Middle Thriller

There is a small town in Oregon called Middle Falls. When people die there, one of three things happens to them: They pass on to what is next. They are recycled to an earlier point in their life. They become spirits who are tethered to the spot where they died. This is the story of a tethered spirit.

In medieval England, four children have been murdered, and the townsfolk blame their Jewish neighbors. The doctor chosen to investigate is a woman, Adelia. As she examines the victims and retraces their last steps, she must conceal her true identity in order to avoid accusations of witchcraft. Along the way, she's assisted by Sir Rowley Picot, a man with a personal stake in the investigation. A former Crusader knight, Rowley may be a needed friend - or the fiend for whom they are searching.

FBI agent Nicholas Drummond and his partner, Mike Caine, are deep into an investigation of COE - Celebrants of the Earth - a violent group known for widespread bombings of power grids and oil refineries across the country. While investigating a tip from a civilian who's overheard about a possible bombing plot, the Bayway Refinery in New Jersey explodes. Nicholas and Mike race to the scene and barely escape being killed by a secondary device.

The email arrives Sunday night: Do exactly what I say, when I say it, or I will reveal your secret. On Monday morning, seventh graders Owen, Gemma, Ally, and Todd, who have nothing in common and barely know each other, must work together and follow the instructions of an anonymous blackmailer. None of them want to go along with the blackmailer's strange instructions, but each of them have a secret they must protect at all costs.

The one thing you can always say about Aisling Grimlock is that her life is never boring. Never. Not even for five minutes. She’s a grim reaper by trade, a sister by birth, and a pain in the butt by choice. She lives in a world that’s always changing, rearranging, and even growing. This omnibus includes three titles: Grim Reunion, Grim Expectations, and Grim Holiday.

A missing treasure. A cursed property. Will Ellie’s bed and breakfast turn into a dead and breakfast on opening weekend? Excited to restart her life after a bitter divorce, Ellie Byrne plans to re-open her aunt’s old bed and breakfast with a murder mystery weekend. But when she finds out the property possesses a cursed treasure that has robbed all previous owners of their lives, she worries her fresh start may lead to her death. Threats abound and when a body turns up, Ellie’s convinced the curse is real.

Edwin Miller is uncertain. Not about any one thing, but about every thing. He's smart, capable, and completely unable to move forward in his life because of his own anxiety. Luckily for Edwin, he lives in Middle Falls, Oregon, where the apparent end is often just a new beginning.

Winner of the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award, Silver PEN Award, 1987.The acclaimed travel writer's youthful journey - as an 18-year-old - across 1930s Europe by foot began in A Time of Gifts, which covered the author's exacting journey from the Lowlands as far as Hungary. Picking up from the very spot on a bridge across the Danube where his readers last saw him, we travel on with him across the great Hungarian Plain on horseback, and over the Romanian border to Transylvania.

Hart Tanner is a con man; a grifter who enjoys gaming people as much as he enjoys whatever ill-gotten gains he might receive. When he dies an embarrassing, pain-riddled death, he is beyond surprised to wake up at an earlier point in his life with all memories still intact. A con man with access to life after life with no real consequences, why would he ever change the way he lives? But Hart Tanner does change. No matter how stubbornly he clings to his own resistance.

Mahmoud’s passion for his wife, Fereiba, a schoolteacher, is greater than any love she’s ever known. But their happy, middle-class world implodes when their country is engulfed in war and the Taliban rises to power. Mahmoud, a civil engineer, becomes a target of the new fundamentalist regime and is murdered. Forced to flee Kabul with her three children, Fereiba must find a way to cross Europe and reach her sister’s family in England. With forged papers and help from kind strangers they meet along the way, Fereiba make a dangerous crossing into Iran under cover of darkness.

Ripped from today's headlines, Brian Haig's new novel finds Army lawyer Sean Drummond caught between duty to Washington's elite and the soldiers in Iraq. Dispatched to investigate the suicide of one of D.C.'s most influential defense officials, an ardent, early supporter of the war in Iraq, Drummond and his female partner find themselves in the middle of a tug-of-war between Washington's most influential power brokers and his own personal allegiance to the soldiers dying overseas.

At a Hallowe'en party, Joyce - a hostile thirteen-year-old - boasts that she once witnessed a murder. When no one believes her, she storms off home. But within hours her body is found, still in the house, drowned in an apple-bobbing tub. That night, Hercule Poirot is called in to find the "evil presence". But first he must establish whether he is looking for a murderer or a double murderer.

Leaving the safety of her nunnery walls behind, Dame Frevisse is drawn into an unholy web of treachery and deceit. Waylaid on the King's Highway by a band of outlaws, Frevisse is shocked to discover that their leader is her long-lost cousin Nicholas. When he pleads with her to help him obtain a pardon for his crimes, she finds herself trapped between the harsh edicts of the law and the mercy of her vows. But even as she struggles to restore his fortunes, Frevisse must fight to save his soul...and his life.

When danger strikes, love and family become the ultimate refuge. Ben Taylor, a 25-year-old widower with four children, is already struggling to balance college, a new job, and fatherhood when he gets caught up in a network of fraud and deception at his workplace. Forced to go undercover to expose the criminals and clear his name, Ben turns to Teresa Cooper, the capable nanny who keeps his world in order, to take his children to the one place where they will be completely safe. Jonah Campbell, a retired soldier-turned-artist living in the remote wilderness of the Upper Peninsula, never ...

Jack 'No Middle Name' Reacher, lone wolf, knight errant, ex-military cop, lover of women, scourge of the wicked and righter of wrongs, is the most iconic hero for our age. This is the first time all Lee Child's shorter fiction featuring Jack Reacher has been collected into one volume. A brand-new novella, Too Much Time, is included, as are those previously published only in ebook form: Second Son, James Penney's New Identity, Guy Walks into a Bar, and Deep Down.

In the fair autumn of Our Lord's grace 1431, the nuns of England's St. Frideswide's prepare for the simply ceremonies in which the saintly novice Thomasine will take her holy vows. But their quiet lives of beauty and prayer are thrown into chaos by the merciless arrival of Lady Ermentrude Fenner and her retinue of lusty men, sinful women, and baying hounds. The hard-drinking dowager even keeps a pet monkey for her amusement. She demands wine, a feast.... And her niece, the angelic Thomasine.

What if your only shot at redemption meant risking your life to uncover one of history’s greatest mysteries - buried deep in enemy territory? Set among the sacred stone walls of modern-day Bethlehem, Operation Bethlehem is a gripping spy thriller fused with the suspense of a rare archeological mystery. Beneath this ancient city, where every step is tracked and every motive is suspect, lies a secret no one dares to find. Daniel, a former Mossad operative haunted by failure and desperate to find his purpose again, goes undercover for a dangerous mission of his own. But he’s not alone. ...

Political figures are being assassinated ...across the Middle East Abandoned in the Middle East with terrorist groups angry at him and the American government accusing him of murder, CIA operative Dean Wells has only one way to save his life and clear his name. He must bring peace to the region. In acclaimed thriller author Fritz Galt’s “vividly portrayed locations” from the souks of Syria to the underwater world of the Red Sea, and from Jordan to Jerusalem, you’ll feel the hot desert wind breathing down your neck. Dean must assemble a cast of shadowy misfits to take on the CIA, ...

Something terrible is haunting Dylan Wylde; an ominous figure in the woods that could ruin his life forever. Just when he thinks things can’t get worse, a strange carnival comes to town, and something dark lurks behind its bright twinkling lights. Something sinister. Something that has the ghosts of Weirdbey Island seriously spooked. Phantoms run rampant as a dastardly plot unfolds, one that will push Dylan and his friends to their limits. Can they face their deepest fears and strike back before the wicked forces plunge the island into eternal darkness?

The countdown has begun. Iran stands mere weeks from possessing a nuclear arsenal, its most advanced centrifuges spinning relentlessly in deeply buried, mountain fortresses, and its weaponization program at the shadowy "Rainbow" facility nearing completion. For Israel, the red line has been crossed, the specter of a second Holocaust looming. With the world paralyzed by indecision, Prime Minister Gideon Eshel unleashes the "Samson Gambit"—a breathtakingly audacious, multi-domain assault designed to cripple Iran's nuclear dream and decapitate its fanatical leadership in a single, ...