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Author
Series
Gideon Crew volume 2
Language
English
Description
A top nuclear scientist turns homicidal, taking an innocent family hostage at gunpoint. Gideon Crew, a colleague of the scientist at Los Alamos, is called in to talk the man down. But the standoff ends in an explosion of violence. When the authorities discover the scientist's body is intensely radioactive, and that he had recently embraced Islamic extremism, all hell breaks loose.
2) Faceoff
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
An unprecedented collective features pairings by 23 best-selling and critically acclaimed suspense writers, including John Sandford, F. Paul Wilson and R. L. Stine, who in short high-action stories pit their most popular characters against one another.
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
World's first edition.
Language
English
Description
In "A Face in the Crowd," widower Dean Evers sees faces from his past while watching baseball; and in "The Longest December," the Howard family struggles to see their kind and gentle neighbor James Wilkinson as the violent criminal the police are investigating.
4) Mistress
Author
Language
English
Description
"Ben isn't like most people. Unable to control his racing thoughts, he's a man consumed by his obsessions: movies, motorcycles, presidential trivia-and Diana Hotchkiss, a beautiful woman Ben knows he can never have. When Diana is found dead outside her apartment, Ben's infatuation drives him on a hunt to find out what happened to the love of his life. Ben soon discovers that the woman he pined for was hiding a shocking double life. And now someone...
Author
Series
Robert Langdon novels volume 4
Language
English
Description
Harvard professor of symbology Robert Langdon awakens in a hospital in the middle of the night. Disoriented and suffering from a head wound, he recalls nothing of the last thirty-six hours, including how he got there ... or the origin of the macabre object that his doctors discover hidden in his belongings. Langdon's world soon erupts into chaos, and he finds himself on the run in Florence with a stoic young woman, Sienna Brooks, whose clever manuevering...
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
From Jeffery Deaver's tale of international terrorism to Lisa Jackson's narrative of a dysfunctional family in the California wine country to Ridley Pearson's story of a horrifying serial killer, this collection of original stories by 23 best selling and hot new authors make this an unforgettable and entertaining thriller anthology.
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Featuring award-winning suspense, thriller, and noir masters like Lee Child, Joyce Carol Oates, David Morrell, Bill Pronzini, Jeffery Deaver, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Max Allan Collins & Mickey Spillane, Tom Piccirilli, Dave Zeltserman, Michael Connelly, and more than a dozen others, this is an anthology not to be missed! Full of nail-biting suspense, jaw-dropping action, and even some heart-wrenching emotional drama, The Interrogator and Other Criminally...
9) Inked
Series
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Four stories combine urban fantasy with paranormal romance, in a collection that centers around magical tattoos and includes Karen Chance's "Skin Deep," in which a mage finds a magical ward in a dragon that appears on her skin.
10) Love is murder
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
A collection of heart-racing suspense stories by thirty of the hottest bestselling authors and new voices writing suspense today, including Allison Brennan, Roxanne St. Claire, William Bernhardt, Heather Graham, Sherrilyn Kenyon, Carla Neggers, Brenda Novak, Debra Webb, and Lee Child.
12) The lioness
Author
Language
English
Description
Tanzania, 1964. When Katie Barstow, A-list actress, and her new husband, David Hill, decide to bring their Hollywood friends to the Serengeti for their honeymoon, they envision giraffes gently eating leaves from the tall acacia trees, great swarms of wildebeests crossing the Mara River, and herds of zebras storming the sandy plains. Their glamorous guests--including Katie's best friend, Carmen Tedesco, and Terrance Dutton, the celebrated Black actor...
13) A hidden affair
Author
Pub. Date
2010.
Edition
First Atria Books hardcover edition.
Language
English
Description
What kind of man could fake his own death and then, for more than a decade, let his loved ones suffer? After such a betrayal, what woman would want him back? Meet erstwhile Cambridge University sweethearts Jared Short and Jordan Weiss, whose star-crossed odyssey continues in Jenoff's intriguing sequel to Almost Home. Following Jordan's discovery of Jared's apparent survival--and her own narrow escape from enemies still out to silence him--the plucky...
Author
Series
Jason Bourne series volume 10
Language
English
Description
After retrieving a nearly-dead gunshot victim from beneath a frozen lake, Jason Bourne must help the injured man regain his memory and find out who did this to him.
15) Strike force
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Moving from the Pentagon to the Middle East, filled with intrigue, adventure, and danger, this is the latest adrenaline-pumped military thriller from the New York Times bestselling master
When a military coup in Iran leads to a crackdown on religious jihadists, it seems as if a new era is dawning in the Middle East, especially when the new leader, General Buzhazi, seeks to normalize relations with both America and Israel. But the Iranians are...
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
First world hardcover edition.
Language
English
Description
"Alexi Jordan had come to the old Florida estate to heal the wounds left by a bad marriage--and run straight into trouble. She didn't mind the fact that the mansion was supposedly haunted. What she did mind was her neighbor, Rex Morrow. For some reason Rex had appointed himself her protector. True, some pretty strange things were happening, but Alexi was sure she could take care of herself. And even if she couldn't, her heart told her she was in greater...
18) Sinister shorts
Author
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
From the New York Times bestselling author of Nina Reilly Series comes a thrilling collection of short crime fiction -- sure to keep you turning pages deep into the night ... From desperate housewives to hard-boiled PIs to an appearance by Nina Reilly herself, discover nineteen sizzling stories that cover the entire crime genre ... Love and betrayal, rage and revenge -- these clever short mysteries set the mood of suspense as only Perri O'Shaughnessy...
20) MatchUp
Language
English
Description
"In this incredible follow-up to the New York Times and USA TODAY bestseller FaceOff, twenty-two of the world's most popular thriller writers come together for an unforgettable anthology. MatchUp takes the never-before-seen bestseller pairings of FaceOff and adds a delicious new twist: gender. Eleven of the world's best female thriller writers from Diana Gabaldon to Charlene Harris are paired with eleven of the world's best male thriller writers,...
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