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1) PULSE
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Stranger Things meets The Departed. A hugely original thriller, with film rights already snapped up by New Line Cinema Daniel Fitzsimmons seems like an ordinary American teenager. He loves his brother, his friends, his school work. But Daniel has powers. Powers that he does not understand, and is not sure he can control. Daniel can't risk telling those around him what is happening, but when a mysterious stranger offers an insight into what he is experiencing,...
2) Shining city
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Peter Rena and Randi Brooks earn their living making the problems of the powerful disappear. Their new-- and biggest-- job: the White House hires them to vet the president's nominee for the Supreme Court. Judge Roland Madison is a legal giant, but he's a political maverick, with views that might make the already tricky confirmation process even more difficult. When a string of seemingly random killings overlaps with Rena's investigation, it seems...
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Though the fighting has stopped and Hitler is vanquished, a dangerous new war between America and the Soviet Union has begun. Invaluable in defeating the Nazis, accidental crypto-zoologist R. J. MacCready and Yanni Thorne, an indigenous Brazilian and expert in animal behavior, are working for the Pentagon once again. Sent to a mysterious Greek island in a remote corner of the Mediterranean, they are investigating rumors about a volcanic spring with...
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In this new thriller from Russell James a 21st century quest for sunken treasure is interlaced with love and tragedy from the time of the Spanish Armada. King Philip's quest to defeat and subdue upstart Britain under Queen Elizabeth 1st is in stark contrast to the very different quest of a film crew in a hired boat off the wild coast of northern Scotland.While at least one of the team is convinced he knows the location of a previously undiscovered...
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Norman finds the secret to making Stradivari violins. MI6, Russian hackers and others want it. What if the greatest violin maker in history actually did have a secret formula? And, what if it were stumbled upon, more than 300 years later, by innocent guitar makers, who then became the target of someone who could not let that secret be revealed. Add to this volatile situation a second party who wants the secret made public.
The cascade of events...
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Have you ever felt disconnected, unsure of your place in the world? Have you ever felt that society glorified the imbecilic and that most civilized problems could be cured with common sense? Have you ever wanted to make your own justice for it and punish the corrupt and perverted that destroy our trust? What if you found a way to do it?Follow an unnamed narrator, through his daily life of work drugs and violence, finding ways he can exploit the loop...
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A few years after his wife is killed, private investigator Steve Blake is forced from his guarded life to track down a murderer. But he soon finds himself embroiled in an international plot that could cause an apocalyptic catastrophe if he can't crack the case. Determined to find the killer, Steve must face his own demons while fending off shadowy black-ops agents and deadly rogue spies. People are not who they first appear to be, unlikely alliances...
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The second in Con Lehane's 42nd Street Library Mystery, Murder in the Manuscript Room is a smart, compelling mystery in which the characters themselves are at least as interesting as the striking sleuthing. When a murder desecrates the somber, book-lined halls of New York City's iconic 42nd Street Library, Raymond Ambler, the library's curator of crime fiction, has a personal interest in solving the crime. His quest to solve the murder is complicated...
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A compelling tale of edgy, small-town emotions, lingering obsession, and romantic salvation from acclaimed novelist Anita Shreve.
Andrew, after many years, returns to his hometown to attend his mother's funeral. Planning to remain only a few days, he is drawn into the tragic legacy of his childhood friend and beautiful girl next door, Eden Close. An adopted child, Eden had learned to avoid the mother who did not want her and to please the father...
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Steven Statton - a very working-class spy', is a thrill-a-minute story of intrigue and betrayal at the heart of Britain's most secretive intelligence agency.
Although set mainly in London, the story sees Steven Statton travel the world in an effort to counter an Iranian plot to use the Mafia to destabilise Britain by flooding its streets with heroin. However, Statton's task is made harder when he is betrayed by somebody working in the British Secret...
12) The Death Digger
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When Lionel and Goldie's baby is stolen, it leads them to a farm in the middle of nowhere where true evil awaits.They have 24 hrs to get him back before they lose him forever.The day is night, the children are ghouls, and the home belongs to a nightmare creature known as the Death Digger. The clock is ticking.From the mind of a four year old and brought to life by his father.
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First published in 1926. Mrs Bentley has been arrested for murder. The evidence is overwhelming: arsenic she extracted from fly papers was in her husband's medicine, his food and his lemonade, and her crimes are being plastered across the newspapers. Even her lawyers believe she is guilty. But Roger Sheringham, the brilliant but outspoken young novelist, is convinced that there is 'too much evidence' against Mrs Bentley and sets out to prove her innocence....
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"A modern-day Gaslight"
The Blue Prussian is a spellbinding story told by Blake O'Brien, a beautiful, young executive with a globetrotting career. Blake returns to her native Manhattan from San Francisco after escaping-or so she thinks-her marriage to a dashing man who turned out to be a prince of darkness. She had been hoping for a fresh start but learns that she has been poisoned with thallium-a deadly neurotoxin referred to as the poisoner's...
16) Lethal Reunion
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"Lethal Reunion" is a gripping thriller that follows five friends-Ava, Jake, Maya, Ethan, and Ben-as they gather for a weekend getaway at a secluded cabin in the woods. What begins as a nostalgic reunion quickly turns sinister when they find themselves trapped in a deadly game orchestrated by an unseen adversary.As night falls, a mysterious box appears, initiating a series of chilling challenges that force the friends to confront their darkest fears...
17) Legally Comatose
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Tanya Kawoski, an elementary school teacher, and her fiance, Michel are all set to go on their first vacation together. That vacation gets side-tracked, though, when Michel is attacked. Tanya's brother James has to help his sister figure out who attacked Michel and keep all three of them out of danger. This book is a novella, or about 18,000 words, and is filled with love, passion, intrigue and mystery. Be sure to check out the other books by Rory...
18) Identity Crisis
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Just as Kristen and Steel think the past is behind them, their wedding reception is attended by an unwelcome guest who puts them face to face with the demons they have tried so hard to forget. Julie, Kristen's long time best friend, must fight for her life as she's kidnapped and held for ransom. Her only hope to be saved is James Kawoski, Steel's ex-boss and Best Man. To find out more about their budding romance, you'll have to read the book. This...
19) Face to Face
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A doctor's legal battle and a detective's stalker threaten their lives and their love in this romantic suspense thriller by the author of The Next Widow.
#1 New York Times–bestseller Sandra Brown called Nerves of Steel, the first Hart and Drake novel, "A perfect blend of romance and suspense. My kind of read." In the second book, Sleight of Hand, you saw Hart and Drake risk everything to save a child and you knew they were meant to be together....
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Prophecy is prologue
England, 1775. An ambitious American pushes his expedition onward despite dire warnings from the locals. But what Benjamin Franklin discovers on the Isle of Wight isn't just superstition. It's a secret with the power to save the world-or destroy it.
In less than four hundred days, most of the world's population will be dead. Nobody knows why, only when: February 9, 2027.
Retired FBI Special Agent Will Piper is one of the few...
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