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Former cop Matt Stromsoe believes his past is settled after the man who killed his family is imprisoned.
Storm Runners
Thriller · Action Thriller
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Former cop Matt Stromsoe believes his past is settled after the man who killed his family is imprisoned. A protection job shatters that illusion when a stalking case leads back to old betrayals and unresolved vengeance. This emotionally driven crime thriller holds 4.3 stars on Amazon and over 1,400 Goodreads ratings.
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"Tasty tension . . . a psychologically sharp crime thriller" from the Edgar Award-winning, New York Times–bestselling author of Desperation Reef (Entertainment Weekly).
Matt Stromsoe has come a long way since his wife and son were killed in an explosion meant for him. Wounded severely in both body and spirit, Stromsoe gave up the last thing that held any meaning for him—his job on the police force—and proceeded to hit rock bottom, hard.
That was a lifetime ago, and finally the spiral of personal destruction and despair seems to have come to an end. The man responsible for the murders—Stromsoe's best friend from childhood and his wife's old lover—is behind bars and Stromsoe has put the past behind him, rescued from the abyss by a former colleague who offers him a job at his private security firm. Stromsoe's first assignment is to protect local television personality Frankie Hatfield from a stalker. But the further Stromsoe is drawn into this case, the more he finds that the net of intrigue is wide and ultimately leads back to the man who killed his family. As events conspire against him, Stromsoe learns that prison is no safeguard against revenge.
T. Jefferson Parker has been hailed as belonging "in the first rank of American crime novelists" (The Washington Post Book World) and praised for "some of the finest writing you'll ever read" (Chicago Sun-Times). Superbly crafted, emotionally complex, and filled with heart-stopping action, Storm Runners proves why the novels of T. Jefferson Parker are impossible to resist.
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A kindhearted dogcatcher falls in love with a woman hiding a deadly secret in modern Los Angeles.
Sharp Teeth
Horror · Mystery · Thriller · Suspense
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A kindhearted dogcatcher falls in love with a woman hiding a deadly secret in modern Los Angeles. As ancient werewolf packs rise and violence spreads, love becomes a liability. This literary horror thriller blends crime, myth, and identity, earning 4.3 stars on Amazon and thousands of Goodreads ratings.
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A Los Angeles dogcatcher falls for a female werewolf desperate to keep her monstrous identity a secret in this debut literary horror thriller.
An ancient race of lycanthropes has survived to the present day, and its numbers are growing as the initiated convince L.A.'s down-and-out to join their pack. Paying no heed to moons, full or otherwise, they change from human to canine at will—and they're bent on domination at any cost.
Caught in the middle are Anthony, a kindhearted, besotted dogcatcher, and the girl he loves, a female werewolf who has abandoned her pack. Anthony has no idea that she's more than she seems, and she wants to keep it that way. But her efforts to protect her secret lead to murderous results . . .
Blending dark humor and epic themes with card-playing dogs, crystal meth labs, surfing, and carne asada tacos, Sharp Teeth captures the pace and feel of a graphic novel while remaining "as ambitious as any literary novel, because underneath all that fur, it's about identity, community, love, death, and all the things we want our books to be about" [Nick Hornby, The Believer].
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The Girl in Red reimagines Little Red Riding Hood in a postapocalyptic world where survival means staying alert and armed.
The Girl in Red
Dystopian · Horror · Thriller · Post-Apocalyptic
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The Girl in Red reimagines Little Red Riding Hood in a postapocalyptic world where survival means staying alert and armed. Alone after the Crisis, Red moves through forests filled with predators, violent men, and hidden dangers worse than beasts. This tense retelling explores resilience, fear, and the brutal choices required to stay alive.
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From the national bestselling author of Alice comes a postapocalyptic take on the perennial classic "Little Red Riding Hood"...about a woman who isn't as defenseless as she seems.
It's not safe for anyone alone in the woods. There are predators that come out at night: critters and coyotes, snakes and wolves. But the woman in the red jacket has no choice. Not since the Crisis came, decimated the population, and sent those who survived fleeing into quarantine camps that serve as breeding grounds for death, destruction, and disease. She is just a woman trying not to get killed in a world that doesn't look anything like the one she grew up in, the one that was perfectly sane and normal and boring until three months ago.
There are worse threats in the woods than the things that stalk their prey at night. Sometimes, there are men. Men with dark desires, weak wills, and evil intents. Men in uniform with classified information, deadly secrets, and unforgiving orders. And sometimes, just sometimes, there's something worse than all of the horrible people and vicious beasts combined.
Red doesn't like to think of herself as a killer, but she isn't about to let herself get eaten up just because she is a woman alone in the woods....
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Trapped by a blizzard at a remote rest stop, a college student discovers a kidnapped child locked in a nearby van.
No Exit
Thriller · Historical Thriller · Suspense
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Trapped by a blizzard at a remote rest stop, a college student discovers a kidnapped child locked in a nearby van. With no signal, no escape, and a killer among them, survival depends on choosing who to trust. No Exit delivers claustrophobic tension and nonstop twists. Rated 4.3 stars on Amazon with over 213,000 Goodreads ratings.
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Soon to be a Hulu original film: a fast-paced, edge-of-your-seat thriller about a determined young woman who struggles to save a kidnapped child while trapped in a blizzard—and who must unmask and outwit a deviously twisted psychopath before it’s too late.
A kidnapped little girl locked in a stranger’s van. No help for miles. What would you do?
On her way to Utah to see her dying mother, college student Darby Thorne gets caught in a fierce blizzard in the mountains of Colorado. With the roads impassable, she’s forced to wait out the storm at a remote highway rest stop. Inside are some vending machines, a coffee maker, and four complete strangers.
Desperate to find a signal to call home, Darby goes back out into the storm . . . and makes a horrifying discovery. In the back of the van parked next to her car, a little girl is locked in an animal crate.
Who is the child? Why has she been taken? And how can Darby save her?
There is no cell phone reception, no telephone, and no way out. One of her fellow travelers is a kidnapper. But which one?
Trapped in an increasingly dangerous situation, with a child’s life and her own on the line, Darby must find a way to break the girl out of the van and escape.
But who can she trust?
With exquisitely controlled pacing, Taylor Adams diabolically ratchets up the tension with every page. Full of terrifying twists and hairpin turns, No Exit will have you on the edge of your seat and leave you breathless.
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Daughters of a Dead Empire follows two young women on opposite sides of the Russian Revolution who are forced into an uneasy alliance.
Daughters of a Dead Empire
Teen + Young Adult · Thriller · Historical Thriller
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Daughters of a Dead Empire follows two young women on opposite sides of the Russian Revolution who are forced into an uneasy alliance. Hunted after the fall of the tsar, a bourgeois survivor and a reluctant communist flee south together, discovering how dangerous ideals and loyalty become when survival is at stake in a collapsing empire.
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"This fresh, thrilling take on Anastasia establishes that O'Neil is a debut author to watch." —Buzzfeed
From debut author Carolyn Tara O'Neil comes a thrilling alternate history set during the Russian Revolution.
Russia, 1918: With the execution of Tsar Nicholas, the empire crumbles and Russia is on the edge of civil war—the poor are devouring the rich. Anna, a bourgeois girl, narrowly escaped the massacre of her entire family in Yekaterinburg. Desperate to get away from the Bolsheviks, she offers a peasant girl a diamond to take her as far south as possible—not realizing that the girl is a communist herself. With her brother in desperate need of a doctor, Evgenia accepts Anna's offer and suddenly finds herself on the wrong side of the war.
Anna is being hunted by the Bolsheviks, and now—regardless of her loyalties—Evgenia is too.
Daughters of a Dead Empire is a harrowing historical thriller about dangerous ideals, inequality, and the price we pay for change. An imaginative retelling of the Anastasia story.
A Junior Library Guild Selection
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A strong match for fans of archaeological mysteries, Napoleonic history, dangerous relics, and globe-spanning adventure.
The Rosetta Key
Mystery · Historical Thriller · Suspense
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Called a “rollicking sequel” by Publishers Weekly, this historical adventure follows Ethan Gage as he searches the Holy Land for the legendary Book of Thoth while Napoleon invades Israel. Ethan must keep the supposedly magical scroll from giving his enemy the power he seeks, with a 4.2-star rating from more than 500 Amazon reviewers. A strong match for fans of archaeological mysteries, Napoleonic history, dangerous relics, and globe-spanning adventure.
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An eighteenth-century adventurer chases an Egyptian scroll from Israel to the Americas in the Pulitzer Prize-winner's "rollicking sequel" to Napoleon's Pyramids (Publishers Weekly).
The year is 1799. As Bonaparte's army descends upon Israel, intent upon conquest, American adventurer Ethan Gage finds himself searching the Holy Land for a legendary Egyptian scroll imbued with awesome powers. The raffish and resourceful Gage must keep the mysterious document from his enemy, Napoleon—or, failing that, wrest it from him, even if it means pursuing his vengeful adversary back to France. And the wisdom of his great mentor, Benjamin Franklin, will offer Gage no solace should Bonaparte succeed in unlocking the terrible secrets of the Book of Thoth, and seizing ultimate power.
"An utterly captivating romp from the treacherous tunnels beneath Jerusalem to the lost City of Ghosts (Petra, Jordan) to the tumult of revolutionary Paris. . . . Dietrich spins a merry magical mystery tour, winningly intricate and anchored to actual historical figures and events. . . . Mr. Spielberg! Mr. Lucas! It's your move." —Seattle Times
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When a scam leaves Amelia vulnerable, her colleague Paige offers friendship and support.
You Can Trust Me
Thriller · Psychological Thriller
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When a scam leaves Amelia vulnerable, her colleague Paige offers friendship and support. But behind the kindness is a carefully crafted plan to steal her money, destroy her business, and unravel her marriage. As trust turns toxic, Amelia races to uncover the truth. Readers praise this chilling psychological thriller, with 4.2 stars on Amazon and over 1,100 Goodreads ratings.
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After fleeing with a foster baby thirteen years ago, Cole and Lisa Shipley have lived in hiding ever since.
Not Our Daughter
Thriller · Mystery
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After fleeing with a foster baby thirteen years ago, Cole and Lisa Shipley have lived in hiding ever since. When their past resurfaces and Cole is framed for murder, they run again, this time with a teenage daughter demanding answers. Not Our Daughter is a fast-paced thriller with 4.4 stars on Amazon and thousands of reader reviews.
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Propelled on a cross-country chase, devoted parents become desperate fugitives in a heart-racing novel of suspense by the author of Family Money and All He Has Left.
Thirteen years ago, Cole and Lisa Shipley were fostering an infant with hopes of adopting her. Overnight everything was turned upside down, when the child’s mother bled to death on their front doorstep. Her last words: He’s coming here…for her! Save her. Afraid, bewildered, and with a baby in their arms, they fled. The longer they hid, the guiltier they looked.
Now in a small Colorado town under assumed identities, they’ve been seemingly safe. But when a tip exposes them and Cole is framed for another murder, they take it on the run again, barreling across the western US—this time with a confused and resistant teenage girl awakening to a terrifying new reality. In the rearview is the relentless FBI agent who has never given up the hunt. And he’s not the only one.
Every frightening mile brings a family closer to the truth about that fateful night thirteen years ago. And to a killer who’s determined to finish what he started.
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A carefree vacation turns hostile when curiosity traps a group of friends in an isolated jungle ruin.
The Ruins
Horror · Mystery · Suspense
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A carefree vacation turns hostile when curiosity traps a group of friends in an isolated jungle ruin. Cut off from help, they face a slow, relentless threat that watches, waits, and refuses to let them leave. The Ruins is survival horror rooted in confinement and endurance, building dread through physical deterioration, mounting paranoia, and the terrifying cost of staying alive when escape disappears.
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Trapped in the Mexican jungle, a group of friends stumble upon a creeping horror unlike anything they could ever imagine in "the best horror novel of the new century" (Stephen King). Also a major motion picture!
Two young couples are on a lazy Mexican vacation—sun-drenched days, drunken nights, making friends with fellow tourists. When the brother of one of those friends disappears, they decide to venture into the jungle to look for him. What started out as a fun day-trip slowly spirals into a nightmare when they find an ancient ruins site ... and the terrifying presence that lurks there.
"The Ruins does for Mexican vacations what Jaws did for New England beaches.” —Entertainment Weekly
“Smith’s nail-biting tension is a pleasure all its own.... This stuff isn’t for the faint of heart.” —New York Post
“A story so scary you may never want to go on vacation, or dig around in your garden, again.” —USA Today
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Out of the Easy follows seventeen-year-old Josie Moraine in 1950s New Orleans, where the French Quarter’s glamour hides dangerous secrets.
Out of The Easy
Literary Fiction · Mystery · Teen + Young Adult · Thriller · Suspense
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Out of the Easy follows seventeen-year-old Josie Moraine in 1950s New Orleans, where the French Quarter’s glamour hides dangerous secrets. Determined to escape her reputation as a brothel madam’s daughter, Josie becomes entangled in a mysterious death that forces her to choose between ambition, loyalty, and truth. This atmospheric novel explores identity, class, and the cost of freedom.
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“A haunting peek at the life of a teenage girl in 1950s New Orleans.”--Entertainment Weekly
It’s 1950, and as the French Quarter of New Orleans simmers with secrets, seventeen-year-old Josie Moraine is silently stirring a pot of her own. Known among locals as the daughter of a brothel prostitute, Josie wants more out of life than the Big Easy has to offer. She devises a plan get out, but a mysterious death in the Quarter leaves Josie tangled in an investigation that will challenge her allegiance to her mother, her conscience, and Willie Woodley, the brusque madam on Conti Street.
Josie is caught between the dream of an elite college and a clandestine underworld. New Orleans lures her in her quest for truth, dangling temptation at every turn, and escalating to the ultimate test.
With characters as captivating as those in her internationally bestselling novel Between Shades of Gray, Ruta Sepetys skillfully creates a rich story of secrets, lies, and the haunting reminder that decisions can shape our destiny.
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After winning a mysterious medallion in revolutionary Paris, American expatriate Ethan Gage is framed for murder and forced into Napoleon’s Egyptian campaign.
Napoleon’s Pyramids
Thriller · Mystery · Action Thriller · Suspense
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After winning a mysterious medallion in revolutionary Paris, American expatriate Ethan Gage is framed for murder and forced into Napoleon’s Egyptian campaign. What begins as an escape becomes a dangerous hunt for ancient truths hidden beneath the pyramids. This historical thriller blends swashbuckling adventure with real history, earning a starred Publishers Weekly review and 4.1 stars on Amazon.
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An American ex-pat attempts to solve a 6,000-year-old riddle with a mysterious medallion won in a card game in this swashbuckling historical thriller.
What mystical secrets lie beneath the Great Pyramids?
The world changes for Ethan Gage—one-time assistant to the renowned Ben Franklin—on a night in post-revolutionary Paris, when he wins a mysterious medallion in a card game. Framed soon after for the murder of a prostitute and facing the grim prospect of either prison or death, the young expatriate American barely escapes France with his life—choosing instead to accompany the new emperor, Napoleon Bonaparte, on his glorious mission to conquer Egypt. With Lord Nelson's fleet following close behind, Gage sets out on the adventure of a lifetime. And in a land of ancient wonder and mystery, with the help of a beautiful Macedonian slave, he will come to realize that the unusual prize he won at the gaming table may be the key to solving one of history's greatest and most perilous riddles: who built the Great Pyramids . . . and why?
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Lock In is set in a near future reshaped by a virus that leaves millions fully conscious but unable to move.
Lock In
Sci-Fi · Thriller · Cyberpunk · Medical Thriller
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Lock In is set in a near future reshaped by a virus that leaves millions fully conscious but unable to move. Rookie FBI agent Chris Shane investigates a murder tied to this new reality, uncovering political, corporate, and technological forces exploiting a transformed human culture. What begins as a single crime reveals a much larger and unsettling truth.
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A blazingly inventive near-future thriller from the best-selling, Hugo Award-winning John Scalzi.
Not too long from today, a new, highly contagious virus makes its way across the globe. Most who get sick experience nothing worse than flu, fever and headaches. But for the unlucky one percent - and nearly five million souls in the United States alone - the disease causes "Lock In": Victims fully awake and aware, but unable to move or respond to stimulus. The disease affects young, old, rich, poor, people of every color and creed. The world changes to meet the challenge.
A quarter of a century later, in a world shaped by what's now known as "Haden's syndrome," rookie FBI agent Chris Shane is paired with veteran agent Leslie Vann. The two of them are assigned what appears to be a Haden-related murder at the Watergate Hotel, with a suspect who is an "integrator" - someone who can let the locked in borrow their bodies for a time. If the Integrator was carrying a Haden client, then naming the suspect for the murder becomes that much more complicated.
But "complicated" doesn't begin to describe it. As Shane and Vann began to unravel the threads of the murder, it becomes clear that the real mystery - and the real crime - is bigger than anyone could have imagined. The world of the locked in is changing, and with the change comes opportunities that the ambitious will seize at any cost. The investigation that began as a murder case takes Shane and Vann from the halls of corporate power to the virtual spaces of the locked in, and to the very heart of an emerging, surprising new human culture. It's nothing you could have expected.
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