Fiction - Thrillers - Suspense

In this incendiary thriller from three-time Edgar Award winner and New York Times bestselling author T. Jefferson Parker, Roland Ford is hunting down a mysterious killer, jockeying for position with the FBI, and risking everything to save a friend in terrible jeopardy. Returning hero...

The blistering new novel from the author of the multi-award-nominated The Professionals--"Laukkanen is one of the best young thriller writers working today" (Richmond Times-Dispatch). When you've got nothing left, you've got nothing left to lose. Cass County, Minnesota: A sheriff's deputy steps out of...

Having recently lost both her parents in a tragic car accident, Alex Woods is shocked to discover through the family lawyer that her beloved mother was keeping a secret - a baby she gave up for adoption when she had just left high school....

After a long period of 'resting', life is looking up for Charles Paris, who has been cast as the Ghost of Hamlet's Father and First Gravedigger in a new production of Hamlet. But rehearsals are fraught. Ophelia is played by Katrina Selsey, who won...

Three impossible births. Three incredible miracles. One deadly secret. Once again, Harvard Professor of religion and archaeology Cal Donovan has been summoned by Pope Celestine to investigate a seemingly impossible miracle. Three Catholic teenage girls, from different corners of the world, have fallen pregnant....

Lis Wiehl incorporates her own experience as a TV host and federal prosecutor in this riveting series. Erica Sparks has become a superstar overnight. Is it due to her hard work and talent, or is she at the center of a spiraling conspiracy?Erica Sparks...

With the "profound sense of Southern spirituality" he is known for (Publishers Weekly), Billy Coffey draws us into a town where good and evil--and myth and reality--intertwine in unexpected ways.Everyone in Crow Hollow knows of Alvaretta Graves, the old widow who lives in the...

Hannah Monakee is accustomed to being on the reporting side of crime. When a method killer targets her as his next victim, she struggles against a four-day timeline to figure out how a red rose, a mirror and music fit into his murderous design....

WHAT DO YOU DO WHEN THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES WANTS YOU DEAD?That's the question faced by ex-Navy SEAL Trace Austin when the President decides he must eliminate the five people who know his deadly secret -- a secret which could send him...

A "fast-moving topical thriller. Its surprising twists add up to a highly suspenseful read." --Publishers Weekly "A gripping and intelligently executed political drama." --Kirkus ReviewMatthew Yamashita, a young researcher, uncovers a series of suspicious deaths among Electors while collecting polling data. Seven have died,...

As a teenager, Maci Willis fled the poverty and sexual abuse of her Louisiana childhood with the hope of finding a new life as a Nashville recording star or greasy spoon waitress. Despite the odds, the former fate unfolded, and Maci recorded hit songs...

Nursing her mother back to health wasn't all that drew Georgie Haydock back to the mountain tourist town of Chimney Rock. The summer roils as her mother thrashes in her bed, insisting that the strange woman stalking her store downstairs is Georgie's missing sister....

Dangerous obsessions take center stage when a former assassin and a homicide detective race against the clock to find a missing girl before she's sold to the highest bidder.dentified as a person of interest in three cold case murders she didn't commit and required...

A young widow's efforts to rebuild her life become a struggle for survival when she crosses a killer... Claire Marshall's world crumbled when her husband died in a fire. Emotionally fragile but determined to move forward, Claire buys into a small company that restores...

In Italian police inspector Aurelio Zen, Michael Dibdin has given the mystery one of its most complex and compelling protagonists: a man wearily trying to enforce the law in a society where the law is constantly being bent. In this, the first novel he...

What--or who--could turn a gifted little boy into a murderous thing that calls itself "Satan's Child"? In search of an answer, a man named Burke travels from a festering welfare hotel to a neat frame house where a voodoo priestess presides over a congregation...

Masses of people are dying from a mysterious flu. While the TSI team searches for a cure, a notorious eco-terrorist group, Return to Earth, uses an influenza bomb to poison the water. It's a race against time--with the outcome impacting the entire world.By the...

Master of mystery Robert Barnard, internationally acclaimed for his suspenseful, witty literary gems, cleverly mixes past and present in A Cry from the Dark, an intriguing tour de force sweeping from 1930s Australia to contemporary London. Bettina Whitelaw has come a long way from...

In this thrilling sequel to the "inventive and incisive" (Jerry B. Jenkins, New York Times bestselling author) Book of Dreams, Elena Burroughs is attacked by dreams for which she has only one explanation: they are not her own. Dr. Elena Burroughs's life is spiraling...

New York Times bestselling author Stephen Frey thrills readers with the mesmerizing tale of a small-town sheriff who must confront the worst violence that man and nature possess. Bruner, Wisconsin, is really two different towns. On one side are the magnificent summer estates of...

Colossal in concept, dazzlingly plotted, filled with vivid, jaw-dropping violence, Sins of the Assassin confirms Robert Ferrigno as the modern master of the futuristic thriller. In the second book of Ferrigno's spectacular Assassin Trilogy, Rakkim Epps battles radical fundamentalist forces in a futuristic America,...

Everyone says her mother was crazy. Is she doomed to repeat the past? Up in the attic, that's where Alice's mother used to escape to...and it's where, so Alice has been told, she plotted the murder of her own stepfather. Now, years later, with...

Author: Jim ArnebergISBN-10: 1414050585ISBN-13: 9781414050584Publisher: 1st Book LibraryLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/08/2004Pages: 168Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.56lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.39d

Author: Catherine Coulter, J. T. EllisonISBN-10: 1410497542ISBN-13: 9781410497543Publisher: Thorndike Press Large PrintLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/14/2017Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.60lbsSize: 8.70h x 5.70w x 1.30dLarge Print

They were all heroes. And they never knew. Dave, his little, stubborn family, and Charlie Ferris. Fighting overwhelming odds, helped by a prosecutor only few could see. Their opponent: the Home. Masking unending cruelties with a veneer of righteousness.Author: Claire Z. CameronISBN-10: 1403366632ISBN-13: 9781403366634Publisher:...

Echoes of The Blue Tango is the story of businessman Tyler Ostler and the intrigue and romance he encounters on a long overdue vacation around the world aboard the ocean liner, S.S. Prince Richard. On the cruise, he meets several interesting people, including a...

Author: Ronald AzzolinaISBN-10: 1403311250ISBN-13: 9781403311252Publisher: 1st Book LibraryLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/13/2002Pages: 348Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.58lbsSize: 9.24h x 6.38w x 1.28d

Author: Jeffrey K. SmithISBN-10: 1403304416ISBN-13: 9781403304414Publisher: 1st Book LibraryLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/19/2002Pages: 220Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.72lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.50d

New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Paige Tyler brings you high-octane paranormal romantic suspense like you've never seen! Hold on tight--the X-Ops series takes you on a wild shifter ride.I thought I was ready for anything... As a Special Forces Captain, it...

Book 5 of The Amoveo LegendPraise for Undone: "Spellbinding...this fast-paced jam-packed thrill ride will delight paranormal romance fans."--Publishers WeeklyShe Works Hard to be Normal...Tatiana Winters loves the freedom of her life as a veterinarian in Oregon. It's only reluctantly that she agrees to help...

Two little girls, frozen in black and white. One picture worth killing for.The Civil Rights Movement is less than a distant memory to Lisa Waldren--it is someone else's memory altogether, passed on to her through the pages of history. Her life as a federal...

Part love story and part psychological thriller from best-selling author Trevanian, "a tour de force... A story that explores meticulously some of the darker corners of the human soul." -- The Washington Post In the quiet Basque countryside in 1914, Jean-Marc Montjean, a handsome...

Mix Cellini has just moved into a flat in a decaying house in Nottinghill, where he plans to pursue his two abiding passions--supermodel Nerissa Nash, whom he worships from afar, and the life of serial killer Reggie Christie, hanged fifty years earlier for murdering...

A botched liquor store heist leaves three grisly dead. A hero cop is missing. Nobody could see a pattern in these two stray bits of information-no one except Detective Sergeant Lloyd Hopkins, a brilliant and disturbed L.A. cop with an obsessive desire to protect...

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Thousand Acres comes a brilliant literary thriller set in Manhattan that's "as taut and chilling as anything Hitchcock put on film" (San Francisco Chronicle). "A first-rate cliffhanger." --The New York Times Book ReviewAlice Ellis is a Midwestern...

From the foremost contemporary chronicler of London's history, a suspenseful novel that ingeniously draws on Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales to recreate the city's 14th century religious and political intrigues. London, 1399. Sister Clarice, a nun born below Clerkenwell convent, is predicting the death of...

In the future, it's possible to live forever--but at what cost? A.D. 2088. Christian missionary Abigail Caldwell emerges from the jungle for the first time in her thirty-four years, the sole survivor of a mysterious disease that killed her village. A curious message from...

Her genetic secret could change humanity forever. Her DNA grants her the ultimate power. But all she wants is to disappear. Looming buildings rise into the sky of a near-future America, shadowing the desperate poverty of the soovie parks, death doctors, and fear bombs....

January 1917--With St. Petersburg on the brink of revolution, Sandro Ruzsky, the city's chief police investigator, returns from exile in Siberia only to be assigned a grisly case: the bodies of a young couple found on the ice of the frozen River Neva, just...

ANCIENT SECRETS ARE SOMETIMES BURIED FOR A REASONIn 1914, Thomas Edison watches as his West Orange laboratory burns to the ground. As he surveys the fire, consuming his life's work, he touches an ancient artifact in his pocket, and smiles.Sixty years later, an Army...

Saving Meghan is a riveting new thriller full of secrets and lies from author D.J. Palmer. Can you love someone to death? Some would say Becky Gerard is a devoted mother and would do anything for her only child. Others, including her husband Carl,...

"A taut, well-written thriller...The pace is crisp, the surprises keep coming, and there are two big ones that readers are unlikely to see coming." - Associated Press A seemingly perfect marriage is threatened by the deadly secrets husband and wife keep from each other....

Trust Me is the chilling novel of psychological suspense and manipulation that award-winning author and renowned investigative reporter Hank Phillippi Ryan was born to write. "Ryan dazzles--a must read."--Mary Kubica "Mesmerizing!" --Lisa Gardner "A knockout."--Booklist (starred review) There are three sides to every story....

DD Barant launches The Bloodhound Files with Dying Bites--a "fresh and original take on urban fantasy" (Romantic Times) with a heroine who's "remarkable, strong-willed and smart" (Publishers Weekly). Her job description is the "tracking and apprehension of mentally-fractured killers." What this really means in...

For both Zane and Darby, their small town roots hold a terrible secret. Now, decades later, they've come together to build a new life. But will the past set them free or pull them under? Find out in Under Currents from #1 New York...

Some say Demiel ben Yusef is the world's most dangerous terrorist, personally responsible for bombings and riots that have claimed the lives of thousands. Others insist he is a man of peace, a miracle worker, and possibly even the Son of God. His trial...

Gripping, emotional, and wire-taut, Rea Frey's Not Her Daughter raises the question of what it means to be a mother--and how far someone will go to keep a child safe. "Brings to mind Jodi Picoult...thought-provoking domestic drama." - Booklist "Will make you miss your...

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER From the bestselling author of The Crooked House comes an utterly gripping psychological thriller, which takes readers into a deep and unsettling marriage of half-truths and past lives, where no one can be trusted--especially not your spouse. Fran awakes to her baby's...

Elle's 33 Best Books of the YearA Searing Debut Novel from One of the Most Imaginative Minds in Fiction Kelly Luce's Pull Me Under is a suspense novel with a female protagonist that gets more right about women than so many others I've read...

Previously published as Manhattan Nocturne and now a major motion picture starring Adrien Brody, Yvonne Strahovski, Campbell Scott, and Jennifer Beals A New York Times Notable Book Porter Wren is a Manhattan tabloid writer with an appetite for scandal. On the beat, he sells...