Fast Paced Thrillers

A millionaire art collector is hacked to death with a kitchen knife, his precious paintings slashed to bits; a fat-cat neurosurgeon is slapped with a killer malpractice suit that could ruin his marriage, his practice, and his torrid affair with a coke head. Brilliant detective Joe Dante, formerly of Midtown South, now assigned to the Sixth Precinct, is tracking down the killer, when an even more baffling murder forces him to question everything and everyone he knows.... "Newman really knows the territory." William J. Caunitz Author of ONE POLICE PLAZA

An electrifying secret. A pharmaceutical giant is on the verge of a revolutionary medical breakthrough. But behind the promising new treatment lurks a dangerous secret that the company will do anything to protect. Every move is tracked. Lincoln Webber, a renowned cyber professor, is looking forward to some time off to binge on reality TV shows. But when he finds his apartment under surveillance, he soon discovers he is caught in a web of national security, espionage, and deceit.

Father and son undercover operatives, John and Mako Storm, will have to put their differences aside if they're to discover the truth in time. From the catacombs of the Vatican to the mountains of Sicily, the search is on for the artist's long-missing journals. But in the process, they uncover something even more deadly.

When local college student, Jaden Pierce, disappears one night playing "Manhunt in the Woods" with his fraternity brothers, Nicole, an empathetic stay-at-home mom living a blissful life, joins the search party. Combing through the wooded area, Nicole unearths her son Kyle's license and withholds this potential piece of evidence. She trusts him, but a sliver of doubt festers below the surface, thanks to one unresolved incident from middle school and his shady pastime.

Big business might be ruthless, but Lucie Rizzo learned to take the heat from the best: Her mob boss father. Except instead of cooking the books, she’s mixing up her next moneymaking expansion. But her BFF-turned-partner isn’t sold on the idea. Ro is the creative genius - not to mention the boobs - of their operation, but Lucie has the discerning business palate. And this venture smells like sweet success. All they need is the right investor. French chef Antoine Durand made casseroles sexy again. His closely guarded secret recipe built a billion-dollar empire.

USA Bestselling Author May McGoldrick writing as Jan Coffey A nuclear submarine cuts silently through the waters of the North Atlantic, commandeered by two-dozen armed terrorists. The target: New York City. Fighting for their lives aboard the hijacked submarine, Commander Darius McCann and Ship Superintendent Amy Russell have only one hope for survival. With the lives of millions at stake, they must play a dangerous game of cat and mouse where capture would mean certain death. On land, two NCIS investigators are working feverishly to learn the details of the hijacking in time to stop the ...

The Great Gatsby meets A Game of Thrones in the One Hundred Years of War series. ONE MISTAKE IS ALL IT TAKES TO CHANGE THE COURSE OF HISTORY. It’s 1973. Oil wars, terrorist attacks, Watergate... Senator Temple has his hands full, maneuvering political turmoil at home and the powder keg that is the Middle East. His mistake allows a criminal businessman to seize control of the world’s energy sector. Powerful oil dynasties—the Kingsleys, the Sheppards, and the Barronses—could help Temple fix things, but greed and old grudges threaten the alliance. Three families, their fates ...

COWARDICE WEARS MANY MASKS—OF LOYALTY, OF RATIONALITY, AND OFTEN OF CLEMENCY. The twenty-first century is around the corner. bin Laden’s fatwa, the dot-com bubble, an impeachment drama in the U.S. Capitol. Temple, former American president, cannot die before setting right the biggest mistake of his political life. His chosen heir, Lilah, knows the oil network should not continue to exist, but her allies come with many motives. Not all want her to win. Harry, her former lover, works desperately to hold their army together, but some recoil at the thought of what lies ahead. The price of ...

He made a choice, and it cost him everything. War brought him to Afghanistan, but for James Stone, it is a chance to help those trapped between the conflict. But in a land where every decision holds powerful and deadly consequences, a single act of kindness will cost him more than he ever thought possible. Western armies sweep through the country fighting a brutal and unpredictable enemy that thrives on chaos and destruction, no matter the cost. As the monsters of Afghanistan step out of the shadows, a simple mission quickly descends into a terrifying fight for survival for Stone and his ...

An unrelenting heatwave sweeps the country and starts a fire which uncovers the charred remains of a young woman. But when DI Eleanor Raven attends the post-mortem, it reveals some disturbing details - the girl was dead long before the fire. Her body had been lovingly preserved before being dressed up, her hair perfectly arranged, and a lime-green scarf knotted around her neck.

Damian, a vampire hybrid who commands the seductive shadows of his father’s nightclub, Mezzanine, has never lacked for female attention. But when intrepid journalist Naomi Sutton brazenly breaks into the club’s office during a masquerade ball, investigating allegations of blood rituals at the club, a primal hunger ignites within Damian—a craving unlike any he’s ever known. Naomi’s relentless pursuit of truth threatens to expose Damian’s deepest secrets, yet he’s inexplicably drawn to her, desperate to keep her close. But how can Damian stop Naomi from unraveling his world when...

Private investigators Troy and Eva Winters are looking forward to a visit with their old college buddy, Joe, when he invites them over for a barbecue and to talk over details of a case. The night soon turns awkward when Joe’s neighbors are overheard in an argument, which suddenly turns deadly silent. When Troy completes the assignment and brings the evidence to Joe, his friend is nowhere to be found. Troy’s life is soon in danger when he begins a search and stumbles across the neighbor’s evil secret.

When an angry Facebook post spirals into a serial killing spree, John's ordered life slips sideways into a nightmare world where social media betrays his every move to the killers. ♠ Fast-paced, compelling psychological thriller.

Imani Banks lives in a posh Brooklyn Heights neighborhood that has just been rocked to its core. An acclaimed movie director has been murdered, and his blond trophy wife—Imani’s closest friend—is missing. Their neighbors, along with the media, jump to the conclusion that Melissa Walker has killed her husband in a fit of rage and is on the run. Fortunately for the missing actress, Imani is a psychiatrist as well as a steadfast friend. She will never give up her search and is determined to prove Melissa’s innocence.

Grayson Woodford, the defiant heir to the Scanguards empire, seethes under his father Samson’s matchmaking attempts. He wants nothing to do with a prearranged future, especially one involving the daughter of an old friend. Thousands of miles away, Monique Montague, a fierce vampire hybrid and daughter of Louisianas vampire king, Cain, is equally enraged. She refuses to be tricked into dating the spoiled and arrogant Grayson she remembers from her childhood. Instead of attending the forced meet-cute, she seeks a night of wild abandon with a stranger she picks up in a bar—unaware that her...

A serial killer is on the loose in New York City. This wasn’t the kind of day Griffin Knight looked forward to when he woke up this morning. Sure, being a homicide detective is never unicorns and rainbows, yet knowing the victim of a murder scene is up there with some of the really bad days. There’s an avenger on the loose in New York with all the hallmarks of a long-silent serial killer. But how does this serial killer choose the victims? Do the victims share something in common? How many more names are on his list? Can Griffin Knight cut through the questions this guy is throwing his ...

As Andrew and Sarah race to unravel a convoluted web of subterfuge and exploitation, they discover there is more at stake than even they knew. And somewhere, at the heart of it, lurks a faceless enemy, who is prepared to use everything—and everyone—at his disposal.

When Irene Linden disappears, Private Detective Angelus Walker makes a trip to Elderwood where the urban legend of a witch haunts the locals. But Irene’s disappearance is not an isolated case— others, including her friends have vanished, their trails running cold between myth and reality. As he delves deeper into the town's dark secrets, Angelus must race against time to uncover the identity of the killer before another victim falls prey to the witch's deadly curse.

When four campers decide to take a short vacation in the pine forests of Mount Shasta, a potentially active volcano, and some say, a mystical mountain region in the Cascade Mountain Range of Northern California, it turns out they aren't alone. After a long drive through the Shasta Trinity National Forest, British MIT graduate Tom Bishop and his three friends set up camp in the closed-for-the-season Pine Crags Wilderness Campsite, in the shadows of Mount Shasta. As they exchange legends about the mysterious mountain, something appears from the woods which defies all logic....

A spellbinding and gripping novel of betrayal, the unbreakable bonds of family, the power of love, and the price a family pays for its secrets by Susan Cochran, author of The Key. Grace Channing is a journalist, adopted as a baby by a world famous mother, a secret she's kept well hidden. While doing a news report on adoptees finding siblings through DNA testing, her own DNA test reveals a brother she never knew. Her discovery leads her to forge a strong bond with him and they uncover a web of secrets and betrayal. Two families lives intertwined and changed in an instant. Boone Varon is the ...