Thriller & Suspense Books

Our lives are more controlled by computers and algorithms than we understand, but who controls the computers? Artificial Intelligencia steps behind the veil into the world of hackers, intelligence agents, surveillance systems, quantum computing, and...

It's the dawn of 1980 in Los Angeles and everything's changing.Punks, dopers and assorted miscreants play in the decaying homes of Hollywood golden era stars. The playfully decadent, diverse LA punk scene is under threat from the violent, misogynistic...

In January 1995, a promising young musician was found murdered in her apartment in West Los Angeles. There were no eyewitnesses to the crime, but someone saw her arguing with her ex-boyfriend, an African American man, the day before she was found dead...

2022 PEN Translation Award FINALISTIn this masterful novel, author Juli Zeh skillfully shifts away from the conventional tale of a middle-aged, middle-class father out for a New Year's Day bike ride to an unexpectedly dark, psychological family drama...

In this brilliant Swedish thriller and sensitive coming-of-age story, a traumatic event shatters the summer of two boys in love with their young teacher.Sweden in the '60s. Erik and his friend Edmund spend their vacation by a forest lake daydreaming...

A butcher kept awake by the irritating hum of a wind turbine, a veterinarian obsessed by flickering shadows, a village driven into ruin.Seasons come and go in provincial Blaashoek, where the town's superficial harmony is upended by the arrival of a wind...

A campy dark comedy for the angry and the disenchanted.Last November, I found a dead body inside the freezer that my roommate keeps inside the garage. My first thought was to call the police, but Jignesh hadn't paid his share of the rent just yet. It...

In Vietnam Robin Moore became on the of the first true "embedded" journalists, training and fighting alongside America's most elite fighters. Though fictionalized, The Green Berets exposed the American public to the horrors of the ground war in Vietnam,...

In the days of the frontier West, it was not unusual for desperadoes and fugitives from justice to seemingly disappear from the face of the earth. Shadow on the Trail by Zane Grey, one of the bestselling authors of all-time, is the story of one such man...

The Story of the Woman Who Fooled the Yankees and Rebels Alike. As a child, Sarah Emma Edmonds dreamed of faraway places and adventure, often picturing herself as a man. When her abusive father traded her hand in marriage for a few head of livestock, she...

A story of justice through the ages . . . and revenge. Germany, 1945. The bloodiest war in history is at an end. Now the retribution and search for justice begins. In a series of Nuremberg trials, war criminals are hanged or commit suicide. Others are...

San Francisco, 1916. The streetsroiling: pitched battles between radical workers and the henchmen of industrialbarons, and between a vibrant, largely Italian immigrant anarchist milieu andthe forces of state and church. All in the looming shadow of...

Jhonni Laurent is the first female sheriff of Field's Crossing, Indiana-and now she has her first murder caseTwo days after a blizzard hits Field's Crossing, Indiana, Sheriff Jhonni Laurent discovers the frozen body of a high school senior under a...

2023 Best Books Award for Best Thriller/Adventure NovelA Russian Defector- A Worldwide Dragnet- A Looming Assassination- Max Geller is back in MoscowFormer CIA Russia expert Max Geller is recovering from an intense mission while lying low in Australia,...

A device that can save a life is also one that can end itKadence, a new type of implanted defibrillator, misfires in a patient visiting University Hospital for a routine medical procedure-causing the heart rhythm problem it's meant to correct. Dr. Kate...

The Most Elusive Assassin in the World Versus D.C. Homicide Detective Marko ZornWashington, D.C. homicide detective Marko Zorn is investigating the murder of an actress-an old love-when he is assigned to protect the visiting prime minister of Montenegro,...

San Diego Writer's Festival Mystery Writer of the Year for 2021Anthony, Shamus, and Lefty Award-winning AuthorWill Rick Cahill survive an insidious disease long enough to see his first-born child-or will sadistic killers murder him first?Rick Cahill is...

Thrill-a-minute crime fiction-infused with wry humorRestaurant owner and former professional baseball player Jake Longly is hoping for a few weeks of fun with Nicole Jamison in the warm Orange County, CA sun-The OC, baby. After that, they'll be on their...

Winner of the IPPY Gold Award, the National Indie Excellence Award, and the Foreword INDIES Gold AwardOvercoming loss-finding the courage to move on-trying to stay aliveLate in the Cold War, a young woman escapes from Communist Hungary, vanishing into...

This was not the homecoming Brick envisionedAfter the trauma of his last case, and after three months spent recovering in Ireland, life is looking up for newly retired homicide detective Brian (Brick) Kavanagh. Back home in Washington, D.C., a new job...

The last thing Danny wants to see published is his obituaryThe year is 1975. Danny Jacobs is an ambitious, young American journalist who' s just arrived in Bombay for a new assignment. He' s soon caught up in the chaos of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi' s...

National Indie Excellence Award Winner for Legal ThrillerAmerican Fiction Award Winner for Legal Thriller2022 American Fiction Award Winner for Legal ThrillerThe last remaining fragment of truth-hidden in the mire of the Mystic CreekBoston...

Ex-cop, ex-con Bruno Johnson stumbles into a criminal organization that exploits women and children-he must fight his way out and homeBruno Johnson is hiding out from the U.S. law in Costa Rica with his pregnant wife, Marie, and the ten kids they rescued...

End-of-life care-or assisted death When her elderly patients start dying at home days after minor surgery, anesthesiologist Dr. Kate Downey wants to know why. The surgeon, not so much. "Old people die, that's what they do," is his response. When Kate...

Foreword INDIES Bronze Award in Thriller and SuspenseA sinister private detective agency, a shady shell corporation, and a dead friend-Rick Cahill is on his most dangerous mission yetPrivate investigator Rick Cahill has been running from his past and...

*Chanticleer International Book Awards 2020 Grand Prize Winner in Global Thrillers*Bill Hefflin is a man apart - apart from life, apart from his homeland, apart from love.At the start of the 1989 uprising in Romania, CIA analyst Bill Hefflin - a...

Anthony, Shamus, and Lefty Award-winning Author A friend arrested for murder. A vicious killer lurking in the shadows. A world of darkness. Blinded by a gunshot wound to the face while working as a private investigator nine months ago, Rick Cahill is now...

Dashed dreams: she wanted to run for president one day, now she' s dead at 20When Riley Hunt- a beautiful, smart, popular student at Easton College in Manhattan- is brutally murdered, it becomes a big story for TV newswoman Clare Carlson.After days of...

For more than three decades, Ellen Datlow has been at the center of horror. Bringing you the most frightening and terrifying stories, Datlow always has her finger on the pulse of what horror readers crave. Now, with the tenth volume of the series, Datlow...

Both a haunting coming-of-age story set in North Texas against the backdrop of a deadly tornado, and a character-driven, deeply-affecting supernatural thriller.In 1979, a massive tornado devastates the city of Wichita Falls, Texas, leaving scores dead,...

A quantum "Brave New World" from the boldest and most wildly speculative writer of his generation. Since the Introdus in the twenty-first century, humanity has reconfigured itself drastically. Most chose immortality, joining the polises to become...

Axiomatic is a wonderful collection of eighteen short stories by Hugo Award-winning Australian author Greg Egan. From junkies who drink at the time-stream to love affairs in time-reversed galaxies; from gene-altered dolphins that converse only in...

Review from the former Director of the C.I.A.A thoroughly enjoyable, engrossing thriller with a captivating young, beautiful American botanist at the center of the fast paced action. Rooting for Sara West as she evades a Russian assassination team...

God's Kettledrum is an adventure into the world of avant-garde theater performance, and the lives of its players. The narrator is the director of the theater group. Two of the main characters are identical red head twin sisters Ada and Blain. Ada is a...

When the weather revolts, certainties dissolve and binaries blur as members of two reading groups converge at the intersection of theory and practice to reshape their lives, relationships, and reality itself.In the latest novel from Anna Moschovakis, two...

Through a series of improbable coincidences, in the early 1970s Harry Mathews, then living in France, was commonly reputed to be a CIA agent. Even friends had their suspicions, which were only reinforced each time he tried to deny such a connection. With...

At first it's the dead rats; they start dying in cataclysmic numbers, followed by other city creatures. Then people begin experiencing flu-like symptoms as well as swellings in their lymph nodes. The masses react in disbelief when the official diagnosis...

This fascinating third volume in the Britannia's Fist series will have you pondering how easily history could have been swayed differently.Peter G. Tsouras presents the third installment in his Britannia's Fist alternate history series. The...

A fast-paced thriller in the tradition of John Grisham, Joseph Finder, and John LescroartFor Nick "Deke" Deketomis, going where angels fear to tread in waging legal battles has long been a way of life. As managing partner for one of the nation's largest...

Based on the popular Netflix series! In the early 20th century, esteemed writer Maurice Leblanc createdArsne Lupin, a French Sherlock Holmes-type who became known as the gentleman thief. Lupin's exploits, in pursuit of the rich, have been...

"Destined to have readers squirming in their seats. Terrifying from beginning to end." -Willow Rose, international bestselling author of the Emma Frost series, onThe ClinicAbi Ansel is not the most confident woman in the world; in fact, she might be the...

A grand historical novel about Gertrude Bell, one of the most influential women of the twentieth century. She was the most celebrated adventurer of her day, the brains behind Lawrence of Arabia, an adviser to kings and desert sheikhs, and the British...

In the latest installment of the Ava Lee novels, Ava becomes embroiled in a violent war between feuding gangs vying for control of the Wanchai territory in Hong Kong.Ava is in Shanghai visiting her ailing friend, the Mountain Master Xu, when a triad war...

The Kent Stephenson Thriller Series contains suspense-filled mysteries played out against a backdrop of veterinary medicine in the 1980's. The books are fast paced and plot driven. The series centers around Doctor Kent Stephenson, a reclusive...

An original novel in which the 15th and 20th centuries meet with uncanny results, due to the invocation of Pan. This work is of special interest to students of magic and the Western Mystery Tradition.

This is the story of Olga, a retired mathematician, and Mateo, a college student passionate about robotics, and their plot to influence Google.After a chance encounter at the public library, two new friends begin to meet up regularly. Together they...

The daring James Bond is back in a definitive bumper edition collecting more of Jim Lawrence's celebrated run in comic strip form! Includes nine of Bond's most thrilling and dangerous missions: Shark Bait, Doomcrack, The Paradise Plot, Deathmask,...

Laura Wilmote is a television journalist living in Paris. Her life couldn't be better - a stimulating job, a loving boyfriend, interesting friends - until her phone rings in the middle of one night. It is C., an old school friend whom Laura recently...