Fiction - Thrillers - Crime

The first book in Peter Church's Dark Web TrilogyWhen a sexy engineer hires a reformed hacker in Cape Town to help solve her boss's disappearance, the hunt quickly becomes deadly. Young, bright and sexy, Carla Vitale has been handpicked to run Supertech, Africa's leading...

Readers have this to say about The River Bend Chronicles: "Take a chance on reading the River Bend Chronicles. You won't be disappointed." "Renee gets better with each book she writes." "I love this series of books. I feel like I am visiting a...

The story starts in 1986, two years after Maria's kidnapping. Nicky is the head of his family. He is taking Sal to see the mausoleum he built for their mother and father. Sal is living in a mental ward after he smothered his parents....

In the early 1980s, a stranger by the name of Kenny Collins moves to Down East Maine--a place rooted in the traditions of those who were born and bred there, and meets Mary Bagley, a woman who knows all too well the insidious nature...

Former Coast Guard officer Cole Williams is taking a big mental and emotional break. He's hoping some time with an old buddy in the winter wilds of Newfoundland will calm the conflicts he's feeling after a lifetime of running fast boats throughout the Caribbean...

What if the person who hated you most was the only one who could save you?Thousands of gentlemen have gone bankrupt in Bridges and trouble brews between the Diamond and Spadros crime families. Yet the city is united in its desire to exact vengeance...

How would it feel to be a gifted and talented beautiful teenager who spiraled to her demise? How would it feel to be a single mother of twins who was declared unfit and lost her babies through a court system scam? "Babies for Sale"...

Orphaned at ten, by twenty he has already killed countless people... Ripped away from an impoverished childhood just days after his tenth birthday, Brendan must spend the next decade of his daunting life learning how to survive within the margins of a fraternal, underworld...

This super-engaging thriller couldn't be more topical and timely. Author T. Matt Ryan, inspired from his observations and experiences in politics, has created a novel about corruption, betrayal, and revenge along with justice and redemption in small-town America.Set in rural Western Colorado shortly after...

Someone ... or something ... is stalking the citizens of Miami.First, the chief of the triage morgue at Dade County Hospital is strangled; the skulls of two homeless men are crushed under a highway overpass, followed by drug dealers, frat boys and workers at...

"CHINA GIRL" SPINS TALE OF A FAR-RIGHT TRUMPLANDIAN DYSTOPIA"Raw and powerful writing...passionate and unafraid...edgy, powerful and filled with non-stop tension. A politically charged nightmare that explodes off the pages in a terrifying tale. This one deserves a spot on that must read shelf. Just...

Kasie Sanders, a young rising-star New Orleans police detective, is busted after a bodega shootout and is working as a wedding and children's party photographer when she is picked for a dangerous special assignment by the FBI, investigating American ties to a sex-slave ring...

Nathan Nightbridge is a genius at getting away with murder. . . or is he? True, people who offend him have a way of turning up dead, but maybe he has bad relationship karma. Nathan beats the court system so many times he develops...

Florida Politics. The only thing predictable is the unpredictability. When Janis is fired from her job at the newspaper, she focuses on the causes that matter to her. The environment and the economy. That embroils her in the 2014 election. When her good friend...

When a young mother is brutally murdered in front of her newborn baby, and a policeman slain in the subsequent pursuit, Detective Isabella Garcia disobeys orders and leaves the streets of Miami behind as she sets sail on board an old wooden yacht called...

Dark Discoveries - Issue #27 Dark Mystery All new Fiction by: Douglas Clegg, Brian Evenson, Maurice Broaddus, John R. Little, Bentley Little, Tom Piccirilli Interviews with: Brian Evenson, Jeffrey Sackett, and Tom Piccirilli Articles on: The Italian Connection: Crime Films of the 1970s by...

FBI Agent Joe 'Hound' Vasquez is on the scent of 'Viper, ' a mysterious and sadistic serial killer. Viper murders young men, executes other serial killers while they are incarcerated in maximum security prisons, and most recently took the life of Joe's partner. Joe...

Private investigator Bryson Wilde lives in an edgy 1952 world where nothing is black and white, cigarettes dangle from ruby-red lips, and even the simplest case has more dangerous twists than whiskey-soaked jazz. In this riveting pulp noir thriller from acclaimed author R.J. Jagger,...

The legacy of a failed regime rises from the deep. Indomitable marine biologist Chris Black is looking forward to six quiet months of scientific research off the coast of Cape Town, South Africa. But when on a routine dive Chris discovers the wreck of...

The future of the nation rests on one man's birthmark. Fulford College is broke. In a desperate attempt to keep its doors open, the Florida based college joins forces with the Mafia to establish a scholarship program. This program, however, comes with a new...

The Trial of the Next Century Jason Verne is an All-American Hero. As the first man to set first on Mars after his lone journey into space, he quickly became a familiar figure in every living room. His good-will and human courage won over...

Chasing a dream can be deadly. Charity knows three cold cases could solve a fresh murder. But only the killer believes her... Private investigator Charity Deacon is a force to be reckoned with, and she's driven to solve three cold cases that she believes...

To leave her dark secrets buried, she'll be forced to play the hero...Prague. Playing by her own rules has forced Sharka Lewis to start over. Despite fleeing her old life, the law firm investigator's new home can't keep her past at bay. Threatened by...

In the latest installment of the Charity Deacon Investigations series, AMBITION, author P A Wilson takes readers on a heart-pounding journey of loyalty and betrayal, discovering along the way the lengths one will go to prove a friends innocence. When Charity Deacon discovers her...

Why would a shady businessman go to considerable lengths to disappear overseas only to return home to Canberra to be murdered?One of several questions puzzling John Order from a casual association with the man, along with why another local businessman wants him to stay...

There's a killing to be made at the bankThey say you should live each day like your last.Follow your dreams. Take risks. Die empty. All that junk.Charlie's about to lose everything.His job. The boss he hates. The girl he loves.And his life.But he wouldn't...

Dieter Paesano exploits the greed of small business "entrepreneurs" operating on the fringes of the gold industry in Africa. They are attracted by any proposition, risky or not, which leverages their investment stake. However, Paesano is running out of projects, the financial returns are...

The erection of a new retirement village in suburban Adelaide is proceeding well and an eclectic mix of retirees take up residence as the well-appointed retirement units become available. The kind of carefree, comfortably relaxed lifestyle that retirees look forward to is soon established...

Bob McTaggart returns from a tour of duty with his special forces unit in Afghanistan and his world is turned upside down. He tries to put his life back on an even keel only to find himself dangerously involved in the dirty and deadly...

It's 1970s Adelaide, an elderly transport magnate, living in a retirement village with his much younger attractive wife, dies suddenly from a heart attack. The family is furious, when they discover he has left his fortune entirely to the young wife, whom the family...

What would you do if you began to suspect one of your tenants could be the perpetrator of a vicious double murder committed over thirty years ago?It is 1983 and the grand old Victorian mansion 'Rosalind', nestled in the inner city village of Glebe,...

Dr Vince Hanrahan is still in exile down on Victoria's southwest coast, serving out his time before returning to his wife and family and reclaiming his status as a big shot metro OBY/GYN. Well, that's the plan. If he keeps out of trouble.But trouble...

The killer looked down at Caleb Everett lying unconscious on the floor. He'd seen him that way on another occasion, although this time circumstances were very, very different. He picked up the can of gasoline and carefully doused the unconscious man - beginning with...

Hunted is the Prey, is Donovan Hoult's latest book. The ruthless climb of Winton Springer, an itinerant shearer picked up on an outback Queensland road by Sam Carlin, the owner of a struggling oil and gas exploration company. Uneducated, but highly intelligent, Springer resorts...

Author: Harvey CleggettISBN-10: 192536755XISBN-13: 9781925367553Publisher: Brolga Pub.Language: EnglishPublished: 09/01/2016Pages: 418Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.03lbsSize: 8.25h x 5.50w x 0.85d

Dennis J. McTaggart started life on a farm in the Gippsland Lakes area. He left school at 16 and moved to Traralgon where he worked in electrical retail. His thirst for adventure saw him join the local "skin diving club" where he was offered...

Harry Stevens, a Middle Eastern war hero, thought that recovering in Eden with his huge and mystical cat, Jasper, after his catamaran is bashed around by a storm, would be a delightful break from his sailing voyage around Australia. However, the finger of fate...

Harry Stevens, the Middle-Eastern war hero from Hitch-Hikers, the first book in the Firebird series, thought that having dinner at the pub and chatting up the waitress was a safe and pleasant way to pass an evening, but circumstances conspire to dump the delivery...

Sydney 1986, and Devlin's life is music, madness and a vivid dream of another life. Another place. A place he's seen and can't forget. A place of heat and dust and silence, and endless blue. Time to think. And to kill. And forgive. A...

Until the day they arrestedmy husband, my life had been normal ...Now I was by myself, in a courtroom, with a husband in jail.How had this happened?What would you do if someone you loved was found guilty of a shocking crime? Erica is an...

Walter Blunt is already the city of Adelaide's most cut-rate private eye and he's not about to do himself any favours - taking on a case even the police can't solve.He's used to following other sleazy little men around town as they cheat on...

Visitors may find the Handy Guide to Manderville useful, but it offers no help to residents lost in a deadly maze of no-longer familiar streets, among newly sinister public places. Its pages extol the virtues of significant buildings, fine parks, and especially, the town's...

Introducing John Order, recently elected member of the local ACT parliament, who is under the gun literally, just doing his job.And it doesn't get any better.There's a body, a blonde, a powerful family with complicated relationships and attempts, internally and externally, to destroy his...

Lou Petrakis is a man obsessed with owning ancient Grecian gold. With his friend, Kostas, he undertakes a daring jewellery heist from an Athens museum before escaping to Mykonos where a mutual friend, Miklos, advises them to trade the jewellery on Istanbul's black market....

The ancient walled city of Canterbury has held many secrets over the centuries but none more mysterious than the death of Professor de Gray. Called in to evaluate the contents of his Tudor Manor House, Belinda and Hazel are confronted with a number of...

The third adventure for Belinda and Hazel continuing the pace and humour that readers have come to acknowledge and appreciate. Excitement and tension begin on the first day of filming a Restoration drama on location at the historic Jacobean mansion, Ham House in Surrey...

After a medical mishap, Dr Vince Hanrahan crashes professionally and personally, is all but struck off, and the Medical Board kicks him all the way down the Princes Highway to be a rural GP. Supervised. On notice. He rents a dump, lives off takeaway,...

One sunny afternoon in Monte Carlo, a private jet carrying the heir to the Aretino fortune explodes, killing all on board.Tragic accident? Or cold-blooded murder?Six months later, Wall Street analysts Stella Sartori and Jack Rogers fly toMilan for what appears to be a simple...

The blistering follow-up to GoodCopBadCop. Detective Inspector Brian Fisher seeks to put the past behind him and free himself from his 'Bad Cop' persona once and for all. But it's not easy to turn your back on a dark history of depravity and violence....

GoodCopBadCop is a modern crime take on Jekyll and Hyde where the 'good cop' and 'bad cop' are the same person. It is a modern day police procedural story where our main character tries to juggle the various crimes he's investigating while juggling the...