About This Book: The partners at Finley & Figg often refer to themselves as a “boutique law firm.” Boutique, as in chic, selective, and prosperous. Oscar Finley and Wally Figg are none of these things. They are a two-bit operation of ambulance chasers who bicker like an old married couple. Until change comes their way [...]
Used to dismissing end-of-the-world theories? Not this time. In 12.21, Dustin Thomason delivers a realistic thriller that you won't be able to put down, even as the clock runs out.
About This Book: The stallion reared over me, silently slashing the air with the hooves of its forelegs, a creature of such immense power that I stumbled backward even though I knew that it was as immaterial as a dream. . . . The woman astride the ghostly mount reaches out desperately, the latest spirit [...]
About This Book: Stieg Larsson's #1 bestselling mystery featuring Lisbeth Salander is now a major motion picture directed by David Fincher, starring Daniel Craig and Rooney Mara, from Columbia Pictures/Sony. In theaters December 2011. The first volume in the Millennium Trilogy, and an international publishing sensation, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo combines murder mystery, [...]
About This Book: Marriage can be a real killer. One of the most critically acclaimed suspense writers of our time, New York Times bestseller Gillian Flynn takes that statement to its darkest place in this unputdownable masterpiece about a marriage gone terribly, terribly wrong. The Chicago Tribune proclaimed that her work “draws you in and [...]
About This Book: Reacher is back! A Wanted Man is a new masterpiece of suspense—from #1 New York Times bestselling author Lee Child. Four people in a car, hoping to make Chicago by morning. One man driving, eyes on the road. Another man next to him, telling stories that don’t add up. A woman in [...]
Before Spielberg brought it to the big screen, writer Peter Benchley penned the terrifying story of the beach town victimized by the killer shark -- and the men who risked everything to hunt it down.
Burdett's novel takes readers through the lurid alleys of Bangkok and the karmic musings of Thai Detective Sonchai Jitpleecheep. This isn't your typical police procedural or forensics mystery, though; think, instead, of a mix of Elmore Leonard and Philip Roth.
Powerful, imaginative, provocative, disturbing ...and grotesque; here is a novel with characters so rich, the plot is almost secondary.
Best-selling author Karin Slaughter talks about her interest in violence, the victims left behind, and how it all relates to her new thriller Criminal.
'The Snowman' is one of multiple thrillers featuring Detective Harry Hole -- and it's as good a place to familiarize yourself with him as any.
David Baldacci escapes the pitfalls that many authors of his genre tend to fall into -- and comes out on the other side with riveting, thrilling fiction.
Five books about Janie and Reeve! No one is more astonished than I am. Over twenty years ago, I saw a homemade missing child poster and my heart broke for the parents whose child had vanished. But their task was hopeless -- nobody would recognize their daughter's photograph after so many years … except, I thought, if the little girl herself sees that picture.
Alan Furst's books are reminiscent of the classic black-and-white movies of days past -- and the beauty of this is magnified when he sets a story in the City of Light.
For his latest solo outing, Child shifts the tomb-raiders-battle-ancient-evil story from the clichés of the genre.
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