Fiction - Thrillers - Suspense

674 AD. Werburgh, great-niece of the Abbess of Ely, travels by night to save the abbey's treasure under a wayside cross in the kingdom of Lindsey.A cryptic inscription on the back indicates the location of the magnificent gold and garnet treasure. Becoming a family...

The elusive burned man has called on Sam Abel once more. After foiling the plans of the Nazis to ensnare American entrepreneurs in their secret weapon projects, Sam has solidified his place in a shadowy organization tasked with turning the tide of the war....

12 cold cases. 12 kidnapped women. One diabolical serial killer. In this riveting suspense thriller, a brilliant FBI agent faces a deadly challenge: decipher the mystery before each one is murdered. In the Maya Gray series (which begins with Book #1-GIRL ONE: MURDER) FBI...

The first in a thrilling new series from Emmy Award-winning TV Host and Journalist Tamron Hall, As The Wicked Watch follows a reporter as she unravels the disturbing mystery around the deaths of two young Black women, the work of a serial killer terrorizing...

'A spooky rollercoaster of a book. Lots of twists and turns - I loved it' Simon McCleave ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐No one expected them to go there. The question is: will any of them leave?Six friends travel to a remote island north of the Scottish Highlands for...

From the critically acclaimed author of The Book of M, a highly imaginative thriller about a young woman who discovers that a strange map in her deceased father's belongings holds an incredible, deadly secret--one that will lead her on an extraordinary adventure and to...

A winner: tense and terrifying with a twist you'll never see coming. You won't soon forget these characters and the shocking ways their lives intersect. -- Laura Dave, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Last Thing He Told MeEvery marriage has its...

He had everything, Until gunfire stole it all...Despite being abandoned as a child and raised an orphan, Bill's adult life seems perfect. His success on Wall Street has helped him become a well-respected businessman and now, engaged to a beautiful woman, he can finally...

A legislative intern with secrets that could unravel the governing elite vanishes into the night in Albany, New York. Seven years later, another young woman disappears in a suburb of the nation's Capital. The only connection between both missing women is Ryan McNeil, the...

"I clamor for the next installment of Richard O'Rawe's rollicking series of heist novels featuring James 'Ructions' O'Hare." -- Sarah Weinman, The New York Times Book Review "Mr. O'Rawe ... has written the most riotous caper novel since his own 'Northern Heist, ' and...

Protecting a brilliant freshman whose homeschooled life has left her unprepared for the outside world, Jennifer invites the vulnerable girl home for a Christmas break that embroils Sheriff Joanna Brady in a volatile missing-persons case.Author: J. A. JanceISBN-10: 0063224771ISBN-13: 9780063224773Publisher: HarperAudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/15/2022Format: CDWeight:...

If food became unavailable due to a natural disaster and your only food source was human beings, would you eat someone? Would you go a step further and kill someone to eat them? These are decisions that would have to be made by normal,...

Hungover from celebrating the latest win for his best-selling book, Bartholomew Beck is in no mood to deal with a pesky reporter. Especially one who is sleeping with his co-author, working for his enemy, and taking great pleasure in letting Beck know that his...

If she fails, her whole team could be destroyed.Lexi "Lynx" Sabado is more than ready for her marriage with ex-SEAL Striker Rheas. But getting her happily ever after is fraught with hurdles when her psychic abilities start going haywire, giving her vague warnings of...

For fans of the Netflix hit original series Dead to Me comes a captivating thriller (Megan Miranda, New York Times bestselling author) about what happens when the death of a husband and father isn't the tragedy everyone believes. Emma Walsh's looks-great-on-the-outside marriage is at...

"A dark and complex mystery that will consume you."--Julie Clark, New York Times bestselling author of The Last FlightThey thought he was a helpless old man. They were wrong.When two teenagers break into a house on a remote lake in search of prescription drugs,...

Olivia Callahan's quiet, orderly life is shattered when she regains consciousness in a hospital and discovers she is paralyzed and cannot remember a thing. The fragmented voices she hears around her help her piece together that an apparent assault landed her in the hospital,...

The next gripping Hunt for Jack Reacher Thriller!"Make some coffee. You'll read all night." Lee ChildThe last time Jack Reacher passed through South Dakota, almost everyone close to him was savagely murdered.Some say Reacher killed them. Maybe he did.But one survived.A ruthless gangster. Imprisoned...

You can run but I will find you.Working as a successful PI in Los Angeles, Heather Nelson hasn't seen any of her high school classmates from Iowa in over a decade. When she makes a last minute decision to attend her class reunion, she...

Now a Hulu Original Series "Riveting, fearless, and vividly original" (Emily St. John Mandel, New York Times bestselling author), this instant New York Times bestseller explores the tension that unfurls when two young Black women meet against the starkly white backdrop of New York...

Hugo Award-winning author Ben Bova joins forces with Nebula Award finalist Doug Beason for an action-packed technothriller with Space Station Down. "Think Die Hard happening two hundred and fifty miles above the earth...Will have you watching the skies overhead much more closely."--Steve Berry When...

The #1 New York Times bestselling FBI series returns with Savich and Sherlock confronting two baffling mysteries from the "master of smooth, eminently readable" (Booklist) thrillers Catherine Coulter. When Rebekah Manvers is contacted by Zoltan, a medium who claims she's received a message from...

"Full of double and triple-crosses . . . Northern Heist's deeds and details seem as real as a smashed kneecap, while its stopwatch tension, heightened by present-tense voice, is reminiscent of such classic caper films as 'Rififi' and 'The Asphalt Jungle."--The Wall Street Journal...

When a serial killer crashes Detective Michael Bennett's wedding, he and his new partner uncover a gruesome string of cold-case homicides across the country. Weeks before NYPD Detective Michael Bennett is to marry his longtime love, Mary Catherine, an assassin announces his presence in...

When the night train from Marseille pulls into Paris, a woman is found dead in her berth, setting off a race to find the perpetrator before more victims are discovered. A 1960s cult crime classic from the author of A Very Long Engagement.Author: S饕astien...

An Amazon Charts bestseller.A double homicide and a missing woman lead a detective to unearth disturbing secrets in this gripping thriller from USA Today bestselling author Debra Webb.It's the worst possible time for Detective Kerri Devlin to be involved in an all-consuming double-homicide case....

During the 1950s, Gold Medal Books introduced authors like Jim Thompson, Chester Himes, and David Goodis to a mass readership eager for stories of lowlife and sordid crime. Today many of these writers are admired members of the literary canon, but one of the...

A circle of spies travels by Cadillac from Switzerland to the Sudan in this critically acclaimed novel: "arguably the finest modern American spy story" (The New York Times). Paul Christopher is cool, urbane, clear-sighted--a perfect American agent in deep cover in the twilight world...

Hermit's Peak is a seminal novel in the crime fiction series that places New Mexico lawman Kevin Kerney in the pantheon with Tony Hillerman's heroes--while carving out territory that is distinctly his own across the American Southwest. When Kevin Kerney, deputy chief of the...

A brutal killer lurks near Hyde River in the Pacific Northwest. When wildlife biologist Steve Benson is called in to investigate the latest murder, he discovers that the victim is his brother. But why are the terrorized townspeople silent--and unwilling to help?Something evil is...

The New York Times and #1 internationally bestselling author of The Keeper of Lost Causes delivers his most captivating and suspenseful Department Q novel yet--perfect for fans of Stieg Larsson. Detective Carl M rck of Department Q, Copenhagen's cold cases division, meets his toughest...

The second in the Dr. Max Liebermann series, literature's first psychoanalytic detective. In the grip of a Siberian winter in 1902, a serial killer in Vienna embarks upon a bizarre campaign of murder. Vicious mutilation, a penchant for arcane symbols, and a seemingly random...

In this haunting tale, Daphne du Maurier takes a fresh approach to time travel. A secret experimental concoction, once imbibed, allows you to return to the fourteenth century. There is only one catch: if you happen to touch anyone while traveling in the past...

On a luminous spring day in Venice, Commissario Guido Brunetti and Inspector Vianello play hooky to help get Vianello's friend Marco Ribetti--an environmental activist arrested during a protest against toxic waste being dumped into the city's waters--released from prison. But on the steps of...

In this explosive GhostWalker novel by #1 New York Times bestselling author Christine Feehan, a trained killer meets his match in a woman whose very kiss can stop a heart. The Cajun dive in the middle of the godforsaken swamps wasn't exactly Trap Dawkins'...

Detective D. D. Warren has four days to stop a killer in this "shocking...'must read'"* from #1 New York Times bestselling author Lisa Gardner--one of Library Journal's Best Thrillers of the Year. Charlene Grant believes she is going to die. For the past few...

Virgil Flowers faces double trouble in this exceptional thriller in the #1 New York Times-bestselling series Whenever you hear the sky rumble, that usually means a storm. In Virgil Flowers' case, make that two. The first comes from, of all places, the Minnesota zoo....

In the new novel from New York Times bestselling author Randy Wayne White, Doc Ford is the only hope for an island of hostages. On one of Florida's private islands, a notorious Russian black marketer is hosting a reception. Doc Ford only wanted to...

Dave Barry makes his fiction debut with a ferociously funny novel of love and mayhem in south Florida. In the city of Coconut Grove, Florida, these things happen: A struggling adman named Eliot Arnold drives home from a meeting with the Client From Hell....

Sid knows the perils of racing all too well, but in his day jockeys didn't usually cross the finish line with three .38 rounds in the chest-which is how he found Huw Walker, the winner of a coveted race only a few hours earlier....

In response to the growing use of sophisticated digital encryption to conceal potential threats to the United States, the National Security Agency has ushered forth the new dawn of intelligence-gathering techniques. The top-secret initiative is dubbed Third Echelon. Its existence denied by the U.S....

Getting there is supposed to be half the fun, but #1 New York Times bestselling author Dean Koontz shows readers just how bad a cross-country trip can get... The van was in back of them again. Closer this time. There could be no mistake--they...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - In a plush Virginia office, a rich, angry old man is furiously rewriting his will. With his death just hours away, Troy Phelan wants to send a message to his children, his ex-wives, and his minions--a message that...

Explosive in both its pace and its revelations, The Third Secret is a remarkable international thriller. Bestselling author Steve Berry tackles some of the most controversial ideas of our time in a breakneck journey through the history of the Church and the future of...

Enter a world equal parts Dexter and 50 Shades of Grey in this first award winning erotic thriller from A.R. Torre! My life is simple, as long as I follow the rules. 1. Don't leave the apartment. 2. Never let anyone in. 3. Don't...

Lauren Beukes's frighteningly persuasive, high-tech fable follows four narrators living in a dystopian near-future. Kendra, an art-school dropout, brands herself for a nanotech marketing program. Lerato, an ambitious AIDS baby, plots to defect from her corporate employers. Tendeka, a hot-headed activist, is becoming increasingly...

Suzy Park is a twenty-nine-year-old Korean American interpreter for the New York City court system who makes a startling and ominous discovery about her family history that will send her on a chilling quest. Five years prior, her parents--hardworking greengrocers who forfeited personal happiness...

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER - "Meaty, gripping, full of tantalizing twists" (Associated Press), this installment of the international bestselling series brings Inspector Harry Hole back from Hong Kong hot on the trail of a serial killer. Inspector Harry Hole has retreated to Hong Kong, escaping the...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - On the trail of a killer who cannot possibly exist ... Jeremy Logan, the renowned "enigmalogist," has often found himself in situations where keeping an open mind could mean the difference between life and death, and that has never...

The new novel in the transporting New York Times bestselling Inspector Montalbano mystery series Vig炙a is bustling as the new filming location for a Swedish television series set in 1950. In the production frenzy, the director asks the locals to track down movies and...