Fiction - Thrillers - Suspense

Another one of Bodine's friends just fell to their death. Is he next?The '60s counterculture taught Bodine to live as he pleases: under the radar, writing meticulous computer code by day and playing digital Robin Hood by night. The '60s ended for Bodine the...

Years ago, Ray was sworn to silence. Now he's going to speak. Even if it kills him. Ray Watts is in a deep funk. His girlfriend Liz has abandoned him. So has the muse that inspired the art that supported him. If he doesn't...

John Gapp lives in Seattle, Washington as a retired and decorated police officer. A series of personal tragedies has left the man as a frightened soul and an agoraphobic. One highlight of Gapp's life is his radio show, which is broadcast from a studio...

From the author of The Moonstone and The Woman in White comes another gripping Victorian sensation novel. A sinister Countess is driven mad by a dark secret. An innocent woman is made the instrument of retribution. A murdered man's fury reaches beyond the grave....

Set at the outbreak of the Great War, the story depicts a young woman from a Gloucestershire village, tired with the constraints of her life in Edwardian Britain.In 1916, her brother, a weak and introverted man is called up for military service. She sees...

Joe Marshall is loved by the residents of the care home where he works but, as Victoria Court is about to find out, he is no ordinary odd-job man. Victoria is a highly-principled headmistress who is dealing with some challenging students: they are facing...

When his business card turns up on the bodies of two dead homeless men, Stephen Brown, the Director of Social Services at the Salvation Army in Grand Island, Nebraska, falls under suspicion of the Chief Investigator, Laqueta Ellison. The fact that each card contains...

2001. East Timor remains a dangerous place. Memories of pro-Indonesian savagery linger, a resurgent militia threatens, and a secret war rages between Indonesia and Australia. Agent runner Matt Hurley is swept up in a maelstrom when one of his agents is brutally murdered. Seeking...

******Relaunched Version****** The aliens arrived on Earth, and transformed our lives with just seven words; "You will change, or you will die." These visitors were fearful that humans would eventually export our way of resolving conflicts to our intergalactic neighbors. Hoping to prevent this,...

Did you ever wonder when people started putting Christmas trees in their homes? Did you ever think about where all those holiday trees came from and who first thought of selling them? This heart-warming little story introduces us to Mark Carr, an enterprising New...

It is 2010 and North Korea is starving its people to pay for its newest high-tech weapons system. The rogue nation has invested all its resources into Peter Nampo, a talented scientist who is developing missile technology capable of eliminating its enemies' satellites in...

A woman with buried secrets... An agent with an impossible mission... An inheritance that will destroy them both...When Liv Sullivan's grandmother beckons for help from beyond the grave, the reluctant psychic returns to her small Ohio hometown. Scrambling to make sense of the clues...

It is April 2004 and Mehmet Yakis is an archaeology student in Istanbul. After an earthquake fractures a wall of the Aya Sofya, he unearths a lance engraved with the words, Longinus and Dominus, along with the Roman execution record of Jesus of Nazareth....

Rumors of a legendary treasure trigger a battle over possession of a Choctaw family farm. Two young lawyers, John Brooks and Jackson Bradley, agree to help the family keep their farm. Early legal success prompts the drive-by murder of the patriarch of the family....

★★★★★ What an amazing story The combination of relatable characters, settings and a unique plot had me hooked from the very first chapter. ★★★★★ I have to admit that I love stories that piece the story together using flashbacks. Bird does this and does...

When Greta Westerlind awakes in hospital having almost been killed in an avalanche, she is devastated to learn that her close friend perished in the slide. With no memory of the incident, Greta can't explain why they were skiing in such lethal terrain, but...

Chinese historical novel. In the crumbling days of the Qing Dynasty, a failed peasant-scholar styles himself God's Chinese Son and Jesus' Younger Brother to lead the biggest uprising against any emperor in Chinese history. Caught up in this tumult leading them into battle, death...

A thought-provoking thriller by debut author Kira Peikoff, Living Proof is a celebration of love and life that cuts to the core of a major cultural debate of our time.In 2027, destroying an embryo is considered first-degree murder. Fertility clinics still exist, giving hope...

The fifth Sebastian Foxley Medieval Mystery.London is not safe for princes or commoners.In February 1478, a wealthy merchant is killed by an intruder and a royal duke dies at the Tower. Neither case is quite as simple as it seems.Seb Foxley, an intrepid young...

The Moonstone is an epistolary novel, generally considered the first detective novel in the English language. Besides creating many of the ground rules of the detective novel, The Moonstone also reflected Collins' enlightened social attitudes in his treatment of the servants in the novel....

From USA Today Bestselling Author, P.D. Workman!A dead child.A mother deep in mourning.Private Investigator Zachary Goldman's life isn't all roses, but he tries to put his own shattered life behind him to investigate the death of five-year-old Declan Bond.Declan's death has been ruled an...

many people have issues with sitting down and reading whole novels at once. this title allows the freedom of reading an exciting story and the ability to get the rest of the days work done without the guilt of wasting your time.Author: Greg MendenhallISBN-10:...

Finn Wheeler, Pisces of the Zodiacs, has waited years to be taken seriously as a filmmaker, but when his recent trip to New York is upset by someone who is killing off members of the club, he can't wait to get out of town....

In this gripping debut thriller, Mitch Silver brings to life Ian Fleming's world of spies, love, passion, and danger when a young woman inherits Fleming's long-hidden account of spying during World War II and must finish it to find out why people are trying...

A bullet knows no master. It is just a servant of destruction. Even the person who pulls the trigger is just a mere slave to the agent of chaos...a chaos that was enough to shake their delusional truth off them. A friendship over decades...

Highway 101 historian Joe Blakely's new book is a 1960s thriller that races down the scenic Oregon Coast. William L. Sullivan, author of Hiking Oregon's History Charley Norman, a reporter for Portland's Oregonian newspaper, is determined to expose the major prostitution operation that's operating...

Elijah Conner Pennington is a private investigator specializing in cold cases. His published cases are based on actual events and are chronicled in his first cold case in a book titled COLT ACE, while his second adventure is presented in the author's book titled...

Danger Can't Stay Hidden...Even in the PastLarry Henderson knows more than he should, he just didn't know how much until the FBI started asking questions. As a successful design engineer at innovative Exley Aerospace, he is the last person anyone would suspect of gathering...

Living on his family's farm in Nebraska, John Shepherd and his wife Jackie know humanity's days are numbered. Despite battling with depression and the tragic end of his military career, John's fighter-pilot spirit is strong, and he can't afford to stand by and watch...

There's nothing extraordinary about Marc Ryder...unless you count his work for an obscure government agency that sends him traveling around the world where he meets lots of interesting people, some of whom want him dead.In Midnight, the latest novel in the Marc Ryder Novel...

The Caretaker (Originally Published by Bantam Books December 1998) The Caretaker is a wholly twisted and terrifying thriller. Nothing inside these pages is as it seems. Lies, manipulations, and seductions abound. The Caretaker will keep you dangling until the last word. For just when...

A blizzard rages. A young woman goes missing. A killer hides in the dark corners of an aging apartment complex.As Chicago's worst blizzard on record rages, a close friend asks Quille to help find a missing young woman whose immigration status makes her relatives...

Keeping a secret is nothing to be proud of. It burdens you. It eats away at you. Those who are lucky forget what it is that they are hiding. But, those who aren't must watch as they eventually lose themselves." Jeffrey Stevens has always...

"Body in the Bay is the third book in the Mark Daniels Mystery Series. And it establishes Justin Maxwell (A/K/A Skip Kadar) as a mystery writer worth serious attention. Trust me, you'll like it!" - Nick Teranzi, Seattle Book Journal Retired newspaper reporter Mark...

Dropped into the Rocky Mountains, the Omega team has minimal supplies and only two days to make it back to civilization...Trident Security has grown by leaps and bounds, and to accommodate the increased caseload, they've compiled a team of seven-the best of the best...

What's being said by readers...**"Brilliantly Subversive "****"Captivating "****"Quickly draws readers into the lives of its characters "****"Thrilling "**Amber wanted to live abroad and find love. Vilzen left behind his conflicted past. Mrs Rosenfield came as a young woman in search of herself. But sometimes...

When teenagers discover a body along the river in Grand Rapids, Lieutenant Jo Riskin and Detective Lynae Parker are called to the scene. The brutality of the murder is shocking, even without the corpse missing a hand. They soon find out that the suspect...

Will, a recovering heroin addict-turned-counselor for whom truth is a championed element to recovery, has a dark secret -- shared with no one outside of his anonymous AA meetings. Over twenty years ago, after an ultimatum from his pregnant ex-wife, Will was forced to...

Why is psychic Kate Jeffers working with a bouncer, a bartender, a colorful lady with a disreputable past, and the Atlanta police department? Will Kate and her cohorts find a kidnapping victim in time? Can they solve a thirteen-year-old cold case, stop a drug...

Kate Allison and Lyle Goldman are corporate mercenaries. They work for high paying clients to handle the messy business corporations would rather keep out of the public eye. After a stretch of bad jobs, they finally get a lucky break.It is the easiest job...

The transition is the journey after Washington, DC's extremely violent prison system Lorton closes down. Some of the prisoners are released to the community and the rest, mostly young black males, are shipped to the federal prison system. They are in for a rude...

"I've become a big fan of this amiable mystery series that's mindful of Jonathan and Jennifer Hart of Hart To Hart. It's addictive." - Barthélemy Banks, Mumm's Curse Norm and Catterina Knoll lived in the on Sugarloaf Key in the Florida Keys. They had...

"Another outstanding collection of mystery stories by master storytellers ... If you like whodunits this is definitely the book for you!" - Hollis George, acclaimed editor and anthologist. "10 mysteries by 10 masters of the genre ... give me more!" - Nick Teranzi, Online...

"I've become a fan of Skip Kadar's books written under his pen name of Justin Maxwell. I'm hooked on their Florida Keys backdrops and hard-charging storytelling. This latest Mark Daniels mystery does not disappoint, once again delivering the gritty, sand-in-your-shoes excitement I've come to...

"Becker adds a new female detective to America's mystery landscape ... or should we say to America's rails? A good ride!" - Hayes Brandwell, The Polemicist Post A retired NYC Police Detective on her post-retirement train trip from New York to San Francisco with...

"A well-told, hook-you-into-reading-it mystery by the winner of the first Whodunit Award (the Jeremiah Healy Mystery Writing Competition). You'll see why she won when you crack the pages of this outstanding book."-Shirrel Rhoades, co-founder Mystery Fest Key WestWhen teacher Cammie Rose finds an old...

A decade after the events chronicled in Conquering Venus and Remain In Light, Ir ne Laureux, Martin Paige and Christian Kigali are confronted by a journalist who has uncovered their connection to the Paris underworld. Meanwhile, a plot by the chief of police, Michel...

Leaving Atlanta, Jane takes her next kill assignment in New York City. A terrorist plot so out of the realm of the ordinary, Jane expects to debunk the tip she's been given and report back to Washington for another assignment. But when she discovers...

It's the first "IRA six pack" since the 1970s and The Troubles in Northern Ireland. And Seamus McCree is in hot water. Again. Seamus returns to Cincinnati after a routine business trip to discover his home has become a crime scene. The murder victim...

Sometimes a secret is in plain sight. But Alex just can't see it. While the police have moved on from investigating the deaths in her neighborhood, Alex's life is getting more complicated in other ways. Things are resurfacing that she thought were settled. A...