Fast Paced Thrillers

If you liked David Baldacci, Dean Koontz, Kendra Elliot, Jeffery Deaver, and Jim Butcher... then you'll love Amnesia by Andy Holmes. He has no name. No past. Only a number. When Agent 917 wakes in a seedy motel, his memory is gone. An encrypted phone buzzes with mission orders. A dime-sized implant pulses beneath his skull, awakening violent instincts he can’t explain. The rules are simple: Kill the target. Go back to sleep. Programmed to eliminate evil at its source, 917 is a ghost in the system — sent after a sadistic surgeon, a satanic cult hiding in the heart of New York City, a ...

Author's Note: This book was previously published under the title The Taste of Fear. Given that the story takes place deep in the Congo jungle, a truly terrifying place, I decided it would be a good fit with the World's Scariest Places series. In the jungle, no one can hear you scream. American movie star Scarlett Cox and her husband, hotel tycoon Salvador Brazza, head to Africa to get away and resuscitate their ailing marriage. When robbed of their money and passports, they seek help from the U.S. Embassy in Dar es Salaam on the very day Al Qaeda chooses to bomb it. In an eyeblink they are...

She was supposed to get married. Instead, she vanished. On the morning of her wedding, Olivia Lakewell stood outside a picturesque California chapel, ready to say “I do.” She never made it inside. Vanished without a trace, Olivia became the subject of local legend—a tragic love story with no ending. Her fiancé was shattered. Her daughter left without a mother. And after years of searching, the town finally let her memory fade. Until now. Ten years later, Olivia returns. But nothing is how she left it. Her home is gone. Her husband has moved on. And the people she loved have spent a ...

A body in an alleyway. Blood on the accused. Witnesses to the crime. When a sleepy Georgian town is rocked by the brutal murder of the local prosecutor’s son, all the evidence points to one man: Marcus Brantley. His only hope rests in defense counsel, Ryan Noble, drawn back to the town he tried to forget by his mother’s cancer diagnosis. But Noble’s homecoming brings a case that could cost him everything. Unwelcome, outnumbered, and with the clock ticking, Noble must navigate a dangerous game of secrets and lies before time runs out—where hostility lurks behind every corner and he ...

Featuring a Special Introduction by Michael Connelly and a cameo by Harry Bosch! A reluctant detective. A town full of secrets. A past that won’t stay buried. In this gripping box set, award-winning and New York Times bestselling author Michael Lister presents six pulse-pounding novels featuring the complex and compelling Detective John Jordan—a former cop turned prison chaplain and then cop again who can’t escape the call of justice. After leaving Atlanta behind, John returns to his North Florida hometown, seeking peace. But murder has a way of finding him, pulling him back into the ...

A babysitter sees herself on camera committing a crime she never did. Cass thought she was safe. She worked nights, cared for kids, and minded her own life. Then a client’s husband showed her nanny-cam footage of her breaking into their safe. She was home that night. She knows it. But the video says otherwise. What starts as a lie on a screen spreads like a virus through her block. Fake clips. Spoofed calls. False alarms. Neighbors pulled into drills they never agreed to. The harder Cass fights to prove her innocence, the deeper she’s dragged into a scheme built on fear itself. Every ...

She arrives with a massage table. The client is dead. Someone used her phone to book the job. Cassie Arden keeps a low profile: house calls, cash, no drama. Then a penthouse call goes wrong and the city’s most visible victim is found on her table. The “allergen” is her oil. The alibi is a concierge app that points at her. Cassie knows one thing: someone staged this neat. Across the lobby, Marco, a doorman who still trusts a paper sign-in book and a crooked little camera, sees what sleek systems miss. And Rhea, the victim’s ex, keeps her own quiet ledger of favors, money, and old ...

A rising star is murdered. A crusader is accused. And in a town built on secrets, the truth is the darkest thing of all. Rosie Beckett had a bright future—a political intern with charm, ambition, and a long list of admirers. But her life ends on a quiet Georgian backstreet, her body found shot and thrown into a dumpster behind a row of houses in small southern town, Brunswick. And standing at the center of it all is Jake Tully. The host of a popular anti-corruption podcast, Tully has spent years exposing the dark secrets of the powerful, earning him fans—but too many enemies to count. ...

A cleaner holds keys to half the city. One morning she finds a client dead. Her prints are everywhere. Maria Alvarez keeps things neat. Sinks. Floors. Paperwork. When a famous man dies in his high-rise, the story turns fast. The door looks broken. The internet screams murder. Maria’s name leaks. Strangers watch her hall. Detective Doyle thinks the scene feels wrong. The “victim” loved stories more than truth. He left props. He fed fear. He planned an ending that would frame the right face. Maria will not play along. She builds her own rules. No copies without consent. No ring kept ...

On a remote island with a deadly secret, adventurer Lincoln Monk and his crew confront a billionaire with devastating plans for global supremacy in Tony Reed's bestselling debut novel, Neptune Island. "Cussler fans will love this." Amazon reviewer "...a modern, fast-paced Dr. No." Amazon reviewer "A whole lotta fun!" Amazon reviewer "...villains, henchmen, monsters, earthquakes and explosions: I'm worn out just reading the book." Amazon reviewer Ex-cop turned adventurer Lincoln Monk hasn't been to Saipan Island in some time, and for good reason--he prefers to let old wounds heal. But when ...

People mistake her for an average teenage girl … That’s often their last mistake. After being the youngest and the most dangerous assassin at the secret Italian facility that teaches young women how to kill, Rose abandoned her training to live as a normal teenager. Years later, her dark past and worst enemies catch up with her and destroy everything she holds dear. Now she only has one thing on her mind—a deadly vendetta. She won’t rest until there is blood on her hands one more time. Even if some of the blood ends up being her own. Blood & Roses is the first book in the Vigilante ...

An Armenian mobster's son is being tried for murder, and Harper must win the case. Her life literally depends on it. If the son is convicted, Harper's life will be in danger. Introducing Damien Harrington, Harper's new associate! Harper is stuck representing Sargis' son Erik for murder. Harper thinks that he's good for it. All day long. Yet she must take on his case and find some way to get him acquitted. If she loses this case, she might lose her life. No pressure.... Helping her out is brand-new associate, Damien Harrington. Damien has a secret that he is hiding from Harper, a secret that...

A CEO’s wife vanishes mid-commute. The GPS swears the chauffeur took a dead end he never drove. In a smart city wired for “safety,” a street-smart driver has one day to prove the route was spoofed, the alerts were lies, and the real danger hides behind official badges and friendly apps. Maps help, people choose. When a luxury sedan’s black box and a live news feed accuse him, the chauffeur teams up with the missing woman’s sister and a rattled CEO. As “Park Now” commands, false gas warnings, and detour pushes flood the streets, the trio fights back with nothing but a mirror on...

Everyone wants the easy way. Jess knows better. Jess is a pharmacy tech who once took a shortcut. She swapped meds to pad the register. Someone found out. Someone starts demanding “favors” or they’ll tell. Move a sign. Nudge a rail. Make a death look like an accident. Jess refuses. She builds walls instead. Tape. Signs. Logs. Names. The voice keeps testing her. Stairs. Bad lights. Shaved screws. A city holds its breath. The Quick Fix is a fast, lean psychological thriller about power and blame and the lies we hide in tidy words. Three points of view drive the story: Jess, the ...

FOLLOWING HIS 2017 DEBUT IN 'THE RAIDERS', JED MASON RETURNS IN AN EPIC ACTION-THRILLER QUEST! The Knights Templar. An Ancient Relic. An Epic Quest. Ex-soldier and MI6 operative Jed Mason is on his final mission and looking forward to a new life when he is involved in a car crash with an American scholar in the Lazio countryside. Offering to drive her into Rome, Mason soon learns she is connected to an important Vatican announcement due later that evening, one that will shock the world forever. But minutes into the event, sinister masked terrorists storm the Sistine Chapel and take everyone...

A killer from his past threatens his future. Will a decade-long chase end in justice or disaster? Special Agent Aidan O’Reilly is haunted by the one that got away. And even after another year of silence, he still can’t shake his failure to nail the sociopathic madman responsible for over fifty shocking murders. But his guilt becomes a shot at redemption when the murderer returns, naming the detective in a personal note pinned to a fresh kill. With meticulously clean crime scenes and a nosy reporter on the loose, O’Reilly and his new partner scramble to uncover the next target’s ...

The storm has a name. And it is hungry. In the remote heart of the Ozark mountains, a veteran park ranger vanishes on the eve of his retirement. The official story is a bear attack, but Sheriff Valerius knows the truth is far more monstrous. The whispers of local folklore have become a brutal reality. This is no gentle giant. A pack of intelligent, territorial creatures—a primal family that kills for sport—has claimed the forest as their own. Now, their hunt is expanding. When a brutal storm cuts the town of Mill Creek off from the world, the sheriff and a handful of survivors are ...

A suspended doctor fighting to save her career becomes the only one who can stop a terrifying plague. Dr. Mara Quinn is a pariah, returning to the graveyard shift at a rural hospital after being disciplined for saving a patient's life the wrong way. She’s determined to keep her head down, but a healthy man’s impossibly rapid death from a mysterious illness makes that impossible. When his blood clots solid in the test tubes and his entire medical file is wiped from the system, Mara knows this is no ordinary disease. As more patients arrive with the same horrifying symptoms, Mara uncovers...

His priceless discovery will make history… if someone doesn’t steal it first. Darwin Lacroix needs to avenge his family’s disgrace. Archaeologists dismissed their claims of Roman treasure buried in the far north, laughing off an ancient scroll found under Mt. Vesuvius. Until now. A recently uncovered diamond cache in Iceland proves the existence of a long-lost fortune. Darwin rushes to Reykjavik, but when a powerful cartel joins the hunt, his quest becomes a race to reveal the mother lode first. With a volcanologist and an unsavory diamond expert on board, Darwin’s search for riches...

Lucas Izod is young, brilliant, and obscenely wealthy. He doesn’t grieve. He doesn’t regret. When something precious slips through his fingers, he begins a cold and calculated spree, mutilating and murdering innocent women. Each kill is methodical. Each victim a symbol. The Imperious Killer is born, and Lucas wears the name like a badge of honor. Ray spent years hunting monsters like Lucas. He knows how they think. But this one moves differently—too precise, too theatrical, too clean. When the daughter of Ray’s closest friend is found brutalized, he returns to the hunt and teams up ...