Suspense/Thriller

Her passion for myth and magic leads a woman into the heart of a murderous evil.... On a remote stretch of the rugged coast of Ireland, folklorist and illustrator Keira Sullivan pursues the mysterious Irish legend of an ancient Celtic stone angel. As she searches an isolated ruin, she's certain she's discovered the mythic angel, but before she can examine her find, she senses a malevolent presence.... Is someone in there with her? Then the ruin collapses, trapping her. Keira's uncle, a Boston ho... more info>>

Michael Modesto, a hard-living rock star, in a vision is given extraordinary healing powers and is told: "I am the Word and you are My messenger." But he is not told the message, only to "Beware the Antichrist." Torn by doubt because he is not worthy of being God's messenger, and plagued by guilt because he does not want the responsibility, but knowing that the only way he can return to his old decadent life is to discover and deliver the "message," Michael reluctantly takes on the role of heale... more info>>

Matthew Johnson comes out of a supposed deep sleep, only to find he is bound to a chair, a hood over his head. As his mind clears, he remembers his drugged abduction, quick and professional. He is soon subjected to a beating for answers to questions that he does not know. What becomes clear is the reason. He is a Secret Intelligence Service analyst. In the course of his normal duties he comes across a file containing up to date intelligence on wanted terrorist Mohammed Abdul Ibrahim not contai... more info>>

Alison Fairmont Villard wakes in a hospital bed with a face she doesn't recognize and a husband she doesn't know. Andrew Villard, a self-made millionaire, has a bright future but a shadowy past. When he tells Alison the details of their life together, she has no choice but to believe him--and to accept the shocking proposal he offers. It isn't just the partial amnesia that Alison suffers. She has her own terrifying secrets that can't be entrusted to anyone, even Andrew. Even the police suspect h... more info>>

Shot while trying to prevent the kidnapping, murder, and brutal despoilment of her thirteen-year-old daughter, Southern California book editor Catherine Desmond has a "tunnel-of-light" experience. "There is something only you can do," the spirits tell her, and she is returned intact to her former life--or is she? When she recovers, Catherine finds herself gifted--or cursed--with astral projection, and to her dismay finds herself linked psychically with her daughter's murderer. But he too can pro... more info>>

Classic thriller fiction, with the original queen of mystery, Mary Roberts Rinehart. This is it, the original Girl-in-Danger Story.

THE BLEEDING HELLS by Barry Reese continues the amazing adventures of Max Davies aka The Rook, a hero in the grand pulp fiction tradition such as The Spider, The Shadow, and others who came to life in the early part of the 20th Century. This special stand-alone tale also features heroes and villains from two pulp magazines: Ascott Keane and Doctor Satan from "Weird Tales", and The Black Bat from "Black Book Detective". This is a two-fisted thrilling tale that will please all fans of Heroic Actio... more info>>

Two men dead, one a respected investigative journalist, the other a member of the White House legal staff. Both deaths are quickly pronounced suicides, but FBI special agent Mike Saville and US Park Police Sergeant Lowri Pritchard aren't so sure. Seems there are a few too many "coincidences" that link the dead men together. As the two investigations merge in the Nation's Capital, and the bodies and conspiracy theories pile up like DC traffic, Saville and Pritchard will soon discover that the tru... more info>>

The United States Marine Corps is a legendary fighting force. Literally thousands of books and movies have glorified its history. But now a Marine veteran has written a novel that opens up the curtain and provides a look deep inside the modern Corps: the good, the bad, and the sometimes just plain embarrassing. Lieutenant Mike Galway takes command of his first platoon and it is not at all what he bargained for. What he anticipated was the challenge of training a unit of disciplined Marine infan... more info>>

Lisa Palmer has barely recovered from the sudden death of her husband when she is drawn into a new nightmare. On her way home from upstate New York, Lisa stops at a service center minutes before an armored car heist. Four men are executed before her eyes-one, an off-duty FBI agent she tried to help. Now Lisa is the FBI's secret witness and the key to finding the fugitive killers.FBI agent Frank Morrow leads the investigation of the high-profile case. Hiding a very personal secret, Frank knows th... more info>>

The Camaro Murders chronicles the perspective of personalities adrift in the wake of a small town tragedy. When a local girl disappears, Sheriff Eustace Hildersham focuses on the suspect vehicle--a black Camaro. Behind the wheel of the Camaro, a murdered soul known as The Driver wanders between the living and the dead, at odds with himself and the girl's killer. Culver Crisp, the girl's childhood friend, shoulders the guilt of having put her in harm's way as well as the knowledge he should hav... more info>>

"The CEO" is a fast paced corporate thriller of loves come and gone, innovation, resilience, corporate philanthropy, vision, and deception. Corporate business leaders are protected by their own small armies of private security whose power will surprise. The story takes the reader behind the scenes and into the back office meetings of both corporations and countries; travelling from Denver to New York to London to Bogota and to Paris. As Mitch and his team of loyalists' race against time they a... more info>>

Archaeologist Annja Creed believes there's more to the apparitions of Santo Nino--the Holy Child--luring thousands of pilgrims to Santa Fe. Other sightings of strange and anomalous creatures in the area indicate a mystery more profane than sacred--with links, perhaps, to Annja's own fate. But she is not alone in her quest to separate reliquaries from unholy minds who dare to harness sinister power. A dangerous yet enigmatic Jesuit, sworn to protect the Vatican at any cost, a brilliant young arti... more info>>

Were the Deaths in the Old House Caused by a Curse or a Killer? The Marsie Clarrington, aging matriarch, knew all the horror that had been inflicted on her family over the generations. She should, she was one of its last surviving members. For years she had been living in the family mansion amid the ghosts of her melancholy memories of tragedy and death. But now a series of strange events has forced Marsie to summon, Evan Clarrington, now a successful young attorney living in a distant state, ba... more info>>

She lies in a pool of her own blood. More blood decorates one wall in macabre finger paintings. The victim is a fortune teller from the Little Saigon community of Westminster, California--a seemingly random murder. Detective Seven Bushard wonders cynically if she saw it coming. When local artist Gia Moon shows up at the precinct claiming to have had visions of another murder yet to happen, Seven doesn't buy it. Some say Gia's paintings give a glimpse into the next world, but all Seven knows is c... more info>>

It's the glamour of 1961 Hollywood and the frightening power of a secret. It's murder, scandal, and historic events. It's all wrapped up in a love story. The Color of Blood is the story of Hollywood's favorite movie star, Miranda Lane, and the seemingly unstoppable force that threatens to destroy her. Fame, fortune, and everlasting love are all at stake. It's the battle of her life.

Unnoticed by the police or the public, a number of important executives of different software companies have died by accident and their companies sold to the same bidder. At the same time, a group of Russian software experts, at the direction of a man known only as "The Controller", are undertaking the theft of software from a company by tapping into their internal computer network. When a series of accidents begin happening to John Packard, the CTO of the company under attack, he teams up with ... more info>>

Saddam is gone, Arafat is dead, and a new Iraq is rising. But when a suicide bomber strikes Washington and assassinations unfold from London to Los Angeles, Jon Bennett and Erin McCoy are drawn back into a world of terror they thought was over. At the heart of the mystery lies a 2,000-year-old scroll describing unimaginable treasures that could lead to the Third Jewish Temple. Some call it history's greatest treasure map. Others call it a road map to Armageddon. But the time to find the truth is... more info>>

A young man is found murdered, his bones crushed nearly to dust before his body was dumped into New York's East River In New York there are hundreds of murders a year, but this one is different. Somebody is sending a message. And shockingly, the victim has ties to my brother, Stephen Gaines, recently murdered by an elusive drug lord known only as the Fury. For years this kingpin has been shrouded in darkness. Stephen was executed just as he was about to shed some light. Working alongside my ment... more info>>

Dr. Terry Ryder is special advisor to the President on bioterror preparedness; he has spent a decade attempting to anticipate which microbes might be weaponized and unleashed. When patients begin to present with slight tremors and numbness in their limbs, it takes him a while to realize that this is an attack. The answers he seeks elude him, and dark episodes from his past appear connected to the mystery. Medical Thriller by Peter Clement, M.D.; originally published by Belgrave House

They possess no pulse, nor a heartbeat. Their lungs have long since discarded the need to regulate oxygen. Logical thought escapes them, as does such common emotional states as happiness, sadness, or depression. The age-old weaknesses of man, such as lust, greed, or envy, no longer apply. Yet they walk. They desire. They pursue--relentlessly. They hunger ... insatiably--infinitely. Spawned by a deadly, mysterious plague that ravaged the earth's population seemingly overnight, the reanimated dead... more info>>

Ex-CIA Johnny Walker of all people should have known Charlie wouldn't die easy. Soon after they meet again, this time atop a Mexican pyramid ruin, agent Summers squirms, rope-bound between two pillars. She's become an unwilling pawn of Charlie's evil plan to wreak revenge on Walker. Charlie never was known for fighting fair--at the apex of the battle between them, Charlie puts Walker into a deep hypnotic trance with a buzzword his thugs got from Walker's psychiatrist after they shot him. A sudde... more info>>

What can stand between America and a plague that devours human bodies from the inside out.... Cases of sudden, unexplained deaths--marked by rapid decomposition--are cropping up across the U.S. Their cause: a super-microbe that causes flesh-eating disease so aggressive that victims die within an hour and infect dozens more. Suspecting bio-terrorists at work, Homeland Security is willing to bend any rule to find the source of the deadly infection, even if it means resurrecting a "dead" Iraqi bioc... more info>>

Genevieve O'Brien knows all about nightmares. She survived for two months as the prisoner of a deranged killer. Now a new menace is stalking the streets of New York. The media are buzzing about the Poe Killings, a string of homicides mirroring the author's macabre stories. Almost without exception, the victims have been members of a literary society devoted to the master of crime fiction--and Genevieve's own mother may be next. Spooked by the bizarre slayings, Genevieve turns to P.I. Joe Connoll... more info>>

Writer's block is nothing compared to the sinister assignment London-based novelist Matt Wells has just received. A chain of seemingly innocent e-mails from a devoted fan turns deadly when Matt discovers the correspondent is a cold-blooded killer with an agenda for murder--and his family and friends are among the scheduled victims. Under close surveillance, Matt is plunged into a plot more twisted than any he has used in his novels. This is the real thing, and with each killing, the man known as... more info>>