Middle Thriller

A Halloween Ball. A missing friend. A serial killer’s return? Ellie Byrne is ready to enjoy a Halloween masquerade ball at her bed and breakfast with friends, but when her friend mysteriously disappears, Ellie’s evening takes a dark turn. Just as Mia is found, shaken but unharmed, another body is discovered, and it looks like the infamous Clue Killer may have resurfaced after 20 years of silence. With a murderer on the loose, Ellie, with the help of her snarky cat Cleo and loyal dog Lola, must dig deep into the town’s secrets.

THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER In the latest jaw-dropping thriller from New York Times bestselling author Riley Sager, a man must contend with the long-ago disappearance of his childhood best friend—and the dark secrets lurking just beyond the safe confines of his picture-perfect...

The international bestseller! A masterful gothic thriller set against the turbulence of medieval Italy. The Name of the Rose The year is 1327. Franciscans in a wealthy Italian abbey are suspected of heresy, and Brother William of Baskerville arrives to investigate. But his delicate mission is...

Between revenants, old witches, and an insidious threat inside the reaper council, Izzy Sage has her hands full. Entertainment is the name of the game in the reaper world. It’s also survival of the fittest. Come along for the ride.

Beirut, 1943. The French Mandate is ending — and someone is using its last unguarded months to settle an old account. Charles Eddington arrives in the most beautiful city of the war with a title that means nothing and instructions no one will admit to having signed. Couriers are dying on the mountain roads above the city — careful men, on unconnected routes, none of them robbed. No one in the cracking machinery of the Mandate wants the question asked, least of all the charming French intelligence officer who befriends Charles over drinks at the St. Georges and warns him, with real ...

Ellie Byrne’s pending divorce from her cheating husband threatens to leave her broke and homeless. But when she inherits a bed and breakfast in the unique town of Salem Falls, her prayers may be answered. That is, until she finds out her aunt didn’t just die on the property, she was murdered. And shortly after Ellie arrives, she finds herself the target of threatening messages and hostile attitudes from almost everyone in town.

All Emma Warner wants is a better life. In a city rife with crime and corruption, the only option to cover her mother's medical bills was a loan from a crime boss called the Wolf. Now, after her mother's death, Emma has to work in his seedy nightclub, the Crescent Club, in order to pay off the debt. When the opportunity comes for a new job working for young, elusive billionaire James Kane, Emma jumps at the chance to potentially change her fate and pay off the Wolf even faster.

What would happen if Iran had nuclear weapons? Are you sure you want to know? Really sure? Because once you read this story, you can't unread it. The scenario is fictional. The physics are real. The politics are uncomfortably familiar. And the people who die in these pages could very well be you and me. For decades, the world has negotiated, sanctioned, threatened, and bargained with Iran over one question: what happens if they get the bomb? This is that story. Go ahead. Read it. But don't come complaining to me when you lose sleep for weeks.

Her modern-day life turns into a tangle of secrets when a fall lands her back in time. When a mundane mishap propels Ellie into a bygone era – the Roaring Twenties, she’s not only stuck in time, but she lands smack dab in the middle of another mystery. Steeped in history, a local landmark’s haunting becomes Ellie’s prime objective as she navigates a society of guys and dolls in the hopes of finding her way home. As she delves deeper, she finds out that not all is as it seems and the past is filled with secrets, puzzles, and intrigue she didn’t expect.

This suspenseful novel transports readers to the windswept coast of Washington State and a boarding school steeped in privilege and deadly secrets—a remarkable story of grief, power, and the dangerous price of belonging. “Part mystery, part coming-of-age tale, Night Objects will keep readers...

Political figures are being assassinated ...across the Middle East Abandoned in the Middle East with terrorist groups angry at him and the American government accusing him of murder, CIA operative Dean Wells has only one way to save his life and clear his name. He must bring peace to the region. In acclaimed thriller author Fritz Galt’s “vividly portrayed locations” from the souks of Syria to the underwater world of the Red Sea, and from Jordan to Jerusalem, you’ll feel the hot desert wind breathing down your neck. Dean must assemble a cast of shadowy misfits to take on the CIA, ...

Kamran Esfahani, a dentist living out a dreary existence in Stockholm, agrees to spy for the Mossad after he’s recruited by Arik Glitzman, the chief of a clandestine unit tasked with running targeted assassinations and sabotage inside Iran. At Glitzman’s direction, Kam returns to his native Tehran and opens a dental practice there, using it as a cover for the Israeli intelligence agency. Kam proves to be a skillful asset, quietly earning money helping Glitzman smuggle weapons, run surveillance, and conduct kidnappings.

Ellie Byrne was hoping for a quiet holiday season, filled with sugar cookies, Christmas movies, and zero dead bodies. But when a famous author drops dead during a winter storm—and his final manuscript mysteriously vanishes—her cozy bed-and-breakfast in Salem Falls becomes the center of a snow-covered scandal. Soon, Ellie and her opinionated pets are up to their eyeballs in secrets, suspects, and surprise guests with hidden agendas.

Emily Bennett works as a therapist in Pennsylvania, helping children overcome their troubled pasts—even as she struggles to forget her own. Once upon a time, Emily was part of a middle school clique called the Harpies—six popular girls who bullied the new girl to her breaking point. The Harpies took a blood oath: never tell a soul what they did to Grace Farmer. Now, fourteen years later, it seems karma has caught up to them when one member of that vicious circle commits suicide.

Introducing a major new thriller writer—in the vein of Vince Flynn and Brad Thor—and an electrifying character, Dewey Andreas. A major North American hydroelectric dam is blown up and the largest off-shore oil field in this hemisphere is destroyed in a brutal, coordinated terrorist attack...

"Amber Benson's compelling narration brings to life a world in which numbers and words are more than they seem, alchemy is real, and time is not a constant." -- AudioFile Magazine A LOCUS AWARD FINALIST! This program is read by Amber Benson. New York Times bestselling and Alex, Nebula, and...

When the Lebanese militant organization Hezbollah abandoned smartphones in favor of “untraceable” pagers, its commanders believed they had finally escaped Israeli intelligence. They were wrong. FROM ETHAN HAREL — a writer with firsthand access to people connected to the real operation — comes the classified story behind one of the boldest intelligence missions of the century. When a young Mossad officer, Yael, discovers a narrow and nearly impossible opportunity to turn thousands of enemy pagers into synchronized remote-triggered bombs, she’s dismissed, doubted, and nearly shut ...

Can Saddam’s Army hold its own… …against the weight of American military might? Tanks, armored personnel carriers, helicopters, paratroopers, and amphibious assault vehicles mobilize to bring the pain for Operation Desert Storm. Will Saddam use chemical and biological weapons to try and even the score? The mighty guns of the USS Iowa and Wisconsin support one final amphibious assault. Will their 36-inch, 2,000-pound shells shatter the Iraqi defenses and open the way for the Marines? The largest tank battle since World War II is brewing. What if America didn’t stop in southern Iraq? ...

Is it possible to narrate fourteen centuries of conflict without taking sides? Iran has been called many things: a pariah state, a nuclear threat, the heir to the Persian Empire, a legitimate resistance. None of these labels are sufficient. This book proposes a different approach: a study of a pattern that persists under incompatible empires, rival doctrines, and successive technologies. It is observed through the dry and precise voice of The Registrar, an instance of The World Log assigned to track the Persian-Iranian Node since long before the birth of Islam. The file begins in 632 AD ...

Some canyons hold deep, dark secrets… others should never be found. Thirteen-year-old Sandy is just trying to enjoy a family vacation at Grover Canyon State Park with her younger brother, Pete. But when the two of them stumble across a hidden underground laboratory deep beneath the canyon floor, everything changes. Inside, they find a corpse — waxy, lifeless, and slouched at a reception desk like it’s been waiting for something. Terrified, they run. But the horror they’ve uncovered is only beginning. Something has been awakened beneath Grover Canyon. And before the day is over, ...