Modern Thrillers

Remington Dean Returns to Bring Texas Justice to the Rockies! A body is found alongside a river in Rocky Mountain National Park, missing its eyes and with an X carved in its chest. At the same time, a wealthy couple are killed in a manner that could only mean the paramilitary rogues that brought war to Eden Falls in The Ranger are out for blood again. Remington Dean will face new challenges, new mysteries, and new developments as his investigation takes him higher into the mountains. Rhett Windsor emerges as an unexpected ally, while Dean once again relies on Detective Sadie Donovan, Agents...

The floodwaters have only just receded. Already, another flood threatens to overwhelm the new Druwish Free Nation. A tidal wave of changeling and mage refugees pour into the Magic City, drawn by the promise of opportunities. Not everyone arrives with good intentions. Inquisitor Ember Wright and her team are enduring skepticism, death threats, and even assassination attempts. Perhaps worst of all, some citizens want her to run for public office.

Assigned to the CIA's survivalist school in the Appalachians, Sasha Kopytina intercepts a short wave radio transmission from a long-dormant Russian sleeper agent, a spy ring headed up by her father. They went off the grid after the Berlin Wall fell twenty-five years ago. A quick phone call to her half-brother, Sam Mulchay, in the CIA's Black Ops, and he appears on the scene under the guise of FBI Special Agent Adam Brookfield. Sam arrives in the dusty, hot small town of Brownville, Alabama, to investigate and quickly finds himself caught up in the spiraling mystery of the disappearance of ...

Old Gods never die…or so Athena thought. But then the feathers started sprouting beneath her skin, invading her lungs like a strange cancer, and Hermes showed up with a fever eating away his flesh. So much for living a quiet eternity in perpetual health.

Adam Lang has been Britain’s longest serving—and most controversial—prime minister of the last half century. And now that he’s left office, he’s accepted one of history’s largest cash advances to compose a tell-all (or at least, tell-some) memoir of his life and years of power. He hires a professional ghostwriter to finish the book. As he sets to work, the ghostwriter discovers many more secrets than Lang intends to reveal - secrets with the power to alter world politics, secrets with the power to kill.

Echoes You Can’t Ignore is a chilling collection of unforgettable encounters, each tale unraveling the thin boundary between the known and the unknowable. From haunted signals and whispered names to photographs that rewrite memory, this anthology drags the eerie into your everyday—and dares you to keep reading. Told in gripping first-person accounts, these modern horror stories are not about monsters under the bed. They’re about the ones that sit beside you. They’re the dreams you didn’t have. The voice in the vent. The shadow in the last frame. And once you meet them, they never ...

A courtroom drama of biological science versus transgenderism, The Wise of Heart updates the Scopes Monkey Trial for the twenty-first century. He wanted to test the new Gender Awareness in Academia (GAIA) Act, but high-school biology teacher, Mike Andrews got more than he bargained for.

Bernard Samson is a spy on the run. But in the murky streets of Berlin, he knows where to hide. Wanted for an act of treachery he has not committed, he must not only escape the grasp of London Central but get to the bottom of a tangled conspiracy that is about to change everything. In the thrilling penultimate instalment of the Hook, Line and Sinker trilogy, Bernard's personal and professional life collide with devastating consequences.

『リング』『スマホを落としただけなのに』の中田秀夫監督による待望の実写映画化が決定!

From Juan Carlos Boíza López, acclaimed author of The Book of Toth, Sindone, and Taste of Earth, comes The Book of Reflections—a unique anthology featuring over thirty short stories that span thriller, drama, science fiction, and horror. But beyond genres, all these stories share a common goal: to use fantasy and fiction as a mirror—one that provokes, stirs emotions, and inspires reflection on the world we inhabit. Dare to step through the looking glass and immerse yourself in unsettling tales such as: An agoraphobic man trapped in a world that seems to have forgotten him. A future ...

Henry Pierce has a whole new life - new apartment, new telephone, new telephone number. But the first time he checks his messages, he discovers that someone had the number before him. The messages on his line are for a woman named Lilly, and she is in some kind of serious trouble. Pierce is inexorably drawn into Lilly's world, and it's unlike any world he's ever known. It is a night-time world of escort services, websites, sex, and secret identities.

15年前、静かな田舎町でひとりの女児が殺害された。直前まで一緒に遊んでいた四人の女の子は、犯人と思われる男と言葉を交わしていたものの、なぜか顔が思い出せず、事件は迷宮入りとなる。

"Wow, the writing is intense, the plot nothing short of vicious, the characters as flawed as any I've read, the action includes some of the oddest fights ever, and throughout this strange novel I never lost interest." - KOBAM "Good Read. Loved it, different. ... I loved the storyline. Looking for more!" - Ardythe M Welcome to Casino. Population: dying. Ben Reilly thought he’d left the ghosts of his past behind. But when heartbreak drags him back to his dusty hometown, he finds a town rotting from the inside out—haunted by whispered disappearances, hostile stares, and shadows that move ...

They were promised a three-day war. A victory parade in Kyiv. Flowers thrown at the feet of liberators. But for the men of the 64-kilometer-long convoy, the road to glory has become a frozen river of mud and steel. For Captain Dmitri Volkov, a logistics officer, the war is not a battle of heroes, but a grim equation of dwindling fuel, failing equipment, and timetables that have become a grotesque joke. His logbook, once a sanctuary of order, is now the meticulous record of a slow, grinding descent into hell. As days bleed into weeks, the Zampolit’s patriotic speeches fade into the howl of...

Sombras de Sangre en Madrid Un misterio inquietante de traición, obsesión y oscuros secretos que acechan en los rincones sombríos de Madrid. Cuando Diego Doria, un atormentado detective de Málaga, recibe una llamada desesperada de su exnovia, Macarena, no puede ignorarla. Está siendo perseguida por figuras de su pasado: mujeres que aseguran ser Tlahuelpuchi, vampiras del folclore mexicano. Impulsado por una mezcla de lealtad y sentimientos no resueltos, Diego viaja a Madrid, donde las brillantes calles de la ciudad esconden sombras mucho más profundas de lo que jamás imaginó. Madrid...

In the heartland of America, where the sky stretches endlessly and the land whispers secrets of a simpler time, something extraordinary disrupts the tranquility. Mysterious rainbows, vibrant and otherworldly, begin to appear in the clear blue skies—rainbows with no logical explanation. Enter Agent Cody Shane, a pragmatic investigator whose latest assignment is to unravel the enigma of these impossible celestial phenomena. What he initially dismisses as a wild goose chase soon spirals into an adventure beyond his wildest dreams. As Cody delves deeper into the mystery, his path collides ...

It's been seven weeks, two days, and ten hours since she discovered the grave of a dead girl with her face… In the dark underworld, Red is a witch trained as a supernatural bounty hunter. Where she came from is a mystery even to herself. Over four books, the plot thickened as she came up against vampire conspiracies, doppelganger mysteries, shady warlocks, modern alchemists, greedy werewolves, and more supernatural weirdness. Now, the road takes her north to an idyllic village on the Oregon coast. It could hold all the answers she has desperately wanted for so long, but her origins aren't...

Un juego mortal de espionaje, traición... y amor. Sumérgete en el mundo implacable de Enigma Letal, donde la línea entre el deber y los sentimientos se borra de forma peligrosa. Anastasia Ivanova, una letal espía del GRU ruso, es enviada al Reino Unido con una misión clara: eliminar traidores e investigar un misterioso túnel de agua pesada en Colchester. Pero su mundo cambia por completo cuando se enamora de un joven británico. Dividida entre el amor y la lealtad, Janica queda atrapada en un juego de traiciones, persecuciones y decisiones imposibles. Perseguida por el MI5, ...

Detective stories existed for centuries before the concept of the detective itself—amateur or professional— was fully formulated, and tales of mystery and intrigue have been thrilling readers since ancient times. The Lock and Key Library is the classic overview of the history of the mystery genre, at once a rousing listen for fans of the unsolved and unknown as well as an essential literary resource for those seeking to understand the roots of modern pulp fiction. This volume is sure to delight and enthrall armchair detectives and fans of classic mysteries alike.

Professor Karen Pelletier is about to realize her dream. After six years in the English department at New England's exclusive Enfield College, she is up for tenure. Then Professor Joseph Lone Wolf, her rival for the one tenured spot in the department, whose ethnicity gives him minority-preference status, is found dead from an overdose of Peyote buttons.