Small Town Thriller

Two lonely towns in Colorado: Hope and Despair. Between them, 12 miles of empty road. Jack Reacher never turns back. It's not in his nature. All he wants is a cup of coffee. What he gets is big trouble. So in Lee Child’s electrifying new novel, Reacher - a man with no fear, no illusions, and nothing to lose - goes to war against a town that not only wants him gone, it wants him dead. It wasn’t the welcome Reacher expected. He was just passing through, minding his own business. But within minutes of his arrival a deputy is in the hospital and Reacher is back in Hope.

In a post-apocalyptic world caused by a devastating solar flare, two sisters escape a traumatic past and find solace in a hidden refuge. Facing dangers and making tough decisions, they uncover the power of chosen family and the enduring strength of love and hope amid chaos. As news of society's rebuilding trickles in, their unbreakable bond serves as an unwavering beacon, signifying the resilience of humanity and the power of sisterhood.

Someone is stealing priceless documents from the Colonial History Museum in Plymouth, Massachusetts and substituting forgeries. Sister Benedicta, is a visiting manuscript scholar-nun from the North of England doing researching a subset of religious dissidents in colonial America. To her horror, she discovers several of the supposed original documents in the museum’s collection are forgeries…and all hell breaks loose, and Viridienne Greene, Sister Benedicta, and poet-Detective Fitzpatrick are directly in the line of fire.

Dying is simple. Coming back is when things get interesting. Ivy Wells never wanted to die. When she does, she thinks it's all over. It isn't. When the 30 year old mother of two wakes up as a 12 year old, she has to navigate her life all over again. And she remembers everything, including the serial killer who is terrorizing her small town. Over several lifetimes, Ivy battles to save herself, her friends, and even her own children from the vicious killer. Follow Ivy Wells in a desperate race through time as she tries to outwit the person that is killing her over and over. What would you do ...

Brandon is a senior in college about to head to medical school. On the outside, he seems like an ordinary young man, but Brandon has a secret. He has had the same dream each night since his mother mysteriously disappeared 20 years ago and he is about to learn that the visions in his dreams may hold the key to a grim discovery. When Brandon receives an invitation to visit the last place she was seen, he jumps on the opportunity hoping to find the answers he has been longing for. Together with his best friend, Madeline, he leaves the city to return to his childhood hometown.

Joe Talbert, Jr. has never once met his namesake. Now out of college, a cub reporter for the Associated Press in Minneapolis, he stumbles across a story describing the murder of a man named Joseph Talbert in a small town in southern Minnesota. Full of curiosity about whether this man might be his father, Joe is shocked to find that none of the town's residents have much to say about the dead man - other than that his death was long overdue....

The Hendricks family has long known that it’s wise to be careful what you wish for...dark family secrets have a way of finding their way to the light. Unfortunately, enemies usually aren’t too far behind. Grace had never been more terrified...the pain was relentless. Nothing in her life prepared her for this. She desperately needed somewhere safe...someplace she could hide. Someone she could trust with her life. It was dark...and getting darker. Ronan Hendricks didn’t recognize her voice. Not family...not friends. Probably not an enemy. But he didn’t need the years he’d spent as a...

Don’t kiss a friend. No workplace romance. Never date a cowboy. And whatever you do, don’t fall for a guy in a uniform! Prim Midraven has been following her mother’s dating advice for years. You should be able to trust a professional matchmaker, right? Which doesn’t explain why Prim is still painfully single. When her best friend, Deputy Shep Whitaker, organizes a volunteer K-9 search and rescue team at the poverty-stricken reservation where she works, she ignores her mother’s advice (for once) and signs up as his first volunteer. His only volunteer, as it turns out, which is why ...

Civilization has finally reached the breaking point. An unknown enemy has detonated an EMP, crippling the country and leaving millions without food, water, or medical supplies.

Lizzy Moon never wanted Moon Girl Farm. Eight years ago, she left the land that nine generations of gifted healers had tended, determined to distance herself from the whispers about her family’s strange legacy. But when her beloved grandmother Althea dies, Lizzy must return and face the tragedy still hanging over the farm’s withered lavender fields: the unsolved murders of two young girls, and the cruel accusations that followed Althea to her grave.

Big secrets run deep. Former FBI agent Jack McBride took the job as chief of police for Stillwater, Texas, to start a new life with his teenage son, Ethan, away from the suspicions that surrounded his wife's disappearance a year earlier. With a low crime rate and a five-man police force, he expected it to be a nice, easy gig; hot checks, traffic violations, some drugs, occasional domestic disturbances, and petty theft. Instead, within a week he is investigating a staged murder-suicide.

The nightmare has begun! She stumbled upon a secret, and now a killer is on her trail.When Zaylie Layne tracks down a dangerous kidnapper and his victim, she believes it is the same man who killed her sister twenty years ago. Now he’s coming after her, and time is running out for Zaylie. She returns to her hometown on Whisper Island and is forced to face the memories that haunt her. As she delves back into the past in search of answers, she draws closer to the truth and finds that danger lurks around every corner. Will Zaylie find the killer, or will the trail become a dead end?

At Cold Mountain Penitentiary, the convicted killers on E Block await their turn to walk the Green Mile and keep a date with the electric chair. Paul Edgecombe has seen his share of oddities in his years working as a guard on the Mile, but he's never met anyone like John Coffey.

Chiara has presided over the espresso machine at Bar Birbo for as long as anyone can remember. In Santa Lucia, this is the only place to go for a cappuccino served with a side of gossip. The town's residents rely on each other and feel almost like a family, but their secrets are kept well hidden. While romance is in the air for some, the truth behind the love affairs is far more complicated than anyone can imagine. When everyone has ulterior motives and unspoken desires, it's only a matter of time before things finally come to a head.

A mysterious box and a haunted museum It wasn’t my psychic abilities that led me to the box. It was the dog. But it was my special talent that told me there was a man in the box on the side of the road. A murder victim. The visions I get from the man make no sense. In fact, all my visions on this case seem to lead nowhere. Have I lost my gift? When the killer targets someone close to me, I must trust my visions and trust myself to save her. Will it be enough? Mystery readers, like you, are saying, “Dawn Merriman has done it again with another great Gabby book. A twisty mystery that hits...

Stephen King's first full-length solo novel since Dreamcatcher, the long-awaited From a Buick 8 is "nearly flawless and one terrific entertainment," says Publishers Weekly. A strange car acts as a conduit between our world and some other...and the boogeyman of this creepy story is our collective fascination with deadly things.

Titus Crown is the first Black sheriff in the history of Charon County, Virginia. In recent decades, quiet Charon has had only two murders. But after years of working as an FBI agent, Titus knows better than anyone that while his hometown might seem like a land of moonshine, cornbread, and honeysuckle, secrets always fester under the surface. Then a year to the day after Titus’s election, a school teacher is killed by a former student and the student is fatally shot by Titus’s deputies. As Titus investigates the shootings, he unearths terrible crimes.

An arsonist is setting fire to local houses of worship. Reverend Olympia Brown can't possibly know that hers is next on the list. What she does know is that this historic community church has more dark secrets than stones on a beach and the sand that is covering them is rapidly washing away. The more she digs into the past, she soon learns that the 'old-guard' members of the congregation will do anything to stop her...until it all goes up in flames. What happens after that is anyone's guess...and there's only one way to find out.

Single mother Kate Reese is on the run. Determined to improve life for her and her son, Christopher, she flees an abusive relationship in the middle of the night with her child. Together, they find themselves drawn to the tight-knit community of Mill Grove, Pennsylvania. It's as far off the beaten track as they can get. Just one highway in, one highway out. At first, it seems like the perfect place to finally settle down. Then Christopher vanishes. For six awful days, no one can find him. Until Christopher emerges from the woods at the edge of town, unharmed but not unchanged.

A federal investigator is sent undercover to the small-town restaurant his ex-girlfriend runs — a steakhouse slotted for the next big meeting of a dangerous criminal ring. Agent Marco Perez has secrets. Keeping them is part of his job. His rules for dating while working undercover are simple: Don’t get too close. Don’t care too much. Don’t let it last too long. Never break the first three rules. He's always lived by these rules, right up to the point when his ex-girlfriend plants a kiss on him. Though it’s part of his assignment to cross paths with her again, she’s more than a ...