Thriller
Books in this category are usually are usually characterized by a rush of excitement, with a building of suspense or apprehension to develop the narrative. Sometimes it can be subtle and sometimes with a rapid pace that is, simply, thrilling.
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Thriller
In Cold Hillside (Cooper) Simon Coltraine is a professional songwriter and musician. His brother Giles - market trader, rogue and amiable bully - is a small-time crook. When Giles is killed in what appears to be a car accident Simon returns to their childhood home to confront his memories . . .
Currents of Deceit (Perkins) On April 20, 2010 the infamous BP oil rig exploded spilling millions of barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico. Images of iridescent oil slicks dominated national and international news for weeks. However, such visible spills are not the only threat . . .
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In Cruel Justice (Comley) the headless body of a wealthy widow is discovered decomposing in Chelling Forest. Detective Inspector Lorne Simpkins and her partner, DS Pete Childs are assigned to the case. A few days later another victim . . .
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In Divine Deception (McKnight) Chelsea, the new Aussie embryologist at the Caltrane Fertility Clinic and Research Center moves into the old Kurtz house. With the ghost of the young woman who died in the house as her roommate, Chelsea finds herself stuck in the middle of a . . .
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In Electronic Crime in Muted Key (Wastnage) Barry Carter, the most unlikely of men, buys a dead body and fakes his death. He scams millions of pounds in an online conspiracy and then disappears, leaving behind a scorned wife and a distraught lover. Thinking his shady past is behind him he reinvents himself on a remote island . . .
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Facebook A passion gone too far (Howells) is about a young women who persues her ex boyfriend in order to tell him the truth about the liason that she had with him. Only to find out that whilst using facebook she was to succumb to the charms of an unemployed layabout . . .
In Gargoyles (Nayes) brilliant pre-med student Amoreena Daniels needs money. Desperately. Her mother is dying of cancer and her medical insurance has run out. When a seemingly perfect women's clinic offers Amoreena a generous payment for service as a surrogate mother, Amoreena thinks her prayers have been answered. But then . . .
Gerard: The Boy Vampire (Frazier) Jack Trask has spent a fortune traveling around the world in search of the one being he feels can save him from a death sentence. Now, in the ruins of “Ransom,” a plantation outside of New Orleans, Jack comes face to face with the creature . . .
In M.O.D. (Allen) a wanted hacker from the ‘80s resurfaces with the means and intent to overthrow what he perceives to be a corrupt government . . .
In Murder He Forgot (Wastnage) Guy Maxwell describes his chilling journey through amnesia and the startling moment when his memory returns and he realises he tried to kill his wife - twice. She’d been having an affair with her boss . . .
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Next Move, You're Dead (Barton) finds Homicide Detective John Cooper caught up in a game that with each move draws him deeper and deeper into a world of which he may never . . .
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Phobia (Shives) Panic invades a quiet town at the discovery of a woman's dead body, bound and covered with poisonous snakes. The grisly homicide ignites the instincts of police consultant Artemis Herne, who must confront his own haunted past . . .
Pinpoint (Taylor) A lawyer, a murderer and a policeman - caught in a tangled web of love, loss, terror and intrigue . . .
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In Playing Harry (Wastnage) Harry Fingle’s brother is killed in suspicious circumstances. Harry, an acclaimed investigative journalist, is fired, for no reason. He vows to discover the truth . . .
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In SAND (Tufel) Dallas is a Special Forces Lieutenant who is driven by his promise to protect the Colonel’s daughter Abby from an opium drug lord. He is torn between duty and his love for . . .
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Second Death (Fitch) is the story of Mark Richards, a normal guy who just wants to go on with his normal life. Wants to ignore his father's suicide attempts and the man's insistence that the family is cursed, and that Mark has to be the one . . .
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Shades of Wyrd (Dennis) Dante Salazar doesn’t know if he’s a drunk who dreamt he was an ancient general, or an ancient general dreaming he’s a drunk. He wakes in Las Vegas, imprisoned in an identity that doesn’t fit him, married to someone he doesn’t remember, and tormented by . . .
Sin (Allan) Dead, dead, dead. Say it enough times and it becomes just another word. What would you do? Could you kill a killer? Does the death of one appease the deaths of a hundred? What about . . .
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Sinnerman (Bradshaw) What if you’d been given a second chance to catch your sister’s killerwould you take it? And if you did, would a maximum sentence behind bars be justice enough, or would he have to pay…with his life?
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In Smilodon (Nayes) Jason Bristol, ex-prize fighter and expert animal tracker, and part-time drunk, teams up with beautiful wildlife biologist Norah Phelps as they pursue a man-eating predator that threatens to derail her father’s prize real estate development project in north central Idaho . . .
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In Spoilt (Ellis) passion turns to envy. Love to murder. One way or another, everyone is spoilt. A sadistic killer is stalking the streets, carving his hatred into the bodies of beautiful, young women . . .
In Stone Song (van Wulven) Ty and Jen want to meet friends, see the sights, and relax. Relax doesn't happen, much, because they run into an unprincipled crew, who use new technology to control people's emotions. All the negative ones, like anger, hate, and fear, are aroused . . .
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Take No More (Kirby) A single act turns James Blake's life upside down. He comes home to find his wife, Julia, shot and bleeding. She dies in his arms. The police are no help. He's sure they're trying to fit him up for the murder . . .
In The Cyclist (Nath) a beautiful young woman is found murdered in the shadow of the Bergerac Prefecture. Auguste Ran, Assistant Chief of Police, suspects Brunner, a German Security Police Major . . .
In The Devil's Weekend (Bronyaur) meet Oliver Ignis. A man desperate for his mother’s love with the constant urge to kill. After years of killing, he’s been given the name . . .
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In The Fishing Trip (Wade) Durham killed his abuser at the age of ten. As an adult and tired of pedophiles having free reign on innocent children, his fishing excursions are to die for. The Fishing Trip is a trial by water, execution and deliverance of retribution . . .
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In The Penhaligan File (Stone) Steven MARK ANDREW Penhaligan uses his middle names when pursuing his career as an investigative journalist and novelist. Little did he suspect his casually innocent use of a pen name would put his life in deadly danger . . .
The Sin of Hope (Lewis) Hired to find the witness to a crime, PI John Daly soon realizes he hasn’t been told everything. With the Vatican and local mobsters also on the man’s trail, does his loyalty . . .
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The Terminal Diner (Hyland) "Men like pie." Who would know the truth behind those words better than Elaina Brady's mother Maria? Months after she showed her teenage daughter how to bake perfect pie and hours after offering that culinary wisdom, Maria abandons Elaina, her sister Dee Dee and their father Walt. All it took was a lingering, lusty look . . .
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In The Trojan Device (Edis) a mysterious signal has been picked up by Echelon, the most highly advanced tracking system in the world, emanating from Ayers Rock in central Australia, the Great Pyramid in Giza, and deep below the surface of Mars . . .
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In The Watcher (Robertson) forensic psychiatrist Kate Myers believes the killer of two teenage girls in Bigler County, California, is the same man who savagely murdered her twin sister over fifteen years ago. Working with a single-minded tenacity, she sets out to prove it . . .
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In This Time You Lose (Stralyn) Lisa Kaamp operates a small childcare business out of her home in Nogeksum, Michigan. Highly respected and known for going the extra mile for her daycare kids, she thinks she’s handled every daycare emergency possible. But nothing prepares her for the horror . . .
Toxicity (Hellmann) Ten years before EASY INNOCENCE, PI Georgia Davis was a police officer on the force in a Chicago suburb. And while homicides are rare on the North Shore, three bodies turn up in quick succession—all of them dumped in waste disposal dumpsters or landfills . . .
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In Welcome to Killville, USA (Yarwood) Matt Sichman wakes up in a hotel room in New York with a bag full of money that shouldn’t belong to him. After being thrown out of his hotel for some dark misdeeds, he heads to Killville, a crazily hot town where more people have died in ‘accidental shootings’ than anywhere else in America . . .
In White Russian (Richbourg) Alexei Kikalishvili demands justice for the brutal murder of the parents of eight-year-old Maria Tarpischeva. Since the authorities refused to take action, even in the face of Alexei's eyewitness account, the former intelligence officer hatched the Peterhof Progression, his own retribution scheme against Peter Tatumov, the Kirov Mafiya leader responsible for the killings . . .
Winter Prey (Simmons) Terrified she will harm hew newly-adoped daughter in the throes of a PTSD flashback, Kymbria James travels to the far Northwood of Minnesota to work with a Native American healer. As the monster captures one after another . . .
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