Fiction - Thrillers - Suspense

Matt Huang, a young investment professional, arrives in Beijing before the 2008 Olympics aiming for gold. He hopes to win lucrative deals to impress his western bosses at All-Stellar, a high-profile, US$880 million private equity fund. Matt's first challenge is to gain the trust...

Wounded by a painful divorce, life is slowly shifting into mere existence for Bill, a retired teacher in Anchorage, Alaska. Lonely and depressed, he moves into a retirement community to await the inevitable. But it seems that fate has more in store for Bill....

Rachael Jensen hid in Las Vegas working as a blackjack dealer, trying to build a new life for herself and her young son, Matt. Calling herself Rachael, she never imagined her past catching up after she fled Chicago with her abusive boyfriend's stolen mob...

From Gita and Daniel's Upper West Side penthouse apartment in New York, to a primitive village in Nepal's hinterland, to brothels in Mumbai... In Stuart Perrin's multicultural suspense novel Little Sisters, the protagonists are drawn into the dangerous world of international sex trafficking. Beyond...

Al-Qaeda has taken over the Middle East and control of the OPEC oil that is shipped to the United States. With the goal of a nuclear-armed United Middle East, Al-Qaeda plans to hold the United States hostage for nuclear weapons technology in exchange for...

In the midst of her husband's bid for re-election, Meredith Swanson discovers that he has secrets-the kind that could cost him his U.S. senatorial seat if they ever got out. With Election Day drawing nearer and her husband's poll numvbers plummeting, Meredith rebels in...

Author: Linda LonsdorfISBN-10: 1479783986ISBN-13: 9781479783984Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/25/2013Pages: 308Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.00lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.69d

Author: Fiona DonovanISBN-10: 1479766151ISBN-13: 9781479766154Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/14/2012Pages: 188Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.95lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.56d

The mysterious disappearance of recent high school graduate Livvy Whitlock took place in the summer of 1960. Her whereabouts was revealed thirty years later. Thirty-eight-year-old interior decorator Mattie Noble, who was eight years old at the time of the disappearance and lived on the...

Author: Mariano Morillo BISBN-10: 1479759449ISBN-13: 9781479759446Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/29/2013Pages: 276Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.90lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.62d

Author: Priscilla DelgadoISBN-10: 1479731072ISBN-13: 9781479731077Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/31/2012Pages: 186Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.62lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.43d

Author: Richard RogersISBN-10: 1479722448ISBN-13: 9781479722440Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/28/2012Pages: 322Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.04lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.72d

Author: Richard RogersISBN-10: 1479722464ISBN-13: 9781479722464Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/28/2012Pages: 324Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.05lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.73d

Richard, a young English instructor at a German university (and Conan Doyle specialist) is asked to help track down a sinister campus predator. At the same time, Richard himself is being stalked by a love-sick student. "Cold from Your Breath" is not only a...

When I saw the crumpled sheet of paper with the list of names in Warren's handwriting, I knew my old buddy had really cracked. Now he had gone into hiding -- and with him his favorite war souvenir, a deadly ten-shot automatic.Somewhere in the...

A conference of European nations is being held in the Hague. England has not been invited to attend. Some think war is about to break out. Mr. John P. Dunster, an American, is traveling to the Hague with an important document that may prevent...

"Rothman's novel is filled with scientific discussions on everything from the equipment used to the different types of fusion, like cold or laser, complete with corresponding jargon. But Rothman turns all of it, even a convoluted conspiracy, into a diverting, worthwhile story... Intelligent in...

Amos, a small town minister in New England, is horrified. His wife Carrie has been jailed for vandalism against Jett Pharmaceuticals, her retaliation for their son John's death by a drug overdose. Amos's own reaction to his son's death is to speak prophetically on...

In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, greed and corruption plague New Orleans... As 2007 begins, New Orleans is past due to begin its recovery from the devastation of the storm. A proposed real estate project in an impoverished minority neighborhood known as Bacauptown could...

Your Secrets My Lies is a fast moving dramatic novel that examines the maze of possibilities that can exist between people who hold deep secrets, harbor lies as reality, and battle the freak nature of the darkness that lurks within. When a mother, daughter...

When U.S. President J. Washington Rock decides that his legacy will be resolving the Middle East conflict by destroying Israel without needing to fire a shot, he embarks on a program of leaking sensitive Israeli information, cutting funding to Israel, and proposing a Palestinian-Israeli...

Final Betrayal is a story of a young girl taken off the streets into a life of murder for hire. After months of training, she has honed her skills as a top notch assassin. She shares a bond with the man who took her...

When Safe Havens Turn Deadly... Detective Dana Blades is at a joyful turning point in his life. He's about to marry Clare, the love of his life. He welcomes her two young boys into his heart, and is ready to adopt them and create...

Jake Tucker has just separated from the Marines, after ten long years as a Scout Sniper. He is headed back to his hometown of Hurricane Mills, Tennessee, due to a family tragedy. His memories of home are bittersweet. He was once a promising local...

Kurt Chapel former CIA operative, Navy SEAL, and mercenary decides to give up his dangerous occupation after the successful rescue of a Croatian politician's daughter. During the rescue in the countryside near Zagreb, he killed the three kidnappers that were holding her for ransom....

"Excuse me, young lady. We have the ambulance on their way, and they want to know what happened to Drew Winston." "He said he was going to rape me," Dawn replied purposefully to the administrative assistant in the high-school office. "I pushed him away...

To those who know him, William Powers is a sometimes abrasive, but mostly lovable guy. He's a stand-up family man who's honest, sharp-witted, outspoken when prompted, and passionate about his beliefs. But, he has one major flaw - the perfectly toxic mixture of incompetence...

"Phenomenal Fantasies," is a collection of male-orientated expressed adult short-stories by B.L. McKenny. They are mostly expressed in the American Northwest, but not only the Northwest. The highlights of stories I have written goes as follows: "Fateful Death," is about a couple who never...

Rigid Fields: Family, Wealth, Passion, PainAs a young man in small-town Minnesota, Earl Bovey's whole life stretches before him, and to anyone else, it looks like a promising life. Earl is married to a beautiful woman, and they are raising two sons and mentoring...

Paparazzi aren't known for giving non-celebrities much of their professional attention, but when Pierre LeRoy stumbles across the riddle of Aimee Desberges, RN, and her best friend, Marcie Hamilton, while staking out one of his favorite celebrity targets, he finds himself strangely intrigued.What is...

The events of September 11th, 2001, demonstrated the extremes terrorists would go to in order to harm Americans. In "Of Honor And Deceit", terror adopts a new strategy; to sentence victims to lifelong confusion rather than death. Men armed with chemical weapons breach America's...

The world is moving toward a clash between the forces of good and evil. An Archaeologist, Bill Weston, pursuing leads that will verify the accuracy of Genesis' account of man's origin, is drawn into a whirlpool of murder and international intrigue. Weston and his...

A university student from Toronto, Canada, takes a short vacation to Calcutta, India, where a "friend" introduces him to a "special place". Jared, unaware of what he is walking into, suddenly finds himself in a room with a twelve-year-old girl who calls herself Hann'Sha....

When FBI Agent Pete Dobbins is assigned to investigate three murders, in three different cities, connected by ballistics evidence, he discovers a conspiracy of criminal activity that requires him to go undercover in an organization that is believed to be beyond reproach. Dobbins a...

A woman lies face down in the kitchen of a Bucks County home belonging to her friend and coworker Maureen Doherty. A knife is embedded in her back. She is discovered by Maureen's niece, Shannon Mulcahy. Shannon is frantic believing the victim is her...

Until now, no author has dared to use the title "The Great American Short Story" to tell his/her story. This work covers Hollywood fame and fortune. business success, love and lust, politics, intrigue, retribution, vengeance, and just about every theme that a story can...

Ember Welbin is the luckiest girl in the world. Or atleast she feels that way. At only nineteen she is a published author and getting married to the man she loves. What more could she ask for? But on her wedding night, the most...

A successful career minded young couple, Tom and Pat Dalton and their 2 children, move into an old Tudor house unaware of its previous history. Jamie their young son thinks it's the best place ever, especially because the house comes with a resident cat,...

When Rob Romano discovers some unsettling information regarding his employer, his curiousity unearths a decades-old plot approaching its catatrophic climax. Opposing the scope and influence of the power players in the energy industry and having now placed himself in harm's way, Rob provides a...

God, how he hated this part of the job. For two days and nights he laid in the filth surrounding him as the temperature soared to one hundred and twenty in the day before plunging to thirty at night. He sweated like a pig...

In Steward Sinclair, Part II, Sinclair takes on more cases and becomes more and more blunt and outspoken about the dysfunctional society in which he lives to the dismay of his inexperienced assistant who is meek and mild, an archaeological student in a gap...

Two friends, Jens and Gary, both Dutch, travel in 1992 to California for a sports training camp and are involved in a devastating plane crash. They barely survive; out of the twenty-two people on board sixteen are killed, including two of their Dutch team...

Dangerous Zeros By John Marshall Mills Millions, billions, trillions, and more: 000,000,000,000,000,000 Bankers and politicians promote the idea that zeros represent real value - a dangerous deception. With the world struggling to recover from the banking crisis, this powerful thriller taps into the anxieties,...

"I wanted to become the first creator of perfect and painless love. It was my father's fault. Indirectly he forced me, because I loved him too much. Indeed, my father. Can you believe it? I wanted to optimize love by transforming into what you...

Captain Scholland an instructor in the Royal Marines and a member of the U.N. Force spends his leave with his wife Candida in the area of Israel near the Lebanese border. A skirmish between a gang of terrorists and the Israeli border force results...

A ritualistic old man haunted by lost love and years-ago tragedy. A young soldier forbidden by religion and dictatorship to think and feel for himself. A despondent woman threatened by jealous rage at her musical passion. A gifted artist the world tormented and conspired...

Terror in the Shadows: Sometimes the one thing that frightens you the most is the one thing you have been looking for all your life. The Terror Is Here! Terror in the Shadows, a new suspense thriller by Horror Novelist Lecy McKenzie Pritchett, will...

Author: Paul TomlinISBN-10: 1477155058ISBN-13: 9781477155059Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/24/2012Pages: 88Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.31lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.21d

Author: Patricia ReedISBN-10: 1477146830ISBN-13: 9781477146835Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/24/2012Pages: 218Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.72lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.50d

In her work within the justice system, forensic psychologist Dr. Sylvia Strange has dealt with some of the most twisted and depraved minds ever documented. Now, one of those minds wants to deal with her. Lucas Watson has escaped from prison. A grotesque embodiment...