Gripping Thriller

The Novelist is the story of Charlotte Clarke, journalist, writer and fictional daughter of the 19th century novelist, Marcus Clarke, whose most popular work is For the Term of His Natural Life. Charlotte challenges herself to write a sequel to her father's celebrated book, twisting her father's ending to suit her beginning-where protagonists Rufus Dawes and Sylvia Vickers survive a supposedly fatal ending in a shipwreck. As a natural sleuth, Charlotte investigates-in the role of journalist for the newspaper-local crimes and their outcomes in court. This alone attracts unwanted company, ...

THE DAUGHTER'S FRIEND By Roberta Huckle Do you believe in ghosts? Or do you trust what you see? When a mother’s young daughter begins speaking to an unseen presence named Vatavia, it’s easy to dismiss as imagination. But as the "friend" becomes more real—and more disturbing—the mother is drawn into a spiral of fear, doubt, and disbelief. Is her daughter playing a game? Is something more sinister at work? Or is the fragile veil between reality and something else beginning to tear? What happens when you stop believing it’s just in your head? The Daughter’s Friend is a gripping ...

Alex has it all—love, success, prestige. But someone is watching, waiting, ready to destroy her. Can she survive? I bolt upright in my bed, startled. Did I scream? I hold my breath and listen intently. Nothing moves. Protected by darkness, I lean on my pillow and linger in the sweet realization that the nightmare wasn’t real. I am OK. Then reality hits. I am not OK. My life is falling apart. Fast. Looking in from the outside, I am still living my dream. I have a loving husband, wonderful home, thriving business, recognition, prestige. Seemingly I have it all. But I don’t… I am ...

A hidden artifact. A deadly conspiracy. A past that won’t stay buried. Lucas Thorne never expected to be pulled back into the shadows. But when a mysterious artifact linked to his forgotten past surfaces, he and Professor Isobel Hart are thrust into a dangerous web of secret societies and ancient secrets. What begins as a plea for help quickly unravels into a high-stakes conspiracy with global implications. As Lucas confronts ghosts from a world he tried to leave behind, Isobel follows the trail of her father’s disappearance—one that leads deep into the heart of a powerful faction ...

Hunter of the Light Series Boxset Books 1-5 Rachel wakes in a cold sweat after another nightmare. She is starting to question what’s real and what’s in her head. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ “...twists that keep you guessing and leave you craving the next book." ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ “...highly recommend the entire series!" Book 1: Dreaming of Death Is Rachel really free from death’s grip? After a fatal crash claimed her family’s lives, she must return home alone. She's hoping to settle into a new normal but terrifying experiences begin creeping into her life... gruesome dreams, sleepwalking, and ...

Inspector Maxwell Abaline is back, and this time, the stakes are higher, the shadows darker, and the terror more personal. In a sinister follow-up to The Devil’s Tourniquet, Abaline finds himself on the trail of a sadistic killer, a merciless figure driven by vengeance and an unsettling, twisted sense of family loyalty. When 84-year-old Joseph Clancy vanishes without a trace, the investigation takes a harrowing turn. The last known sighting of him is as he prepares to walk his dog up on the moors, late in the evening. Abaline, tasked with finding Joseph, is drawn into a case that cuts far...

In the pretty, privileged college town of Milford, New Hampshire, everyone is friendly, and everything is safe. And on this cold autumn day, as red and yellow leaves begin to fall from the trees, and everyone wraps up for the first time, it would be easy to believe nothing bad could ever happen here. Until a screech of tires is heard, a thud, a child’s scream. The crash that sees Jenna’s six-year-old daughter, Amy Rose, being hit by a car driven by 17-year-old Maddie.

RUNNING MAY BE THE ONLY THING THAT KEEPS THEM ALIVE Celebrating their wedding anniversary out on a quiet lake, Robert and Helen Harris's night quickly turns from intimate to deadly when they are attacked by an intruder, leaving their young daughter, Jess, an orphan. Fifteen years later, Jess is an adult. Graduated from university and settled into a new city and job, she has found herself in an abusive relationship with her boss, Sean, who is a cruel and easily angered man. Seeing an opportunity to flee and make a fresh start, Jess runs. Living life simultaneously to Jess, Arina is ...

This book is paramount. The events that follow change everything... Trust is a fading mirage for Reece Cannon. And it only grows fainter as she’s plunged into a world of manipulation and lies, when she and Shanahan unravel a case as perilous as it is personal. Chilling secrets lurk behind familiar faces. After discovering a web of crime stretching from coast to coast, the investigation reveals a sinister network operating through the U.S. rail system. Hot on the trail, Reece jumps aboard the California Bullet, only to find herself in a chessboard of deadly moves. A race against disaster ...

A wildlife photographer plummets to his death above Fingal's Cave. A young fisherman vanishes without trace. The body of a marine scientist is pulled from the sea, his last recording a haunting piece of evidence. Three seemingly unconnected events on the Isle of Mull draw Private Investigator Teàrlach Paterson back to his childhood home. Hired by the photographer's widow to investigate her husband's death, Teàrlach quickly unravels a tangled web of family feuds, forbidden love and deep betrayals.

Between her work in Cornwall’s oldest library and catching up with old friends over tea and chocolate biscuits, Jemima Jago is spending the season the only way she knows how: sunbathing, swimming, and sailing. But her postcard-perfect summer is turned upside down when the body of well-to-do businessman Hermie Castleberry is found on the sweeping white sands at the foot of Candlewick Castle.

Emily Keller couldn't have a better relationship with her daughter Blair. Ever since Blair was a little girl, the two of them have been inseparable; from telling each other their darkest secrets to their most precious hopes and dreams. But when Blair suddenly goes missing, Emily's entire world is slowly turned upside down. With little help from the police and numerous suspects, Emily soon discovers that everyone has a secret...and some are worth dying for. From up and coming author P.J. Stanley comes a tale of twists and turns, uncovering every mother's worst fears and pushing them to the ...

Carly had thought they’d always live there. The beautiful Cornish cliffside house they’d taken on as a wreck, that Mark had obsessively redesigned and renovated - a project that had made him famous. It was where they’d raised their children, where they’d sat cozily on the sofa, watching storms raging over the sea below. It was where they’d promised to keep each other’s secrets. Until now. Because Mark has fallen in love. With someone he definitely shouldn’t have. Someone who isn’t Carly. And suddenly their family home doesn’t feel like so much of a safe haven.

Alex would kill to protect her children; Vivien would kill to seize the fortune she expects from kidnapping them… Alex thought the nightmare was over. Her children are safe—for now. But Vivien, the woman behind their kidnapping, has vanished without a trace. Reinvented and living large at an exclusive resort, Vivien gets a call that changes everything. It's a new chance to settle the score with Alex once and for all. Determined to uncover who aided Vivien in abducting her children, Alex battles corrupt agents and a relentless, deceitful media set to tear her family apart. Lurking behind...

A mysterious old mining town from the old west draws the attention of a police squad while a series of murders and bank robberies take place. Sergeant Payne decides to send in Cole Parker, his top homicide investigator. Cole becomes informed of the town's wild west history, and he makes some shocking discoveries. But uncovering a secret passageway, hidden hatchways, and an underground tunnel is just the beginning. He begins to realize that the bank robbers have more of a history than he imagined, and he soon finds himself in dreadful danger.

Her mother is locked in a high-security prison. Her fiancé is accused of murder. A psychotic killer wants revenge. Will she survive long enough to save the man she loves? All Sergeant Evelyn “Mac” McGregor wants is to be back home to her normal life and to start something serious with her sexy boyfriend, Hudson. Until she finds herself in the middle of a media frenzy. She’s benched and told to stay off any major cases. Her mental health is called into question, and the strong Latina struggles to come to grips with her involvement in her family’s demise.Just when things begin to ...

Knocking on the front door, clutching my son Noah’s small hand, my heart is beating fast. When my foster mother sees me, her hands fly to her mouth in disbelief and she pulls us inside, asking the question I don’t want to answer: Why have you come back? Soon the whole town is whispering about my miraculous return, fifteen years after I vanished in the middle of the night. But not everyone is happy to see me. My oldest friend thinks I’m keeping secrets, and they aren’t wrong. We were seen arguing the night I returned. And then my friend is found dead.

A detective ensnared. A deadly trap. A race against time. When DC Simmons' father asks him to help a newly bereaved widow, the young cop senses trouble and turns to DI Joe Hogarth for assistance. Hogarth can't decline, but he'll soon wish he had, as they find themselves caught in a trap they must escape before the weekend ends—or be implicated in the gravest of crimes. Social media entrepreneur Grant Dawn goes missing on a Friday night. His classic car spins out of control into a cold marshland river. He's almost certainly dead, his alcoholic wife is in despair, and their business is on ...

Some secrets don’t stay buried. Three elaborately staged victims. No clues. A public verging on panic. FBI profiler Victor Loshak heads to Kansas City to hunt another serial killer. But something about this case is all wrong. The three corpses lie posed. Face up. A glove laid to cover each right eye. The victims seem to be selected at random. Suburban. Upper middle class. Squeaky clean. It doesn’t make sense. A piece is missing from this puzzle.

A mysterious suicide. A detective under pressure. A deadly investigation. DI Joe Hogarth planned to spend the weekend saving his superior, but when he's called to investigate Dina Corbett's death, everything changes. Locked alone inside her holiday park caravan, Dina died from a single gunshot wound to the head. A gun is found by her hand, but no suicide note is in sight. ★★★★★ “Fast paced - difficult to put down!” Suicide seems obvious, but nagging doubts lead Hogarth to suspect murder. With no evidence of foul play and every witness having a solid alibi, Hogarth can't let go...