Fiction - Thrillers - Suspense

Alex Cross faces the deadliest psychopath of them all--his wife's killer. Alex Cross was a rising star homicide detective in Washington, DC's Metro PD when a shooter gunned down his pregnant wife, Maria. In the years since, Alex has built a career as a...

From the author of the book club favorite The Nine Lives of Rose Napolitano comes a riveting feminist thriller that tackles an unspeakable taboo: regretting motherhood. When successful Rhode Island real estate agent Lucy Mendoza vanishes, leaving her baby behind in a grocery store...

In this riveting small town thriller, Sheriff David Blunt is faced with a string of murders following the arrival of an alien life form--perfect for fans of Blake Crouch and Jeff Vandermeer, and soon to be a television series from Ron Howard! "A fully...

A Cruise to Die For (Large Print Edition) by Heather Graham will be available Apr 07, 2026. Preorder your copy today!Author: Heather GrahamISBN-10: 077830616XISBN-13: 9780778306160Publisher: Mira BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/07/2026Pages: 448Format: PaperbackLarge Print

Author: C. a. GleasonISBN-13: 9798445678939Publisher: Independently PublishedLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/27/2022Pages: 320Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.70lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.67d

Deluxe edition featuring the "Bittersweet Body Count" short story, original NSFW scene art by Emmy winning artist Chris Welch, an island map, and the full original cover displayed within. ***She wanted a rich man. She got a killer deal.Cassidy Finch thought she was signing...

Author: Darby KaneISBN-10: 0063570424ISBN-13: 9780063570429Publisher: William Morrow & CompanyLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/10/2026Pages: 512Format: PaperbackLarge Print

A woman with a buried past. A husband who should be dead. A U.S. Marshal who may be her only chance to survive.Fifteen years after Emily James laid her husband to rest, U.S. Marshals arrive with a devastating truth: he's alive, and wanted for...

One summer night in 1985, twelve-year-old Julia Pemberton disappears without a trace from a friend's backyard birthday party. Everyone in the sleepy town of Chatham, North Carolina, believes she was taken while hiding in the woods during a game of kick the can-but the...

One summer night in 1985, twelve-year-old Julia Pemberton disappears without a trace from a friend's backyard birthday party. Everyone in the sleepy town of Chatham, North Carolina, believes she was taken while hiding in the woods during a game of kick the can-but the...

Whiskey and Blood is a brutal, atmospheric crime thriller about power that hides behind civility, violence that never announces itself, and the danger of waiting too long to act.Joker has survived by understanding restraint. He knows that systems matter, that order-however fragile-keeps chaos from...

A chilling psychological thriller about a missing girl, an unexplained fire, and the small-town secrets no one ever faced.When twelve-year-old Emelia Roberts survives the devastating Linhall house fire, the town calls her a miracle. But as she grows older, the night of the fire...

122 days sober. Four months pregnant. One name that changes everything.Olivia Parker wakes up every morning, choosing not to drink. Every night, she feels the baby fighting. Alive despite the vodka, despite being conceived in violence, despite every reason not to survive.The doctors say...

Twelve months. Twelve encounters. One woman who can sense what others cannot.This collection of twelve Ann Kinnear Suspense Shorts tracks a year's worth of Ann's interactions with the dead--one for each month of the year. From winter cold to summer heat, from holiday gatherings...

Award-winning author and photographer Gary Smith continues his mystery adventure series with the character Warren Steelgrave. True to the title of his first novel, The Willing, Warren Steelgrave gets involved in protecting Jenny Stone, a top prosecutor. A corrupt FBI and foreign agents are...

In the shadowed hollows of Georgia's Blue Ridge Mountains, Lucian Macaw has spent his life learning how to endure. Raised by his Blackfoot Indian father to live off the land, Lucian carried those hard-earned lessons into the Marines-where survival became lethal precision. Now, determined...

In 2035, Empire City stands as the largest metropolis on Earth, a city of glass towers and digital firewalls. But beneath its skyline of progress, corruption burns hotter than any blaze. When a series of devastating fires occurs, the smoke carries more than chaos;...

When the system fails, someone has to take justice into their own hands.By day, Dr. Max Donovan is a brilliant trauma surgeon, mending broken bodies in Houston's busiest hospital. But by night, he becomes something far more dangerous-a man on a relentless mission to...

His first wife died in an accident, but I'm not so sure. Did he kill her? Am I next? Handsome and charming, Jack swept me off my feet when we met, and now we're married and I'm moving into his imposing old house. I'm...

Today is the first day of my honeymoon, and I feel like the luckiest girl in the world. But as I roll over to face my new husband, Jay, my scream breaks the silence... The man in bed with me is not the man...

LOVE IS BLIND.SOME THINGS ARE BEST LEFT UNSEEN. For photographer Reagan Dunkel, sight is everything. But a life built behind a lens is shattered by a devastating diagnosis: a hereditary condition destined to steal her vision-and her young daughter's. As this frightening new reality...

A winter blizzard...an isolated farmhouse...a pregnant woman home alone...and an unwanted visitor on her doorstep. As Mallory, who is expecting their first child, waits for her husband Jake to come home from his evening shift, she is annoyed by snowmobilers in her back field....

Voices Carry Here is a collection of short stories with themes of mystery, suspense, and the supernatural.A henpecked husband learns that "till death do us part" isn't the end of the story when his dead wife returns. A newly retired couple uncovers a pestilent...

Nothing Good Happens After MidnightThe 105 Truck Stop along the interstate in the town of Oldsmar is a busy hub that attracts plenty of shady characters. But the mood grows darker when the ladies that frequent this rest stop go missing. Then start turning...

Last night I was grieving. Today I am a headline.When my husband's body washed up on a remote riverbank, the media swarmed. They called it an accident. Then a scandal. Then they called me a suspect. So I disappeared.New state. New life. New tenant.Jake...

Haven Hill was their sanctuary.Kate Lindsey brings her teenage daughter to their mountain cabin to rest, to reset, and to enjoy their beloved forest retreat as summer fades into autumn. But something feels off this time.Something has shifted.Small, unsettling signs begin to pile up.Is...

'What a fool I've been not to have read Peter James until The Hawk Is Dead! A great story' - James Patterson, bestselling author of the Alex Cross series Roy Grace never dreamed a murder investigation would take him deep into Buckingham Palace ....

Book #2 in the Thomas Vale series.Thomas Vale's investigation is going up in flames, literally. Arduous months spent tracking a domestic terror cell and their mysterious leader. But the house he tracked them to explodes in a ball of fire, leaving more questions than...

When the Prince of Denmark is murdered in the Florida Keys, an unlikely duo of American and Irish diplomats in Copenhagen becomes embroiled in a deadly game of espionage, ancient conspiracies and high stakes diplomacy as they confront one of the West's most dangerous...

When the Prince of Denmark is murdered in the Florida Keys, an unlikely duo of American and Irish diplomats in Copenhagen becomes embroiled in a deadly game of espionage, ancient conspiracies and high stakes diplomacy as they confront one of the West's most dangerous...

Security! Luxury! Companionship!The deal of a lifetime offers all these and more. But street people are disappearing, old folks losing their minds, and an ancient Zuni woman cries out because the Medicine Man's spirit can't find its own body.The world's wealthiest philanthropist and his...

Some secrets are written in ash. Others in silence.When forensic archaeologist Dr Jeannie MacLean joins a prestigious excavation near Herculaneum, she expects quiet discovery, not danger. Hidden beneath volcanic ash lie scrolls that will upend history-and her own life.The writings belong not to philosophers...

I look after her children. But I know she stole mine...As a nanny for the wealthy Eatons, Trina watches every day as Rosalind Eaton cradles the baby close. Trina's baby.The sweet little boy won't settle-he never does in Rosalind's arms. It breaks Trina's heart...

Detective Veranda Cruz's ultimate showdown with the patriarch of a notorious crime family tests her loyalty, courage, and identity in a riveting thriller by the bestselling author of The Cipher.Detective Veranda Cruz's single-minded mission to destroy the Villalobos crime family has cost her more...

What would you risk to uncover a secret buried for over 150 years? "A diverting adventure with historical depth... a masterclass in suspense." - Kirkus Reviews - ★ GET IT Winner - Literary Titan Gold Book AwardFinalist - BestThrillers.com Book Awards From multi-award-winning author...

After the CIA is officially dismantled, its former agents are left to fend for themselves. Some retire, some go rogue, and others are recruited by private intelligence firms. When a series of high profile assassinations targets ex-CIA operatives, a former analyst is forced out...

From the #1 internationally bestselling author of What Happened to Nina? comes a gripping high-stakes novel of suspense about three seemingly unconnected people, caught in a lethal web of deceit and unhealed wounds.Someone's watching. Someone's waiting. Alexis Turner walks into the police station to...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2025 BLOODY SCOTLAND DEBUT PRIZEWhisky is a bloody business . . .When a dilapidated distillery comes up for sale in rural Kintyre, Eilidh and her wife Morag jump at the chance. But their ambition to run the first women-owned whisky distillery...

Irys Mae has always dreamed of falling in love like in a perfect romance novel. So when the devilishly handsome Holdyn Thomas asks her on a date from the pool deck, the sun setting behind him, the Georgia palm trees swaying in the breeze,...

At twenty seven, Becky Bale feels that her life is moving in the right direction. Recently engaged, comfortable in her nine to five, she works a suicide hotline as a volunteer several evenings a week in Houma, Louisiana. Then she takes a call that...

The complete duology!Created by a secret government program, infected with viral enhancement, they're now running for their lives. The only thing they have to trust is each other... Contains Agent Zero and Agent Gemini.Author: Lilith SaintcrowISBN-13: 9798232291327Publisher: Lilith Saintcrow, LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/06/2026Pages: 580Format: PaperbackWeight:...

"Sweeping and hypnotic... Perfect for fans of The Maltese Falcon, Sarah Penner, and Kate Morton."Julie Cantrell, NYT bestselling author of Into the FreeA deadly Cold War political game. A cursed Egyptian artifact. Two sisters: one the treasure's guardian, the other its thief.Egyptologist Noura Marquette...

The son of a government scientist must be found at any cost in this explosive Jonathan Grave political thriller by New York Times bestselling author John Gilstrap. Assassins have eliminated a Chechen scientist who's been working as a double agent for the U.S. government....

At the end of the frontier, a worn-out buffalo hunter leads a mismatched band of aristocrats, outlaws, and a Secret Service agent into Yellowstone in pursuit of a legendary elk - but the wilderness has teeth of its own, as gold lust, vengeful tribes,...

Carter McCoy is still alive, but not for long. A man with nothing to lose, he can help the helpless. A reluctant killer, his skills are used by the police now to balance the scales of justice. But killing doesn't sit well on Carter...

Set against the backdrop of the war in Ukraine, this is an unforgettable story of courage, resilience, and love by internationally bestselling author Marc Levy.2023, Eastern Ukraine. Veronika, a nurse, comes home to discover that her nine-year-old son, Valentyn, has disappeared. She is distraught--as...

Author: Mary Higgins ClarkISBN-10: 1668221500ISBN-13: 9781668221501Publisher: Simon & SchusterLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/07/2026Pages: 352Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.62lbsSize: 8.38h x 5.50w x 0.88dAccelerated Reader:Reading Level: 5.4Point Value: 12Interest Level: Upper GradeQuiz #/Name: 11596 / All Around the Town

Beneath the harsh glare of Hollywood, a legendary feud ties two A-list actresses together. But with a body bag between them, they must decide just how far their feud will go. Thelma and Louise meets The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo in this salacious...

From master storyteller Stephen King, his unforgettable and terrifying sequel to The Shining--an instant #1 New York Times bestseller that is "a vivid frightscape" (The New York Times)--now featuring a stunning vintage cover! Years ago, the haunting of the Overlook Hotel nearly broke young...

From Edgar, Barry, and Shamus Award finalist Mike Lawson comes McKenna's Guy, a fast-paced thriller full of secrets, lies, and betrayal.When an intruder with murderous intent breaks into Roger Smith's modest home one night, the big brute gets more than he bargained for, ending...