Fiction - Thrillers - Crime

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"King maintains his svelte, addictive style...."-Kirkus ReviewsNever cheat a partner. Always get revenge. . .The Traveling Man takes on a quick and easy safecracking job...easy until his partners are murdered and he's on the run.His wife is trying to settle into her new role...

Continue the investigations of THE CRIME FILES OF KATY GREEN with Book #2, SHADOW OF THE DARK ANGEL!Samuel Kubiak has severe issues. A distraught survivor of the California Foster Care System, he suffers from a condition of alopecia, incessant bullying, and a bizarre sexual...

DOUBLE JACK, book #1 in the series, THE CRIME FILES OF KATY GREENThe novella that started it all!It's night, Sacramento, and single female drivers who break down on the side of Interstate-5 are relieved to see the highway safety CalTrans truck arrive to give...

Nicholas Keegan and Aleksandr Zorin are back in this second installment of the Chaos series by D.J. Schuette, but it's FBI New-Agent-in-Training Addison Lange who takes center stage in Maelstrom. Using her inimitable coding and hacking skills, honed through a decade of grief and...

In the small town of Clarkesville, in the heart of the Oregon Cascade Mountains, a humble forester stumbles into the complex world of crooked cops and power-hungry politicians... all because he rescues a stray, injured dog on the highway. Lehigh Carter never really meant...

It was always too good to be true.Finding her, arresting her, proving her guilt ... that should have been enough.It should have been, but a small voice, deep inside him, refused to be silenced. The voice which whispered the same words over and over...

Ex-intelligence officer Courtney Pascal is a loner although others have used quite different words to describe her - words like crazy and dysfunctional. So when attorney Jonas Calver asks her to find a child everybody thought was dead, maybe it's not the best kind...

Jack the Ripper is back!A new science called Awakening has turned the world upside down. It gives the gift and the curse of being able to delve back into your past lives. But one past life is so strong that it overcomes its existing...

Five year old Alex and his imaginary friend Joe play with a new Tonka dump truck. His father ends his extra-marital affair with Alex's mother because he now has a son with his wife. He steps out of the back door, says to Alex,...

Di Harding's novel is set in a very contemporary Sydney, taking in multi-layered sights and sounds, from the northern beaches to performances at the Sydney Opera House. The plot spans the complications of what a woman must consider if she is to save her...

You're driving along a lonely outback road when suddenly a kangaroo leaps out in front of you. Your car is wrecked and then things rapidly go downhill from there as you find yourself under attack from a pack of wild dogs. Having survived that,...

The dead are walking and it is not even Halloween! Private investigator Jesse Clarke knew it wasn't going to be a normal week when two dead people are spotted alive but their death certificates say otherwise, Spiderman steals a collection of costumes made for...

Investigative journalist Jason Argonaut is not content to rest on his laurels and dream of past glories. No, he has to take too great an interest in his fascinating new neighbours, play the Grandfather Detective, and find himself in possession of the world best...

FIND MY CHILDREN ... Calum Neuman, a private investigator living on Scotland's remote west coast, has his world turned inside out by a new client. Glenda Muir, a tormented hypnotherapist, needs to find her estranged twin sons and asks Neuman to locate them. During...

On April Fool's Day 1983 a cruel prank goes horribly wrong and a dangerous seed is planted. Ten years later, a more sinister joke is played and six people die. The Harlequin has arrived. As a young detective constable, Tom Russell becomes embroiled in...

NEW YORK, 1958. The festive season is on the way. Private Investigator Steve Donaldson is employed to trace a young woman. An attractive and wealthy client pays him $2,000 up front, in cash, but he must proceed on 'a need to know basis.' His...

Don't you wish print was easier to read? Here's your answer! This pacy crime thriller has been published in a LARGE PRINT format that's dyslexia-friendly too.She dreamed of making vodka to die for. With a killer on her trail, will the taste of success...

She dreamed of making vodka to die for. With a killer on her trail, will the taste of success spell her doom? Glamorous Kat White has finally made it big. Her craft vodka brand and her life are going places, while the mother who...

Nineteen thirteen is a difficult time for the native population of South Africa. The Native land act forces tenanted black farmers from the land and into exile in their homelands. Living in such an unproductive place they have little choice if they are to...

Alexis Fields is now a doctor living happily in Chicago with a new life, a new career, and a new found freedom to replace the harrowing past she left behind. But when several women are found brutally murdered near downtown, Chicago police fear the...

Where do you turn for help when you can't trust anyone? Alexis Fields was sure that moving across state lines would be nothing more than a change of scenery and the start of a new career. But when a shadowy figure murders four men...

In the wake of a series of flops, two-time Oscar-winning actress Teri Squire's career is in a nosedive. She needs to find a great screenplay to fuel her comeback, but no working screenwriter wants to commit a masterpiece to someone who is box office...

ROGER LEGION, the head of a prestigious San Diego law firm, finds himself in the middle of a turf war between a Mexican drug cartel and a local gangster. When the cartel's attempt to persuade him fails, all hell breaks loose. It begins with...

A little boy murdered in the most tragic of circumstances, and avenging angels intent on revenge. Obsessed, unscrupulous art collectors and the international antiquities thieves who service their desires. The Olympic Games and an elite group of corrupt Chinese agents double-crossing each other. An...

Below the surface of the ocean, off the shores of Cape Hatteras, lie the bodies of many ships that never made it to shore and something more ... silent and sinister. Two sets of fresh fingerprints on a pair of binoculars left on the...

RV parks are his hunting grounds.Horrific murders are happening in RV parks throughout the Pacific Northwest. The victims all have two large punctures on their necks, and their bodies are completely drained of blood. Someone is going to a lot of trouble to make...

Ninety-three days ago a girl went missing, only to be found in a suitcase, two bullets behind her right ear. Hayden Fuller worked that case and now he's working another that's eerily similar: a missing young woman, no ransom note, and clues pointing to...

The Panda, AKA Rico Rose, is the bigger than life true story of an undercover police officer who was so good at his craft that he was known as, "A Mexican, Jewish, Sherlock Holmes."Author: Gordon RichiusaISBN-10: 0982992645ISBN-13: 9780982992647Publisher: Five Birds PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/24/2015Pages: 234Format:...

Suspicions their husbands were straying, sent two wives running to Private Investigator, SONOMA (Sonny) WHITTINGTON, to investigate. While each case had some unusual aspects, both seemed likely to be straightforward investigations... that is until one of her clients disappears. Suspecting foul play, Sonny finds...

The Urge To Kill Is An Evil Legacy A dismembered body is found in a peaceful loch. The police discover it is Gregg Wright, the son of the leader of one of Glasgow's most notorious criminal organisations. With the realisation, Detective Superintendent Tom Russell...

A Tangled Web of Obsession, Deception, and Violence Unravels in MoroccoWhen British journalist Carla Black travels to Essaouira with a provocative book and a dangerous plan, she hopes to lure a serial killer out of hiding and into the arms of justice. Her target?...

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

A body found stabbed repeatedly outside the local lido leads DI Sarah Gilchrist and DS Bellamy Heap into an intriguing new case. With the local lido under threat of closure by ruthless businesswoman Alison Sutherland, the Save the Salthaven Lido campaigners are fighting a...

Amidst the gently rolling hills and endless cornfields of rural Iowa, a religious order known as the Community has existed separate from the outside world since the 1850s. To outsiders, it is a peaceful paradise where faith in God, hard work, family, and total...

CDC Scientist Gunn Shoreham struggles to find the source of an Ebola outbreak in the Mideast, as the countries accuse each other of bio-terrorism. He must redouble his effort when one member of his team shows symptoms of the gruesome hemorrhagic disease. He returns...

She hung up the phone and stared at the open file on the tiny desk in the cramped studio apartment that even the mosquitoes avoided. After three months of working in the sweltering heat of a South Carolina warehouse, Special Agent Mary Hatchert had...

DYNAMIC CONCLUSION TO THE PAYBACK TRILOGYAction and mystery thriller at its best in the finale to Cameron's successful Payback Trilogy is full of unexpected surprises, unusual twists and cliff-hanging adventure as his quasi-hero is under attack by unknown sources.It can't possibly be... he's dead!...

For assistant district attorney Ben Lovison life couldn't be any sweeter. He has a job that he loves and a beautiful wife set to deliver their twin boys at any moment. For a man whose life got off to a rocky start following the...

Kudzu River is a gripping tale of three women's lives entangled by a serial killer-a story of abuse, murder, and retribution. Unlike Fran Rizer's previous Callie Parrish mysteries, Kudzu River is not a cozy. When Teacher of the Year Katie Wray returns to her...

**2014 READERS' FAVORITE AWARD WINNER** For assistant district attorney Ben Lovison life couldn't be any sweeter. He has a job that he loves and a beautiful wife set to deliver their twin boys at any moment. For a man whose life got off to...

With three confessions to the murder of Pierre LeBeuf (The Body Under the Ice), two of the confessors dead, and the third non compos mentis, Sheriff Nathanial Jefferson is in a quandary - he doesn't believe any of the confessions and he has no...

For the reader who enjoys dark fiction, Lunch Special serves up the following short stories: For Dog and Country Dave Sims, Army veteran and PTSD sufferer, learns that his dog has been kidnapped.Murder, American Style A voice instructs high school senior Johnny Jyde to...

Former Green Beret and native Coloradoan Micah Trask went missing in the autumn of 1972 into the remote wilderness of Rocky Mountain National Park. Grand County, Colorado Undersheriff Dane Lee was Micah's best friend and for four frustrating years there was never a clue...

Becky and Dan Jeffries had just arrived home from their honeymoon when Becky realized that at the age of thirty-nine, she was pregnant. She'd lost several babies prematurely during her first marriage, so this was a mixed blessing.Their lives change and Becky now works...

Addiction is a cruel master and a vicious servant. A cold-blooded killer is roaming the dark underbelly of Washington DC, stalking addicts of various dependencies to feed an addiction of his own... murder.The line between good and evil is not as simple as black...

Can an evangelical pastor and former football star, Tommy Rayfinger make it to the top of Australian politics? Hiring Paddy Kennedy's Hobart based public relations company proves to be an inspired choice for Pastor Rayfinger and his mega church, Coming Now. Paddy Kennedy and...

Her friend's suspicious death propels Shelley to learn the truth. The police have covered it up, and powerful people are keeping deadly secrets. What will she risk to unravel the sinister mystery? Will she pay with her life?A compelling and complex thriller where ordinary...

Tommy Dabrowski is a lucky player.In his younger years he was a winning professional golfer. Now, high-stakes poker provides him with a lavish lifestyle and fortune still favours him. Even when he's caught-up in a casino heist he takes advantage of the situation.However, Tommy's...

Newly promoted to the rank of Senior Sergeant at his beloved Carlton Police Station and out of the firing line of day-to-day street policing, Tony Signorotto is hoping that the old street wars that raged between him and his mafia relatives are battles of...