Fiction - Thrillers - Suspense

A pair of siblings return to their rural hometown to investigate the mysterious disappearance of their father."Sean Ford creates a world that's both eerie and warmly mundane. Not an easy feat." --Alison Bechdel (Fun Home)Only Skin is an exploration of the hallucinatory and grim...

After a near-fatal climbing accident, David tries to return home. But the road he's on is no longer what it seems. He's pursued by a terrible secret that will turn a simple dream into the greatest of human struggles. The road leads David into...

When the Port Orchard police come to Mina Jewel for help, she knows it should be an interesting case. But not even the promise of a preternatural mystery can keep her interest very long with all the other crap on her plate. A sudden...

Three men want Catarina de la Alvarado for very different reasons. Border Patrol Officer Logan Dell is sweet poison; fabulously wealthy Alfonso Carreras could gift her with her own island; reckless Case Becker would rob her of her soul. Catarina's aspirations are far above...

A working reporter's search for the truth turns upside-down as she discovers a world filled with bribery and corruption, feeding unchecked into the very heart of America's soul. As she slowly uncovers the long-hidden secrets that will place her in grave danger, the story...

When Jay Cassio's best friend is murdered in a job clearly done by professionals, the walls that he has built to protect himself from the world of others begin to shatter. Dan Del Colliano had been his confidante and protector since the men were...

Behind the golden stone walls of a village in southwest France, American Merle Bennett finds solace from her grief while renovating her late husband's ancestral home. But things don't go as planned. Soon any calm she feels in her French summer is overshadowed by...

Ryan Spazmarek was a dork. He was not smart enough to be a nerd or weird enough to be a geek. A straight B student, he suffered through school with Spaz as his nickname. What else would it be? Shy and introverted, he had...

What causes men to have no moral convictions... to have no conscience... to have no remorse? A chemical unbalance in the brain? Perhaps. Influence from childhood events or people? Possible. Or are some men just born evil and uncaring? Yes, some men are just...

When the FBI wants to infiltrate a new militant group forming in the Pacific Northwest, the Bureau recruits the best man it can find for the job?and he's not an agent. He is Professor Michael Lund, a young academic expert on domestic terrorism. The...

Lying hidden away at the toe of Virginia, cuddled in a gap of the Appalachians is Big Stone Gap. However, Big Stone Gap may not be the only thing hidden away in the gaps of this area. Strange things are occurring in the town...

It's Mardi Gras in New Orleans, and French Quarter sleuth Wyatt Thomas is dealing with a new client and an old curse. Get ready for a rideAuthor: Eric WilderISBN-10: 0979116554ISBN-13: 9780979116551Publisher: Gondwana PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/24/2012Pages: 298Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.97lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.67d

When Professor Daniel Whaley abandons his position at The University of Wisconsin, leaves his wife and isolates himself on a mountain in southwestern Pennsylvania, it appears to be an act of desperation. Events that envelop him during his one year tenure on Hemlock Knob...

Once you have them by the balls, their hearts and minds will follow. Cryogenic freezer units with body parts of some of Hollywood's finest entertainers, the infamous Jet Pack Eight, are being shipped to federal buildings throughout the United States. A group, called the...

Great Point Media, a diversified media and entertainment company owned by Emmy-Award-winning producers Jim Reeve and Robert Halmi have optioned The Lion Killer and all the Rigby Croxford books to develop a new and exciting television series. This larger-than-life African adventure is expected to...

A man-eating leopard prowls the Transvaal. Daring, desperate, and indomitable, this lord of all cats, slowed by an ancient wound, has turned now to the one prey on which he can hope to survive. Captain Hilton Rixton, sportsman retired from the stalk, reaches for...

North Missouri has seldom been snowier and the mysteries more perplexing than in Show Me the Sinister Snowman, the fifth novel in Carolyn Mulford's Show Me detective series. Was the ailing congressman's death an accident, suicide, or perhaps even murder? And if it was...

Mongo is forced to confront the ghosts of his past. In an attempt to regain control of a traveling circus for his former boss, Mongo becomes embroiled in the hunt for something deadly that many people believe is a werewolf loose on the Great...

It's the story of a lurid murder in San Francisco. The case of Jordan Alexander, a socialite, would have never gone to trial if district attorney Peter Granucci hadn't been preparing to run for mayor. Granucci chooses Destiny Mitchell, a young black woman, to...

A Finalist for the Daphne du Maurier Award for Excellence in Mystery/Suspense, Mainstream Mystery. Dave, an investment counselor with PTSD, survives a blowout that kills his fianc e, Allison. A year later, Dave has found unexpected happiness with Cathy. At Dave's high-school reunion, Dave...

What deadly secret is encoded on the Disk?When Dr. Gatsby Donovan meets a cocky stage magician, Maceo Affiato, he claims that the most mysterious artifact of all human history--the Phaistos Disk--has been stolen, and he needs her expertise in order to find it.If the...

In a London suburb, a cult disciple gasps, dying in a pool of his own blood. The only clue is the holy scripture that he clutches. Who would kill for the Librah Vae-ta? What deadly power is hidden in its language? As Dr. Gatsby...

Where are the symbols coming from? What do they mean? Why have they appeared in an Egyptian tomb, a Peruvian palace, and a shape created by a fakir's snakes? Could they be related to the astounding disaster at Stonehenge? Dr. Gatsby Donovan's work at...

Ben is just a normal guy.He's got family problems.He's got girl problems.He's got psychiatric problems. He wants what everybody else wants.A car, nice parents and a girlfriend. But Ben can't have what he wants. He can't afford a car.His father wishes he was never...

Nowhere to hide... What should have been a relaxing vacation in Paris turns into another unwinnable situation for expert criminology consultant Leopold Blake. Caught in the cross hairs of a ruthless assassin and on the run from the police for a murder he didn't...

The perfect immortal warrior. A set of stolen, priceless artifacts. An ancient sect determined to bring about the downfall of human civilization.When a team of scientists unearth scriptures older than the Dead Sea Scrolls in a cave in Egypt, a mystery lost to the...

A Little Shop of Horrors contains nine tales of mystery and imagination, fulll of horror and suspense. Each story is self-contained. The collection closes with an essay about the nature of supernatural horror fiction. The tales in A Little Shop of Horrors are gripping,...

Published as a paperback original in 1960, this is MacDonald's favorite among his own novels, available for the first time in a quality hardcover edition.Author: John D MacDonald Publishing IncISBN-10: 0892961902ISBN-13: 9780892961900Publisher: Mysterious PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/01/1987Pages: 212Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.84lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.69d

Violent rebellion comes to London's middle classes in this "fascinating" (San Francisco Chronicle) novel from the same author of Crash and Empire of the Sun. Never more timely, Millennium People "seeks to illuminate our hearts of darkness while undermining our assumptions about what literature...

The year is 1923, and one of Ohio's most prominent judges, O'Brien O'Donnell, fathers his first and only child. Though a joyous occasion for the recently married, fifty-nine year old, the birth sets off a terrifying chain of events, beginning with blackmail and the...

A year after having been reactivated, Matt Helm receives a message from his ex-wife, asking for his aid. The threat is an enemy agent named Martel, disguised as a mob hitman. To protect his family, Helm must "remove" the threat before his own children...

A brand-new edition of the classic novel. In order to foil a mass assassination plot, Matt Helm must undertake his most dangerous mission: matrimony. An agent like Helm might be a nice man to live with for a while, be he's not the kind...

Matt Helm, code name Eric, has been recently reactivated as an operative for a secret American government organization after 15 years as a sedentary photographer and family man in Santa Fe, New Mexico. In his first assignment after returning to the service, he is...

A brand-new edition of the classic novel. A quiet mission of assassination is no sweat for legendary agent Matt Helm, until a shapely foreign agent he never got around to finishing off lures him into a strange trek in the wilds of northern Mexico,...

The line between their world and ours is thinner than we think . . .The sleepy, eastern Washington wheat town of Antioch has become a gateway for the supernatural--from sightings of angels and a weeping crucifix to a self-proclaimed prophet with an astounding message.The...

"A spine-tingling read that makes you question all your assumptions from one page to the next. Imagine if The Girl on the Train and The Hours had a baby, it would be The Woman in the Park." -- Adam Mitzner, author of A Matter...

When a bomb rips the fa軋de off the Kensington Hotel in Tokyo, dozens are killed and injured while one man walks calmly away from the wreckage, a coy smile playing on his lips. Former Army intelligence officer Dan Reilly, now an international hotel executive...

Tom Willock's first book, Green River Rising, earned the kind of reviews that are rarely accorded to most so-called literary thrillers. This remarkable debut was hailed for its rich, powerful writing as well as its dramatic, page-turning suspense. The New York Times Book Review...

A master of the thriller turns his talent for riveting suspense to the world of business. In this bold novel, John D. MacDonald exposes the backstabbing and betrayals, sordid deeds and savage maneuverings that take place behind closed doors. Introduction by Dean Koontz Floyd...

Is it possible to save a man from himself? Acclaimed novelist John D. MacDonald unfolds the dramatic story of two friends who go their separate ways--and who may be unable to stop themselves from repeating fatal mistakes. Introduction by Dean Koontz When Mike Rodenska,...

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BYThe Washington Post - San Francisco Chronicle In True Believers, Kurt Andersen--the New York Times bestselling and critically acclaimed author of Heyday and Turn of the Century--delivers his most powerful and moving novel yet. Dazzling...

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE O'Connor, a vivacious, free-spirited young journalist known for her penetrating celebrity interviews, is bent on unearthing secrets long ago buried by the handsome showbiz team of singer Vince Collins and comic Lanny Morris. These two highly desirable men, once...

"Perry succeeds with Dead Aim on all fronts. It's both chilling and absorbing, the right mix in a thriller."-New York Daily News Robert Mallon has lived for ten quiet years in affluent Santa Barbara, California, when an encounter on a beach with a mysterious...

"I TOLD YOU NOT TO COME..."Slipped under the door of her Georgetown home, the note was an ominous reminder of Pat Traymore's past. The beautiful young television journalist had come to glamorous, high-powered Washington to produce a TV series. Her subject: Senator Abigail Jennings,...

January Marlow, a heroine with a Catholic outlook of the most unsentimental stripe, is one of three survivors out of twenty-nine souls when her plane crashes, blazing, on Robinson's island. Presumed dead for months, the three survivors must wait for the annual return of...

Girl Unknown by critically acclaimed author Karen Perry is a powerful novel that "Explores emotional danger with relentless, surgical accuracy."--Tana French, New York Times bestselling author of The Trespasser and In the Woods David and Caroline Connolly are swimming successfully through their marriage's middle...

Fearless and incorruptible, Andrew Trevayne is a self-made millionaire, former undersecretary of state, and current head of one of the nation's most prestigious foundations. Now, at the express wish of the president, Trevayne undertakes an investigation into the "secret government"--and is soon swept up...

You're alone. You're vulnerable. And you have something that someone else wants. At any cost. Claudia Morgan-Brown finally has it all. Pregnant with a much-wanted first baby of her own, she has a happily established family of two small step-sons and a loving husband...

A careful, methodical young data analyst for a California insurance company, John Walker knows when people will marry, at what age they will most likely have children, and when they will die. All signs point to a long successful career--until Max Stillman, a gruff...

"Thomas Perry just keeps getting better," said Tony Hillerman, about Sleeping Dogs--and in this superb new novel by one of America's best thriller writers, Jane Whitefield takes on the mafia, and its money. Jane Whitefield, the fearless "guide" who helps people in trouble disappear,...