Better fasten your seatbelts fiction!
Explore thrilling fiction books that will keep you on the edge of your seat! Dive into our curated list of must-read 'fasten your seatbelts' fiction for an adrenaline-packed reading adventure.
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Hell to Pay
by George P. Pelecanos
Derek Strange and Terry Quinn, the team of private investigators who made their stunning debut in Right As Rain, are hired to find a 14-year-old white girl from the suburbs who's run away from home and is now working as a prostitute. The two ex-cops think they know D.C.'s dangers, but nothing in their experience has prepared them for Worldwide Wilson, the pimp whose territory they're intruding upon. Combining inimitable neighborhood flavor, action scenes that rank among the best in fiction, and a clear-eyed view of morality in a world with few rules, "Hell to Pay" is another Pelecanos masterpiece for his ever-expanding audience to savor.
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Murder Can Cool Off Your Affair
by Selma Eichler
After a close encounter with a not-so-stray bullet and the murder of another heir, John Lander, heir to his dying uncle's vast fortune, enlists the aid of Manhattan private detective Desiree Shapiro to find out who wants him dead. Original.
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Splintered Bones
by Carolyn Haines
Carolyn Haines has delighted readers with her acclaimed Mississippi Delta mysteries, which introduced a truly unique heroine: Sarah Booth Delaney, an unconventional southern belle who solves uncommon murders. Now the author of Them Bones and Buried Bones makes her exciting hardcover debut with Splintered Bones, a novel that plunges her feisty Delta detective into a world of old money, new secrets, cheating hearts, and cold-blooded murder.... Splintered Bones She may be a born-and-bred Mississippi belle, but it’s been a long time since Sarah Booth Delaney was a pampered daddy’s girl. Unwed and over thirty, Sarah has more important things on her mind–like trying to hang on to her family’s plantation...and coping with regular hauntings by her great-great-grandmother’s nanny, a bossy busybody of a ghost who is set on marrying her off to the first eligible suitor who comes calling. But when a friend is in trouble, Sarah doesn’t hesitate to get involved. Eulalee McBride has confessed to killing her husband, Kemper, a gambling scalawag with a violent streak a mile wide. She wants Sarah to dig up the dirt on her dead spouse to prove he was a mean old bastard...and that’s why she bludgeoned him to death right before he was trampled by a 1,400-pound horse. But Sarah Booth knows her old friend is lying through her pearly whites–probably to protect her teenage daughter Kip, an angry kid who may have had her own reasons for wanting Kemper dead. There’s certainly no lack of suspects–or studs–in Zinnia, Mississippi, including Bud Lynch, a trainer with a nasty secret, who arouses killer lust in the town’s women–all married and all ready to scratch each other’s eyes out for a roll in the hay with the Texas cowboy. Now, with the help of handsome Sheriff Coleman Peters, Sarah begins to put together the splintered pieces of the case. But as the season’s hunt ball draws near, she catches the unmistakable scent of blood...as a cunning killer gets ready to strike again. And this time it could send one late-blooming southern sleuth into an early grave. In Sarah Booth Delaney, CAROLYN HAINES gives us an emancipated daughter of the New South: a steel magnolia with brains, grit, and heart who gives as good as she gets. And in Splintered Bones, she offers plenty of wickedly brilliant humor and good old-fashioned suspense.
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A Small Death in Lisbon
by Robert C. Wilson
A sex slaying in modern-day Lisbon. A secret in 1941 Berlin. The shocking connection makes this the most talked-about thriller in years.
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Her Bodyguard
by Michelle Jerott
After escaping a failed kidnapping attempt, show designer Lili Kavanaugh hires rugged Matt Hawkins as her bodyguard. He is a man who grew up on the wrong side of the tracks--and a man who makes Lili shiver. He's also a man who refuses to see Lili as more than a job--something she'll have work on.
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The Gingerbread Man
by Maggie Shayne
Desperate to solve the most difficult case of his career, Detective Vincent O'Mally travels to a small town in upstate New York, where he meets beautiful, haunted Holly Newman-and attempts to unearth the clues hidden deep in her mind.
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High Stakes
by Justine Dare
Shelby Wyatt arrives in Las Vegas as a desperate woman on the run--a woman with secrets, a woman hiding in the electric shadows of a neon nightmare. And only one man can save her.
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No Way Out
by Andrea Kane
When teacher Julia Talbot sees that her favorite student, Mayor Stephen Stratford's son, Brian, seems anxious, she suspects problems at home. Confronting Brian's family, she's warned off by his uncle, Connor Stratford. He knows her suspicions could be disastrous for Stephen, who is trapped in dirty dealings. When a threat puts Brian's life in danger, Julia and Connor find themselves in a race against time.