European Thriller

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 ...

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 ...

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

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...

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 ...

★★★FINALIST AUTHOR OF THE 2025 KINDLE STORYTELLER AWARD★★★ What do readers say? ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ We are looking at the Spanish-language writer who currently handles suspense better than anyone… in my humble opinion… he hooks you and never lets go. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ His stories always manage to surprise me, no matter how hard I try to avoid it. The facts confirm that we are facing a great new promise in the publishing world. (Diario Información) Oriol Duarte, a brilliant Interpol inspector renowned for his infallible precision, has just solved a complex murder at Lake Como when...

A body surfaces in a quiet Venetian canal at dawn. The police call it an accident. Julian Vale knows better. When the dead man is identified as a respected art restorer, Vale uncovers a detail no one wants to examine: the victim was days away from authenticating a priceless Renaissance painting. A painting already insured. Already sold. Already accepted as real. The problem? It isn’t. As Vale digs deeper into Venice’s elite art circles, he discovers a sophisticated forgery network hiding in plain sight — protected by foundations, legitimized by insurers, and enforced by silence. ...

Sue Dobson is good at becoming who she’s told to be. In Vienna, she can pass as polished and harmless—another professional woman in a city built on old money and older secrets. In Pretoria and Johannesburg, she can disappear into heat, traffic, and the shadow economy where information changes hands without leaving fingerprints. She’s been trained for this life: the timed calls, the dead drops, the controlled intimacy, the soft coercions disguised as protection. Her handler, Kiril, is meticulous, calm, and always one step ahead—because he designed the step she’s standing on. But ...

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...

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 ...

From the outside, Frank and Grace seem to have the perfect family. He’s a loving husband, she’s a devoted wife, and together they have two happy children. But appearances can be deceiving. A strange series of misfortunes has left them reeling: an unexplained break-in, a catastrophic handgun accident, and a bizarre poisoning that’s left Grace feeling especially unnerved. Packing up their RV for a move across the country, they’re ready for a fresh start, expecting to leave all their problems safely behind.

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...

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 ...

Fast paced, exciting historical drama with surprise ending... When the charming but penniless Pierre Dupres departs 17th-century France in pursuit of fortune, heartbroken Clare resigns herself to marrying his dull elder brother Jacques. Descended from a long line of midwives, she must bear a daughter to carry on her rewarding ancestral profession with its many secrets. Jacques reluctantly allows Clare to restore Maison Dupres, a crumbling chateau rumoured to be haunted, as their family home but clearly disapproves his wife’s decision to continue pursuing her career, even after the birth ...

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 ...