Fiction - Thrillers - Suspense

In the chilling tradition of Daphne du Maurier and with the acuity of Kate Atkinson comes a haunting, psychological thriller about one woman's search for the truth about her past through a closed community full of dark secrets.Alison is as close to anonymous as...

Caroline Webb knows what it means to lose the person you love most. Twenty years ago her five year-old daughter, Hayley, was kidnapped and later found dead. Now Caroline has started over with a new husband. She thinks she has put the ghosts of...

The Blondes on NPR's Best Books of 2015 list and a Bookpage Best Book of 2015 "Emily Schultz is my new hero." --Stephen King The Blondes is a hilarious and whip-smart novel where an epidemic of a rabies-like disease is carried only by blonde...

Watch your back. Trust no one. And when a killer closes in, hide yourself away. It should have been an ideal week during a perfect summer in America's First Resort. But just hours before the KEY News crew arrives for their broadcasts from Newport,...

Six years ago, Melody Pieterson was attacked and left for dead. Only a chance encounter with a dog walker saved her life. Melody's neighbor and close friend David Alden was found guilty of the crime and imprisoned, and the attack and David's betrayal of...

For Better... Deborah Robinson lived on a quiet street in a small town with her handsome husband and darling twins. It was the picture-perfect life---until the day Deborah's husband vanished without a trace. Or For Worse... Before he disappeared, Steve had been on edge....

Ancient Fable meets Modern Conspiracy Embark on a perilous expedition into Israel's Judean desert in this suspense-filled thriller, where the enigmatic fortress of Masada harbors deep-rooted mysteries, undiscovered treasures, and perilous secrets. Our protagonist, a young American nuclear engineer, finds himself drawn into the...

A stunning literary thriller set in rural Vermont from Joseph Olshan, the much praised author of Nightswimmer and Clara's Heart Once a major reporter for a national newspaper, Catherine Winslow has retreated to the Upper Valley of Vermont to write a household hints column....

New York Times best selling author Lisa Scottoline's visceral thriller, Every Fifteen Minutes, brings you into the grip of a true sociopath and shows you how, in the quest to survive such ruthlessness, every minute counts. "Scottoline has plenty of tricks up her sleeve."...

"Compelling, dark and intense, this story of a friendship gone wrong will keep you guessing until the end."--B. A. Paris, New York Times bestselling author of Behind Closed Doors For fans of The Widow and The Girl on the Train A dazzling work of...

Detective Helen Grace faces her own dark compulsions in the twisty new thriller from the author of Pop Goes the Weasel and Eeny Meeny. In the darkest corners of the city, there is a thriving nightlife where people can let loose and cross the...

From the creator of the TV show Bones comes a smart and funny debut thriller. "Everything a great thriller should be--always smart, often funny, and relentlessly exciting. I loved every page."--Scott Turow Michael Skellig is a limo driver waiting for his client in the...

Peter Kirsanow delivers a gripping, high-stakes thriller in which special operator Mike Garin faces off against a lethal Russian assassin--and a devious plot to wreak chaos in America. Within mere weeks of thwarting a cataclysmic electromagnetic pulse (EMP) attack against the United States, Michael...

In the spellbinding and suspenseful Let Me Die in His Footsteps, Edgar Award winner for Best Novel, author Lori Roy wrests from a Southern town the secrets of two families touched by an evil that has passed between generations. On a dark Kentucky night...

"A thrilling quest for justice... [A] novel that is as exciting as it is enlightening from its first pages to its satisfying end." --The New York Times Book Review "A page-turner in the proper sense... Mr. Carr has written a gripping and enjoyable novel."...

Even the deadliest gangs in Chicagoland fear the Cross Crew and carefully avoid their cinderblock bunker headquarters: Red 71 is well known as the last place you'd want to go . . . unless you're willing to risk it being the last place you'll...

In this riveting tale we meet two couples caught in a web of conflicting passions, Diving instructor Sven Fiedler and his girlfriend, Antje, who live and work on the Spanish island of Lanzarote. When a tourist couple--Jola, a soap opera actress, and Theo, a...

Just an average, perhaps boring, man - in an average, perhaps boring, town. But when things in this small town get turned upside down, he must figure out who is friend and who is foe. The past has come back to haunt him, and...

First there was Irma. Then came Maria. In the disastrous aftermath of these two colossal hurricanes, Tucker Mackenzie finds himself stranded on the Puerto Rican island of Culebra with an escaped inmate and a sailboat with a secret stash. When Tucker's ex-con companion is...

Did Uncle Harry just murder a fellow magician? On stage in front of a full audience?It's up to Eli to prove that, in the world of magic, you can't always believe your eyes!"You will just LOVE these books."-VANISH Magazine★★★★★Eli's trip to London with his...

WONDERFULLY ENGAGING, DELIGHTFULLY TRICKY..."This is an instant classic, in a league with Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett and Arthur Conan Doyle." - John Lehman, Rosebud Book ReviewsNewly-single magician Eli Marks reluctantly attends his high school reunion against his better judgment, only to become entangled in...

Magician Eli Marks is the top suspect in a series of murders.His greatest trick? Not becoming the next victim. ★★★★★Psychics are being murdered and all the clues point to magician Eli Marks: one of his playing cards keeps turning up at every crime scene....

A New York crime boos and powerful religious forces collide as they become entangled in muder and international politics. A brutal mob killer is freed with the help of a brilliant and skillful philanthropic orthodox Jewish attorney, who has second thoughts about what he...

Hurt by betrayal and reeling with doubts about his own judgment, Detective Adam Kaminski seeks a safe harbor on a pleasure cruise to Bermuda. But he's not the only passenger using the cruise to hide from his past.The calm of his vacation is shattered...

Things aren't always what they seem... When her twin sister mysteriously dies, New York Times bestselling author Nora Bassett's world is turned upside down. Lost in grief, she is shocked to find that she's the sole beneficiary of Black Willow, the giant Victorian farmhouse...

Vengeance is an Act of JusticeRevenge is an Act of PassionCorrections Officer Emil Sorn believed the inmates at Larsan State Prison were coddled by the system, had too many rights, and never received any real punishment for their crimes. As sergeant in charge of...

Mennonites. Hardworking, honest and peaceful. They keep to themselves.But now you're out and it's long after dark. No gas for your vehicle. No other drivers on the roadway. And tales of The Dutchman's Triangle to instill the fear of the unknown. There's no cell...

Three college girls go looking for excitement in a cowboy bar east of the mountains. After their car breaks down on the way, they come across a campground closed for the winter where three older guys are hanging out, drinking in their car, having...

Peter and Tess, both damaged by their various encounters with family and love, meet in a bar and go back to his place for the night. There, they discover the freedom of unconditional love and acceptance and retreat from the world to search for...

Edgy suspense and hot Hawaiian nights... Life is uncomplicated in a Big Island village until Maile Palea, an 8-year-old girl, disappears. Twelve years later she is still missing. Secrets of the Big Island is the story of Maile's sister and brother who never give...

Rayne Kilpatrick has everything. A job she's dreamed of since a little girl. The perfect house. And a man she loves and is about to marry... Until he never returns from a humanitarian mission. Gone. Disappeared. Vanished. When footage of his gruesome murder by...

From the "Queen of Suspense" Mary Higgins Clark, a gripping and twisting mystery featuring a television news reporter who finds herself drawn into a terrifying web of treachery, where nothing is as it seems and the truth may be too devastating to pursue... The...

A powerful voice in contemporary American fiction, Larry Watson is the award-winning author of Montana 1948, hailed as "a work of art" (San Francisco Chronicle), and White Crosses, praised as "one of the most irresistible novels of the year" (The Globe and Mail). In...

The crowned Queen of Suspense, #1 New York Times bestselling author Mary Higgins Clark invites a star-studded cast of authors to share original stories of men and women joined in love...and driven to murder. Sarah Shankman puts a chilling new spin on payback in...

Happy in her new life in River's End, Christie Ryan loves the little cottage she's renovating and the man she longs to marry. But storm clouds gather when a mysterious woman commissions a painting from Martin Blake, insisting on secrecy and creating undercurrents of...

How far would you go to protect a secret? How far would you go to expose a lie? Will Fletcher seems to have it all - perfect job, perfect life. Then in one act of extreme violence, his world turns upside down. A bungled...

Continue this action packed political conspiracy thriller series by USA Today Bestselling author Steve P. Vincent...Most people want peace. A few will do anything to stop it.The US President has achieved the impossible, negotiating peace between Israelis and Palestinians. But in conflict this heated,...

Living on the edge can be murder.Garnet McGee returns to her small Vermont hometown, all set to finish her master's thesis in psychology, and convinced that the paranormal experiences of recent months are now behind her. Then she stumbles across a body in the...

No one appreciates the irony of her situation more than Raven Kane: she's a burnt-out witch. Raven is a hip, hexing-and-texting sorceress - or at least, she used to be. Now her ancient timber house is falling down around her, and the bank wants...

As she did in her darkly thrilling debut, Josie and Jack, Kelly Braffet again explores the often ambiguous nature of love and danger in a riveting novel of suspense. When twenty-something drifter Miranda Cassidy wrecks her car one night on the way home from...

A year and a half into her first term as President of the United States, Libby Paulsen is in a world of trouble. Her controversial agenda has placed her in a doomsday clash with a right wing cabal led by an enigmatic Air Force...

Kari Fairmount, the perfect trophy wife of Marvin Fairmount, CEO of Fairmount Inc., is fed up with her husband's cheating ways as well as the emotional and verbal abuse he puts her through. Kari soon finds herself in an affair of her own with...

"Filled with unexpected twists, unconventional allies and a master-mind villain who makes hired killers look like kindergarten teachers. "Ultimate Betrayal" is Joseph Badal's best book yet. A must-read for anyone with a craving for a fast-paced, action-packed, beautifully constructed thriller."-Anne Hillerman, author of "Spider...

Father and son team, Clay and Tanner Thomas, have already used their parapsychological abilities to solve crimes, but never before to keep themselves out of trouble. After a devastating injury to his father, Clay Thomas is abandoned by two people closest to him while...

Clay Thomas has mind-control powers-powers he has learned are best to be kept secret and unused-except the secrets are harming the family relationships he values most. Then Jack Harding, a cold-hearted criminal and rival from Clay's past, enters the picture. Because their sons are...

NYC: a metropolis of 8 million people; 500 disappear each year. Of those, three dead end case files lie open on Special Agent Roy Esteban's desk. Who are they? Why doesn't anyone know they're gone and why does no one care? Lack of leads...

"Banking has never seemed so dirty as it does in SHELL GAME, the pulse-pounding new thriller from Joseph Badal. The author brings a lifetime of business experience to this tale, which shows how banking regulations can ruin lives and how a villain can manipulate...

Blackout. Who would disrupt the peace of the wind-driven plains with violence and murder? To what end is the livelihood of the West brought to its knees by widespread power outages, endangering lives and hampering resource production that supplies the nation's energy? Reporter Allie...

Former newspaper publisher A. Dru Kristenev tells a compelling story of political intrigue, world markets and presumptive power brokers based on research of the underpinnings of real-time political and global financial maneuvering, and who's instigating it. A seasoned journalist, Solana Greyfisher, and a legal...

Land Barons By A. Dru Kristenev What would you make of landowners falling prey to mysterious crop failings, unexplained livestock die-offs, arson, and murder while hundreds of thousands of acres of ranches, farms and pristine wilderness seem to vanish off the tax rolls and...