Thrillers (Fiction)

  • Pearl

    Creator

    Malerman, Josh

    Abstract

    From the New York Times bestselling author of Bird Box and Malorie, Josh Malerman, comes the legend of Pearl, a strange new monster unlike any other in horror (previously published as On This, the Day of the Pig ). "Daring readers should find this tale of a malevolent telepathic pig to be a memorable experience."- Booklist (starred review). There's something strange about Walter Kopple's farm. At first it seems to be his grandson, who cruelly murders one of Walter's pigs in an act of seemingly senseless violence.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    New York

    Random House Audio

    Not specified
  • The last guest

    Creator

    Little, Tess

    Abstract

    A glamorous birthday dinner in the Hollywood Hills ends with the famous host dead and every guest under suspicion in The Last Guest, a dark, cinematic suspense debut reminiscent of an Agatha Christie page-turner crossed with David Lynch's Mulholland Drive .

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    New York

    Random House Audio

    Not specified
  • The judge's list : The Whistler, book 2

    Creator

    Grisham, John

    Abstract

    #1 New York Times Best Seller -Investigator Lacy Stoltz follows the trail of a serial killer, and closes in on a shocking suspect-a sitting judge-in "one of the best crime reads of the year. - Bristling with high-tech detail and shivering with suspense - . Worth staying up all night to finish" ( Wall Street Journal ). In The Whistler , Lacy Stoltz investigated a corrupt judge who was taking millions in bribes from a crime syndicate. She put the criminals away, but only after being attacked and nearly killed.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    New York

    Random House Audio

    Not specified
  • Harlem shuffle : Ray Carney, book 1

    Creator

    Whitehead, Colson

    Abstract

    New York Times Bestseller. From the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Underground Railroad and The Nickel Boys, a gloriously entertaining novel of heists, shakedowns, and rip-offs set in Harlem in the 1960s. "Ray Carney was only slightly bent when it came to being crooked..." To his customers and neighbors on 125th street, Carney is an upstanding salesman of reasonably priced furniture, making a decent life for himself and his family.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    New York

    Random House Audio

    Not specified
  • The guide

    Creator

    Heller, Peter

    Abstract

    The best-selling author of The River returns with a heart-racing thriller about a young man who is hired by an elite fishing lodge in Colorado, where he uncovers a plot of shocking menace amid the natural beauty of sun-drenched streams and forests. "Peter Heller is the poet laureate of the literary thriller." -Michael Koryta, New York Times bestselling author of Those Who Wish Me Dead Kingfisher Lodge, nestled in a canyon on a mile and a half of the most pristine river water on the planet, is known by locals as "Billionaire's Mile" and is locked behind a heavy gate.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    New York

    Random House Audio

    Not specified
  • The every : The circle, book 2

    Creator

    Eggers, Dave

    Abstract

    From the award-winning, bestselling author of The Circle comes an exciting new follow-up. When the world's largest search engine/social media company, the Circle, merges with the planet's dominant ecommerce site, it creates the richest and most dangerous-and, oddly enough, most beloved-monopoly ever known: the Every. Delaney Wells is an unlikely new hire at the Every. A former forest ranger and unwavering tech skeptic, she charms her way into an entry-level job with one goal in mind: to take down the company from within.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    New York

    Random House Audio

    Not specified
  • Chronicles from the land of the happiest people on earth

    Creator

    Soyinka, Wole

    Abstract

    The first Black winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature gives us a tour de force, his first novel in nearly half a century: a savagely satiric, gleefully irreverent, rollicking fictional meditation on how power and greed can corrupt the soul of a nation. In an imaginary Nigeria, a cunning entrepreneur is selling body parts stolen from Dr. Menka's hospital for use in ritualistic practices. Dr. Menka shares the grisly news with his oldest college friend, bon viveur, star engineer, and Yoruba royal, Duyole Pitan-Payne.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    New York

    Random House Audio

    Not specified
  • The burning : Clay Edison, book 4

    Creator

    Kellerman, Jonathan

    Abstract

    Things get personal for Deputy Coroner Clay Edison when a murder hits close to home in this riveting, emotional thriller from the bestselling father-son team who write "brilliant, page-turning fiction" (Stephen King). A raging wildfire. A massive blackout. A wealthy man shot to death in his palatial hilltop home. For Clay Edison, it's all in a day's work. As a deputy coroner, caring for the dead, he speaks for those who cannot speak for themselves. He prides himself on an unflinching commitment to the truth. Even when it gets him into trouble.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    New York

    Random House Audio

    Not specified
  • Better off dead : Jack Reacher, book 26

    Creator

    Child, Lee

    Abstract

    #1 New York Times Bestseller. Jack Reacher is back in a brand-new page-turning thriller from acclaimed #1 bestselling authors Lee Child and Andrew Child. Digging graves had not been part of my plans when I woke up that morning. Reacher goes where he wants, when he wants. That morning he was heading west, walking under the merciless desert sun-until he comes upon a curious scene. A Jeep has crashed into the only tree for miles around. A woman is slumped over the wheel. Dead? No, nothing is what it seems.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    New York

    Random House Audio

    Not specified
  • Silverview

    Creator

    le Carré, John

    Abstract

    An instant New York Times bestseller! In his last completed novel, John le Carré turns his focus to the world that occupied his writing for the past sixty years-the secret world itself. Named a most anticipated book of the fall by the Associated Press, TIME, People , Entertainment Weekly, Washington Post, AARP, The Millions, Lit Hub, Thrillist, and more Julian Lawndsley has renounced his high-flying job in the city for a simpler life running a bookshop in a small English seaside town. But only a couple of months into his new career, Julian's evening is disrupted by a visitor.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    New York

    Penguin Audio

    Not specified