Category: Suspense

By Mark Timlin

Disliked by means of outdated invoice and villains alike, South London deepest eye Nick Sharman draws hassle just like the proverbial magnet.When businessman James Webb asks Sharman to determine who murdered his sister, her husband and childrens, the trail's been chilly for over a yr; the unique police investigators had came across not anything - no clues, no witnesses, no purpose. There isn't a lot to head on. in addition to, Sharman has different issues to occupy him - his dating with topless version Fiona is quickly souring, his ally Wanda is death and his ex-wife leaves him to babysit their eleven-vear-old daughter, Judith.While Sharman's again is became issues begin to scorching up - he's undefined, attacked and threatened with a shotgun on a hectic highway in large sunlight and the homicide sufferers begin to multiply. Then Judith is kidnaped via a gang of very nasty thugs. And Sharman loses his mood.

By J. D. Robb

From OverDrive

Eve Dallas is one tricky cop. it's going to take greater than a likely traditional middle-aged girl to make her collapse. but if that girl is Trudy Lombard, all bets are off. simply seeing Trudy on the station plunges Eve again to the times whilst she used to be a weak, traumatized younger girl—and trapped in foster care with the twisted girl who now sits smiling in entrance of her.

Trudy claims she got here all of the strategy to long island simply to see how Eve is doing. yet Eve’s fiercely protecting husband, Roarke, suspects otherwise—and a blackmail test through Trudy proves his suspicion right. Eve and Roarke simply wish the lady out in their lives. yet another individual desires her useless. And whilst her homicide involves cross, Eve and Roarke will stick to a circuitous and hazardous route to discover who became the victimizer right into a victim.

From Publishers Weekly

After clashing with clones and killers in final year's beginning in dying, big apple urban police lieutenant Eve Dallas ("Her eyes have been the colour of fine, elderly whiskey and have been lengthy just like the remainder of her. and prefer the remainder of her, they have been all cop") settles again right into a extra traditional secret. In December 2059, a mysterious lady exhibits up in Eve's place of work claiming to be her "mama." It's Trudy Lombard, the tough foster mother who took nine-year-old Eve in after Eve killed her abusive father. Trudy made Eve take chilly baths and locked her in closets, between different torments, and now Trudy desires Eve to pay $2 million to maintain her earlier a mystery. Readers of the sequence will know the way Roarke, Eve's wealthy, lethal husband, handles the placement; he tosses Trudy out on her ear. while Trudy is located murdered the next day to come, it's as much as Eve to seize the killer and turn out that neither she nor Roarke was once at the back of the bludgeoning. the entire motion happens over Christmas, and Eve, being Eve, complains concerning the foolishness of the vacation, yet Roarke et al. proceed to slowly train Eve the virtues of affection, kinfolk and friendship. this is often quantity 22 in a sequence that also manages to think clean. (Jan.)
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By Charles Cumming

Hard-up Russia professional Dr Sam Gaddis eventually has a lead for the booklet which may remedy all his occupation difficulties. however the tale of an entire life turns into an obsession which may kill him. while his resource is located useless, Gaddis is by myself at the path of the chilly War's deadliest mystery: the undiscovered 6th member of the notorious Cambridge undercover agent ring. unexpectedly threatened at each step and stuck among attractive ladies, either with entry to an important proof, Sam can't belief a person. To get his lifestyles again, he needs to chase shadows via Europe's corridors of strength. however the greater the lie, the extra ruthlessly in fact saved buried…

By Donna Tartt

Actually deserving of the accolade a latest vintage, Donna Tartt’s novel is a extraordinary achievement—both compelling and stylish, dramatic and playful.

Under the impact in their charismatic classics professor, a bunch of smart, eccentric misfits at an elite New England collage find a frame of mind and residing that may be a global clear of the humdrum lifestyles in their contemporaries. but if they transcend the bounds of standard morality their lives are replaced profoundly and ceaselessly, they usually detect how demanding it may be to really reside and the way effortless it truly is to kill

By Alanna Knight

Rose McQuinn returns to Edinburgh from the yankee wild west of 1895. Her child has died whereas her husband Danny, operating with Pinkerton’s Detective employer in Arizona is going lacking. She has little time to grieve prior to she unwittingly takes on a brand new profession by way of agreeing to enquire the unusual behaviour of the husband of her formative years good friend Alice.. yet what seems to be an adulterous affair indicates anything even more sinister, the brutal and nonetheless unsolved homicide of a servant woman. no matter what heartbreak lies in shop, Rose needs to realize the reality. From her domestic in Solomon’s Tower on Arthur’s Seat, aided via a wild deerhound who befriends her, her fist research places her personal existence in lethal probability.

By Sara Gran

By Maya Banks

The Kelly workforce overseas (KGI): A super-elite, best mystery, family-run business.

Mission: Hostage/kidnap sufferer restoration. Intelligence amassing. dealing with jobs the U.S. govt can't...

Over the years, Donovan Kelly has fought relentlessly for justice, girls and youngsters constantly conserving a unique position in his middle. operating part through facet along with his brothers, Donovan has witnessed firsthand the toll it's taken—physically, mentally, and emotionally—on his family, and the blameless lives stuck within the crossfire. What he by no means expects is for his subsequent challenge to occur correct on his domestic turf—or for it to take a truly own turn.

Picturesque Kentucky Lake is the ideal position for a soul looking for secure harbor. a gorgeous stranger has arrived—desperate, breathless, and at the run from a depressing prior final in on her and the more youthful siblings she has vowed to guard. Donovan needs to now draw on each source at his disposal—if he desires to keep a lady and the youngsters who may perhaps turn out to be his future.

By Ernie Lindsey

Years in the past, Sara's husband left for the fitness center one morning...and by no means got here again. His automobile was once discovered. He wasn't. Unbelievably, the police record acknowledged, "No foul play suspected." there have been a number of unreliable sightings over the subsequent months, yet little else.

Now, at the final day sooner than summer time holiday, her 3 teenagers have long gone lacking from their faculties, all on the related time.

And the be aware lower than her windshield wiper asks one foreboding query: Are you prepared to play the game?

By Clive Cussler

"Clive Cussler has no equal," writes Publishers Weekly, and he proved it back with the difficult plotting and stunning set items of his number-one bestselling Atlantis Found. enthusiasts desired to know the way he might be able to most sensible it-and the answer's Valhalla Rising.

it truly is July 2003. in the midst of its maiden voyage, the luxurious cruise send Emerald Dolphin without warning catches fireplace and sinks. What brought on it? Why didn't the alarms burst off? What used to be its connection to the progressive new engines powering the send? NUMA designated tasks director Dirk Pitt races to rescue the passengers and examine the catastrophe, yet he has no proposal of the weird occasions which are approximately to engulf him.

earlier than the following couple of weeks are over, Pitt will locate himself faced through a rare sequence of monsters, either human and mechanical, glossy and historical. he'll tread upon territory formerly recognized basically to legend. And, on the finish of all of it, although many lives may be misplaced, and lots of kept, it really is Pitt's personal lifestyles that may be replaced eternally. . . .

packed with magnificent suspense and breathtaking motion, Valhalla Rising is Cussler on the peak of his storytelling powers.

By Stephen Coonts

A damage bestseller that spent over six months at the New York Times bestseller record, FLIGHT OF THE INTRUDER turned an immediate vintage. nobody earlier than or because ever captured the realm of military service pilots with the gripping realism of Vietnam veteran Stephen Coonts, who lived the existence he wrote approximately. greater than a flying tale, FLIGHT OF THE INTRUDER can also be the best novels ever written in regards to the Vietnam event. It's all here--the flying, the loss of life, the blood and bombs and bullets, and the sheer joy--and terror--of existence at complete throttle.

"GRIPPING...SMASHING."--The Wall highway Journal
Grazing the Vietnam treetops at evening at slightly below the rate of sound, A-6 Intruder pilot Jake "Cool Hand" Grafton understands precisely how precarious existence is. touchdown on a heaving plane provider, dodging missiles locked on his fighter, flying via clouds of flak--he is aware every one flight might be his final. but he straps himself right into a cockpit each day.

"EXTRAORDINARY!"--Tom Clancy
Then a bullet kills his bombardier whereas they're hitting one other 'suspected' truck depot. Jake wonders what his pal died for--and why? Hitting unnecessary goals chosen through males piloting desks simply doesn't make feel. probably it's time to do anything helpful. whatever that may make a difference...

"SUPERBLY WRITTEN."-- Washington Times
Jake and his new bombardier, ice-cold Tiger Cole, are going to choose their very own aim and hit the enemy the place it hurts. yet to get there and again in a single piece goes to take loads of nerve, much more ability, and an enormous volume of uncooked braveness. earlier than it's over, they're going to fly into hell.

"When Grafton is on the controls of his Intruder, the radical comes alive with a jolt."-- Washington put up e-book World