Thrillers (Fiction)

  • Night shift : Jack Stapleton and Laurie Montgomery, book 13

    Creator

    Cook, Robin

    Abstract

    In this exhilarating new medical thriller by bestselling author Robin Cook, fan favorites Jack and Laurie are lured into the dark underbelly of hospital dangers when an internist dies mysteriously. Colleagues-turned-spouses Dr. Laurie Montgomery and Dr. Jack Stapleton already have their plates full with demanding forensic pathology work and family pressures. The last thing they need is the sudden death of a colleague. Yet when Laurie's apparently vital and healthy longtime friend Dr.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    New York

    Penguin Audio

    Not specified
  • Killers of a certain age : Killers of a certain age, book 1

    Creator

    Raybourn, Deanna

    Abstract

    Older women often feel invisible, but sometimes that’s their secret weapon. They’ve spent their lives as the deadliest assassins in a clandestine international organization, but now that they're sixty years old, four women friends can’t just retire – it’s kill or be killed in this action-packed thriller by New York Times bestselling and Edgar Award-nominated author Deanna Raybourn. Billie, Mary Alice, Helen, and Natalie have worked for the Museum, an elite network of assassins, for forty years.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    New York

    Penguin Audio

    Not specified
  • The hunger

    Creator

    Katsu, Alma

    Abstract

    The Hunger is a tense and gripping reimagining of one of America's most fascinating historical moments: the Donner Party with a Walking Dead-style twist. Tamsen Donner must be a witch. That is the only way to explain the series of misfortunes that have plagued the wagon train known as the Donner Party. Depleted rations, bitter quarrels, and the mysterious death of a little boy have driven the pioneers to the brink of madness. They cannot escape the feeling that someone-or something-is stalking them.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    New York

    Penguin Audio

    Not specified
  • The deep

    Creator

    Katsu, Alma

    Abstract

    From the acclaimed and award-winning author of The Hunger comes an eerie, psychological twist on one of the world's most renowned tragedies, the sinking of the Titanic and the ill-fated sail of its sister ship, the Britannic. Someone, or something, is haunting the ship. Between mysterious disappearances and sudden deaths, the guests of the Titanic have found themselves suspended in an eerie, unsettling twilight zone from the moment they set sail.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    New York

    Penguin Audio

    Not specified
  • The awoken

    Creator

    Monroe Howes, Katelyn

    Abstract

    The Awoken is a gripping, action-packed story full of plot twists and high emotion. It's a look at prejudice, complicity, the fears that tear us apart, and the hope that can bring us together.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    New York

    Penguin Audio

    Not specified
  • The tyrant's daughter

    Creator

    Carleson, J.C.

    Abstract

    From a former CIA officer comes a riveting account of a royal Middle Eastern family exiled to the American suburbs THERE: In an unnamed country, fifteen-year-old Laila has always lived like royalty. Her father is a dictator of sorts, though she knows him as King--just as his father was, and just as her little brother Bastien will be one day. Then everything changes: Laila's father is killed in a coup ...

    Audience
    Adolescent
    Publisher (Source)

    New York

    Listening Library (Audio)

    Not specified
  • Small spaces

    Creator

    Arden, Katherine

    Abstract

    New York Times bestselling adult author of The Bear and the Nightingale makes her middle grade debut with a creepy, spellbinding ghost story destined to become a classic. After suffering a tragic loss, eleven-year-old Ollie only finds solace in books. So when she happens upon a crazed woman at the river threatening to throw a book into the water, Ollie doesn't think—she just acts, stealing the book and running away.

    Audience
    Juvenile**
    Publisher (Source)

    New York

    Listening Library

    Not specified
  • Nothing more to tell

    Creator

    McManus, Karen M.

    Abstract

    From #1 New York Times bestselling author of One of Us Is Lying comes a new page-turning mystery. Be sure to keep your friends close . . . and your secrets closer.Four years ago, Brynn left Saint Ambrose School following the shocking murder of her favorite teacher--a story that made headlines after the teacher's body was found by three Saint Ambrose students in the woods behind their school. The case was never solved. Now that Brynn is moving home and starting her dream internship at a true-crime show, she's determined to find out what really happened. The kids who found Mr.

    Audience
    Adolescent
    Publisher (Source)

    New York

    Listening Library

    Not specified
  • How to survive your murder

    Creator

    Valentine, Danielle

    Abstract

    Scream Alice Lawrence is the sole witness in her sister's murder trial. And in the year since Claire's death, Alice's life has completely fallen apart. Her parents have gotten divorced, she's moved into an apartment that smells like bologna, and she is being forced to face her sister's killer and a courtroom full of people who doubt what she saw in the corn maze a year prior. Claire was an all-American girl, beautiful and bubbly, and a theater star.

    Audience
    Adolescent
    Publisher (Source)

    New York

    Listening Library

    Not specified
  • The deadline clock

    Creator

    Deaver, Jeffery

    Abstract

    Reward seeker Colter Shaw faces a ticking clock with murderous consequences in this riveting short story.A serial kidnapper is on the loose in a small town in Maine, targeting wealthy women and demanding a huge ransom in bitcoin for their safe return. When his latest victim's husband claims that he can't come up with the money, the word "deadline" takes on a disturbingly literal meaning. The local police are out of their depth, but Colter Shaw takes the lead in the investigation.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    New York

    Books on Tape

    Not specified