By Dawn Ius California’s recurring wildfire season served as inspiration for Sean Lynch’s latest thriller, HOLD BACK THE NIGHT. While the story is of course a work of fiction, Lynch says, “It…
Contemporary Thrillers
By Millie Naylor Hast Feeling trapped in an unhappy marriage, mechanical engineer Randolph Spiers quits his job and works up his courage to invite an attractive supermarket cashier to lunch. The old…
As Agent Nadine Finch rushes to investigate the murder of newlywed Nikki Darnell in Ocala National Forest, Florida, fear floods her body. She swore she’d never set foot here again, not since…
A dream house to share with his love becomes a nightmare when the discovery of an old diary reveals a dark secret that brings a wounded warrior out of retirement. Cory Walker…
Jules Ward has had a stalker for five months, but she doesn’t take him seriously until he leaves the head of a slaughtered bull elk in her driveway. Fossil, Colorado’s newest resident,…
ENDINGS is the story of a woman steeped in tragedy who becomes a contract killer, then finds herself on a journey of vengeance and, ultimately, redemption. It is dark, twisty, and uncomfortable.…
There’s been a breakthrough on the campus of Caltech. A discovery. An invention. One so startling and surprisingly sinister that the inventor can’t tell a soul. Precariously poised at the center of…
A rogue IRS agent leads a raid on the wrong house and destroys Finn O’Casey’s world. A sympathetic neighbor, the leader of organized crime, is not what he seems to be. Both…
By Dani Brown Fourth in the Vega and Middleton series, THE MERMAID BROKER by author Sue Hinkin is diabolical but also reassuring. There are immoral, malevolent people in the world—but there are…
Two grisly murders are committed at a meatpacking plant by a person wearing a cow mask…not long after, the CEO of a water park is brutally killed by someone wearing an orca…
DUPED deals with Sam Marsh and his beloved Palm Springs hotel, which is hanging on by a string. Business is down, Sam is running out of funds, and he’s looking down the…
By Tim O’Mara Nick Kolakowskis’ RATTLESNAKE RODEO picks up right where last year’s Boise Longpig Social Club leaves off: Jake Halligan and his ultra-lethal gunrunning sister, Frankie, have managed to escape a…
By Tim O’Mara William Faulkner famously wrote, “The past is never dead. It’s not even past.” In Michael Niemann’s PERCENTAGES OF GUILT, his fifth international thriller featuring UN investigator Valentin Vermeuelen, our…
Election officials mysteriously disappear from key presidential election swing states. A nursing franchise in Minneapolis keeps patients prisoner, chained to their beds. Former General Frederick Farmington, a populist candidate with a radical…
By K. L. Romo In the latest installment of Allen Wyler’s Deadly Odds series, techno-wizard Arnold Gold must stop a ruthless Islamic terrorist from exacting revenge. Naseem is a fierce adversary who…
By Millie Naylor Hast If you enjoy thrillers so plausible you can’t go to sleep at night, then Michael Laurence’s new novel, THE ANNIHILATION AGENDA, is for you. A mysterious syndicate known…
By Basil Sands “It seems the boogeyman comes in many flavors.” Bestselling writer D. K. Hood knows how to write boogeymen—and her latest thriller, HER SHALLOW GRAVE, is set to chill. It’s…
By J. H. Bográn With an advanced payment of $10,000 in cash, Frank Corvo is persuaded to return to the city he was forced to leave. The money is not the only…
When someone goes missing on Northern California’s lawless Murder Mountain—it isn’t news. The vast terrain for illegal marijuana harvests is also a notorious black hole for outsiders. But when that someone is…
Three separate homicides. Three unrelated victims. One grisly secret. When the body of famous actress Niki Francis is unearthed from its shallow grave, the small town of Medford, Oregon, is alarmed, but…
By Terri Nolan A DREAM WITHIN A DREAM is the third and final installment of Mike Nappa and Melissa Kosci’s Coffey and Hill novels. Trudi Coffey is one half of Coffey…
Three can keep a secret, but only if two are dead. No one knows that better than Kaitlyn Ashe, who has been running from a childhood secret her whole life. Until now.…
In 1995, six university students moved into the house at 215 Caldwell Street. Months later, one of them was found dead on the sofa the morning after their end-of-year party. His death…
Ward DeFleur has it all—she lives in a beautiful estate in picture-perfect Connecticut, along with her teenage daughter, Stevie, where nothing can go wrong. Until one night, when Stevie is brutally murdered…