Thriller & Suspense Books

In this dystopian novel about total collapse by internationally renowned author Amin Maalouf, a complete blackout hits a small island with only two solitary inhabitants, who suddenly have to depend on each other.Alec, a press artist with an impressive...

Inspector Hunkeler is summoned back to Basel from his New Year holiday to unravel a gruesome killing in an allotment garden on the city's outskirts. An old man has been shot in the head and found in his garden shed hanging from a butcher's hook.Hunkeler...

From Bram Stoker Award-nominated author, Ross Jeffery, comes a new horror novel focused on a father's journey to find his missing daughter.Henry's daughter was fourteen when she went missing and he's been burying pieces of her ever since. Each totem...

Simon Kemper is on the up and up he' s out of rehab, and his band is gaining moderate success around Berlin. But out of the corner of his eye and over his shoulder, he' s always aware of her. The stalker. She' s at every show, no matter what city. She...

From Emmy-winner, Brazilian best-seller PJ Caldas, comes a story about immortality, martial arts and AI that will make you change the way you look at life, science, and the crazy times we are living in.My Name is Tigress and I am immortal. This is my...

The world of pro wrestling is about to change. Eric "Jiggolo" Johnson can sense it, but he's already on his way out. On the way to what he expects will be one of his last big shows, he and the wrestlers he's traveling with come into conflict with a...

'Fresh, brilliant writing and utterly compelling, I loved it.' - Peter James When 25-year-old Emelie is found murdered in her Stockholm apartment the same week her ex-partner is released from prison, it feels like an open and shut case...

Erin McCabe is a New Jersey criminal defense attorney doing her best to live a quiet life in the wake of a profound personal change - until a newsworthy case puts both her career and her safety in jeopardy...Erin McCabe has been referred the biggest case...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

In a near future Tokyo, every action-from blinking to sexual intercourse-is intellectual property owned by corporations that charge licensing fees...Risen from the ashes of bankdeath, Amon Kenzaki, fallen Liquidator and Xenocyst survivor, arrives at the...

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...

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...