Fiction - Thrillers - Suspense

After being discharged from the United States Marine Corps, Stan ends up in Dallas where he intends to finish law school. In the spring of 1976, while attending SMU, he is recruited into the Republican party, elected county chairman, and finds himself helping President...

The boy was unremarkable. Nothing about him would have made you think he was anything other than a somewhat unkempt young man pushing twenty, walking aimlessly up Lombard Street. No reason anyone would have thought twice about this ordinary young man. Not unless they...

The second book of a modern-day, epic-suspense trilogy about faith and providence in times of cultural upheaval and national insecurity. ​Much has changed in the nearly six-and-one-half years since the Third Peril struck at the very heart of America. A new worldview has the...

Matt is a typical teenage boy in rural Michigan. While on his annual family hunting trip he encounters a strange, almost mystical pack of coyotes that he cannot seem to escape. The Enigma folllows Matt's dilemma to save his girlfriend Ellie from a force...

When an old friend calls in a favor, Jazz Phillips, former head of the Arkansas CID, agrees to help catch a cat thief. Known for breaking tough cases as a consultant to the FBI, Jazz doesn't take the case too seriously. Then a personal...

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...

Don't go up without a parachute. John Kruger is a commercial pilot long on the run from Afrikaner nationalists for smuggling black activists out of apartheid-era South Africa. As a flyer of old collectible planes, he now wants nothing more than to enjoy his...

Chihuahua Enchilada is the continuing adventures of Lola Raines-Morales and Sherry Brown as they travel to Mexico to visit one of Lola's old flames. The Vegas Mob tracks her down there, intent upon killing her. Her usual spunky and edgy approach to life directs...

Out of the inferno of war-ravaged Poland emerges an incredible tale of survival. Fighting fires atop blazing buildings and living with the ever-present fear of the dreaded midnight knock, Eddie displays the stuff that heroes are made of. And then miraculously comes the chance...

Book Four of the Thomas York Series brings Rachel and Thomas back to America from France, responding to the mystery of her Uncle Zach's murder in Napa Valley. Zach's family vineyard becomes a crime scene in the height of the harvest season, as criminals...

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...

Charismatic entrepreneur Jack Stern loves nothing more than adventure tinged with mischief. On a journey to inspect his newly acquired business in Newburn, Jack chances upon a disillusioned priest, Fr Brendan O'Reilly, at a roadside cafe. Over dinner and drinks, Jack tricks Brendan into...

Erica Jewell can't worry about hunky hired gun, Jack Jones, and his commitment-phobic ways. She's flat out managing Dega Oil's sponsorship of the Australian Open tennis, and doing a pretty good job. That is until a devastating explosion sends Dega's reputation and share price...

'You could lose someone down there, couldn't you?Anyone could get buried under the concrete slab, and no one would even know!'The Beauregarde women have lived in the shadow of The Seminary for four generations. And there is nothing conventional about Marcela, or her family.When...

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...

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...

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...

Jack Stern's second adventure is a continuation of the first in which three stories seemingly unrelated are intertwined to share a common theme: "DO NOT UPSET THE STATUS QUO"Jack Stern and Fr Brendan O'Reilly holiday in Mauritius where they discover a decaying Alien church...

How much do you know about the people who keep you safe?Madeline Kyle is pulling her life together after years of restrictive psychiatric care. She's got a new job at the State Library, her own place without doctors watching her every move, and meticulous...

Doctor Liza wants to help the Papuans with her medical service, but Arthur wants to help them by selling them guns for gold.Their worlds collide in the unforgiving wilderness, after surviving a helicopter crash near the Freeport Grasberg Mine, the largest gold mine in...

Early Sunday morning in the quiet country town of Stinky Gully, five-year-old Bree-Anna takes her doll Baby for a walk. Jake, passing through, hoping to spend the day with his daughter, sees a chubby girl in pink get into a green car. Eloise, bar...

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...

Had Casey Miller known the peril in store for her she might have turned down her dream job offer. Things are definitely not as they seem. Her personal judgments are turned upside down as she finds herself drawn into a story of terror and...

LARGE PRINT EDITIONYou can't escape your darkest thoughts...Emily Swanson almost died at the hands of a psychopath. Understandably, the ordeal has left its scars. Determined to move on with her life, Emily visits a weekend retreat called Meadow Pines. With its secluded setting and...

Taking place in rural England, Chills details the ordeals of Finn Lacksley and Eric Jones, two factory workers who become unwittingly roped into a tale of horror and suspense as they stumble upon the gruesome experiments of a corporation intent on creating an army...

Amy and Jon are on the run in Croatia. They are desperate to reveal to the world the truth about pop icon Electra's death in their explosive biopic and documentary.They have had their lives stolen. The Secret Service is after them, together with the...

How far would you go to conceal the truth? Widow Helen is desperate for a perfect family life and will do everything she can to get what she wants. Veteran Martin is adrift and seemingly without hope. Can he ever win back his estranged...

Book 3 of 3The final nerve-shredding chapter of the Devil's Cove trilogy.Six months have passed since the horrific events at Burnt House Farm and peace has finally been restored in Devil's Cove. But trouble is on the horizon.As the town prepares for the annual...

It began with The Cove. Now the suspense continues in the second book of the Devil's Cove trilogy.Devil's Cove used to be a safe place to live. Until a serial killer was caught hiding behind a familiar face.As the Cornish community reels in shock,...

Hannah Tring, a journalist and foreign war correspondent in her late twenties, loses her sight in a terrible accident. Fiercely independent, she does not cope well with her trauma and struggles to adapt to the life-changing situation. At home, her relationship comes under increasing...

The smallest towns have the darkest secrets...When Carrie's son, Cal, vanished from the Cornish town of Devil's Cove, she thought she'd lost him for good. Seven years later, a teenager has been found washed up on the beach. It's Carrie's son. And he's alive.No...

Astrid Snow is a woman of mass distraction.The stare on his face was so hard you could sharpen knives on it. His voice was as thin as the rest of him and seesawed up and down like an out-of-tune violin.'We had enough to hold...

From the Back Cover: Struck by a viral pandemic, the world has closed its doors.Across the globe schools have been shut, economies are collapsing, and entire nations are under house arrest. But not everything is as it seems, and as humanity is set ablaze...

A schoolteacher finds herself in love triangle with a student and his father in this crime thriller by the author of The Ghostwriters.After her seventeen-year-old student fails to live up to his potential in class, Cathriona O'Hale conducts a parent-teacher meeting with the boy's...

Adapted from the journals of Detective Chief Inspector James Bartholomew Bass..Following their honourable discharge bearing full military honours from many years of distinguished service with the British Army and Her Majesty Queen Victoria's Covert Special Forces Unit, Major James Bartholomew Bass and Commander Alan...

Dorothy Shackleton walks into Barber Street station and announced that her husband is dead, murdered. The desk Sergeant on duty, Sheridan naturally asked for evidence. The only proof she offers is that she 'felt him die'--there is no motive, no weapon, no body, no...

Annalee Theakston likes to play games; deadly games. It's of no matter how many years it takes or who gets hurt along the way; what counts is the intellectual challenge; the ability to hide evil under the veneer of respectability. A young, beautiful and...

Learning that the man she has called Father for the past thirty two years is not her biological parent, Annalee Theakston sets out to discover her true identity but first she must escape from the psychiatric hospital in which she has spent the past...

Where can a wanted man hide in a country full of returned war heroes? It's 1952 and Frank Danby has been looking over his shoulder for the last ten years, forced to lead an itinerant life, getting work wherever he can while trying to...

When Lucy falls for the possessive Lee Darbyshire, a handsome schoolteacher, her adoring but mentally fragile sister Diana is horrified to find herself ostracised from Lucy's life. Decades later, Diana's dreams of reconciliation seem to have come true when Lucy greets her with open...

Penny Lane goes to Italy is a comedy drama set in Northern Italy and Switzerland. It is the first in a series of romps around Europe featuring Penny Lane Agency in Liverpool, an organization loved by the British Establishment where the utmost discretion is...

A suspenseful tale of secrets and suspicion in rural Wales.When a military drone crashes into a holiday park, killing a young mother, Abby Hughes suspects more than just a tragic accident. Driven by a need to uncover the truth, Abby investigates a homeless mapmaker...

'The Expired' is a psychological thriller masterpiece showing how vulnerable people can be brainwashed to become sleepers (Manchurian Candidates) and used by corrupt politicians to further their own ends. 'The Expired' shadows true accounts of government sleeper programmes set up during the Korean War...

When evil comes back, it brings death and destruction never seen before...John Withers is the Sheriff of the small cosmopolitan town of Bakerton and its neighbours, Copper Ridge and Thurlow Junction.Copper Ridge began as a lumber site, when the huge copper birch trees were...

The Friday morning coffee club members were baby boomers; typical of their generation. Relatively well off, reasonably fit and relishing retirement.Two members, Annie and Sue were searching for a property in France when they were introduced to Anton Michaud. A very pleasant Cognac distiller;...

New York homicide detective Gabriel de Sade faces his biggest ever challenge when a series of brutal, bloody murders causes chaos and fear in the city of New York. Yet this time, his opponents are more powerful, more wealthy and more devious than de...

He never intended to be a jailer ... After years of travelling, responsible to no-one but himself, Steve has resolved to settle down. He gets a job, buys a house and persuades Liesel to move in with him. Life's perfect, until Liesel delivers her...

Insurance underwriter Ken Hinde is driving home from Kempton Racecourse when his car inexplicably goes out of control and crashes. The doctors are unable to save him, and he dies a few hours later in hospital. The verdict - accidental death. But Valerie Elphick,...