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When terrorists kidnap the family of famed anchorman Crawford Sloane, the veteran reporter becomes the story he once covered.
The Evening News
Mystery · Action Thriller · Political Thriller · Suspense
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When terrorists kidnap the family of famed anchorman Crawford Sloane, the veteran reporter becomes the story he once covered. As he hunts the men who shattered his life, the line between journalist and avenger disappears. The Evening News holds 4.5 stars on Amazon and 4.0 on Goodreads, a tense, human thriller from Arthur Hailey.
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Crawford Sloane has spent his career chasing chaos from behind the camera. A respected network anchorman and former war correspondent, he thrives on crisis, reporting breaking stories with calm precision. But when terrorism hits home, the story turns deadly personal.
His wife and child are abducted by radicals who see him as the perfect symbol of American influence. With the world watching, Sloane steps out from the safety of the newsroom and into the heart of danger, determined to bring his family back, no matter the cost.
The Evening News holds 4.5 stars on Amazon and 4.0 on Goodreads. From the #1 New York Times–bestselling author Arthur Hailey, this gripping thriller exposes the ruthless world behind television news and the terrifying price of fame.
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Eighteen years after a Croatian village was betrayed during war, a buried body reveals the man responsible.
The Dealer and the Dead
Thriller
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Eighteen years after a Croatian village was betrayed during war, a buried body reveals the man responsible. Harvey Gillot has built a peaceful life in England, but vengeance never forgets. The Dealer and the Dead has 4.0 stars on Amazon and 3.6 on Goodreads, a tense, masterful thriller by Gerald Seymour about the price of betrayal.
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In 1991, the villagers of Vukovar waited for a promised shipment of weapons that never came. Betrayed and defenseless, they were overrun, their homes destroyed, and their people slaughtered. Eighteen years later, the ground yields a body, and the name of the man who sold them out.
In England, arms dealer Harvey Gillot has built a life of comfort and quiet respectability, his past buried as deeply as the dead he left behind. But when vengeance awakens in a ruined Croatian village, the sins of war return to claim their price.
The Dealer and the Dead holds 4.0 stars on Amazon and 3.6 on Goodreads. Gerald Seymour, acclaimed as one of the finest spy novelists of his generation, delivers a haunting, relentless thriller of justice and retribution.
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Frank Kane, a war-torn veteran living in solitude, is dragged back into darkness when his niece is kidnapped.
The Unwanted
Thriller · Action Thriller
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Frank Kane, a war-torn veteran living in solitude, is dragged back into darkness when his niece is kidnapped. What follows is a brutal reckoning as he hunts those responsible, guided only by his own code of justice. The Unwanted has 4.4 stars on Amazon and Goodreads, a gripping vigilante thriller of vengeance and family.
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Frank Kane was built for war and broken by it. Scarred, silent, and content to be forgotten, he spends his days repairing a ruined lighthouse on a desolate coast. The solitude suits him, until his niece is taken. The men who kidnapped her think he is just an old soldier. They are wrong.
To save her, Frank resurrects the instincts he buried long ago. With the precision of a sniper and the ruthlessness of a ghost, he hunts those who wronged his family, leaving no law or conscience to hold him back. But his path to vengeance may pit him against his own brother, a man of money and power.
The Unwanted holds 4.4 stars on Amazon and Goodreads, a relentless vigilante thriller that strikes hard and never lets go.
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Haunted by a mission gone wrong, DIA operative Matt Drake is pulled back into the field to rescue a scientist with a deadly secret.
Without Sanction
Mystery · Thriller · Political Thriller · Suspense
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Haunted by a mission gone wrong, DIA operative Matt Drake is pulled back into the field to rescue a scientist with a deadly secret. To stop a weapon of mass destruction, he must return to the place that nearly killed him. 4.4 stars on Amazon and 4.2 on Goodreads for Don Bentley’s Without Sanction, a gripping espionage thriller.
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Matt Drake left Syria alive but broken. His last mission ended in disaster, costing innocent lives and crippling his closest friend. Now, haunted by guilt and determined to stay in the shadows, he is pulled back into a world he swore to abandon.
A Pakistani scientist working for an extremist group has built a weapon capable of mass destruction. He will defect only if Matt is the one to bring him out. To save thousands, Matt must return to the place that nearly destroyed him and face the ghosts waiting there.
Don Bentley’s Without Sanction, the first Matt Drake novel, is a taut and explosive thriller about redemption, loyalty, and the brutal choices demanded by duty in a world without mercy.
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A pair of killers leaves a trail of mutilated victims across the West.
The Killing Lessons
Thriller · Police Procedural · Psychological Thriller
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A pair of killers leaves a trail of mutilated victims across the West. A survivor escapes their latest attack, and detective Valerie Hart races to find her before the killers strike again. 4.0 stars on Amazon and 3.7 on Goodreads for Saul Black’s The Killing Lessons, a dark and brilliantly written psychological thriller.
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"Shockingly good writing . . . It's impossible not to be swept away by its propulsive momentum. . . . peer into the depths of . . . many richly developed characters" —The New York Times Book Review
When the two strangers turn up at Rowena Cooper's isolated Colorado farmhouse, she knows instantly that it's the end of everything. For the two haunted and driven men, on the other hand, it's just another stop on a long and bloody journey. And they still have many miles to go, and victims to sacrifice, before their work is done.
For San Francisco homicide detective Valerie Hart, their trail of victims—women abducted, tortured and left with a seemingly random series of objects inside them—has brought her from obsession to the edge of physical and psychological destruction. And she's losing hope of making a breakthrough before that happens.
But the murders at the Cooper farmhouse didn't quite go according to plan. There was a survivor, Rowena's ten-year-old daughter Nell, who now holds the key to the killings. Injured, half-frozen, terrified, Nell has only one place to go. And that place could be even more dangerous than what she's running from.
"Brilliant." —Jeffery Deaver, New York Times–bestselling author of The Skin Collector and Solitude Creek
"Compelling . . . graphic and disturbing." —Associated Press
"The Killing Lessons is state of the art in the ever-darkening serial-killer genre." —The Washington Post
"[An] exceptional police thriller." —Publishers Weekly, starred review
"Unbelievably good . . . this one has it all." —Lee Child, New York Times–bestselling author of Personal
"A powerhouse of a thriller." —Lisa Gardner, New York Times–bestselling author of Fear Nothing
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The Devil’s Right Hand is good for readers who like Southern crime thrillers with revenge, betrayal, and brutal momentum.
The Devil’s Right Hand
Thriller
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Called “a knock-em-dead writer” by Anthony Neil Smith, war-haunted bounty hunter Jack Keller pursues a petty criminal, leading to a violent showdown involving vengeful siblings and a corrupt police force, with a 4.1-star rating from more than 500 Amazon reviewers. The Devil’s Right Hand is good for readers who like Southern crime thrillers with revenge, betrayal, and brutal momentum.
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For a war-haunted bounty hunter, flirting with death is the only thing keeping him alive, in this powerful new crime thriller by "a knock-em-dead writer"(Anthony Neil Smith, author of Slow Bear).
Jack Keller is a man on the edge. Numb from the horrors of Desert Storm, he lives only for the adrenaline rush of his work as a bounty hunter. But when a routine job to capture a petty criminal spirals out of control, Keller is thrust into a brutal whirlwind of violence and revenge.
Chasing his target, Keller must deal with a pair of enraged siblings bent on avenging their father's murder, a vicious cop with a twisted sense of justice, and his conflicted partner Marie, torn between her attraction to Keller and her loyalty to a corrupt police force. As their lives intersect in a high-stakes game of betrayal and blood, Keller finds himself at the center of a deadly showdown where the only rule is survival . . .
Explosive, relentless, and filled with unforgettable characters, The Devil's Right Hand is a razor-sharp Southern thriller that will grip you from the first shot fired to the final breath.
Praise for the novels of J.D. Rhoades
"Pedal-to-the-metal narrative drive." ―Booklist
"[An] emotionally riveting collision of good and evil." —Alexandra Sokoloff, Anthony Award–nominated author of the Huntress/FBI series
"J.D. Rhoades kicks ass!" —J. A. Konrath, author of the Jack Daniels series
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Kidnapped by a sadistic collector who calls them his dolls, Angel and her brother must survive a world where obedience is life and mistakes are fatal.
The Dollhouse
Thriller
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Kidnapped by a sadistic collector who calls them his dolls, Angel and her brother must survive a world where obedience is life and mistakes are fatal. As a desperate father searches for his missing daughter, the clock runs out. 4.3 stars on Amazon and 4.1 on Goodreads for Sara Ennis’s chilling thriller The Dollhouse.
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Alfred collects dolls, but not the kind made of porcelain. His dolls breathe. They scream. And they die if they disobey.
Angel and her brother Bud grew up fending for themselves, but nothing could prepare them for the nightmare of the Dollhouse. Captured by a man who treats cruelty as art, they must play along with his twisted games to stay alive. Every photograph, every command, every moment of hesitation could mean death.
Meanwhile, Peter Baden searches for his missing daughter, unaware she’s one of Alfred’s captives. The clock is ticking, and another child is about to vanish.
Sara Ennis’s The Dollhouse begins The Komorebi Serial Killer Series, a dark psychological thriller of survival, obsession, and unthinkable evil.
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In 1766, miner Mack McAsh and aristocrat Lizzie Hallim are bound by a shared hunger for freedom.
A Place Called Freedom
Historical Fiction · Thriller · Historical Thriller · Suspense
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In 1766, miner Mack McAsh and aristocrat Lizzie Hallim are bound by a shared hunger for freedom. From Scotland’s coal pits to London’s turmoil and Virginia’s plantations, their defiance ignites a daring journey across continents. Ken Follett’s A Place Called Freedom is an unforgettable historical saga of love, rebellion, and the cost of liberty.
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In the darkness of a Scottish coal mine, a young man dreams of freedom. Above ground, a young woman dreams of escape.
In 1766, Mack McAsh is condemned to a life of backbreaking labor, chained by birth to the mines that have swallowed generations. Lizzie Hallim, trapped by privilege and duty, faces her own cage. Their worlds collide in a time of revolution, sparking a bond that defies class and convention.
From the grim mines of Scotland to the bustling streets of London and the plantations of Virginia, their fight for freedom becomes a battle for survival and love.
Ken Follett’s A Place Called Freedom is a sweeping historical epic of rebellion, courage, and the relentless pursuit of liberty.
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With 4.1 stars on Amazon, The Anomaly delivers gripping, claustrophobic suspense for readers of The X-Files and Behind Her Eyes.
The Anomaly
Mystery · Thriller · Action Thriller · Suspense
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Rogue archaeologist Nolan Moore leads his crew into the Grand Canyon in search of a legendary cave. What begins as a daring expedition becomes a fight for survival when the rock itself turns against them. With 4.1 stars on Amazon, The Anomaly delivers gripping, claustrophobic suspense for readers of The X-Files and Behind Her Eyes.
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Deep in the Grand Canyon, something waits to be found.
Rogue archaeologist Nolan Moore has made a career chasing myths for his low-budget documentary crew. When they retrace the path of a 1909 explorer who claimed to find a hidden cavern in the canyon walls, the discovery feels like the break he’s been waiting for. Then the cave closes in, and the air grows strange.
Trapped miles below the surface, Nolan must uncover the truth buried in the rock before it consumes them all. Each clue leads deeper into a mystery that defies time, science, and reason itself.
With 4.1 stars on Amazon and over 12,000 Goodreads ratings, The Anomaly blends razor-edged suspense and archaeological intrigue into a haunting modern survival classic.
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A baby disappears.
Good Bad Girl
Thriller
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A baby disappears. A woman dies. And three women are bound by secrets that refuse to stay buried. Trapped in a care home, Edith plans her escape with Patience, a stranger who isn’t what she seems. With more than 100,000 Goodreads ratings, Good Bad Girl delivers Alice Feeney’s signature twists in a thriller about guilt, truth, and impossible love.
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Twenty years ago, a baby vanished from her stroller. Now, a woman is murdered in a care home, and the two crimes may be one story waiting to be told.
Edith was tricked into the nursing home, but she’s no helpless resident. At eighty, she’s plotting her escape with the help of Patience, the cleaner who understands her loneliness a little too well. But Patience has secrets of her own.
Meanwhile, Edith’s daughter, Clio, is hiding from her past when someone comes knocking with questions that could destroy them all.
With over 100,000 Goodreads ratings and 12,000 on Amazon, Good Bad Girl proves why Alice Feeney is the queen of twists, crafting a story where no one is innocent and every lie has teeth.
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Best for readers who want a dark YA psychological thriller involving serial killers, FBI investigations, and teenage investigators.
None Shall Sleep
Mystery · Teen + Young Adult · Thriller · Suspense
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A New York Times bestseller and Aurealis Award winner, None Shall Sleep follows teenagers Emma Lewis and Travis Bell as they help the FBI interview convicted juvenile killers in 1982. Their work draws them into the hunt for a serial murderer targeting teenagers, with a 4.5-star rating from more than 500 Amazon reviewers. Best for readers who want a dark YA psychological thriller involving serial killers, FBI investigations, and teenage investigators.
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The Silence of the Lambs meets Sadie in this riveting psychological thriller about two teenagers teaming up with the FBI to track down juvenile serial killers.
In 1982, two teenagers—serial killer survivor Emma Lewis and US Marshal candidate Travis Bell—are recruited by the FBI to interview convicted juvenile killers and provide insight and advice on cold cases. From the start, Emma and Travis develop a quick friendship, gaining information from juvenile murderers that even the FBI can't crack. But when the team is called in to give advice on an active case—a serial killer who exclusively hunts teenagers—things begin to unravel. Working against the clock, they must turn to one of the country's most notorious incarcerated murderers for help: teenage sociopath Simon Gutmunsson.
Despite Travis's objections, Emma becomes the conduit between Simon and the FBI team. But while Simon seems to be giving them the information they need to save lives, he's an expert manipulator playing a very long game... and he has his sights set on Emma.
Captivating, harrowing, and chilling, None Shall Sleep is an all-too-timely exploration of not only the monsters that live among us, but also the monsters that live inside us.
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When a school bus disappears in broad daylight, ten children and their driver wake to darkness beneath the earth.
Such Quiet Girls
Thriller · Horror · Suspense
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When a school bus disappears in broad daylight, ten children and their driver wake to darkness beneath the earth. Jessa, a new bus driver haunted by a past failure, must keep the children calm while air runs thin inside a buried shipping container. This claustrophobic thriller centers survival, guilt, and the fragile line between hope and panic.
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Ten children, abducted in broad daylight—and buried alive.
Sage and her sister won’t make it home from school today. Neither will the other children on Bus 315. But that’s only the beginning of the nightmare.
New bus driver Jessa blames herself for what happened. She couldn’t protect the kids she was supposed to deliver to daycare, just like she couldn’t protect her own daughter three years ago. But this time, everything will be different. It has to be.
Trapped in a shipping container buried twenty feet underground, Jessa and the children do their best to stay calm. The kidnappers insist that if everyone behaves, they’ll be freed when the ransom is paid. But Sage isn’t sure they’ll last that long. Neither is Jessa. It’s dark and cramped, and with every passing minute it’s getting harder to breathe.
With time—and air—running thin, Jessa and the children must find a way to outsmart their captors, or face an unthinkable fate.
Such Quiet Girls was inspired by actual events.
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