Thriller & Suspense Books

Discover what happened to Jack Bauer between the end of Series 8 and the start of Series 9."Stay out of my way, and I'll be gone within 24 hours. You'll never see me again. Come after me... and you'll regret it."The time is 5:00 PM. One hour ago, federal...

It is November 1917. William Murdoch is a widower, a senior detective tracking down bootleggers. His estranged son, Jack has returned from France after being wounded and gassed at the Battle of Passchendaele with his friend, Percy McKinnon.Several young...

Decades after playing the titular killer in the 80s horror franchise Night of the Reaper, Howard Browning has been reduced to signing autographs for his dwindling fanbase at genre conventions. When the studio announces a series reboot, the aging thespian...

Never trust other people's memories, and watch out for your own He knows he wept, but he cannot recollect a single other detail. Tormented by the tragedy, Sean relives the horror over and over again. As he struggles to recall what really happened, his...

Jonas is a spy with a problem. His quiet life spent writing reports for British intelligence is turned upside-down when his father is kidnapped by ISIS, and he soon finds himself dangerously out of his depth in Beirut, struggling to put into action the...

The Goldenacre a masterpiece by the painter and architect Charles Rennie Mackintoshhas been given to the people of Scotland. The beautiful canvas, the last work by the artistic genius, enthrals the art world, but behind it lies a dark and violent mystery...

A mysterious plague that causes random bouts of violence is sweeping the nation. Now three generations of women must navigate their chilling new reality in this moving exploration of identity, cycles of abuse, and hope.Chelsea Martin appears to be the...

A new teacher at a New England prep school ignites a gender war - with deadly consequences - in a provocative novel from the bestselling author of The Passenger and the Spellman Files series.What do you love? What do you hate? What do you want?It starts...

Continuing the only complete collection of Modesty Blaise adventures! The return of the 'ass-kicking femme fatale'. Full of classic action and adventure and dripping with '60's chic.

Private Investigator Joel Sorrell is exhausted and drinking hard, sustained only by a hopeful yet baffling note from his estranged daughter, Sarah. An SOS from an old flame whose child has been kidnapped gives him welcomed distraction, but the...

What came first, the home or the desire to invade?A seasonedinvaderwith multiple home invasions undertheir belt recounts their dark victories while offering tutelage to a newgeneration of ambitious home invaders eager to make their mark on the annals...

From the iconic houseboats of Seattle's Lake Union to the stunning San Juan Islands, The ComplicationBased on a shocking true story of medical wrongdoing, The Complication is Dr. DeathThe strong female protagonists-a brilliant but chaotic lawyer and a...

The story can now be told.The shocking details of Caesar's visit and its effect on subsequent events have been protected by draconian nondisclosure agreements....until now.

This rich, raw and urgent debut novel is a domestic noir of sex and survival set in Trinidad's capital.Alethea Lopez is about to turn 40. A fashionable, mixed-race boutique manager who lives and works in Trinidad's capital city, Port of Spain, she is...

Something scared Nuala Flaherty to death. When her body is found in the centre of a pentagram on a lonely moor, Rebecca is determined to find out what. Was she killed by supernatural means, or is there a more down-to-earth explanation?Rebecca's...

'a tour de force work of art' The Wall Street Journal, Best Books of the YearIt's Saturday evening, 9 March 1566, and Mary, Queen of Scots, is six months pregnant. She's hosting a supper party, secure in her private...

Longlisted for McIlvanneyScottish Crime Book of the YearIn 1752, Seamus a'Ghlynne, James of the Glen, was executed for the murder of government man Colin Campbell. He was almost certainly innocent.When banners are placed at his gravesite claiming that...

On a hot afternoon Summer sits beside a swimming pool in the South of France, waiting for her married lover, Steve, to arrive. By the time he turns up, flight delayed and his family unexpectedly in tow, Summer has vanished from the villa. Hannah the maid...

Victor and Eli started out as college roommates-brilliant, arrogant, lonely boys who recognized the same sharpness and ambition in one another. A shared research interest in adrenaline, near-death-experiences, and seemingly supernatural events reveals an...

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...