Emily Bird is an African American high school senior in Washington D.C., member of a privileged medical family, on the verge of college and the edge of the drug culture, and not really sure which way she will go--then one day she wakes...
Thrillers (Fiction)
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Author:Johnson, Alaya DawnSummary: - Author:Hawkins, JamesSummary:
A bizarre series of suicides by elderly women in England raises the eyebrow of newly promoted Chief Inspector David Bliss, who soon discovers that all the women had recently sent large sums of money to a Western Union account in...
- Author:Woods, StuartSummary:
It seems like just another quiet night at Elaine's. Stone Barrington and his former cop partner, Dino, take on client Herbie Fisher who claims to have won $14 millon on a lucky lotto ticket. Herbie says he needs a lawyer-- but a...
- Author:March, MeghanSummary:
New York Times bestselling author Meghan March continues the story of ruthless, calculating billionaire Jericho Forge in Luck of the Devil. My poker face has always been one of my greatest assets, along with my grit and determination. I...
- Author:Stapley, MarissaSummary:
A thrilling roller-coaster ride about a heist gone terribly wrong, with a plucky protagonist who will win readers' hearts. What if you had the winning ticket that would change your life forever, but you couldn't cash it in?...
- Author:Wilson, Pat, Wood, KrisSummary:
Lucky Strike is a light-hearted laugh-out-loud mystery with a cast of characters who epitomize life Down East. Eric Spratt, a conservative accountant from Toronto, is forced to flee to the remote Eastern Shore of Nova Scotia and there,...
- Author:Anderson, JamesSummary:
Ben Jones, protagonist of the glowingly reviewed Never-Open Desert Diner, returns in a devastatingly powerful literary crime novel about parenthood, loss, and the desert in winter. Winter has come to Highway 117, a remote road through...
- Author:Blaise, ClarkSummary:
Clark Blaise's Lunar Attractions is the story of David Greenwood, the fantasy-driven son of a too-charming, two-timing furniture salesman. David is cerebral, sensitive, sickly, and inexperienced'but when a shocking sexual awakening...
- Author:Sandford, JohnSummary:
Bonnie and Clyde, they thought. And what's-his-name, the sidekick. Three teenagers with dead-end lives, and chips on their shoulders, and guns. The first person they killed was a highway patrolman. The second was a woman during a...
- Author:Bisson, AlexandreSummary:
A tragic story of infidelity, murder, and a mother's love in turn-of-the-century France. When Jacqueline Floriot's husband, Louis, finds her in the arms of another man, she and her lover flee the house. Two years later,...
- Author:Clark, Michael J.Summary:
Racing to find a killer before he strikes again, an unlikely investigator is haunted by an even more unlikely source in this gripping crime novel. "Clark writes well and has created some amusingly zany characters." - Publishers Weekly...
- Author:Haig, BrianSummary:
Dispatched to investigate the suicide of one of DCs most influential defense officials, an ardent, early supporter of the war in Iraq, Army lawyer Sean Drummond and his female partner find themselves in the middle of a tug-of-war...
- Author:McLeod, ChrisSummary:
Centres around Watt, a writer in middle-aged decline, who has a talent for procrastination and inaction. The story unfolds like a psychological thriller, carefully peeling back the layers of Watt's life, revealing clues. As the police,...
- Author:Krueger, William KentSummary:
In the extraordinary new Cork O'Connor thriller from New York Times bestselling and Edgar Award-winning author William Kent Krueger, the lives of hundreds of innocent people are at stake when Cork vanishes just days before his daughter'...
- Author:Freeman, BrianSummary:
When new photographs surface, detective Jonathan Stride discovers that the motive behind a bombing in Duluth may not have been terrorism at all. But can the truth be discovered before more innocent people are killed?
- Author:Land, JonSummary:
A drone-based terrorist attack in Israel kills dozens on a sun-splashed beach in Caesarea as America awakens to the shattering news that Vice President Stephanie Davenport has died of an apparent heart attack. That same morning, a...
- Author:Hansen, ValerieSummary:
EMT Kaitlin North can't believe the shooting victim at an isolated Ozark cabin is the man who once saved her life. Now the only way she can keep undercover police officer Daniel Ryan alive is to help him elude the hitmen on his trail....
- Author:Battershill, AndrewSummary:
For a guy who mugs people for their laptops, Tommy Marlo isn’t such a bad guy. He can’t help trying to make the people he meets — even those he mugs — feel better about their situation. Unfortunately for Tommy, he rips off the daughter...
- Author:McClintock, NorahSummary:
When Daniel enters a convenience store on a secret mission, he doesn't expect to run into anyone he knows. That would ruin everything. And when Rosie enters the same store to see what her father wants, she's hoping to make a quick...
- Author:Sandford, JohnSummary:
Lucas Davenport investigates a vitriolic blog that seems to be targeting the children of U.S. politicians in the latest thriller by #1 New York Times- bestselling author John Sandford. The daughter of a U.S. Senator is monitoring her...
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