Fiction - Thrillers - Crime

Detective Chief Inspector John Bowmaker and his team are investigating the apparent increase in high quality drugs being distributed around his patch which has resulted in a couple of deaths due to overdose of the new product. DCI Bowmaker is convinced that the people...

In the summer of 1982, sixteen-year-old Ali craves the perfect party. Amidst teen rivalries, a drug deal, and a budding romance with the enigmatic Danny, a shocking assault rocks their world.As dark secrets emerge and violence escalates, Ali finds herself caught in a web...

Echoes of WhitechapelA Novel of Psychological Suspense and Supernatural Mysteryby Edward TacherLondon, 1888. Jack the Ripper vanishes into the fog-his identity unknown, his crimes unsolved. The city breathes a cautious sigh of relief, believing the nightmare is over.Over a century later.Amanda and Michael, a...

A secret mission. A corrupt cop. A deep deception. DS Phil Cryer is making a slow and painful recovery from surgery when Superintendent Knightly knocks on his door with an unusual request. DS Richie Juno was working for the National Crime Agency when he...

Echoes of SecretsIn the sterile corridors of Stallworth Maximum Security Prison, Dr. Thalia Voss, a seasoned psychologist, is tasked with evaluating Kieran Blackwood, a death row inmate convicted of a brutal family murder. But Kieran's unsettling claims of innocence and cryptic knowledge of overlooked...

When bodies start appearing, each meticulously staged to represent famous literary characters, FBI Agent Nelson Cruz recognizes this as the work of no ordinary killer. These aren't just murders, they're performances, judgments, a twisted form of justice served with surgical precision.As the body count...

They thought he was dead. He preferred it that way. Until the algorithm started killing.Gid Kane walked away from the shadows years ago: burned, buried, and officially deceased. When a tech CEO turns up murdered in his penthouse and the scene mirrors a classified...

CODENAME: ASHTON by James Claythorne"In the shadows of society, love can be the deadliest weapon. Trust no one, especially the ghosts of your past."Lucy and Neil Ashton's lives were idyllic - until one was found dead under their own roof... and the other was...

A brutal killer stalks a bank manager, mutilating and murdering her in a twisted act of punishment. Aging, burned-out detective Del Stringer, demoted and drowning in booze, is thrown onto the case-his last shot at redemption. But when a second victim turns up, grotesquely...

Senior Sergeant James Roxby in the small town of Durrell, detailing an initial violent encounter that suggests a dangerous past catching up to him. Further sections reveal Roxby's background, from his family's arrival in Australia and his military service, including time in the SASR,...

Years after his daughter's death, a former London cop is on the trail of an insidious criminal conspiracy in this "remarkably assured debut" thriller (Diamond Dagger Award-winning author Andrew Taylor). Dylan Kasper is stuck. Living in self-imposed reclusion from his former life in the...

Journey to the jungles of Vietnam with a reluctant volunteer who is tasked with tracking down missing weapons of war. After a life-threatening experience overseas, Jim attempts to live a quiet life driving trucks for his father's business while the latter recovers from a...

Echoes of the Past takes you on a gripping, heart-pounding journey into the mind of a detective who thought he'd escaped the shadows of an unsolved case. Isaac Matthews, a seasoned veteran, is pulled back into the past when an anonymous message stirs long-buried...

In the Eyes of a Killer is a psychological thriller that takes readers on a haunting journey into the mind of a forensic artist drawn into a twisted game by a mysterious serial killer. Clara Williams, a skilled forensic artist, is tasked with sketching...

Delia Cahill, a high-powered attorney by day and loving wife by night, led a clandestine double life as a top assassin. Her meticulously crafted existence balanced opulent contracts with quiet domesticity, but her latest target-a reclusive tech billionaire possessing world-threatening power-threatened to shatter her...

Detectives Angela Baxter and Max Gruber have a problem. When 38-year-old Maggie Dalrymple was found dead at the bottom of a ravine by her ex-husband, they thought they had an open-and-shut case against him. But the more they dig, the less things make sense,...

Join Richard Bishop, the wise-cracking private detective from Honolulu, as he embarks on a thrilling quest to retrieve a rare Hawaiian antiquities artifact in San Diego. With a high-stakes bonus on the line, Bishop must outsmart a rival collector and navigate a dangerous chase...

Detectives Russ Wyatt, Steven Judd, and K9 deputy Max work with a federal task force to catch a paid serial killer with organized crime connections that stretch from Seattle to Chicago. The killer is soon identified as a former Marine Corps sniper who received...

This is a crime story, full of dangerous dealings, untrustworthy people, smugglers and drugs. It's a story about aviation, Hollywood, Mexico, the turbulent 1970s, filled with the animosity of anti-war protests and buffered by the music of Fleetwood Mac and Buffalo Springfield. Amend that....

After he was deported from the United States, he landed at Muritala Mohammed International Airport in Lagos, Nigeria. Danny Adeyinka, a privileged military brat, had been an undocumented immigrant, living the riotous life of the underworld.Eventually arrested by the FBI and the U.S. Secret...

A hearty, comforting dish of murder.Brent Pineridge was never like other children. Even as a toddler, something about him set him apart, something his parents couldn't quite name but couldn't ignore.While other babies giggled at silly faces or reached for colorful toys, Brent would...

Everett "Moon" Lunamin returns from battles in Vietnam determined to gain wealth and social status mining coal during the coal boom of the late 1960s and early 1970s. Moon struggles with his cousin George Landsetter, a reclamation officer, and surface mining competitors whose greed...

When the crimes are supernatural and the monsters committing them are human, you need a real monster to find justice for the victims. This monster is a half-Demon detective, who has a brutal reputation to live down to.Author: Count S. a. OlsonISBN-13: 9798894195049Publisher: Ewings...

Losing all that matters in this world can drive a man to the most extreme action that ever comes to his mind.In Change of Verdict (A Diary of a Father's Love), by D. H. Gatlin, Jason Burton stands trial for grotesquely torturing a man...

Luke is ordered by the King to investigate the intrigues and deaths surrounding the King's forthcoming marriage-with particular emphasis on England's foreign policy and national security.The increased attacks on past mistresses and potential wives might be central to these concerns or stem from the...

Murder to Music Rick Harrow, a British racehorse trainer, and his Kentucky-born wife, Happy, are thrilled when twin opera stars, Fran and Carla Purcell, enter their yard. Shortly after the twins buy horses, Carla is murdered. Three more famous artists in the music world...

The book continues the adventures of Oliver Cromwells top agent, Luke Tremayne. As Cromwells government faces conspiracies and uprisings from royalists, republicans, Catholics, religious extremists, and senior army officers, Luke is sent into Wales to assess the level of antigovernment activity and to solve...

In 1653 Luke and his deputy Harry are sent to Paris to negotiate secretly with the exiled king. they are separated and pursue independent investigations. Harry, who reaches the royal courtattempts to solve the murders of two ladies-in-waiting, while a disabled Luke investigates the...

Luke's murder investigation and search for stolen silver is complicated by intriguing Royalists, Irish rebels, influential women, treacherous comrades, a loveable witch, maladjusted siblings, murderous charcoal burners, and devious priests. Author: Geoff QuaifeISBN-13: 9798893567632Publisher: ArpressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/16/2024Pages: 236Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.77lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x...

In 1650 Luke is in Maryland acting for Cromwell, and the colony's proprietor Lord Baltimore, to assess the political situation. He becomes involved with a dysfunctional planter family and confronts several murders. His mission is complicated by planter rivalry, Indian wars, a Jesuit mission,...

Santa Fe Sacrifice (a.k.a. Sacrifice)Adam Rance, a.k.a. Rance Colby, acquires a driver's license for the first time to please his wife and is promptly summoned for jury duty. Unknown to Rance, both the presiding judge and his old friend General Rubin Brock are responsible...

Twenty years after writing a book about a nine-year-old Eric Madison's disappearance, David Anderson is confronted by the boy's father. Someone has released a new book, using David's old pseudonym, about the 'real' circumstances surrounding the disappearance. The Madisons are convinced enough that David...

"Time heals all wounds", or so the old saying goes. Retired FBI Agents Blake Ryder and Sophie Carter are slowly recovering from wounds, emotional and physical, caused by master criminal, Jack McCall. But try as they might, claws of the past simple won't release....

Heather Connelly (12) goes missing after a tornado strikes Waya County, Oklahoma. At first, no one believes Debby Connelly, her mother, that anything but the weather is to blame for Heather's disappearance. But when they search Lone Elk Park, police make a disturbing discovery....

The Catholic church is one of the most powerful organizations known to man. But what happens when a traumatized altar boy turned killer sets his sights on revenge?A follow up to The Hand, The Pink Bathroom depicts another game of cat and mouse as...

Jerome Miller lies in scorching, gritty sand, staring up out of the rugged ditch. Bleeding and broken. The start of a very bad day, for him. Cole Wright hitches into the town of Gollick, Arizona. Somewhere between Tuscon and Yuma. Looking for a good...

By the end of the week is about 5 brothers who lost their parents at a young age and how they overcame their situation to become successful.Author: Darnell LaMonte AdkinsISBN-13: 9798806323980Publisher: Independently PublishedLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/20/2022Pages: 90Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.21lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.19d

FIVE STARS: "This book proved to be entertaining, equalizing, multicultural, and empowering." - READERS FAVORITE Lucy Wang, a Chinese woman in her forties, leads an idyllic life in Montreal under the protective wing of her husband Patrick Harris, an English Canadian entrepreneurial millionaire whose...

In a world run by Syndicates, one has to be driven to succeed. It is 1936 and Syndicates rule the world in place of the governments they overthrew during a worldwide uprising decades ago. In this cutthroat world, eighteen-year-old Hannah Pryde is sold into...

Her husband was murdered, then thrown into jail, and now he's missing. After her husband, Bruce, is gunned down by someone she knows, Linda calls every hospital in town but can't find him. Days later, she learns Bruce is alive and being held in...

In the shadowy world of SCL Publishing, ambition can be deadly.When Bradley Fitzgerald-a war-hardened veteran turned struggling writer-lands a dream job at a prestigious California publishing house, he expects long hours and tough edits. What he doesn't expect is seduction, corruption, and murder. Beneath...

Two teenage girls disappear after a night of roller skating. They are last seen by the bus stop saying their "Good-byes" to the good looking boys they just met. A cop on night patrol tells the giddy teens that they need to get moving,...

The Devil Woman is no more. The world's deadliest assassin has embraced peace and abandoned her violent past. She has faked her death years ago, now living as a nun in a small village in the jungles of Columbia. Meanwhile, on the other side...

Detective Paddy Durr is BURNT TO A CRISP. He just can't catch a break. His beloved wife, Mairead, is dying from cancer contracted working at Ground Zero after 9/11. A vindictive police department Psychiatrist is out to take his guns away for spurning her...

In May, 1986, the world will converge on the formerly sleepy Pacific port of Vancouver, for a World's Fair. There, the lives of three cops and one criminal will collide, with irrevocable consequences: BARRY OLDS is a cop's cop; a man of judgment and...

Some characters and situations are fictitious. Others are only too real in this modern-day thriller set amid the chaos of a global epidemic and a cultural uprising that set the world ablaze. She's Lucky one day-Jackie the next. Actress or con artist? Avenging angel...

There are monsters among us, they look like we do, they talk like we do and they walk among us every day.They can be strangers, family or friends.The monsters walk among us, we see them every day but never recognise them for they wear...

New York in the riveting Jazz Age. Damien Stein is a renowned artist and businessman in the City That Never Sleeps. Following a series of unfortunate events, Damien has become impervious to his own humanity, which has led him to a fatal fascination with...

"I haven't forgotten what you did!" Carson ran away from Cypress Creek to escape his dark past-his father was the serial killer dubbed, "The Man in the Woods". Twenty-two years have passed, and a simple text message threatens to bring all his secrets out...

Melissa Deveroux, last seen working undercover in A Game of Shadows, is facing a new problem. Someone has shot her sister, a teacher in Beaverton, a suburb of Portland. Melissa travels down from Seattle to support her sister, but really isn't the type to...