Fiction - Thrillers - Suspense

Prescription For Death A gang of criminals devise a scheme to defraud insurance companies by faking heart attacks. Their plot includes a method of altering cardiograms, a relatively new diagnostic tool in 1931, the setting of this story. Stuart Downing, a young physician, suspects...

Five individuals, born in separate corners of the world, yet uniquely connected, come together. As they approached maturity, their mothers were murdered to provide for their real training to begin. Each is alleged to be a direct descendent of leaderAuthor: Jim ErnstISBN-10: 0595275192ISBN-13: 9780595275199Publisher:...

The Barfly Boys is a fast-paced thriller about the trials and tribulations of four young men in Charlottesville, Virginia trying to keep alive their dreams of rock 'n roll stardom. The book chronicles the lives of the Mean Streets band: Chris, the bass player...

Miss Eden Bright, an innocent spinster and preacher's daughter, is held hostage by a convicted outlaw and forced from her hometown of Yuma, Arizona. This enigmatic stranger takes her to an isolated setting on the Colorado River where she is greeted with a tremendous...

With the international genetic patents secured, Project Abacus' success now hinges on the giant foreign conglomerate's scheme to win the US proposal. Corporate espionage will ensure success to ultimately secure the technology vital for control of the world. But with Anthony's hands tied will...

World Oil had experience exploring islands of the Philippines, but they had not run into the Moro Separatist who were determined to government would not allow oil production to develop in their area. It would bring law and order, making their control of Mindanao...

Isolated among the soaring peaks of the Rocky Mountains, an old mining town has plans to regain its former gold rush glory. Their project is threatened when environmental terrorists slip into the valley and begin plotting mayhem against the local economy. Using a network...

The Homegoing is an electrifying saga of a young woman's journey back home to face a mysterious family past that has plagued and destroyed so many lives. Saved by adoption, she had escaped the fate that her younger years held and was now living...

In this collection of seven stories, there are winners and takers, and they all deal with: --DOD, Death on Demand. All are suspenseful in one way or another. The first being, "The Rape of Angelina..." Here you see revenge, as death waits. In the...

A headless corpse stuffed in an unoccupied University Hospital room does not advertise good medical care for the institution. The Courier Gazette assigns Jack Sheet to write the story. Soon a series of torsos with alternating heads start appearing with frightening rapidity. Jack is...

Author: Laurie EllisISBN-10: 0595270344ISBN-13: 9780595270347Publisher: iUniverseLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/07/2003Pages: 292Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.99lbsSize: 9.24h x 6.04w x 0.76d

Jonathan Schmidt and Alex Carmichael, through the Schmidt Foundation, conduct studies on evolutionary politics. In examining the issue of a rising Hispanic community, they stumble on evidence that Carl Peters, the senior aide of Democratic vice-presidential nominee Paul Montenegro may be a Russian imposter....

Kevin Robertson, a married man, has a problem. He can t stop cheating. Everything seems to be going fine until his lovers, his own co-workers, start committing suicide, one after the other. His problems only get worse while he tries to hide their suicide...

This breathtaking novel, set against the backdrop of the software world and the Internet, takes you on a thrill ride from Massachusetts to California.Author: Barry SilversteinISBN-10: 0595268838ISBN-13: 9780595268832Publisher: iUniverseLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/13/2003Pages: 340Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.10lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.76d

Terrorist activities in the United States are not confined to foreign agents. MarvinAuthor: Regis McCaffertyISBN-10: 0595267556ISBN-13: 9780595267552Publisher: iUniverseLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/22/2003Pages: 276Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.91lbsSize: 9.06h x 6.00w x 0.70d

Jack drops out of college and miraculously lands a job on the state's leading newspaper. He comes under the wing of a grizzled newsman vet, Lee Robb, who trains him tough and fires him up to find a boffo career-building story early. Jack puts...

A dead but buxom blonde with a bad past and a railroad spike head decoration leads Jack Sheet down the primrose path to personal hell and a couple of near death experiences. Along the way he and Fatback Banion connive to spike the ambitions...

In Bogota, Colombia there are schools that train criminals to distract and rob traveling jewelry salespeople non-violently. This has been going on for several years. Only now, the violence has started to increase at an alarming rate as other criminal elements, especially the Russian...

Author: Harvey GoldmanISBN-10: 0595265499ISBN-13: 9780595265497Publisher: iUniverseLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/27/2003Pages: 208Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.71lbsSize: 9.02h x 6.06w x 0.56d

At first, Nick Morrison and Trevor Devane believe that solving a thirty-year-old mystery should be easy; even for two twelve-year-old boys. Using Nick's psychic visions of the crime, they decide to piece together enough clues to identify the killer and capture the $10,000 reward.Author:...

Brutal axe murders of Dr. Teena Mazon, transplant surgeon, and Cathy Reyes, ICU supervisor, both ballroom champions, and the tragic plunge of lawyer Eugene Cash to his death gives lawyer-sleuth Sandra Lerner nightmares, panic attacks, and insomnia. Psychiatrist prescribes pills, vacation, and recreational ballroom...

Professor Hagler strolled into yet another Las Vegas Casino, inserted one bill, hit the maximum play button, and again hit a jackpot hand. Travis Ryan has been following the professor for several days and it was always the same. There would be a visit...

The 1991 war with Iraq is in its second day. In New York, legendary WBN anchorman Harrison Kiser is murdered by his mistress as millions watch on television. Days later, three journalists launch a desperate, rollicking, soul-searching battle to win the coveted $2.5-million-a-year anchor...

Detective Jake Samuels has a problem -- a beautiful assassin is murdering Seattle's elite. Someone has gone over the edge, and it's not just her looks that kill. And no one can even come up with a motive. The pattern is always the same:...

A young woman fleeing from her murderous ex-husband attempts to hide her location from him. She becomes involved with a much older man, who is trying to protect her and her location from becoming public knowledge. In the end, her only friend betrays her.Author:...

A fast-paced thriller set on Florida's Gulf Beaches, On the Whispering Wind combines sharply drawn characters, insightful narrative, and a plot with more twists and turns than a two-lane coastal highway. In All the Little Birdies, readers met taxi driver Jake Murdock. Murdock's taken...

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...

"One of the most moving and suspenseful books I had read in years."Author: Mack ManghamISBN-10: 0595259537ISBN-13: 9780595259533Publisher: iUniverseLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/02/2002Pages: 256Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.84lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.58d

A sunny outing on a beautiful Hawaiian island unexpectedly leads a retired Special Forces officer and his lovely wife into a web of Wall Street stock manipulations, stolen drug formulas, kidnapping, and violent murders. As the culprits trail moves from the lush golf courses...

Westburgh Pennsylvania, a small, quiet town on the outskirts of Wilkes-Barre. A town with a terrifying history that has long been forgotten.Author: Robert BurnettISBN-10: 0595258468ISBN-13: 9780595258468Publisher: iUniverseLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/29/2003Pages: 644Format: PaperbackWeight: 2.05lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.42d

Unlike humans, Lucifer is ineligible for redemption and therefore doomed to eternal hell. Playing on God's sense of fairness, Lucifer appeals to the Archangel Michael for a chance to redeem himself by turning a person he corrupted into a paragon of virtue. Against his...

The story begins in June 2223 when a space ship from a distant planet lands on earth. It is a world of swirling winds, excessive temperatures, and constant storms. The crew soon discovers that the arid earth has spawned horrible worms that roam the...

Janice Gaither spends her life remembering the days of love she lost long ago. Unhappy from the lack of devotion from her husband, she can only think of one man, Travis Jordan, dead and buried.Author: Mark WildesISBN-10: 059525683XISBN-13: 9780595256839Publisher: iUniverseLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/13/2002Pages: 404Format: PaperbackWeight:...

Author: Al PerryISBN-10: 0595254381ISBN-13: 9780595254385Publisher: iUniverseLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/05/2003Pages: 384Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.24lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.85d

After the untimely death of his father, Mike Sheridan learns to live again. A city firefighter working near Chicago, Sheridan enters a particularly perilous summer where everything is not as it seems. His nephew is baptized into the fire department, unaware of the political...

The novel's protagonist Alex Lautrec is a former NYPD Lieutenant currently running his own successful P.I. Agency. Out of the blue he receives a call from his former wife, now residing in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She reveals that her current husband, a renowned...

Beware of false prophets! And if you're a lost soul, never seek refuge in this particular sanctuary. For Treneir Stevens, fleeing her own personal nightmare, the hardest thing to find within these celestial walls is 'the truth.' Murder is but a fleeting thought to...

A scientist awakes in a theater with her memory erased, rain-soaked clothing, someone elseAuthor: Anne HartISBN-10: 0595253393ISBN-13: 9780595253395Publisher: iUniverseLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/11/2002Pages: 252Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.82lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.57d

Was this a haunted family, or was there a family curse? Irene Reed lost not only her parents, but also her precious twin brother Ivan. But was the bond between the twins so strong that it could survive death. Could IvanAuthor: Ruth RiddleISBN-10: 0595253253ISBN-13:...

This is a story of suspenseful revenge. Where the hideous crime of a young 13-year old girl gets raped and has to face some disturbing but reassuring decisions. In doing so, there becomes not only desensitization in her revenge to the rapists, but a...

Trace McCord is a modern-day bounty hunter pursuing a United States Congressman from the state of Arkansas who jumped bail after being arrested for vehicular homicide when he killed a twelve-year-old girl during a hit and run. During the quest, Trace meets a beautiful...

Detective Frank Demura, of NYPD Manhattan South, smells trouble when he reaches a crime scene, and investigates the murder of a Catholic brother whose body washed up from the East River. Soon Demura receives cut-and-paste notes from an unknown killer. After two more murders...

The pervasive evil of the rape and murder of the circus owners only baby girl hangs over the company for years. Was it one of their own? Will he ever be caught? This one death of a little 6 yr old blonde angel drives...

Voyage in a Savage Sea is a suspenseful, salty, high-seas adventure of shipwreck and cannibals that reads like a thriller. When gnarly Nate Duggan is forced to escape the London authorities, he signs on as mate of the Brigantine Houndstooth, where along with the...

Author: Brittany MontgomeryISBN-10: 0595239331ISBN-13: 9780595239337Publisher: iUniverseLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/25/2002Pages: 348Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.15lbsSize: 9.16h x 6.00w x 0.90d

Author: George G. MotzISBN-10: 0595231217ISBN-13: 9780595231218Publisher: iUniverseLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/27/2002Pages: 292Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.95lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.66d

Author: Patrick J. O'BrianISBN-10: 0595224741ISBN-13: 9780595224746Publisher: iUniverseLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/31/2002Pages: 344Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.14lbsSize: 9.12h x 6.20w x 0.89d

Author: Karen J. BuckISBN-10: 059522170XISBN-13: 9780595221707Publisher: iUniverseLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/01/2002Pages: 304Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.08lbsSize: 8.98h x 6.14w x 0.80d

Author: Robert M. MiskimonISBN-10: 0595220924ISBN-13: 9780595220922Publisher: iUniverseLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/01/2002Pages: 276Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.98lbsSize: 9.10h x 6.12w x 0.73d

Author: Tom DeecyISBN-10: 0595219586ISBN-13: 9780595219582Publisher: iUniverseLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/01/2002Pages: 148Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.55lbsSize: 8.98h x 6.32w x 0.41d