Heist Thrillers

One winter day in Paris, renowned wine critic Benjamin Cooker's world gets turned upside down when his car gets highjacked. He loses his treasured tasting notebook and his feeling of safety. To recover, he retreats to the region around Tours, sure that the wine and off-season calm will restore is sense of self. There a flamboyant British dandy, a spectacular blue-eyed blond, a zealous concierge and touchy local police disturb his well-deserved rest.

You could have saved her. The refrain drives Angus to the seashore at dawn, where a girl lies on the unblemished sand. She wears a green cloak and cradles a corps creadha, a Highland voodoo doll. She has suffered a ritualistic, three-fold death—her head bludgeoned, her throat cut, and symbolically drowned.

When the place you call home is under siege, taking matters into your own hands isn’t just the honorable thing to do, it’s the only thing to do. The Summit Soldiers Motorcycle Club is about to be baptized in blood. High Climber is a small town deep in the mountains of Northern Idaho and home to a group of former U.S. Marines looking to find peace and solitude after the rigors of fighting in the Middle East. Unfortunately, what they find in the seemingly sleepy small town is anything but peaceful. Organized crime has already taken hold of the nearby mountain resort and the Sheriff is ...

After ageing hippy Bill Hogan is taken hostage during a bank heist in Brooklyn, his captors demand a million-dollar ransom for his safe return. The problem is no-one knows who the hell Bill Hogan is. Does he even exist? All is not what it seems in this fast-paced, short story.

'Fast Paced Action Packed & 100% Funny Dark Satirical Parody.' Miss Marple Struts her Stuff: This is a relentless and, dare I say it, humorous thriller where every move is a false start and every clue is a red herring. Private eye, Jack Hamma, faces the Hong Kong Mafia, better known as the Triad, and gets mixed up in a deadly turf war where knives and cleavers are the order of the day. Engaged to protect a beautiful Chinese girl, daughter of the Triad Dragon Master, February Ling, Jack fouls up big time, can he pull everything together and sort out the mystery or will the Triad’s ...

Fourth novel in the Mike Benasque thriller series! When you want to move diamonds you don’t hire an army, you hire a woman. From Paris to Athens—A life and death race across Europe. Christine Andress was the courier, as beautiful and hard as the gems she carried, as ruthless and cunning as the master criminals she was up against, and as passionate and vulnerable as a woman in love can be. Michael Benasque was the journalist along for the ride. But with twelve million in diamonds strapped to his crotch it was going to be the wildest ride of his life.

COULD THE TRIPTYCH LEAD THEM TO ICONS WHICH ONCE BELONGED TO CATHERINE THE GREAT, CZARINA OF RUSSIA? Giving his treasured possession to the two Australians who rescued him from an icy death, the ancient Cossack swears that the icon, an icon given to him by his grandfather, contains a code which will point to the secret hiding place of priceless icons looted from the imperial palace by Bolsheviks during the early years of the Russian Revolution. They must decide whether there really is a secret concealed within the old man’s icon, or whether the story was merely the old Cossack’s fantasy...

Here comes the fifth globetrotting adventure in the fast-paced Bodies of Art Mystery series from USA TODAY bestselling author Ritter Ames. A masterpiece swapped for a forgery, a murder victim left behind, and a relentless game of hide and seek keeps Laurel Beacham and Jack Hawkes on the run. They are racing to find answers despite roadblocks at every turn. The chase crisscrosses the Atlantic as they pursue threads to murders and thefts that extend from the current day and back several decades. A startling forgery points toward an unexpected new nemesis, and the team pursues a Paris forger ...

He knows she’s a thief. She knows he’s a fed. they married each other anyway. And now that the honeymoon’s over, things are about to get interesting.

Alan Lamb is a special agent for a new federal law enforcement agency called the Genetic Crimes Bureau. The GCB investigates so-called biocrimes; crimes involving the modification of the genetic blueprint, virus tampering, DNA manipulation, unsanctioned human experiments and illegal performance enhancement. Haunted by a tragic car accident that left him scarred twenty years ago, Alan must race against time to bring down a criminal mastermind who is playing a deadly cat-and-mouse game that would have given Sherlock Holmes a run for his money. It begins as a series of elaborate bank heists, ...

Roger finds a box in the ocean containing more than a quarter of a million dollars in cash while SCUBA diving in Hawaii. He attempts to return the money to the proper authorities. But things go wrong. Before long the money has disappeared along with two missing FBI agents who can’t be found, and Roger is in trouble with the local police and the FBI. Was the missing money intended for an illegal drug deal, as a payoff for crooked cops, or as a ransom for a kidnap victim? Is it real or counterfeit? Roger follows a twisted trail of illicit drugs, police corruption, and murder in this ...

"Action-packed and breath-takingly fast from start to finish. Elmore Leonard and Donald E. Westlake would have loved it!" Keith Bruton, Ned Kelly Award Winning author of The Lemon Man A professional thief takes his girlfriend on a trip to the shore—but only to check out an easy heist he can't resist. She's had enough of his criminal life and intends to leave him. The 'easy' job goes bad fast, trapping him on an island in the midst of a deadly storm....pursued by the law and ruthless killers. He has to escape or he's going to lose the woman he loves... if he doesn't lose his life first. "...

The name’s Abadare Glynt. Yes, really. I’ve been chewed up and spat out more times than a dog’s favorite bone, but I keep coming back for more, which is probably a good thing for an outcast, occasional detective, and all-round shadowy guy. Things weren’t exactly going well, but I’d decided to see the glass as being half-full, so when a beautiful woman with an ugly job fell into my lap, how could I refuse? Add to the mix a hell-raising heist, a murderous dimension hopping enchantress, and a spell on the loose with the potential to destroy half the city.

When you can’t hear…death comes silently. Scotland Yard detective Valerie Crowther is assigned to investigate the murder of a student at a university for the Deaf in London, England. The murder investigation coincides with a deadly flu virus outbreak, resulting in the university being quarantined from the outside world. When more Deaf students are murdered, it becomes clear there is a serial killer operating within the sealed-off university. A chilling cat-and-mouse game evolves as the unknown killer targets Valerie and the virus claims more lives. A stunning, claustrophobic, “...

The one place she never wanted to go back to. The one place she can’t escape. When she was just five years old, Lucy Murphy witnessed her mother’s brutal murder in their home on London’s notorious Griffin Estate. The case was never solved. Now a newly qualified police officer, Lucy has been given her first job: She’s going back to the Griffin Estate. She is there to protect the estate’s vulnerable residents, including Shannon and Kian Winters, two kids struggling to deal with their alcoholic mother.

Beartooth is a novel about two survivalist brothers in desperate straits, who are lured into committing a crime in Yellowstone National Park. Thad and Hazen, long ago abandoned by their wayward mother, are drowning in medical bills and notices about back taxes. They live alone in an aging, timber house hand-built into the leeside of the Beartooth Mountains. Thad’s the older brother, responsible, a loner, the caretaker of Hazen, who is a little . . . different.

Ash was crafted to be a weapon, sharp and lethal, with a criminal's instinct by choice. Now, he is a man shattered by loss, his beloved torn from him, leaving him a ghost in the criminal underworld. But when hope flickers, even in the bleakest heart, it can ignite a firestorm. For Ash, hope comes in two forms: the faint possibility of love and the burning desire for revenge. Both make him a force to be reckoned with. As he delves into the shadows of the city, Ash discovers that his enemies are as elusive as they are deadly. But he's not alone—his "family" of outcasts, each with their own ...

A mystery novel set in London during the 1920s. Step into the glittering yet treacherous world of 1920s London with "A Fortune in Diamonds." This captivating tale weaves together the lives of diamond merchants, cunning jewel thieves, and the intricate web of societal dynamics in post-war England. As the story unfolds, daring heists and personal dilemmas collide, revealing how loyalty, love, and the shadow of crime intertwine in an era of change and uncertainty. The journey begins with a daring burglary at Gilderheim, Pascoe, and Company, where a shipment of precious diamonds becomes the ...

Part 1: Cal lives a solitary life in the mountains of East Tennessee, working long hours in his job as a salesman. His humdrum life is crawling along with not much to look forward to when everything suddenly changes in the blink of an eye. Gunshots are not a usual occurrence near his rural home, but when they involve a car chase one evening and Cal sees two bags being thrown into some nearby trees he is stunned. Bracing himself for what could be within, Cal investigates only to discover they contain over two million dollars in cash. It’s more money than he has ever seen and clearly more ...

The last thing newly married jewel thief Gregg Hadyn expects is to bump into a former girlfriend, especially one who also happens to be an exceptional thief. Now plying his talents for a premier espionage team, Gregg considers it one too many coincidences to learn fellow thief Derek Clayton is also in the mix. When Derek’s routine heist from a billionaire Greek recluse puts him on the run for his life, he heads directly to Gregg and the SIRU.