author Tom Wood's action-packed thriller series featuring the enigmatic assassin Victor, following The Darkest Day, No Tomorrow, and The Game. IT'S NOT HOW LONG YOU'LL LIVE.... Now that professional assassin Victor is indentured to British Intelligence, he is...

Dismas Hardy, Abe Glitsky, and Wyatt Hunt return When high-grade marijuana is found on a coffee-shop manager murdered in San Francisco, it suggests that the shop's owner, Maya Townshend, may be behind more than a caffeine fix. But when another murder exposes a drug-buying...