Fiction - Thrillers - Suspense

Laevsky is a dissipated romantic given to gambling and flirtation. He has run off to the sea with another man's wife and quickly grown tired of her, but two obstacles block his route to escape: he is broke, and he faces the absolute enmity...

Author Rodman Philbrick writing as Chris JordanHERE ARE THE FACTSFor the parents whose children have been taken, for the broken lives we piece back together one relentless investigation at a time, our town house is a sanctuary.My name is Alice Crane. I'm just one...

Tyler Hawke enjoys his life as a golf pro. His routines keep him focused, and his personal philosophies let him sleep at night. Until his best friend's daughter is abducted.Just what compels a person to do certain things? What justifications can there be? Ty...

The water, home to mermaids, selkies, and pirates alike, serves as a vessel for secrets, though it is not always airtight. A secret may sink to the bottom as a treasure long forgotten, or it may breach the surface, wrapping its tendrils around an...

When the police can find no proof that Matt Errington's missing girlfriend, Kate, even exists, he follows a fragile clue across the ocean to Wales to find her; only to loose his memory in a tragic accident. Waking up in a Welsh hospital, he...

Eighteen-year old Parker Austin, big brother and high school quarterback, dreams of glory on the football field. But a tragic shooting shatters Parker world. In a chilling span of sixty seconds, a mass tragedy wreaks havoc upon his life, family, and community. Although hailed...

What if you could go back in time and change the past. Would you do it? In Dreams mixes the feel of a psychological suspense thriller and the mysterious concepts of dreams, coupled with a telepathic phenomenon between the past and the present. The...

Seven days are all it takes for Rune Sarasin's life to completely derail. It starts with a routine heist: lifting a pouch of rubies from the Bangkok hotel room of wealthy smuggler Charles Lemaire. Rune nearly gets caught when Lemaire's goons give chase, but...

Seven days are all it takes for Rune Sarasin's life to completely derail. It starts with a routine heist: lifting a pouch of rubies from the Bangkok hotel room of wealthy smuggler Charles Lemaire. Rune nearly gets caught when Lemaire's goons give chase, but...

In the German spa town of Wildbad, the 'Scotchman' Mr. Neal is asked to transcribe the deathbed confession of Allan Armadale; his story concerns his murder of the man he had disinherited (also called Allan Armadale), who had subsequently married the woman he was...

Scott Madison Evers is the son-in-law of the Chairman of the National Security Council. His wife is pregnant with their first child. While in Munich conducting a rendition of a known terrorist, Scott's cover is blown. Before Scott can get away, his entire operations...

Pari e human condition is demanding, and there will always be many opportunities to stand or fall. In Tehran, Iran, 1310 SH (1931 AD), Pari, motherless since birth, watches, at the age of eleven, as her father dies in her lap. e following year,...

Jeff, a remarkable character who, once upon a time, was a Navy SEAL. Today, he's living a life most can only dream of-luxury, high-tech gadgets, lightning-fast cars, and a stunning wife by his side. However, there's a captivating twist to Jeff's story-he is a...

Ryan Thomas has a successful pub in the Chesapeake Bay town of Nevis, a girlfriend he adores, and a new life away from his criminal past. Everything is perfect until he discovers that second chances are not free, and what he owes is too...

"This is the story of what a Woman's patience can endure, and what a Man's resolution can achieve. If the machinery of the Law could be depended on to fathom every case of suspicion, and to conduct every process of inquiry, with moderate assistance...

From the author of The Things I Didn't Do: She never reported the men who attacked her years ago. Now someone is taking revenge . . . Years ago at university, Celia's boyfriend turned on her in a horrifying way--joining with his friends to...

"An absolutely fabulous read which I devoured in 2 days . . . fantastic thriller . . . outstanding . . . 10 out of 10." --Amazon reviewer, five stars A get-together reveals dark secrets that tie old friends together--and tear them apart--in a...

A young woman starts having doubts about her dream man in this unsettling thriller from the bestselling author of Girl in Bed Three. Nineteen-year-old Ellen is thrilled to have Jack Bryant as a best friend and roommate. She would be even happier to have...

Part-time actress and full-time mother Britt Hinson thought that most of her life's drama was confined to the stage. Then a threatening presence entered her world, a mysterious stranger that no one but her pretty nine-year-old, Katie, had seen. Katie calls him the Flower...

A Southwestern sleuth tries to retrieve some relics--and solve a murder--in a novel by an author who "knows how to hook the reader from the get-go" (Albuquerque Journal). Pot thief Hubie Schuze is back, and this time his larceny is for a good cause....

For some people, having it all is never enough. Salem Prescott "Buzz" Williamson III, Chairman and CEO of The Vantage Holding Group, can't understand how to limit his ambitions. He might have been born with better instincts, but his belief in The Golden Rule...

Is it kidnapping ... if you steal back your own birth-child?It's 1963 and 19 year old university student, Jemma Howell is manipulated into giving up her new-born baby daughter for adoption by her boyfriend's parents after his untimely death. Jemma obsesses about the baby...

Faced with many obstacles the characters in these books must deal with mind-changing terror. Will they survive or perish? What would you do if this happened to you? Meet a host of characters with one thing in common....life!Author: Jason BucklinISBN-10: 147595820XISBN-13: 9781475958201Publisher: iUniverseLanguage: EnglishPublished:...

Kingsview Kids Adventure is an unputdownable didactic book of two adventures for children of ages eight to twelve. The language is simple and aids building diction while having fun. The book is a quick fantasy escape of childhood relationships with family and friends. Children...

This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that...

"One Dead Fiddle Player" is a contemporay mystery set in a small, quiet, rural town.Cole Bascom, the fiddle player, was murdered in a careless way, as if his life and death meant nothing. There is a ready group of suspects. The fiddle player made...

They were gone. In an instant, they were all gone. I didn't blame them. I understood. I preferred begging them to leave to a rescue attempt that would have certainly ended all of our lives. What made me furious at myself was the inevitable...

Author: T. Marie SmithISBN-10: 144970526XISBN-13: 9781449705268Publisher: WestBow PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/12/2010Pages: 228Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.59lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.48d

How Deep Is Your Hate? is a murder mystery. It tells the story of Janelle Jameson, a young woman who is heir to The Jameson Group fortune. When tragedy strikes, Janelle sets out to exact revenge on the person she holds personally responsible for...

Master of espionage fiction and National Book Award winner William F. Buckley Jr. brings us another in his bestselling series starring the intrepid CIA agent Blackford Oakes.When a shadowy Russian mole threatens to undermine the free world's defenses by infiltrating President Eisenhower's National Security...

The year is 1961; the setting, Havana. CIA super-secret agent Blackford Oakes has been sent there on a mission, only to find himself in the eye of an international political hurricane. President Kennedy has selected Oakes to meet with Che Guevara inside Castro's Cuba...

On the thirtieth anniversary of the fall of Saigon, five Vietnam veterans gather for a reunion. While reminiscing about the dangerous final days of the nation's longest and most costly war, the five agree on one point. Once again, the nation has plunged into...

The Sacred Fount is a novel written by the acclaimed American author, Henry James. The book follows the story of an unnamed narrator who is attending a house party in the English countryside. During his stay, he becomes fascinated with the romantic relationships of...

This essential textbook provides a comprehensive exploration of the social, political, economic, and cultural challenges faced by international students in American colleges. Written for students, educators, and university administrators, it addresses critical issues such as sexual, religious, cultural, and social conflicts, presenting them in...

The only female scout in the majors, hard-living Cassidy Sanderson impulsively hops a plane to the Dominican Republic to snatch up young phenom Alberto Cruz for the Los Angeles Dodgers. But Cruz may have something even Cassidy's well-trained eye can't catch -- "a bad...

Author: Irene McCullough PaceISBN-10: 1413440452ISBN-13: 9781413440454Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/30/2009Pages: 176Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.59lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.41d

"In Paradise I stumbled onto a dead body, found my new mother, and was almost murdered." In the fall of 1989, young Angela Kiln and her father move to the slowly dying town of Paradise. Once they settle into small town life, Angela and...

This antiquarian book contains G.K. Chesterton's 1908 masterpiece, 'The Man Who Was Thursday'. Gabriel Syme is a detective and poet. Lucian Gregory is a poet and a hard-core anarchist. After infiltrating a clandestine anarchists meeting, Syme assumes the role of one of the select...

"A writer who, more than any other crime novelist, combined a high literary reputation with popular appeal." --P. D. James Caught in a spiral of bitter seclusion and drinking since his wife abandoned him and their newborn child eighteen years ago, Hector Loursat, once...

"I always have a Simenon close at hand. In my youth I adored his Maigret books; nowadays I prefer his 'hard novels, ' as he called them, in which his mastery of human psychology is laid plain." --Julian Barnes Georges Simenon's chilling portrayal of...

It's a rock and roll thriller. It's noir-road-pulp-romance-crime-supernatural trip.None of the above is an easy ride for Lucy Smith. Did her husband deserve to die? She thought so; she killed him. Now she's on the run from his family - The Snakes. They are...

Crossing SydneySydney Geyer first killed at the age of twelve. Now, forty-eight years later, a medical prognosis indicates that death is only months away. With time running out, Sydney decides to come clean to the FBI and confess to multiple unsolved murders. When that...

Winner of the 2002 Anna Pidruchney Award For New Writers On a visit to Ukraine to retrieve a family heirloom secretly buried by his grandfather during the Second World War, Yaroslaw, a Ukrainian-Canadian university student, stumbles into a world full of spies and secret...

When Claudia Sloane is arrested for the murder of her mother-in-law, everyone is stunned, especially her husband Sam. Claudia loved Eleanor as if she were her own mother and would never have hurt her. At least, that's what Claudia insists. But even Sam begins...

The chronicle of one man s descent into the world of borderline psychosis mimics with increasing fury the delusional world of his own patients. It s a frightening, real and utterly gripping thriller by highly touted first novelist David Post.Author: David L. PostISBN-10: 0931761298ISBN-13:...

It is 1961 in Berlin, and the Cold War is at its most chilling. Suave CIA agent Blackford Oakes has come to investigate.Brilliant, charismatic, and with a tragic past, Henri Tod is head of Bruderschaft, the underground anti-Communist organization. Oakes will need his help...

"Rayne, is launching a new series here, and if future installments are as gripping and intricately plotted as this one, it could have a long run." ― BooklistIntroducing professional researcher Phineas Fox in the first of a brand-new series of chilling mysteries.Phineas Fox has...

What if you lost everything you loved?After her husband is murdered, Susan Banks is warned that her life is also in danger. As a result, she changes her identity and flees New York to start a new life in Central America. One year later,...

A deadly artefact, a woman too good to be true, and a murdered friend. Tom can't outrun his destiny no matter the consequences.Tom and Liu thought they'd made the discovery of a lifetime when the ancient relic they're studying reveals amazing properties. Now, Liu's...

Witness to a murder; denied police protection, Sammi has no option but to run. Though the longer she runs, the shorter the distance she seems to be from her pursuers...Sammi just wants to find love on a workshop retreat in the Magaliesberg. She didn't...