Gripping Thriller

Penny has never met anyone smarter than her. That’s par for the course when you’re a savant—one of less than one hundred in the world. But despite her photographic memory and super-powered intellect, there’s one question Penny doesn’t know the answer to: where did her father go when he left her and her mother years ago? On Penny’s 21st birthday, she receives a card in the mail from her father, just as she has every year since he left. But this birthday card is different. For the first time ever, there’s a return address.

Every inch of my skin was on fire from bruising, a gunshot wound, oh, and that pesky cattle prod. Bullets were raining into my motel room. My sense of reality was slipping. I never thought I’d be praying for the FBI to show up, but everyone has a breaking point. In the tradition of The Bourne Identity, the Jack Ryan series, and HBO’s Homeland, Who Can You Trust, Colby? is a pulse-pounding espionage thriller that blurs the line between hero and fugitive. Kidnapped from a secret government facility where she is tortured within an inch of her life, DEA agent Colby James (former US enemy #1...

One hot summer night, 15-year-old Olivia comes home late from a party she was strictly forbidden from going to, and she and her mother, Hannah, start arguing. Soon Olivia speaks the words that every parent has heard from their teenage child.

Bath, England. As Detective Andrew Deans struggles to be present for his wife's challenging fertility treatment, the case of a missing college student hits a dead end. Under pressure from his job and his marriage, Deans' inquiry takes a turn when he receives impossible-to-deny evidence from a psychic....Despite his lack of belief in the paranormal, following the ghostly thread escalates his missing person case into a murder investigation. Unable to focus on his responsibilities at home, Deans works with the medium to build evidence from a new source: the voice of the victim herself.

This could be the most important mission of Nameless’s life. Because it’s putting him on a collision course with his own past and the nation’s future. The target: a fortified redoubt in the golden hills of California, the hub of a new world order that’s unthinkably close at hand. The time has come for Nameless to face its designer: the nihilist mastermind behind the One Solution. It’s also time for Nameless to discover who he is and was, and what brought him to this fateful endgame. But will the truth be a breaking point? Or a turning point?

‘Strikingly original’ - says award-winning author Jake Needham (Inspector Tay series) ‘Zoya is as gripping as it is charming. A great read’ - says best-selling author Oliver Harris (Detective Belsey series) ‘There's a new detective in town and don't let her height fool you, or her accent de jour. Spot on crime investigation and we need more Z!' ‘This book was amazing! This is my kind of thriller, it's fast and twisty. I love a good twist that shocks me, I didn't see it coming but oh wow I should have!’ ‘Great suspense, intriguing action, murder, mystery…a great whodunnit ...

When Detective Casey White is called to a murder scene on an empty stretch of coastal road, her whole team is in a panic. Could the body be their missing colleague Samantha? The promising investigator was last seen two days ago, going home after an evening of dancing with friends. Her family are beside themselves with worry. Casey’s relief is short-lived when she sees the short dark hair of another woman. Pauline Rydel has been missing for a week. Devastated that anyone would take this innocent life, the tear-shaped cuts on the victim’s face make Casey’s heart stop.

Samantha Frayn doesn’t know why Peter Bridges picks her - a nobody with bitten fingernails and a troubled childhood behind her - but she falls quickly. He’s older, charming, likes fine wine and French films, and his beautiful home has real art on its walls. Peter transforms Samantha’s life in an instant. He sees the better version of herself - the one she’s always wanted to be. It’s only normal that there’s a little friction, when she moves in, over domestic matters like where things are kept, or the proper times to eat, sleep, and shower.

Getting in his car was a mistake. But as the frigid air whipped through her thin coat, she felt too cold to say no. Now, snowflakes settle on her long dark lashes. Ice-cold and forever fifteen years old, she’ll never see her mother’s smile again… As the biggest snowstorm the Outer Banks has seen in decades ravages the coastline, Detective Casey White is called to an abandoned junk yard miles beyond the marshes. Teenager Jill Carter’s body is posed on her back, a look of terror frozen on her beautiful face.

Get hours of reading pleasure, pulsating action, and a hero who just won't be stopped BLOOD FEUD When the British government needs a problem to disappear, they call Stirling Hunt. But when his own family is murdered, he has nothing left to lose… Stirling Hunt is a ghost. A deniable black-ops asset. A man who doesn’t exist. But when his family is the target of a brutal assassin, the world’s deadliest operative is given one last chance for revenge. Hunted by shadowy forces and running out of time to untangle a devious web of betrayal and decades of deceit, Hunt will stop at nothing to ...

Sussex, 1957: When Flora Steele and handsome crime writer Jack Carrington attend the grand re-opening of the Priory Hotel in the beautiful little village of Abbeymead, their day out is cut short when the flame-haired female singer in the band suddenly drops dead before their eyes. Flora is stunned by the unexpected turn of events and immediately deduces foul play. Beverly Russo was a spirited young woman with a big voice, and Flora is determined to get to the bottom of her untimely demise—especially as the detective sergeant leading the investigation is so hopeless.

This is not the happy family you think. The fire crackles, my son smiles, the man jokes whilst I pour drinks. But my husband has disappeared. The man is a stranger. My skin crawls every time he brushes my hand. He says if I don’t play along, he has photos that will destroy my family. What happened the night before my husband disappeared - the night I don’t remember?

She said she’d stay one night. She lied. Sophie and Tom finally have the perfect life - or so it seems. A quiet village. A freshly renovated guest room. And a little extra income from the occasional overnight visitor. Then Lena Moore arrives. Polite. Elegant. Unsettling. She claims she’s attending a writing retreat nearby. But the retreat doesn’t exist. And by morning, she hasn’t left. Each day, Lena’s presence deepens. She knows things she shouldn't. She watches. She listens. She moves through the house like it already belongs to her. As secrets rise to the surface - from ...

In a patch of forest on the outskirts of a small town, five teenage school friends prepare to spend a night away from home. Carrying their tents and sleeping bags, they laugh and joke as they make their way into the darkest part of the woods, away from prying eyes. But as the sun rises the following morning, only four are left alive.

A terrorist attack in the news leaves Nameless reeling from a disturbing vision. But it’s not a glimpse of the future. It’s a recovered memory that’s opening a window into his mysterious past. Uncharacteristically forthcoming—and unexpectedly personal—Nameless’s handlers have no choice but to emerge from the shadows. The indoctrinating factions of his visions are growing in number. What’s more, their chilling symbol of totalitarian control is now linked to the highest powers in the country.

Kit Mason has lived a life of unimaginable pain. An ex-prostitute, she has fled the clutches of an abusive pimp and now finds herself living hand to mouth in a new city, without anyone to help her. Frances Thornton seems to be living the perfect life. A lawyer from a privileged background, her perfect façade hides the painful secrets that still haunt her.

A new wellness app promised to silence her demons. Instead, it let her hear someone else’s. Now, the thoughts of a captive woman are screaming in her head, and a killer knows she’s listening. For recovering addict Allison, sobriety is a fragile, quiet hell. She craves the sharp, artificial focus of her past and would do anything to feel in control again. When she discovers Beta Sync—a leaked neuro-tech app that promises mental clarity—it feels like a miracle. But the "clarity" is something else entirely: the unfiltered consciousness of everyone around her. It's an intoxicating new ...

A RUSSIAN SCIENTIST REVIVES A TUNDRA VIRUS FROZEN FOR 30,000 YEARS! WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG? Well, just about everything, as terrorists use the deadly pathogen to attack one of America's iconic sports events. "WELL-DRAWN CHARACTERS, TANGLED RELATIONSHIPS, GOOD-NATURED BANTER, UP-TO-DATE TECHNOLOGICAL ISSUES (DRONES, EXPLOSIVES, ETC.) AND A CURRENT-EVENTS ATMOSPHERE CREATE A RICH ARRAY OF INTEREST HOOKS FOR READERS. SIBERIA, THE KREMLIN, MARSEILLES, JEDDAH AND LOUISVILLE, KY. --- FOR NOTHING LESS THAN A CRESCENDO OF ACTION (BESIDE THE HORSE RACE) AT THE KENTUCKY DERBY --- ARE PART OF ...

In the elite world of luxury real estate, it is often kill or be killed, something agent Andi Hart knows all too well—and after recent events, she’s ready to set her own rules. So when her boss challenges the team to find a buyer for a glitzy Malibu beach house, with a prize commission of a cool $1 million, she knows it’s her ticket to a new life. But she’s not the only one who not only wants but needs the money. Each of her four colleagues has secrets they’re eager to hide—secrets $1 million would go a long way in concealing.

Eye For Her is a jaw-dropping thriller that fans of Gone Girl and Shutter Island won’t be able to put down—featuring a twist you’ll never see coming. A perfect life shattered. A nightmare begins. Abigail Blake seems to have it all: a loving husband, a long-awaited baby, and a thriving career in architecture. But one serene evening at their lakeside vacation cabin, everything changes. As she cradles her infant and waits for her husband Robert to arrive for dinner, he never comes home. That tranquil moment by the lake becomes her last memory of them as a family. When Abigail wakes, ...