Suspense/Thriller

"Plausible--Difficult To Put Down!" The December Conspiracy is a gripping new thriller which rivals the work of Robert Harris and Len Deighton. Kirkus Reviews hails it for, "Mixing real and fictional characters, Read has constructed an entirely plausible scenario. The plot makes the book difficult to put down, and it certainly lingers in the mind." In late December 1940, the British people are fighting for survival in the war against Germany. The Earl of Westrow, a Fascist supporter, puts into e... more info>>

There is a secret history to the World and it is known to only a few. Beyond the history books and behind the headlines, there are mysteries that can never be revealed, unbelievable stories that can never know the light of day. Only a small group of brave, dedicated men and women dare know these things. Only a few can know the unknowable. They are the protectors, the soldiers who hold back the onslaught of Darkness. For centuries, they have worked in the shadows, keeping the enemies of civilizat... more info>>

On June 17, 1982 the body of a well dressed man is found hanging under London's Blackfriars Bridge with no identification, however in his pockets are brick and $15,000 in various currencies. Murder? Suicide? Inspector 'Serge Porter' is called in to investigate the case when it is discovered the hanged man is one other than Roberto Calvi, an Italian banker, chairman and director of Banco Ambrosiano. The story is intermixed in a series of flashbacks of Calvi's early life up to the age of 17 unti... more info>>

"Let me make clear from the outset, I detest adventure. It's tasteless, showy, vulgar, and uncalled for." So begins this delicious thriller about a gay interior decorator who joins his super-wealthy clients for a Caribbean cruise, only to find himself shanghaied by pirates. Bound hand and foot and tossed unceremoniously into a quaint, Paul Gauguin sort of hut picturesquely thatched with banana leaves, Gregory fears he will be boiled à la langouste and served without so much as a creative s... more info>>

The Past--The Cheyenne Dog Soldiers of the old west, or Hoe-tuh met-tuh nay-yoh, were skilled warriors serving as a last line of defense, the embodiment of purity and sacrifice. Many gave their lives protecting the tribe from enemies. In November 1864, one hundred Cheyenne escaped the Colorado Sand Creek massacre and were chased into Montana, disappearing into the snow-capped mountains, never to be seen again. The Present--Intrepid anthropologist Jessica Corbett leads a team of nine diggers into... more info>>

A woman's desperate search to find out what happened to the daugher who disappeared seven years ago leads her from a quaint collectibles shop in New Orleans into a murky Louisiana bayou and the shadowy ancestral home of an eccentric dollmaker whose "portrait" dolls resemble missing children. Set in the steamy, violent world of the Louisiana Gulf Coast, The Dollmaker is the story of obsession, redemption and a love reborn from the ashes of despair. Author Amanda Stevens is a popular and prolific ... more info>>

Archaeologist Annja Creed and her sword have never been outmatched--until now. When a surprise party for her mentor Roux includes some uninvited guests, Annja finds herself fighting desperately for her life. The intruders escape but leave a sinister message behind.A legend has resurfaced about a sword that should be feared. A sword that seeks a master as bloodthirsty as itself. It is wielded by an assassin known as the Dragon who initiates a terrible game of cat and mouse. Eventually, the two sw... 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>>

Everyone Is In Peril When the Serial Killer Known As "The Duce of Pentacles" Begins to Juggle ... Fans of Dean Koontz and Clive Barker will love this page-turning tale of bone-chilling suspense that blends mystery and the paranormal with a vicious serial killer stalking a small town. James Makinen is a beaten man. His wife has left him taking their children across country to a different state. His boss wants to fire him. A young girl has accused him of statutory rape. But those are the least of ... more info>>

Three Woman ... One Man ... A Gathering Storm.... In the path of a devastating hurricane, three very different women find themselves trapped in the elevator of a high-rise office building. All three conceal shattering secrets--unaware that their secrets center on the same man. The betrayed wife, eager to confront her faithless husband, with rage in her heart and a gun in her pocket... The determined mistress, finally ready to tell her lover she wants marriage and a family... The fugitive cleanin... more info>>

The dark parking garage with the dead body of his friend and mentor only begins Jake Walker's problems. Soon, he is the prime suspect in Benjamin Monroe's murder and worried that his best friend, Ben's daughter, will believe the worst. Celeste doesn't know who killed her father but she does know one thing--it wasn't Jake. As she and Jake set out to find the killer, they discover that her father unlocked the code to a fountain of youth formula. Anyone who wanted the formula could have killed him,... more info>>

The Escape Artist is a "How-will-he-get-out-of-it" Thriller, with a touch of the supernatural, gangsters, Houdini's Ghost, Japanese killers, Voodoo, a love triangle and six (count 'em: six) impossible death traps that challenge Timothy Locke, the pacifist/loner hero of the book. On the eve of the millennium, someone tries to kill Locke during an escape from between the Twin Towers. In hunting the assassin, he is drawn into the world of voodoo from his past and a conspiracy that goes back to his ... more info>>

It's the new millennium, and the new military dictator of Iraq, Khalid Ribat, threatens Israel with nuclear holocaust. The weapon is New Babylon, a gigantic cannon originally begun by Saddam Hussein but hidden during the Gulf War. A group of Russian military and political leaders bent on returning Russia to this former glory have joined forces with Khalid to complete the super cannon and even supply him with the plutonium needed for the nuclear warheads. The Israelis soon learn of New Babylon bu... more info>>

When Russia's richest oil baron is killed, Moscow suddenly teeters on the verge of political chaos. Tehran races to complete its nuclear arsenal. Washington finds herself dangerously divided from her European allies. A new evil looms on the horizon. A dictator is rising in Russia. Iran is feverishly building nuclear weapons. A new axis of evil is emerging, led by Moscow and Tehran. And Jon Bennett and Erin McCoy, two senior White House advisors, find themselves facing the most chilling question ... more info>>

Upon his wife's death, a lonely old man's memory is stirred and a past he had forgotten spurs him to action. A dead man tells tales and he listens closely. He begins a hunt to unravel a mystery that involves his own past. With the intensity born of 'that need to know' he pursues the trail of a criminal who is involved with spies, and in the process identifies a network of trained killers. Who were they after, and why? And what world power was behind it all? An old friend urges him on with a moti... more info>>

The espionage game has a brand-new rule book. Agents joining the international clandestine group known as Room 59 are the new spymasters. Working beyond the reach of government bureaucracy, Room 59 recruits only the best of the best. The risks, the rewards--and the rush--are worth everything, including the ultimate sacrifice. After a routine surveillance mission on a quiet London street goes awry, operative David Southerland's reaction leaves him branded a cowboy. While his quick thinking gained... more info>>

Young Elisha Ambrose's life is mired in the mundane until he meets a dealer in rare books, who shows him his greatest prize, a rare medieval Japanese book. Elisha befriends the old bookseller so he can read from the book and imbibe the beauty of its images. He quickly he becomes fixated on it. His fixation hurls him into a maelstrom of obsession and delusion. He risks everything he thinks he holds dear in this world as he becomes possessed with irresistible and unexplainable impulses. Two parall... more info>>

In the skies over war-torn Europe, a Lancaster bomber with its crew is fighting for its life. Myers Stone had exchanged his books on Archaeology to help fight this war. His role as a mid-upper gunner lets him shoot at the enemy. Unknown to him, the gunner in the forward turret holds a secret so important that he and his country will do anything to find it. Karl Wurt is new to the crew, an American of German birth who has come to help fight the war, but he holds a secret and is now following a pl... more info>>

Am I my brother's keeper? If I'd known I had a brother, I might have been. But he's dead--shot point-blank in a rat-hole apartment, wasted by hunger and heroin. Stephen Gaines, a man with whom I shared nothing...except a father. For some reason this stranger who shared my blood came to me for help...and I blew him off thinking he was just some junkie. Now I'm forced to question everything I ever knew...and figure out why this man was murdered in cold blood. All I can do for Stephen Gaines now i... more info>>

Schoolteacher Faith Cody thinks she has the perfect summer job as nanny to Nicholas Price's two visiting children, but the children are kidnapped, and she and Nick are compelled to join forces to steal the ransom--documents incriminating vicious criminals. As an investigative journalist trained in the ways of the professional cat burglar, Nick has the skill to steal the hidden documents, but their dangerous owner guards the documents well since they prevent his death. Thrown into this life and d... more info>>

From the moment sixteen-year-old Madison Grant is abducted, an unthinkable terrorist plot is set in motion--pitting Special Agent Kelly Jones against her most powerful adversary yet. The kidnapper's ransom demands aren't monetary...they come at a cost that no American can afford to pay. As Kelly's fiancé, Jake Riley, races to find Madison, Kelly is assigned to another disturbing case: the murder and dismemberment of a senator. At first the two cases don't appear to be related. But as Kelly navi... more info>>

When Russell Williams -- an unwitting pawn in a high-stakes power game -- is forced to kill several Florida vacationers, a master plan is set in motion, and the only person who can save Williams from death row has no notion of the forces pitted against him, or just how high up the pyramid the conspiracy goes. Set against a backdrop stretching from scenic Daytona Beach to the halls of power of Washington , D.C. , The Gauntlet is a story of greed and corruption, of serpentine trouble in paradise.

EMBEDDED IN THE ALASKAN GLACIER... evidence that would overturn more than a century of western thinking. This discovery sets off a deadly chain-reaction that stretches across the continent and changes the lives of several people, including a dissatisfied young Pennsylvanian man and a heartbroken Inuit woman. Learn how an entire culture was seduced by an illusion...and to what extremes powerful people might go to preserve it!

Tinsey James believes in all things supernatural. When her father dies unexpectedly, she isn't surprised when his ghost shows up, but she still has no idea how to cope with the pain. With her family in shock, Tinsey feels it's up to her to fill the void he's left. Her mother is vulnerable, her brother unreliable, and her own son, Mickey, won't quit calling for his grandfather. As advertisers and bullying customers begin circling her bookshop, Tinsey must cling to other-worldly encounters with he... more info>>

If she'd only turned her head, she would have seen the car containing her daughter, struggling to escape her kidnapper. Despite years determining the fates of families, family court judge Hope Willis couldn't save her own. Now she's grasping at any hope for Krissy's rescue. She calls Casey Woods and her team of investigators, Forensic Instincts.A behaviorist. A techno-wizard. An intuitive. A former Navy SEAL. Unconventional operatives. All with unique talents and reasons for joining Casey's grou... more info>>