Fiction - Thrillers - Suspense

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...

There are three sides to every story: Yours. Mine. And the truth...Max and Alissa have a fairy tale life--newlywed, madly in love and enviously rich. Then Max is brutally stabbed to death at their home and Alissa, miraculously, escapes with her life. But why...

Forgotten secrets. Forgotten lies. A family legacy...A determined killer.On the outskirts of Singing River, Wyoming, a couple dies in a fire that ravages their remote mountain home. Everyone believes it's a tragic accident--except FBI profiler Riley Lambert. She isn't convinced, and neither is her...

A WILDLY ENTERTAINING THRILLER THAT BLURS THE LINE BETWEEN GOOD VERSUS EVIL When Jacob Hanley discovers that the withered old stranger who died in his arms was only thirty years old, the mystery of how the man aged so quickly provides Jacob with a...

The Wealth is Unbelievable. The Impact on History Immeasurable. The Danger Unimaginable. And Perry Sachs is just the man for the job.It had started as an effort to save one man's life. It became a project more important than anything Perry Sachs had ever...

Living with the knowledge that her father confessed to killing her best friend ten years ago hasn't been easy for attorney Clairee' Sumner. Then, another body surfaces in the dark heart of Bayou des Cannes, and the similarities between the current victim and Jean...

A GAME OF CAT AND MOUSEWhen Jennifer Miller's parents are brutally murdered she knows who killed them, but who would believe her? After all, she's only fourteen. Besides, his fingerprints and DNA are supposed to be in the house since he lives there. When...

Engrossing, Enlightening, Character-Powered Suspense - The Haunted Reading Room Impressive thriller They say write what you know. Mr. Harmon clearly knows his criminal business. -- AllynMACE HAS A LOT TO PROVE AND NOTHING TO LOOSE - OR DOES HE?Mace Franklyn is haunted by his...

In the fifth installment of her Bullet Catcher series, bestselling author Roxanne St. Claire shows the art of the deal has never been so dangerous...or so passionate. When Bullet Catcher Wade Cordell is offered a cushy assignment to track down a woman on vacation...

From New York Times and USA Today bestseller Michael Prescott, author of SHATTER and COLD AROUND THE HEART, comes an electrifying new thriller, BLOOD IN THE WATER. Small-town private eye and part-time assassin Bonnie Parker thought the hit on Alec Dante was pretty routine...

Sometimes to live for the future, you have to defeat the past . . . For ten years, Tiffany Colson has struggled to reclaim her life, but it finally seems to be on track for a bright future. She has moved to a small...

A TIME OF CORRUPTION Zenacon-Global Inc, a US Corporation, is one of the largest multinational global conglomerates in the world. Both the corporation and the main board members are under investigation for serious fraud, and other irregular activities by the IRS, the Security Exchange...

When cruise ship detective John Lochinvar, aka. Lock, disembarks in Venice to investigate a crew member's murder, he uncovers threads of a widespread conspiracy. For months, ships of the PanHellenic Line have been plagued by misfortune-fire, sinking, shipboard illness, and missing persons. Emerging evidence...

We all have dirty little secrets buried somewhere in our pasts...but for some of us, those secrets aren't so little, and they must be protected-no matter what it costs. As Sick As Our Secrets is a gripping legal mystery that shows just how far...

After two years of brutal captivity, Portia Lamont has escaped and returned to her family's Vermont horse farm-only to find her parents gone to New York to try an experimental treatment for her mother's cancer, and her childhood friend Boone Hawke running the farm....

Liam Baker awakes to find that the love of his life has been kidnapped in the night. Alone and desperate, he travels across desolate and threatening lands, tracking his love and the man who stole her away. Old Ghosts is set in the western...

Five-star ratings abound on Amazon.com for The Kairos, a modern-day suspense novel dealing with Jesus, homosexuality, and the power of fundamentalist religions. For 40 years, the two primary Dead Sea Scrolls scholars - Dr. Lute Jonson and Fr. Sean O'Derry - have hidden seven...

Murder, kidnapping and the theft of an ancient Mayan statue, both 500 years ago and today, and diving in cenotes on the Mayan Riviera all come into play in this Mike Scott adventure. Speaking at his alma mater, Mike Scott learns that the death...

Caresse Redd is 37. She is divorced. She is a mom. She is tired. She is also in love with vintage Barbie dolls. In fact, in the course of answering personal ads and going on dates so she can write a story about her...

When the senior management of a US mineral sands mining company conspire to reduce the profitability of a US mineral sand mining company they each stand to gain a $10 million windfall. But their plans to acquire the company cheaply via a management buyout...

25 years after the headless horseman's famous midnight ride... Racing at breakneck speed through the woods along the eerie, darkened roads of Sleepy Hollow, Braughton Van Ripper curses the man who had died before properly making him his heir. With Brom dead, the only...

In this thrilling sequel to Barracuda, we find many of the same characters reunited in Bikini Atoll. Barracuda II: The Return finds NYPD detective Mick O'Shaughnessy working in the South Bronx Detective Squad with his partner and close friend, Gus Lopez. "Micko" is unexpectedly...

Jake goes through his life living in six- to nine-year life segments, new name, new position, new state, new city, new everything. He is totally aware of everything that he has encountered in all eight or nine segments and has yet to reach his...

From the acclaimed author of Twenty Years Later comes a twisting, impossible-to-put-down novel of suspense in which a filmmaker helps clear a woman convicted of murder--only to find she may be a puppet in a sinister game. Fans of Freida McFadden and Alice Feeney...

"Super-high stakes, super-high concept, and super-charged action. This propulsive spy thriller changes all the rules--it will have you holding your breath until you discover the final shocking truth. Jeff Gunhus is a terrific talent." --Hank Phillippi Ryan, national bestselling author of The Murder List...

A blighted memory. A child who seems never to have existed. A watcher in the shadows. When they find Evie Sherman, battered and left for dead in a maize field, the young woman has no recollection of who she is. After three days in...

""I was fourteen when I fell in love with a goddess. . ."" So begins the testimony of Noah Calaway, an ex-lawyer with a sideline in armchair criminal psychology. Now living an aimless life in an inherited cottage in the English countryside, Noah is...

After years of abuse and mistreatment from her father and stepmother, Sade Evans has decided to end the torment once and for all. She finally unleashes her rage upon them which leads to the point of no return. With her parents out of her...

Thousands of years ago one man witnessed an event that will change the course of mankind. In modern days one woman knows what he saw. And she's determined to find the objects he described. Now it's a race. Sinister forces know what she knows...

The Past dictates the future... The Present now lives in the past... As their showdown looms, Devish, the last of the true Blood Walkers, gathers his armies for his planned final battle with Jimmy and his friends, but with Kalima's return, Jimmy now knows...

VERONICA SLOAN IS BACK IN ACTION IN THE SECOND BOOK OF THIS THRILLING NEW SUSPENSE SERIES FROM NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR LESLIE A. KELLY Although four months have gone by since the murders that rocked Washington D.C., Detective Veronica Sloan hasn't given up...

A Mysterious Mystical Adventure An inspiring tale of friends family's and two islands. A curse that will take lives. What started out to be a normal day at the sheriff's office turns into a lifetime of questions, for Rose Lynn Storm, to a haunting...

In treachery, there is no honor... Federal District Court Judge Rebecca Tameron seemed to have it all-a loving family, a prestigious career and the respect of her community that is, until her world falls apart. Implicated in the disappearance of a Supreme Court Justice,...

The Hands of Love Everyone has a dark side ... and one never quite knows just how dark it can get until they're pushed to their limits. Steeped in a culture of dirty cops on the take, Lorenzo Love - Ren, as he's known...

From the steamy jungles of Vietnam, to the ancient city of Istanbul, Blake Tanner is a man you want on your side. Follow him as he travels from his home in Colorado to New York City, Atlanta, London, Istanbul, Naples, Athens, and Barcelona in...

With no husband and no children, and no prospects on the horizon, twenty-nine-year-old Judith Marchand believes she's destined to lead a lonely librarian's life in her small town. But a classified ad intrigues her, and she's soon on her way to restore the private...

Richard Keith Turnipseed's DELTA RICH charts a particularly eventful Thanksgiving-through-New Year's stretch in the life of The fabled MacFarlane family of Bayard, Mississippi --an influential family of Delta cotton planters in the mid 1980's. Rich in lyrical passages that bring alive the stark beauty...

First published in 1764, Horace Walpole's "The Castle of Otranto" is generally regarded as the first gothic novel, a work which blended supernatural and fantastical elements with realistic characters and events. Heralding in a new and immensely popular literary style, the novel purports to...

Ce-Ce the Story of an American Cocker Spaniel is a fictional novel for all children. Being an easy read, children learn how the two main characters (a little boy name Jonathan and a Cocker-Spaniel dog name Ce-Ce) adapt and cope through several situations. The...

LIES DECEIT SNEAKING CHEATING Can two people really come together in an honest relationship when the only way they have known to find complete happiness was through or with persons other than their spouses? For David and Renee, this seemed to be an impossible...

Thirty-three year old Sharlaina V. Price arrives for her first day as a teacher at Barr Street High School. She is ready to begin her new life in her new town. Just as she prepares to begin her day, she runs smack dab into...

Third Man Out is a suspenseful action adventure. The plot revolves around Destiny Morgan and Nolan Chapman who meet and fall in love not knowing that they had met 15 years earlier. That night, Nolan''s wife was killed at the hand of one of...

When a boy, his mentor and his mother's boyfriend become involved in a Mafia sponsored scheme to fix college's national championship basketball game, the reader realizes for the first time the real possibility of a referee's involvement in making such a plan become a...

A fast-paced plot with a sharp edge, Five Days in Babylon by P. L. Reiter proves to be a high-octane novel that blends action and adventure with science and technology in a timely thriller that exposes the roots of bio-terrorism. For Jack Stone, a...

Recovering from a gunshot wound he'd received while in the line of duty, NYPD Detective Mick O'Shaughnessy is in need of some relaxing time away from the big city. A vacation in the peaceful, scenic Bikini Atoll, a scuba diver's paradise, could be the...

With the cessation of the Indian Wars, Silas Magby believed that Western Kentucky would be safe for his wife and children. But then the Harpes came-two mysterious brothers, Micajah and Wiley, with three devoted women followers, leaving a wake of ghoulish and seemingly motiveless...

Author: J. N. StroyarISBN-10: 1418445398ISBN-13: 9781418445393Publisher: AuthorhouseLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/06/2004Pages: 668Format: PaperbackWeight: 2.13lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.47d

Longlisted for the 2007 Man Asian Prize, a gripping debut novel about an Indian mining disaster as seen from the perspectives of the miners, their families, and the officials charged with rescuing them. Written by a former director of the Indian Ministry of Coal,...

Author: Margaret CorselloISBN-10: 1414037961ISBN-13: 9781414037967Publisher: 1st Book LibraryLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/15/2003Pages: 208Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.69lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.48d

Author: T. S. PessiniISBN-10: 1414018932ISBN-13: 9781414018935Publisher: 1st Book LibraryLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/01/2003Pages: 248Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.84lbsSize: 9.02h x 6.10w x 0.76d