Fiction - Thrillers - Suspense

Elias Sullivan had it all: looks, power, and money. But, he was arrogant and cruel. He thought it would just be another day at the bank, but an unusual encounter with a little old woman would turn his world upside down. Turn your back...

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AMERICAN RAGE is the fifth novel by Rick Huffman and follows in the rich and unexpected brilliant storytelling of his previous novels, Graffiti Mirror, and Rick's Exile Trilogy of books - Baxter Peanut, Perfect Anger-A Saltwater Sermon, and The Last Night of Exile. American...

It's the late eighties, and Sam Horner and Mike Silvers are longtime neighbors living in the San Fernando Valley. Both are experiencing significant life changes in the form of divorces and midlife crises. They decide to move in together in a small home on...

In the worn and tired town of Gulch Fork, Arkansas, certified nursing assistant Samantha Caminos heads to her patient Rob Dean's home and wonders how she can find common ground with the aloof, disabled Vietnam veteran who suffers from not only PTSD but also...

It is April 2013. Gen Fletcher leaves her husband behind and heads to Little Beaver, Minnesota, to complete the school year for Evelyn Pretsler, a high school teacher who has mysteriously disappeared. As a young educator who does not like being told where she...

It is 1950-the Year of the Tiger. Saigon, once the Pearl of the Far East, is now a city spinning out of control. Down every tree-lined boulevard, on every outdoor terrace, in every nightclub, dance hall and restaurant, the French colonials fear for their...

Lien Phan Birchfield is the son of a Vietnamese mother and American soldier who is missing in action. Lien has never met his father, but is guided by a letter from him, written eighteen years earlier in the Vietnam jungle. He's always been a...

In this thrilling sequel to the author's Twisted Tango, former OSS officer Pete Benton finds himself in Washington, D.C. in the summer of 1951, working for a Department of Justice task force investigating organized crime. When a member of the task force is found...

In the autumn of 2003, the rich farming community of Cumberland, Maine, has finally settled down from the constant motion of a massive harvest season. A young man by the name of Haines Bishop lived with his parents and family dog just outside of...

Two years ago, Robert Turner, the patriarch of the Turner family died, leaving behind his wife, Helena, and their four adult sons, Jamie, Daniel, Willie, and Rob Jr. All five remaining members of the family are still in the process of coming to grips...

Reviewed By Sarah Stuart for Readers' Favorite Cryptures by Jw Grodt is a collection of ten short stories written for fans of the horror genre in all its many guises. Chilling and spine-tingling, these are dark tales of monsters, invaders, and deadly creatures that...

With very different motives, Boss and Man make a pact to do away with Mary Craddock, but unfortunately the men hired to abduct and kill Mary inadvertently also capture Mary's daughter, Brenda, and her friend Jackie. Meanwhile, Jackie's mother, Phyllis McDaniels, agonizes over the...

Shots ring out in the sanctuary of Littleton's True Liberal Church, and in the end two people are shot. Congregants and friends of the church are plunged into despair as a beloved member is killed. Witnesses point fingers, but are they pointed in the...

Carl Mosley awakens from a very realistic and bothersome dream, which he shares immediately with his older brother, Roy. Due to the detailed, emotional nature of the dream, though, Carl begins to wonder if somehow his memory has been altered. Is it possible the...

Alegra and Nelson, two brilliant climate science students -- whom destiny enrolled at the same university in the United States and meeting initially as strangers-- learn that they are from the same small Caribbean island. They travel together back to their island with a...

A young man goes missing while searching for treasure in Skeleton Canyon in Cochise County, Arizona. Kit and Swifty are called in by a relative after local law enforcement fails to come up with any clue to the missing man's whereabouts or what happened...

The good life for Kevin Charles, an attorney in the small town of East Bay, Florida, mysteriously ends after his client, Victoria Roberts, discharges him from a multi-million dollar law suit. His slide down the slippery slope to personal and professional oblivion begins when...

Jesse Baker, 16, fights for control of his life and his sanity in Jesse's Escape. The first in a series of two young adult novels. Beaten and abused by his alcoholic, drug crazed father, Jesse first turns to alcohol and pot to cope. As...

Ryan Butler holds a dark CIA secret. He has kept quiet for fifteen years, working as an attorney in Arizona and lying about his past to everyone, including his live-in girlfriend, Maya. But after a string of bizarre murders and the events of September...

It is June 2014 when a close knit group of high-profile Americans secretly meets to put in play one of the most covert international military operations ever attempted. At the end of their meeting a major support operation linked autonomously with NATO and US...

" Arfel Booker is a great young blues musician in the 1940s South. One night, after playing a blues gig in a new town, a beautiful woman takes him back to her log cabin to make love. In the morning (after blacking out from...

Blackburn Village is a quintessentially beautiful Colonial enclave on the South Shore of Nova Scotia, "a place where psychiatric diagnoses are inconsequential and organizing a chapter of A.A. would be a terrible waste of time." In the summer months, the salt-of-the-earth townspeople are joined...

Jake Carson's life is in shambles. He was once a successful attorney. Now disbarred, he lives in a La Jolla, California, halfway house and drinks away his sorrows. The only thing that drags him from his stupor is the murder of former clients, Nate...

Big Jim Collins dies, and his family rejoices. After decades of abuse, his wife and sons are finally free from his tyranny. One son follows in his father's footsteps, while the other son takes a different path. But the brothers never really escape their...

In 1951, Josh Lowen, an eighteen-year-old student at Bartlett College in northern New England, allows himself to be involved in a tragic criminal act. Expelled from the school and humiliated, and feeling that his life is over, Josh wallows in misery with no expectation...

In a small village in Turkey, a Greek family with three daughters lives in a house near the mountains. Even though the girls' father warns them to stay away from the mountains because of evil spirits, the youngest one ignores his wishes and one...

Driving to their Muskoka cottage with her son Davey, on a snowy afternoon, Kate Chandler's sole purpose is to get the shattered kitchen window fixed, (a window broken by vandals). Unknown to Kate, coming along behind her are - Angel Baby, who wants to...

"My name is Palladin, as in pallbearer." It is August 1966 as fourteen-year-old Wesley Palladin rides inside a jon boat with his father. As their boat slowly chugs up the Tomoka River and trolls for fish, Wesley is oblivious that he is about to...

Love is blind. It isn't something you find-it finds you, even in the most unlikely of places. Two souls, searching for humanity and hope amid the unspeakable horrors of war and the devastating authority of hatred, find themselves cast together in the Sachsenhausen work...

As the speaker of the House of Representatives, Joseph Adam is used to being in control. From his position he makes things happen, crushes his enemies?both political and personal?and enjoys all the many trappings of power. Life is good, because he has the authority...

Mae Maguire flees across two states to get away from a crazed ex-husband. She settles in her friend's fishing cabin on the Rio Grande River in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado where she hopes to pursue her art and find a new beginning. She...

The town of Preston had never known serious crime, but that all changed on a sweltering July morning when Janine Compton was murdered. She was the daughter of the prominent Compton family, and with her death came heavy pressure to solve the crime. But...

Mae Maguire flees across two states to get away from a crazed ex-husband. She settles in her friend's fishing cabin on the Rio Grande River in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado where she hopes to pursue her art and find a new beginning. She...

As a young man, Robert A. Michael read Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead?and the book changed the direction of his life, inspiring him to pursue a career in architecture. He believed in Rand's modernist idea of the autonomous man of independent-mindedness and integrity. Robert follows...

Nick Sinclair, a former Chicago homicide detective, is attempting to face the bleakness of his reality as a down-on-his-luck private investigator when he finally catches a break. On a sunny August morning a beautiful woman enters his office, and Nick thinks his dark world...

David Wayne Russell is ready to feel young and free again. As he makes his way home to Kentucky from Vietnam, David knows his fiancée, Libby, has already mapped out a life for him and worries he will not live up to her expectations....

"Murder Most Foul On Old Gorge Road," screamed the front-page headline of the The Kentbury Kaller on an August morning in 1951. Nestled in the bucolic setting of a rural county, the New Jersey hamlet of Kentbury is used to peace and quiet, interrupted...

Just when he thought the worst was behind him, Cameron Walker is about to learn that life is about to get even more complicated and dangerous. After the traumatic events of his last fateful assignment, listed in the intelligence files as the Backgammon Syndrome,...

Noreen Mayr suffers through her marriage for 4,745 days--nearly thirteen years--before she finds the courage to change her life. At that point, one terrifying night, she packs her children into the old Plymouth and slips away into the night. As she leaves the house...

Sam Michael is having bad dreams; his sleep has been agitated and interrupted in the weeks leading up to his fiftieth birthday. On that day, however, tragedy strikes, and a freak accident leaves Sam in a comatose state. To the people who love him,...

Beri Baines is ready for a change. When the independent Trenton State College student is selected to study abroad in England in the 1970s, she boards a plane headed toward her home for the next five months-Portsmouth City College of Education-without any idea that...

Cutter Boutique Classics, a Fifth Avenue garment boutique owned by a group of wealthy Dutch citizens, needs help seeking American management. They enlist a prestigious New York law firm, and reluctantly Philip Bartlett becomes a principal in the contract. Philip is young and somewhat...

Rumors circulate that the old McPherson place a couple of miles outside of Framingham, Connecticut, is haunted. But one summer day, fourteen-year-old Laura Mueller and her three friends summon the courage to go there. Just because old man McPherson committed suicide there a couple...

In the middle of the night a famous astronomer disappears on the island of Moloka'i. The only clues are three icons on his computer. So begins The 4th Icon, Harry R. Albers' tale of murder, intrigue, and mystery. The design and construction of a...

Special Agent Robin Perez, Federal Bureau of Narcotics, has a new assignment brings him back to the island where he spent his teenage years as an army brat. The island, Puerto Rico, has become springboard in the traffic of narcotics toward the United States....

Jo has the darkest of secrets in her past, which drives her to seek out the most traumatic of hotspots in the world as a war correspondent so she never has the time to confront what she did. A fellow reporter, Craig, accompanies her...

2019 PINNACLE AWARD WINNER! Coming out of a coma, Matthias Callaghan finds himself tied to a hospital bed, wrapped in bandages and suffering from amnesia. As he gradually recovers his memories, Callaghan discovers that he - in a case of mistaken identity - has...

Sandra Branham, an art teacher at Evansville College in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, was planning to enjoy her summer vacation in her new country home on Star Route 1. But it would be only a few short weeks before her lazily-planned summer would...

After nearly a decade of visiting other people's dreams, Sara Alderson thought she had made peace with her supernatural gift. Until one night, while watching her husband dream, she saw someone else watching him, too: a mysterious woman in a red dress. The woman...