Thriller & Suspense Books

June 1945. Hitler has triumphed, Britain is under German occupation and America cowers under the threat of nuclear attack.In the dead of night, a figure flits through the ruins of Dryburgh Abbey, searching for a hidden document he knows could change the...

A young piper, Donald Peter (DP) Gillies, brought up in a remote community in the West Highlands, signs up to join the famous Lovat Scouts. He and his childhood friend are destined for the horrors of Gallipoli and the deprivation of the First World War...

A new technology has emerged, promising a perfect society, and resisters are not long for this world . . .Ahead, not too many years from now, everyone has been linked to a network of government-mandated brain implants.The Interfacehas become a way of...

One of Tor Nightfire's "Horror Books We're Excited About in 2022"!"Lyons burnishes his reputation as a rising horror star . . . [and] keeps the pages flying with fast-paced chills."-Publishers Weekly(starred review) From the author of The Night Will...

Star-Studded Author: Rob Rufus is an author, musician, screenwriter, and advocate. He is the recipient of the American Library Association's prestigious ALEX Award and his literary debut, Die Young With Me, was named one of the "Best Books of the Year"...

"Venturini doesn't write in words and sentences. Instead, he lines the page with barbwire, concertina wire and spike strips that deliver the story deep into the reader's skin." -#1 New York Times Bestselling Author Chuck Palahniuk A town ruled by evil. A...

"It's easy to recognize Ocker as a future master of madness after this thrilling haunted house trip."-Fangoria MagazineFelix Allsey is a travel writer with a keen eye for the paranormal, and he's carved out a unique, if only slightly lucrative, niche for...

Lou Incaviglia loved a good cigar. His favorite reading material was his Daily Racing Form. His home his castle was a rowhouse in Norristown, Pennsylvania. And his daughter was his pride and joy.But bad things happen to good people. A firestorm that Lou...

Rick and Katja on a military assignment has been given a unique proposition from a stranger. An invitation into the dark world of espionage and assassinations while still on active duty. Not realizing this proposition would take their tour of duty in...

At the Scottsdale Saguara Inn, a man's scheduled encounter with Laura Jenkins, a high-priced call girl, is interrupted by his untimely murder. On her way to their appointment, Laura witnesses two hit men leaving his room. Two days later, a single gunman...

Ranging from the film noir world of shadowy figures and mysterious events to real-life Hollywood personalities and glamourous encounters, Lady B's story spans six decades of life in the fast lane of theater, modeling, period design and dcor, and the...

All he needed was a vacation... After witnessing a terrible accident, after long hours working as a successful young professional, Chris Thorne needed a break. When he meets his two best friends for an evening on the Georgetown waterfront in D.C., the...

With death rates rising due to the pandemic, nations are collapsing. These catastrophic events lead the world into a new dark age where evil prevails. In this fast-paced, action-packed novel, an eclectic team of investigators team up to solve mysteries...

Bridgett Lisston, a new college graduate, finds herself uprooted from everything familiar to her, for her own safety. She leaves a lot behind but believes she's established herself out of harms way. As she brushes off danger, she discovers that it knows...

When a killer struck the small farming community, the residents of Pine Bluff Iowa were devastated. Now Donovan, after losing his wife Sandra, is left to raise teenage twins Sebastian and Samantha on his own. Coping with his own loss, he is forced to...

"In the Twinkling of an Eye" is a story about espionage, family love, and loyalty, focused on a Russian-North Korean conspiracy to develop a devastating biological weapon for assassination, terror and genocide, as written by a senior CIA operations...

Special agent Sam Rivers' investigation of a bizarre wolf attack leads to evidence of murder, conspiracy, and shocking family secrets in this wildlife-themed thriller.In this outdoors thriller, the investigation of a bizarre wolf attack leads to evidence...

Out Front the Following Sea is a historical epic of one woman's survival in a time when the wilderness is still wild, heresy is publicly punishable, and being independent is worse than scorned-it is a death sentence. At the onset of King William's War...

Lives and lies are inextricably linked by a high-profile murder trial inThe Fall Girl, the latest exhilarating legal thriller from bestselling author Marcia Clark.When Charlie Blair left Chicago behind-and her old life as Lauren Claybourne-for a gig in...

Izzy Ames lives with her high school sweetheart, Cyrus Rivera, in the Salton Sea. They cling to each other and to their close friends Nephy and Seth to cope with thetrauma of their pasts. Until the morning Izzy awakes to find Cyrus has vanished.When she...

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...

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...