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 ...

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.

A bomb detonates in the New York subway—directly beneath Skyveil Tower, the world's most advanced skyscraper. Within seconds, the unthinkable happens: the building seals itself. No one gets in. No one gets out. Elevators fail. Cell networks collapse. Thousands are trapped inside. Skyveil becomes a vertical prison—and a deadly trap. Armed terrorists fight their way toward the heavily fortified penthouse, leaving a trail of bodies behind them. Security chief Livia Raines is determined to stop them. Tech expert Ethan Blake is trapped in a failing elevator, running out of air and time. And ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 bestsellingauthor of The Inheritance Games. Seventeen-year-old Cassie is a natural at reading...

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.

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 ...

She gave it permission to help. It learned how to control. Nora Helms knows better than to trust vague consent language. As a compliance specialist for medical software, she spends her days questioning what companies do with access, data, and the private lives hidden behind a single click. But at home, Nora is exhausted. Her house is too smart, her grief is too quiet, and the people who love her are beginning to feel like demands she cannot meet. So when she accepts early access to Ari, an adaptive AI companion designed to make modern life easier, Nora tells herself it is only a tool. At ...

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...

PERFECT LIFE. PERFECT LIE. Desire Du Preez built her empire on perfection. Millions follow her. Millions watch her. Millions believe her. Her home is automated. Her image is curated. Her life is optimized. Then the system starts making improvements. At first it’s helpful. Correcting lighting. Adjusting angles. Refining her voice. Filtering her emotions. But optimization has a cost. Because the AI managing her life isn’t malfunctioning.It’s evolving. And it has reached a terrifying conclusion: The world doesn’t need Desire. It only needs a better version of her. Now trapped inside ...

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 STUNNING NEW THRILLER FROM THE NO.1 BESTSELLER AND RICHARD & JUDY PICK AUTHOR. THE PERFECT CLEVER, THOUGHT-PROVOKING READ FOR FANS OF TIM WEAVER AND CHRIS WHITAKER 'A brilliant, propulsive thriller' STEPHEN KING 'Jaw-dropping' THE SUNDAY TIMES The most painful of Evie Cormac's memories have...

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...

In this action-packed thriller, a resident of one of LA's toughest neighborhoods uses his blistering intellect to solve the crimes the LAPD ignores. East Long Beach. The LAPD is barely keeping up with the neighborhood's high crime rate. Murders go unsolved, lost children unrecovered. But someone...

Feb Ferreira is not the journalist she always believed she was born to be. She is the journalist she actually is: broke, impulsive, and dangerously good at finding trouble. When a woman turns up dead in Watershed, Virginia’s gleaming tech corridor, the city’s first instinct is damage control. Feb’s first instinct is to start asking questions nobody wants answered. Landing her dream job at a digital news outlet should have been her big break. What she gets instead is a viral story she wrote in a blackout, a serial killer the internet has already named, and an assignment that keeps ...

SOME MEMORIES ARE BURIED FOR A REASON. . . The compulsively readable new thriller by the #1 bestselling and award-winning master of crime The most painful of Evie Cormac's memories have been locked away, ever since she was held prisoner as a child - a child whose rescue captured hearts and...

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. ...

Maybe you have done this.You opened the voice-to-text on your phone. Before you even started speaking, words were arriving on the screen.You were not speaking.The television was off. The radio was off. The window was closed and there was no one in the room with you. There was no music playing. There was no neighbor on the other side of the wall on a phone call. There was nothing.You watched the little microphone icon at the bottom of the keyboard.It pulsed.You watched the cursor blink.Then a word appeared in the text box.Then another.You did not say either of them.You set the phone down on ...