Fiction - Thrillers - Crime

This book is a story of women who feel like objects or of women fighting for their rights. It will give you many perspectives, but it boils down to one: what's right and what's wrong.A team of police forces wants to catch a serial...

When power shields the guilty, justice has only one weapon left: the truth.Detective Jake Harper thought he left the past behind. After false accusations nearly ended his career, he rebuilt his life in the quiet city of Stonehaven. But when a tech mogul is...

Ex-Secret Service agent Kate Stark owns the #1 cooking network on television. When a chef and a guest judge are poisoned on her show, all fingers point to Kate-except she's nowhere to be found. Drugged, kidnapped, and loaded into a shipping container, Kate's next...

The head chef for the G-7 meeting at a luxury resort in the Scottish Highlands dies in the middle of a television interview. All fingers point to former Secret Service agent turned owner of Cooks Network, Kate Stark. At the same instant, a sugar...

The war is silent. The casualties are real.Ethan Cole, a principled young diplomat at the United Nations, arrives in Geneva with idealistic dreams of global peace. But behind the polished speeches and carefully orchestrated press conferences lies something far more insidious. When a secret...

"What kind of a monster would murder his own sister?"Voncelle Wallace, a recycled physician from a failed medical practice, lands employment at the Cummins-Bratton Surgical Center and continues to battle her demons of regret and might-have-beens.Her husband, Chuck, is a high-dollar real estate negotiator...

The name is Allen. Ken Allen.These days Ken Allen is a nobody.But once upon a time, his name was Brand. Jove Brand.Eighteen years ago, Ken Allen played the famous fictional superspy in Near Death, a movie so bad it was never meant to be...

Panic grips the streets of London as a deranged killer begins targeting high-profile influencers.At the same time, Jessica Hunter is back in her hometown for the holidays, accompanied by her schoolfriend Kenta Higashi. While Jessica grows restless during her summer course at King's College,...

The Sky Thieves went dark. Now an unseen enemy wants them back in the spotlight.After dismantling their biggest rival, the Sky Thieves scattered, each hoping to disappear. But when a surveillance drone tracks Blair Morgan and her husband, Sterling, to a secluded beach in...

In "Deadly Husbands," a cunning and heartless man strategically manipulates his way into marrying a wealthy young woman. Driven by insatiable greed, he concocts a sinister scheme to confine his wife to a mental hospital, where she is to be subjected to a lethal...

Author: Lauren NossettISBN-13: 9798885786423Publisher: Thorndike Press a Part of Gale a Cengage CompLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/08/2023Format: Library BindingWeight: 1.35lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.51w x 1.02dLarge Print

A hard-luck private detective, just getting by. A mother who refuses to give up on her missing daughter. Can Gavin English find the girl before it's too late?Two teenage girls go missing in the span of one year- both are labeled runaways and forgotten...

When you get a friend in trouble... You're responsible to get him out. Whatever the cost! Air Force crew chief Connor Pierce wants to help his lonely assistant get comfortable around women. But when the stripper he lets loose on his romantically challenged friend...

The First is a Series of 3. This Second Edition of the first in the series known as 'Fatal Wordplay', aptly named "Unraveling The Twisted Truth" introduces us to some of the important characters. Such as Detective Sara Conlyn, the Killer she is hunting,...

John Hayes is trying to move on but it's not easy.Haunted by nightmares after the death of his wife he attempts to start a new life in Hong Kong, but the excitement and glamour of the city soon wears off and he finds himself...

When expat John Hayes' wife is brutally attacked while on a posting in India, he's forced to take matters into his own hands. John Hayes' life is perfect. He has a dream job in an exotic land, his career path is on an upward...

DANGER ...The dead can't rest in peace. The living are in danger. And one man's run has begun.A MAN ON A MISSIONWhen Kennedy Paul Maina runs away from home, robbing the dead and crime becomes his life at the university where to survive he...

The Four-Pools Mystery is a tale of intrigue and suspense, where a young lawyer becomes involved in a series of mysterious events at a plantation. The story unfolds around a plantation, a ghostly presence, and a string of unexplained thefts, drawing the protagonist into...

At the edge of the Pennine Moors, Detective Sergeant Blackshaw and his rookie colleague, Detective Constable Lumb, are called to the scene of a double murder committed on a burial ground.They discover that the case is connected to an ancient Celtic cult, in the...

The Warning (Sarah Roberts Book Two) Sarah Roberts has spent the last four years helping people stay alive and escape near-death experiences as messages from the dead come to her. She receives a daunting communication from the Other Side regarding her sister's murderer and...

The Crypt (Sarah Roberts Book Three) While Sarah Roberts searches for a weapon on the streets of Budapest, a strange man in a fedora follows her, but before she can find out who he is, she's arrested for a minor altercation. After her release...

Goddess of Justice A series of seemingly unrelated deaths have occurred around the city. When one is an obvious homicide, Detective Brad Coulter gets the case. Coulter has barely started investigating when more murders take place. It is clear that the killer not only...

Serial Rain is the gripping second installment in the Myrna Sontiago Novella Series. When relentless storms blanket Dallas, they bring more than rain. Senior Detective Myrna Sontiago and her partner Ezekial "Zeke" LaPorte are drawn into a chilling mystery after a string of murders...

Everything CrumblesGabriel Church knows you can't take a life without first understanding just how feeble it is. If you desire murder, you hold a life in your hand. Whether you release it to grant life or grip tighter to end it, it is at...

SERIAL INTENT -- When Lindsey Fetter opened her eyes, the man that killed her husband stood at the end of her bed...When Charlie Dunn pocketed his cell phone, he could only stare at the empty ice on Lake Michigan. The monster that killed his...

Sonia yearns for sharp objects and blood. But now that she's rehabilitating herself as a "normal" mother and mathematics teacher, it's time to stop dreaming about slicing people's throats. While being the wife of Melbourne's leading drug lord and simultaneously dating his best mate...

After the fraught game of cat-and-mouse that drove Provocation, Meg Vann continues the InSecurity Triptych in The Centre, where a lost child and kidnapped mother plunges a young security guard into the heart of an investigation where nothing is quite what it seems. Zilla...

A gripping crime thriller, steeped in authenticity, from an author with over 25 years of policing experience.Anna thought coming to the UK would be the start of a new life for her and her daughter. But what greets her is a nightmare far beyond...

When Teresa Stillman, the daughter of an elderly barrister, disappears her father asks Hawk to find her. Experience tells Hawk that Teresa is probably dead, so he declines the job offer. And then his own wayward daughter goes missing for just a few hours...

A murder in a public place, a victim who hides his killer's intent...A German citizen is murdered in Belfast Botanic Gardens. Investigating, DCI Gawn Girvin concludes it is a revenge killing. But she draws a blank from CCTV and forensics.The only clue is the...

Discover this brilliant crime fiction series now!DCI Gawn Girvin is on leave, waiting to hear the outcome of an internal affairs investigation when her godfather, Assistant Chief Constable Norman Smyth, asks her to revisit a missing persons case as a personal favour before he...

A city has to give up one of its secrets for a detective to catch a killer.Liverpool is in the midst of an emergency. Several people have been poisoned. But DI Tara Grogan is not on the case. Instead, she has an in-tray full...

After a plane passenger fails to reach his destination alive, DCI Gawn Girvin must once again chase a dragonWhen pathology reports that a passenger found dead on arrival on a flight from Amsterdam to Belfast passed due to natural causes, it should be an...

"Those who the Gods wish to destroy, they first make mad."Devastated by grief after the death of her daughter, Detective Sergeant Jamie Brooke returns to investigate the murder of a prominent psychiatrist in the old hospital of Bedlam in London.As she delves into the...

Discover one of Britain's bestselling crime writers, with over three million books read!First a shooting, then a grisly discovery on the common . . .A bag of severed fingers is found in the playground by a rough housing estate.Police partners, Detective Inspector Tom Calladine...

There's a killer on the streets, and no one is safe...First there was the drowned man, but maybe his death was an accident?Then there were the decapitated bodies, the burnt girl, the women pursued in the dark. Finally the police have to admit there's...

How do you stop a killer that's everywhere?This is the dilemma facing young detectives Jessica Hunter and Kenta Higashi when they discover a sinister organisation known as The Syndicate is behind a brutal murder in Osaka.Fresh from saving the British School of Kyoto from...

A killer with a penchant for inventive and macabre deaths challenges an FBI Agent with an equally unusual imagination and sense of humor. SA Conway works serial crime cases. When someone tries to kill her, it becomes obvious it's linked to her after-hours pursuits...

The city of Bayfront is under siege by a killer. When one murder becomes two and both appear to go unsolved, the San Francisco Bay Area community is crippled with fear and anger. This killer is unfazed by boundaries. Public areas and the safe...

In the deep quiet of the South Dakota wilderness, a killer is on the loose. The victims are poachers and professional hunters. Their skinned and beheaded corpses are left hanging upside down. Rookie Criss County Deputy Rachel Redmond, a young woman with a troubled...

No one is safe... Not even the police. DI Nelson is used to dealing with violent crimes but this one is personal. He's hunting a killer with an alarming agenda. And the body count is rising daily. Can Hero catch the killer before more...

With two beautiful children and a loving wife, Jimmy Windsor was leading the fairytale life most men dream of until a bizarre six month journey between the past, present and future shattered his world. Four years later and against all hope, Jimmy yearns for...

It began on the Navajo Nation Reservation when fourteen-year-old George Tokay, witnessed and reported the murder of a Caucasian boy his own age. Kelliher and his team solved that case, which led to the freedom of thirty boys who were abducted off safe suburban...

CIRA agent Jackson Reeves won't be denied his revenge... He's hunted down and killed the men responsible for his family's fatal "accident"-all except the mastermind, Ash Crest. The problem is someone beat him to it, and Jackson won't rest until he finds out who,...

When a high-stakes photo surfaces-capturing a shadowy figure at the center of a long-unsolved $350 million Venezuelan military heist--Sara and Alvaro find themselves unwillingly drawn into a deadly conspiracy. What begins as a surprise visit from a cousin with a dangerous secret erupts into...

Building on the bones of a story buried in his old reporter's notebooks, Stan Jones has written a compelling tale of family, greed, betrayal and violence--a look at what can happen when good people don't ask the hard questions that was Jones' stock-in-trade as...

Placed on a medical leave of absence from her job as a special agent in the National Protection and Investigation Unit, Mikala Flynn is a woman on the edge--guilt-ridden, depressed, battling war wounds and personal demons. The world and the relationships as she knew...

'Smart and topical' Financial Times (An FT Best New Thriller 2023) 'A compelling, fast-paced thriller' Sun Australian inventor and geoengineer Clive Winner is the genius who brought the Great Barrier Reef back from the brink, yet his ambition goes well beyond that. He wants...

""Jacob Stone is equal parts Thomas Harris, Michael Connelly, Jo Nesbo, and Stephen King. CRUEL will leave you shaking . . . with fear, excitement, and the uncontrollable compulsion to keep on reading." --Lee Goldberg, #1 New York Times bestselling author of True Fiction...

Juárez: Seeds in the Desert is a timely, fast-paced thriller set in the corrupt and lawless boomtown along the US/Mexico frontier where a serial killer, or killers, has preyed on women for almost two decades. The murders continue today. Since 1990, over a thousand...