Suspense/Thriller

Jackson Holt makes a decent living as a private investigator in New Orleans, home of one of the largest underground supernatural populations in the United States. He and his partners have never met a case they couldn't crack--until a local bar owner asks him to do a little digging on her newest hire. New Orleans is the fourth destination in as many months for Mackenzie Brooks, a woman on the run from a deranged stalker. After all, any man who shows up on her doorstep claiming to be her destin... more info>>

A criminal kingpin has taken over the streets of New Orleans and he's not just dealing in guns, drugs and fixed fights-he's handing out death warrants to all who refuse his orders. Before any more people disappear, Washington decides it's time to shut this operation down, and Mack Bolan is just the man for the job.But infiltrating the organization comes with a price, as Bolan is put through a series of tests that challenge not only his moral code but also his life. He'll play the mobsters' games... more info>>

American Johnny Walker, an apparent African barfly, has an irreverent, caustic way about him. When he meets the naïve, sometimes comical Harlow, it is not under the best of circumstances. Harlow has narrowly escaped the clutches of the local police who have taken offence to the prospect of a feature exposé on them she plans to write for her daddy's newspaper. The corrupt and immoral cops have plans to throw her in a jail that makes bug infested Mexican hoosgows seem tame in comparison. Understan... more info>>

Female prisoners of a German concentration camp have no bright future. Eva Starsky is sixteen and made the sex slave of a sadistic Gestapo Officer but the Russians are close. She escapes death by smuggling herself to Belsen concentration camp where she suffers more horrors. She is rescued by Scott Morris, a British officer who now works at a displaced persons camp. They fall in love and marry. Scott takes a job in Australia looking after migrants who are about to work on the huge Snowy Mountain ... more info>>

Infected terrorists carry genetically engineered bio-warfare agents to unsuspecting populations. All humans die except those isolated in Cheyenne Mountain. Dr. Marcy Whites resurrects V5, a prehistoric bacterium capable of creating synthetic oil, but bio-terrorism quickly overshadows her successes. People die by the millions when a genetically-engineered disease is inadvertently released in Mecca. Carried by fanatical Ambulatory Infectious Agents, the disease spreads like wildfire with a 100% ki... more info>>

Tess McCallum is a blonde, gray-eyed, single and totally dedicated FBI agent whose work and personal life have both been stuck in neutral since the traumatic night she came home to find her fellow FBI agent, and secret lover, ritually murdered by the slippery sex-killer she had been pursuing. Her target, Mobius is a crafty, complex and completely insane serial killer. His unique scariness is because he's so ordinary, an everyman who could be just about anyone...or anywhere. Now, two unnervingl... more info>>

A man with his head shoved into a toilet, simple murder or something far more sinister? In the middle of the 21st century, felon Michael Spinner is given the chance of a lifetime--he can redeem his future by traveling back in time to kill the man who ruined his life. Meanwhile, at the start of the 21st century, homicide detective Jennifer Castle is stymied by an impossible case. Several people--including a pregnant woman and her unborn child--have been killed by a weapon that just doesn't exist.... more info>>

For Tracy Wiley, life is smooth sailing. Armed with a sharp wit and sharper mind, she has everything under control, taking things as they come. At least until her boyfriend breaks up with her and she takes a singles' cruise to Jamaica to get over him. On the ship, she meets a charismatic rogue who seems to seek only platonic companionship. Back home in Miami Beach, however, her vacation friendship sweeps her into a dangerous world of international intrigue where everyone has two faces, including... more info>>

Pink. Orange. White. Indigo. In the ruthless and unforgiving world of mercenaries, these are the code names of an elite group of assassins, known collectively as the Black Cross. They leave behind no DNA, no evidence at all--and until they were recruited by the shadowy group, they were the best and deadliest operatives working for the U.S. government. When someone begins targeting retired American servicemen--CIA, navy and marines--Stony Man decides to send Black Cross a new recruit: Mack Bolan... more info>>

Fire and flesh simply don't mesh, as Dr. Dean Grant and Dr. Sybil Shanley learn in their hunt for a serial killer who loves to see his victims burned to a crisp. The management of fire-blackened bodies in a forensics lab takes precedence here, and Grant is fighting for his career and reputation in his effort to put the mad firebug either away or down. Predating Silence of the Lambs, the Dean Grant series is a must read for Thomas Harris fans.

Psychiatrist Robin Cameron seems on the verge of success with an experimental program that uses a magnetic helmet to trigger, then modify, old angers that cause criminal behavior. She has been working with a promising candidate for behavior modification, an atypical serial killer Justin Gray--his murders of high school girls involved mixed motivation--he didn't torture them or sexually molest them, and he has to drink to deal with death. Another, very reluctant, subject of her experimental tre... more info>>

In this nerve-wracking sequel to THE WARRIORS OF GOD, Richard Welsh returns, now working as an aide to a U.S. Senator. Three U.S. Marine security guards are gunned down by unknown assailants at an outdoor caf� in Guatemala City, far from Afghanistan and the world's attention. Could it be terrorism, or backlash from the war on drugs? Welsh is sent down to Guatemala to investigate, for the most mundane of reasons: the father of one of the dead Marines was a major political contributor.... more info>>

Tabitha Solo thought nothing of dropping the name of Scot Cunningham, the object of her high school crush who recently died in a car crash, as the inspiration for her first hit song, "Dreamer," during a TV interview. But now, the F.B.I. is asking about him, people are following her, and Carren Bixby--Tabitha's manager and Scot's one-time girlfriend--is behaving suspiciously. When Tabitha finds a listening device in her bedroom, she runs away and hires private detective Jack Watson. Jack met Tabi... more info>>

Doctor Mathew (Matt) Hightower has it all. A beautiful wife, wonderful daughters, income, a growing medical practice, and the respect of his community. He's completely shocked when an ambitious Assistant DA leads the police into his clinic, announcing his arrest for drug dealing in front of his patients and the national media. Matt had made a mistake...he'd perscribed too much medication to one patient, but he's sure he doesn't deserve this nightmare. Unfortunately for Matt, the nightmare only g... more info>>

Terror has been made?but not controlled. When a hysterical man runs into the woods, screaming that he is being chased by angels, he is dismissed by police as being little more than a lunatic or a drug addict. But as two detectives from the Whitewater Falls police detachment start to investigate the man's disappearance, they uncover the clues that lead to a reclusive commune, abandoned children, and a supernatural force that is beginning to attack the citizens of their own town. Together th... more info>>

A mild-mannered Alaskan hunting guide is forced to the brink of madness in a fight, not only against bears but against humans--the most skillful predators of all. Sam Eastman has just lost his guide license. An old friend and mentor, Bill Harms, tells him about a job nursemaiding some unique clients. At first, Eastman's job seems simple enough--babysit reclusive Mr. Nakamura and his beautiful young secretary, Yosi, through a six-week wilderness vacation on one of Alaska's Aleutian Islands. Sam s... more info>>

FBI Special Agent Maggie O'Dell is just starting a vacation when she gets a call from her friend, psychologist Dr. Gwen Patterson. One of Gwen's patients is missing on a trip to Connecticut. Can Maggie look into Joan Begley's disappearance? At first Maggie dismisses Gwen's concern. But when the body of a woman is discovered in an abandoned rock quarry in Connecticut, Maggie heads to the small town on "unofficial" business. Soon the shocking news surfaces that more bodies have been discovered, an... more info>>

When Decoy detective Ryne Lanark pursues his own vendetta, his actions cost lives, and sometimes lives he cherishes. A brutal and bizarre killer is on the loose in Chicago, one that refuses to be catagorize. Still, Lanark is in hot pursuit of a maniac who is bent on taking various and sundry body parts from each victim. The question becomes what is the madman doing with the body parts? A heart here, a kidney there, a torso over here.... Even as he is chasing this insane killer, Lt. Ryne Lanark h... more info>>

Stopping a holdup at a convenience store, rescuing hostages from a bank robbery, saving a dog from a burning building, and bringing in a fugitive from justice are all in a day's work for Federal Agent Zach Taylor-until a chance encounter with his former girlfriend, Erin McShane, a television journalist hot on the trail of a popular Congressman with ties to organized crime, stirs up feelings he thought were long gone. Meanwhile, a bag of rare blue diamonds stolen from Greek Jews during the Holoca... more info>>

With a Ruger Blackhawk .357 under her pillow, a Browning A-Bolt Stainless Stalker rifle in her broom closet, and a Saturday Night Special in her road-hog cookie jar, Detective Leslie Bolt's sarcastic attitude and inability to trust, alienates her from most people. Forced to work a serial murder case with her ex-lover, she begins a budding romance with the department's new medical examiner, but which man will she choose? "The State Quarter Killer" is selecting victims that appear to have nothin... more info>>

Kate and Richard Ryan have the perfect marriage--marred only by their inability to have a child. The adoption agency's call fulfills that dream ... and opens the door to a nightmare.... Julianna Starr has chosen Kate and Richard to be more than the parents of her child. For Richard is the man of her fantasies, the one she's been waiting for. Stalking the couple, Julianna molds herself in Kate's image and insinuates herself into Richard's life, determined to tear their perfect marriage apart. But... more info>>

Maverick FBI special agent Tess McCallum (nicknamed "Super Fed" by an adoring media) (the central investigator in previous novel, Next Victim) is back and she's got a new partner, one she doesn't want and doesn't trust. She's chasing a vicious kidnapper known as the "Rain Man," who leaves his victims chained up in vast storm drain system underneath Los Angeles and doomed to drown unless their ransom is paid on time, and only by the City of Los Angeles, to his off-shore bank account. A freelance... more info>>

An ancient order tied to the Vatican ... A blood fortune buried in the caves of France ... A conspiracy of power, greed and darkest evil ... Archaeologist and explorer Annja Creed's fascination with the myths and mysteries of the past leads her to a crypt in the caves of France, where the terrifying legend of the Beast of Gevaudan hints at the unimaginable. What she discovers is shattering: an artifact that will seal her destiny; a brotherhood of monks willing to murder to protect their secret; ... more info>>

Floaters is Dean Grant, Chicago ME at his best as he tracks a killer who, for whatever psychotic reasoning, enjoys watching his victims drown. This is a killer who helps his victims to water. For Dr. Dean Grant, it is a nightmare, as the victims range in age and sex from the young and old. The thrill of watching his victims struggle for life in the water is at bottom of the murders. For Dean Grant, working on a floating victim is the worst kind of horror imaginable, and his assistant, Dr. Sybil ... more info>>

Hunting Lure, #1 in the Decoy series holds all the establishing shots. It establishes how an up and coming, successful young actor can dump his career in order to use his skills to hunt human prey as a Chicago police detective. Young Ryne Lanark is called back to Chicago at the height of his acting career as his parents have been murdered in cold blood inside their neighborhood bar, the tavern that bought him acting lessons. His sister, too has been raped and murdered by the same gang of animals... more info>>