Item category 1: Thrillers & Crime

This is a dazzling new novel of psychological suspense in the vein of S.J. Watson's Before I Go to Sleep and Mary Kubica's The Good Girl that questions just how much we can trust the people around us. Thirty-four-year-old marine biologist Kyra Winthrop remembers nothing about the diving accident ...

Olivia dreamed of a sun-filled love, a happy life. Then she entered Foxworth Hall. Long before terror flowered in the attic, thin, spinsterish Olivia came to Virginia as Malcolm Foxworth's bride. At last, with her tall handsome husband, she would find the joy she had waited for, longed for. But i...

CRIME & MYSTERY. The international arms negotiations appear to be making progress. But a US spy satellite reveals that the Soviets are building a massive laser-defence system controlled from an other-worldly array of pillars and domes in the Soviet hills at Dushanbe near the border of war-torn...

Christmas 1951, Los Angeles: a city where the police are as corrupt as the criminals. Six prisoners are beaten senseless in their cells by cops crazed on alcohol. For the three L.A.P.D. detectives involved, it will be expose the guilty secrets on which they have build their corrupt and violent ca...

John Kelly befriends a young woman with a checkered past. When her past reaches out to her in a horrifying way, he vows revenge. But the Pentagon also has plans for John Kelly.

Suspense fiction. Detective and mystery stories. The assassin - the world's most successful contract killer. An anonymous professional with a unique calling card - one bullet in the head and one in the chest for each of his targets. The Judas goat - an ex-member of the SAS, Mike Cramer is the per...

THRILLER / SUSPENSE. Mary Higgins Clark'S Christmas gift for listeners of all seasons. From America's most beloved writer of suspense comes a very special story about the power of love, and of a child's courage and faith. When her husband is diagnosed with leukemia, Catherine Dornan and their two...

From the acclaimed author of "A Firing Offense". Into the treacherous world of shifting alliances and arcane subterfuge comes idealistic CIA man Tom Rogers. Ordered to penetrate the PLO and recruit a high-level operative, Rogers soon learns the heavy price of innocence in a time and place that ha...

It is June 1897. A year has passed since Dr. Laszlo Kreizler, a pioneer in forensic psychiatry, tracked down the brutal serial killer John Beecham with the help of a team of trusted companions and a revolutionary application of the principles of his discipline. Kreizler and his friends - high-liv...

Mystery authors including Lawrence Block, Edna Buchanan, Carol Higgins Clark, and Donald Westlake contribute stories that each feature a thick fog, a thick book, and a thick steak.

Dr. Kay Scarpetta thinks a psychopath is loose in Virginia. Then another body turns up, and the forensic evidence leads her to realise that someone is intent on releasing the smallpox virus back into the world.

The Governor of California has recieved a terrorist threat, signed by the radical offshoot of a legitimate environmental pressure group demanding a freeze of the building of a new power plant on the West coast. If this demand is not met, the group threatens to trigger an earthquake in exactly fou...

"Being President, Jack Ryan discovers, doesn't get any easier, particularly not when domestic pitfalls await him at every turn and in Moscow someone may have tried to take out the chairman of the SVR (formerly the KGB) with a rocket-propelled grenade. Who were the potential assassins - were they ...

When a gay internal affairs investigator commits suicide the Minneapolis police want to close the case as soon as possible. But his ex-lover doesn't believe he killed himself.

The eleventh book in the Kay Scarpetta series involves the pathologist and Detective Pete Marino in a new case and a threat that could radically change the course of Scarpetta's career. Follows Black notice.

"True crime writer Wylie Lark doesn’t mind being snowed in at the isolated farmhouse where she’s retreated to write her new book. A cozy fire, complete silence. It would be perfect, if not for the fact that decades earlier, at this very house, two people were murdered in cold blood and a girl dis...

Scotland Yard's most intrepid inspector is sent to Dorset with strict orders to coordinate the search for two missing children, but his investigation is complicated by his growing feelings for a potential suspect.

"With World War I thankfully ended, Amelia and Emerson Peabody can return to Egypt to continue their archaeological work, but a nationalist has begun to stir up trouble in the town where they are working, and Amelia's nemesis, Sethos, has apparently re-emerged. There are problems closer to home t...

Meet Theodosia Browning, owner of Charleston's beloved Indigo Tea Shop. Patrons love her blend of delicious tea tastings and southern hospitality. And Theo enjoys the full-bodied flavor of a town steeped in history and mystery. It's tea for two hundred or so at the annual historic homes garden pa...

The remains of Eleanor Gray, daughter of the Lady Maude Gray, are found on a Scottish mountainside. Inspector Ian Rutledge of Scotland Yard discovers the young mother accused of killing Eleanor is the grieving fiancee of the man Rutledge executed during World War I.

John Pellam is a location scout. But in a small town in upstate New York, Pellam's illusionary world is shattered by a savage murder.

Inspector Ian Rutledge of Scotland Yard probes a small-town murder.

When Tom Seymour, a child psychologist, plunges into a river to save a young man from drowning, he unwittingly reopens a chapter from his past he'd hoped to forget. For Tom already knows Danny Miller - when Danny was ten Tom helped imprison him for the killing of an old woman. Now out of prison w...

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Detective Alex Cross is on his way to resign from the Washington, D.C., police force when his partner shows up at his door with a case he can't refuse. One of John Sampson's oldest friends, from their days together in Vietnam, has been arrested for murder. Worse yet, he is subject to the iron han...