Rural Thriller

There will never be another Western writer like Louis L’Amour. A legendary author and indisputably the greatest storyteller in his genre of all time, L’Amour captivated millions of readers and has sold well over three hundred million copies of his works, which includes nearly ninety novels and countless short stories. Mistakes Can Kill You highlights an essential selection featuring nine of L’Amour’s earlier short stories, sometimes written under the pen name Jim Mayo, that exemplify the rugged morality of the best Western writing.

A collection of stories capturing what it means to be a cowboy.

One buried body. Many hidden secrets. When the body of an unknown teenage girl is discovered following a storm, the community of Birkbury closes ranks to protect their secrets. As a seasoned detective, DCI Peter Hatherall’s expectation of solving the historic case is low. No local girls were reported missing twenty years ago, and she was buried in a field easily accessible from a major road. Beneath the villagers’ good manners and polite smiles, he discovers deep-seated resentments and family feuds spanning decades, but little interest in what happened to the girl. With only two ...

Wade Callahan knows how to fix problems. As a lineman in rural New Mexico, he’s spent his life keeping the power on, the lights working, and the world running the way it’s supposed to… until the day it doesn’t. It starts with a flicker, then the grid goes down, and it doesn’t come back. At first, it feels temporary. The days pass and nothing returns. The world outside begins to go quiet. Cut off from any contact and running out of answers, Wade is forced to do what he’s never had to before—stop fixing the system and start surviving without it, but as supplies thin and ...

Big secrets run deep. Former FBI agent Jack McBride took the job as chief of police for Stillwater, Texas, to start a new life with his teenage son, Ethan, away from the suspicions that surrounded his wife's disappearance a year earlier. With a low crime rate and a five-man police force, he expected it to be a nice, easy gig; hot checks, traffic violations, some drugs, occasional domestic disturbances, and petty theft. Instead, within a week he is investigating a staged murder-suicide.

The Pastors’ Wives Club is back! From Georgia Curtis Ling the author of the gripping #1 Amazon hit But There Were Signs comes a powerful standalone sequel born from the same lived reality. Written by a native of the Appalachian foothills who spent over twenty years inside the ministry world, WHEN DAYLIGHT IS GONE delivers another breathtakingly authentic mystery where faith, danger, and the bonds of sisterhood collide. For the pastors' wives of East Tennessee, the scars of the past are deep, but they believed the worst was behind them. They thought they had finally brought the truth to ...

A collection of stories from the most famous Western author of all time! Desert Death-Song is a compilation of some of Louis L’Amour’s greatest stories, many of which might otherwise be difficult to find. Whether he was writing under his early pen name, Jim Mayo, or his own, L’Amour’s stories are unforgettable, touching on rough and rugged American ideals, and set in the untamable frontier of the Western United States.

A family curse. A frontier reckoning. And a darkness that remembers every sin. RC Sandoval didn’t return to Clayton, New Mexico, looking for redemption. After the divorce and the war, he wanted quiet. But when his estranged father dies, RC inherits the remote high‑desert ranch he grew up on—and the secrets buried beneath it. Something is wrong on the land. Cattle won’t settle. Tracks appear where nothing should walk. Shadows move with intent. And when bodies begin turning up—torn apart in ways no predator could manage—RC realizes the past he tried to escape has teeth. Something ...

Lottery winner and ex-journalist Donal Fitzgerald joins forces with his girlfriend, DNR conservation officer Mercy Virdon, to solve the mysterious death of a beloved angler, Charlie, who was murdered in his tent in a state campground and who was known by all - and who may have known too much. Set in the engaging small town of Ossning on the Borchard River in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula - an angler’s dream, filled with eccentric, believable, sympathetic, and unforgettable characters - Riverwatcher is a classic whodunit.

A historic western that opens in 1873, a time when recession is forcing thousands westwards to recoup their fortunes. The West is tough, brutal and the Indian is the enemy. But when a white woman is raped, it is a half-breed Cheyenne who comes to the rescue. From the author of Jake and Upland Passage.

From the number-one New York Times bestselling author and FOX News host Trey Gowdy comes a dark mystery debut about a murder in a small South Carolina town. Assistant DA Colm Truesdale must pick up the pieces of his own life in order to solve the case. Following the death of his wife and...

Briar Hollow has kept a bloody secret hidden deep within the Appalachian mountains for eleven years. Deputy Rebecca Slade never believed the local legends until a routine call on a rainswept mountain road brings her face to face with an impossible nightmare. A violent entity is slaughtering residents under the cover of darkness, and the local police force is entirely unequipped to stop it. Peter Rusk knows exactly what is hunting the citizens of his isolated community. He carries the same violent genetic curse in his veins, relying on iron chains and sheer willpower to lock himself away ...

This #1 New York Times bestseller introduces Amos Decker, a gifted police detective with a perfect memory who must solve a mystery he wishes he could forget: his family's murder. Amos Decker's life changed forever—twice. The first time was on the gridiron. A big, towering athlete, he was the...

You can escape the woods. But you can never outrun the bloodline. Elara Vance survived the Briarwood Holler massacre. She escaped the fire, the fangs, and the horrific truth of what slumbers beneath the Appalachian ridge. The official report called it a tragic forest fire that claimed her research team. But Elara knows the truth. The deep, cellular chill inside her has nothing to do with the trauma. Her silver scar thrums with a dark, terrifying rhythm. She brought a piece of the holler back with her—a gnawing, ravenous emptiness that grows stronger as the moon waxes. She is a ticking ...

Parker Hayes—a former true-crime podcaster turned aspiring cafe owner—thought swapping the hustle of big-city life for the charm of Magnolia Grove would be a piece of cake… or at least a slice of pie. But when a high-society gala at the historic Beauregard Mansion ends with a murder and the theft of the priceless Magnolia Rose necklace, Parker's peaceful plans quickly go up in steam.

The Nomination is a fast-paced action and suspense thriller that brings events from the final days of the Vietnam War into direct conflict with contemporary American politics. Vietnam War hero and Massachusetts Judge Thomas Larrigan is hand-picked by his friend the president to fill the upcoming vacancy on the Supreme Court. Larrigan seems like the perfect candidate: a family man with an uncontroversial judicial record. The president's credibility needs a sure bet. Larrigan will do anything to win the nomination, but he has some old skeletons rattling around in his closet. He calls his old Marine buddy, now a hit man, to sweep the closet clean.

Una escritora huye a un pueblo aislado de Cantabria para escribir en paz. Al llegar, la Guardia Civil la está esperando. En el pueblo ha aparecido el cuerpo de una joven brutalmente asesinada. Dicen que fue un accidente. Nadie quiere hablar. La protagonista no ha venido a investigar. Todavía. Solo quería desaparecer un tiempo para poder escribir. Pero pronto se ve arrastrada al centro del caso. Con la ayuda de Dalia, una mujer del pueblo, empieza a reconstruir lo que pasó realmente: un crimen encubierto, documentos destruidos, secretos enterrados durante años, aguas contaminadas y ...

In this terrifyingly twisted thriller, a young couple discovers the horror held within their newly purchased dream house. "Action-packed horror ... Fans of Stephen King and Paul Tremblay will find this a satisfying escape into the woods." ―Kirkus Reviews “This is classic supernatural horror...

Winner of the 2024 Audie Award for Thriller/Suspense! "Lazarre-White masterfully portrays people of multiple races, old and young. He also delivers Cosby's reflections on family, grief, and faith with genuine introspection and without distracting from the tense plotlines...This is a gripping...

The extraordinary debut novel that became a modern classic Born mute, speaking only in sign, Edgar Sawtelle leads an idyllic life with his parents on their farm in remote northern Wisconsin. For generations, the Sawtelles have raised and trained a fictional breed of dog whose remarkable gift for...