Fiction - Thrillers - Suspense

Present day Scotland. Sir Doughty dies suddenly and leaves his entire estate to the National Heritage Society under the condition that the property is turned into a museum. A small team is sent by the British Museum to consider the proposal and to start...

Johnny Riles was the ultimate bad example until a drug-fueled car accident brought him crashing to a halt. Alone and unable to continue his musical career, Johnny returns to his hometown in rural Alabama. To everyone there, he's just John Riley -- a constant...

Liza and her family move to a new town, they were all the same, so she thought. Liza never made new friends although she wanted too, but she will soon find out hat making new friends isn't what it's cracked up to be.Author: Teresa...

Author: Mike FrancoisISBN-10: 1436373352ISBN-13: 9781436373357Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/29/2009Pages: 128Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.76lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.44d

THE EDGAR AWARD-WINNING NOVELTHE FIRST KATE MARTINELLI MYSTERY In Laurie R. King's Grave Talent, the unthinkable has happened in a small community outside of San Francisco. A series of shocking murders has occurred, the victims far too innocent and defenseless. For Detective Kate Martinelli,...

Though fictional, Terra Firma Angelicus is based on historical documentation, and attempts to reveal the activities of the spiritual beings in the invisible realm, who influence the affairs of mankind. The names I have chosen for these invisible characters are allegorical, derived from the...

A body is discovered floating in the marsh of a small barrier island along the Carolina coast. Matt and Lindy, island residents, are happily retired to a life of stimulating beach walks, volunteer work, leisurely cocktail hours and a quest to prepare the holy...

In the face of a new plague that threatens the world, our forensic heroes investigate the past to save the future-- studying evidence from when the Black plague decimated a small english village eyam, pronounced eem, during the seventeenth-century. After the greedy founders of...

Kyle Broder has achieved his lifelong dream and is an editor at a major publishing house.When Kyle is contacted by his favorite college professor, William Lansing, Kyle couldn't be happier. Kyle has his mentor over for dinner to catch up and introduce him to...

Imagine paintings that hold the secrets to the meaning of life and death or scribbled words that can alter the past and reshape the present. We know art imitates life but in Michael B. Koep s thriller fiction trilogy, the author brings the arts...

Global warming, famines and natural disasters threaten the world. Seventy six million people are retiring at a rate of ten thousand a day in America. Its social security programs and hospitals are failing, while wrongful death suits are piling up next to dead bodies....

FAMILY ATTACKED BY BEES--TWO KILLED MARYVILLE, N.Y. Sept. 26 (AP)--A family of five on an outing in an isolated spot by a stream were attacked by bees here. Mr. and Mrs. William Peterson died as the result of bee bites. Their three children were...

Whispers of the past... When young Eden Harrison receives a heart transplant from an unknown donor, her seemingly charmed life falls apart. Haunted by dreams of people and places she doesn't recognize, Eden is convinced that her new heart carries the memories of its...

It is a golden evening of high summer in July 1990. Robin Timariot has set out that morning on what he has planned as a six-day tramp along part of Offa's Dyke. At the close of his first day's walk he encounters an elegant...

A VINTAGE CRIME/BLACK LIZARD ORIGINAL A hit man stalks his mark at a race track. A sociopath crosses every moral boundary to become a published author. An ex-mercenary obsessively defends his "perimeter" from a dangerous interloper. A man for hire grudgingly accepts help from...

Private detective Michael Kelly returns in a lightning-paced, intricately woven mystery. When Kelly is hired by an old girlfriend to tail her abusive husband, he expects trouble of a domestic rather than a historical nature. Life, however, is not so simple. The trail leads...

In Helen Callaghan's chilling, tightly-spun debut novel of psychological suspense, a teenage girl's abduction stirs dark memories of a twenty-year-old cold case...Margot Lewis is a teacher at an exclusive high school in the English university town of Cambridge. In her spare time, she writes...

A gripping blend of psychological suspense and historical true crime, this riveting novel--inspired by a sensational real-life murder from the 1800s--by critically acclaimed author Emily Arsenault delivers a heart-stopping mystery linking two young mothers from different centuries.Frances Barnett and Abby Bernacki are two haunted...

Author: Dane BahrISBN-10: 1640096965ISBN-13: 9781640096967Publisher: Counterpoint LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/08/2025Pages: 304Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.81lbs

Paris is a teenage girl growing up in South Central Los Angeles during an era when money, sex, prostitution, drugs, and alcoholism are the only ways to deal with reality. Upset with her parents for abandoning her, she moves in with her grandmother Joyce,...

Ryan Kaine is on the defensive . . . Kaine, a wanted man on the run, receives a mysterious text with an address and the terse message: "Help them." When unscrupulous men try to force Greek restaurateurs, the Constantines, out of their business and...

From highly acclaimed author Alice Henderson comes the eagerly anticipated and electrifying fourth book in the Alex Carter series, in which the wildlife biologist encounters anti-immigrant vigilantes, rugged terrain, and threatening intruders in search of a sleek, powerful, and furtive animal--the jaguar.When wildlife biologist...

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Bookseller and The Glass Forest comes a new novel of psychological suspense!KNOWLEDGE HAS A PRICE...It's 1979, and 14-year-old Suzanne, who should be enjoying her first year at Denver East High, is instead reckoning with the...

In just days, the United States of America is shut down; the streets are empty in every town, and the birds singing are the only sounds heard. What is killing Americans by the hundreds, by the thousands, by the millions? Could it be the...

When Clay Graham and his family are found slain in the parking lot of his struggling business, the police suspect Clay's troublemaker brother, Terry.Terry claims he was drunk the night of the murders and passed out at home. With little evidence against Terry to...

In response to his younger brother's desperate plea, and after a ten-year absence, 33-year-old Alex Reinhart, an unemployed writer, explorer, and cable TV personality, reluctantly agrees to return to his childhood home, the boring, but All-American Midwest town of Naperville, Illinois.Alex, the prodigal son,...

In Murder on Christmas Eve, a novelist becomes a hit man in a caper story with plenty of twists and turns. And let's not forget good old-fashioned backstabbing. With a femme fatale in tow, murder just one itchy finger trigger press away, anything is...

A worldwide pestilence has turned out to be the most peaceful time in Mickey Butts's life. For the ex-detective, now True Crime writer, lockdown involves lazy mornings with his beautiful wife, lots of time to work on his next bestseller, and absolutely no mention...

Her new boss isn't the only threat on the streets...TJ Stevens will go to any lengths to protect the young offenders in her apprenticeship rehabilitation program. She's worked hard to keep them off the streets and out of trouble. With her new boss threatening...

The Amber Waves of Autumn is the third installment in Kelp Journal's bestselling and award-winning beach noir series. In each collection, we include some of the biggest heavyweights in the game with the brightest emerging writers to provide our readers with deft, thrilling, and...

Unlasting is the thrilling first novel from writer Noah Cecil. This story is one about love, trust, companionship, revenge, and regret. A group of adults who have been bound together since childhood now face the harsh reality of their current lives. They bravely seek...

A fast-paced thriller by Emmy Award-nominated screenwriter, producer, and director Gy WaldronDetective Sgt. Kate Flynn of the Santa Barbara Police Department is called in to investigate a gruesome decapitation and homicide. Her first clue comes from a most unlikely source: an Anglican monk and...

Is it a genre-bending spin on the police procedural novel? Or a stylized variation on the mystery-horror novel with touches of melodrama... Or is it a ghost story with a splash of parapsychology?Set in the mythical New England microcosm of Fryebury Falls, Little Town...

The streets raised him. The Navy SEALs trained him. Criminals fear him.Jonny Mendez arrives in a small coastal town and in less than an hour, bullets fly. Not the welcome he had hoped for.To make matters worse, two men are killed, and authorities suspect...

Twenty-two years ago, Ike Rossi's life was shattered when his parents were murdered in cold blood. He surrendered his football scholarship and returned home to find their killer and raise his nine-year-old sister. Now, the crime of a local ten-year-old genius, Jack Cole, threatens...

Amidst the glittering heat of Abu Dhabi, Hollyn Reinhardt's world shatters in one tragic night. Once a child prodigy, now a leading AI scientist, she's left reeling from her parents' sudden death-and the haunting suspicion that it was no accident. Vulnerable yet defiant, Hollyn...

Nurse. Mother. Wife. Killer...? Only a few months ago, my life was simple. I spent most of my time caring for patients in brightly lit hospital wards. Then I'd pick up my son from kindergarten before cooking a meal for my husband. I'd drink...

An adventure tale with murder, intrigue, treasure and romance-amid intimations of a past where Phoenician triremes sailed the Mediterranean Sea-set in 1957 strife-ridden Lebanon. It follows freelance journalist Matthew Thorne from Montreal, Paris, and Beirut to Lebanon's Bekaa Valley, in pursuit of the murder...

Lisa Scottoline, the #1 bestselling author of What Happened to the Bennetts, presents another pulse-pounding domestic thriller about family, justice, and the lies that tear us apart. TJ Devlin is the charming disappointment in the prominent Devlin family, all of whom are lawyers at...

Deliverance meets The Treasure of the Sierra Madre with a good buzz on!Green bud and greenbacks, from San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district to the lush but rugged Northern California backcountry, Tales of the Emerald Triangle: Memoirs of a Marijuana Grower flies off the page spinning...

"Not since True Grit have we celebrated a plucky young girl on a mission to set her thorny world right ... (Dossett) devoted several years to tell this story as only the daughter of South Texas ranchers ever could. I found her storytelling and...

Author: John SandfordISBN-13: 9798217067435Publisher: Random House Large Print PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/08/2025Pages: 640Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.41lbsSize: 9.25h x 6.13w x 1.03dLarge Print

Barbara James has lived 84 years without killing anyone. Can she resist the urge through her final three months? Should she?Sometimes life isn't fair. Bad things happen to good people. And sometimes you know exactly who to blame. But sometimes no one steps up...

Step into a world where the boundaries between dreams and reality blur, and every shadow hides a secret waiting to be uncovered. "Echoes of Deception" plunges you into the tumultuous life of Alexander Bennett, a man trapped in a relentless maze of nightmares and...

What's more terrifying than a serial killer? Living under the same roof as one.Seattle, 1984-while the city is gripped by the terror of the Green River Killer, young John is grappling with a horror that's far more personal. As adolescence falls upon John, so...

Betrayal is just the beginning.Former Jersey City detective turned PI Marti Wells thinks her new case is simple: confirm a young woman's claim to a tech mogul's fortune. But in the world of power and money, nothing is ever simple. Marti soon finds herself...

Sometimes, nothing is everything....... Reese has everything. At 47 years old, she is wealthy. stunning, and on the top of every invite list. She lives a brilliant life - enjoying the posh adornments that come with being the wife of a high -powered International...

New York Times bestselling author Connie Briscoe updates Daphne Du Maurier's classic Rebecca in this chilling tale of domestic suspense centered on a spirited woman named Angel who marries a Black billionaire, only to discover that he remains haunted by his first wife who...

A New PresidentAn Old EnemyBlurred LinesBroken PromisesEverything Leads To ...A Breach Of Trust_____________________________________________________________________________________Ever since the Kennedy administration, The Body Man has operated in secret within the White House. Known only to a select few, the powerful role encapsulates one objective, protect the Office of...

Clara Noelle O'Reilly was at a crossroads. Faced with the unexpected separation from her spouse, she reluctantly decided to return home to the town she'd left twelve years before. She had doubts about relocating her young family and starting a new job, but they...