Fiction - Thrillers - Suspense

"Jimmie John Hall wasn't anything until he was a killer, and Betty Dienhardt wasn't anything until she met Jimmie John Hall. When they get together, sparks fly and bullets follow. The first to go are Betty's parents, but Betty isn't bothered. She only wants...

"The colonel was right. You had to draw a line through mankind, a wavy line but a line, and on one side you had Good and on the other side you had Evil. There was good and bad in everyone, sure, and every shitheel...

The woman gives her name as Betty. No last name. No phone number. Just a meeting place - a deserted, wooded park on the outskirts of Lake Tahoe. The one condition - come alone. San Francisco attorney Kali O'Brien understands client confidentiality, but something...

How well do you know your own family? And who can you trust? Ella and Rick have a lovely home in a beautiful seaside town in Cornwall. It's the perfect place to bring up a child and Ella is longing to have one, but...

Allison Reeves, a forensic veterinarian, is an avenger of the abused. A New York City transplant, she moved to Maryland's rural Eastern Shore to live with her boyfriend, K-9 Senior Trooper John Thibert. Today she is the director of the mid-Atlantic Region of the...

Bestselling Polish crime by award-winning author Zygmunt Miloszewski.All eyes are on famous prosecutor Teodor Szacki when he investigates a skeleton discovered at a construction site in the idyllic Polish city of Olsztyn. Old bones come as no shock to anyone in this part of...

Killer WeekendEight years ago, in Sun Valley--snowcapped playground for the wealthy and ambitious--all that stood between New York State attorney general Elizabeth Shaler and a knife-wielding killer was local patrolman Walt Fleming. Now Liz Shaler returns to Sun Valley as the crown jewel and...

NIGHT SINS: A young boy disappears. There are no witnesses, no clues - only a note, cleverly taunting, casually cruel. Has a cold-blooded kidnapper struck? Or is this a reawakening of a long-quiet serial killer?A tough-minded investigator on her first make-or-break case... A local...

Curmudgeonly Japanese American gardener and unwitting detective Mas Arai is back in this fifth in the Edgar Award-winning series. Naomi Hirahara has created a memorable protagonist unlike any other: a Hiroshima survivor, Los Angeles gardener, widower, gambler, grandfather, and solver of crimes. In Strawberry...

One day, about the middle of July 1838, one of the carriages, then lately introduced to Paris cabstands, and known as Milords, was driving down the Rue de l'Universite, conveying a stout man of middle height in the uniform of a captain of the...

There is a secret that lies above and below 1000's of acres of Santa Cruz County. As a recovering alcoholic, Alex has recently lost most of his memory, but believing this is due to his 'recovery' he pays little attention to the nightmares of...

You are Zeb Carter, a deep black, special-ops agent based in New York. You work for a U.S. agency that doesn't exist. You are the go-to man when no other options exist. You are in the Democratic Republic of Congo to track down rogue...

Jessie Schroeder continues to hope she will find peace and quiet living in the small town of Riverport, high on the bluffs of the Mississippi River, but she is thwarted again. This time the body came with a Biblical passage skewered to his chest...

Generations of Jillian Cley's family have been tasked with a strange duty-tending the burial plot of Gabriel Vane, whose body was the first to be interred in the Hode's Hill cemetery. Jillian faithfully continues the long-standing tradition-until one October night, Vane's body is stolen...

WELCOME TO DAMNATION . . . where every living soul is as dead as a doornail. Except one. Buddy Baker is a dead man. Literally. After gunning down more men than Billy the Kid--and being hung by a rope necktie for his crimes--the jolly,...

Anything can happen when you let your guard down . . . After receiving a violent threat on the heels of her father's disappearance from the town of Arrowhead Bay, Devon Cole fears for her life-until Vigilance, a local private security agency, steps in...

Cousin Bette was Balzac's last great novel, and in it he explores power, lust, deception, and revenge. The characters are complex and vividly drawn. Cousin Bette is a woman of breath-taking malice. She plans and executes a diabolic plot of revenge against her own...

Set in the later years of World War I, Brigadier-General Hannay is recalled from active service on the Western Front to undertake a secret mission hunting for a dangerous German agent at large in Britain. He is forced to work undercover disguised as a...

The Girl in Red Pajamas begins when two lesbians have a smack down in a Boston restaurant. After one is found dead stuffed in the back of the other's SUV, their families line up and point fingers. Tensions mount as relatives question religious beliefs,...

Author: R. SuryanarayananISBN-10: 1514462052ISBN-13: 9781514462058Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/31/2015Pages: 242Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.79lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.55d

Fourteen years into the new millennium finds America in decline. The once supreme republic has slipped from the throne of world's greatest nation to a precarious 'also ran' as the liberal agenda has spawned an ever-expansive and intrusive federal government. But America's richest citizen,...

Samantha thought her secret would be kept forever, but in this story of deception, Samantha finds herself fighting for her life amongst the ones she loved most. She soon realize .... No one can be TrusteAuthor: Shameek SpeightISBN-10: 1512292184ISBN-13: 9781512292183Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage:...

A cruise ship drops anchor on a coral reef, trapping Mike Scott underwater. A car goes berserk and runs into George Town harbor, nearly drowning the driver. Communications between Grand Cayman and the outside world are cut off. Is this a case of cyber...

He'd been up there with the biggest, shock-jock extraordinaire, on the biggest stations, in syndication in every major market in the country. Now blackballed and forgotten, Gulliver McKnight is doomed to doing the graveyard shift on godforsaken AM at a 5,000-watt piss-ant station in...

Author: Arnita SomervilleISBN-10: 1587212188ISBN-13: 9781587212185Publisher: 1st Book LibraryLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/20/2000Pages: 180Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.40lbsSize: 8.04h x 5.03w x 0.46d

A Trace of Smoke: "O.J. Bryson's writing combines an engrossing plot, vivid characterizations, and deftly-paced action into a genuinely pleasurable read. But even more importantly, he manages to capture the sites and sounds of the Tennessee/Carolina mountains and their people. His ear for natural...

Penny Vincenzi's historical novel Something Dangerous is the story of the poor and privileged living in 20th-century London as the clouds of war start gathering over Europe. The dazzling Lytton twins, Adele and Venetia, are born into the great Lytton publishing empire. In 1928,...

Author: Dennis N. GriffinISBN-10: 1585000345ISBN-13: 9781585000340Publisher: 1st Book LibraryLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/19/1996Pages: 376Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.90lbsSize: 8.22h x 5.08w x 0.94d

Doctor Peter Branstead's neurology department at St. Mark's Hospital in New York's picturesque Greenwich Village is flooded with a series of critically ill vagrants exhibiting identical symptoms. Confused and agitated upon admission, they rapidly progress into convulsions, cardiac arrest, and death. The deaths are...

Author: Michael H. DanfordISBN-10: 1583481028ISBN-13: 9781583481028Publisher: iUniverseLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/01/1998Pages: 116Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.43lbsSize: 9.01h x 6.01w x 0.43d

Intern forensic pathologist Dr. Riley McKay has noticed irregularities in autopsies at the Allegheny County Coroner's lab. Suspecting foul play, she seeks help from Dr. Nick Polchak, the "bug man" renowned for his ability to solve murders by analyzing the insects on victim's bodies....

In the late 1960s, NASA proposed hardware and mission parameters for an extended Apollo program that never materialized. Decades later, the existence of ice beds at the lunar south pole was discovered by NASA's space probe Clementine and confirmed by the lunar satellite Lunar...

An intricately woven, suspenseful novel of psychological and political intrigue, The Tesseract follows the interlocking fates of three sets of characters in the Philippines: gangsters in a chase through the streets of Manila; a middle-class mother putting her children to bed in the suburbs...

Leslie Palmer, code-name Cinderella, is drawn into a nightmare when the CIA recruits her as a double for the First Lady of the United States in the weeks after 9/11. Our hero will have to use all her resources, think quick, and act boldly...

A woman's tortured past is reawakened when a twisted murderer strikes close to home in this "original, spellbinding, and horrifying read" (Kirkus Reviews, starred review). Kate is a young woman whose mother is dying of cancer. Gillian is an oversexed, hyper-intellectual who looks like...

Gina Lopez is twenty-six, a postal worker during the week, a mud wrestler on weekends. She's also a recent widow, though she is not exactly mourning the death of her abusive husband Chico. Instead, she's anxiously awaiting the life-insurance settlement that will pay off...

Something is terribly wrong at Symphony Hall. Luigi Spadafini, the symphony's star conductor, has been murdered--and the entire orchestra has confessed to the crime. This is the mess that Detective Lieutenant Pratt walks into one Saturday morning. Overworked and tired, he's also saddled with...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER"A consistently exciting and never predictable series."--Associated PressWhen Grace Ozmian, the beautiful and reckless daughter of a wealthy tech billionaire, first goes missing, the NYPD assumes she has simply sped off on another wild adventure. Until the young woman's body...

#1New York Times bestselling author Sandra Brown delivers nonstop suspense and supercharged sexual tension in a thriller about tainted heroism and vengeance without mercy. Kerra Bailey is a TV journalist hot on the trail of a story guaranteed to skyrocket her career to new...

One of Amazon's Best Audiobooks of 2019Star FBI detective Amos Decker and his colleague Alex Jamison must solve four increasingly bizarre murders in a dying rust belt town--and the closer they come to the truth, the deadlier it gets in this rapid-fire #1 New...

Harry Bosch searches for the truth in the new thriller from #1 NYT bestselling author Michael ConnellyAn NPR Best Book of 2017A Times Critics' Top Book of 2017 A Barnes & Noble Best Book of 2017A South Florida Sun-Sentinel Best Mystery of 2017An Amazon...

When a horrifying attack leaves one of the four members of the Women's Murder Club struggling for her life, the others fight to keep a madman behind bars before anyone else is hurt. Lindsay Boxer and her new partner in the San Francisco police...

A young mother is recuperating in a San Francisco hospital when she is suddenly gasping for breath. The call button fails to bring help in time. The hospital's doctors, some of the best in the nation, are completely mystified by her death. How did...

In this fast-paced historical thriller, the #1 New York Times bestselling author introduces Archer, a WWII veteran forced to investigate a small-town murder -- or risk returning to prison.It's 1949. When war veteran Aloysius Archer is released from Carderock Prison, he is sent to...

Detective Amos Decker discovers that a mistake he made as a rookie detective may have led to deadly consequences in this compelling Memory Man thriller by #1 New York Times bestselling author David Baldacci.Decker is visiting his hometown of Burlington, Ohio, when he's approached...

When her husband mysteriously disappears in a plane crash into the Virginia countryside, a devastated wife must sort out truth from lies in this page-turning New York Times bestseller.Sidney Archer has it all: a husband she loves, a job at which she excels, and...

Harry Bosch teams up with LAPD detective Ren馥 Ballard to solve the murder of a young girl in the new thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author Michael Connelly.Detective Ren馥 Ballard is working the night beat -- known in LAPD slang as "the...

#1 New York Times bestselling author Sandra Brown returns with a potent fusion of tantalizing suspense and romance, in a thriller about a reckless pilot caught in a race against time. Rye Mallett, a fearless freight dog pilot charged with flying cargo to far-flung...

A tale that could have been ripped from the pages of current events. It will have you hanging on every word, afraid to find out what happens next yet eager to turn the page." Candid Book ReviewsFalling in love is supposed to be the...

A career homicide detective returns to his small hometown and is soon asked to investigate a series of local murders with a perverse literary twist. Detective Joe Preach Everson, a prison chaplain turned police officer, is coming home. After a decade tracking down killers...