Fiction - Thrillers - Suspense

Step back in time to the shadowy streets of Victorian London with Fergus Hume's classic detective fiction, "The Mystery of a Hansom Cab." When a body is discovered in a hansom cab, the police embark on a thrilling investigation. This enduring mystery novel, meticulously...

Unravel a web of intrigue in Edgar Rice Burroughs' "The Oakdale Affair," a classic mystery brimming with suspense and action. This thrilling adventure plunges readers into a world where secrets lurk around every corner. A meticulously prepared print edition of this timeless tale, "The...

Enter the world of Sax Rohmer's "The Insidious Dr. Fu-Manchu," a thrilling crime novel featuring one of literature's most notorious criminal masterminds. This meticulously prepared edition brings to life the classic tale of detective fiction and suspense that has captivated readers for generations. Dive...

A gripping adventure novel about a young Scottish man's quest for treasure in Africa, set against the backdrop of colonialism and political intrigue. Full of action, suspense, and memorable characters, this book is a classic of the genre.This work has been selected by scholars...

A gripping adventure novel about a young Scottish man's quest for treasure in Africa, set against the backdrop of colonialism and political intrigue. Full of action, suspense, and memorable characters, this book is a classic of the genre.This work has been selected by scholars...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

Ian, a pianist and freshman college student witnesses inexplicable events and the appearances of a ghost when he discovers an abandoned grand piano in his student apartment. It becomes evident that the musical notes written on the sheet is more than music... It conveys...

"With talented author Matt Minor in charge and our marvelously flawed hero at the helm, The Water Lord is like riding a roller coaster: a ride not to be missed." -- Chris Rogers, author of the Booker Krane Series A town has gone dry,...

Divorced, broke, and jobless, Caleb believes he's found a reprieve from a life on the streets when he answers an ad calling for volunteers in an extended university study. Along with a dozen others, he trades his clothes for a simple uniform and boards...

Starting a career as a small town criminal attorney would be tough enough, but as a widowed mother with no income and very little in the bank, Samantha Tulley is in over her head. From court appointed clients who never show up for court...

"There's no business like the hoe business..." Born and raised in Chicago, Trey Miller thinks pimping is easy. Until, one day, he lands in prison where he meets someone who teaches him that he could do better using his skills to sell the "word"...

Ryan, Tyler, Avery and Jacob are high school football stars. Everyone looks up to them. They're living the life that young boys and men dream of and are right at the point of having it all: a state championship, college paid for, a chance...

From December 1884 to December 1885 a series of murders occurred in Austin, Texas which became known as the Servant Girl Annihilator murders. One of the suspects was a Malay cook, known only as Maurice. Before he could be apprehended, Maurice disappeared. It is...

2019 READER VIEWS REVIEWERS CHOICE AWARD 2019 INDEPENDENT AUTHOR NETWORK BOOK OF THE YEAR FINALIST AWARD A child's life should be idyllic: filled with friends, abundant joy, and carefree days of endless possibility. But that was not to be for Jake Malloy and his...

Fables encourage kids to think about the question, "What would you do?" They're not simply dry lessons on how to live life, but rather imaginative adventures with clever outcomes. Adults need fables too! Modern Day Fables presents eleven stories that ask the reader to...

Don't Smother Your Mother When Melissa Johnson's husband crosses the line, she pulls out her .45, fires a few warning shots, and boots his butt out the door. He disappears, leaving her to raise three little boys on her own. It is now twenty-three...

Jason Holden has been on thin ice since his mother died. Capping off a burglary and bar fight with a brutal car wreck, the seventeen year old finds himself firmly on the wrong side of the law. His behavior isn't winning him any points...

The Five is a mystery/thriller highly recommended for genre fans who enjoy either approach: each facet is well developed and contributes to a compelling tale as readers learn of Bernie Tennison, who is in love with new technology and the intersection between practicality and...

Angela Baranyi, an unassuming divorced mother from Cleveland with two young children, gets the chance of a lifetime when she gets a job in New York City, working for the enigmatic Pastor Soren Kristiansen, the world's most popular Internet evangelist. Six months later, she...

A warrior returns, but the battle has just begun.After time-traveling to 16th-century Japan, Kim Yoshima struggles to readjust to her old life. Her friends, Shioko, Jackson, and Wayne, face similar challenges as they grapple with the trauma of their shared experiences. Not every mythological...

​Sonia yearns for sharp objects and blood. But now that she's rehabilitating herself as a "normal" mother and mathematics teacher, it's time to stop dreaming about slicing people's throats. While being the wife of Melbourne's leading drug lord and simultaneously dating his best mate...

The Sullivan children have always known how to keep their mouths shut. Survival depends on avoiding their father's volatile rage. Now they are isolated at a small summer resort, and Mom can't help them anymore. She hasn't been herself ever since that night when...

A story of reincarnation, as a soul enters a battle of wits with Satan."I must admit, I enjoy living but if this is death, it's not so bad.""No. This is not death," Satan told me. "You will remember that too, soon." I could see...

When art, money and power collide...A Mafia boss addicted to beautiful art. A Catholic priest who knows too much. A modern-day Jay Gatsby.And a woman on the run.Disgraced London detective Stephen Connor is given an ultimatum: take a transfer to Rome or kiss his...

This highly anticipated sequel to "In Strange Worlds" takes the reader back to the community of survivors who are living in the Sunshine Coast hinterland of Queensland, Australia.Derek returns to Maleny with more survivors, but discovers that Meg has lost her life trying to...

Am I losing my mind, or my power? Right now, I'm not sure which would be worse. A little over a year after the events of Blood Relations, Alex Winters is doing well, with a relatively comfortable home life with his girlfriend and baby....

Set in Europe, The Frizon continues the fast pace from Under the Ashes, quickly entangling the protagonists in a world of international art forgeries and their related crime rings. The suspense thriller builds on the strength of the young attractive couple established in the...

FORLORN PASSIONS follows the story of a maladjusted fighter pilot who searches for truth in a generation of deceit. As his search intensifies and his relationship with the world worsens, the harmony of his identity clashes with the ideals of his physicality. He is...

Every nightmare starts as a dream.When Allie receives a gilded letter in the mail, she doesn't hesitate. The offer is an unprecedented research visa to a tiny, affluent offshore country near North America's west coast.At first, Allie and her young daughter fall in love...

Beneath the bleachers at a town ballpark, tucked under the top seat, Wyatt O'Malley found what he was looking for. Out of sight, out of the rain and the mud, and unknown to anyone, there lay, as he expected, a small bag of marijuana....

Is your fly fishing guide willing to die for you? Stony lives for fly fishing in the wilderness. It literally saved his life. After Stony massacred an entire village in Vietnam, addiction and PTSD almost killed him. Alaska, fly fishing, and a woman and...

Less than a year after discovering a human fossil and a dinosaur fossil found together, paleontologist Wayne Oakford is murdered. His niece, Mary Dillard, believes the killer was another scientist who was trying to ruin his reputation. She hires a private detective, Gunnar Schofield,...

A mysterious attack on a young, disabled girl leads to a sea of lies, secrets...and murder.Crime consultant Scott Drayco is in the middle of a thorny case in Washington, D.C., involving murder victims who were all wheelchair users. Then out of the blue, he...

The Canary Island's Cumbre Vieja volcano is experiencing a major 8.9 earthquake. Some say it's just a local disaster. But, Dr. Samuel May, one of the world's premier researchers on stratovolcanos knows different. He's a renowned crackerjack scientist who's predicted this earthquake would cause...

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 to life...

Large Print Edition (18pt.) Veterinarian Mark Canis has a special gift that makes him one of the best at what he does... But the gift has a price - and that price is about to go way up. Fast-paced and exciting, The Whining Mill...

When Debra Price, an arts executive from California, accepts a job on the Gulf Coast of Florida she finds herself an outsider in the rural, tropical setting and a victim of a conspiracy. Hired to develop a cultural park, she unknowingly upsets a good...

The Dark Horse of Shanghai is a story of cultural clashes between the United States and China that plunges the reader through a maze of deeply-entrenched Chinese business traditions and back alley tactics most Americans cannot understand. On May 7, 1999, the U.S. deliberately...

"All of Peter's books leave the reader with an inability to put the book down when you start reading it." A man is rescued from a roadside gully deep in the Adirondack Mountains. When he awakes, he can't remember who he is. As he...

The world is in trouble. Growing political unrest, cataclysmic cancer rates and an unprecedented economic downturn have even the most optimistic citizens fearful of the future. Then the unthinkable happens - human conception stops. As it becomes clear that nowhere in the world are...

The evening news is rife with reports of corporate excess. Public outrage is of little consequence, however, since in-competence and greed might be considered moral failings, but not criminal offenses. Shelly Martin is beginning to suspect otherwise. It is not that she's becoming paranoid,...

Bradley is back! Michael Bradley, author of the critically acclaimed, Swords at Sunset and other non-fiction books on the Holy Grail (he was a researcher for The Da Vinci Code movie), has now written his first novel since the 1970s, when Imprint and The...

At the beginning of the twenty-first century, billions of people began to suffer from a strange illness. Many died, but those who survived found themselves transformed, capable of surviving underwater for long periods of time. This new strain of humanity was called the Otom....

With echoes of Sunset Boulevard, Michelle Berry's Blur brings the warped world of Hollywood stardom into lurid focus. Tabloid reporter Bruce Dermott has been waiting seven long years for his moment in the sun when he strikes pay dirt in Emma Fine. Emma, a...

This mesmerizing debut is part love story, part mystery, telling the captivating story of two lovers torn apart by tragedy and the secrets they kept of one devastating night. I'm the most authentic version of myself when I'm around Jack. We've known each other...

Things My Girlfriend and I Have Argued About concerns a guy named Pel who lives with his German girlfriend, Ursula. Pel leads an uneventful life--quietly bluffing his way through his job and discovering new things to argue about with Ursula. But when his boss...

Two small children, newly-orphaned, are separated - one sent east and one sent west, their names changed, and their vast fortune stolen. The story begins fifteen years later when they begin their search for each other, their only clue: a box the boy had...

Author: Tolbert MorrisISBN-10: 0759635137ISBN-13: 9780759635135Publisher: 1st Book LibraryLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/01/2001Pages: 120Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.83lbsSize: 9.28h x 6.38w x 0.56d

Queen of Suspense and #1 New York Times bestselling writer Mary Higgins Clark brilliantly weaves the mystery of twin telepathy into a mother's search for a kidnapped child, presumed dead in this "riveting...suspense thriller [that] is certain to send terror into the heart of...

In a riveting psychological thriller, Queen of Suspense Mary Higgins Clark takes you deep into the mysteries of the human mind, where memories may be the most dangerous things of all. Kay Lansing, who has grown up in Englewood, New Jersey, is the daughter...