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  Rising Sun

  by Michael Crichton

  During the grand opening celebration of the new American headquarters of an immense Japanese conglomerate, the dead body of a beautiful woman is found. The investigation begins, and immediately becomes a headlong chase through a twisting maze of industrial intrigue and a violent business battle that takes no prisoners.
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  Harry Bosch: Book 7

  A Darkness More Than Night

  by Michael Connelly

  When a sheriff's detective shows up on former FBI man Terry McCaleb's Catalina Island doorstep and requests his help in analyzing photographs of a crime scene, McCaleb at first demurs. He's newly married (to Graciela, who herself dragged him from retirement into a case in Blood Work), has a new baby daughter, and is finally strong again after a heart transplant. But once a bloodhound, always a bloodhound. One look... (more)
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  The Great Train Robbery

  by Michael Crichton

  Lavish wealth and appalling poverty live side by side in Victorian London -- and Edward Pierce easily navigates both worlds. Rich, handsome, and ingenious, he charms the city's most prominent citizens even as he plots the crime of his century -- the daring theft of a fortune in gold. But even Pierce could not predict the consequences of an extraordinary robbery that targets the pride of England's industrial era:... (more)
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  FBI Suspense Thrillers (Catherine Coulter): Book 8

  Blindside

  by Catherine Coulter

  When six-year-old Sam Kettering is kidnapped and manages to save himself, everything's over, right? Not by a long shot.Sheriff Katie Benedict contacts Sam's father, Miles Kettering, ex-FBI agent, and he and Savich fly to eastern Tennessee to determine why Sam was kidnapped and brought to such an unlikely locale as Jessborough, Tennessee.The kidnappers just don't give up. They try again. The... (more)
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  Agent Pendergast: Book 3

  The Cabinet of Curiosities

  by Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child

  In an ancient tunnel underneath New York City a charnel house is discovered. Inside are thirty-six bodies all murdered and mutilated more than a century ago. While FBI agent Pendergast investigates the old crimes, identical killings start to terrorize the city. The nightmare has begun. Again.
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  Thunderhead

  by Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child

  Nora Kelly, a young archaeologist in Santa Fe, receives a letter written sixteen years ago, yet mysteriously mailed only recently. In it her father, long believed dead, hints at a fantastic discovery that will make him famous and rich---the lost city of an ancient civilization that suddenly vanished a thousand years ago. Now Nora is leading an expedition into a harsh, remote corner of Utah's canyon country. ... (more)
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  Agent Pendergast: Book 4

  Still Life with Crows

  by Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child

  A small Kansas town has turned into a killing ground. Is it a serial killer, a man with the need to destroy? Or is it a darker force, a curse upon the land? Amid golden cornfields, FBI Special Agent Pendergast discovers evil in the blood of America's heartland.
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  The Devil's Teardrop

  A Novel of the Last Night of the Century

  by Jeffery Deaver

  New Year's Eve, 1999. After an early morning machine-gun attack by a madman man called the Digger leaves dozens dead in the Washington, D.C. subway, the mayor's office receives a message demanding twenty million dollars by midnight or more innocents will die. With the ransom note as the only evidence, Special Agent Margaret Lukas calls upon retired FBI agent and the nation's premiere document examiner Parker... (more)
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  Myron Bolitar Mysteries: Book 8

  Promise Me

  by Harlan Coben

  It has been six years since entertainment agent Myron Bolitar last played superhero. In six years he hasn't thrown a punch. He hasn't held, much less fired, a gun. He hasn't threatened or been threatened. He hasn't called his friend Win, still the scariest man he knows, to back him up or get him out of trouble. In the past six years, none of his clients have been murdered-a real positive for his... (more)
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  Key News: Book 9

  Lights Out Tonight

  by Mary Jane Clark

  In Mary Jane Clark’s latest blockbuster novel, you will enter the mind of a sociopath.  It’s a place where the rules don’t apply.  Where anything is fair game.  And where murder is the ultimate means to an end.   What kind of person… Gets what they want Takes without asking Kills without remorse LIGHTS… Key News film and theatre critic Caroline Enright thinks her trip to a theatre festival in the beautiful... (more)
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  Charlie Parker: Book 3

  The Killing Kind

  by John Connolly

  John Connolly's Every Dead Thing and Dark Hollow were international bestsellers. Now the "compulsively readable" (Publishers Weekly) Connolly returns to heart-pounding form with a crime novel that combines sinister menace with superb style. THE KILLING KIND When the discovery of a mass grave in northern Maine reveals the grim truth behind the disappearance of a religious community, private detective... (more)
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  Charlie Parker: Book 1

  Every Dead Thing

  by John Connolly

  Hailed internationally as a page-turner in a league with the fiction of Thomas Harris, this lyrical and terrifying bestseller is the stunning achievement of an "extravagantly gifted" ( Kirkus Reviews) new novelist. John Connolly superbly taps into the tortured mind and gritty world of former NYPD detective Charlie "Bird" Parker, tormented by the brutal, unsolved murders of his wife and young daughter. Driven by... (more)
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  Last Chance: Book 2

  Enigma

  by Dee Davis

  Two men burned to possess her . . . But only one would win the deadly game . . . Samantha Waters was no hotshot, just damn good at her job. And as the best bomb specialist around, she was the logical choice for the elite crime-fighting squad Last Chance, Inc. But Sam's sexy self-confidence put a crucial member of the team on edge -- seasoned CIA black ops specialist Payton Reynolds. Sam's passion for risk... (more)
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  Suze Figueroa

  Authorized Personnel Only

  by Barbara D'Amato

  For Chicago cop Suze Figueroa, home is a sanctuary, a quiet refuge from the crime, corruption, and tragedy she encounters everyday on the job. The creaky old Victorian house she shares with her little boy, her invalid sister, and her sister's family seems far removed from the threats and dangers of the mean city streets.. . . or so she believes. The truth is far more terrifying, for, unknown to Suze, a stranger... (more)
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  Key News: Book 3

  Let Me Whisper In Your Ear

  by Mary Jane Clark

  There are some things nobody can possibly know...and others that nobody should dare to guess...A pair of thrill-seeking boys crept into Palisades Park after dark to ride the Cyclone. When the roller coaster returned to the station, it was carrying only one child. What happened to the other would remain veiled in secrecy for the next three decades...As a rising KEY News producer, Laura Walsh prepares video... (more)
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  Agent Pendergast: Book 8

  The Wheel of Darkness

  by Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child

  FBI Special Agent Pendergast is taking a break from work to take Constance on a whirlwind Grand Tour, hoping to give her closure and a sense of the world that she's missed. They head to Tibet, where Pendergast intensively trained in martial arts and spiritual studies. At a remote monastery, they learn that a rare and dangerous artifact the monks have been guarding for generations has been mysteriously stolen. As... (more)
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  Nanette Hayes Mysteries: Book 3

  Drumsticks

  by Charlotte Carter

  Nanette is back in New York City and busy getting over her ex. But when a friend gives her a voodoo doll, Nanettes life seems to turn around. A missing check turns up, and shes even offered a regular gig at a jazz club. Nan is so grateful that she invites the dolls creator, an older woman named Ida Williams, to her first performance. But the gig has only just begun.
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  Sunrise Suspense Society: Book 1

  When Day Breaks: A Sunrise Suspense Society Novel

  by Mary Jane Clark

  On the day she died, Constance Young was the undisputed star of morning television. But her plans to move herself and her loyal audience to another network were cancelled when she ended up at the bottom of her swimming pool. And the fabled unicorn amulet that Constance had been wearing during her final hours--a gift from King Arthur to his beloved Guinevere and the centerpiece of the upcoming Camelot... (more)
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  The Stalking Man

  by William J. Coughlin

  In a twisted trail of blood, he spelled out his name, The Stalking Man, hunting women in cities across the country the way his father had once taught him to hunt deer. He loved the moment of terror frozen on their faces when the all-too-horrifying realization would hit them-they were going to die a death more violent and ghastly than their worst nightmares... They had caught him once-he did his time and now he... (more)
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  Don't Be Afraid

  by Rebecca Drake

  It's a beautiful house - a perfect place to live, to dream, to start a life together. It's the perfect place for so many things, he thinks as he puts on the gloves and reaches for her, enjoying her screams. But today, it's a perfect place to die. Steerforth, Connecticut, was once an idyllic, sleepy New England town. But now, the leafy streets and picture-perfect houses have turned shadowy and menacing, every small... (more)