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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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...

Twenty years of marriage, three gym locations, and one Pilates-teaching mistress. Sheridan Nelson is the brains, the bookkeeper, and the flawless financial guarantor keeping Iron City Fitness afloat. Her husband, Parker, is the heavily spray-tanned, protein-chugging face of the franchise who just hit a cliché midlife crisis. When Sheridan discovers Parker’s affair with a twenty-something wellness influencer, she doesn’t scream, cry, or throw his chicken and broccoli at the wall. Instead, she hires a terrifyingly competent lawyer and weaponizes the one thing Parker has always avoided: ...

THE TOX SHOT 6: Come Hell or High Water The world is gone. The Wanderers are still standing. After surviving impossible odds, Joel and the remaining Wanderers head south in search of something they haven't had since the outbreak began, a place to call home. But every mile is paid for in blood. The roads are packed with desperate refugees. Entire towns have become battlegrounds. Armed survivors are willing to kill for food, fuel, or a few miles of safety. And the infected are changing again. Every bridge could be a trap. Every stranger could be an enemy. Every decision could be the one that ...

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...

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...

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, ...

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...

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 ...

Fifteen years of marriage, four multi-million-dollar listings, and one devastating security camera recording. For over a decade, Natalie Murray sacrificed her career as a theatrical set designer to flawlessly stage luxury real estate for her vain, cologne-soaked husband, Aiden. But when a property's security camera captures Aiden cheating with a rival broker on a $600-per-square-foot marble island Natalie designed, she doesn't confront him. Instead, she consults a ruthless lawyer and discovers a beautiful legal loophole: she actually owns 51% of his development company, giving her total ...

Nineteen years of marriage, a multi-million-dollar smart home empire, and one betraying prototype mattress. Celine Diaz is the invisible operational genius behind Hestia Systems, while her husband Milo plays the visionary founder. When a diagnostic alert from their new smart bed reveals Milo is beta-testing more than just memory foam with his twenty-something executive assistant, Celine doesn't throw a tantrum. Instead, she uses her master-admin access to turn his life into a glitchy nightmare. She traps him in a sweltering smart car blaring saxophone music, drops his high-tech shower to ...