Showing results by publisher "Beacon Audiobooks" in Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Sloan is now under the protection of The Warriors of the Guild, sentient beings designed to protect the Universe against Dark Ones. As the hunt for Darrow begins, Sloan is drawn deeper into their world. An intergalactic war between Warriors and Dark Ones ignites, with Sloan caught precariously in the middle. Sloan fights to return home, to the one place she has always felt safe, and to the man who has claimed her heart. Sloan must come to terms with the truth of her natural born energy and also accept her new role within the Universe.

Socialite, Bethany Hubbard, hires ex-Chicago homicide cop, turned private eye, Cleve Hawkins, to shadow her husband, Thad, whom she suspects of being unfaithful. Hawkins finds that her high-level chemist husband has been abducted outside of his office in Chicago's Loop, delivered to members of the mob in New Jersey where the knowledge of his company's top secret project will cost him his life. Forever vigilant Cleve Hawkins, continues to work the case and track down Hubbard's killers.

When Steven Dobrowski and his family move into their new home, strange things happen. At first, the hauntings perpetuated by the angry spirit are innocuous, but soon turn malicious and dangerous. Keisha - Steven's wife - insists the family move for the sake of the family's safety, but Steven's obsession with the spirit overshadows his judgement, and he refuses to turn his back on the house he believes he and his family deserve. As events unfold, eventually Steven is taunted by an entity that persuades him to perform evil acts on the ones closest to him.

In the second book of the Fava series, Action 6 News’s Francine Vega hunts for the Zyklon Killer before he can kill again while at the same time reporting on a heated presidential campaign. The more she digs into each story, the more they converge to expose an explosive truth that could rock the country to its core.

It is 1965 and Gary Seiler is a fourteen-year old boy with a very big problem. He's got a girlfriend named Wendy and a whole summer ahead of him to spend with her and to work on his game, so he can try out for the varsity golf team when school starts in the fall. But then his plans are upended when his father is critically injured in a car accident and Gary is sent off to spend the summer with his grandparents in Fairweather, a small town in Oklahoma where he is sure nothing good is going to happen.

Senator Giuseppe Lozano will stop at nothing in his quest for power. Having artfully silenced the only two people who could disclose his murderous past, he is free to pursue the presidency of the United States of America. Meanwhile, the senator’s brother, Fr. Giovanni Lozano, and his life long friend, police lieutenant Tom Moran, combine forces with Moran’s wife, Emily, a journalist with the Los Angeles Times. The three of them engage in a dangerous effort to expose the truth and save the country.

Two detectives' steamy past complicates their hunt for a psychotic killer and puts them in an assassin’s deadly sights. Would you trust a former lover who’d betrayed you? Detectives Cole Trane and Mollie Simmons have no other choice. They’re after a ruthless killer tied to the Russian mafia who leaves behind a bloody trail of victims - from a world-famous movie star to a squad of Royal Canadian Mounties - as he races for the border. Their only hope is to have each other’s back like they once had each other’s heart.

A string of patricides rocks 1916 Dublin and a washed-up Scottish doctor receives a mysterious manuscript from a fellow Scotsman recounting his dark experiences in the pioneer city of Seattle in 1889. As the doctor reads the manuscript, he’s made aware the murders in Seattle are connected to those in Dublin and he and the author crossed paths many years before, and under tragic circumstances. In Seattle, a tale of corruption and conspiracy unravels at the feet of a crazed serial killer hell-bent on halting historical progress.

Jackson Stone is sick of ghosts. With his love life in shambles, he heads to Romania for a horror writers’ retreat, hoping it will be a break from the supernatural and breathing space from his relationship with medium Kate Carlsson. But as his fellow writers begin disappearing or losing their minds, he realizes he needs Kate’s help.

Years of top-secret government experiments in modification of the world's weather systems has resulted in increasingly violent storms and "natural" disasters on a global scale. Victor Sine, Chief of Security, receives information causing him to believe his entire weather control project may be compromised by the unwitting or intentional actions of John Wayment, a popular TV personality in Denver, Colorado. National security requires he be stopped, bought off, or otherwise compromised.

International terrorism and political turmoil dominate the early 21st century in this sequel to Shattered Triangle: A Consequential Murder. War looms on the horizon, straining ancient friendships as nations are divided over how to confront and conquer terror. As world conflicts threaten to spiral out of control, politics, religion, and law enforcement each seek ways to respond to these new realities and bring order from chaos.

Meet William Woodside: He’s enamored by seeing small animals like cats and dogs suffering terribly at his hands. He loses his job as a security guard because he skins dogs alive and is caught and jailed. When he’s released, he has no job so after panhandling and working some day labor gigs, he begins robbing banks.

When Derrick Daniels, Justice Department attorney, reluctantly investigates the possibility that rogue Arab states developed deadly diseases as a terrorist weapon against the United States, assassins and inexplicable forces threaten his existence. Soon, the powers of ancient law collide with contemporary villainy threatening the fate of all humankind. Every living thing is at risk, from wild animals that become road kill to the most elite members of every society.

The Lizard War is over, and the tribal lands are slowly returning to normal. Now the people are asking what else lies outside of their own lands; what other threats or allies could be out there? In hopes of answering some of these questions, Kandrina and Remlik have begun a new study of the old Explorer's Guild journals. They discover a mystery in the writings of "C", an explorer from over 200 years ago, whose last journal was lost.

Twenty-year-old Billy Johnson is afflicted by the hollowness. All reason is lost when it has him in its grip, pushing him towards acts of unspeakable cruelty. When a hiking accident leaves him injured on an isolated mountain, facing imminent death, Billy looks for meaning in his tragic life. The hollowness, a malevolent force that consumes him, is responsible for the loss of everything good in his life.

Twenty years ago, one foggy night, David Bowler, a tailor disappeared. Twenty years later, a ringer by the name of Easter Wells appears and finds himself instantly drawn into the tale. Intrigued by the inconsistencies surrounding the reports, Wells sets out to unravel the 20-year-old mystery. But all he has at his disposal are a bunch of Londoners and their foggy memories. As conversations flow over wine, tea, and even haircuts, Easter Wells must disentangle the right thread to put to rest a 20-year-old enigma. A murder is certain.

Smooth Prague PI Harry Novák's investigation of the disappearance of a Russian film star is about to run into the ground when he bumps into Olga Bradová, jazz singer and amateur sleuth. She's determined to team up with Harry and cajole him into finding the missing girl, even if it means both getting bullied and smacked around by some of the nastiest guys in town.

Houston reporter Annie Price is looking for a career-defining story when she profiles Tom Marr. The state's first secessionist candidate for governor. But the big Texas story comes with more than she bargains for -- a corrupt college president, a dangerous ex-CIA agent and a beautiful, deadly Peruvian assassin. Before long, Annie must grapple with two murders, political shenanigans and a love triangle that will test the limits of her ethics and her heart.

Is it possible for a terrorist group to secretly “weaponize” the most anticipated new electronic video game? And on the night of its nationwide launch, will thousands of unsuspecting kids and their parents be slaughtered? These questions haunt Blair Anderson, the game's distributor; and he alone can possibly uncover the truth and prevent the carnage. But that's only for starters. Anderson' s daughter has been kidnapped and unless he cooperates, she'll be tortured in the worst imaginable way. Blair can save her, or stop the terrorists – not both; and he has scant minutes to decide.

Eddy inherits a retail furniture store from his deceased father. On the day his business goes belly up, his wife walks out on him and cleans out their bank account. He goes to work for what appears to be a reputable liquidation company, but it's more than it appears to be. He gets caught up in the criminal world and finds himself in a life-or-death struggle to survive. Can his father's past connection to his new boss teach him the true meaning of success, or will it get him killed?