Dog Thriller

Paige Barrett was living her dream as a journalist in New York City, racking up bylines as a staff writer at The Razor, a cutting-edge online magazine. But when she’s suddenly fired from her job and dumped by her boyfriend, she finds herself back home in the quaint seaside town of Shoreham, Florida, waiting tables and living in her sister’s guesthouse. Restless and itching for something meaningful to occupy her time, she decides to launch a true-crime podcast about the death of Jessica Cady, a beloved teacher who died mysteriously 20 years earlier.

Shelby works as a dog walker in northern California, and she’s just finished up her bi-weekly trip to the park with a husky named Pluto. When she brings him back to his house, she finds his owner - Todd Burke, a well-known local businessman and founder of an organic supplements company - lying on the bathroom floor, dead. A detective arrives on the scene. As she interviews Shelby, the body is inspected by a medical examiner, and more cops search Todd’s home, it becomes clear that the victim’s life was less picture-perfect than his clean-cut persona might lead you to believe.

Timmy Grady narrowly escapes a massive tornado that hits the I-24 overpass, where he hides from the storm and his mom’s boyfriend. Braving flying chunks of deadly debris and exploding hail, the fourteen-year-old rescues a stray dog from the tornado's fury, only to come across the scene of an Eastern European mafia murder. The sinister Brotherhood gangsters spot him and give chase, determined to eliminate the sole witness to the crime at any cost. But Timmy and Slade prove to be formidable opponents, causing the criminal organization to leave a visible trail of blood and destruction from ...

When a young woman is brutally murdered in the Norfolk countryside, the locals blame Black Shuck - a legendary wild dog. There’s only one problem: The wounds weren’t made by an animal. DCI Robert Kett is battling a black dog of his own. With his wife still missing, and the injuries from his last case leaving him in constant pain, everything seems impossible - not least looking after his three young children.

Seven years. That's how long Jolly has been Ben Garrison's partner. His constant. The only relationship the Citadel Solutions K9 handler has ever trusted completely. But Jolly's slowing down. Retirement is coming. And Ben has no idea who he is without the dog at his side. He didn't plan on a little boy whispering through the fence. Or the boy's mother, whose warm, chaotic home feels like everything Ben never knew he wanted. Kayla sees past his silence. Her son trusts his dog. And Ben starts finding reasons to stay. But his investigation into police corruption has made dangerous enemies. ...

Three lonely neighbors. Four loyal dogs. One big mystery. What do a retired pharmacist, a quirky church choir director, and a Gen Z gamer have in common? Nothing much—until a cheesy murder mystery party at their apartment complex ends in an actual murder. Drawn together by tragedy, Priya Visser, Gloria Williams, and Ryan Hsia form an unlikely team. As they follow a trail of long-buried secrets, the newfound sleuths must rely on each other and their dogs—a stately pug, two cheeky dachshunds, and an excitable lab puppy—to sniff out a killer hiding in plain sight.

Officer Kate Marino has a complicated relationship with her hometown. But there’s one thing that could bring her back: Her seventeen-year-old niece Alice disappeared two days ago. And she’s not the only woman who’s gone missing. With police dogs Nero and Bella (now retired) in tow, Kate returns to her childhood home and the ghosts that inhabit it. It’s not just the looming presence of her father, however, that hinders Kate’s investigation. Something even more sinister awaits her there.

Three days in the mountains. No satellite signal. No sign of life. When Gemma Hartley’s pager sounds before dawn — MISSING PERSON, 72 HOURS OVERDUE — she and her legendary German Shepherd Kira are in the truck within twelve minutes. That’s what they do. That’s what they are. But what Gemma expects to be a routine search becomes something else entirely when Kira finds Alexis Mercer’s body at the base of Devil’s Ledge — and the evidence points not to accident, but to murder. Fresh from Minneapolis and still carrying the grief of a SAR operation gone wrong, Gemma came to Elk ...

If the Dark doesn’t kill you, what’s in it will. One year ago, anything with a computer chip; the electric grid; communication; every modern convenience stopped working. Ridgecrest, perched on top of the Highland Plateau, went dark — cut off from the rest of the world. Anyone who leaves never returns, and no one comes into town — until today. Grab your copy and start reading Book 1 of this electrifying new serial today! Praise for The Dark: It was bound to happen. You can’t shackle talent like Christopher Greyson’s. He finally stepped out of his comfort zone and wrote one of the...

A gripping British crime thriller set in Suffolk’s mysterious Rendlesham Forest, Mad Dogs follows DI Harrison Baird as he races to solve a deadly midnight attack and abduction while a ruthless killer—and the detective’s own dangerous past—close in. The past always comes back to bite...

The escape of Veronica Kildare's vindictive, long-time nemesis from prison overshadows what should be a festive holiday season for her and her team. Law enforcement is convinced that Tommy Arnett perished in a fiery car accident, but Veronica can't shake the sinking feeling that she hasn't escaped that easily from his relentless pursuit of revenge against her.

Tessa and Charlie have been best friends since childhood. Now Tess is a famous travel writer who documents her adventures on social media while Charlie rarely leaves the safety of her home, living in fear after narrowly escaping a vicious attack years earlier. But despite their different lives, their bond of friendship remains unbreakable...even in death.

A president's secret. A Russian pipeline deal. And one woman who has to disappear. Rex Dalton came to Vanuatu for nothing at all — sun, water, and a beach where nobody knows his name. His dog Digger has other plans. Digger picks a quiet French woman out of the crowd on the sand and refuses to let the introduction go. She calls herself Jacqui. She is lying about that, and about almost everything else. When she vanishes from the island, the police like Rex for it. He talks his way clear, and then they close the file: drowned, taken by sharks. Rex doesn't buy it. Neither does Digger. What he...

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Stone Barrington must battle a nasty opponent in this action-packed thriller from the #1 New York Times bestselling author. After returning home from a treacherous adventure, Stone Barrington is all too happy to settle back down in his New York City abode. But when he's introduced to a glamorous...

Sarah Calloway has spent a year in Kenya, building a life she loves: healing animals, bonding with the local village, finally feeling like she belongs somewhere. When armed poachers threaten everything she's fought to protect, she refuses to stand by. She doesn't care that she has no training, no backup, and no plan. Enter Donovan Hughes. A battle-hardened former Army K9 handler, he's been sent to train local rangers against the deadly network closing in. He's handled war zones, hostile targets, and every kind of chaos imaginable. He has never handled anyone like Sarah. She's fearless in ...

A newborn is taken from a locked house in Edinburgh. No ransom. No witnesses. Just an empty cot and parents with power to burn. DI Sam Winter is called into the abduction of nine-week-old Kai Drummond, taken while his wealthy parents were out celebrating the launch of their high-profile charity foundation. The family want results fast, the press want blood and the politicians circling the Drummonds want the story buried.

A murdered family-man. A young woman tortured and set on fire. A face from the past… DI Nathaniel Caslin is stable, for the first time in years. Now, he can look to the future, or so he thought. Granting a small favour to a friend, can often be anything but simple... When the only link between...

A sixteen-year-old girl is found in a Los Angeles dog park at dawn. The detective who catches the case has four decades on the job and has never once seen a trafficker go to prison. Rex Dalton has been a father for sixteen years, and nobody told him. When the woman he was going to propose to in 2004 finally breaks sixteen years of silence, she is dying, and she has twins. His twins. Their daughter Courtney is already gone; she walked out of her mother's house with a man she believed loved her and sold on into a network the police cannot reach. Rex has no badge, no warrant, and no authority....

A German Shepherd police dog witnesses a murder and if his owner - an Iraq war vet and former cop-turned-thief - is convicted of the crime, the dog could be put down. Few rival Andy Carpenter's affection for dogs, and he decides to represent the poor canine. As Andy struggles to convince a judge that this dog should be set free, he discovers that the dog and his owner have become involved unwittingly in a case of much greater proportions than the one they've been charged with.