While a man lies buried alive screaming for life, his tormenter listens from far away through a transmitter, and two determined detectives race the clock to save him
Thrillers (Fiction)
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Author:Slade, MichaelSummary: - Author:Ormerod, RogerSummary:
Newly rich, Philipa Lowe is returning home to England on the QE2. She need never work again, but already she is bored. Meeting Bella Fields, better known as the TV star Roma Felucci, is at least intriguing. There is an underlying...
- Author:Rosenfelt, DavidSummary:
Clever plot twists, deft legal maneuverings, and keen wit are hallmarks of Rosenfelt's third follow-up to his Edgar-nominated debut novel, featuring millionaire attorney, Andy Carpenter, who is irreverent, intelligent, sarcastic and dry...
- Author:Cook, J. S.Summary:
Gangster Nino Moretti’s world is a series of contrasts between extreme wealth and abject poverty, an unstable existence punctuated by booze and bullets. For Nino, the gangster lifestyle is even more dangerous because he is a finnochio...
- Author:Delacourt, JohnSummary:
Lucien and Nataša might have slipped toward love, if her past in Sarajevo hadn't caught up with her. Nataša finds work modeling for a painter in Toronto, but he is murdered. Nataša disappears that night, running for her life....
- Author:Dorsey, TimSummary:
When a bunch of drunk salesmen from a condiment convention pull a practical joke on the wrong man, a hail of gunfire erupts. Meanwhile, Serge discovers a clue that may help him identify his grandfather's murderer. But before he can get...
- Author:Colasanti, MelissaSummary:
Twenty years ago off the Oregon coast, Myra Barkley's daughter disappeared from the rocky beach across from the family inn. Ever since, Myra has waited at the front desk for her child to come home. One rainy afternoon, the miracle...
- Author:Grisham, JohnSummary:
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER - “A delightfully lighthearted caper ... [a] fast-moving, entertaining tale.”— Pittsburgh Post-Gazette A gang of thieves stage a daring heist from a secure vault deep below Princeton University’s Firestone...
- Author:Grisham, JohnSummary:
“In American icon John Grisham’s new novel, Camino Winds , an odd assortment of mystery and crime authors, some of them felons themselves, discover one of their colleagues has been murdered during the fury of a massive hurricane—the...
- Author:Parker, MirandaSummary:
Bail recovery agent Angel Crawford isn't sure which is tougher--fighting crime, letting go of the skeletons in her past, or planning for her wedding. Either way, she's dealt with her share of surprises. But just when she least expects...
- Author:Woods, StuartSummary:
Will Lee, the courageous and uncompromising senator from Georgia, is back-now as President of the United States-in this fifth book of the New York Times bestselling series that began with Chiefs. When a prominent conservative politician...
- Author:Dumont, Claudine, Hamilton, David ScottSummary:
In the spirit of Emma Donoghue’s international bestseller Room, Captive throws readers into the mind of a woman who wakes to find herself in a terrifying and surreal situation: she’s confined to a small grey room and she has no idea why...
- Author:Ellis, JoySummary:
A young woman's body is found in a remote barn on the Fens. Before she was killed, one of her fingers had been cut off. Who is inflicting this violence and why? The young woman in the barn had been kept captive for some time. And the...
- Author:Smith, S. E.Summary:
A young woman's trip to join her grandfather on his sailboat turns into a deadly race when he and the Defiance are taken, forcing her to seek help from old friends to discover what happened to him before time runs out.
- Author:Galbraith, RobertSummary:
When a mysterious package is delivered to Robin Ellacott, she is horrified to discover that it contains a woman's severed leg. Her boss, private detective Cormoran Strike, is less surprised but no less alarmed. There are four people...
- Author:Le Fanu, Joseph SheridanSummary:
This was the very first vampire thriller, eventually becoming inspiration for Bram Stoker's Dracula, as well classics by Robert Louis Stevenson. In this tale of blood and terror, pure innocence becomes the target of age-old evil....
- Author:Woods, StuartSummary:
Stone Barrington seems to have a knack for being in the wrong place at the wrong time. When Manhattan's elite are beset by a series of clever crimes-- and Stone is a material witness-- he and his former partner Dino Bacchetti find...
- Author:Geissinger, J. T.Summary:
The devil has blue eyes, an Irish accent, and a hatred for me that runsdeep. He blames me for starting a war. Consorting with his enemies. Getting his men killed. Though I'm innocent on all charges, he wants his pound of flesh. With an...
- Author:Hewson, DavidSummary:
It's February, and Carnival time in Venice. Bright blue skies and freezing temperatures welcome Teresa Lupo, forensic pathologist to the Rome Questura, to the city. She is greeted off the vaporetto by an anonymous masked man dressed as...
- Author:Goldman, MattSummary:
Joey Green returns home to care for his ailing father, who is succumbing to dementia. Although his fathers short-term memory is fading, his oldest memories begin to reveal secrets and scandals long forgotten.
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