Thriller & Suspense Books

When a mother is charged with murder in a town already convinced of her guilt, can defense attorney Powell Harrison find truth and justice in a legal system where innocence is not presumed?Emily Lloyd, a young widow in Reconstruction-era Virginia, is...

British intelligence is in a state of panic. Cracks are appearing, or so a run of disciplinary cases would suggest. To cap it all, Willa Karlsson, a retired MI5 officer collapses, the victim of what looks like a Russian poisoning. Leonard Flood is...

This is a chilling high-concept geopolitical thriller where a declining United States and a resurgent China come to the brink of all out nuclear war.The year is 2025. Oil is the black gold that controls the fortunes of all nations and the once-mighty...

Night. DRIP! DRIP! Footsteps on the stone floor kept eerie time with the splat of dripping blood from a corpse dangling upside down from the cross over the altar. There is a murder in Prague. This activates the duties of THOMAS ADWELL, spokesperson for...

Having finally received closure to the murder investigation of her family, Bridgett and Victor DeVeccio settle into the fun and challenging struggles of being a young married couple. Before they can become too content, those normal challenges are...

From Jennifer duBois, 'one of a handful of living American novelists who can comprehend both the long arc of history and the minute details that animate it' (Karan Mahajan) and 'a writer of thrilling psychological...

In Three Fires,award-winning author Denise Mina re-imagines the 'Bonfire of the Vanities', a series of fires lit throughout Florence at the end of the fifteenth century - inspired by the fanatical Girolamo Savonarola.Girolamo Savonarola...

AWARDSFINALIST-Fiction: Thriller Adventure, Best Books Awards, 2023 When does the student become the master? At what cost? Grieving the loss of his sensei, the master swordsman Yamashita, Connor Burke struggles with the challenges of recovery from the...

Risk everything, trust no one. Jen Shaw is climbing in the mountains near Alajar, Spain. And it's nothing to do with the fact that an old acquaintance suggested that she meet him there... But when things don't go as planned and her...

How far would you go to save yourself when the truth can't set you free?Scotland, 1589.Besse Craw is a young mother whose husband has mysteriously vanished. And in a time when women were powerless, she is accused of witchcraft, abused by her employer,...

A potent new drug has hit the streets of Kinloch, and DCI Daley and Scott are struggling to catch the notorious gang behind this evil trade.After a party of Oxford students arrives in town for a camping trip before a Himalayan expedition, one of the...

New York Times bestselling author Susan Isaacs returns to a pair of her readers' favorite characters, former FBI agent Corie Geller and her retired cop dad, who must solve one of the NYPD's coldest homicide cases-before the crime's sole survivor is...

When the FBI can' t help, an unassuming banker takes matters into his own hands to bring his son homeWade, a respected banker in La Jolla, CA, and his estranged wife, Fiona, make the unbearable decision to send their teenage son, Myles, away to an...

We come from the mist, and to the mist we will return . . .Fergus MacGregor told people he was going to Pitlochry for the day but was never seen again. Years later, Rebecca witnesses his deeply religious mother holding an annual ritual in the ancient...

A notable archaeologist, close to finding a priceless artifact, meets his untimely demise- Matthew Shane vows to find his murdererMatthew Shane is a law professor in Salem, Massachusetts, where he enjoys a rewarding mentorship with Professor Barrington...

The attempted robbery of the armoured car in the back streets of Montevideo is a miserable failure. A lucky break for the intrepid Ursula Lopez who manages to snatch all the loot, more hindered than helped by her faint-hearted and reluctant companion...

A battle lost. A daring escape. A long walk into obscurity. The ultimate failure....In the aftermath of the disastrous Battle of Culloden, a lonely figure takes flight with a small band of companions through the islands and mountains of the Hebrides. His...

"Double Standard" tells the story of Dr. Rene James, a nationally recognized facial reconstruction surgeon in her early 50's. Rene, who is single and has engaged in casual relationships with several medical residents at her hospital, finds herself...

Co-written by one of the UK's leading counter-terrorism experts, The Sleep of Reason is a tense and compelling thriller about toxic politics and the radicalisation of young men.A brutal massacre at a theme park leaves eight dead and triggers a...

When a series of women's bodies is discovered in the heart of rural Hamptonshire with a pentagram carved on their chests, DCI Helen Lavery is forced into a cat-and-mouse chase with a murderer who ultimately turns the tables and targets her.Meanwhile, she...

"Smart, fast-paced and disturbingly possible"-Joelle Charbonneau, author, The Testing"Twelve inmates, one chamber. It's time to face justice, live!"Saturday night primetime. The nation settles down to watch a special edition of Justice Live the most...

Literary Titan Award Winner for Political Thriller Pencraft Award Winner for Fiction: Intrigue Global Book Award Finalist for Espionage Thriller Best Thriller Awards Winner for Spy Thriller BookFest Award Winner for Fiction Mystery/Suspense American...

Onefateful encounter upends the lives of two women in this tensedomestic thriller, a modern spin on Alfred Hitchcock'sStrangers On A Trainthat flips the script on race and gender politics."I'm a big believer that women should help each other, Tasha," she...

A 2024 IBPA Benjamin Franklin Award Silver Medal Winner"[An] enjoyable comic fable . . ."-Wall Street Journal"This auspicious debut announces a bright new voice in comic suspense."-Publishers Weekly, Starred ReviewNot every fishmonger can be a secret...

1941, Berlin. After Police Chief Investigator Rolf Schneider is summoned to a meeting with Himmler and tasked with investigating the assassination of Heydrich, he exposes a web of corruption and secrecy involving the highest-ranking figures in the Reich...

Ruby Mills is ruthlessly ambitious, strikingly beautiful - and one of the Forty Thieves' most talented members. Harriet Littlemore is an aspiring journalist from a 'good' family, engaged to a rising star of the Tory party - but...

Magic stops. Men vanish. Worlds end. Life goes on.The stories in The Last Vanishing Man start with the end of the world, as a narrator seeks to imagine how the actions of an American terrorist ripple through his family. American violence and masculinity...

Maddie Wells' life spirals out of control after the murder of her wife Char, a transgender woman of color. Hunger for revenge drives Maddie to take a job at a wax museum near the murderer's hometown, where she studies revenge and plots how to strike back...

Independent Press Award Distinguished Favorite recipient for fiction. Benjamin Franklin Silver Award, audio version for fiction. Angela Hanson grew up poor in a world of despair. Toughened by rejection and disappointment, she vows to hide her fears...

How do you stay alive when everybody wants you dead? The Devil Hound, set in mid-eighteen century Europe and the Americas, as an evil priest dedicates his life to destroying two innocent Romani (Gypsy) brothers because of their ethnic origin and because...

A dead girl, dressed in a tattered mermaid costume and a harpoon jutting from her chest, washes ashore on a world-renowned beach in Florida, bringing with it a nightmare of evil the City of Sarasota has never known. Chief Homicide Detective Miranda...

Kathryn Lasky has written an exciting new adult amateur sleuth mystery set in New Mexico in the 1930s. The sleuth is GeorgiaO'Keefe, who actually did suffer a nervous breakdown in 1933 when her husband Alfred Stieglitz had a somewhat public affair, was...

Agatha Christie meets How We Roll in this entertaining new series.Murder sees double when former pro bowler Billy Gills finds himself summoned to the Partridgeberry County morgue to identify the body of his identical twin brother Bo. Billy is the...

A secret binds them together, the truth will unravel them.Jenny Ocean's life is already on shaky ground when a violent attack sparks a chain of events that leaves her with a terrible secret that she can share with no one, and which clouds her every...

"With her debut novel,Till We Become Monsters, Amanda Headlee raises the genre to a chilling new level. I recommend reading this one with all the lights on."-Phil Giunta, author ofLike Mother, Like DaughtersMonsters existand Korin Perrin knew this as...

From Ellen Datlow - 'the venerable queen of horror anthologies' per the New York Times - comes a new entry in the series that has brought you thrilling stories from Stephen King and Neil Gaiman, the best horror stories available.For...

From Ellen Datlow ("the venerable queen of horror anthologies" (New York Times) comes a new entry in the series that has brought you stories from Stephen King and Neil Gaiman comes thrilling stories, the best horror stories available.For more than four...

A writer about to give birth investigates the story behind a mother she knows who has just killed her own twins.A mother kills her twins. Another woman, the narrator of this story, is about to give birth. She is a writer, and she realises that she knows...

When John Harvey's watch stops working on the morning of February 3rd, 1987, he has an epiphany. It occurs to him that every personal trauma he is trying to forget has had one thing in common: they all occurred at some point on the face of that very...

Finalist for the Foreword INDIES Best Horror Novel of 2016 Like millions of children, Samuel Bradbury comes from a broken home. Yet he still enjoys the everyday activities of being a kid: playing basketball, shooting his air rifle, and hanging out...

Sanctuary is home to some of the most dangerous creatures to pull themselves from the pits of hell. Tread lightly, and never fall prey to monsters with the Diablo Bestiary. A celebration of the corrupted beasts and grotesque enemies that players have...

Best friends James Lessor and Skip Moore are hardly on the fast track. While James works as a line cook at Cap'n Crab, Skip spends his days selling - or rather, attempting to sell - security systems to people who (a) have no money, and (b) have nothing...

While their last venture was hardly crowned with success, James Lessor and Skip Moore, (and their white box truck) are back. When Reverend Preston Cashdollar and his traveling tent revival come to town, James and Skip reinvent themselves--as holy rollers...

USA Today Best-Selling Author & Winner of Florida Book Award Silver MedalOne Perfect Shot Will Change the Course of HistoryChristine Palmer, a young American doctor sailing solo across the Atlantic, makes an incredible discovery-a man narrowly...

Susan Lentigo's daughter was murdered twenty years ago - now, at long last, she will witness the killer's execution.But on her journey she discovers shocking new evidence that suggests the condemned man is innocent - and the real killer is still out...

Think you know your neighbors? Think again.When actress Allison Langley leaves her former rockstar husband in the middle of the night, her sudden departure becomes the talk of upmarket Oak Hill. But the relentless gossip comes to an abrupt halt when...

A cache of Venezuelan gold bullion is hijacked en route to safe-keeping in a bank vault deep in the Swiss countryside, the heist orchestrated by the elusive Mr Bonjour, an international man of mystery and villain. Through a series of events, the gold...

Meet Vanessa Salomon, a privileged and misanthropic French-American translator hailing from a wealthy Parisian family. Her twin sister is a famous movie star, which Vanessa resents deeply and daily. The only man Vanessa ever loved recently killed himself...