Thriller - Suspense
The Girl Who Wants Featured
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A wildly entertaining, wholly unique tour de force of action, psychological drama and wit from USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestselling author Amy Vansant.
Shee wants a home.
Shee McQueen grew up skip tracing and hunting military criminals with her father, Mick, until someone put a bounty on her head, forcing her underground. Resurfacing years lat ...
Keep Your Doors Locked Featured
An escaped prisoner. A woman running from her past. National news coverage is the last thing Sara needs. After a troubled and abusive past, Sara Jennings has found a semblance of tranquility in her life. Buying an old farmhouse at the edge of nowhere has brought her the peace and solitude she so desperately craves. The property comes with history. Better yet, it comes with the promise of a future. Sara can run her software company from home while rebuilding her life, with little human contact beyond her locked doors. For a woman in hiding, it’s the perfect solution, until an inmate esca ...
The Man Who Kept Secrets Featured
Enter the series at any book - each is a complete standalone mystery.
By USA TODAY and Wall Street Journal bestselling author Amy Vansant.
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A heart-pounding and darkly humorous dance through Miami with a twisted serial killer...
Miami's Skinner Institute serves the rich and powerful—people who trust the private hospital to hide their secrets.
When former
AESOP Featured
Dive into the AESOP espionage thriller series and meet your new favorite heroine. Fast-paced, heart-pounding, and packed with action—prepare to be hooked. Top operative Matti Baker is on a mission to protect America from high-level threats. With unwavering loyalty and determination, she navigates through assignments that, on the surface, appear to have no connection. But as her concern grows about the depth of corruption, she senses even one loose end will destroy her family... and the United States. With a wave of deadly threats escalating, she must lock and load before everything gets fubare ...
The Advocate Featured
For Sabre Orin Brown, life is good; she has it all...or would have, if only she could solve the mysterious disappearance of her brother. The search for her brother and her career as a Juvenile Court Attorney collide when she defends a nine-year-old whose father will go to any length to obtain custody. Sabre finds herself immersed in a case with too many unanswered questions. Her quest for the truth takes her coast to coast and five years into the past. Confronted with mysterious clues and strange occurrences, Sabre is threatened by someone wanting to make her suffer the unbearable anguish of l ...
The Girl Who Escaped Featured
One month ago, four college girls were abducted. Three were brutally murdered—one girl escaped. Angie was traumatized into a state of shock. The police don’t believe her story. A psychiatrist diagnosed her as emotionally unstable. But is the murderer stalking her right now, eager to finish what he started? FBI Special Agent Brenda Reynolds of the VSRT must investigate whether the mysterious girl is a victim, a clever killer, or has gone insane. Brenda seeks help from K-9 handler Jake Wolfe and his highly intelligent dog, Cody. Together, they uncover the truth, one disturbing clue at a ti ...
In this psychological suspense story, Roger and Alice seemed to be the perfect couple. To the outside world, they appeared to have it all - a great marriage filled with romance, exotic vacations, money, and prestige. If one took a closer look, however, one might find that it was a marriage of chastisement. Take a ride on the dark side with someone who simply SNAPS because they can't take it anymore! Author warning: Dark fiction. Rated R.
Codename: Parsifal Featured
The Spear of Destiny. The Roman Legionnaire’s lance that pierced Christ’s body as he hung on the cross. Legend claims whomever possesses it will become a great conqueror. But if they lose it, they will lose everything—including their lives. Shortly before WWII, Hitler stole the spear from a museum in Vienna. In the last weeks of the European war, he lost it. General George Patton orders an American OSS team to find the spear and recover it. Unknown to the Americans, both the Russians and the Germans have also sent commando teams to retrieve it. In the dying embers of Europe’s largest conflagra ...
A Murdered Professor. A Priceless Manuscript Stolen. A Journalist Caught in the Crossfire. This was not the reunion James envisioned. His friends are squabbling and keeping secrets. At the centre of the drama is a medieval manuscript. Moments after James discovers a secret code on the pages of the manuscript, a hooded figure murders a professor and steals the manuscript from Oxford University. While James is receiving medical attention, he discovers a secret about his past that he was never supposed to know. Instead of staying on bed rest, James decides to leave town and uncover the truth. But ...
How do you escape a man who believes he owns you? Sophie Steele’s life is ruled by fear. Her husband, Ben Steele, tracks her phone, her bank accounts, her every move. His position as part-owner of a successful surveillance and investigations company gives full rein to his controlling instincts. When Ben allows Sophie and their son, Benji, to travel interstate to visit family without him, she hopes he’s trying to change. But when he continues to monitor and manipulate her from afar, she realises she no longer wants to live the lonely life he’s forced upon her. As her determination to leav ...
Calculated Deception Featured
Dr. Ree Ryland is an engineering professor who loves her job and plays by the rules. Her life is reassuringly predictable – until an enemy hiding in plain sight decides her squeaky-clean reputation is the perfect cover to commit a crime. When Agent Parker Landon and his FBI team discover that someone at the university has been procuring military-grade hardware by disguising it as test equipment, all evidence points to Ree. After the FBI intercepts a shipment that puts Ree in the clear, Parker is forced to tell her that she’s being used as a pawn by an unseen enemy. And now she’s in that enemy’ ...
The Yamanaka Factors Featured
FALL 2028. Mickey Cooper, an elderly homeless man, receives an incredible proposition from a rogue pharmaceutical company: “Be our secret guinea pig for our new drug and we’ll pay you life-changing money, which you’ll be able to enjoy because if (cough) when the treatment works, two months from now your body will be youthened to twenty-three years old.”
When his treatment proves more difficult than expected and corporate espionage turns deadly, Mickey finds himself flanked by internal corruption and powerful external enemies, including Chinese operatives desperat ...
Shattered Lives Featured
Bestselling author Daniel Geraldi has it all — a beautiful wife, loving kids, and a thriving career. At least he thinks he does until he faces betrayal of the worst kind. Still reeling from the shock, he's tempted into a relationship with a flirtatious fan. Soon his family is the target of some disturbing incidents and he suspects that this fan, Penelope, is responsible. As he investigates, tragedy strikes and things take a turn for the worse. Can he protect himself and his family?
The Good Brother Featured
It’s hard to prove you’re innocent. Especially if you’re not.
Maxwell Harrington has a problem. Ever since he found out he has a brother, strange things have been happening. Bad things. Things he can’t explain.
There’s the writing that appears in weird places. Things keep getting broken. And when his brother, Jayden, moves in, things get even worse. His dad is furious, the school are threatening to suspend him, and even his friends think he’s losing it.
Is he going crazy? Does he really hate his brother? If not, why would he do these terrible things? ...
The Thriller Book Killer Featured
Somebody’s murdering authors of thriller books and killing them exactly as described in one of her books.
SynDee Unser, a fitness instructor and writer of thriller novels, dreams of becoming a bestselling author. Since the death of her husband, she also dreams of finding another Mr. Right, falling in love, and once again embarking on that “living happily ever after” journey. However, based on her experience of slow book sales and the lack of dating action, she deems both dreams are just that. Pie-in-the-sky dreams. But that’s about to change.
Circumstances draw three bachelors into ...
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "Think Stephanie Plum goes to Florida. With Jack Reacher. Highly recommended." —Carmen Amato, bestselling author of the Detective Emilia Cruz police series and 30-year veteran of the Central Intelligence Agency.
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Enter the series at any book - each is a complete standalone mystery!
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Edge-of-your-seat thrills, touches of romance, and plot twists you’ll never see coming—all with USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestselling author Amy Vansant’s trademark crackling wit. Once again, the Loggerhead mercenaries will have ...
The Leap Featured
Unthinkable . . . impossible . . . unstoppable Six months ago, Sean had everything. Now she has nothing but her private detective work, one client with a missing husband, and a growing body count. All of the victims live in the same luxurious building as the missing husband. All of them have some connection with Pierce Sangstrom, the megacorp whose systems power every computer in the world. And, according to the medical examiner—who just happens to be Sean’s ex—all the autopsies are rife with bizarre, inexplicable anatomical findings. Are the victims time-traveling visitors? Nonhum ...
The War No One Wanted Featured
No one wants war. But no nation has the guts to stop it. Alex Coleman had a chance to end World War III before it started...instead, he lost an unwinnable battle. Now, he finally has command of his own submarine, but USS Jimmy Carter is old enough to drink, his crew is a few beers short of a six pack, and no one—particularly the admiral who hates him—expects him to make a difference. It doesn’t help that the U.S. Navy and their allies started the war on the wrong foot. No one wanted war, or planned for it, but a series of unrelated incidents, mix-ups, and greedy grabs for ocean-floor real esta ...
For two decades, forty-four-year-old magazine writer Clara Khoury has lived with missing pieces of herself—her memory. When the recent discovery of a young woman’s remains triggers her, she’s compelled to investigate. Now, her disturbing past threatens her contented present, someone frames her husband, and their daughter is abducted. If she can’t uncover the truth, she might lose everyone she loves. Locked within Clara’s shattered mind are the keys to crimes past and present. Can she recover the forgotten secret before losing her family?
Final Notice Featured
The year is the very near future but you’ll recognize current day shootings and the divisive politics. A brilliant young doctor and mathematician has invented a new health/sport watch that monitors blood chemistry so accurately, it can actually predict when someone will die – within 10, 20, or 30 days. This “Final Notice,” was intended to help people to get their affairs in order and reach out to loved ones before it’s too late. But when those notified have easy access to a gun, the result is sometimes lethal for more than just the watch-owner. These are the stories of several people w ...
Black Sun Rising Featured
Only recently has Dr. Noah Jobes slipped out from beneath the dark cloud under which he existed since the brutal unsolved murders of his wife and daughter. On tour promoting his latest novel, Noah finds himself in the crosshairs of a powerful corporate executive who is systematically perverting American democracy as part of a global power play. Aided by his father’s lifelong friend, a patriotic Mafia kingpin who vows to protect him, Noah barely survives an attempt on his life but now must keep one step ahead of the pernicious international forces that want him dead. Reunited with childhood fri ...
A Law Unto Itself Featured
When a sheriff’s investigation into the murder of a prison inmate is stymied at every turn, she realizes that members of her own force and the county prosecutor are helping to torpedo her efforts. She steers the victim’s parents to Tony Valenti and his partners, hoping to leverage the machinery of a wrongful death lawsuit to get to the bottom of what really happened. Determined to bring the killers to justice, Tony and his colleagues soon find themselves battling a ruthless cabal engaged in a conspiracy sinister enough to kill for. It’s a deadly cat and mouse game in which Tony doesn’t know w ...
The Girl Who Found Joy Featured
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "Think Stephanie Plum goes to Florida. With Jack Reacher. Highly recommended." —Carmen Amato, bestselling author of the Detective Emilia Cruz police series and 30-year veteran of the Central Intelligence Agency.
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Tangled Secrets: A Suspense Thriller Featured
Grace Benson, a 25-year-old schoolteacher, leads a peaceful existence until a menacing letter disrupts her life. The situation escalates further when the FBI steps in, flipping her world on its head. Sheila Mitchell, a wedding planner in her forties, senses her husband is hiding something. However, she's unprepared to discover him deceased—and to be found unconscious next to his body, the murder weapon in her grasp. Will Grace make it through this ordeal? Can Sheila's ex-husband, now an FBI agent, prove her innocence? Who is behind the threats against these women?
Game of Fear Featured
Ambitious high school senior, Abbie Cooper, is determined to become a brilliant neurosurgeon one day. She just needs to be admitted into Princeton, the Ivy League university of her dreams. But someone is threatening to expose her dark secret—the secret that could get her expelled from her elite private school and ruin her chances of getting into Princeton. Competition to get into the Ivy League is hyper-competitive and Abbie isn't about to let anyone shatter her dreams. So it's game on, and she will go to any lengths necessary to achieve her goal—even if it means breaking every rule.
The Secret Featured
The reclusive life of former homicide detective Brenda Corrino has suddenly leaped from post-traumatic stress disorder recovery to something much more interesting. Murder! Her ex-partner was investigating the bizarre murder of a college student when he inadvertently let his guard down and now, he remains comatose in a hospital. She investigates as she tries to come to terms with being raped and nearly murdered while working undercover two years earlier. While broadening her investigation, more former students from the same school are ending up dead. When consoling a young widow left behind by ...
The Girl Who Saw the Truth Featured
A thriller from USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestselling author Amy Vansant.
The team at the Loggerhead Inn—the perfect family of troubled mercenaries searching for redemption—are left to pick up the pieces after their leader's murder.
Shee and Mason go undercover to investigate who's using a local port for nefarious dealings. After a shark-ravaged body washes ashore with a pot roast tied to its waist, their investigations will take them from the port to the sea—
But they can't start until they clean up. Croix's dropping bodies in the breakfast room.
...The Girl Who Killed You Featured
From USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestselling author Amy Vansant - the most fun you can have holding a Kindle Reader!
When Mick and his retired military gun-for-hire “fixer” service is hired by a United States Senator to find his missing son, he enlists the help of his daughter, Siofra “Shee” McQueen. An experienced tracker, Shee quickly tracks the boy to a Bahamian island playground catering to the young and wealthy. The job seems like such a breeze, she hires her daughter, Charlotte, to infiltrate the age-restricted compound. They’v ...
Luke Savage is a DEA agent assigned to go undercover in a criminal organization that wants to expand its “business.” Bree Kelly is a local cop assigned to go undercover with him. She thinks he’s an arrogant sexist. He thinks she’s an irritating liability. Their cover? They have to pose as a loving couple—and they don’t even like one another. The assignment could last for weeks or even months as they try to uncover their target’s plans and who the organization has on the inside of local government and police departments. The success of the assignment—and their lives—depends on them working toge ...
Embers of Shadow Featured
After the brazen attack on Israel, the Antichrist’s shadow grows. Rhyme Carter faces the fight of her life to escape the clutches of her evil husband, the FBI, and a secret society hellbent on world domination. Emery Merrick watches in horror as the Antichrist launches an international coup that changes the course of humanity forever. In a race against time, Book III in the superlative, award-winning Ages of Malice series continues the saga of a downtrodden journalist enlisted to write the biography of a madman. What Emery and Rhyme have failed to stop now grows unchecked as Cain threa ...
The Anti-Semite Next Door Featured
Zachary Blake is overjoyed to attend the bar-mitzvah of Josh Cooper, his friend Rich’s son. But Josh’s special day is interrupted when a terrorist bomb explodes in the temple. Josh disappears during the melee. City police determine that Cooper’s neighbor, Chip Ellis, is also missing. The bomb is homemade, the motive is unclear, but because it’s a Jewish temple, the police believe this might be a hate crime. There are no bodies in the bathroom where the bomb exploded and no trace of Josh Cooper or Chip Ellis. The two families are beside themselves, grateful that no bodies were found in the ...
Whiteout Featured
A holiday weekend in an isolated cabin with your distant wife, your overbearing business partner and the partner’s alcoholic wife is bad enough. Add in a freak winter storm, no power, and two killers, and it can be murder!
From a hotel worker thrust into a bioterror plot to a journalist unlocking suppressed memories, and a teacher targeted by an unknown enemy, these stories explore the resilience of the human spirit in the face of overwhelming odds.
At the heart of each novel is a woman forced to confront the shadowy intersections of her past and present, all while racing against time to prevent catastrophe.
With its blend of personal drama, national security threats, and intricate plot twists, this omnibus will appeal to readers who crave both intellectual engagement and emotional depth ...
Left Alive Featured
John Hill is eager for the day when he will be with the love of his life Katie. Katie Williams lives with her parents out of town and they had just got engaged. However, the world is changing. The government no longer recognizes marriage as we know it. Marriage has been deemed a failed experiment. However, this doesn’t deter John. John is determined to make his way to Katie and marry her, regardless of society’s changing culture. Yet the world is descending into chaos. Seemingly overnight, the world experiences one disaster after another. As fear grips the hearts of many, a leader named Xander ...
Then She Died Featured
FIFTH BOOK IN THE SERIAL KILLER ANTHOLOGY! CAN BE READ AS STANDALONE.
Emotional and psychological episodes are nothing new for Will Post. He’s got a lifetime of experience. More than anyone would want or believe.
But he doesn’t have any experience dealing with his recent killing of three people, and that’s his newest challenge, along with haunting hallucinations and delusions. His solution: hit the road, get out of Chicago, and hide and figure things out in the Berkshire Mountains in West ...
The Bulls-Eye Killer Featured
Smart. Sexy. Single. And a knack for trouble, either finding it or it finding her. Introducing Pepper Jackson. In her mid-forties and recently divorced, she’s every bit as tough as she is drop-dead gorgeous. A Neighborhood Watch patroller, member of the Crime Busters book club, and advocate for finding forever homes for shelter pets, Pepper is an active, outspoken member of the community. Although adored by many, some abhor her, eager to see her fail. Or dead. The Bulls-Eye Killer kidnaps women to torture in a large metal cargo container he calls his murder crate. He binds his victim spread-ea ...
Cul-de-Sac Featured
Can the residents of an exclusive community keep their secrets buried, or will the deadly truth expose them all? Welcome to Connelly Court. A secluded, old money neighborhood, harboring a web of desires and deceit behind pristine facades and manicured lawns, where the lives of a group of neighbors, bound by their shared secrets and unconventional lifestyle, are about to unravel. Michael and Amelia Ross move into their dream home, and get drawn into the seductive allure. But their house once belonged to a family whose lives were seemingly ruined by their participation, which leads Amelia to ...
Blunt Force Trauma Featured
An innocent man doesn't run, he fights. Adam Cash wants to be a deputy in his hometown of Pinyon, Texas. The sheriff won't hire him. Furious at the rejection, Cash launches a long-shot campaign for sheriff, only to lose the election in a landslide. When the sheriff turns up dead the evidence fingers Cash as the killer. In a desperate search for the real culprit, Cash uncovers a sinister plot, exposure of which will not only clear his name, but end the suffering of countless others. If he can avoid capture. Written in the vein of Craig Johnson and C.J. Box, this first book in the Adam Cash s ...
the CULL - Bloodline Featured
Amy Bree’s reckless actions result in death and her dismissal from the FBI. A visit from a mysterious priest propels her back into the fray, as she is partnered with an ex-spy and tasked to hunt down and kill the serial killer known as the Blood Sucker. Their quarry is not what they expect! The body count rises and the hunters become the hunted!
Trust No One, Promise Nothing Featured
What if the man you married harbored a life of unimaginable secrets?
“Trust No one, Promise Nothing is so much more than a mafia-tinged mystery. Incorporating real unsolved underworld murders adds to the atmosphere, while the memorable characters propel the narrative.”
--Scott M. Deitche, author of Cigar City Mafia
Meet R ...
Dr. Erica Rosen is puzzled when a young Chinese girl with blue eyes visits her San Francisco clinic. The girl's secretive mother, Ting, hints at illegal entry into the country. Erica later discovers Ting's son has an unusual mutation from a secret Chinese government gene-editing program. The Chinese government wants to murder Ting's s ...
Outsourced Featured
What's the most dangerous gift a fan could send to an author? And if that fan was a professional assassin? Readers' Favorite 2017 GOLD MEDAL Winner Chill With a Book READERS' AWARD Sept 2017 GoodReads BOOK of the MONTH February 2015 New York-based writer Nic Stiles receives a strange package in the mail. It's not long before he realises what it represents will change his life... with deadly consequences. Others want the package's contents too, including a high-tech Intelligence agency who will stop at nothing to obtain it....and the sender wants it back! This fast-paced SUSPENSE THRILLER from ...
Border Field Blues Featured
"A potent dose of sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll" (ForeWord Magazine) Murder, sex, politics, and classic rock guitar collide in this original and compelling mystery set in the backcountry along the San Diego-Tijuana border, when a violent encounter between a young border-crosser and an angry bandit creates a secret and shocking bond between the boy and the bandit’s dumbfounded daughter. But when recovering guitarist and reluctant private detective Rolly Waters arrives at Border Field Park early one morning, he’s only there to help his bird-watching friend Max find the vandals who’ve destroyed a ...
Shee McQueen lives in her father’s hotel for ex-military mercenaries. Life is never easy...and never boring.
Bounty hunter Shee and her second-chance love / ex-Navy SEAL, Mason Connolly, are sent to the middle of Florida to protect the family of a retiring small-town drug lord, only to find the man’s dead wife on her way out on a gurney. When the “accident” feels more like murder and the husband is implicated, Shee and Mason remain to protect the man’s teenage son and daughter, neither of whom has any interest in making their job easier.
When a rival gang’s psychotic ...
The Man Who Came Back Featured
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "Think Stephanie Plum goes to Florida. With Jack Reacher. Highly recommended." —Carmen Amato, bestselling author of the Detective Emilia Cruz police series and 30-year veteran of the Central Intelligence Agency.
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Mason’s ...Bad Girls (An Eden Mystery) Featured
Bad girls can be victims, too. Only eighteen years old, Marnie Becker has an unknown and absent father, an alcoholic mother, and drinking problems of her own. Her uncle, Cal Becker, a former Chicago police officer, has been the only responsible adult in her life, but now that she’s legally an adult, he worries that he won’t be able to keep her on the straight and narrow. So he’s pleasantly surprised when she accepts his offer to pay her way through Raven University and move to Eden, Kentucky, with her. But on the day of their arrival, she disappears. It wouldn’t be the first time she ran aw ...
The Happy Widow Featured
Dive into the sun-soaked Florida Keys with The Happy Widow, where action, mystery, and a hint of romance collide.
The adventure kicks off with a honeymoon turned horror show, as Harper races to unravel the truth behind a wealthy widow's mysterious disappearance overboard on a cruise. But when he discovers the charming yet treacherous Alain Duvalier living it up in her opulent beachfront property, Harper realizes there's more to this widower than meets the eye. As Harper delves deeper into the investigation, he's drawn into a dangerous game of cat and mouse with Duvalier and the mena ...
Living Secrets: A Thriller Featured
Can the secret love child of a U.S. Senator deliver the cure for a bioterror threat before time runs out? Lily Tso is bored and unfulfilled. Orphaned at birth, the twenty-two-year-old Hotel Guest Service Officer is overwhelmed to discover her parents are alive. But the young woman fears she’s woefully unprepared for a treacherous operation to save America and to meet her parents. Teaming up with an FBI Special Agent and a young tycoon, Lily sets out on a dangerous mission to prevent a heinous biological attack. But as unknown forces bent on thwarting her attempt, she fears time is running o ...
The Butterfly Cage Featured
In the fall of 1913, society writer Louisa Delafield suffers from panic attacks because of her recent abduction. When her assistant Ellen Malloy wants Louisa to help her find a missing teenager, Louisa finds she’s paralyzed by her earlier trauma. Taking a trip out west in the company of a lovely young heiress to interview the Prince of Monaco only makes matters worse. Even in the pristine wilderness, a procurer is stealing girls for the purposes of sex trafficking. The only way Louisa can overcome her debilitating attacks is to find and stop this man while Ellen goes back into domestic service ...
All In Featured
During a routine corporate security job, hacker Jim Ericssen accidentally steps on the digital toes of something he’s never “met” before: a powerful, malevolent, artificial intelligence, buried deep in cyberspace. He probably could’ve survived just fine. All it would take is an apology and a promise of silence. But Jim’s pride gets in the way, and he pushes too far. Immediately, he’s in serious trouble: an escalating back-and-forth battle with a brutal menu of realworld consequences, including everything from prison to an early grave. And his AI foe proves able to hack and use just about anyth ...
The Reluctant Coroner Featured
Fenway Stevenson doesn't want to return to the coastal town where her estranged father is practically king. But after her mother dies, her estranged father's job offer is the only way she can stay on her feet. Soon, however, the murder of the county coroner draws her into a deepening conspiracy. As the body count rises and all signs seem to point toward her father's oil company, will Fenway uncover the truth before family bonds become deadly?
Gillespie Field Groove Featured
When nurse and fledgling pilot Lucinda Rhodes hires guitar-playing private detective Rolly Waters to track down a Stratocaster guitar owned by her deceased father, Rolly is thrilled to take on her case, especially when he learns the guitar’s original owner may have been Jimi Hendrix. But Gerry Rhodes’s reckless personal history leads to more questions than Rolly and Lucinda have bargained for, as an aging rock’n’roll impresario, his trophy wife, a Russian gangster and the FBI get involved. When a forty-year-old shooting accident reveals a surprising connection to a pop star’s hit record, Rolly ...
Refuge Featured
Miranda Flores didn’t kill anybody. But there are four dead bodies in the New Mexican desert and rookie FBI agent Jodie Layne knows the Salvadoran immigrant was at the scene. Jodie seeks only the truth. Her partner Scott Tanner wants vengeance. Miranda’s only desire is a life free of violence. The bloody civil war in El Salvador that wiped out her family set her on a dangerous trek north to the country she was raised in, the United States. After crossing the border, though, she encounters a hostile land bent on purging itself of people like her. A narrow escape from a deadly government nightcl ...
Texas in the Rear View Featured
After months of pain inflicted by a vicious stalker, and little help from authorities, she raced away from a life of constant terror.
Fleeing Sweetwater, Texas, Arena Autry sped westward, toward Tucson, in hopes of finding a life without fear, but her journey came to an unintended end in the laid-back town of Dragoon, Arizona.
With a job secured, a place to call home, and true friends, Dragoon quickly becomes Arena’s safe place to fall.
But Arena’s brief respite is broken when an FBI agent shows up at her place of work and she finds that, once again, she ...
Of Half a Mind Featured
When you talk to yourself, there’s only one voice. When you picture something, there’s but a single mind’s eye. Recently graduated psychologist, Dr. Sam “Doc” Price and his inexperienced team had always held those principles to be true…at least, under normal circumstances. But as they studied the work of Dr. Ned Worthington, a brilliant but troubled neuroscientist, they began to wonder if he had created an electronic world that was anything but normal. He claimed it could rewire the brain, repurpose sections of it for new uses. And the man who had used it was capable of remarkable feats. Bu ...
It all starts with the series prequel, Gray Code Liaison.
To uncover the truth, he must risk everything.
Cade could have turned down the mission and left his relationship with Maddison in the past, but the MI6 agent’s request for help is too tempting. When the mission takes a dark twist, he’s forced to push his feelings for Maddison aside and find out what she’s hiding.
Discover what really happened during Cade’s last mission in the prequel to the Shadow Defense Security action thrille ...
Betrayal of Justice Featured
Superstar lawyer Zachary Blake returns fresh off his epic legal battle with The Church's clandestine evil force in Betrayal of Faith.
Who stands between his client and justice?
THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.
In Blake's latest thriller, he takes on a new, even more powerful foe: The new president—hero to white supremacists everywhere. Blake's client? An innocent, young woman, framed by the grand dragon, accused of murdering the white supremacist who bombed the local mosque.
In Dearborn, Mivchigan and a ...
Family Curse Featured
A successful Oregon winemaker and philanthropist, Colin Byrne, is a man haunted by the unsolved mystery of his near-fatal childhood beating. As a child, his father attempted to kill him for no apparent reason. Decades later, a burning desire to uncover the truth leads him on a relentless quest.
What he discovers is a century-old family secret, a dark legacy that has plagued his ancestors for generations. Driven by a thirst for vengeance, Byrne hatches a dangerous plan to break the family curse. ...
Shee McQueen Mystery Thrillers Featured
"Think Stephanie Plum goes to Florida. With Jack Reacher. Highly recommended.” — ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Carmen Amato, bestselling author of the Detective Emilia Cruz police series and 30-year veteran of the Central Intelligence Agency.
The Shee McQueen series is a wildly entertaining, wholly unique tour de force of action, psychological drama, and wit from USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestselling author Amy Vansant.
Ordinary Heroes Featured
Esther is 18 at the outbreak of war. She is a Jewish girl who has reached England via the Kinder Transport. George is 17 at the outbreak and a veteran of street fighting against the fascist Blackshirts in London's East End. Despite being granted British citizenship, Esther is interned on the Isle of Man while George is called up after some frightening civil defence work in the Blitz. Released from internment, Esther finds work as an ambulance driver during the V rocket attacks of 1944 while George fights first during the invasion of Sicily and later in Eastern France with the Special Operat ...
Support and Defend Featured
Allison Quinn has vowed to protect America from terrorist attacks. She swore an oath to support and defend the Constitution of the United States. When an impending cyber-attack sends her undercover at Grand Canyon National Park, Allison is determined to stop the attack and intercept the kill codes. If she fails, the devastating attack will collapse the power grid and throw the nation into a state of anarchy.
The Girl Who Was Forgotten Featured
"Think Stephanie Plum goes to Florida. With Jack Reacher. Highly recommended.”— ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Carmen Amato, bestselling author of the Detective Emilia Cruz police series and 30-year veteran of the Central Intelligence Agency.
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The Deciding Hour Featured
All will check in. But not everyone, will check out. A trip home from summer vacation for six friends quickly spirals out of control as they find themselves in a precarious situation amid an unexpected storm. With no other options, they seek shelter within a strange hotel, where they hope to wait out the downpour. Surprised by the spacious room and amenities, they couldn’t be more elated. That is until they discover that this is a place of unimaginable horror, and their pleasant stay suddenly turns into a dreadful nightmare. Trapped in a hotel room, the young men must play a "game" if th ...
Some see Alec Winters as a breathtaking, amazing angel, a savior. Others see him as a mind-blowing nightmare, the most terrifying demon their minds could ever conjure. An Alec Winters Series is a dark-fantasy, vengeance-driven 4-book thriller series, beginning with Prelude, a behind-the-scenes look at Alec’s life as a New Orleans teen-jock. In Crescent City, Alec rescues innocent victims and crushes the loathsome, corrupt men responsible for their suffering. In Port City, Alec’s job took him to Mobile, Alabama...and now, he travels to Melbourne, Florida in the final installment, Harbor City. F ...
At the edge of the raging Colorado River, Robert Jaeger stands ready to end his life. He is in mourning over his dead wife and having a hard time picking up the pieces to care for their four-year-old daughter. Lilly Radford hasn’t been the same since her baby died. Unable to cope with her careless oversight, she drives for days and ends up at the Colorado River and falls in. Before Robert can execute his heinous act, he is catapulted into rescue mode to save another. In his zealous attempt, he soon realizes this stranger may have saved him. But when he returns to Seattle to face life alone, ...
The eighth book in the gripping technothriller series, Spies Lie, perfect for fans who love Robert Ludlum, Lee Child, and Barry Eisler. When Stanford University sophomore and budding computer hacker Ann Sashakovich meets senior Glen Sarkov, the CEO of a budding new startup, she is smitten. Glen is young, bright, and going places, and his innovative tech startup is seeking money to get them off the ground. But when Glen and his team find a venture capitalist willing to give them money, the offer turns out too good to be true. Worse, it seems the strings attached to the funding are tangled in a ...
An art historian finds – then loses – a portrait by Johannes Vermeer in this thrilling art mystery set in Munich, Heidelberg, and Amsterdam. When Zelda Richardson investigates a new lead about a missing portrait by Johannes Vermeer, no one expects her to actually find the painting in a retired art dealer’s home in Munich, Germany. Not her parents visiting from America; her boss, private detective Vincent de Graaf; or the rightful owner of the Nazi-looted artwork. However, Zelda’s jubilation turns to horror when she arrives to pick up the portrait and finds the art dealer dead and several frame ...
If you mess with a Devil, there will be hell to pay… Mike Monroe’s Marine Corps platoon are more than just fellow Devils. They’re family. Rowdy, tough, and tight-knit, despite their differences, they have each other’s backs no matter what. After all, they’ve trained together, fought together, killed together, and celebrated many a drunken night together. Nothing can come between them. Until a double date turns into an ambush, one with dire consequences for all involved. But who attacked them, and why? Family and friends of the Devils rush to their side. Bonds and ties are relied on. As the hid ...
Everyone has something to hide. Including the nanny.
Jackson wants to sing. A billionaire hears God speaking. A seductress has her own agenda. Jackson Fullerton III is one of the best quartet baritones and music arrangers in Southern Gospel music. His downfall? Getting bored and quitting after a year or two with a quartet. Now, no group will hire him. Jackson’s fortune changes when Vicky Valure comes along. She is gorgeous, sexy, and smart. Even better, she is working on behalf of Christian billionaire, Sonny Day, who feels God has told him to create and sponsor a Southern Gospel quartet. Vicky uses her innate sensuality to seduce both Jackson a ...
In a darkened warehouse in Colombia, a father of two and the second highest-ranking executive in one of the largest oil companies in the world is murdered in what the company claims is a botched kidnapping attempt. Three thousand miles away, on a rock wall in New Mexico, a renowned environmental scientist and experienced climber falls to his death. The two deaths are linked by a deadly conspiracy to conceal a discovery that could end global warming, bring oil companies to their knees, and change the balance of power and wealth in the world overnight. When 33-year-old Nathan Robbins refuses to ...
No More Heroes-#1 Dystopian Thriller HEROES Series is a fast paced, dystopian thriller. Scrapping on the streets suited Ben Jackman until his past returned to ask a favor. Run, hide or fight? If only the favor didn't involve the girl. Ben's world has gone mad. Riots and looting have brought soldiers onto the streets. Terrorism is the norm. And the man who married his childhood sweetheart, the man he once called a friend, wants him to babysit a long black sports bag. When his ex-friend is found dead, battered and dumped in the vacant land adjoining Ben's squat, the Law and the owners of the bag ...
He has to catch a serial murderer who knows his deadly secret. A year after a cunning serial killer slaughtered Detective Hudson's daughter, Liz, a man named Ed Roth confesses to the murder to an informant. For some reason, Hudson is convinced Roth is lying. Why did Roth confess to a murder he didn't commit? What's his agenda? Is Hudson wrong about Roth? When another woman is killed the same way as Liz, Roth becomes the prime suspect. Despite all their efforts, detectives find no evidence linking him to the crime. They try to get him to confess on tape but fail. As he digs into Roth’s past, Hu ...
Widow Sarah Johnson struggled to pick up the pieces after her life was ripped apart. After two years of grieving, she's found contentment in her thriving business as photographer to Hollywood's A-list and in raising her angel-faced daughter, Kylee... until bodyguard and long-time friend Ethan Cooke changes everything with a searing moonlight kiss. Sarah's world turns upside down as she struggles with her unexpected attraction to Ethan and the guilt of betraying her husband's memory. But when blue roses and disturbing notes start appearing on her doorstep, she has no choice but to lean on Ethan ...
Detective Mike Cancini has seen dark days, but even he is shocked when a charismatic young priest is found shot through the eye on the altar of his own church. As Cancini investigates, he uncovers long-buried secrets from the man's past. When another priest is attacked, the detective must unravel the web of lies, but how can he find a murderer when no one is innocent, and everyone's a sinner?
Her teenage sister has run away. It's her fault. And on her watch. Desperate to find her sister and keep it quiet, Shyla soon gets pulled into something so much bigger… a heist. That of stealing her mom's newly acquired million-dollar jewelry. Damien is a good guy running from an awful past. When his brother ends up in the hospital, he is determined to stop the one man who is destroying their lives. He will break all his promises, even steal, if it will end their father's control. Shyla and Damien work together to plan a heist, catch a crook, and save her family. An impossible crime with only ...
Geneticist Lanaya Kim must do what authorities haven’t—tie together the “accidental” deaths of several prominent scientists around the country to show they were actually murdered. Over the past two years, geneticists have died in what appear to be accidents, but Lanaya knows otherwise. If she tells her secrets to the authorities, she risks becoming a suspect or revealing herself to the killer and becoming an open target. Hiring private investigator Hamilton DeShear may help her expose the truth, but time is running out. The murders are happening faster, and Lanaya’s name may be next on the kil ...
Peter Clancy is back. Back in Queensland's Far North, that is - the place he's spent a lifetime trying to leave. Clancy couldn't refuse his 'uncle' Sam's insistence he 'do something' about the destruction of the family graveyard and the threat to the sacred sites of Sam's ancestors from the new mine operations at Clarkes Flat. And when Clancy discovers his old nemesis Max Hillard is in deep with the mining company, he's more than keen to use his journalism skills to stir up bad publicity for the mine. But two grisly deaths at the local crocodile farm are followed by murder at the protest camp, ...
Breathtaking suspense unraveling at train-wreck speed, in an unforgettable collection. Sometimes the only way to do the right thing is to break the rules. Love, Lies, and Murder is a collection of 19 short stories that explore the extremes of human emotion and the conflicts that result. Every story will leave you tense and breathless as the characters race to a conclusion that is as unexpected as it is satisfying. Intense and gripping, each story features a hero that seeks justice and the triumph of good over evil by whatever means necessary—regardless of what society’s rules find acceptable. ...
Character driven. Action-packed. Boiling over with tension and angst. Blood Sapphire's Revenge is military thriller inspired by the genre that brought us Jason Bourne and Jack Reacher. In a globe-spanning tale of adventure, this gripping story full of twists and turns, and secrets from the grave that may just trigger the end of the world, will keep you on the edge of your seat throughout. Dr. Bruce Farmer has created an arresting story that follows Haddy Abrams, a dauntless female warrior full of determination and boldness as she resolutely battles both personal demons and a heinous villain ou ...
Secrets, Lies, and Truths
Ava and Rocky have been best friends for years, growing up together in the bustling metropolis of New York City. They know each other inside out, and they're sure nothing can change that—that is, until one drink too many lets loose a secret Ava’s been keeping which threatens to drive a wedge between her and Rocky.
Meanwhile, 16-year-old Cassie’s intrigued by the gorgeous stranger who keeps showing up at the store she works in, but she just can’t seem to fathom why. He's always just out of reach leaving her unab ...
Inspired by his real-life experiences, award-winning humor author Rodney Lacroix takes you on a dark journey with his first entry into the world of dramatic literature in "The Sins of the Father." Sometimes, when lives are shattered, families destroyed and dreams obliterated, the only recourse is to put pen to paper. "The Sins of the Father" short-read chapter series is the raw emotion of a writer's catharsis, his therapy put forth in a fictional short story based on a catastrophic life event. Rodney J. Lacroix is typically known for his award-winning humor and comedy writing. But here, within ...
An Antarctic research team discovers a perfectly machined gold canister, 2500 feet below the surface of the ice. There are strange, and unrecognizable markings on the canister. How did it get there, and where did it come from? It is sent back to a research center in the U.S. where it is opened in an environmentally controlled room. Inside are six human embryos, and even more shocking is the discovery that the embryos are viable. Should they be brought to term? Terminal Event tells the intriguing story of who the embryos are, where they came from, and how they spent 100 million years waiting to ...
He made a tragic mistake. Will more missteps lead to his own demise? Andy Flint can’t escape his devastating guilt. Determined to bring the man responsible for his boy’s murder to justice, the disgraced former CIA officer heads to Brussels to meet an old friend and colleague. But their rendezvous turns bloody when a machine gun-toting assassin sends her to the hospital, several people to the morgue, and Flint on the trail of a killer. Digging into her files, the grizzled ex-spy uncovers an international oil-supply power play at the highest of levels. And when he makes a connection between the ...
A ship wreck-- Dozens of bodies washed ashore-- Clear evidence that evil has made port in London. The horrific case piques the interest of P.I. Lorne Simpkins. It doesn't take long before Lorne learns that young, helpless women are being caged and sold to the wealthy and salacious. Old wounds are wrenched open when she suspects a cover-up by the very authorities that should be keeping lawful order. Can she trust the self-serving journalist bent on making the human-trafficking ring his next big story? When her daughter is involved in a life-threatening accident, it's difficult for Lorne to keep ...
Fire Eyes is a W.H. Smith First Novel Award finalist. "A dynamite Read"--Andreas Schroeder, author of The Eleventh Commandment The book reviews are in! "Fire Eyes is a taut psychological thriller with literary overtones, a very contemporary terrorist romance." -- Globe and Mail "On the whole, this tale is plenty haunting. To put it simply, there is some very good writing here." -- Alberta Report "There is a beautiful, awful symmetry between passion and destruction that lends a phantasmagoric effect to the writing." -- Quill & Quire "A strong, powerful first work." -- The Calgary Herald "A ...
Afghanistan in the mid-1990s, emerging from Soviet occupation, has become the focal point for American political intervention and one in which the British government has a keen interest. The seemingly impossible task of influencing the American selection of who forms a controlling alliance in that country falls on Fraser Ughert, the omnipotent chairman of the United Kingdom Joint Intelligence Committee. Once I Was A Soldier is a story of murder, exploitation and sex involving two wealthy women. One, the Machiavellian wife of the American Democratic Party’s presidential nominee, who seek ...
After barely getting out of Russia alive, Veronica thought her life would finally be at peace... However, her problems have only just begun. In April 2024, she comes face to face with her reckoning from the shadows at a safe house in New York—her ex-boyfriend and Agency traitor, Kevin. Misjudged as an ambush, Kevin comes with a warning that the FSB is after her and disappears into the night. The hunt to bring him to justice begins. Puja Guha returns with her latest spy thriller, AHRIMAN: RECKONING FROM THE SHADOWS from The Ahriman Legacy series, which extrapolates the story of Petra Shirazi, V ...
One number, one letter: 3D. Two characters, nine cuts, their edges always crossing, carved sharply into Danielle’s bleeding flesh. She’d seen it before. On his other victims’ bodies. “Wow. I think I just fell head over heels in love with a fictional character. Tess Winnett is one of the smartest FBI agents and profilers I have come across yet and with analytical skills to rival Sherlock Holmes. Hats off to Leslie Wolfe for easily the best thriller I have read in this genre for many, many years!” – Manie Kilianon, five stars review on Amazon. The crimes: horrifying After a high-profile victim s ...
What does an armed robbery in London's Charing Cross Road in July 1972 have to do with a meeting held in Vienna thirty-five years earlier? What connects the wartime survival of a Jewish man who worked in the offices of the Chancellor of Austria to the murder of a Catholic priest some twenty years after the end of the Second World War? What has the slaughter of three hundred Nama tribe folk at their settlement in Namibia got to do with the Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations? And why were the remains of Martin Bormann, Hitler’s personal secretary, not discovered until December 1972, b ...
After a tiresome year of computer programming, Zelda Richardson is back on the road – destination Panama and Costa Rica. Learning to scuba dive, exploring Central American rainforests, and climbing a volcano sounded like the perfect antidotes to Seattle’s spring rains. When a banana farmer tells her about the Disquís spheres he found on his property, she can’t resist going to the site. Her visit puts a deadly spin on her vacation and leaves her fighting for her life. Despite Zelda’s best efforts to just relax and enjoy her trip, thrilling mysteries pop up at every turn. Will she ever be able t ...
Tucson, Arizona 1989 – Eighteen-year-old Matt Garrison is harboring two terrible secrets: his involvement in the drowning death of his 12-year-old cousin, and a night of drunken sex with his best friend’s mother, Crystal, whom he finds dead the following morning. Guilt forces Matt to act on impulse and hide his involvement with Crystal. Detective Winston Radhauser knows Matt is hiding something. But as the investigation progresses, Radhauser’s attention is focused on Matt’s father. Matt’s world closes in when his dad is arrested for Crystal’s murder and Travis breaks off their friendship. Desp ...
They stole it. He’s going to take it back—by force. In October 1943, Hitler’s SS troops surrounded Rome’s Jewish Ghetto and plundered the Jews’ most precious heritage: two ancient libraries containing unique books and manuscripts dating from before the birth of Christ, from the time of the Caesars, the emperors, and the early popes. The Nazi ambassador to the Vatican reported to his masters in Berlin that the looting and deportations took place ‘under the Pope's windows’. Now, Rex Dalton and his wife, Catia, and Digger, their military dog, set out on a quest to find the stolen libraries and re ...
When a man plunges to his death from a high rise building in San Francisco the city’s streets are brought to a standstill. Why had he been holding a young girl on the ledge with a knife to her throat? Did he fall or did the shock of the bullet that ripped his shoulder apart kill him? Why had made this otherwise, peaceful, family man snap? Did the answers to these questions die with him?
Liza McAllister is newly divorced when she's talked into going on a cruise with her friend Chrissie. Determined to put her crazy ex behind her, Liza throws caution into the wind and indulges on some new clothes and a spacious cabin on the cruise ship. But someone else has other plans. Ledge McAllister is hell-bent on reclaiming what is rightfully his. His life was turned upside down the day his wife walked out of his home. He will not lose her again. She belongs to him.
Physicist Marcie Roselli’s world is reeling out of control after the death of her daughter in a car accident on an icy Colorado roadway. The specter of her dead child keeps Marcie teetering on the edge of reality as she battles to reclaim her own life from the depths of despair. When her cousin pleads for Marcie to return to their New Jersey hometown to assist her cousin’s family in crisis, Marcie reluctantly does so. She feels emotionally unprepared to reconnect with her estranged father or confront the truth surrounding long-buried tragic family secrets. Her psychological angst heightens whe ...
Robin Curtis and her son Paul have come to Devil Creek to start over after her bitter divorce. Also new to the area is Mike Landware, a writer haunted by the death of his wife. Neither of them is looking for love or trouble, but in Devil Creek, it's possible they'll find both. At first Devil Creek seems like an idyllic small town, but it's not long until things begin to go horribly wrong. A young hoodlum takes an automatic weapon into town for a killing spree that shocks everyone. The same night, a serial killer begins stalking the women of the community. When Paul goes missing in the mountain ...
Everyone has secrets. Even those you least expect.
Ryan is in trouble. He has to stop the shutdown but doesn’t know who to trust. The authorities are closing in and he’s running out of time.
It’s not easy being thirteen and having a reputation. Whatever he does, his enemies are one step ahead. But if he doesn’t succeed, more innocent people will die.
Will he uncover the truth? And will anyone believe him when he does, or will it just get him killed?
Shut Down is the fourth book in the Ryan Jacobs series: a fast-paced action-packed thrille ...
In the four years since breaking off her engagement, Maggie Kincaid has fled from city to city, seeking to escape her ex-fiancé Michael’s relentless pursuit. Abandoned by a criminal justice system that cannot seem to protect her despite multiple restraining orders, she is ready to give up. But it isn’t that easy. Maggie’s dead grandmother keeps haunting her dreams, warning her in cryptic phrases of the future. Or is it the past? Determined to end her ordeal one way or another, Maggie confronts Michael, and he disappears, seeming to have tired of the chase. Instead, the hunter has decided to ma ...
Newly trained and ready to rock her first assignment, Gwynn Reznick goes undercover posing as an accountant. After fending off the unwanted advances of a company executive, she stumbles on a murder scene staged to look like an accident. Then she learns another employee died in a suspicious oil well accident and a large quantity of oil is missing from the Cisco field. Could there be a connection? Gwynn begins a dangerous pursuit to find the perpetrators, and soon ends up on their radar. Can she crack the case with the killers hot on her tail?