Thriller Action Supernatural Horror Authors in 2010
Discover the top thriller, action, supernatural, and horror authors of 2010. Explore gripping books from master storytellers in this curated list of must-read dark fiction.
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Splintered Icon
by Bill Napier
Hired to appraise a four-hundred-year-old journal, supposedly by the cabin boy aboard Sir Walter Raleigh's expedition, antiquarian bookseller Harry Blake soon finds that the enigmatic volume is much more, when his client is murdered.
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Three Days to Never
by Tim Powers
Albert Einstein's groundbreaking scientific discoveries made possible the creation of the most terrible weapon the world had ever known. But he made another discovery that he chose to reveal to no one—to keep from human hands a power that dwarfed the atomic bomb. When twelve-year-old Daphne Marrity takes a videotape labeled Pee-wee's Big Adventure from her recently deceased grandmother's house, neither she nor her college-professor father, Frank, realize what they now have in their possession. In an instant they are thrust into the center of a world-altering conspiracy, drawing the dangerous attentions of both the Israeli Secret Service and an ancient European cabal of occultists. Now father and daughter have three days to learn the rules of a terrifying magical chess game in order to escape a fate more profound than death—because the Marritys hold the key to the ultimate destruction of not only what's to come . . . but what already has been.
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Icefire
by Judith Reeves-Stevens
Once lovers, now enemies, Navy SEAL Captain Mitch Webber and oceanographer Cory Rey must join forces to stop a cabal of Chinese officials from devastating the Pacific Rim nations using nuclear weapons to create gigantic tidal waves. Reprint.
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Ancients
by David L. Golemon
Colonel Jack Collins and the Event Group faces their most dangerous challenge ever: to reclaim the lost power of the Ancients before it falls into the wrong hands and hell is set loose on Earth. Martin's Press.
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Altar of Eden
by James Rollins
A Novel. A shocking story of cruel genetic experiments done in the name of national security ... and, most disturbing of all, tied to a secret history of the Book of Genesis.
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Tell No One
by Harlan Coben
“Harlan Coben is the modern master of the hook-and-twist.”—Dan Brown For Dr. David Beck, the loss was shattering. And every day for the past eight years, he has relived the horror of what happened. The gleaming lake. The pale moonlight. The piercing screams. The night his wife was taken. The last night he saw her alive. Everyone tells him it’s time to move on, to forget the past once and for all. But for David Beck, there can be no closure. A message has appeared on his computer, a phrase only he and his dead wife know. Suddenly Beck is taunted with the impossible—that somewhere, somehow, his wife is alive . . . and he’s been warned to tell no one. Praise for Tell No One “A thriller of runaway tension . . . masterful suspense and explosive twists of fate.”—Iris Johansen “A compelling and original suspense thriller.”—Los Angeles Times “Nonstop action with plot twists galore.”—Phillip Margolin
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Bundori
by Laura Joh Rowland
In the second novel of the author's bestselling series set in medieval Japan, Edo, the favored of the ruling family, is decapitated--his head taken as a war trophy. Sano Ichiro, the shogun's Most Honorable Investigator of Events, Situations, and People, must find the culprit in a case that can bring him glory, or everlasting shame.
