Warren Botts is a disillusioned Ph.D., taking a break from his lab to teach middle-school science. Gentle, soft-spoken, and lonely, he innocently befriends Amanda, one of his students. But one morning, Amanda is found dead in his...
Thrillers (Fiction)
- Author:Lundrigan, NicoleSummary:
- Author:Patterson, JamesSummary:
Once a luxurious southern getaway on a rustic lake, then reduced to a dilapidated crash pad, the Summer House is now the grisly scene of a nighttime mass murder. Eyewitnesses point to four Army Rangers—known as the Night Ninjas—recently...
- Author:Jackson, MelanieSummary:
After a hang glider crashes into the pool of the house where Dinah and Madge are house-sitting, the hapless pilot creates more than a splash of suspicion in Dinah’s mind. Why does this itchy intruder make off with Dinah’s inflatable...
- Author:St. James, SimoneSummary:
Something hasn't been right at the roadside Sun Down Motel for a very long time, and Carly Kirk is about to find out why in this chilling new novel from the national bestselling and award-winning author of The Broken Girl s....
- Author:Turgeon, DavidSummary:
We know how Simone met the man who will become, for a time, her fourth husband. We know what she does (artist), her age (older than she looks), her friends (a veritable menagerie), her habits (frustrated homebody). What remains to learn...
- Author:Gerritsen, TessSummary:
"A briskly paced, terrifically suspenseful work that steadily builds toward a tense and terrifying climax."—People (Page-turner of the week). This ebook edition contains a special preview of Tess Gerritsen's I Know a Secret. He slips...
- Author:Schulman, AlexSummary:
INTERNATIONAL BEST SELLER -A gripping tour de force in which three estranged brothers return to the Swedish lakeside cottage where, more than two decades before, an unspeakable accident forever altered their family and changed the...
- Author:Wright, L.R.Summary:
This Edgar Award-winning debut kicks off the crime series-and basis for the Fox TV and Hulu series Murder in a Small Town -set along Canada's Sunshine Coast. To Karl Alberg, the coastal town of Sechelt, just north of Vancouver,...
- Author:Zander, JoakimSummary:
A deep-cover CIA agent, an operative once so dedicated that he abandoned his infant daughter, races across Europe to save the daughter he never knew.
- Author:Enright, RobertSummary:
A Missing Girl. A Ticking Clock. A One Man War Against Crime. Sam Pope is back, in the explosive sequel to The Night Shift. As his mission against organised crime rages on, Sam Pope finds himself the target of a dedicated task force led...
- Author:Baldacci, DavidSummary:
The president knows it's a perilous, high-risk assignment. If he gives the order, he has the opportunity to take down a global menace, once and for all. If the mission fails, he would face certain impeachment, and the threats against...
- Author:Berry, SteveSummary:
The ancient order of the Knights Templar possessed untold wealth and absolute power over kings and popes ... until the Inquisition, when they were wiped from the face of the earth, their hidden riches lost. But now two forces, the U.S....
- Author:Sawyer, Robert J.Summary:
Robert Sawyer has won many awards for his science fiction, which is praised for its blend of high-tech mystery and suspenseful pacing. An experiment has gone terribly wrong. Dr. Peter Hobson has created three electronic simulations of...
- Author:Carr, JackSummary:
"Double the trouble, twice the action, and quadruple the enjoyment. Careful while reading this one, it could leave a mark."--Steve Berry, New York Times bestselling author of The Last Order A Navy SEAL has nothing left to live...
- Author:Simmons, Dan.Summary:
The men on board the HMS Terror -part of the ill-fated 1945 Franklin Expedition-are entering a second summer in the Arctic Circle without a thaw, stranded in a nightmarish landscape of ice and desolation. Endlessly cold, they struggle...
- Author:Simmons, DanSummary:
The men on board HMS Terror have every expectation of finding the Northwest Passage. When the expedition's leader dies, Captain Francis Crozier attempts to lead his men south across the ice. But as the Terror on the ice stalks them...
- Author:Flood, HeleneSummary:
From the mind of a psychologist comes a chilling domestic thriller that gets under your skin.What happens when a psychologist begins to question her own sanity? Sara runs a private psychology practice for troubled youth in the newly...
- Author:Paris, B.A.Summary:
"...you'll find yourself listening to the suspenseful reading by Olivia Dowd and Thomas Judd way past your bedtime." - NJ.com The multimillion-copy New York Times bestselling author B.A. Paris returns to her heartland of...
- Author:Cussler, CliveSummary:
Intrepid chief investigator Isaac Bell thwarts German spies seeking to abduct two scientists aboard the ocean liner Mauretania--but he's sure the thugs will try again. With war on the horizon, Bell knows his ability to keep these...
- Author:Flynn, VinceSummary:
When diplomacy has failed and military intervention is deemed inappropriate, our leaders often turn to a silent and dark community for results. This is a course of action not always taken by wise and honorable men. In certain circles it...