Thriller - Suspense
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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?
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 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 ...
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 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 ...
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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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 ...
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 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 ...
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 ...
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
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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? ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "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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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 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.
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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 ...
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 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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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 ...
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. ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...
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!
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 ...
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?
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?
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 ...
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 ...
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?
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 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!
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 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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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, ...
"An action-packed medical suspense that kept one guessing..."
Major Jack Bass, MD is a mix of Lee Child's Jack Reacher and Marcus Welby.
In the first book of the Jack Bass Black Cloud Chronicles series, In the Line of Ire, Jack finds himself the target of blazing hatred from his commanding officer who blames Jack for his own failings. The commander makes Jack a scapegoat of his malicious jealousy, and is intent on making Jack pay – with his life!.
Fighting for their lives, Jack and his new love – Major Lori Darden, RN - learn just how dangerous it can be to raise the ire o ...
There’s a price on his head. But is he willing to pay it? Formula One racer Stacey James is back on the track, and life has returned to normal. Except there’s a killer on the loose and he’s looking for something. The question is: what? Jason Hunter, personal security specialist, once again finds himself in the midst of a police investigation. And the victim is his ex-wife’s new husband, Mickey. It seems Mickey has taken something that doesn’t belong to him. And now some powerful, angry people believe Jason has it. But time is running out. Can he put the pieces of the puzzle togethe ...
A double murder. A mysterious inheritance. One PI is about to follow the money all the way into a den of thieves…
After surviving a bullet, Angelina Bonaparte was certain she could handle any case that came her way. But when her next client walks through the door with an unexplainable seven-figure inheritance after the death of her parents, the private investigator wonders if she's in over her head. After all, when she visits her client's family attorney, Angelina discovers yet another bloody crime scene.
With the help of her new flame, Angelina follows the clues into an u ...
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 ...
My Gran used to say, “There are times when the only way out is a lead pill.” These are stories when things got that bad. A Lead Pill is the second collection of short stories from a HARD PLACE. Stories of loneliness and betrayal, of false hope and shattered dreams, of gifts and regrets, of love and accidental kindness. Each story follows separate paths that lead to the understanding that sometimes the only solution is a lead pill. A life of stacked years never knowing that it was all in service to a memory in Service Up. What do you do when life has outlived the reason to be alive in Tired of ...
One murder. Four suspects. Endless motives. Can Logan untangle a web of lies before the bodies start piling up?
Logan McKenna is troubled by good news. After accepting her long-time boyfriend’s proposal, the talented musician worries her unexpectedly profitable viral music video will throw their happy relationship out of whack. Needing space to clear her head, she travels to Oregon for a regular consulting gig…and stumbles onto a dead body.
Determined to protect her friends who are prime suspects in the case, Logan puts her own life on hold and chases the truth. But with ...
Sizzling Cold Case…Tragic Accident or Cold Blooded Murder? Warren gets a chance to solve ‘the one big case that got away.’ But will he put the people he loves in serious danger by accepting this challenge? The first client of the Conley Austin Detective Agency brings an unsolved case from Warren’s past. Warren and his client are ready to convict Dr. Grant, the man’s son-in-law, and feel it’s an open and shut case. Can it be that straight forward….or will the murderer kill again before they prove his guilt? You’re sure to enjoy their second endeavor involving a thriving business suddenly barely ...
Some secrets can destroy you... Luna Ortiz was once told by a seer that there would be two great mysteries in her life; when she solved one, she would find the key to solve the other. If not for those words, Luna wouldn’t think twice about trying to find the family who abandoned her as a baby. However, if finding them will get her the key to find her missing child, Luna will walk through hell to do it. So, when opportunity arises in the form of a job offer from a one-time friend and a family with a granddaughter who looks exactly like Luna, she takes it. As Luna pries into the family’s his ...
(First of four in the series - so far) Sick at heart. . . Mad to the bone. . .Witness to her brother's murder, Michelle is dead set on revenge. But how? Neither a gangster or a cop, she's just a regular person, an "everywoman." Now, she's also hunted and homeless. Her life in shambles Michelle discovers the hero living in the heart of each of us. She uncovers the strength we know we’d have if faced with the same life destroying disasters. Full of determination but lacking skills, street savvy, and information she sets out to exact the revenge the killers so richly deserve. Powerful women all, ...
Commander Alex Coleman is no hero. Just ask him. It’s 2037 and Alex is one more disobeyed order away from kissing his naval career goodbye. He used to be high speed, the kind of officer on the fast track to submarine command. Then he threw it all away trying to save a few civilian lives from his glory hungry commanding officer. No pain no gain, right? Alex isn’t sorry he did the right thing but being everyone’s favorite scapegoat isn’t fun. Now, he’s marking time to retirement on Armistice Station, an underwater megastation where you can buy and do anything—except salvage a trashed Navy ...
A missing husband. A suspicious obituary. She’s not the only one hunting down a dead man’s footsteps.
As a divorcee, Angelina Bonaparte knows firsthand the lengths some men will go to escape responsibility. When a worried mother wants the private investigator to track down her missing husband, she’s eager to bring the deadbeat dad to justice. But even after she discovers the man’s obituary, she refuses to believe it until she sees the body. Tracking down the nurse who last saw him alive could be the missing puzzle piece to her client's broken family.
But as she digs deeper ...
Three complete thrillers. Mysterious deaths. A looming evil. When her patients start dying, can a lone ER doc stop the slaughter? Abandoned by her loved ones, Dr. Emma Steele settles to live for her career, her patients, and her wine. When her mentor is slaughtered, she risks her life to find the killer but falls into his trap. Emma would do anything to stop the carnage, even if confronting this cold-blooded sociopath would take her to an early grave. Can Emma overcome the monster and save those she swore to protect, or are they doomed to a fate worse than death? ER CRIMES is th ...
When psychiatrist Dr. Anne Damiano suspects she is being followed she writes it off as the father a client keeping tabs on her. What Anne doesn’t know is… …Thugs close to Manuel Noriega are using Anne as bait. Shadow Road is the thrilling prequel to Bioterror: The Essential Threat harkening back to the road Anne took to become a shadow, a spy. Dr. Anne Damiano’s world is turned upside down when Helena Empañada, a local student at Trinity College, is placed in her care. Helena is recovering from a brutal rape but her father, a wealthy Panamanian plantation owner with connections to the drug car ...
If your very existence relied on uncovering the most profound mysteries of the universe, where would you turn? Father Curtis, Priest of the Order of the Eternal, seeks solace in the serenity of his secluded parish, sheltered from the oppressive regime's grasp. But when he is unjustly branded a heretic, he is forced to embark on a harrowing journey for survival. In the process, he discovers that the very foundation of his beliefs has been built upon falsehoods. Amidst the chaos of his escape, he is confronted with the stark realization that the world he once trusted is a labyrinth of dec ...
He's running from his past, she's hoping he'll save her future ~~~ Marooned in Baja, Mexico, a Chechen arms dealer is waiting for the right diver to retrieve the deadly cargo on the bottom of the Sea of Cortez. But when the Queen of daytime drama, Leila Hunter Standiford, happens to admire a beautiful vintage Alden and its handsome captain, she doesn't realize that the boat will soon burn to the water line, or that a dead body will be found below, or that the captain has been targeted as a sacrificial diver.
One man holds the reins of power.
One man vows to protect him.
One man vows to destroy him...
Caught in a game of chess he didn’t know he was playing until it was too late, the President makes the only move he can, plunging Washington and the nation into chaos. Stunned and reeling, Vice President David Kendall takes the oath of office and tries to heal a nation in mourning. But what the new president doesn’t realize is that things in the White House aren’t always what they appear to be, and sometimes what looks like the best option ...
Prelude is a prequel to Crescent City (An Alec Winters Series, Book 2). Get a behind-the-scenes look at sixteen-year-old Alec Winters, a New Orleans teen-jock, before his strange, supernatural transformation. Discover little-known facts about the cultural differences of the deep-south and a good-ole-boy society where ‘right’ is often seen as ‘wrong’ and the prevailing attitudes might surprise you. Learn how the Winters’ secret family conflict was instrumental in changing Alec’s life. Get an insider look at the previously concealed back-story before that fateful night when Alec was magically tr ...
An innocent client harbors dark secrets…
Defense attorney Leland Monroe lost it all: his big-city job, his reputation and, worst of all, his loving wife. Now he's back in his hometown to hit restart and repair the relationship with his troubled son. But the past is always present in a small town.
Leland returns to find his high school sweetheart hasn't had the easiest of lives especially now that her son faces a death sentence for murdering his father. Yet what appears to be an open and shut case is anything but. As Leland digs deeper to uncover a t ...
An adrenaline-fueled adventure set in the Netherlands, Croatia, Italy, Luxembourg, and Turkey about stolen art, the mafia, and a father’s vengeance. When researcher Zelda Richardson begins working at a local museum, she doesn’t expect to get entangled with an art theft, knocked unconscious by a forger, threatened by the mob, or stalked by drug dealers. To make matters worse, a Croatian gangster is convinced Zelda knows where a cache of recently pilfered paintings is. She must track down an international gang of art thieves and recover the stolen artwork in order to save those she loves most. T ...
Can a man who’s lived a life of crime ever escape his past? The world’s most reluctant private investigator is about to find out... Former bad boy turned local hero, Bill Murdoch, should be happy with his little piece of paradise. After all, he’s got the fancy car and the big house by the beach. The only trouble is he’s slowly suffocating in small town life. So when Murdoch is hired to investigate who framed wealthy businessman, James Harte, for murder, he jumps at the chance. Going undercover amongst the jet set, Murdoch is quickly drawn into an exciting world of yachts, horse racing and glit ...
From the gang-controlled streets of Mexico into the mountains of Wyoming, for Juan, crime is a way of life, and loyalty is a family trait. Even when devotion and deception are confused, his pursuit of justice never wavers. An introduction to “Deadly Repercussions,” this free short story is the beginning of Juan’s journey into the next generation.
Elizabeth Harper has a history of passionate mistakes and broken trust with Denver homicide detective Nick Ryan. He hasn’t seen her in five years, but now, her husband—a man Nick despises— is dead and she may have killed him. The woman he used to know wouldn’t have killed anyone, but she’s the prime suspect and has many reasons to want him dead. Is she guilty? Will Nick's feeling for her help her get away with murder or land her in prison?
WARPAINT IN THE CORRIDORS OF POWER. In a high-end hotel near the White House, three Mojave Indians sit in silence, cross-legged and bare chested. The two leather-faced elders and the young buck with a ponytail were all big men. Spread on the floor around them was an assortment of colorful modern cosmetics. Powdered charcoal, red clay, and cactus blossoms had been replaced, but the finger-traced swaths of color on red skin still looked ominous. There hadn't been an Indian attack in the United States since the early 1900s. In fifty-three minutes, that would no longer be true. When the three unar ...
The men around Volcanologist Lenaia Talavera have a habit of dying. As she struggles to process the tragedies, she pulls away from God and her boyfriend, Paleontologist Travis Perego. So when she’s called back to Mt. Rainier and the small town of Mayim to investigate an act of sabotage, she jumps at the chance to avoid her problems and solve the puzzle. Someone on the mountain has tampered with the early warning system for rising magma, but who would want to risk an eruption that could kill an entire town? Lenaia soon discovers that two women from town have disappeared. When she finds one of t ...
A wily bomber... A determined activist... A man with a secret... Summer Avery, a former-marketing fashionista, turned passionate eco-activist, abandons the bustle of New York City and scurries to the coastal village of Tide Harbor, Nova Scotia, determined to accomplish what the crazy bomber has not—stop the destructive Minas Basin tidal energy project in its tracks and earn her the EcoGreen directorship. Desperate for a safe place to raise his autistic daughter, recently divorced marine biologist Gil Moses, takes a job with the tidal energy company, ostensibly to study lobsters, but actually t ...
When Beth Vogelsang's Uncle Jerry is tortured and murdered Beth's estranged friend Regan is the first cop on the scene. Regan hopes for reconciliation, but they've led different lives. Beth has been abused, beaten, raped, and has experienced a devastating death in the family. She's also fallen in love with her lesbian therapist. Will she reunite with her genderqueer friend? Or will their individual secrets keep them apart. Meanwhile, there's a serial killer on the loose, putting both their lives at risk.
Small towns are remembered with nostalgia, deep-seated anger, or parts of both. So it is with those who live or have lived in Jerrod, a small cotton-farming town in north-central Texas. It is home for multiple generations of men or women with few opportunities to break the bonds with land, family, and hometown. Kilborn focuses on a third-generation native son, Drake Kilborn. Under his father’s tutelage, he learned to pilot spray planes in his youth. Although it was generally understood he’d inherit the business, he felt the lure of moving to a nearby city so that he could continue flying, b ...
Today is the perfect day to die. Bernard is the type of man that accomplishes all that he sets out to—and easily. He's intelligent, hardworking, and completely unfamiliar with failure. His only complaint—the singular source of the inner anger bubbling within him—is that no one else in the world recognizes that. It's time to force them to. Bernard's had enough. Enough of the complete absence of respect in his life, of being looked down upon, of being the only person in the world—it seems—who truly sees the reality of his life and what he deserves acknowledgment for. In fact, that recognition is ...
The body of a strangled woman draws Lorne into an intricate investigation that expands swiftly when a second innocent is murdered. A serial killer is on the loose, plucking victims from Internet dating sites. But when a third victim--this one male--is discovered, Lorne is forced to admit her worst fears... she is on the trail of a serial killer duo. Lorne's personal life grows complicated as her sister, Jade, struggles to come to terms with their father's death. Lorne suggests drastic measures to cure Jade's grief. The answers are out there, but will Lorne solve the crimes and find the killer ...
How desperate are you to get the one you love? When Hannah and Ben meet at a friend's party, he knows she's The One. But Hannah's in an intense relationship with Mark and planning to return to her native Sweden to embark on a teaching career. Desperate to make Ben fall in love with her, rich spoilt heiress Vanessa sets in motion a devious string of events that ultimately changes the course of four people's lives indefinitely. Hannah is the love of Ben's life, yet Vanessa will stop at nothing to claim the man she is convinced is her destiny. Because of You is a dark, morally complex and cross-g ...
A little girl is stolen from her yard and police have no leads. Hope dwindles with each passing hour. The desperate parents hire Michael Sykora to find their daughter, and to kill anyone involved in taking her. Michael and his team discover this case has roots far deeper than a single kidnapping. Children are a commodity for the wealthy and depraved. Following leads from daycare centers to the Darknet, this search is about to become personal. The clock is ticking… *This book can be read as a stand-alone novel.*
Something unusual is happening to Quinn Montgomery. Trapped inside her unconscious mind, the sound of her father’s soothing voice seeps through, and the past twenty-four hours comes flooding back. She wakes to find herself in the hospital. Her childhood best friend Evie is dead. But not just dead, murdered, and Evie’s four-year-old son witnessed it all. Traumatized over what he saw, he’s not talking. And when Evie’s cold-blooded killer goes into hiding, Quinn isn’t only out for justice, she’s out for revenge.
He fought for his country. Now he’s home and engaged in the deadliest of battles. Josh Kavanagh eats and breathes loyalty. Wary of how he’ll fit in after a twenty-four-year absence, the Special Forces legend returns to his family’s Montana ranch on an undercover mission. And though he’s anxious to see the high school sweetheart he abandoned a lifetime ago, the dedicated Marine’s greatest concern is tracking down a dangerous neo-Nazi cell. Juggling unresolved feelings for the woman he left behind, a sister expecting him to avenge her brutal rape, and keeping his own covert activities s ...
Suspense, intrigue, and dazzling plot twists power this tale of an FBI special agent and rookie investigator racing through the darkest layers of Minneapolis to chase a sinister Federal Reserve robber. FBI Special Agent Jack Miller, pulled into a high-profile case to mentor a new agent, finds himself in a clash with the toughest opponent of his career. The chase culminates in the bowels of the city, in the storm sewers and tunnels beneath The Ninth District Federal Reserve of Minneapolis.
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 ...
You hire one hitman to end the life of another. Nobody told you the two hitmen were friends. This may not have been your smartest ever move.
