European Thriller

A gripping and moving story of loss and love, of hatred and passion, and of horror and hope, set in Spain’s most evocative city during the Spanish Civil War in the 1930s and the following decades. Ramon flees rural Andalucia for the apparent safety of Seville. In the city’s Triana district a flamenco dancer, Beatriz, faces a heart rending choice. And in northern Morocco, Izil reluctantly joins Franco’s invasion army to save his family from hunger. When a wealthy landowner becomes a key figure in Seville's oppressive government he seeks revenge, bringing despair. It seems all hope is ...

Five books. One sprawling conspiracy. A city drowning in blood and secrets. Alderman James thought atonement would be quiet—keep his head down in Georgian Dublin, solve petty crimes, and bury the sins of his youth beneath duty and discipline. Then the Dolocher tears its first throat open in the snow-choked Liberties, and James discovers that some cases don't end when the killer hangs. They metastasize. Over five novels spanning years of murder, manipulation, and mounting dread, James descends into a nightmare where every solved mystery reveals three more lurking beneath. Copycat killers ...

Murder is the new black. 2025 IPPY AWARDS – GOLD MEDAL – BEST MYSTERY/THRILLER EBOOK 2025 BOOK EXCELLENCE AWARD WINNER – BEST MYSTERY/THRILLER 2025 READERS’ FAVORITE SILVER MEDAL – THRILLER ESPIONAGE Get ready for a heart-pumping journey through the worlds of fashion and espionage in WALKING THE CAT: AN INTERNATIONAL FASHION SPY THRILLER. As former CIA operative Louise Moscow attends Paris Fashion Week, she never expects to be caught up in a murder investigation. But when a beautiful American photographer is killed, Louise must use her spy skills to clear her friend's name. With ...

One FBI profiler. Three European cities. Three impossible cases. FBI profiler Reid Harper has seen the darkness that lives inside the human mind. But when his Amsterdam investigation ends in catastrophic failure—six women murdered, only one saved—the guilt nearly destroys him. Now, three complete thrillers follow Reid from his darkest moment to his ultimate redemption across the streets of Europe's most dangerous cities. THE AMSTERDAM KILLER Six dead. One alive. The case that broke him. A serial killer is hunting women in Amsterdam's narrow canal-side streets. Reid Harper arrives too ...

The lines between science and danger blur in a world where power and influence collide. John Paul Vanmeter, a retired biopharmaceutical executive, thought his days of navigating high-stakes corporate intrigue were over. But when he receives an unexpected invitation to speak at an international biopharmaceutical expo in Milan, Italy, he and his wife, Mary Lou, embark on what they believe will be a peaceful European adventure. However, a deadly secret lurks in the sprawling beauty of Europe’s grand cities—Milan, Zurich, Schaffhausen, Oslo, and Paris. A simple presentation becomes a ...

The Serial killer series that will put you over the edge! All five novels from the Birdwatcher Series in one collection. Join FBI Agent Sarah Brightwater & Journalist Tyler Ford as they try to catch enigmatic serial kiler Dwight Spalding. Set includes: An Unkiness of Ravens A Clattering of Jackdaws A Kettle of Hawks A Clamour of Rooks A Fall of Woodcocks

In the shadowed alleys of Barcelona, a body is found beneath a single streetlamp. No witnesses. No struggle. Just a message someone wanted delivered. Detective Chief Inspector Walker is sent in when the murder reveals a level of precision that feels disturbingly familiar. As he digs deeper into the city’s underbelly, Walker uncovers a network of secrets woven through power, wealth, and influence—where history is buried for a reason, and silence is enforced at any cost. What begins as a single killing soon points to something larger. Something international. And someone who doesn’t ...

The explosive Robert Langdon thriller from Dan Brown, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Da Vinci Code, The Lost Symbol, Inferno, and The Secret of Secrets. An ancient secret brotherhood. A devastating new weapon of destruction. An unthinkable target. When world-renowned Harvard...

This is Irving Stone's powerful and passionate biographical novel of Michelangelo. His time: the turbulent Renaissance, the years of poisoning princes, warring popes, the all-powerful Medici family, the fanatic monk Savonarola. His loves: the frail and lovely daughter of Lorenzo de Medici; the...

Sarah and Tyler continue their efforts to reel in the mass serial killer, Dwight Spalding. As they do so, another horrific case comes to light. Five men had been murdered all in the exact same manner. There are five suspects, one for each crime. None has a motive and none could have carried out any more than one of the slayings. Sarah and Tyler are mixed up in the case, but this time one of them has a lot more to lose than ever before, who holds the secrets?

Alderman James has left his prestigious civic duties in Dublin behind. Back in his native London, he is savoring the quiet comforts of retirement when a chance encounter with a criminal unexpectedly brings him to the attention of the Bow Street Runners—the fledgling law enforcement body in the capital city. As James is drawn deeper into a baffling serial murder investigation, what begins as civic duty becomes dangerously personal with every turn.

Welcome to the Billionaire’s Club — a secret world where power, money, and desire collide. A billionaire is found dead inside his own panic room. The room was designed to save his life. When Alexandre Giraldi, one of Europe’s most powerful financiers, dies in a fire in his Monaco penthouse, the official explanation is simple: a tragic accident. The panic room malfunctioned. The fire spread. There was nothing anyone could have done. But accidents do not leave patterns behind. As investigators quietly retrace Giraldi’s final hours, a more unsettling truth begins to emerge - one that ...

It is 1971 and espionage is in the air in Soviet Russia. Lena Kristoff is a researcher in the economics department at Leningrad Technical Institute. While working on the highest priority project of the time, a computer model of the entire Soviet economic system, she is inadvertently recruited by the CIA. If she can smuggle a copy of top secret files to the West, she can help change her country’s totalitarian government and buy freedom for her family. Then she meets an American CIA courier named Eric Larson and they fall in love. Seizing an opportunity to copy the model files, she gives ...

RATCATCHER Book One of the acclaimed John Purkiss Spy Action Thriller series. When spies go rogue, they need to be stopped. That's where John Purkiss - the Ratcatcher - comes in. Purkiss's job is straightforward. Track down members of the intelligence services who are taking kickbacks, engaging in criminal activity, or otherwise abusing their positions, and bring them to justice. Straightforward doesn't mean easy... After a renegade British former intelligence agent, Fallon, is sighted in the Baltic city of Tallinn on the eve of a historic summit meeting between the Russian and Estonian ...

A missing girl. A haunted past. A man with nothing left to lose. Former U.S. Marshal Simon Fisk now works as a private contractor, tracking down and recovering children who were kidnapped by their own estranged parents. He only has one rule: he won't touch stranger abduction cases. He's still haunted by the disappearance of his own daughter years ago when she was just a child, still unsolved, and stranger kidnappings hit too close to home. Until, that is, six-year-old Lindsay Sorkin disappears from her parents' hotel room in Paris, and the French police deliver Simon an ultimatum: he can ...

A celebrated writer by the time the war broke out in 1914, Maugham had the perfect cover for living in Switzerland. Multilingual and knowledgeable about many European countries, he was dispatched by the Secret Service to Lucerne - under the guise of completing a play. An assignment whose danger and drama appealed both to his sense of romance and of the ridiculous. Ashenden is a collection of stories rooted in Maugham's own experiences as an agent, reflecting the ruthlessness and brutality of espionage, its intrigue and treachery, as well as its absurdity.

In this sweeping novel, James A. Michener chronicles eight tumultuous centuries as three Polish families live out their destinies. The Counts Lubonski, the petty nobles Bukowksi, and the peasants Buk are at some times fiercely united, at others tragically divided. With an inspiring tradition of...

Robert Harris returns to the thrilling historical fiction he has so brilliantly made his own. This is the story of the infamous Dreyfus affair told as a chillingly dark, hard-edged novel of conspiracy and espionage. Paris in 1895. Alfred Dreyfus, a young Jewish officer, has just been convicted...

The Lazarus DoctrineA Short Story in the Balkans By Daniel Parton A buried doctrine. A forgotten war. And a truth too dangerous to stay hidden. When Serbian historian Mila Petrović is summoned to inspect a Cold War bunker unearthed on the outskirts of Pristina, she uncovers more than relics — she stumbles upon a long-dormant operation codenamed Lazarus. Designed to resurrect nationalism through myth, martyrdom, and manufactured memory, the doctrine was never meant to see daylight. Until now. As violence brews across ethnic lines, Mila teams up with Erion Kodra, an Albanian cryptographer ...

Olivia Denis is a content young wife with a carefree life in late 1930s London. Then her world is shattered with the violent death of her husband, Reggie. The police want to call it a suicide and close the case, but Olivia knows Reggie couldn't possibly have fired the fatal shot. Further mysteries surface surrounding her husband's death. Did the trustworthy Foreign Office employee betray government secrets? Was his murder linked to the death of a German embassy clerk the same night? And who searched their flat?