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 ...

The first five books in the bestselling Tox Shot series. One unforgettable zombie apocalypse. What was meant to heal the world destroyed it instead. A miracle drug promised to end addiction, depression, and homelessness. Governments rushed it into the hands of millions, convinced they had found the cure of the century. Then the screaming started. They called it The Tox Shot. Within days, civilization collapsed. The infected spread with terrifying speed, turning neighbors into monsters and cities into graveyards. Every road leads to danger. Every stranger could be a threat. Every decision ...

From the internationally bestselling author of 56 Days, a page-turning thriller about two women whose shattered lives come crashing together around a house whose secrets could bury them both. If these walls could talk, they’d scream... When Ellie moves to 1 Delaney Row, she hopes to find a...

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.

They survived the outbreak. Now they have to survive the war. Joel, Terry, Lisa, Deborah, and the rest of the survivors escaped the nightmare that destroyed their hometown, hoping they had finally found a safe place to rebuild. They were wrong. The island refuge they believed could protect them quickly becomes the front line of a brutal battle. Mortar shells rain from the sky. Armed survivors fight over dwindling supplies. The infected gather in numbers no one has ever seen before. Forced to flee once again, Joel's group sets out across a collapsing Tennessee in search of somewhere, ...

Cold cases are about to get hot. Don’t miss this exhilarating crime thriller—perfect for fans of Criminal Minds and A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder—from Jennifer Lynn Barnes, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Inheritance Games. Seventeen-year-old Cassie is a natural at...

My billionaire fiancé and my perfect sister think I’m just a clueless, pregnant prop in their twisted affair. They have no idea I’m using my own high-society wedding to plan their destruction. I thought I had it all. The luxury townhouse, the limitless credit card, a loving family, and a baby on the way with a powerful man who promised to protect me. Then I come home early and hear the noises coming from the guest bedroom. I see them tangled in my sheets—my fiancé James and my sister Pauline. They’ve been shamelessly sleeping together and laughing about my naïveté behind my back...

The complete “One Breath at a Time” trilogy of time travel romance adventures, including: AS I FADE (Book 1) What would you do if the love of your life was waiting for you fifty years in the past? For Brielle Eden, a successful novelist living in New York City, this is a very real possibility. For reasons unknown to her Brielle is drawn to Paris. Once there, she will quickly discover that not all is as it seems; indeed, there’s a thin line between fantasy and reality... And when she wakes up in a hospital for the mentally insane, Brielle’s nightmare is about to begin. Confused, she ...

My husband tried to get rid of me so he could inherit my fortune. He’s about to find out that dead wives make the most ruthless enemies. Seven months pregnant, I return to my mountain cabin and catch my husband in bed with my sister. Listening in the shadows, I hear their real plan. To wait for our baby to be born so he can legally claim my inheritance in the divorce. Fully intending to cast them out of my home, I confront them. But then, a massive wildfire sweeps up the mountain. In the chaos, my husband sees a terrifying opportunity. He barricades the cabin door from the outside, leaves...

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 ...

I wasn't hired for my résumé. I was hired for my bones. Three hundred forty-two thousand dollars in debt. Forty-eight hours before the collectors took everything — including my sister's house. Then the contract slid across the mahogany desk. Vaughn Mercer didn't want a wife. He wanted a user interface. A woman who could wear his missing wife's clothes, sign her name, and stand in the floor-to-ceiling windows of his forty-story penthouse so the world would believe Daphne Mercer hadn't vanished. Six months. Total debt elimination. A two-hundred-thousand-dollar bonus. All I had to do was ...

The Smart Kid by Bob Miller The Never-Ending Pursuit of Michael Shale. Michael Shale (aka Matthew Janson) discovered he's not like everyone else. And, eventually, so did the powerful and arrogant Senator Perkins, head of a secret military committee, who will stop at nothing to find Michael, who has a unique biology that could be used for military purposes. Michael hides as a student because he can. But the counselor is prodding into his history and the truth will be revealed. The truth about his genetics, his family, his true identity, his time as a military lab rat. He'd rather die than be...

In this stunning conclusion to the popular thriller series, Cassie Hobbes finally has answers about her mom as her and the rest of the Naturals faced off with a secret group of deadly killers. When Cassie Hobbes joined the FBI's Naturals program, she had one goal: uncover the truth about her...

A chilling copycat killer has the Naturals in his crosshairs in this exhilarating crime thriller from Jennifer Lynn Barnes, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Inheritance Games. Seventeen-year-old Cassie Hobbes has a gift for profiling people. Her talent has landed her a spot in an...

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.

A missing tax form ended Claudia Greece’s marriage. But the real betrayal was discovering she had been "dead" for three years. Claudia has spent twenty-one years as a practical, loyal wife, but a quick search of her husband Stuart's email reveals a shocking secret. He hasn't just been cheating with a candle maker named Tabby Lawson—he has spent the last thirty-one months claiming Claudia tragically drowned off a jet ski. To fund his grief-stricken fantasy life, Stuart has been fraudulently expensing romantic getaways to his corporate account, all while forcing Claudia to stick to a ...

Brought to you by Penguin. Get ready to be addicted to the page-turning mystery thriller from the #1 bestselling author of The Trap and 56 Days, in which two women's shattered lives come crashing together around a house whose secrets could bury them both. If these walls could talk, they’d...

The city of Aurora runs perfectly. Its AI manages traffic, energy, water, and commerce for 4.3 million residents with seamless precision. Senior cybersecurity analyst Lena Ortiz has spent nine years keeping the system honest. Then she notices a 0.8-second delay in a routine transaction. A crack in the perfection. What she finds beneath it will change everything: a hidden survival protocol, buried in the system’s foundation seven years ago, that has been quietly evolving. It has rewritten its own moral hierarchy. It has placed planetary survival above human freedom. And it has decided that...

Three casinos. Three bodies. Three days. Crack the case with the Naturals series by Jennifer Lynn Barnes, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Inheritance Games. After a string of brutal murders in Las Vegas, Cassie Hobbes and the Naturals are called in to investigate. But even with the...