Fiction - Thrillers - Suspense

This is the story of a life abandoned through ignorance and reborn in a most unusual fashion. Abandoned shortly after birth to the care of an orphanage, later exiled to an academy for violent boys, then trained by the government as a contract assassin,...

Enjoy these twenty short, shocking stories, each written in response to a few keywords, by Jacky Dahlhaus for the Meldrum Writers Club during 2016-2017.Some are funny, some may make you cry, most have a shocking twist at the end.Author: Jacky DahlhausISBN-10: 0995671990ISBN-13: 9780995671997Publisher: Folla...

Love, death, culture clash, escape... 1994: Jane has no idea of the horrors in store when she plunges into a new life in North Africa with her recently discovered sister, Crystal. When she falls in love with Ali, she believes happiness is within her...

Book II of the Regarding Hayworth Series: Gaby Ridgway is forty and widowed. She moves to the small town of Hayworth, Alberta the summer of 1977 in an attempt to rebuild, restore, and renew her life. Her career as a family counsellor for the...

Don't you wish print was easier to read? Here's your answer! This pacy crime thriller has been published in a LARGE PRINT format that's dyslexia-friendly too.Shaun knows who put him inside - and he plans to make her pay...Shaun Halloran wouldn't be in prison...

'Whoever did this wanted to make sure no one lived to tell the tale.'Money, murder and love on the high seasIn the world of international shipping, the rules are blurred and the oceans lawlessWhen instinct tells maritime claims investigator Angus McKinnon that a wave...

From the golden beaches of The Sunshine Coast to the seedy alleys of Kings Cross, the wide open roads and stations of the Outback to the endless miles of WA's stunning wildflowers and beaches, this story takes you on an adventurous ride of love,...

Nina O'Brien's life is changed forever when a stranger appears at the door to her father's truck stop, bloodied and incoherent.As night falls and a ferocious storm descends on the tiny Californian community, the small group of people sheltering with Nina steel themselves to...

Five years ago, First Force operative Grant Ketchum let the ballerina of his dreams dance right out of his life. After her American adoptive parents had been killed in an automobile accident, Silja Ramsay returned to her birthplace, Russia, to take the position of...

In New York City, 1989, after a man is murdered in cold blood, world-renowned prima ballerina Andrea Brandt is accused. She admits to her attorney that the devil got what he deserves, but tells him that she cannot remember what happened. As her attorney...

When Tsara Adelman leaves her husband and two young children for a weekend to visit her estranged uncle, she little dreams he is holding several local children captive on his lavish estate. Mike Westbrook, father of one of the boys, kidnaps her to trade...

What if the world didn't want you to go straight? Out on parole after almost ten years in prison, Emet First is repairing his shattered life. He has friends, a job, and his first date in a decade. The young woman, Mercedes Finch, is...

The first Volume, INVISIBLE WARRIOR, is a comprehensive narrative nonfiction based on the vulnerability of the United States defense system. Due to the complexity of my life, and career, this story expands in volume size over the average book, and many chapters were necessary...

Human cloning is only a medical theory ... isn't it? A mysterious letter has former CIA operative Rage Doyle traveling to Central Europe. Katerina Bambenek, Doyle's long abandoned love needs his help. Mystery surrounds the deaths of Bambenek's friend and the friend's daughter. On...

The Marquise de Langrune is savagely murdered in her chateau, a certain Lord Beltham vanishes, a princess is robbed of her jewels, and an ocean liner sinks. Behind these mysteries Inspector Juve of the Paris S ret recognizes the hand of the Lord of...

...If a kickass middle-aged bookkeeper got sucked into a spy's life...Aydan Kelly has reluctantly accepted her unwanted role as a part-time spy. It's painful and dangerous, but she's willing to make the sacrifice for the good of her country. Too bad her country doesn't...

Neile Landry, a talented corporate interpreter, must face her past fears and rethink her future plans when she's confronted with deception, threats to her life, and murder. Her wealthy employer dies in a suspicious car accident that also critically injures her best friend, leading...

When the mayor of New York City's grandson and the grandson's wife are murdered execution-style in their Tribeca apartment, NYPD Detective Louis Martelli and his partner, Detective Sean O'Keeffe, are left completely in the dark. Months go by without any actionable leads until a...

Even as a child, Katlyn Lundquist was drop-dead gorgeous. She also was willful. In her teens, perhaps out of spite, she created her own name and persona. As she grew up, she readily accepted money and gifts from her parents but thumbed her nose...

Can two teenage girls save a town? When Loren Cofton and Tracie Martinez visit the remote hills of northeastern Nevada on a cross-country drive celebrating their high school graduation, the fun vacation quickly morphs into a perilous adventure. After photographing an abandoned gold mine,...

Fatal Family Legacies - Have you ever had a dream snatched away just as you were about to touch it? Kali just can't seem to grasp it. It's always just out of her reach. This young, sheltered, southern girl orphaned on the brink of...

Author: Dorothy J. MorrisISBN-10: 0983648816ISBN-13: 9780983648819Publisher: Dorothy J MorrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/01/2014Pages: 292Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.95lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.66d

Tomorrow's headlines leap from the pages of The Looming Storm when Federal Agent Eva Montanna uncovers a menacing threat to harm Eva and her family. When daughter Kaley travels to Eastern Europe on a class trip, Eva's Christian faith is challenged, and their lives...

At forty-five, clinical psychologist Davida Grayson, leaves a thriving practice in Oakland, California to return to her childhood home in Still Water, Kansas after the death of her reclusive father. Her mother is in a nursing home, suffering from Alzheimer's disease. In the ensuing...

In this, John David Krygelski's third and perhaps most powerful novel yet, he creates a spine-tingling story of suspense, drama, and intrigue. After the only child of the President - his teenaged daughter, Neve - commits suicide in a violent and senseless act, President...

A prominent newspaper columnist kills the man mostly likely to be the next Governor of Kentucky - and gets away with it. Ten years later, the death of his mentor brings him back to the scene of the crime. When Theodore O'Hara Clark arrives...

For Becky Ford, field producer of the hit reality television show, The Survivalist, the arduous trek deep into a remote region of the Canadian Rockies comes with the job. But when she and the production crew happen upon a mysterious group of hikers, the...

John David Krygelski's suspenseful debut novel - The Harvest - is a stunning tour de force Whether tackling the epic battle between good and evil, or answering the subtle and persistent questions which haunt us all, Krygelski writes a compelling and startling story centered...

Experience sixteen short stories by Appalachian writers with strong appetites for the macabre. Within these pages lie terrifying ghost tales sure to cause more than a few sleepless nights. Dark Tales of Terror is a gripping anthology-full of Southern fried horror of the first...

In a world of espionage and deceit, Melanie Ward lives her life as a Secret Agent. She has consistently proved to be one of the top operatives for a clandestine division of the United States government. Recruited ten years ago after graduating from San...

Bryce Goodman had one goal when he established The Goodman Firm, to cash out once he'd attained a billion dollars, and he was well on his way - or so it seemed - until he was hit with a trifecta of women, threatening blackmail,...

Border Trouble describes the story of Tye Watkins, Chief of Scouts at Fort Clark, Texas. What he thought would be an easy assignment, finding a pay wagon, turned into a nightmare for him. He had to deal with the Vasquez gang, and a determined...

Through the crack era the "Kingpin" came into rise. His organization was well organized, oversexed and intently violent-entrenched with satellite relationships of varied values. The politics of the day as well the mantra "There's only one way out," served as a deadly promise to...

A man-eating leopard prowls the Transvaal. Daring, desperate, and indomitable, this lord of all cats, slowed by an ancient wound, has turned now to the one prey on which he can hope to survive. Captain Hilton Rixton, sportsman retired from the stalk, reaches for...

Deep in the basement of the University of Chicago Biological Sciences Building, Dr. William Kanter is on the brink of developing a technology that will replace the MRI. What Kanter discovers throughout the rest of the scan could rock the very foundation of humanity.Author:...

The ice cover in the Arctic is disappearing at an alarming rate and the race is on for strategic dominance in the northern waterway. The Russians leap ahead of the United States by taking advantage of new routes into the area caused by these...

The ice cover in the Arctic is disappearing at an alarming rate and the race is on for strategic dominance in the northern waterway. The Russians leap ahead of the United States by taking advantage of new routes into the area caused by these...

A hidden diary and a crumpled envelope, postmarked in Italy, are the only clues Martin Segantino has to what happened to his younger brother Angelo, the black sheep of the family, who disappeared under mysterious circumstances twenty years ago. When the police find the...

And she thinks that lunatics can be cured by kindness; and springs a man called Jack Straw from Bedlam to foster his sanity in her own household. . . . Meanwhile, in Frankfurt, Fritz Keller, son of one of the other partners, has fallen...

A couple finds themselves stranded in the Mojave Desert with dwindling hope of survival--until a mysterious man shows up. Will he help them or does he have more sinister plans?Author: Samuel ParkerISBN-10: 0800728610ISBN-13: 9780800728618Publisher: Fleming H. Revell CompanyLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/03/2017Pages: 306Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.18lbsSize: 8.50h...

From the #1 New York Times and Amazon Charts bestselling author comes a gripping psychological thriller exploring the things we dare to do when no one is looking, set in a gentrified Oregon community that becomes the backdrop for an unthinkable tragedy. Now available...

Author: John Haviland WilliamsISBN-10: 0759605777ISBN-13: 9780759605770Publisher: 1st Book LibraryLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/20/2001Pages: 372Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.90lbsSize: 7.64h x 5.70w x 0.94d

In the cellar there was no sound at all except her own breathing and the soft rustle of her skirts. After her eyes had grown accustomed to the dark, she noticed a niche in the wall a yard from where she stood. She saw...

A wedding day murder leads to a commissioned portrait painter fighting to defend his reputation in this historical mystery filled with greed and revenge from bestselling author Janet Gleeson. She opened the shagreen box. Couched in gray silk was an emerald necklace, one he...

Author: Alexander Jr. MolnarISBN-10: 0738817872ISBN-13: 9780738817873Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/20/2000Pages: 288Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.89lbsSize: 8.57h x 5.56w x 0.75d

"MacDonald has written another terrific novel of psychological suspense, marked by well-developed, sympathetic characters and excellent, tightly paced ｬplotting. Tami Hoag and Francine Mathews fans will devour"Library Journal Starred Review A daughter sets out to discover the truth about her mother's death in this...

Researcher Phineas Fox has agreed to help track down his neighbour's cousin, who has disappeared without trace, leaving a single clue to her whereabouts: an obscure 1940s portrait of an alleged murderess. What exactly happened back in 1941 - and what is the connection...

"One of the best in a consistently excellent series--add it to the growing list of mysteries starring retired cops (Harry Bosch, John Rebus) who can't stay out of harm's way"Booklist Starred Review What should have been a blissful retirement for former DCI Henry Christie...

Liza Plain, a Boston-based journalist hoping for her big break, is dreading spending Christmas in Rhode Island, with her difficult grandfather - until news of the disappearance of a retired local priest triggers her realization that this could be linked to a series of...

"Boogie Time" is a contemporary thriller set in the San Francisco Bay Area. An engaging, fast paced, humorous, scientifically accurate tale about the emergence of an organism capable of decomposing plastics and a meditation on the GMO controversy. An emergent marine fungi propagates by...