Thrillers (Fiction)

  • The persuasion : Eve Duncan, book 27

    Creator

    Johansen, Iris

    Abstract

    When Eve Duncan's daughter, Jane MacGuire, becomes a madman's target, Jane must team up with longtime love interest Seth Caleb in this suspense novel from the #1 bestselling author of Smokescreen. Forensic sculptor Eve Duncan and ex-Navy Seal Joe Quinn are about to give Seth Caleb their trust for the most important duty of his life: keeping their daughter, Jane MacGuire, safe at any cost. Because Jane's talent as an artist has brought her to the attention of a madman.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    Ashland

    Grand Central Publishing

    Not specified
  • Never ask me

    Creator

    Abbott, Jeff

    Abstract

    Each of us has a question we dread. In a quiet neighborhood in the wealthy Austin suburb of Lakehaven, the body of Danielle Roberts is discovered on a park bench. Danielle was a beloved member of the community, an adoption consultant who delivered the joy of parenthood to a number of local families. Her murder shocks Lakehaven. Perhaps no other family is as crushed as the Pollitts, who lived two houses down from Danielle and thought of her almost like family. Her death becomes the catalyst for a maelstrom of suspicion and intrigue.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    New York

    Grand Central Publishing

    Not specified
  • Chaos

    Creator

    Johansen, Iris

    Abstract

    Meet Alissa Flynn, a CIA agent who is willing to go rogue if it means catching a cold-blooded killer in this high-stakes thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author Iris Johansen. When CIA agent Alisa Flynn flaunts the rules by breaking into a mansion in the middle of the night, she skillfully circumvents alarms and outwits guards only to find herself standing in billionaire Gabe Korgan's study... busted by Korgan himself. This could cost her her job unless, in a split second, she can turn the tables and try to convince him to join her on the most important mission of her life.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    Ashland

    Grand Central Publishing

    Not specified
  • The queen's gambit

    Creator

    Tevis, Walter

    Abstract

    When eight-year-old Beth Harmon's parents are killed in an automobile accident, she is placed in an orphanage in Mount Sterling, Kentucky. Plain and shy, Beth learns to play chess from the janitor in the basement and discovers she is a prodigy. Though penniless, she is desperate to learn more—and steals a chess magazine and enough money to enter a tournament. Beth also steals some of her foster mother's tranquilizers to which she is becoming addicted. At thirteen, Beth wins the chess tournament.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    Ashland

    Blackstone Publishing

    Not specified
  • Burn our bodies down

    Creator

    Power, Rory

    Abstract

    From the author of the New York Times bestseller Wilder Girls comes a new twisty thriller about a girl whose past has always been a mystery—until she decides to return to her mother's hometown... where history has a tendency to repeat itself. Ever since Margot was born, it's been just her and her mother. No answers to Margot's questions about what came before. No history to hold on to. No relative to speak of. Just the two of them, stuck in their run-down apartment, struggling to get along. But that's not enough for Margot. She wants family. She wants a past.

    Audience
    Adolescent
    Publisher (Source)

    Ashland

    Blackstone Publishing

    Not specified
  • Blackout : The Dark Iceland series, book 3

    Creator

    Jónasson, Ragnar

    Abstract

    A huge bestseller in England, France, and Australia, this is the third book in the Dark Iceland series from a spectacular new crime writer. On the shores of a tranquil fjord in northern Iceland, a man is brutally beaten to death on a bright summer's night. As the twenty-four-hour light of the arctic summer is transformed into darkness by an ash cloud from a recent volcanic eruption, a young reporter leaves Reykajvik to investigate on her own, unaware that an innocent person's life hangs in the balance.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    Ashland

    Blackstone Publishing

    Not specified
  • The guest list

    Creator

    Foley, Lucy

    Abstract

    A Reese’s Book Club Pick. "I loved this book. It gave me the same waves of happiness I get from curling up with a classic Christie...The alternating points of view keep you guessing, and guessing wrong." —Alex Michaelides, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Silent Patient. "Evok[es] the great Agatha Christie classics... Pay close attention to seemingly throwaway details about the characters' pasts. They are all clues." —New York Times Book Review.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    New York

    HarperAudio

    Not specified
  • Daniil and Vanya

    Creator

    Larochelle, Marie-Hélène

    Abstract

    "The story of a successful young couple from Toronto whose comfortable life is gradually destroyed by a mysterious set of twins they adopt from Russia."--

    Publisher (Source)

    Picton, Ontario

    Invisible Publishing

    Not specified
  • You don't know me

    Creator

    Foster, Sara

    Abstract

    Tom Carruso left home soon after Lizzie Burdett disappeared under a darkening cloud of suspicion, and now he's back for the inquest into Lizzie's disappearance, intent on telling his side of the story.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    [Ashland, Oregon]

    Blackstone Publishing

    Not specified
  • All that is lost between us

    Creator

    Foster, Sara

    Abstract

    Seventeen-year-old Georgia has a secret. She is desperate to tell her best friend, Sophia, but before she can, Sophia is left fighting for her life after a hit and run, with Georgia a traumatized witness.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    [Ashland, Oregon]

    Blackstone Publishing

    Not specified