Smart Thrillers

Fresh out of prison, after taking the fall for their insurance fraud scheme, Jessica has only one thing on her mind. As she masterminds her elaborate plan for justice, Jessica must come face to face with the ghosts of her past. But while some people are beyond redemption, there is only one person who can satisfy her revenge.

Featuring a Special Introduction by Michael Connelly and a cameo by Harry Bosch! A reluctant detective. A town full of secrets. A past that won’t stay buried. In this gripping box set, award-winning and New York Times bestselling author Michael Lister presents six pulse-pounding novels featuring the complex and compelling Detective John Jordan—a former cop turned prison chaplain and then cop again who can’t escape the call of justice. After leaving Atlanta behind, John returns to his North Florida hometown, seeking peace. But murder has a way of finding him, pulling him back into the ...

A reluctant psychic with a haunted past. A straight-laced FBI agent sworn to protect. A mystery they must solve together. Hailey Arquette uses ancestry rooted in the occult to hide her gifts in the small southern town of Hamchet, Texas. Experiencing a victim’s last moments when touching an object isn’t something she can turn off, but helps her to navigate the shadowy world where betrayal walks hand in hand with a smile. A threat against family forces Agent Trenton Briner back to Texas and into a mystery steeped in whispers of Vodou and magic. At each turn, he finds the raven-haired ...

It was supposed to be fun. A relaxing trip to a remote mountain retreat where there’s no phone reception. Three couples, friends since high school, are looking forward to a weekend of drinking, reminiscing and flirting. When someone suggests swapping partners, it doesn’t seem like such a bad idea. The lights will be switched off, for privacy. It’s not really cheating if you don’t know who you were with, right? But when the lights come back on, one of the men is dead. No-one can agree who was in which bedroom with whom.

Oak Harbor is a 168 year old plantation house in North Carolina that has been shrouded in mysteries since it was built. Millions of dollars have been stolen from the family trust. Murder, suicide, and violent death has stalked each generation that has owned the old estate. Some long-term residents believe that the house is cursed since it is rumored to have been built over a Tuscarora burial ground. Others believe that the evil goes back to the man who built the house, Dupree Durant. He was rumored to have been a pirate and sadistic slave owner who murdered for his own pleasure. The ...

A CEO’s wife vanishes mid-commute. The GPS swears the chauffeur took a dead end he never drove. In a smart city wired for “safety,” a street-smart driver has one day to prove the route was spoofed, the alerts were lies, and the real danger hides behind official badges and friendly apps. Maps help, people choose. When a luxury sedan’s black box and a live news feed accuse him, the chauffeur teams up with the missing woman’s sister and a rattled CEO. As “Park Now” commands, false gas warnings, and detour pushes flood the streets, the trio fights back with nothing but a mirror on...

When a traveling carnival arrives in Hollowbeck, it promises magic and mayhem. It's also an opportunity for Morgan to find someone who can transform her brother, Ruiner, back into a human—he's a little tired of being a talking cat, and she's a little tired of cleaning his litter box. Things look promising until the curtains rise on rehearsal night to reveal Ruiner sitting on the lifeless body of the wizard who promised to help him.

It's a very John Jordan Christmas. When young mother-to-be Emma Oliver vanishes on Christmas Eve, her disappearance sends shockwaves through the quiet town of Pottersville, Florida. Sweet, beautiful, seemingly adored by all, Emma’s sudden disappearance raises more questions than answers. At the center of the storm is her seeming unaffected husband, Brady Oliver, whose refusal to make public pleas for her safe return quickly turns suspicion on him. Soon his composed exterior begins to crack. Why did he abruptly change his alibi? Why was his boat spotted near the desolate shores of St. ...

When the Australian Mystery Writers’ Society invited me to their crime-writing festival aboard the Ghan, the famous train between Darwin and Adelaide, I was hoping for some inspiration for my second book. Fiction, this time: I needed a break from real people killing each other. Obviously, that didn’t pan out.

When a modern home in High Peaks burns to the ground killing the family, it appears as if the tragic deaths were an accident. But a gut instinct tells Noah Sutherland otherwise. Days later, a family at another residence is found dead under bizarre circumstances. A coincidence, or are the two related? As the calculating stalker dubbed The Smart Killer stays in the shadows and continues slaughtering ordinary families in their homes, the investigation shakes the small Adirondack town to the core.

Yard sales can bring out the worst in people. So when Scumble River school psychologist Skye Denison organizes a 100-mile yard sale, otherwise neighborly folk get downright nasty: her own mother creams a woman, and a battle of the sexes breaks out. But when her former boss is found murdered, nobody knows for sure how this cookie will crumble.

In a world of female spies, Jillian Hemlock excels as a fighter, strategist, and loyal American. CIA agent Hemlock's world shatters when her husband is murdered at a chilling winter lake cabin. Fuelled by vengeance, she tracks down a tangled web of deceit involving Chinese gangs and Russian agents. Encountering danger at a construction site, Julian confronts thugs linked to the gang. Juggling grief and duty, she balances CIA missions assigned by her boss, Owl, with personal turmoil. She probes Mr. Carriage's silk factory with colleague Gregg's support, uncovering a hi-tech chip smuggling ...

Trapped in a mansion. Watched by an AI. Tested beyond reason. Only one will be chosen to survive. When tech visionary Eliot Vance invites six of his closest friends to an exclusive retreat in the mountains, they expect luxury, secrets, and maybe a few mind games. What they get instead is something else entirely. A glass-walled house that observes them. A mysterious system that forces confessions. Simulations that expose their darkest choices. And a voice that whispers: Choose… or be chosen. As the walls begin to shift and reality bends, the group realizes they are no longer guests. They ...

An unwavering NTSB chief delves into an airline tragedy, colliding with her past in the form of a roguish ex-lover. As she deciphers the crash's mysteries, a shocking realization unfolds—her old flame may be entwined in the disaster more than she'd ever imagined. Imani Safe is a rising star, appointed as the first black Chair of the NTSB. But when a passenger jet crashes at the San Diego airport, Imani's personal and professional worlds collide. Her husband, Orville, is on the ill-fated flight, and Imani must navigate the treacherous aftermath of the crash while searching for him. As she ...

In the windswept moors of the 19th century, the brilliant and scientifically-minded governess Priscilla is summoned to the remote estate of the disgraced paleontologist, Abraham Lorrimer, to educate his young niece. Yet, the lessons soon stray from books to treacherous cliffs and cryptic maps, revealing Abraham's true intention: to use Priscilla's sharp intellect to reclaim a stolen, career-defining fossil from a cunning rival. Their shared passion for discovery ignites a romance not in stuffy drawing rooms, but amidst the thrill of the hunt and the adrenaline of shared danger. As they ...

A thrilling spin on the classic Sherlock Holmes murder mystery… Thelonius (Theo) Holmes is a private investigator and a direct descendant of Sherlock Holmes. When eerily similar homicides by euthanasia pop up in both San Diego and Las Vegas, Holmes is called in by the San Diego and Vegas police departments to help. Working with the cutting-edge and beautiful AI robot named P.A.M. and his recently hired assistant, Delaney Watson, Holmes and his team realizes they are faced with contradictory evidence. While DNA suggests one serial killer murdering the homeless in both cities, eye witnesses...

A girl ensnared, a young boy lost, both victims of ruthless traffickers. Nancy makes a promise… to bring them home safe, no matter the cost. International Criminal Court investigator, Nancy Wu is on her way to challenge the United Nations in an effort to save young boys abducted from their war-torn country. As she flies to New York, she meets a girl in need. And Nancy can’t look the other way. She launches into her new investigation with the same grit and shrewdness she’s shown in the past, bringing the fight right to the trafficker’s door. With young lives at risk on both sides of ...

Four operatives. One omega who refuses to be prey. An enemy that doesn’t back down. Encryption specialist Lisa Navarro has escaped with her pack to Europe. They are the only people she can trust—the pack of elite operators who were slated to die with her for a corrupt senator’s lie. When they discover they’re being hunted, they must trek across Europe to stay safe. Together, they build an evolving cover story that can survive customs and cameras: an art dealer in Milan, tourists in Prague, ghosts in Berlin, and a graduate student in Amsterdam. One problem—Lisa’s heats won’t ...

It is 2033 and the crusade against gun violence has finally reached the boiling point. Senator Byron Makely has launched a vindictive campaign against his hated enemy, Franklin Chandler, CEO of the nation’s largest gun manufacturer. With the Democratic Party in full control of the presidency, House, Senate, and Supreme Court, Makely and his anti-gun lobby are determined to bring down Chandler, his company, his industry. the NRA, and even the Second Amendment. As skirmishes break out across the country between gun owners and the new progressive left, a stranger emerges in the growing civil...

In an instant, the lives of two women collide. One was behind the wheels of a Trans Am she liked to drive too fast. The other was lying in the road, dying an agonizing death. When Chicago private eye V.I. Warshawski gets out of her car to look at the woman she almost hit, she begins a long, harrowing descent into a world of shadowy secrets and tangled lives — and into the grimmest heart of her city.