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The Program Gregg Hurwitz The series that started it all!In this powerful follow-up to his action-packed thriller The Kill Clause, Gregg Hurwitz, the new maestro of pulse-pounding suspense, ratchets up the excitement with another sensational page-turner featuring Tim Rackley, a driven lawman motivated by honor, morality, and a deep sense of justice.Called back into the fold of the U.S. Marshals Service, Tim is tasked with… Shares Thriller

A Drink Before the War

A Drink Before the War Dennis Lehane The mesmerizing, darklyoriginal novel that heralded the arrival of now New York Timesbestselling author Dennis Lehane, the master of the new noir—and introducedPatrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro, his smart and tough private investigatorsweaned on the blue-collar streets of Dorchester.A cabal of powerful Bostonpoliticians is willing to pay Kenzie and Gennaro big money for a seeminglysmall job: to… Shares Thriller

The Sound of Regret

The Sound of Regret Trey Gowdy & Christopher Greyson Shares Thriller with this book.

The Disloyal Coroner

The Disloyal Coroner Paul Austin Ardoin A dead deputy. A reopened murder case. And a coroner caught in the crossfire.When a young sheriff's deputy is killed in a late-night hit-and-run, Coroner Fenway Stevenson soon discovers it was no accident. The deputy had only been on the job for a few days—but had he started unraveling secrets within his department?Then a second case is thrown back on Fenway's desk: a murder that was supposed to… Shares Thriller

Ceremony Robert B. Parker The house looked right. And the neighborhood was perfect. And everything else was wrong. So Spenser took the parents' money and went after a runaway girl. Unfortunately, April Kyle had already traveled two lifetimes from her suburban home. Now she was caught up in a web of pinps, criminals, and exploiters—the kinf of people who won't listen to anything but money, or a gun. . . . Praise for… Shares Thriller

The Color of Bone

The Color of Bone V. J. Chambers Shares Thriller with this book.

A Lighthouse for the Lonely Heart

A Lighthouse for the Lonely Heart Scott William Carter They find his body at the bottom of Heceta Head Lighthouse—Ed Boone, a longtime volunteer who commits suicide rather than see his grim diagnosis to its bitter end. The strangeness of the old man's death makes the local news, but Garrison Gage thinks little of it until the famous Nora West sneaks into town with an unsettling letter in hand. Professing he wants to go to his grave with a clear… Shares Thriller

EASY TO KILL (Jack Reacher's Special Investigators)

EASY TO KILL (Jack Reacher's Special Investigators) Dan Ames Shares Thriller with this book.

Five Card Murder

Five Card Murder Bruce Hammack · 2021 · 246p · ≈ 8h · Moderate An inheritance worth millions. A killer with a list… and Smiley's on it.Blind PI Steve Smiley unexpectedly becomes the executor of a large Texas estate after the rancher dies under suspicious circumstances. His task becomes even more complex when the ranch's foreman is found murdered.As Smiley delves into his executor duties, he realizes there is no shortage of suspects in the dysfunctional… Shares Thriller

Her Final Confession

Her Final Confession Lisa Regan · 2018 · 290p · ≈ 9h · Moderate Watching her friend dragged away in handcuffs, Josie couldn't believe for one second that Gretchen had killed that poor boy. Confession or not, someone else was involved. She would find out who… When the body of a young student is found on the driveway of a local Denton home, a photograph pinned to his collar, Detective Josie Quinn is first on the scene. The house belongs… Shares Thriller

Hard Money Diane Capri The thrilling new unputdownable Michael Flint novel from Bestselling Author Diane Capri! Death stalks the Lyman family. No heir has lived to reach the age of thirty. Two years ago, the last heir vanished. After an underwater explosion, his body was never found. Accident, curse, or revenge? Spencer Lyman managed to break free from his criminal underworld and build a legitimate empire. But… Shares Thriller

Red Dragon Thomas Harris THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERFeed your fears with the terrifying classic that introduced cannibalistic serial killer Hannibal Lecter.FBI agent Will Graham once risked his sanity to capture Hannibal Lecter, an ingenious killer like no other. Now, he’s following the bloodstained pattern of the Tooth Fairy, a madman who’s already wiped out two families. To find him, Graham has to understand him. To… Shares Thriller

Closing Time Michael Ledwidge · 2025 · 368p · ≈ 12h · Moderate The next pulse-pounding Michael Gannon thriller by the #1 New York Times bestselling coauthor of James Patterson's Michael Bennett series It's springtime in Key West, and Michael Gannon is busy supporting his son’s dreams of making it in minor league baseball. But a late-night encounter with a seemingly harmless Australian at a dive bar turns deadly when Gannon unwittingly becomes the prime… Shares Thriller

Magic City Murder

Magic City Murder Bruce Hammack A missing husband. A murdered journalist. A city where everyone has something to hide.Blind former Houston homicide detective Steve Smiley and his partner Heather McBlythe take on what looks like a straightforward case: track down a missing husband so his estranged wife can finally file for divorce.The simple case turns deadly when the body of the woman the husband has been living with is found… Shares Thriller

The Turquoise Lament

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The Kill Clause

The Kill Clause Gregg Hurwitz The series that started it all!A riveting and explosive novel, The Kill Clause is a brilliantly inventive tour de force by a powerful new master of suspense.Tim Rackley is a dangerous man of honor, a deputy U.S. marshal who is very good at his job—until everything he believes in is shattered by the brutal murder of his own daughter.Betrayed by an imperfect judicial system, Rackley watches… Shares Thriller

Dead Men Walking

Dead Men Walking Dan Ames Shares Thriller with this book.

One Child Alive

One Child Alive Ellery Kane · 2021 One, two, three. She counts the bodies dragged from the burning beach house, smoke rising from their cotton pajamas, and remembers a fourth; red hair, freckles, clinging to his mother’s legs, begging to watch the fireworks a while longer. “Where’s the little boy?” she whispers…   In the ashes of the Fox family’s seafront vacation home, Olivia Rockwell can barely hold back her tears as she… Shares Thriller

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