Collection: Mystery, Thrillers, & Crime

'WOW! WOW! WOW! What a read!' NetGalley reviewer

'The blockbuster of the summer!' NetGalley reviewer

'THAT twist. I did not see it coming!' NetGalley reviewer

You're looking over your shoulder, thinking someone's watching.

You're checking the doors are locked, spooked by a noise.

You're running through the woods, convinced you're being followed.

You're being stalked. And they won't stop until you're theirs.

If you enjoy reading twisty psychological thrillers that leave your heart racing, then you'll love The Stalker from USA Today bestselling author, Sarah Alderson. Perfect for fans of Karin Slaughter and Harlan Coben.

Readers love The Stalker:

'Wow!! What an ending!... Suspense, intrigue, and lots of twists and turns!... Then BAM! I did not see that ending coming at all!!... Wow, what a crazy good book!' NetGalley reviewer, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

'What a book. Couldn't put it down, had me reading in into the night.' NetGalley reviewer, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

'Had me on the edge of my seat... I did not expect the twists and turns throughout this book at all!... The ending had my head spinning, I was so shocked and couldn't believe how clever this was.' NetGalley reviewer, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

'Gripping... I devoured in a couple of sittings! Nothing is quite as it seems... Brilliant!' NetGalley reviewer, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

'I loved this book. The mystery was amazing and I read this in one sitting!' NetGalley reviewer, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

'Are you ready for a pulse-pounding, edge of your seat thrill ride?... I was glued to pages from the very beginning, dying to see what would happen in the end and wow...was there a big twist!! I never would have guessed this one!' NetGalley reviewer, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

LAPD Detective Renée Ballard tracks a terrifying serial rapist whose trail has gone cold, with the help of the newest volunteer to the Open-Unsolved Unit: Patrol Officer Maddie Bosch, Harry's daughter.

The troubles of two desperate families--one white, one Mexican American--converge in the ruthless underworld of an Arkansas chicken processing plant in this new thriller from the award-winning author of DON'T KNOW TOUGH

Gabriela Menchaca and Edwin Saucedo are hardworking, undocumented employees at the Detmer Foods chicken plant in Springdale, Arkansas, just a stone's throw away from the trailer park where they've lived together for seven years. While dealing with personal tragedies of their own, the young couple endures the brutal, dehumanizing conditions at the plant in exchange for barebones pay.

When the plant manager, Luke Jackson, fires Edwin to set an example for the rest of the workers--and to show the higher-ups that he's ready for a major promotion--Edwin is determined to get revenge on Luke and his wife, Mimi, a new mother who stays at home with her six-month-old son. Edwin's impulsive action sets in motion a devastating chain of events that illuminates the deeply entrenched power dynamics between those who revel at the top and those who toil at the bottom.

From the nationally bestselling and Edgar Award-winning author of Don't Know Tough and Ozark Dogs comes another edge-of-your-seat noir thriller that exposes the dark, bloody heart of life on the margins in the American South and the bleak underside of a bygone American Dream.

In this gripping psychological thriller, a new family moves onto Hogarth Street and shows their neighbors that sometimes the most perfect families are hiding the most terrible secrets.

Everybody wants to live on Hogarth Street, the pretty, tree-lined avenue with its white houses. The new family, the Wests, are a perfect fit. Katherine and John seem so in love and their gorgeous five-year-old twins race screeching around their beautiful emerald-green lawn.

But today, they won't invite you in when you knock, they brush away offers to babysit and the children haven't been seen.

Every family has secrets, and on the hottest day of the year, the truth is about to come out. As a tragedy unfolds behind closed doors, the dawn chorus is split by the wail of sirens. And one by one the families who tried so hard to welcome the Wests begin to realize: Hogarth Street will never be the same again.

National Treasure meets A Discovery of Witches . . .

Introducing the Secret Society mystery series, and kick-ass red-headed heroine Sidney, a Black historian poised on the brink of discovering her true past . . . and her hidden witchy powers!

Thirty-year-old Black woman Sidney Taylor is a talented early American history professor, working in fast-paced Washington DC, with her eyes on promotion. She's also currently persona non grata. Who knew that making an inconvenient historical discovery would see her stuck at her desk, shuffling paper?

So when she receives an anonymous and very cryptic invitation to visit historic small-town Robbinsville, North Carolina and hunt for a missing archaeological treasure - with a million-dollar pay out at stake - it's one she can't refuse. Besides, her beloved grandmother lives in Robbinsville, and it's been too long since she's paid her a visit.

Soon, Sidney's on an exciting treasure hunt, following two-hundred-year-old clues that lead her ever closer to the artefact she's searching for. But what is the artefact? And why is Sidney starting to feel like she's at the heart of a terrifying conspiracy she doesn't understand?

The answer blows Sidney's world apart, plunging her into a dark, glittering world of secret societies, ancient bloodlines, witches and magic, linked to an ages-old conspiracy that could destroy the very principles upon which America was founded.

In the Alaskan wilderness...

She had nowhere to hide!

When big-city Maddie Pierce inherits half of a remote Alaskan fishing lodge from the grandfather she never knew, there's one catch: she must manage it for one year with Dade Anson--who clearly thinks she'll soon turn tail. Maddie discovers Dade might not be the only one who wants her gone when she starts receiving threatening text messages from an anonymous source. But he might be her only protector from a danger that lurks ever closer...

From Harlequin Romantic Suspense: Danger. Passion. Drama.

There's a killer on board a luxury yacht, and two former friends must team up to figure out which of their privileged classmates has a penchant for murder before they become victims themselves. Don't miss out on this gripping thriller from New York Times bestselling authors Kristin Cast and Pintip Dunn!

Ex-best friends Naya Morgan and Yana Bunpraserit have always felt like outsiders in their small Oklahoma town. But this year, everything changes when they're inducted into an exclusive society of Yatesville High's top recent graduates. Unimaginable opportunities await them, starting with a celebratory yacht trip to Bermuda. Despite the likely onslaught of microaggressions and backhanded compliments from their peers--in addition to their own rocky past--Yana and Naya are ready for an epic voyage.
Then one of their classmates is brutally murdered, leaving them stuck at sea with a killer. Yana and Naya may have avoided each other for years, yet as the body count rises, rekindling their friendship might be the only way they'll both survive.

The Fairy Tale Cupcakes crew helps two professional football players in knead when the athletes are suspected of murder and their dream of opening a bakery is crushed, from New York Times bestselling author Jenn McKinlay.

Professional football players Keogh Graham and Tyler Matthews want to open a Fairy Tale Cupcakes franchise. They're spending the off-season in Scottsdale working in Mel's bakery, learning about the business and how to bake show-stopping cupcakes. The popular athletes bring a boom of customers to the store as football fans flock to see the friends mixing batter and piping icing.

Everyone's excited the athletes are pursuing their dream of owning a bakery--except for those who fear the players will ditch football for fondant and retire early from professional sports. The angry naysayers include their team owner and Keogh's sports agent, along with some very vocal fans.

When the owner of their team, the Arizona Scorpions, is found dead on the floor of their new bakery following an argument with Keogh, the pros become prime suspects. As the investigation heats up, Mel and the rest of the cupcake bakery crew must step up and prove their franchise owners are innocent before it's game-over for the new bakers.

FBI agents Dillon Savich and Lacey Sherlock are faced with the case of an abducted child in this "absorbing"(Publishers Weekly) FBI Thriller.

Escaping unwanted media attention after a notorious incident, Ramsey Hunt retreats into the solitude of a cabin high in the Colorado Rockies. But his isolation is shattered when he rescues a small girl in the forest and strangers invade his private meadow with intent to kill.

Molly Santera, the little girl's mother, catches up with Ramsey and her daughter, mistaking him for the kidnapper. When she discovers that he instead saved Emma, there's little time for thanks. With the strangers in pursuit, the trio flee to Chicago for sanctuary.

With an unexpected assist from FBI agents Dillon Savich and Lacey Sherlock, Molly and Ramsey begin to unravel the clues, and in the process they make an astonishing discovery as to the true nature of the target.

The Aldens can't wait to go sightseeing in New York City, but they don't have to look beyond their hotel to find a mystery. Messy rooms and missing phones are just the start of the problem. When someone dyes the pool purple, the Boxcar Children have to find the culprit before the pranks go too far.

New York Times bestselling author Dan Wells continues his popular John Wayne Cleaver series in Over Your Dead Body.

John and Brooke are on their own, hitchhiking from town to town as they hunt the last of the Withered through the midwest--but the Withered are hunting them back, and the FBI is close behind. With each new town, each new truck stop, each new highway, they get closer to a vicious killer who defies every principle of profiling and prediction John knows how to use, and meanwhile Brooke's fractured psyche teeters on the edge of oblivion, overwhelmed by the hundreds of thousands of dead personalities sharing her mind. She flips in and out of lucidity, manifesting new names and thoughts and memories every day, until at last the one personality pops up that John never expected and has no idea how to deal with. The last of Nobody's victims, trapped forever in the body of his last remaining friend.

**Pre-order Profile K now - the new thriller from Helen Fields, publishing April 2024**

'Deliciously dark and utterly compelling - I couldn't put it down.' - CLARE MACKINTOSH

They're locked up for your safety. Now, you're locked in with them.

Dr Connie Woolwine has five days to catch a killer.

On a locked ward in the world's highest-security prison hospital, a scream shatters the night. The next morning, a nurse's body is found and her daughter has been taken. A ransom must be paid, and the clock is ticking.

Forensic profiler Dr Connie Woolwine is renowned for her ability to get inside the mind of a murderer. Now, she must go deep undercover among the most deranged and dangerous men on earth and use her unique skills to find the baby - before it's too late.

But as the walls close in around her, can Connie get the killer before The Institution gets her?

A claustrophobic, haunting crime thriller that will keep you up at night, perfect for those who couldn't put down The Sanatorium and Shutter Island.

"Brilliant! The Institution will grab you from the first page and not let go until the final paragraph." Jeffery Deaver

"Quite simply, wow! One of the best high concept thrillers I've read in forever." Lisa Gardner

"A wonderful, compulsively gripping rollercoaster of a read." Liz Nugent

GIULIO

I've renounced my birthright as the heir to an Italian mafia empire, but no one leaves the brotherhood without paying a price. To evade my enemies, I stay on the move.

Now a new man is stalking me, watching me. But there's something else in his eyes, a hunger that sets me on fire. He's rough and dangerous, all the things I crave in the dark.

Except he's been hired to kill me.

I shouldn't want him. But I do.

They say to keep your enemies close. So that's exactly what I'm planning. Beware the hunted who becomes the hunter...

ALESSIO

I live in the shadows, the assassin they never see coming. I'm the best, but Giulio is my weakness. I need him in ways I can't begin to explain.

He might run, but I'll follow him to the ends of the earth. And if others try to hurt him, I'll protect him with my last breath.

Except I'm hiding a secret, one that will cost me everything. I should walk away, but I can't.

Even if it's my undoing.

Mafia Target is a stand-alone male/male romance, complete with two hot and dangerous Italian men. HEA and no cliffhangers guaranteed!

While investigating police brutality and corruption in 1970s Detroit, journalist Elena Abbott uncovers supernatural forces being controlled by a secret society of the city's elite.

In the uncertain social and political climate of 1972 Detroit, hard-nosed, chain-smoking tabloid reporter Elena Abbott investigates a series of grisly crimes that the police have ignored. Crimes she knows to be the work of dark occult forces. Forces that took her husband from her. Forces she has sworn to destroy.

Hugo Award-nominated novelist Saladin Ahmed (Star Wars: Canto Bight, Black Bolt) and artist Sami Kivelä (Beautiful Canvas) present one woman's search for the truth that destroyed her family amidst an exploration of the systemic societal constructs that haunt our country to this day.

A face from the past...A nightmare for the future...Threatened with closure by cutbacks, a government agency takes extreme measures to ensure its future survival. One man continues to stand in their way, Danny Pearson is proving to be a very hard man to kill...

Sent undercover after a consignment of prototype rifles are stolen from the MOD, Danny Pearson infiltrates a team of ex-special forces led by a former friend, Commander Rex Benton.

Things go from bad to worse when Danny's cover is blown, leaving him running for his life. Unsure of who he can trust, Danny fights his way across London leaving a bloody trail in his wake. Will he live long enough to find out who wants him dead?

Alive Until I Die is the fourth in the Danny Pearson Thriller Series, if you like evil villains and breath-taking action, then you'll love Stephen Taylor's fourth chilling action thriller.

Readers are saying
★★★★★ "Jack Reacher, Mitch Rapp, Jason Bourne and now Danny Pearson."

★★★★★ "This book is fabulous, like all the rest in the series. Even the short stories are fabulouse"

Although some characters appear in several books, the series can be read in any order.

The Danny Pearson Thriller Series

Vodka Over London Ice

Execution of Faith

Who Holds The Power

Alive Until I Die

Sport of Kings

Blood Runs Deep

Command To Kill

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Wellness, motherhood, and technology converge in a near future California, as three women's seemingly innocuous decisions have further-reaching consequences than any of them could imagine in this timely, clever, and white-knuckled thriller.

In 2060, the WellPod is the latest launch from the largest tech company the world has ever seen--a fleet of floating personal paradises scattered throughout the Pacific Ocean, focused entirely on health, solitude, and relaxation. Created by an enigmatic founder who will stop at nothing to ensure her company's success, it is the long-awaited pinnacle of wellness technology. For newly pregnant Maggie, the six-week program is the perfect chance to get away...especially since the baby isn't her partner's.

Noa Behar isn't a perfect fiancée. She's too distracted, too focused on her work in helping program the WellPod to give Maggie the attention she deserves. But when she discovers something rotten beneath WellPod's shiny exterior--a history of faulty tech and dangerous cover-ups--she knows one thing: she'll do whatever it takes to keep Maggie safe.

The problem? The malfunctioning WellPods are already at sea. And there's a storm coming...