Spin-Chilling Sublime Suspense Fiction
Dive into a world of spine-chilling sublime suspense fiction with our curated list of gripping books. Unravel masterfully crafted tales of tension, mystery, and thrill that will keep you on the edge of your seat.
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Scorpion
by Jack Stewart
DEA agent Bill Broxton is assigned to protect the Prime Minister of Trinidad from an assassin. He doesn't know that his fiancée is the killer.
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Sandstorm
by James Rollins
Nationally bestselling author James Rollins has transported readers to the dark heart of the Amazon, the bowels of the earth, far below the ocean, and the top of the world. Now he embarks upon his most gripping and terrifying adventure yet: to a nightmare buried beneath a treacherous desert wasteland. An inexplicable explosion rocks the antiquities collection of a London museum—a devastating blast that sets off alarms in clandestine organizations around the world, as the race begins to determine how it happened, why it happened, and what it means. Lady Kara Kensington's family paid a high price in money and blood to found the gallery that now lies in ruins. And her search for answers is about to lead Kara and her friend Safia al-Maaz, the gallery's brilliant and beautiful curator, into a world they never dreamed actually existed. For new evidence exposed by the tragedy suggests that Ubar, a lost city buried beneath the Arabian desert, is more than mere legend . . . and that something astonishing is waiting there. Two extraordinary women and their guide, the international adventurer Omaha Dunn, are not the only ones being drawn to the desert. Former U.S. Navy SEAL Painter Crowe, a covert government operative and head of an elite counterespionage team, is hunting down a dangerous turncoat, Crowe's onetime partner, to retrieve the vital information she has stolen. And the trail is pointing him toward Ubar. But the many perils inherent in a death-defying trek deep into the savage heart of the Arabian Peninsula pale before the nightmarish secrets to be unearthed at journey's end. What is hidden below the sand is more than a valuable relic of ancient history. It is an ageless power that lives and breathes—an awesome force that could create a utopia or tear down everything humankind has built during millennia of civilization. Many lives have already been destroyed by ruthless agencies dedicated to guarding its mysteries and harnessing its might. And now the end may be at hand for Safia, for Kara, for Crowe, and for all the interlopers who wish to expose its mysteries, as it prepares to unleash the most terrible storm of all . . .
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Murder Suicide
by Keith Ablow
Ablow draws upon his real life experience--evaluating and treating murderers, gang members, and sexual offenders, and serving as an expert witness in violent legal cases--to create a new thriller, featuring forensic psychiatrist Frank Clevenger.
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Bare Bones
by Kathy Reichs
Her plans for a romantic vacation interrupted by the discoveries of two murdered bodies and a small plane crash, Tempe Brennan traces leads to an isolated North Carolina farm.
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Old Boys
by Charles McCarry
Retired agent Horace Christopher enlists the aid of four other retired colleagues to find his cousin, intelligence operative Paul Christopher, who has mysteriously vanished and is presumed dead.
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Unlucky in Law
by Perri O'Shaughnessy
A New York Times Bestselling AuthorNina Reilly takes on the most dangerous and difficult case of her career in O'Shaughnessy's latest thriller. An ingenious blend of forensic science, history, and gripping suspense, Unlucky in Law pits the tough but compassionate attorney against the most unbeatable adversary of all: the law. Brilliantly imagined and compulsively readable, this is a beguiling mix of wrenching drama and gripping action.
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White Hot
by Sandra Brown
Returning to her Louisiana home town after the suicide of her younger brother, Danny, Sayre Lynch examines the turbulent relationship between Danny and their favored older brother and begins to suspect that Danny was murdered.
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Now You See It
by Allison Lynn
"David and Jessica have almost everything they could want ... until one night when David returns from a business trip. Jessica's wallet and keys are in their usual place, but she is gone. As months pass without her, David's certainty 'that she is going to walk in that door tonight' slowly diminishes. At the heart of this unnerving story is David's search for his wife -- which takes him far from his Manhattan neighborhood and deep inside himself."--Page 4 of cover.
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The Girl Next Door
by Patricia J. MacDonald
When her father is murdered 15 years after being convicted of killing her mother, struggling actress Nina Avery must dig into the past to find the real killer before she becomes the next victim.
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Five Days in Summer
by Kate Pepper
This riveting debut thriller shows what happens when every mother's nightmare comes true. ""Five Days in Summer" has it all--an attractive female detective, a crusty FBI profiler, and the scariest killer you'll never want to meet."--Leslie Glass, author of "The Killing Gift." Original.
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Hark!
by Ed McBain
Setting out to avenge himself after being left for dead in Mischief, the Deaf Man plants a string of clues taken from the plays of Shakespeare, daring the detectives of the 87th Precinct to prevent a seemingly perfect crime. By the author of The Heckler and Eight Black Horses. 100,000 first printing.
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Ice Run
by Steve Hamilton
A man and a woman - both police officers find each other and share the burden of losing their partners.
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Heartbreaker
by Robert Ferrigno
After retaliating against a drug lord, savvy, street-tough Val Duran flees to Hollywood. Meanwhile, an L.A. playboy beds a gorgeous redhead and wakes up with a psychopath trying to kill him. Neither Val nor Kilo know it yet, but they are on a collision course with a sexy marine biologist and one lethally dysfunctional family in this "dark, comic tour de force" (James Ellroy).
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In the Moon of Red Ponies
by James Lee Burke
Billy Bob discovers that jail cells have revolving doors and that the government he had sworn to serve may have become his enemy.
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Therapy
by Jonathan Kellerman
In Kellerman's provocative and suspenseful new novel, psychologist Alex Delaware's investigation into a sadistic double slaying leads to a corrupt multimillion-dollar scheme made up of equal parts madness and menace.
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Memorial Day
by Vince Flynn
CIA operative Mitch Rapp has one week to derail a terrorist attack on Washington, D.C., during the unveiling of the World War II memorial.
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Don't Look Now
by Linda Lael Miller
From the "New York Times" bestselling author of "The Last Chance Caf." Attorney Clare Westbrook and her handsome ex, homicide detective Tony Sonterra, are thrown back together when a murderer targets Clare as his next victim.
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Never Look Back
by Linda Lael Miller
The "New York Times" bestselling author picks up where "Don't Look Now" left off in a sizzling sequel brimming with suspense, murder, intrigue, and romance.
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Day of the Dead
by J. A. Jance
For more than thirty years, the case has remained stone cold -- the brutal murder of a local Papago girl, her butchered body found stuffed into a large cooler that was left on the side of Highway 86. No one ever paid for the horrific crime ... except, that is, the victim's loved ones, who suffer to this day. Brandon Walker, once the sheriff of Pima County, Arizona, no longer feels he has purpose. A reluctant retiree living in the long shadow of his wife, Diana Ladd, a successful author of true-crime books, he is bored with golf, and more so with life. Salvation, though, comes with an invitation to join the ranks of The Last Chance, an exclusive nationwide fraternity of former cops and forensic experts who look into unsolved murders that have baffled local law enforcement agencies. And one such case is staring Brandon in the face with cold, dead, entreating eyes -- a murder investigation that may have been mishandled by his department when he was a young lawman. The trail of a sadistic, calculating, and blood-chillinglyefficient killer soon leads Brandon into a strange world at the unlikely border between forensic science and tribal mysticism: a place where evil hides behind a perfect facade. Now the seeds of terror sown three decades earlier have bloomed and are bearing awful fruit. A forgotten homicide in the Arizona desert is only the beginning of the nightmare that is about to ensnare a diligent ex-cop and his family, for Brandon Walker is the only one still alive who can unravel a blood knot of terror and obsession that will free a dark truth more frightening than he ever imagined. A novel that bristles with electrifying intensity and is alive with the breathtaking atmosphere and rich characterizations that have become J. A. Jance trademarks, Day of the Dead is a gripping and extraordinary journey into the darkness -- a welcome return to the shadow world of the sensational New York Times bestseller Kiss of the Bees -- and the author's most spellbinding and powerfully resonant thriller to date.
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Trace
by Patricia Daniels Cornwell
A New York Times Bestselling AuthorDr. Kay Scarpetta returns to Richmond, Virginia, the city that once turned its back on her, and finds that nothing is as she expected. A young girl is dead, and only the smallest pieces of evidence are left behind - traces that only the most thorough hunters can identify. It's up to Scarpetta to follow the twisting leads and track the strange details in order to make the dead speak - and reveal the sad truth that may be more than she can bear.
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Blow Fly
by Patricia Daniels Cornwell
"Readers are in for the shock of Kay Scarpetta's life."--
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The Study of Reactive Vanadium Carbonyl Compounds
by Kristi Ann Fjare
At the outset of his career with the FBI, Alex Cross is instructed to track down a band of kidnappers who are snatching people and possibly selling them into slavery, a case that is complicated by a terrible threat to Cross's own family.