Thrillers (Fiction)

  • Friends like these

    Creator

    McCreight, Kimberly

    Abstract

    A GMA Buzz Pick "Kim McCreight's thrillers are smart, propulsive and impossible to put down." - Laura Dave, author of The Last Thing He Told Me. In this relentlessly twisty literary thriller from New York Times bestselling author Kimberly McCreight, a desperate intervention brings together a group of college friends 10 years after graduation-a reunion marked by lies, betrayal, and murder. Coming Soon from Amblin Television Everyone has those friends. Doesn't matter how long it's been, or how badly they've occasionally behaved, or how late it is when that call finally comes-you show up.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Not specified
  • Dream girl

    Creator

    Lippman, Laura

    Abstract

    "My dream novel. I devoured this in three days. The sharpest, clearest-eyed take on our #MeToo reckoning yet. Plus: enthralling." - Megan Abbott, Edgar Award-winning author of Dare Me and The Fever. Following up on her acclaimed and wildly successful New York Times bestseller Lady in the Lake, Laura Lippman returns with a dark, complex tale of psychological suspense with echoes of Misery involving a novelist, incapacitated by injury, who is plagued by mysterious phone calls. In the end, has anyone really led a blameless life?

    Audience
    Adult**
    Not specified
  • Count the ways

    Creator

    Maynard, Joyce

    Abstract

    In her most ambitious novel to date, New York Times bestselling author Joyce Maynard returns to the themes that are the hallmarks of her most acclaimed work in a mesmerizing story of a family-from the hopeful early days of young marriage to parenthood, divorce, and the costly aftermath that ripples through all their lives Eleanor and Cam meet at a crafts fair in Vermont in the early 1970s. She's an artist and writer, he makes wooden bowls.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Not specified
  • The collective

    Creator

    Gaylin, Alison

    Abstract

    The USA Today bestselling and Edgar Award-winning author of Never Look Back and If I Die Tonight plumbs the dark side of justice and the depths of diabolical revenge in this propulsive novel of psychological suspense that melds the driving narrative of Then She Was Gone with the breathtaking twists of The Chain and the violent fury of Kill Bill. "Alison Gaylin's The Collective is an astonishing feat.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    New York

    HarperAudio

    Not specified
  • Autopsy : Kay Scarpetta, book 25

    Creator

    Cornwell, Patricia

    Abstract

    In this relaunch of the electrifying, landmark #1 bestselling thriller series, chief medical examiner Dr. Kay Scarpetta hunts two killers whose crimes intersect in the most chilling-and very new-ways. Forensic pathologist Kay Scarpetta has come almost full circle, returning to Virginia as the chief medical examiner, the state where she launched her storied career. Finding herself the new girl in town once again after being away for many years, she's inherited not only an overbearing secretary, but also a legacy of neglect and potential corruption.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    New York

    HarperAudio

    Not specified
  • As the wicked watch : Jordan Manning, book 1

    Creator

    Hall, Tamron

    Abstract

    The first in a thrilling new series from Emmy Award-winning TV Host and Journalist Tamron Hall, As The Wicked Watch follows a reporter as she unravels the disturbing mystery around the deaths of two Black girls; the work of a serial killer terrorizing Chicago. When crime reporter Jordan Manning leaves her hometown in Texas to take a job at a television station in Chicago, she's one step closer to her dream: a coveted anchor chair on a national network. Jordan is smart and aggressive, with unabashed star-power, and often the only woman of color in the newsroom. Her signature?

    Audience
    Adult**
    Not specified
  • April in Spain : Quirke, book 8

    Creator

    Banville, John

    Abstract

    National Bestseller. Booker Prize winner John Banville returns with a dark and evocative new mystery set on the Spanish coast Don't disturb the dead... On the idyllic coast of San Sebastian, Spain, Dublin pathologist Quirke is struggling to relax, despite the beaches, cafés and the company of his disarmingly lovely wife. When he glimpses a familiar face in the twilight at Las Acadas bar, it's hard at first to tell whether his imagination is just running away with him. Because this young woman can't be April Latimer.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Not specified
  • The weekend escape

    Creator

    Bennett, Rakie

    Abstract

    A deserted island, a vicious storm, a murderer amongst friends... It was meant to be a fun reunion, a chance for six friends to reconnect and relive the adventures that brought them together in the first place. But from the moment they arrive on their island home for the weekend, Lyndsey, Sonia, Bobbie, Amanda, Juliet, and Val realise that their paradise is filled with peril, and there are consequences when you try to outrun the ghosts of your past.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Not specified
  • When the doves disappeared

    Creator

    Oksanen, Sofi

    Rogers, Lola

    Abstract

    From the internationally acclaimed author of Purge comes a chillingly suspenseful, deftly woven new novel that opens up a little-known yet still controversial chapter of history: the occupation, resistance, and collaboration in Estonia during and after World War II. 1941: In Communist-ruled, war-ravaged Estonia, two men are fleeing from the Red Army — Roland, a fiercely principled freedom fighter, and his slippery cousin Edgar. When the Germans arrive, Roland goes into hiding; Edgar abandons his unhappy wife, Juudit, and takes on a new identity as a loyal supporter of the Nazi regime . . .

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    [S.l.]

    House of Anansi Press Inc

    Not specified
  • October 1970

    Creator

    Grady, Wayne

    Hamelin, Louis

    Abstract

    Longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize. Selected as an Amazon.ca Best Book. October 1970. Two kidnappings. One dead. A crisis unlike anything the country had ever seen — here is the story behind history . . . Thirty years after the October Crisis, Sam Nihilo, a freelance writer whose career is in a slump, is drawn to the conspiracy theories that have proliferated in the wake of the events. While investigating the death of one of the FLQ hostages, Nihilo sees his life consumed by an inquiry that leads him further into a flurry of facts, both known and newly discovered.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    [S.l.]

    House of Anansi Press Inc

    Not specified