Fiction - Thrillers - Crime

Ken Bruen has been called "hard to resist, with his aching Irish heart, silvery tongue, and bleak noir sensibility" (New York Times Book Review). His prose is as characteristically sharp as his outlook in the latest Jack Taylor novel, In the Galway Silence. After...

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - USA Today Bestseller - Washington Post's The Twelve Best Thrillers of the Year - TIME's 100 Must Read Books of the Year - Goodreads Choice Award Nominee - USA Today's Best Reviewed Books of the Year - BookPage's...

"Big Brother meets Clue in this utterly original and incredibly tense locked-room mystery." --May Cobb, author of A Likeable WomanA mysterious high-stakes game proves life-threatening in this twisty thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of The Overnight Guest The Best Friend. The...

BASED ON A TRUE STORY In 1946, a letter-to-the-editor appeared in the USMC Leatherneck Magazine asking if other Marines recalled the "Mad Ghoul" on the island of Pavuvu, 65 miles off the coast of Guadalcanal in the Solomon Sea. The subscriber was attacked, as...

A dark secret. A deadly obsession. No place to hide.Max Hunter, my boyfriend, booked the beautiful boat house on the Norfolk Broads as a surprise autumn breakA week away to heal after a fraught few months following my father's death. A chance to put...

The international sensation -- a riveting and electrifying blend of mystery, terror, and tense, violent actionAnna Heymes fears she is losing her mind. The wife of a top-ranking Parisian official, she suffers from amnesia and terrifying hallucinations -- a living nightmare made more horrifying...

I was hellbent on making them pay.Instead, they bent and twisted me.I am the golden child, the one who's supposed to be perfect.During the day I attend Spine Ridge University as my father wishes, but when darkness falls I put on my mask to...

Sarah Ince was a misguided young woman who considered herself a criminal mastermind. Impressed by underworld characters, Sarah assembled an assortment of minions who supported her criminal activity. Having an axe to grind with the criminal court judge who sentenced her to prison, she...

Kathleen Wood is a former CIA operative. She thought she left that world behind when she went off grid living in a small cabin in the woods. But, when a powerful man with high political ambitions finds her a threat to his plans, the...

A killer stalks the night and two detectives are hoping to find them before they strike again. Author: A. a. MercerISBN-10: 8223312832ISBN-13: 9798223312833Publisher: A.A. MercerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/03/2023Pages: 154Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.45lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.36d

"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times," is the first line of a very famous book. Not this one, although it is the worst of times for Joe and Michelle. Between their failure to communicate, the internet, and The...

Maeve Drakos and Hazel Fischer continue their college journey, moving back to the city and starting the peace officer training program at the community college. They pick out their first apartment, and everything seems awesome. Until they meet the neighbors.Members of Oakley University's men's...

The pale outline of bones in the dew-laden grass catches and holds Lauren's gaze. In the distance, she can hear the faint sound of crashing waves and the eerie screech of seagulls. Whose life was so brutally cut short in this beautiful, lonely place?...

This genre-defying, Shirley Jackson and Bram Stoker award-winning thriller follows a father desperate to salvage what's left of his family--even if it means a descent into violence. Buried in debt due to his young daughter's illness, his marriage at the brink, Mario reluctantly takes...

Lucius Bunk is a detective for the Las Vegas Metro Police. He is assigned a homicide case involving the murder of a casino blackjack dealer, that he has found very difficult to solve. He has been unable to obtain any substantial evidence against his...

WHEN THE HUNTER BECOMES THE HUNTEDUnder arrest and on trial for murder, Grace deHaviland might have laughed off the irony of being out on bail, her being a bounty hunter and all.But when an old enemy comes gunning for her-literally-by blowing up her car,...

Momma is a book of suspense, a thriller, and a book of unheard violence and grit unlike we have seen before. It's starts out light and gentle and makes a complete turn around as the book continues to read on. Momma is about a...

The elite neighborhoods of Sydney are becoming a serial killer's hunting ground. But for a city--and a detective--on the edge, not everything is as it seems in a twisting novel of suspense.During a stifling summer in Sydney, the body of a chaplain's daughter is...

In California, DEA agent Nick Lafferty led the investigation to eradicate a new and deadly form of synthetic crack cocaine called Crystal White. An investigation that took from him everything he cherished, and left Lafferty a broken man. A man with nothing to live...

Ex- DEA Agent Nick Lafferty-the hero from Crystal White-is back Still struggling to come to terms with the loss of his family, former- DEA Agent Nick Lafferty gets drawn into a case when ADA Caitlin McKenna requests his help investigating the killing of two...

How far would you go to protect a friend?For bounty hunter Grace deHaviland andsheriff's deputy Suzie Jensen the answer may be: until someone ends up dead.Rhona Hasen says she didn't kill her husband. The police say otherwise.Still, Sheriff's Deputy Suzie Jensen wants to believe...

A copycat killer has hit town. Stuck with the mindless circle of death, the original killer from jail is called upon, along with his therapist, to help track down and solve the murders. Elijah James is just as unpredictable as they say, but when...

When her notorious drug lord uncle is recaptured, Layla Navarro catapults to the top of Mexico's most powerful cartel. Groomed as his successor, Layla knows where the bodies are buried. But not all the enemies. Plagued by self-doubt, she must navigate the minefield of...

Bridges Down-Roads Impassable-Killer Trapped April in Florida and Benedicta (Ben) O'Keeffe is enjoying balmy temperatures during the last few days of a six month stint with a U.S. law firm. A week later, she returns to Glendara, Inishowen, where a charity cycle event is...

The New York Times hails David Mark's work as "in the honorable tradition of Joseph Wambaugh and Ed McBain." DARK WINTER is the first book in the internationally acclaimed Detective Sergeant Aector McAvoy series. A series of suspicious deaths have rocked Hull, a port...

All they had to do was catch him.At first, it was just another case, another serial killer to stop. They had done it countless times before; this time shouldn't have been any different. But soon, days turned into weeks. Desperation set in, and the...

Classic crime fiction's 'Indiana Jones' Tony Medawar unearths more unpublished and uncollected stories from the Golden Age of suspense, including John Bude, John Dickson Carr, Dorothy L. Sayers and Julian Symons.'Five books in, and the selection here might well be the strongest yet. This...

Author: Jane HarperISBN-10: 125088988XISBN-13: 9781250889881Publisher: Flatiron BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/31/2023Pages: 368Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.23lbsSize: 9.20h x 6.10w x 0.82d

Two years after finishing his tour of duty in the Occupational Forces in Japan, Damson O'Reilly arrives in Siena, Italy. Sight-unseen at a local auction, he buys an abandoned Tuscan farmhouse in which he aims to write, paint, and start a new life.The house,...

In a small Appalachian town, an amateur detective unearths a dark conspiracy and his own haunted past, in a chilling novel about sacrifice, art, and revenge.Med school dropout Harlan Winter returns to his impoverished West Virginia hometown, where the law is scarce, arsonists are...

Someone is murdering pickleball players in Loon Lake and Sheriff Ferris is on the hunt for their killer in Victoria Houston's third nail-biting Lew Ferris mystery, perfect for fans of Marc Cameron and Nevada Barr. When a local pickleball player is shot in the...

It's the perfect getaway. But the past will always find you . . . When ex-cop Bill Robinson takes over The Inn by the Sea, all he wants is a quiet escape from the city. But when a crime boss moves into town and...

Unbeknownst to law enforcement in Chicago, the O'Toole family has been killing people for more than a hundred years. Peter Michaels gets on the trail of these generational serial killers after a massive gravesite is accidentally discovered on a Chicago golf course. The investigative...

Winner of the Best Swedish Crime Novel of the Year 2021 (Swedish Crime Writers' Academy) Winner of the Storytel Award for Best Suspense Novel 2021 Winner of the Adlibris Award for Best Suspense Novel 2021 Forensic pathologist Lars Pohjanen has only a few weeks...

Darnell is unable to truly get over the past and the elements that come with it. Realize his pain runs deeper than the ocean's floor, and the diving team wouldn't even be able to bring him to shore. As the endless Armageddon continues between...

The game of love can be murder...When shy student Wendy is found bludgeoned to death, her classmate Bridget is the chief suspect. But what turns a caring teenager into a cold-blooded killer?Private investigator Emily Swanson is desperate to find out. Bridget is the little...

Chandler Lewis is a devoted, level-headed family-man living in New York raising his young daughter when a seemingly innocuous phone call from the headmaster of a Missouri private school changes Chandler's life - forever. Why would a struggling private school over 1,000 miles away...

When mob boss Gino "The Greek" Suraci is gunned down after a confrontation with a rival boss, doing good in the world is the last thing on his mind. After all, he's dead.But in the most unanticipated circumstances Gino finds himself face to face...

P. I. Barbara O'Grady must face her own demons as she tracks a killer through the cut throat world of high-end art. Barbara's new client is a suspect in a poisoning death at a small inn on a remote island. Her only hope of...

A killer forces Leroy Cutter to a last resort in Key West.In the aftermath of a high-profile case that brought the city to its knees, Leroy Cutter leaves Detroit, seeking refuge in Key West. He plans to unwind with an old Navy buddy and...

Twenty-eight years ago, her parents went missing. Raised an orphan, she'll never stop until she finds them. But some secrets are better left buried.Now British Museum curator Calla Cress is plunged headfirst into the mystery of an unbreakable code, written on a two-thousand-year-old manuscript...

An agent is working deep undercover to perform a hand-to-hand bust on the world's largest drug cartel. He must overcome government corruption, racism, and a professional assassin before his cover is blown. Loco in the Badlands is inspired by the true case files of...

Author: LynDee WalkerISBN-10: 1648754635ISBN-13: 9781648754630Publisher: Severn River PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/17/2018Pages: 298Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.10lbsSize: 8.98h x 6.10w x 0.79d

Float like a butterfly. Kill like a swallowtail. Scott knows his boring day is over the second a bloody and scared George Kelvin crashes into his office, claiming people are trying to kill him. He knows he should pass the case over to one...

Josie Bateil had one remaining option to escape the harassment and terror that's been thrust upon her. RUN! She uprooted her entire life. She left behind family, friends plus a career she loved. For two years, Josie kept running, constantly looking over her shoulder....

Tonya Callahan is struggling to become a jockey in the male-dominated world of Thoroughbred racing. But there is something more sinister then sexism at work at the small Southwestern track where Tonya lives with her father, a successful trainer. Just as she is about...

A bold new standalone thriller involving Swiss watch timing, nerves of steel, and ten million dollars in cold hard Wall Street cash, from the longtime James Patterson coauthor.It's summer in New York City and Faye Walker has it all. She's not only scored one...

Detective Inspector Ron Scott of K Division, Greenock, Police Scotland, and his team are investigating a series of murders committed by a killer they are calling 'The Gardener.' Curiously, the victims have been murdered by a perpetrator who uses common garden tools as his...

Harrowing, deeply moving, Bitter Sweet is a gripping revelation of human trafficking, escorts and police corruption Nina's double-life as a university student and an escort falls apart when she is drawn into a web of violence, human trafficking and police corruption. When Nina rescues...

For decades, the mansion of Dr. Gabriel Lazore has stood abandoned on a sleepy Toronto street, overlooked by the unsettling statue of the doctor's daughter, Gabriella. Rumours abound about the family's sudden disappearance, but the Lazore mansion has been little more than a curio...