Fiction - Thrillers - Crime

"Who were these people with money, and what had they done that they should enjoy so much luxury, where others as good seemingly as themselves had nothing? And wherein did these latter differ so greatly from the successful?"-Theodore Dreiser, An American Tragedy (1925)An American...

Blue Flags, the first in the Flag series of novels, introduces Philip Marlin, a nineteen-year-old engineer cadet serving in the British merchant navy. On a voyage from the United Kingdom to the Far East on the motor vessel Olympus, Marlin becomes unwittingly and dangerously...

With a disastrous election looming, the police on his heels, adultery in the air, a body on his conscience, and a gun buried in his backyard . . . Murray Whelan faces his biggest test yet. Murray Whelan should have been asleep in bed....

A Special Forces agent turned strip club bouncer with a side hustle as a fixer for the New York mob seeks the source of a new brand of heroin flooding the city streets Joe is an ex-Special Forces operative with a bad case of...

SOMEONE IS KILLING OFF THE OLD MOBSTERS OF LAS VEGAS AND THE MAYOR IS THE #1 SUSPECT. When Casino Executive Owen McCombs discovers a dead gangster in the trunk of the Mayor's car, he needs to find answers quick. In Vegas Die, the best...

He's a man we know only as "the columnist." He writes for a newspaper in Seattle, isn't afraid to stir up trouble, and keeps his life--including his multiple lovers and his past--in safe compartments. But it's all about to be violently upended when he...

Audrey Bedford, a small town girl, goes to London and is arrested for stealing the Queen of Finland's necklace. She realizes immediately that her sister is the guilty party, but family loyalty leads her to accept the charge and she does the time rather...

"Completely entertaining from beginning to end," this crime thriller features a maverick female private investigator who finds herself hunted by a hit man (Hugh Jackman, Emmy, Grammy and Tony Award-winning actor). The daughter of a cop with a degree in forensic psychology, Makedde Vanderwall...

Patrick Dawlish is used to solving crimes, not being suspected of them--until now, in this Golden Age British mystery from the Edgar Award-winning author.Patrick Dawlish has to admire Marion Ard's persistence. After first writing and telephoning, she shows up on his doorstep, begging for...

New York's most elite police force chases a ruthless murderer with an uncontrollable lust for money and blood.It's another glamorous night in the heart of Manhattan: at a glitzy movie premiere, a gorgeous starlet, dressed to the nines and dripping in millions of dollars'...

Pull up a chair and relax. We'd like you to meet Glenn Bowman, one of the toughest-and smartest- private eyes in New York. This time he's got himself involved in trying to keep alive the current heart-throb of Broadway-Pierre Dupray. Dupray is so certain...

In Spencer Kope's Whispers of the Dead, A series of bizarre murders--the victims nearly unidentifiable--forces FBI tracker "Steps" Craig to match wits with the most cold-blooded killer he's ever encountered. A pair of severed feet, stored in a portable a cooler, is found in...

A murder at the Edgar Allan Poe Museum in Richmond, Virginia, bears a close resemblance to one in Trondheim, Norway. The corpse of the museum curator in Virginia is found flayed in his office by the cleaning staff; the corpse of an archivist at...

Before his recent and acclaimed novels, celebrated author and columnist Denis Hamill wrote two books featuring a quintessential New York cop turned private detective and a cast of vividly portrayed lawmakers and lawbreakers, sometimes indistinguishable from each other. These two novels were praised as...

"Peter Blauner has created one of most the memorable psychopaths since Hannibal Lecter." -- Washington Post From Peter Blauner, the writer Dennis Lehane calls "one of the most consistently bracing and interesting voices in American crime literature," comes a new thriller about a lone...

"Brian Panowich's glorious return to Bull Mountain is another sprawling, brutal, no-holds-barred novel that held me in a death grip from page one until it kicked me out of the door with an ending I never saw coming." -- C.J. BoxA powerful follow up...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our...

Revenge! is a thrilling novel by Robert Barr that follows the story of a man named Gilbert Larose, who is consumed by the desire to seek revenge against those who have wronged him. After being betrayed by his business partner and losing everything he...

The Hunter is a novel written by Tuviah Friedman, telling the story of a man named Yosef who becomes a hunter in the early 20th century in Eastern Europe. Yosef is a skilled hunter, and he becomes a legend in his town for his...

Venture into the sinister heart of London with Sax Rohmer's "The Yellow Claw," a classic thriller of crime and mystery. Amidst the fog-shrouded streets, a detective finds himself embroiled in a perilous game of cat and mouse. This gripping narrative paints a vivid picture...

Sometimes the dead shouldn't stay buried. In a new case, Jamie Taylor and her cadaver dog set out to find bodies buried for more than a decade. It's her callling. It's what she does when she's not looking at mortgage loan applications for the...

Author: Jack PearlISBN-10: 0393336026ISBN-13: 9780393336023Publisher: W. W. Norton & CompanyLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/01/1971Pages: 204Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.58lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.47d

Ayingbi Mayengbam, a well-meaning primary school teacher, wants to take on some part-time work over the summer, ideally a job through which she can help people. When her first day as a volunteer at a suicide hotline ends in her finding a dead body,...

Have you discovered the gangland crime series everyone is talking about? 'If you like Martina Cole and Kimberley Chambers you will LOVE [Caz Finlay]' Reader Review You're either with them The Carters have always run the streets of Liverpool, but now there's a new...

The 1970s Middle East conflict is the setting for this high-octane thriller by the author of The Chill Factor. A crossed telephone wire causes a call from the President of the United States to his Ambassador in London to be overheard by geologist Tom...

A breathtaking tale of adventure, survival and loyalty.When the thief Jeniche finds her prison cell collapsing around her, she knows it is not going to be a good day.Certainly, the last thing she wanted once she escaped was to become involved with a group...

Get is a man who gets things - no matter the cost.Special uses her special effects skills to take what she wants who have more than they deserve.Cowboy is a cool-headed madman armed with the deadliest weapon you've ever seen - and he wants...

Money brought them together. Loyalty kept them close. Secrets will tear them apart.From the streets of Brooklyn to the power moves of Atlanta, Family Ties follows a tight-knit circle that turned hustle into an empire. At the center is Todd Washington, smart, calculated, and...

Money, Sex & Murda is the story of two young men from South East Washington D.C. that are deeply rooted into the underworld of the streets. Since a child, Garland "God" Davis wanted to live the life of a gangster. As he becomes initiated...

What if the greatest threat to America isn't a foreign army but a plan already in motion?When a legendary four-star general dies, Congressman Jack Connors inherits more than grief. He inherits a warning... one that exposes a covert alliance of global power brokers, rogue...

She built a quiet life on a farm in rural Indiana. She just didn't know someone was already looking to destroy it.When Molly James arrives in Follett Township, she isn't using her real name. She chooses the farm for reasons she can't say aloud:...

He watched a man die in a dark alley. The killer let him live. That was the worst thing that could have happened.Mason Andrews works the night shift in pediatric emergency. He patches up broken kids, walks home alone at 3 AM, and never...

A child is taken in the crossfire of a brutal cartel war. The kidnappers want a secret the kid doesn't have. The city of Barranca wants to survive the night.Enter Rook: mercenary, debt collector, and the last person you hire when you can't afford...

Set in India In the early eighties Max and Natalle, now married, take their teenage daughters to escape the turmoil of their London life. They take on what they consider to be an easy case, that of embezzlement. The case soon becomes a murder...

Blackmail, kidnapping, and murder were the tools used by gentlemanly villains to cover the tracks of a crime that netted millions of pounds annually for almost two decades. The story unfolds through the eyes of Johnny Cobbold, a City of London wine shipper who...

South of Heaven opens with the kidnapping and horrific murder of an eight-year-old girl on Chicago's South Side. The murder rattled the entire city, and with it being a high-profile press case, investigators were under intense pressure to find a suspect and make an...

Rock and roll bad boy, Duke DeLuxe and his band are offered the opening spot on the Rolling Stones' 1965 American tour.Duke is unknowingly drawn into a deadly drug smuggling operation, complicated by an unseen black widow, a torrid love triangle, and a conniving...

Winston Fisher, Jr. is broke, unemployed, and coming off his third divorce. High on cocaine, he wanders through his rented McMansion in a bathrobe, taking little notice of the piles of takeout containers or unopened mail, or even his firearms scattered throughout-a collection vast...

Evan Smoak, a.k.a., Orphan X, grabbles with his most dangerous mission yet, the latest in the bestselling series.Do you need my help?Those five words are the first thing anyone hears when they dial the encrypted line of the man known only as the Nowhere...

Two partners in crime embark on an art caper among the avant-garde of 1930s Paris in this thriller from the renowned twentieth-century mystery author.Berlin has not been kind to struggling English writer Bernard Fosdyke. He's on his last legs financially, and--as Hitler rises to...

"A neatly contrived nightmare, with the sunny islands and the kindly, sensible policeman cleverly contrasted with the menace surrounding the heroine." --Oxford MailFor Englishwoman Deborah Tarrant, a vacation in Malta was going to be the perfect way to bond with her mother, but a...

When Lieutenant Taylor Jackson investigates a brutal killing, she uncovers a web of intimacies, blackmail, and family betrayal in this twisted tale from New York Times bestselling author J.T. Ellison.It's one of the most horrific crimes Nashville's Lieutenant Taylor Jackson has ever seen: a...

David Miller thinks he's been stood up. An embarrassment. Nothing more.Then he learns she was murdered during those hours he spent waiting-killed while he sat checking his phone, nursing his wounded pride.The messages arrive next. From her number. Impossible, the police say. Untraceable. But...

Salton is a quiet, upper middle-class suburb whose denizens live quiet, uncomplicated lives.Rose and Judy are members of the "Symphony Seven," founders and board members of the Salton Symphony. When Rose, a widow and mother of three adult children, wakes up in hospital with...

When Danny Pearson gets a desperate late-night call from an old SAS comrade, he doesn't hesitate. Smudge is terrified, on the run, and begging for help from a remote chalet on the Norfolk coast. By the time Danny arrives with fellow ex-Regiment brothers Fergus...

Fiction Legal Thriller - In This Murder Mystery The Criminal Lawyer Must Fight to Find the TruthReader Reviews: "You Can Always Tell When A Writer Knows The Courtroom... if you like courtroom thrillers that respect your intelligence... this one's well worth your time." -...

The coroner's daughter is back when a ferocious snowstorm buries Freeport, Michigan--and with it, a deadly secret.When the frozen body of high school senior Ethan Quon is found wedged deep in a snowbank, medical examiner Dr. Emily Hartford is called in to determine how--and...

He steals treasures. Someone else leaves death behind.Veteran police lieutenant Richard Whitney must untangle a web of forgeries and murder before it reaches his family.For years, the wealthy residents of Old Brookville, New York, have lived with the presence of The Squire-an enigmatic thief...

"Every piece inside was forged, stolen, or remade to fit whatever version of me the world demanded."SaraBeth looks like your average neighborhood mother of three-except she isn't. When her family's safety is threatened, she makes a deal she never thought she would: aligning herself...

Eight years into a 15-year sentence, Crit Poppwell finally discovered something he was good at, besides destroying his family and abusing drugs. He found art. The solitary act of drawing, painting and creating brings a calmness and separation from the prison chaos. A dreadlocked...