Fiction - Thrillers - Suspense

When Barry Ottoman's idyllic, solitary, lifestyle is shattered by the appearance of unwanted interlopers with a mysterious agenda and intent on harm, he must call upon his vast knowledge of Australia's northern rain-forest's flora and fauna, to effect an escape from a deadly pursuit.Author:...

Max is living alone after his fiancé, Claire, moved out. She will take time to heal after her past horrific experiences.The 3rd man involved in the murder of his son has been spotted. Max and his police detective friend, Laura O'Donnell, are trying to...

Meg Dapsy's family home has been destroyed in an arson attack. Her mother is dead and her father is missing, but Stella, the younger sister she's always taken care of, has one secret too many... and it involves an old boyfriend.With suspicion falling on...

Relationships always need nurturing but sometimes couples can find themselves in a rut. For Rob and Celeste the honeymoon is over. In an effort to rekindle the romance in their relationship they take a trip to an isolated mountain resort.The weekend getaway takes a...

Backpacker, Soleil 'Sunny' Reyer is gone. Tanned, glowing and star of the Missing poster; no one thought fruit-picking could be deadly.Journalist, Jessica Steyn was the last person to give Sunny a lift. Assigned the biggest story in her career, Jessica is on the job....

TWO PEOPLE. TWO GLOBAL SUPERPOWERS. ONE DATE WITH DESTINY. ... set them on a collision course in a rapidly converging story, mix-in a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier on a week-long visit to an allied port, add local politicians, activists, and the media - and...

Lethal opponents.. ..Buchanan, the courageous young yachtsman, obsessed in bringing down a psychopathic maniac..Stone, the depraved sexual sadist hell bent on pursuing his killing spreeTortured by the cruel way in which Stone took the two things most dear to him, Buchanan devises a daring...

Stevie Nixon feels as though she is caught at a major crossroad in life: college applications, final exams, prom, graduation and a 200-year old death threat. With the help of her family and friends, Stevie has triumphed in the first two tasks of breaking...

"Curses, ghosts and psychos, oh my! Does everything end with my death?" Stevie asked.... Growing up in Sleepy Hollow, NY, seventeen-year old Stevie Nixon had always believed that that the Legend of the Headless Horseman was just that-a legend. That was until she was...

Things are not always as they seem..... A 16-year-old murdered in the Lincoln Houses is only the beginning...Investigative reporter Nicole Watkins covers the story, but when she comes face to face with homicide detective Andre Moore, she finds herself guarding more than her sources....

Danielle Thompson has huge dreams of one day owning her own business featuring her writings. Working at the Reed's Greeting Card shop, Dani becomes the protégé of her cool boss Mrs. Cheryl. Nadine Hughes has found herself beaten and abandoned again. Will she seek...

The Substitute Savior is a moving and suspenseful novel that carries you into the lives of two gifted and enigmatic teachers-Mr. Amonte and Mr. Merriman. Mr. Merriman's special gift is his wonderful ability to connect with his students and help them discover the inner...

A high profile Hollywood couple journeys to Scotland, only to discover that the lake house they've leased for the summer has a dark and sinister history. As the weeks pass, the MacIntyres are inexorably drawn into a vile trap that soon threatens their marriage...

When emotions go to extremes murder happens.Sometimes it's because of betrayal.Sometimes it's in revenge.Sometimes it's to hide a lie or in self-defense.Sometimes it's to feed a secret hunger.Whatever the reason, the human mind lends itself to twisted pathways that lead to murder and death...Includes...

Collisions is the story of two very different men: Murphy Kearns, a landscape architect on a job in the Outer Banks of North Carolina and away from his family, and Victor Dancy, an air traffic controller in Williamsburg who wishes he were away from...

This is the story of Christian L. Smith. He finds himself obsessed with searching for the truth about God, the Devil...and life itself. When in quest for that magnitude of truth, eventually you are forced to make a choice. This is a story of...

Made In The Image is rollercoaster suspense that picks you up on page one and doesn't let you off until you're begging for mercy at the cliff's edge. Markiza, Russia's most notorious human trafficker meets his match when he goes up against Miami's daredevil...

"Ashley Fontainne proves with 'Number Seventy-Five' that she's a talent to watch."--Raymond Benson, author of The Black Stiletto series"With an attention to detail, and a slowly building sense of dread and horror, Ashley Fontainne's "Number Seventy-Five" will have you racing through her story of...

Young Lorna Daniels already has the challenges of life ahead of her as womanhood is upon her. A sudden car accident is just the beginning of her long road to recovery. Lorna's struggles force her to stare down and face a slew of challenges...

The scenic bayous and small towns of South Louisiana hold hidden dangers beyond those you might expect - in a tangled tale of mystery and suspense.Raya, a freelance writer and blogger, researches cold cases for true crime websites. One case in particular, the Bayou...

New Orleans, childhood bonds, voodoo and gangsters, all kick up heat and mystique in Mickie Turk's debut novel. After a long absence, Dr. Dominique Doucette returns to her hometown to open a reform prison for violent male offenders. Immediately, bullying by a local sherif...

In the heart of every parent, no matter how strong the love and child-parental ties, lies fear. Fear that their child could one day, in some way, meet up with harm or be taken from them. For Marie and Steven Boman, on the final...

A wrong turn on the back streets of New Orleans ends with Tara Boudreaux witnessing her husband's murder and being dumped in a murky canal to die. After losing her husband and their unborn child, Tara must decide whether to forgive the three men...

Were it not for Miami University, Oxford, Ohio would be indistinguishable from hundreds of sleepy little farming communities that dot the Midwest. Miami's reputation and the beauty and tranquility of Oxford draw some of the finest academcians and students in the world. For Drs....

Congressional chief of staff Dave O'Brien is salivating at the prospects for advancement in the wake of a tragic plane crash that has opened the way for his boss, Congressman Noah Sebring, to take over the powerful chair of the House Appropriations Committee. But...

In a time of change in the Catholic church, a priest in a crisis of faith discovers in a young boy a living relic, a mystic, a saint. But the world is not so sure. Pitted against a family desperate to escape their secret...

Kimberly Short was a talented sixteen year old with a bright future ahead of her. When her bloodied body is found near the river's edge, the whole town is ready for revenge. For the two boys found next to her, proving their innocence would...

Adam Glassman is a burned out ad guy who gives new meaning to the word "creativity" when he thinks up what might be the biggest idea of his career - a way to swindle his contemptible clients out of millions and make a fresh...

Janet Hawthorne is a doctoral microbiology student at Harvard University feverishly working to find the cure for breast cancer, a disease that has taken the life of every female in her family. She knows if she isn't successful, she will be the next victim....

Concerned for her sister Kim, whom she is afraid is having a break-down after the death of her husband, Susan Edwards goes to see if she can help her. But soon Susan is caught up in the complicated web of lies and deceit her...

Enticed by money-lots of it-Steven Renner joins the newly formed Shank, Ernie & Busher stock brokerage firm in New York. Because of Busher's law degree and securities license, the firm believes he's the best candidate for the job. Steve feels he has nothing to...

John Austin, known as Auty, is not an impulsive man. But even so, he decides to abandon a successful and lucrative law practice that's won him notoriety and a reputation for integrity. When a big case is on the line, Auty is the suit...

Twenty-five years ago, in the deep south, a small airplane mysteriously disappears in the dense piney woods of Mississippi. The pilot, a young widow named Hadley Welch, who owns and runs a worldwide privately held pharmaceutical company is the lone occupant. Now, her daughter,...

Tabitha Locke and Doug Willis have planned their dream wedding at the palatial Hawthorne Manor and are looking forward to a lifetime of joy and togetherness. But the death of Tabitha's ex-boyfriend, Eric Brownley, at the Hawthorne Manor on the eve of the wedding...

Name-calling and mudslinging permeate the election campaign for Great Britain's office of prime minister. Two leading candidates, Howard Spencer and Adam Baldwin, both covet the powerful position and will do anything to get it. Spencer can taste victory, but he knows one thing that...

Homer spoke of the Furies as avenging spirits who punished humans for the wrongs they did. In a small, bucolic, upstate New York town in the present day, six seemingly ordinary school children, led by an inspiring, hallucinatory girl among them, commit a series...

Jerry Harmon walks into Jimmy Van Horn's office in Austin, Texas, one steamy Friday night and asks him to find his father, an entomologist named Samuel. The young man gives Jimmy five hundred dollars and asks, "Is that enough?" So starts Fundamentally Texas. As...

A renowned research biochemist is murdered. Nuclear material is stolen and an extremely deadly bio-chemical agent is compromised. A group of international terrorists, presumed to have been terminated years before, are confirmed to be alive and operating within the boarders of the United States....

Blake Brown eased his car out of the parking lot and onto the highway. Unseen, the idling evil slowly left its resting place to follow discreetly behind him. Blake rounded corners and went through lights and the black, metallic beast stayed on his tail....

.Dru could barely say a word. It was all too strange. The visit was turning out so differently than she had expected. She wondered what her grandmother was up to, what she had said to Giles when she left the room to help Sal,...

Jimmy Van Horn gets a visitor in his Austin, Texas, bar late one night. A woman named Vanessa Burnett who is scared to death wants him to protect her from Marcus Patton, against whom she intends to file a complaint for the murder of...

Uncle Paul and Marianne arrived at their usual feeding bench near the thicket of trees that lined one edge of DeSoto Park. Marianne was trembling as she scanned the premises for possible rescuers, but spotted no other occupants across the field. Not even a...

When Rory McDonnell, the only son of power attorney Michael McDonnell, learns of his father's unethical business practices, Rory is faced with a difficult decision. Will Rory follow his heart? Or is he headed down the same immoral path as his father? Rory walks...

Amerasian nightclub hostess, Lana Reyes, and Mark Shaffer, an unemployed American living in Japan, follow a trail of danger and death as they compete with a yakuza criminal organization in the search for a horde of gold hidden in the Philippines by the Japanese...

Then the circle passes unto its own taking on new challenges, until its energy moves me upward into the heaven space.bliss. With passion and an extraordinary talent for narrative fiction, Kinneth Hollaway takes us deep into the lives of Jonathan and Emmanuelle. This luminous...

New Orleans settings, gangland murder, police corruption, and international drug operations are the backdrop for J.C. Simmons' sixth serial mystery. Simmons' famed Aviation Consultant/Investigator, Jay Leicester, is drawn into a worldwide drug manufacturing operation when an old family friend's grandson is brutally murdered and...

Does this sound like a medieval romance? A powerful noble regains a mysterious relic and intends to use it to establish his own kingdom. To do this, he must ally himself with an enemy who has his own deadly purposes for the talisman. The...

As a teen, prosecutor Ben Santos fathered a daughter out of wedlock. Hell-bent on a career in law, he lost contact with her. A dozen years later, his failure to embrace fatherhood is his one abiding regret. Blood money claims the life of a...

"The true measure of a man lies in his ability to remain independent and in his capacity to command respect. Plain and simple. That's an epitaph I'd favor." Such is the philosophy of one-time Newark Detective Sergeant Mac Taylor. After retiring under questionable circumstances,...

He never saw it coming. It hit like a sudden storm. Usually, he could manage to stop things before they got out of hand. But before he knew it, everything had come crashing down around him like a cloudburst.Author: Michelle McGriffISBN-10: 0595655742ISBN-13: 9780595655748Publisher: iUniverseLanguage:...