Fiction - Thrillers - Suspense

It's been a long summer for Goldy Schulz, who is engaged in planning a wedding reception for Aspen Meadow's nuttiest bridezilla. But then Doc Finn, beloved local physician and the best friend of Goldy's godfather, Jack, is killed when his car tumbles into a...

Juggling a family and a career is never easy—and it's becoming a real challenge for Sheriff Joanna Brady. Coping with the impending delivery of her second child as well as a staff short-age, the last things Joanna needs are two serious crimes.First, the body...

With grown-up kids and a husband always on the road, Katharine Murray's nest would be empty if it weren't for her Aunt Lucy--until the elderly woman dies. Now Katharine's saddled with her Aunt's worldly belongings--mostly knickknacks destined for the dumpster. But there's a priceless...

Faith's catering business has been slow with the downturn of the economy, so when her friend Patsy Avery proposes that she take over the caf at Aleford's Ganley Art Museum, it seems like a not-to-be-missed opportunity. And Patsy has an ulterior motive--she discovers that...

The Knights TemplarThey had all joined taking three vows: poverty, chastity, and obedience...for they were monks: warrior monks, dedicated to theprotection of pilgrims in the Holy Land -- until stories spread by anavaricious king who wanted their wealth for his own destroyed the order.There...

New York Times bestselling authors including Karin Slaughter, Lee Child, Peter Robinson, Laura Lippman, John Connolly, and others, combine their talents to deliver a brilliant tour-de-force in this clever suspense novel that revolves around one object--a charm bracelet--and the harrowing circumstances that plague the...

Grotesque: "The Morning Of"By: Seamus HarrityPresent day Portland, Oregon. Supernatural occurrences put the people on edge. Doomsday fanatics are on every street corner prophesying the end of the world. Then a freak electrical storm called a Carrington hits the city, temporarily knocking out the...

Now on Netflix! Starring Toni Collette and Bella Heathcote!Mother. Hero. Liar. Killer. How can you tell when all you have is...PIECES OF HERWhat if the person you thought you knew best turns out to be someone you never knew at all . . ....

From Eric Sparling-author of Tantramar-comes a novel of horror that pits one man against nature . . . and against something wholly unnatural. Phil Truss is a dead man walking. An inoperable brain tumour has sealed his fate, and there's nothing he can do...

With the Maine Facility teens released and the Willow Bend teens safely tucked away, the next phase was to rescue the kids from the Wyoming and Oregon Facilities. Colby is driving Holly, Blake, and Adam to the Wyoming Facility. Meanwhile, Wyatt is driving Deanna,...

The latest installment in the highly acclaimed, internationally bestselling Strike series finds Cormoran and Robin ensnared in another winding, wicked case. When frantic, disheveled Edie Ledwell appears in the office begging to speak to her, private detective Robin Ellacott doesn't know quite what to...

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...

Down Wind and Out of Sight abounds with mysterious questions. How did an emotionally-damaged group of social misfits come to live secretly - and illegally - on a sweeping northern Chesapeake Bay estate? Who is this Aboriginal financial wizard holding the strange band together...

It's the summer of 2008. Chicago's Hyde Park Senator is running for the White House, the city is vying to host the 2016 Summer Olympics, and "poison," a lethal form of heroin, has killed more than 250 people, including dozens of suburban girls from...

Human rights attorney Craig Malcault thought he had seen it all after his many successes with difficult clients. That was until the assassination of a close colleague whose valor was at the heart of political struggles in a war-torn country brought Craig face to...

A young woman's escalating obsession with a seemingly perfect man leads her down a dangerous path in this "delicious and marvelously controlled" (The New York Times Book Review) novel of suspense. "Bitingly modern and totally addictive, Lindsay Cameron's suspense debut is the freshest take...

Had Stefan Zurowski made a deal with the devil? But it's his chance to return and restore the German devastation to his family estate, using the Jeweled Crucifix as leverage. He and members of his American household overcome dangers on sea and land to...

"Colorful characters, including the unusual perspective of Shadow the dog, make this series an enjoyable read for any animal lover." Toby Neal, USA TODAY Bestselling Author of the Paradise Crime Mysteries & Thrillers A kidnapped girl. A merciless killer. Can this stressed-out dog trainer...

THE KILLING TIDE (An Alexa Chase Suspense Thriller-Book 2) is book #2 in a new series by mystery and suspense author Kate Bold, which begins with THE KILLING GAME (Book #1).Alexa Chase, 34, a brilliant profiler in the FBI's Behavioral Analysis Unit, was too...

FBI Agent Ella Dark has studied serial killers from the time she could read, devastated by the murder of her own sister, and has gained an encyclopedic knowledge of murderers. When johns are found murdered in their cars, the echoes of past cases are...

Jessie, a photographer in New York, faces the hardest year of her life. While dealing with the sickness of her mother and the drama of her life, she is kidnapped by a hidden monster. She must find a way to escape before weakness takes...

The Man Who Flew the Amerika Bomber is a military-historical thriller, based on actual events of World War II, as experienced by a progressively disillusioned Luftwaffe pilot. The action moves across the entire landscape of the war in Europe, relating the experiences of Max...

From USA Today Bestselling Author, P.D. Workman!Out of the frying pan and into the fire!Kenzie Kirsch needs a vacation from the dead bodies in the Medical Examiner's Office, so she arranges for a Thanksgiving resort vacation.Who knew she would be dealing with more deaths...

FBI Special Agent Rachel Gift is among the FBI's most brilliant agents at hunting down serial killers. She plans on doing this forever-until she discovers she has months left to live. Determined to go down fighting, and to keep her diagnosis a secret, Rachel...

Dick Canidy and the agents of the OSS scour war torn Poland looking for a rocket scientist who holds the secrets to the Nazis most dangerous weapon in this new entry in W.E.B. Griffin's New York Times bestselling Men at War series. April 1940....

The Chicago neighborhood around 76th and Dorchester has a rare quality. It is proud of being one of the few well-kept family-oriented neighborhoods on the East Side of town. However, the neighborhood experiences sudden tragedy when Felicia Blake the oldest daughter of one of...

"A darkly funny tale with a gloriously sinister twist." --The Observer (London) The bestselling author of The Trouble with Goats and Sheep delivers a "compellingly creepy" (The Guardian, UK) novel filled with unexpected twists about mysterious murders in a quiet neighborhood. Linda has lived...

A creepy, fast-paced psychological thriller from the author of The Wrong Mother and The Other Woman's House It's every mother's worst nightmare. When Alice Fancourt leaves her newborn daughter at home with her husband for the first time, she comes home to a horrifying...

"A writer as comfortable with reality as with fiction, with passion as with reason." --John Le CarréMaigret's past comes to life in this evocative novel, set in the Inspector's hometown "Maigret savoured the sensations of his youth again: the cold, stinging eyes, frozen fingertips,...

"Riveting and brilliantly structured, A Simple Favor is an edge-of-your seat domestic thriller about a missing wife and mother that relies on a rotating cast of unreliable narrators to ingeniously examine the cost of competitive mom-friends, the toll of ordinary marital discontent and the...

In this thrilling standalone novel from the internationally bestselling author of the Frieda Klein series, a woman's frantic search for her missing daughter unveils a nefarious web of secrets and lies.Nina Landry awakens on her fortieth birthday, anticipating a day filled with excitement. She,...

From the author of The Book of You and The Second Sister, a twisty new thriller--perfect for readers of J.P. Delaney and Emily Elgar."A psychological thriller and le Carr -esque mash-up--really well done." --Steve Cavanagh, author of Thirteen Holly Lawrence always wanted to be...

WATCH WILL TRENT ON ABC! "Part True Detective, part The Girl on the Train. All parts gripping." --theSkimm The New York Times bestselling author of Pieces of Her returns with an electrifying, emotionally complex thriller that plunges Will Trent into the darkest depths of...

Winner of the Edgar Award for Best Paperback Original Reminiscent of the bestsellers of Laura Lippman and Harlan Coben--with a dose of Big Little Lies or Stranger Things--an absorbing, addictive tale of psychological suspense from the author of the highly acclaimed and Edgar Award-nominated...

When a mission goes awry in Syria, senior CIA officer Bob Oakland is captured by aspiring members of ISIS, who demand the release of one of their own, Arzam Saud, in U.S. captivity. When their hands are tied by Washington's refusal to negotiate, the...

Chief Inspector Alan Banks faces his most personal case from New York Times bestselling author Peter Robinson.A bullet to the brain abruptly halted a terrified young woman's desperate flight. In her pocket is the name of a policeman whose own life was brutally invaded,...

Van Shaw was raised by his Irish immigrant grandfather Donovan to be a thief--to boost cars, beat security alarms, and crack safes. But at eighteen, Van broke all ties to that life and joined the military, serving as an Army Ranger in Iraq and...

Patricia Cornwell delivers the newest engrossing thriller in her high-stakes series starring medical examiner Dr. Kay Scarpetta.Depraved Heart: "Void of social duty and fatally bent on mischief."--Mayes v. People, 806 III. 306 (1883)Dr. Kay Scarpetta is working a suspicious death scene in Cambridge, Massachusetts...

Pagan Babies is classic crime fiction from the master of suspense, New York Times bestselling author Elmore Leonard. Father Terry Dunn thought he'd seen everything on the mean streets of Detroit, but that was before he went on a little retreat to Rwanda to...

"McCreight creates a world that pulls us in completely and genuinely, with characters that can enrage, amuse, and fill us with empathy. It's a thrilling novel."--GILLIAN FLYNN, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Gone GirlMotherhood hasn't been easy for Molly Sanderson, and the...

One of our most acclaimed authors takes on a legendary literary character, James Bond -- producing a smart and stylish narrative of international espionage, conspiracy, and war It's 1969, and, just having celebrated his 45th birthday, British agent James Bond -- 007 -- is...

"One of the brightest new stars of literary suspense."--Los Angeles TimesNew York Times bestselling author Jennifer McMahon is back with a gut-wrenching mystery about an architect whose troubled mother has been found 25 years after being kidnapped--by a killer who is still on the...

"No one working in the crime genre is better."--Baltimore Sun L.A.P.D. Homicide Detective Peter Decker and his wife Rina Lazarus are back on a case in Hangman--an electrifying new novel of suspense from Faye Kellerman, New York Times bestselling author of Blindman's Bluff, The...

Paradise is the perfect escape for ex-Marine Nick Breakspear, captain of a charter yacht operation in the Bahamas, until he agrees to pilot a "detox cruise" for the drug-addled grown son and daughter of a powerful U.S. senator. Ambushed far from port, he is...

"The African Columbo. . . . Like the first book to feature Kubu, A Carrion Death, this is a smart, satisfyingly complex mystery. [Grade] A." -- Entertainment WeeklyThe second book in the Detective Kubu series--penned by a pair of Crime Writers' Association Award-winning South...

Joanne Harris, bestselling author of Chocolat, presents her most accomplished novel yet -- an intoxicating concoction that blends theology and reason, deception and masquerade, with a dash of whimsical humor and a soup on of sensuality.Britanny, 1610. Juliette, a one-time actress and rope dancer,...

Allegra Hudson was murdered.An anonymous "source" drops the note into recently widowed Madeleine Barton's lap exactly when she needs it most. As a new single mother, she is struggling to make ends meet as a freelance reporter, and covering the mysterious death of local...

Lucy E Hawksmoor, authority on all things Arabic, finds the present crashing in on the past as far-right groups try to stop her quest to find the final resting place of Boabdil, the last King of the Moors. She meets the mysterious and attractive...

Ashley Hope is an average Southern woman, happily engaged-until dark secrets from her past tear her life apart. On track to join the state police's violent crimes division, Ashley is assigned to a case near her hometown: a female, 22 year-old meth addict has...

An anonymous skull, an unsolved murder, sinister rumors from the Cold War era of espionage--Bruno's investigation into a long-standing cold case finds him caught between an enigmatic winegrower and a menacing Communist organization from the past. After attending an exhibit on the facial reconstruction...