Fiction - Thrillers - Suspense

Stacy Dupree finds himself held captive in the infamous Dr. Salzor s fortress. The doctor believes that Stacy knows the whereabouts of his once most prized possession, the Emerald Tablet. Gina Dupree, Stacy s ex-wife, stole the Emerald Tablet, which is a powerful magickal...

On a familiar jogging trail in the densely wooded area near historic Blakeley Park, Pilar Brighton slices through the shafts of early morning light. Like a frightened gazelle in flight, her eyes are glazed with terror as she dashes for her very life. Four...

Two girls grow up together, best friends, and one disappears. The other girl becomes obsessed with her disappearance and does some detective work, with the help of a local Doctor.Author: Alice E. HeaverISBN-10: 0595652492ISBN-13: 9780595652495Publisher: iUniverseLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/30/2002Pages: 120Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.85lbsSize: 9.36h x 6.52w...

A single mother is determined to ignore the ghost of her murdered husband.Author: Brenda A. PaskeISBN-10: 0595651321ISBN-13: 9780595651320Publisher: iUniverseLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/13/2003Pages: 176Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.00lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.92w x 0.69d

When a sheriff's deputy is brutally murdered, fellow deputy Margaret Donovan-his lover-questions every choice she has made as her life spins out of control. Struggling to find meaning amidst chaos, she returns to the faith in which she was raised. A friendship with a...

No one can move an audience with a single bow stroke like acclaimed violinist Logan Kossowicz. But would his audience be so enraptured if his collar and cuffs weren't carefully buttoned, covering prison gang tattoos that helped him survive the darkest chapter of his...

Long Beach, California - The sunny beachside community is gripped by fear, caused by a rash of serial killings. All of the victims have been female and the latest victim, Jesica Andrews, only made the situation worse. As the daughter of prominent Congressman Thomas...

Threatened with the ending of his teaching career unless he publishes scholarly work soon, Dawson Goldsmith embarks of writing a literary biography of his uncle, who became a successful and noteworthy novelist after a career in journalism. He discovers that his uncle was a...

On the Way Home is a unique story. Stephen Henderson, neurosurgeon, head of his department at a local medical school, is returning home after a late night call to the hospital. He is stopped by a police officer, gets out of his car at...

Four generations of Dr. Sam Crochet's family have called rural Lacroix, Louisiana, home; Sam was the second to do it in the capacity of town doctor. He had never considered practicing medicine anywhere else. At the same time, Sam gave his love to Claire...

What would you do if you found yourself stranded in Paradise? Newlyweds Jenny and Stan are eager to travel before they begin building their family. After seeing an intriguing ad in a travel magazine, Jenny arranges a vacation to a remote Pacific island. The...

When a teenager is killed in Bridgeport, Connecticut, with a rookie police officer's firearm, a group wanting to clear the officer hires Nick PT Barnum to investigate the shooting. Early in his probe, Nick hears that a woman's body was found in Seaside Park....

The Trail of Tears: one of the darkest and most shameful deeds in U.S. history and it ends in Fort Smith. Fort Smith: a small town living under the shadow of a curse that threatens the lives of its citizenry. Detective Sergeant Ellis Morgan:...

Danielle's husband has a secret. But what her friends know may hurt her even more. As she stumbles through her husband's web of lies, she discovers that pain comes with a price and someone has to pay. Will what she finds in Charney's closet...

"A terrifically exciting novel. Plenty of steam and excitement to delight both men and women readers. You won't be able to put it down."-Bill Eichenberger, Book Editor, Columbus Dispatch Yesterday's Shadow is an intriguing tale of calculated betrayal and deceptions that unfolds with unexpected...

If you've read previous books by Liz Clarke, on the Shell series, you've met the aunt who raised her. Aunt Ellie now lives in Charlotte, North Carolina and has acquired a mixed breed, very large, shaggy pup named Mutt. While dog walking, Mutt decides...

This work of fiction starts off in Debert, Nova Scotia in June 1943. Amid the chaos of World War II this story will celebrate the power of love and the remarkable relationships that formed during this time of tragedy. There was a warped sense...

While on death row in North Carolina, convicted murderer Wheeler Stokes gets a surprise visitor, one whose twisted path he has crossed in important ways. This is the story of a man and his tortured past, the women he loved and lost, and the...

Don't be afraid, we're just going to kill someone. Never before has Big Adam written anything so strong, graphic, and unnerving. He introduces us to the five most devious villains he has ever created, as well as a look into the world of a...

This novel, set in 1963, recounts the story of Blair Fusco, an aspiring eighteen-year-old who wishes to become a successful hairstylist, and prove wrong those who regard him as queer, particularly his father. Perceived to be homosexual, and ridiculed for his effeminate characteristics, Blair...

Charlie Kirk opens a safe . The Burglary exposes a lover's quarrel. Kirk, his friends and the FBI are drawn into murder and mob violence while they attempt to identify the killers.Author: Robert MulcahyISBN-10: 0595470521ISBN-13: 9780595470525Publisher: iUniverseLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/24/2008Pages: 128Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.44lbsSize: 9.00h x...

An abusive childhood has forged Nathan Kirkland into the man he has become-a hard-working, strong-minded, self-made millionaire. Add to that his extraordinary good looks, and he appears to have it all. There's just one problem: to blunt the pain of his past, Nathan has...

Clare Verney watched from the airport's arrival lounge as the plane landed and taxied toward the terminal. Single, 42, a successful businesswoman, she was about to take on fulltime guardianship of a trio of children with a troubled past, children she had never before...

Ten years ago Pam Thomas witnessed her parents' murders. The events were so terrifying and traumatic, she blocked out all the events of that night. Two weeks ago she began getting threats on her answer phone. Two days ago a dead rat was left...

Reporter Luke Stockwell gets word that his photojournalist brother, Matt is missing on a special assignment. When he picks up a videocassette from Matt at the Newort post office, he learns an FBI agent tried to intercept it that morning. Luke enlists Alison Huntley,...

The book revolves around the primary assistant to the President as crisis after crisis evolves. Massive Latin American immigration has flooded Texas, Arizona, New Mexico and California which are demanding separation from the United States. India and China have fought a massive war in...

June loves stories-and not just the kind you find in books, but stories you dream up of overheard conversations, family secrets, whatever was left unsaid the last time you hung up the phone. She collects them, hoards them, and then transforms them into fiction....

The Donation is a medical thriller that dramatizes the shortage of organs available for transplantation. It asks what if organ donation became a choice as a means of means of execution for prisoners on death row? How would it affect the donor pool? Would...

When Tom Morrow sees a man at the grave of his murdered girlfriend, a man driving a red over white '62 Corvette just like his, he starts to question the nature of his own identity, an identity in peril since a car accident years...

Maria Parker, a brilliant, Harvard trained research scientist had left her life in Washington DC behind and was driving west to a new job near St. Louis. Her new associate, Dr. Stanley Cross, is a genius working on an optics program that can put...

Following the loss of his lucrative oil-industry job, Ace Mulligan quickly learns that available work within the confines of the law doesn't readily meet his financial requirements. He decides to turn his many talents toward jobs beyond conventional legal parameters, beginning with the heist...

Almidar Kamel, a model cadet at Sundance Military School in rural Norwood, Tennessee, reveres Allah, embraces holy war, hates America, and is preparing for martyrdom. As he listens to his Muslim leaders, he surmises the wait will be short. Zamrah Musenu, the beautiful daughter...

In the turbulent 1990s in Russia, eighteen-year-old Svetlana is about to graduate from high school. She dreams of traveling and of becoming a Russian ambassador to the United States or England. But when she meets Yuri, a young ruffian working for the Russian Mafia,...

History Professor Walter G. Douglas, working on his doctoral dissertation discovers his grandparent's involvement in a long and bloody family feud that plagued them in communist Eastern Europe and resurfaced in America. Through Professor Douglas unbiased narrative, unfolds the story of Victor Doczy, a...

Social workers Hannah "Scrimp" Dubois and Earlene "Pinch" Washington have just started their own business, Social Investigations, to solve the murders of ten foster children in New Orleans, Louisiana. The New Orleans Police Department, the Catholic Church, and local politicians have sidestepped clues that...

After her parents died, Julie Jacobs left her small hometown and the safety and security her sister provided to take a job as a nurse companion to an elderly woman at luxurious Bigelow Manor on the outskirts of Buffalo, New York. Julie soon found...

The heroes of In the Line of Duty and In the Line of Duty: Vendetta return for another adventurous romp in this suspenseful tale of love, jealousy, conspiracy, and crime. Emma Solano knew she had her hands full when she married her husband, British...

They say that writers have a strong desire to get published, but they didn't mention that the eagerness to be published could lead to madness. Unfortunately this wasn't explained to one writer who seeks his revenge on agents, publishers, and newspaper columnists by murdering...

Marissa Davenport, Trish Franklin, and Kirsten Keenon-three distinct young women from three different cities-move to Washington DC to follow their dreams. Although each pursues a different career path, the three new roommates quickly become friends and find their lives intertwined with organized crime, romance,...

Death in the Grotto is the story of a death, perhaps a murder, at Notre Dame University. A student, Ben Pacelli, is caught up in the murder when he finds the body tucked among the stones of the sacred Grotto at Notre Dame. Ben...

Camille Howland Mariani, retired college public relations director, journalist, and newspaper editor, is the author of several magazine articles, as well as the SUNY Canton College history, Seventy Years of Change. Having turned to writing fiction, she previously published Lucille's Lie. The Maine native...

Where are these missing children? We see their innocent faces on milk containers. When we open our mailboxes, we find circulars with pictures of children who were never found. There are countless Amber Alerts that rattle our fears. What are the possibilities of ever...

"The gathering of the ravens presages a disturbance of the natural order." Attorney Harry Jenkins is back in A Trial of One, the final installment of the unsolved saga started in Mary E. Martin's Conduct in Question and continued in Final Paradox. Jenkins is...

Michael Stanford is living his American dream. A successful businessman in the small town of Hillcrest, he has amassed a small fortune and married his longtime girlfriend. But Michael's idyllic life comes to an abrupt and brutal end when he is murdered in cold...

Kansas City in the 1940s is full of corruption and danger. As the city moves from home rule to state control, law enforcement agencies struggle to overcome the criminal element on the street. But when a young Kansas City socialite, Leigh St. Marie, is...

Arrested for shoplifting, a woman with amnesia fears both her past and her future, and claims no knowledge of the mysterious young girl found with her. Sins of the Father focuses on the efforts of Dr. Allyson Freemont, to bring Feona Parker face to...

A cunning psychopath has found a serial killer's paradise in an isolated patch of Oregon ... a religious commune, a cult. His youthful victims are never even missed ... until a lawyer comes looking for one of them. And Rob Swift comes home. Once...

Karma Francois is a thirty-something, California-born BoHo BAP (Bohemian Black American Princess) with Louisiana roots and urban debutante flair. But her life has suddenly taken a drastic turn. Her relationships and the museum curator career that she struggled to form in New York City...

Soon after arriving in Manila in the early 1990s, Clay Sadler, the regional security officer at the U.S. embassy, is thrust into a chaotic world of uncertainty and deception. In a city where gunfire and explosions are commonplace, an early-morning ambush that leaves a...

Part 1: Gunz As a teenager growing up in Asbury Park, NJ, there were never many positive options for Rasheen Jordan to choose from. Where as most 15-year-old kids might participate in boy scouts or recreational baseball, for Rasheen it was either drug dealing...