Fiction - Thrillers - Suspense

The Third Book of Joy: Chain Dance is the second notebook of family lore, the collection of Joy's magical stories about her enslaved ancestors, researched by Professor Bo Wolfson in Burning Streams; the first notebook was published in Blood of Angels. When Heaven's heartbroken...

Peace in the Valley: The tiny, rural township of Elm Hill, Alabama gives the impression of being happily trapped within a time-warp decades removed from modern society. What with its penchant for tranquil living and the laid-back attitude of its citizens, it appears on...

Tucked cozily away within the majestic mountain ranges of Northern Wyoming, the Jasper Outpost serves as a federally mandated rehabilitation facility for superheroes gone to seed; a desolate yet picturesque rest stop on the road to recovery for specially-endowed types having fallen from grace....

Framed for a murder he didn't commit, second-tier superhero Ben Thomason, known in the trades as 'Desolation Outlaw', is convicted and sentenced to life in prison at Eagle Island Detention Center, a top secret, billion dollar penitentiary that houses only the elite of super-villains...

Josephine Mowbray flees the butchering of her family at the hand of the Isma'ilites and stumbles into the protecting arms of the Knights Templar. But the Templar are not what they seem, and their mystery will lead Josephine on a journey that changes the...

One by one they walk to the podium to tell their story. Family members whose relatives became infamous for crimes of unspeakable violence and unbridled insanity. They unweave their tales to an auditorium filled with young medical students tasked with writing extensive essays on...

The demure, elegant female enters the beer garden; she walks with intent to a bench, and sits beside a gentleman. They order a drink, which she sips elegantly. A few moments later she leans into the male, there is a pop, and she kisses...

Karen and Richard met by chance, strangers in an unfamiliar town. They were used to the good life and each saw fit to take advantage of the other. A weekend of pleasure was their aim as they set off over the Pennines that rainy...

Tough ex-cop Laurie (Truck) Hudson just wants a quiet life making money and enjoying the women of Indonesia. Unexpectedly, he finds himself rescuing a beautiful young woman from the evil tentacles of a rogue jihadist group working within the Indonesian security agency. In his...

You can run but you can't hide forever...They say time is a great healer. But for Tony Slade time is running out. The physical scars are healing but the mental one's are still raw.Waking up in hospital after the coffee shop massacre and finding...

Seventy-five years after the Second World War, Samuel Plant's great grandson, Sebastian, makes an interesting discovery while rummaging in his father's loft.At the same time, good Samaritan Tom Paige, working for a charity, makes the same finding but from another source. Could the two...

He who murders and gets away lives to murder another day. Children now play on Brampton Common and nearby householders such as Jan, Kerry and Debs know little of the dramas that once occurred so near to their own front doors, and nothing of...

The multi-award-winning international bestseller.Suspenseful and heart-breaking, Resin is the story of what can happen when you love someone too much - when your desire to keep them safe becomes the thing that could irrevocably harm them.*Liv died when she was just six years old....

On Halloween night, thirteen-year-old Ruby disappears in the company of a masked figure. She is never seen again. The only witness is Nell Montague who is just seven years old.Twenty-three years later, Nell is trapped in an abusive relationship and still suffering from vivid...

Mack has a secret... Mack and Al used to be minor pop stars. They partied hard during the brief worldwide success of Mack's song 'A Bridge of Straw'. That was until a journalist with a vendetta threw the band apart and Al became seduced...

________________________ "Simon Kernick is an absolute master of the adrenaline-fuelled ride" - PETER JAMES The new high-octane thriller from Sunday Times bestselling author Simon Kernick ________________________ Alastair Sheridan has it all. Wealth, good looks, a beautiful wife and children and, in the chaotic world...

Three bodies. One suspect. And a kidnapped child who isn't there. Brook Connor has it all. Beauty, success, a loving family. And an unseen enemy who wants to destroy everything she holds dear. When she returns home one night and finds her daughter missing...

Angus Buerk is a television director, not a detective. When he stumbles across a dead body, he reports it to the authorities, and it seems like that should be the end of it. He wouldn't mind getting to know Detective Inspector Rowena Munro a...

Nine tales of the strange and uncomfortable. Nine stories marked by the darkness of perversity. Unusual tasks and unusual people; decisions, divisions, and nightmarish landscapes. The Fifth Passenger and Other Perversities contains a selection of never-before-published stories from the twisted depths of the mind...

A fatal virus named Kuru is spreading across British Columbia, held in check by a secret team of assassins whose mission is to stop the spread of the virus by killing anyone who has it. Established by a private group, the team of assassins...

"If the Flame dies, we all die."The world after The Draining abides by new rules. The Flame is God now, and all who defy it bring the world closer to its doom. Churches spread across the globe share a common purpose - keep the...

Perched on a Welsh clifftop, the ancient, picturesque hamlet of Rhosddraig has its peaceful façade ripped apart when human remains are discovered under a pile of stones. The village pub, The Dragon's Head, run by three generations of women, becomes the focal point for...

"A remarkable whodunit that's as sharp as it is concise." ― Kirkus ReviewsOn a drizzly August morning, the inhabitants of the hill town of Sanover, Himachal Pradesh, wake up to the shocking news of the murder of the exquisite, secretive, malicious, and thoroughly immoral...

Science fiction writer Jack Van Horne has been struggling with an increasing case of Agoraphobia for about the past ten years. This mental affliction makes him powerless to leave his current surroundings of the street his apartment is situated. His doctor has tried many...

Science fiction writer Jack Van Horne has been struggling with an increasing case of Agoraphobia for about the past ten years. This mental affliction makes him powerless to leave his current surroundings of the street his apartment is situated. His doctor has tried many...

Deputy Frank Smirnov wants a peaceful life but fate has chosen a different path. He could never have imagined a course that not only gives him insight to his past but to the true origins of the human race. NSA Agent Zachariah Allmass' job...

Toronto restauranteur and bookshop owner Henry Royce devotes most of his time and energy to running his quirky store and perfecting its collection of rare and used books. But when a body turns up in Crime Fiction and a semi-rare book titled Stylus of...

When Stella Mosconi left the small mountain city of Nelson, B.C. straight out of high school, she hoped she had seen the last of Jack Ballard. A teenage fling between the two ended with a scary incident that left a fear that still lingers...

A corrupt family of bankers, assisted by their unscrupulous attorney and the Chicago mob, build a business empire in southern Indiana. But the empire is threatened through a bizarre turn of events relating to the brutal beating of a poor, pathetic high school outcast...

FBI special agent, Francis A. Giordano, seemed to have the world in the palms of his hands, until 9/11 happened, and all he knew was jeopardized. Following the attack, he was wrongfully accused of mismanaging important FBI information, necessary in the defense of the...

John Gemmer's latest novel about the dauntless FBI agent, Frank Giordano, takes the reader inside the mind of a psychopathic serial killer. The stories of the murderer and zealous detective intertwine as the hunter of female victims is hunted by Frank and his teammates...

Cassidy has to put her tracking skills into overdrive when her tracking mentor goes missing in the desert wilderness near the Mexican border and the Michaels family fears the worst. Is this the end of the trail for Chase? Cassidy finds big trouble in...

Hollywood star Sherri Champlain has a problem. On location in the Mojave Desert, a prankster has targeted her and she wants the pranks to stop. She could hire a posse of rent-a-cops, but there is only one person in the area that Sherri knows...

Kaitlyn Elizabeth Michaels is a ten pound bundle of cuteness with bright blue eyes, a halo of blonde curls and a smile that people just cannot ignore. She is new to the world and wants to get her hands on anything she can reach,...

The hard-knocking clarity of his prose is astonishing... Jack Engelhard is back, and in The Prince of Dice he dazzles us once again as he has in such novels as Indecent Proposal and The Bathsheba Deadline, to name but two of his works that...

This story is about me. In my golden years, I learned about a child I never knew I had. The child was not the result of a torrid, passionate, love affair. I never knew what had happened or that anything did happen. Some fifty...

A Heart Never Heals is the story of a girl George sees in a vision. She appeared to George while in Italy working on a case. She was walking out of the Mediterranean Sea. The vision is so vivid that he visits the Vatican...

Jim Bartlett is a very reliable and unique professional killer for hire in the U.S. His clientele consist of mob bosses, who employ him to kill criminals, businessmen and politicians. During the Vietnam War, Bartlett was told by his commanding officer that he was...

Dave Olson worked during his vacation from college for a Canadian and a U.S. copper mining company which hired him to gather soil samples for copper in the northern wilderness areas of Canada and the United States. Then one evening, while bathing in a...

Bill Andrews has spent his life with the Navy, first as a SEAL, then with NCIS. He came home when his Folks died. He came back to bury them, and handle his inheritance. The County Board was very persuasive, "who better to take over...

Detective Dave Burrows returns in another breathtaking tale of rural suspense. After the family's devastating tragedy, Detective Dave Burrows is crystal clear that his wife, Mel, is no longer interested in their marriage. Before Dave can talk to Mel, he and his partner, Bob...

When a boarding master at an exclusive boys' school is shot dead, it is deemed accidental. A lazy and usually drunk detective is sent to write up the report. Cardilini unexpectedly does not co-operate, as he becomes riled by the privileged arrogance of those...

'One of Australia's best historical fiction authors' Canberra WeeklyPeter Watt brings to the fore all the passion, adventure and white-knuckle battle scenes that made his beloved Duffy and Macintosh novels so popular. It is 1857. Colonial India is a simmering volcano of nationalism about...

When Ashleigh decides to flee her controlling husband, Dominic, she knows he'll hunt her down. The only way to escape is to disappear and reinvent herself. Changing her name to Eliza and driving by night, she is drawn to the tiny rural town of...

Maria's a beautiful woman who is married to Javier; a criminal and powerful man in the community. They live a luxurious lifestyle in a fabulous beach house in Mazatlán, Mexico. After waking up from a coma, caused by a horrific car accident, Maria is...

Quentin Farmer is a real estate developer who specializes in retail outlets on distressed properties. He likes progress. He likes money. He likes technology. But when he comes to the economically depressed city of Selden Falls to build his newest project, he discovers that...

Nate Watson is a cop in a bad section of Island City. Responding to a call from a frightened old woman, Nate and his partner encounter a group of young men playing at dark magic on the decrepit rooftops of the slums.Except they're not...

They believed Daeios would be a safe haven.They were wrong.Fleeing apocalyptic weather, a young survivalist woman and her family seek safety deep underground. But a new danger awaits them.When the leaders of the shelter announce their plans to repopulate the earth using all fertile...

An unsolved death brings investigative reporter Janet Reed face-to-face with a mystery that may claim her life in this novel of secrets and suspense. Still recovering from the sudden loss of her son, Janet Reed agrees to accompany her husband on a business trip...

The discovery of a young woman's body in a ditch sets the town of Lakewood on edge. As more people go missing, the Lakewood Police suspect there is a serial killer targeting their city. Other than the motive appears to be money, there are...