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.

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 ...

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.

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...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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...

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, ...

"A surreal excursion into heartache and horror narrated by a man undone by grief . . . Along with allusions to Rod Serling and The Exorcist, there are shades of H. P. Lovecraft, Stephen King, zombie literature and, at least once, A Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy . . . You don't want to read...

Twenty cases. Twenty investigators. One unbreakable rule: keep looking. From a body found on an impossible train on a decommissioned railway line to a predictive algorithm that engineers a murder it was supposed to prevent; from a poisoned landowner in a quiet English village to an experimental weapon hidden beneath the English countryside since 1989; from a missing child taken from a crowded street market to a rookie officer murdered in his own police station stairwell. The Detective Files is a collection of twenty gripping, standalone crime investigations — each one a complete story, ...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Numbers don’t lie. But husbands do. For twenty-five years, Judy Humphries has been the perfect, accommodating corporate wife to Levi, a deeply narcissistic VP of Wellness. But when Judy spots an impossible anomaly on their shared family fitness app—a 150 BPM heart rate at midnight at a stranger's apartment—she doesn't break down, cry, or throw plates. She does what an expert data analyst does best: she builds a spreadsheet. Levi is gearing up for the biggest keynote presentation of his career, eagerly preparing to preach to a thousand colleagues about his favorite buzzword: Integrity....