Fiction - Thrillers - Suspense

Bureau of Land Management workers, Craig Michaels, and Richard Carter had just completed a three-week assignment in Canada. They expected bad weather on their drive home but were totally unprepared when the EBS announced that a nationwide, drone delivered viral attack, was taking place....

Some secrets just won't stay buried. A construction site provides a horrific discovery when a worker uncovers the skeleton of a small child wrapped in a sleeping bag. Police Chief Matt Foley soon links the murder to another cold case, the hit-and-run death of...

A touching story that many women have been through; have you ever been 'Blinded by Love?' Have you ever been or are being lied to, cheated on, walked over, used, and abused? Were you or are you so tired of it and you don't...

A newspaper reporter and two cops search for a missing college girl in the city's porn district. A murderer is looking for her, too -- and time is running out.Author: Robert LambISBN-10: 0692435174ISBN-13: 9780692435175Publisher: Red Letter PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/29/2015Pages: 322Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.04lbsSize: 9.02h x...

An excellent pilot does not necessarily a good husband make. Don Webber prepares to pilot his Boeing 747-200 from San Francisco to JFK Airport in New York. Once he arrives in New York, he has plans-in-place for an overnight rendezvous' with his most recent...

Anna is a town of affluence nestled behind mature trees and hidden driveways. The place everyone wants to be. It has immaculate streets and is almost crime free. But because of an unspoken rule in Anna, all are not welcomed.Pearl Swanson has lived in...

Kristy thought she was happy with her life but it took an unexpected turn when she discovered a mysterious stone while hiking. Turns out she has had a superficial relationship with life and now has no choice but to dig deep with the stone...

"IT'LL BE FUN," SHE SAID . . . Famous last words before Rebecca, Jerome, and Caleb plunge blindly into an ominous, dark hole. But, as some of the last humans on Earth, the trio is desperate for food--and they have nothing left to lose....

"I'll fix it for you. You don't have to cry," said the tall man with the deep, Barry White kind of voice. But Audrey Roberts wasn't just crying about her flat tire. Her tears were for things that couldn't be mended. After all, how...

What if you are in love with a figment of your imagination?What if he is the perfect man? Jane Miller was unlucky in love and unlucky in life.Abandoned by her parents and a string of boyfriends and lovers, Jane couldn't seem to find love...

The high school is this killer's hunting ground.Girls from the local high school are being abducted. The only link between the cases is that the girls are kept for ninety-nine hours, then drowned and dumped on the doorsteps of their homes with a number...

Nina O'Brien's life changes 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...

A girl called Gracie. A town called Coongahoola - on the dark foreboding Bagooli River. Every small town has its secrets: good, bad, funny, sad - and sometimes terrifying. They're mythologised and whispered-about by town gossips and other grown-ups until something happens to snap...

In 1871, nineteen men, women, and children, voyaging on the Arctic explorer USS Polaris found themselves cast adrift on an ice floe as their ship began to founder. Based on one of the most remarkable events in polar history, Afterlands tells the haunting story...

Stock trader Coren Raines is regretting his latest investment. Six-month-old triplets vanish a block from his house. The local sheriff is determined to frame him. And the more secrets Coren unearths, the harder it is to prove his innocence.Author: S. D. HintzISBN-10: 0615998291ISBN-13: 9780615998299Publisher:...

Samuel is eighteen and has spent the last four years of his life in an institution, struggling with night terrors. In what he can remember of his nightmares, someone has always been murdered. Abandoned by his parents, and released from the institution, Samuel faces...

Restarting her life and career after her recent divorce, interior designer Emily Everheart moves into the lower half of a live-work loft only to discover she has an endlessly irritating and disruptive upstairs neighbor, Candy Jones. Emily's days and nights are full, embarking on...

Michael Stanford is living his American dream. A successful businessman in the small town of Hillcrest, he has amassed a small fortune and married his longtime girlfriend. But Michael's idyllic life comes to an abrupt and brutal end when he is murdered in cold...

In the world of espionage, countries are ever trying to uncover secrets from their rivals to give them that edge that will make a difference. Favorite targets are often the men and women in the military, who by the nature of their jobs, possess...

Escaping from a marriage gone bad and the wreckage of a distinguished career, champion hunter rider Rusty Coulter wants nothing more than to immerse himself in the comforting anonymity of teaching English at a large university in Texas, and to keep his hand in...

In this high-powered, high-octane international thriller, Barry Koch brings his gripping characters to life in this riveting and poignant story-telling. Filled with political intrigue of the highest order, your heart will race when you follow CIA agent Tyler Cahill in his quest to find...

... there, at the main entrance of the World Bank was this large inscription "A World without Poverty Is Our Dream." He couldn't go wrong, he thought. Today, he often thinks the sentence should have been completed: ... And we make sure it will...

A novel of suspense set in Beirut, in which a Lebanese-American commando devised a reckless plan to rescue a CIA agent held hostage by a Hezbollah terrorist chieftain. Its finale takes place in the Roman ruins of Baalbeck. The author has an intimate grasp...

Race Traitors portrays the thrilling and compelling exploits of two African American police detectives assigned to Chicago's Gang Intelligence Unit-two men who witness the apocalyptic suffering of a community and its residents. Bound by their oath to protect life and property, these detectives are...

Author: Chris AdamsISBN-10: 059565066XISBN-13: 9780595650668Publisher: iUniverseLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/10/2002Pages: 276Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.33lbsSize: 9.40h x 6.48w x 0.90d

Jerry Russell has finally found a job that he likes-being a ballroom dance teacher. After paying his dues in the lower ranks of 'front-of-the-house', he has been promoted to 'back-of-the-house', where the big money and advanced lessons are the just rewards of long and...

Kate Barry, 80 years old, healthy and vigorous but subject to occasional blackout episodes, has become a resident of Whispering Pines, an assisted living facility. She faces the boring routine of her new life with some trepidation. When the police make little progress investigating...

The accidental discovery of a long-lost nuclear artillery shell is fatefully interwoven with the life paths of several dangerous sociopaths. In its dark journey across present-day America, the shell is inevitably drawn to its ultimate destination due to the selfish desires of these unwitting...

When a teenager is killed in Bridgeport, Connecticut, with a rookie police officer's firearm, a group wanting to clear the officer hires Nick PT Barnum to investigate the shooting. Early in his probe, Nick hears that a woman's body was found in Seaside Park....

It's been three years since Germany's unconditional surrender, and United States Army Sergeant Rich Hammond remains on duty after originally being drafted in 1942. Exploiting the divisions between East and West Germany, Hammond runs a profitable black market business for drugs, cigarettes, porn-even Spam-as...

In Shadow of the Jicarilla Owl, John Noah finds himself immersed in the strange spiritual world of the Jicarilla Apache Indians. Accidently, or perhaps through fate, he meets an old, lonely, sometimes comical, Jicarilla man, claiming to be a Shaman. The old man tells...

Deep inside the jungles of Congo, Samir, on his peacekeeping mission, comes face to face with all the incredible challenges Africa has to offer. Cloaked in a cover of uncertainty, his only hope for surviving the mayhem of the brutal cannibals, gun-trotting child soldiers...

Kyle Walker, a social worker for the homeless, finds life hard in his California coastal community. The horrors of his time in Vietnam haunt his nights, and depression and guilt over the death of his wife rule his days. Walker's intense dedication to his...

A Northern California fishing town. Mysterious activities in the abandoned cannery district late at night. A dead body and a man who can no longer avoid facing his own dark past . When David Jackson returns to Portola Landing to investigate his childhood friend...

John Austin, known as Auty, is not an impulsive man. But even so, he decides to abandon a successful and lucrative law practice that's won him notoriety and a reputation for integrity. When a big case is on the line, Auty is the suit...

Backpackers Sti and Rob discover skeletal remains of a female National Park Ranger at 11,000 feet in the trailless environment of the Sierra Nevada High Route. The official determination is accidental death- case closed. But for Sti and Rob it is only the beginning...

Bewildered by a series of strange, erotic dreams, Maggie Kildare, a young writer living in New York, is eager to discover their meaning. When she finds herself the sole beneficiary in an unknown woman's will, leaving her a large estate in Cornwall, England, she...

Bitter Roots is a tragic love story about a middle-aged Christian woman, Claudia Lakes, whose only desire in life is to love and be loved. Yet, she is not free to love because she is haunted by her past; a deep, dark secret buried...

Billy Ray unwrapped an Arturo Fuente cigar and clamped it between his teeth. He closed his eyes momentarily and enjoyed the strong tobacco, let it calm him. A small voice inside, barely audible, told him to hit the door and not look back, anyone...

The U. S. Submarine Minefish is ordered from its base in San Francisco to Puget Sound to confront a Rogue Submarine, Red Dragon that is threatening to explode dirty bombs around Puget Sound to force the U.S. to withdraw its bases and consulates from...

"You want to know what you're dealing with here," Lumpkin's tone became serious but very quiet. His words were barely audible as he spoke sternly about Poche. "You want to know what you're after.a pathological liar, with no morals or sense of right and...

Two men and one woman are stranded in the remote Canadian bush in the dead of winter. Hope for rescue by search planes is dwindling day by day. Hungry wolves are fast depleting the surrounding country of game. An abandoned trappers shack is providing...

Cal was reaching behind his jacket to pull his gun back out when the man kicked him in the stomach. The kick came with such an impact that his hands instinctively went to the front of his torso. Trying to gasp for breath he...

A novel about an advertising executive framed for murder When, Joe Fox, a former stockbroker, discovers his second wife the world famous model, Talisa, has been unfaithful to him, the thirty-five year old millionaire divorces her, sells his charter sailing business in Jamaica and...

A contract for a Middle-Eastern style family honor killing follows a daring Arab career woman and her Finnish lover from Northern California to Central Asia and back in this thriller.Author: Anne HartISBN-10: 0595360661ISBN-13: 9780595360666Publisher: iUniverseLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/28/2005Pages: 128Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.44lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x...

In 1943 Henry Stanley Clark died at the Roosevelt Hotel in New Orleans, Louisiana. Despite the fact that the New Orleans coroners determined that a brain aneurysm killed Henry, his widow, Maybelle Merriweather-Clark, was convinced otherwise. Until her death in 1984, Maybelle believed that...

Dana Reardon was sure her life ended too the day her husband, Michael, was killed. One year later, with the help of friend Brady Williams, she vows to accept Michael's death, gain back her health, and find a job. Brady had been Michael's law...

"A world lapsing into imbecility...true horror " --New York Times YOU ARE DR. JAMES HEALEY AND LAST WEEK YOU WERE A GENIUS That was before the DNA experiments. Before the accident you said could never happen... Since then you have felt your mind decaying...

Your name is Harry Vail and you alone know the terrifying truth--or do you...? You are an expert on earthquakes and you fear their awesome power to the point of insanity. Now you are sure that an earthquake is building below your very feet....

This is a story of one woman s plunge into the entrapment of the Internet world. It starts out with ad designer Resha Thompson's intense hatred for the outside world and her new found addiction to the Internet. Her illusions concerning love and life...