Jagged Coast by Larry Tyler
Frank Rupert is a state bureaucrat from Maine, on a routine licensing visit in Bar Harbor where he encounters ersatz psychotherapist Adeline Carr, the recently deceased Moose Man, and a very tall bridge.
Jennifer's Murderer by William G. Tedford
A hooker is murdered and a child witness is pursued. The mob sends a hit man to protect a corrupt politician. Both the killer and the child are to die, but the child is a young girl, and the hit man lost a sister to a rapist and murderer. So John Cantrell protects the child, and falls in love with her. When a new and deadlier killer is sent to kill John and his new charge, a mystery unfolds, and then an ever intensifying mystery that escalates out of control. Someone is pulling strings in the background of human affairs. That someone may not be human. Added 10/24/09.
Just the Hitman by Alex Napoli
A journalist arrives at the scene of the aftermath of a car bomb explosion. Later he receives a diary from the same man who reported the explosion before it went off, who now claims he was the one who shot Kennedy. The journalist tries to unfold the truth about this killer gone mad or this mad man turned killer.
Kerberos by Ron Wilk
Mick Carrera, a young trumpet playing graduate of the Julliard School of Music, cannot account for several years of his life; he must fill in those blanks. In a desperate search for answers, he unwittingly triggers a dormant and devastating personality flaw that draws him into a San Francisco based subculture, filled with sadomasochism, murder and intrigue. This riveting psychodrama fiction will pull you willingly into its convoluted web. You won’t want to miss the surprise ending.
King's Ransom by Andy Reeley
A sleeper terrorist in rural Gloucester awakens with a message from the caves of Afghanistan. He is given a plan to kill the Royal Family and members of Parliament, in a plot to rival the attack on New York in its impact. Their tool of choice is so obvious a sight on the streets of London that it is almost invisible to most people. If he succeeds, it will be the greatest terrorist atrocity in history and will almost certainly bring Britain to her knees and remove her as a credible player on the world stage.
A Knight at Sea by R.J. Raskin
On the 12th of April, 1955 Raymond Chandler boarded the Mauritania in New York, setting sail for the England of his youth. Four years later he died, a lonely alcoholic, in a small town on the South Californian coast. A Knight at Sea is a fictional account of this story. Woven like a film noir, this is a Chandleresque tale of bizarre friendship coupled with intrigue and murder.
KOBA - A San Francisco Cafe Thriller about May 68 by Bob Biderman
Offered by Black Apollo Press. Who is Koba? For Morris Kaplan, Koba was a fellow student protester. Left-wing attorney, Rocky Calhoon believes he was a freedom fighter killed in Bolivia. Others think he is still alive and running drugs from South America. A taut, witty atmospheric thriller set in 80's San Francisco and peopled with survivors of May '68.
Light Play by N.D. Hansen-Hill
Offered by Fictionwise (Barnes and Noble). Requires free registration and installation of free eReader software. Can be read on PC as well as electronic reader. Rick Lockmann had never met Caroline Denaro in the flesh. It was meeting her out of it that nearly killed him. Her touch was as potent as her plea for help. Now, it's not only Denaro who needs help. She's infected Rick with more than a feeling of horror - she's given him a potentially-lethal dose of virus. A virus that's unknown to medical science, but that Rick soon begins to recognise. After all, he's seen it often enough in his lab--where he identifies plant diseases. Rick learns that survival isn't enough when a virus is bio-engineered--when it's the accidental by-product of experiments blending plant and animal genes. Survival is only the beginning. He has yet to salvage a life from the terrifying side-effects of the infection. Then he must decide how far he's willing to go to stop the spread of the disease, and whether he's still human enough to make sacrifices for his race.
The List by J.A. Konrath
Thirty years ago, a top secret government experiment resulted in the birth of ten babies--clones of history's greatest and most infamous figures. Blissfully unaware of their real identities, a bizarre murder sends them on a path of shocking self-discovery and a life-or-death quest for the truth. Thomas Jefferson - Chicago Cop; Joan of Arc - Hollywood Producer; Attila the Hun - Career Criminal; William Shakespeare - Underpaid Ad Jingle Writer; Vlad the Impaler - Serial Killer; Abraham Lincoln - Used Car Salesman; Albert Einstein - Antique Dealer; Jack the Ripper - Hit Man. It's going to be one hell of a fight.
Lynda's Lie by P.S. Henderson
Why, after watching a serial killer slaughter twenty people, would a young girl hide his identity and allow herself to take the blame instead? The young girl? Lynda Carmichael, a sixteen year old American stranded in Edinburgh, Scotland, who innocently accepts a ride from a killer. The serial killer? Edan Grahame, a handsome Englishman who is -in his own words -“ a shadow walking the back streets of Edinburgh as softly as a whisper and as lethal as the blade, leaving behind me the unheard screams of my victims, that and of course… an unrecognizable corpse.” Twenty-four hours later and Lynda is discovered sitting on a roof top covered in blood, holding onto a dead baby. Why protect the man responsible? Was she brainwashed? Or did she, somehow, fall in love with a monster?
Mandylion by Thomas Cater
A Korean industrialist, intent upon blackmailing a South American cardinal, hires an exiled American drug czar to steal the Shroud of Turin, the most revered religious relic in the Western world. The Korean, Li Ho Tae, wants mineral rights the cardinal has amassed that are essential to the production of space age and metallurgical products, a source of great wealth to his family for generations. The Vatican, fearing a conspiracy against the Church, hires Detective Sergeant Tom Poole to assist in the recovery of the shroud. Set primarily in Italy and Lebanon during the early 1980s, the investigation takes Poole to Beirut where he falls into the hands of mercenaries. With the help of a young concubine Li Ho Tae has mutilated, Poole escapes, makes his way back to Beirut where he steals a Syrian MiG-23 in time to return to Rome. With the assistance of the ‘Sayaret Metkal,’ a group of Israeli commandos, Poole prevents the raid on the Vatican and aborts an attempt on the pope’s life.
The Man Who Can't Die by Jon Frankel
The Man Who Can’t Die is a literary thriller set in 2180. When Dr. Ruth Bryson invents Paregane, a Euphoric drug that cures ennui and depression, Monozone Inc. is thrilled. The world is suffering from epidemic despair
and apathy, and Paregane appears to be a panacea. There is only one problem. It kills 10% of everyone who takes it. Monozone decides to market it anyway, despite Bryson’s objections, and puts her former lover Owen Bradlee in charge. Bryson knows she must either fix Paregane or stop it, but if she is caught she will certainly be killed. Felix and Veronica Clay are typical pod-dwelling office workers, whose
lives seem like an endless extenuation of meaningless circumstance. When Veronica plunges into psychosis and tries to kill herself, her doctor prescribes the new drug Paregane, and everything changes. Soon Felix is also taking the drug, and they spend their nights roaming Paradise and conversing with Angels. One day he returns from work to discover her dead, of no apparent cause. In short order he loses his job and apartment and soon finds himself living in the wilds of upper Manhattan, addicted to
Paregane, unable to find Veronica in Paradise, unable to die. Meanwhile, Dr. Bryson searches for a test subject. When she discovers Felix they are set on a course that will lead them deep into the Iroquois territories of upstate New York and a bloody struggle for survival.
Mayan Strawberries by Bob Biderman
A young Mixtec Indian from Guatemala follows the trail of tears through Mexico to a migrant camp in the strawberry fields of California. There, instead of refuge, he finds himself accused of murder. Is he the killer or a patsy set up to distract attention from a right wing cult? Mayan Strawberries combines a fascinating anthropological study with the deadly politics of Central America in an exciting thriller by the author of Paper Cuts, Judgment of Death and Genesis Files. Last in the series.
Memoirs of a Murder by Daniel Bollag
A love triangle between twin brothers leads to murder. Added 11/7/09.
Mind + Body by Aaron Dunlap
Set in a world where high school meets high treason, Mind + Body sees protagonist and narrator Chris Baker under fire from rogue elements inside the Marine Corps, the FBI, and a handful of paid killers as he attempts to uncover a conspiracy that seems to envelop his entire life. Chris leads an entirely normal life until his father, a researcher for the Marine Corps working in Quantico, mysteriously dies and leaves Chris with a suspiciously large life insurance payout. Then, when Chris gets in a fight at school and puts his attackers into the hospital, his principal tries to cover it up. Trying to discover the answers to the compounding mysteries in his life, Chris uses social engineering, high tech espionage, and physical intimidation he never thought he'd be capable of.
Missing King James Bibles Mystery by Jennifer L. Armstrong
When the Bibles go missing, Luke decides to investigate. But is it to save the Bibles and return them to the church, or does Luke have another motive?
Mississippi by Michael Reilly
". . . Remember us. And when you are ready, turn the page and I will begin." With these words, Julianna Jameson abandons her husband, Scott and their eight years together. In her wake, the threads of his life quickly unravel. Secrets begin to reveal themselves and questions begin to mount. Scott quickly realises that there is something more sinister compelling her actions now; a terrible truth that has hung over her for nearly a quarter century. Fear, guilt, hope and love will become the engines that drive him in pursuit of her and answers to the two questions above all others: Why did their relationship falter? And is it, and he, really beyond the reach of her? But events are not on his side. Even as Scott chases Julianna, others are chasing him, pursuing their own path through her history. Her meandering mystery, sprung 25 years ago from the death of a single innocent, has set them all on a head-on collison with a human catastrophe waiting at journey's end. Scott and Julianna's very lives will hang in the balance and their every future will rest in the hands of a potent and pitiless force that no one expected to encounter. When all storms have passed, what will the Mississippi's witness tell?
Mr. Abernathy by Tony Delgrosso
In 1944, Willy Horvitz was a brilliant young physicist. Fervently anti-Nazi, he was coerced into leading a research and development effort to design and build a revolutionary new aircraft to turn the tide of the war. Adopted as an orphaned American boy by a wealthy German industrialist, Willy was haunted throughout his life by the tragic loss of his mother. The kind of loss he hoped wouldn’t be repeated if the personal secrets of those he held dear were revealed. In 2008, Parker Dundee is a brilliant but unhappy young professor. While sifting through the possessions of his recently deceased father, Parker makes an unsettling discovery: his father was far more than the mid-level State Department bureaucrat he always portrayed himself to be. The deeper Parker gets into the labyrinth of his father’s secret life, the more attention he draws from sinister quarters. Tying them together is the elusive “Mr. Abernathy”, a man known only through enigmatic references in scattered documents and journals spanning more than 100 years. His identity and secrets are of intense interest to the CIA, Russian thugs, and a mysterious band of men known only as The Joneses. Determined to know who his father really was, Parker realizes he must first try to solve a larger and far more dangerous puzzle: who was Mr. Abernathy?
Murder at Old Town: A Wally Dopple Mystery by Richard Radtke
Veteran Milwaukee police detective Wally Dopple takes on the case of an important local politician murdered in the back room of Old Town Serbian Gourmet House. With partner Krystal Findley and canine backup Manfred, he pursues wildly disparate leads in search of the killer. In the course of his investigation he probes the heart of a city that, like himself, is seeking a rebirth.
Murder at Summerset by E.A. St. Amant
The author takes you into the anguished heart of a utopian community on Europa and the developing chaos of a devolving America. The chances of murder, conspiracy, and outright destruction of Summerset seem as impossible as the President of the United States ever being kidnapped back on earth. Like The Moon is a Harsh Mistress and The Dispossessed, Murder at Summerset is a tale of two worlds; a prophetic, spell-binding story of how two extraordinary heroes – Sam Windsor of Europa and Ryan Silone of Earth – courageously struggle for human rights, freedom and risk everything to fight for their ideals. Added 10/20/09.
The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie
Couldn't resist adding this Golden Oldie. Wikipedia: "It is Christie's first published novel, and introduces Hercule Poirot, Chief Inspector Japp and Captain Hastings. The story is told in first person by Hastings, and features many of the elements that, thanks to Christie, have become icons of the Golden Age of Detective Fiction. It is set in a large, isolated country manor; there are a half-dozen suspects, most of whom are hiding facts about themselves; the book includes maps of the house, the murder scene, and a drawing of a fragment of a will; and there are a number of red herrings and surprise plot twists."
Native Rites by David Hewson
David Hewson's fourth novel is a mystery horror story set in rural Kent. It was first published by HarperCollins in 1999.
New York By Night: A Hit Man's Diary by Kipp McLeod
He’s been one of the best and busiest hit men for over a decade throughout New York’s world of organized crime, using his status as a business owner for the perfect cover. Now, with a long record of success in a business that doesn't forgive error, Joe Stark has been given the one assignment he might not be able to walk away from, one that threatens to bring everything he’s worked for crumbling down around him.
Ninth Day of Creation by Leonard Crane
If you liked the pervasive science of Jurassic Park and the undercurrent of global threat in The Hunt for Red October, you should also enjoy this book. An unanticipated development in germ warfare technology, brought about by the solution to the protein-folding problem, becomes a fast-burning fuse in this intricately-plotted tale of scientific and military adventure. "A gripping tale with all the complexity of a Tom Clancy novel." Publishers Weekly.
North of Sunset by Henry Baum
Movie star Michael Sennet finds something he enjoys even more than making movies: killing people. "Successful both as a suspenseful, engrossing thriller and as something more: a savage satire on aspects of modern American Life in the vein of De Lillo's White Noise.…Overall, North of Sunset is an outstanding feat of storytelling that will gain a wide readership.” Compulsive Reader. Winner of the Hollywood Book Festival Grand Prize.
Nothing Makes Me Happier by James Hamilton
In a dilapidated hotel in the middle of a hellish desert, a man with no memory tries to unravel his own reality. Seemingly caught up in a conspiratorial feud between forces he doesn't understand, he must piece together the shattered relics of his memories, and come to terms with the horrors of his past in order to face the demons of his future. Nothing Makes Me Happier is part metaphysical mystery, part surrealist noir and part black comedy about love, chaos and the number eight.
Nurse Becky Gets Shot by Gary Baker
Roger Peerson is a savant with extraordinary powers of mathematical calculation. But he pays a price for his talent. Under stress his mind fractures into alternative personalities, sometimes even wiping out or changing his memories. As the story unfolds it becomes clear that something too terrible for his mind to let surface has happened. In this weakened state, he is recruited by a criminal organisation determined to exploit his gifts for their own nefarious ends. After nearly dying in exacting his revenge on the criminals, Roger succeeds in securing the aid of a young nurse and together they fight for their lives against almost overwhelming odds.
Of the Night by Cliff Burns
Of the Night is a thriller set in the same universe as So Dark the Night, but taking place two years later, with a different cast of characters. A series of events lead to a breach in the continuum, allowing fearsome creatures to break through and terrorize the citizens of Ilium. Police detective Gus Novak soon realizes that the mutilated bodies popping up all over the city are not the handiwork of your garden variety psychopath and he enlists the aid of fellow denizens of the night in order to thwart a cruel and inhuman foe.
Origin by J.A. Konrath
To download, requires free registration on Obooko. 1906 - Something is discovered by workers digging the Panama Canal. Something dormant. Sinister. Very much alive. 2006 - Project Samhain. A secret underground government installation begun 100 years ago in New Mexico. The best minds in the world have been recruited to study the most amazing discovery in the history of mankind. But the century of peaceful research is about to end. Because it just woke up. Hell is about to break loose... for real. In reality, Satan is not a handsome gentleman as portrayed by a Hollywood leading man. Viewing him through the Plexiglas, he's a frightening beast, massively muscled, with hoofs the size of washtubs and the serrated teeth of a carnivore. The demon can be pleasant, even chatty, and delights in showing off his power of resurrecting the dead sheep he dines upon. To some of the staff studying him at the secret government compound, he's even likable. That is, until he breaks out…
Paper Cuts by Bob Biderman
Investigative journalist Joseph Radkin is sent to Oregon to look into a bitter dispute between the logging industry and environmentalists. When a famed ecologist is killed, coupled with the disappearance of a lumber boss' daughter, Radkin finds himself caught up in a dangerous story that goes far beyond clear-cutting the ancient redwoods.
Pass the Parcel by Philip Turner
When Nicki and Jeff Jenner arrived at their country retreat with Guy Duggleby, armed men were waiting for them. They deduced that their mutual friend Toby Ryun had been using Jeff's name at the gambling tables again - his usual ploy for changing his luck.Guy recruited Bob Kane to look into the matter. The two friends soon found themselves caught up in a scramble to retrieve a handful of forged US dollars before premature disclosure ruined a scheme to unload $2 million in forged notes across Europe. The hunt for Toby took Guy and Bob to the South of France and a sudden death in their hotel room. They found themselves involved in a private battle between the French police and a US Treasury Department agent as well as an abduction.
Plastic Gods by William Manchee
With consumer debt nearing two trillion dollars and seventy million Americans struggling to pay their bills each month, attorney Matt Coleman finds fertile ground for his new Consumer Relief Centers of Texas. As thousands flock into his office to file bankruptcy, Matt's success begins to take its toll on Houston's MidSouth Bank run by a very powerful and ruthless banker, Franklin P. Hill. At first Hill is content to play some dirty tricks on Matt in an effort to discredit him. But when that doesn't work, Matt is warned one last time to back off his vicious attacks on the lucrative credit card industry or suffer dearly. A timely novel of love, greed, and America's addiction to plastic.
Private Lies by Amy Eastlake
Offered by BooksForABuck. Making it a as a private investigator isn't easy--especially when your parents have been on the run since they were involved in the Weather Underground during the 1960s. But Heather Webb thinks she finally has her life under control--until Jack Eastland walks into her office with a proposition she really doesn't want to accept. CIA Agent Jack Eastland has tracked down clues to a major terrorist incident and the signs point straight toward pretty P.I. Heather Webb. She's definitely keeping secrets and she has the computer skills to unravel his agency-supplied cover in record time. But Jack didn't become a top agent by taking things for granted and his instincts tell him that Heather isn't at the bottom of the problem. Flipping her, using her to help him track down the threat to the U.S. becomes his goal.When Heather's parents vanish, Jack sees an opportunity for leverage--but it doesn't take long before the threat is coming back at him and both Jack and Heather are running for their lives.
A Question of Theories by George Hall
A political/cult thriller with a weird love triangle. Garry Halliday is the unwitting victim of a strange covert operation and the object of affection of two girls, one of whom is poison to him. Will he extricate himself from the mess and find out which of the two women is the right one?
A Quilted Heart by R.M. Vaughn
Offered by Insomniac Press. When Marsh Cole's body is found in Samson Brindle's pool, who's to blame? Was it suicide, or the vengeful ghost of Sylvian Oulette? From acclaimed poet and playwright R.M. Vaughan comes the story of three neurotic gay men who fall in love and proceed to torture each other to death -- a twisted fable about love, jealousy, murder, and talking back from the grave.
Ravaging Myths by Frederick Marshall Brown
A small town doctor in the Shawnee Nation is severely injured and briefly dies in an international highway pileup. When the doctor is brought back, he recovers and returns to work but has residual seizures and paranoia. The doctor and his immigrant town are then increasingly plagued by the presence of a menacing dark figure, and the figure appears to contribute to a number of deaths in the town.
Red Death by Ron Wilk
An underpublicized terrorist organization, the Armed Islamic Front, is on the move but Texan, Weylin McCain, isn’t their only target nor is this the first time that their paths have crossed. He had made their death list following a prior encounter and the fortuitous killing of their spiritual leader. There is no question that revenge is on their minds but find out what they are really after when you visit the Red Death download page where the entire story is available in pdf format. (Hover mouse over Thriller/Red Death, to the left, then click on Download).
Red Over Black by Emmy Jackson
Lexi Crane has just suffered through the loss of her soulmate. Her world shattered, she finds herself at the center of a plot to keep her a prisoner inside her own mind. What the schemers and assassins don't know is that Lexi's formidable madness has plans of its own.
Redemption by Dawn Shannon
It's been fifteen years since Lexie lost her son to a tragic accident, and everyone knew about it. She believes a new name and a new town can change things. After a boy's senseless murder, Lexie realizes nothing's changed. Her past is alive and well, along with a man who should be dead. Putting her life at risk, Lexie hunts for the killer. She couldn't save her own child, perhaps she can save another.
Refuge by Richard Herley
It is twelve years on from a global plague. John Suter believes himself the sole survivor. He has gradually come to terms with his fate and has settled into a steady and self-reliant daily routine. One morning he finds a mutilated body in the river near his house. In his terror, Suter knows he has no choice but to investigate. What he discovers upstream stretches his endurance to its limits and forces him to reassess not only his own humanity, but also his place within the human family he had once believed extinct.
Resurgence by Nick Warren
Detective Inspector Alan Wright of Special Branch is widowed after a suicide bomber decimates his wedding. On his return to work, Alan is assigned to the investigation. He starts to piece together seemingly unrelated events and his thirst for imformation becomes obsessive. Travelling to Switzerland to follow up evidence, he is faced with a seemingly impossible task until he is approached by a young man with shocking secrets. As events unfold in Switzerland, terror strikes in the UK. The perpetrators want Switzerland's far-right politicians to rule Europe and force a massive change in policy on asylum seekers and immigration. The authorities are forced to make the right decisions to combat the threat. Desperate, Alan Wright seeks help, but who can he really trust when he discovers a conspiracy so monstrous who could believe him?
Resurrection (novel) by Sara Reinke
In 2007, I took the novella,Resurrection and decided to
rework it into a novel-length manuscript. This meant adding on about 20,000 words or so. Easy enough, or so I thought. What was supposed to be mostly minor revisions, some additions here and there, turned out to be a major overhaul -- in the end, nothing short of an almost
complete rewrite. Now for the first time, you can check out both versions of the story -- the original novella-length incarnation, and this, the never-before-released novel-length version. If you've read one, you definitely haven't read them both, because the novel-length version has new twists and turns, new characters and even more suspense.
Rice Tea by Julien McCardle
In Seth Arnott's universe, everything is a game. Trying to put a little spark into his university experience, Seth teams up with his good friends Gabriel and Kerstin. Together, they play an escalating game of one-up-manship based on computer and phone pranks. Their fun is cut short when the friends accidentally stumble into a nefarious botnet scheme. Its mastermind, a ruthless criminal, frames the trio for a wave of computer infections which results in them becoming the focus of a police investigation. Pursued by the authorities and barely avoiding arrest, they go underground in an attempt to prove their innocence. What follows is an exciting journey through the world of computer crime. Based on true events.
Romancing a Stalker by Carl Wayne Bryant
William Arflin escapes from prison while serving a life sentence for murdering three women he met on the Internet. Now anyone with a computer could be his next victim. Interpol is forced to put the entire computer world on alert when dead bodies appear all over the globe that link him to the crimes.
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