Fiction - Thrillers - Suspense

What you don't know about your spouse could kill you. Jens Corbin is a comfortable, successful writer, with a wife and a teenage son. After saving a man from a bear attack in the New Hampshire mountains, Jens decides to step away from his...

A predator running free and the girl determined to stop them. After escaping a violent past, Selena Bailey, starts her first semester of college determined to put it all behind her - until her roommate is attacked at the Delta Kappa Alpha house. After...

A little girl is taken. A mysterious cover-up. One young investigator determined to find the truth.Selena Bailey, a sophomore at the local university studying criminal justice, returns from winter break to jump into her first official case as a private investigator with her step-mother's...

"West of Sin blazes with page-turning tension, wit, exceptional dialogue, and affable characters." --Foreword Reviews"Fans of zippy, high-tension thrillers with romantic and humorous elements will be enthralled by this fresh and original novel." --BookLife Reviews (editor's pick)"An explosive adventure that pays off repeatedly with...

"West of Sin blazes with page-turning tension, wit, exceptional dialogue, and affable characters." --Foreword Reviews"Fans of zippy, high-tension thrillers with romantic and humorous elements will be enthralled by this fresh and original novel." --BookLife Reviews (editor's pick)"An explosive adventure that pays off repeatedly with...

The Facebook friend request glares back at Jaclyn Friedman. It is the face of her childhood abuser. She holds her breath as she looks at how age has sculpted his face with an unfamiliar texture. Nightmares rush to the surface. Adrenalin strikes her heart...

The Promise, the Promise, the Promise . . .A casual barstool conversation with a mystery man--perhaps a Las Vegas bigwig, perhaps a sociopath--hooks chronic loser Vern McGurren on the chance of a lifetime, requiring a road trip from Chico CA across Yosemite and Death...

Hearts of Men moves with calculated grit and fierce velocity, stopping for rest only when it seems safe. It is a tale of seven unassuming, ordinary young men from all over North America. They awaken separately, one by one, in a vast, uncharted green...

History isn't what it used to be, as photographer Sam Dawson quickly discovers while attempting to unravel the truth surrounding the fatal shooting of a fourteen-year-old boy more than a century ago. Past events and lore compete with stark facts that may have saved...

The Abduction is the heart-pounding, adrenaline-fuelled follow up to Jonathan Holt's highly acclaimed international thriller The Abomination--a modern tale of mystery, treachery, and intrigue that moves between the physical and virtual worlds of Venice, Italy, blurring the boundary between dark fantasy and terrifying reality.An...

It could just be coincidence. It also could be revenge.But hardened cop Frank Zimmerman doesn't believe in coincidences. Neither does FBI profiler Nathan Thomas.A drowned lawyer, a fatal car accident, a heart attack and a socialite's lethal fall in front of a huge crowd...

"International intrigue and the Russian mob are the making of a good story ... and John Jeremiah certainly knows how to tell it." - Barthélemy Banks, Mumm Declan Curtis is a bohemian Oriental rug dealer who is fond of single malt, fine food and...

Sometimes, the punishment doesn't fit the crime ... and someone has to die.Alexandra Mallory is envious of the spectacular house across from the tiny cabin she and Jared Brady are sharing. She imagines herself living in the spacious Gifford home, rather than the cabin...

Ben Blackshaw's wife, LuAnna, has been shot and lies in a permanent coma on Smith Island. Blackshaw has a disastrous falling out with his best friend, Knocker Ellis. Licking his wounds alone on Lethe Island, Blackshaw resolves to quit the Chesapeake. To his disgust,...

'The sophisticated and the primitive, the seen and the half-seen . . . homosexuals and witches, in an intriguing mixture of old and new.' - Chicago Tribune 'Brooding, atmospheric . . . an ancestral castle and its village are the setting for a highly...

Holed up in a frigid New York City basement lair, Ben Blackshaw gets a coded distress call from his former commanding officer. The new mission takes Blackshaw on an international manhunt for a mysterious sniper. To launch the mission, Blackshaw is secretly flown across...

Emily Harris, Lindsay's teenage daughter, tries to help a friend and becomes a victim. A simple act of kindness causes a great deal of trouble for Lindsay along with the fact that her friend, Jed, becomes hospitalized with a broken leg. How did Jed's...

On the day of his release from a mental institution Pace is taken "hostage" by Faust, Pia, and Hayden, three escapees from the hospital who disappeared after the presumed rape and beating of Cassandra Kaltzas, daughter of the Greek munitions tycoon Alexandra Kaltzas. Each...

In a darkened warehouse in Colombia, a father of two and the second highest-ranking executive in one of the largest oil companies in the world is murdered in what the company claims is a botched kidnapping attempt. Three thousand miles away, on a rock...

Trudy Schelling arrives at her company in Jersey City, New Jersey, to start her first day of work at Hallerbee Net Research. The date is November 9. Barely through the door, she is grabbed by a man in military garb - one of several...

"Fierce and fantastic - a totally different type of heroine who keeps you clinging to the edge of your seat!" ...If a kickass middle-aged bookkeeper got sucked into a spy's life...Railroaded into acting as a secret agent, Aydan Kelly only wants to return to...

"Fierce and fantastic - a totally different type of heroine who keeps you clinging to the edge of your seat!" ...If a kickass middle-aged bookkeeper got sucked into a spy's life... a midlife thriller with humor and heartAfter four uneventful months spent guarding her...

...If a kickass middle-aged bookkeeper got sucked into a spy's life...Middle-aged bookkeeper Aydan Kelly knew pretending to be an experienced secret agent was a bad idea, but it was the only way to protect her lover. Now her lies have caught up to her...

"Fierce and fantastic - a totally different type of heroine who keeps you clinging to the edge of your seat!" ...If a kickass middle-aged bookkeeper got sucked into a spy's life... a midlife thriller with humor and heartAydan Kelly's part-time job with a clandestine...

The book deals with decisions made by the characters that would affect their future lives. How it affects their lives is surprising and unpredictable. In these stories, the characters are driven by their egos. The results are sometimes good and sometimes bad and sometimes...

Who would think you could meet the man of your dreams in your favorite coffee shop? Well, that is what Zoe Parker wanted to believe. Sometimes being blindsided and being blind aren't exactly the same thing as she struggles to shake him off. What...

Riceyman Steps is a novel by British novelist Arnold Bennett, first published in 1923 and winner of that year's James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction. It follows a year in the life of Henry Earlforward, a miserly second-hand bookshop owner in the Clerkenwell...

Former pharmaceutical researcher Maggie O'Malley is losing sleep. Constantine's aunt is a multitasking sleepwalker who, in addition to wandering her stately home, prepares meals, folds laundry and, one winter night, stumbles across her husband with his throat slit. It's a rude and gruesome awakening...

American adventurer and safari guide Tim Flynn has worked in Zimbabwe for over twenty years. He thinks he is leading a routine safari for American tourists, until that is, a military coup in Zimbabwe turns his routine safari into a bloody game of life...

Dan Lord is a forty-year-old private detective with a law degree working the blurred line between right and wrong in the Nation's Capital. As a self-employed solutions broker and legal consultant, he works for a very select clientele. He doesn't advertise and only takes...

In a land of unrelenting turmoil, in a city that's been laid siege by Mongols, Huns, Turks, Tartars, Germans, and Russians, a cop from Brooklyn joins the chase for a notebook with a mathematical formula that could turn the world on its head.Author: Seth...

The Itinerary for Murder is the second book of a detective series starring Vinny Veneto. It's about the murder of rich and famous concert performer Rafael Contour. The police were convinced his brother Seth was the killer, so he hired private investigator Vinny Veneto,...

TWENTY EXHILARATING NEW STORIES is a collection of imaginative stories that provide many hours of entertaining reading pleasure. This phenomenal book will keep you eagerly turning the pages from the beginning until the end. Author: Dalward J. DebruzziISBN-10: 160862675XISBN-13: 9781608626755Publisher: E-Booktime, LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/29/2017Pages:...

Cast a Crooked Shadow is the first of a detective series starring Vinny Veneto. It's about the murder of billionaire Colin O'Brien. His mother, heartbroken by the murder of her only child, decided to hire a private investigator to solve the crime; however, it...

"David McCaleb has a real winner here. Red Harmon is a guy I'd want on my side." -Marc Cameron, New York Times bestselling author of Brute Force To save his family-and the free world-Red Harmon is back in the line of fire . ....

Essie Mae Laveau Jenkins is a 78-year-old sweetgrass basket weaver who sits on the side of Hwy. 17 in the company of her dead husband, Daddy Jim. Inspired by her Auntie Leona, Essie Mae finally discovers her calling in life and weaves powerful "love...

Her relationship with Zack Brady is in undefined territory. The trial of Gert Fountain fades in her rearview mirror. Needing a break, Maxi Malone tags along with her parents for a well-deserved break on the island of Aruba.An unmarked war ship sits just off...

FIRST, THE STRANGE CREATURES FROM THE RIVER. THEN THE HORDES OF KILLER MOSQUITOES. THEN THE RAGING PLAGUE. AMIDST THE RAVAGES OF DEATH AND PESTILENCE, ONE DOCTOR TURNS TO AN ANCIENT CURE.In a warming world, the stage is set for malevolent storms, deadly diseases, and...

The Opera ghost really existed. He was not, as was long believed, a creature of the imagination of the artists, the superstition of the managers, or a product of the absurd and impressionable brains of the young ladies of the ballet, their mothers, the...

This dynamic tale revolves around a Tampa blue-blood family, the Westcotts, whose lives are intricately woven into the traditions and mythical lore of the town's evocative holiday, Gasparilla. The story begins on a summer's evening in 1972. While the band plays amid the sizzling...

"Best book I've read in a LONG time!" - Adam Croft, bestselling author of "Her Last Tomorrow." A shocking murder. A web of deceit. A twist even Hitchcock wouldn't see coming. It starts with a phone call - Sondra Ellis' beautiful baby sister, Tracy,...

"A rogue biotech scientist secretly nurtures her deadly GMO corn seed while America sleeps..."A brilliant Ph.D. working for a global biotech firm in Research Triangle Park North Carolina is about to be honored as the youngest recipient of the World Food Prize. Hidden deep...

Two not-quite-over-the-hill Dall sheep hunters take in one last hunt, flying into the vast and unforgiving Chugach Mountain Range in Southcentral Alaska. Tragedy strikes the pair early on, and one of them is dead. The story that ensues is a wholly convincing account of...

Deep in the heart of Minnesota's north woods, a remarkable young woman by the name of Anna Jenkins flees from an obscure treatment center with a dark, foreboding secret. Institutionalized there, for most of her young life, Anna and the three other escapees, possess...

Author: Joana-Joe DaouISBN-10: 1481729160ISBN-13: 9781481729161Publisher: AuthorhouseLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/21/2013Pages: 24Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.23lbsSize: 11.00h x 8.50w x 0.06d

Preparing for President Putin's State Visit in 2003, the Bank of England is ordered to return any remaining Czarist money to Russia. The Bank's trustee of the former Empress Alexandra's secret trust account resists. To support his case, the trustee investigates the revealing career...

As Dr. Obie Hardy, family physician and part-time medical examiner, travels down a rural Virginia road, he thinks he is about to investigate another routine death. But as he pulls up next to a mobile home, he discovers there is nothing ordinary about the...

On a blustery December morning Tommy Rowley parks his old Volvo behind the Pius XII Auditorium, carefully places his college acceptance letter on the passenger seat, pulls up his collar against the wind, and walks into the woods. Minutes later he ends his life,...

YASTROW WRITES "suspense and mystery reminiscent of fellow lawyer-novelist Scott Turow... he entertainingly prepares the lay reader for fathoming the legal depths, so that readers can share the excitement." - Chicago Sun - Times A doctor's scare. A mother's love. A court of law...

For veteran financial advisor Mac McGregor, it is the worst of times. A plunging stock market, a global panic, and worried clients create a trifecta of agony. Against this backdrop of guaranteed sleepless nights, McGregor gets a bizarre request from an old friend, former...