Contemporary Thrillers

James Patterson

Now You See Her

Now You See Her

The perfect life
A successful lawyer and loving mother, Nina Bloom would do anything to protect the life she's built in New York - including lying to everyone, even her daughter, about her past. But when an innocent man is ...read more

Douglas Kennedy

The Moment

The Moment

Thomas Nesbitt is a divorced writer in the midst of a rueful middle age. Living a very private life in Maine, in touch only with his daughter and still trying to recover from the end of a long marriage, his solitude is disrupted one wintry ...read more

Staffan Bruun

Struggling Love

Struggling Love

At 11.35 on Saturday, 8 August, 2009, hundreds of Beatles fans gathered at the famous pedestrian crossing in north London to celebrate the fortieth anniversary of the band’s photo shoot that took place there at that ...read more

Camilla Läckberg

The Preacher

The Preacher

The novel opens with a triple whammy: the body of a recently murdered young woman named Tanja is found at a rock formation called King’s Cleft in rural Sweden. As the police poke around, they discover skeletons nearby — the ...read more

Harlan Coben

Live Wire

Live Wire

#1 New York Times bestselling author Harlan Coben proves once again that "nobody writes them better"* in a thriller that asks a provocative question:
Is a pretty lie better than the ugly truth?

Harlan Coben published his first ...read more

Carlo Fruttero, Franco Lucentini

The Sunday Woman

The Sunday Woman

A thoroughly unpalatable character is found murdered with a weapon so unspeakable that the police will not reveal what it is to the press. By an extraordinary web of circumstance suspicion falls on a scion of Turin's high society and his woman ...read more

Dean Koontz

What the Night Knows

What the Night Knows

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

In the late summer of a long-ago year, Alton Turner Blackwood brutally murdered four families. His savage spree ended only when he himself was killed by the last survivor of the last family, a ...read more

Jose Carlos Somoza

The Bait

The Bait

Diana Blanco is the best “bait” on the Madrid police force, a woman trained to attract the most dangerous psycho-killers. But she is sick of her job and tenders her resignation. She wants to live a normal life, after spending months ...read more

Claudia Piñeiro

Thursday Night Widows

Thursday Night Widows

Three bodies lie at the bottom of a swimming pool in a gated country estate near Buenos Aires. It's Thursday night at the magnificent Scaglia house. Behind the locked gates, shielded from the crime, poverty and filth of the people on the streets, ...read more

Henning Mankell

The Man from Beijing

The Man from Beijing

The acclaimed author of the Kurt Wallander mysteries, writing at the height of his powers, now gives us an electrifying stand-alone global thriller.

January 2006. In the Swedish hamlet of Hesjövallen, nineteen people have been ...read more

Camilla Läckberg

The Ice Princess

The Ice Princess

The Ice Princess, as Lackberg’s other books, takes place in the small town of Fjällbacka. In an interview, Camilla Lackberg says that “It’s a place I know very well. I think a small town is more ...read more

Thierry Jonquet

Mygale

Mygale

Mygale has been filmed by Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar, under the title The Skin I Live In, which was entered in competition in May 2011 for the Cannes Film ...read more

Alicia Giménez Bartlett

Dog Day

Dog Day

This is a well-written novel with good characters and a fresh perspective. This is great read by Gimenez-Bartlett, about a tough Spanish detective in Barcelona and her food-loving partner, investigating a mystery revolving around ...read more

Douglas Kennedy

The Big Picture

The Big Picture

Oscar Wilde once said that the only real tragedy in life is getting what you want. Ben Bradford, the protagonist of Douglas Kennedy's new novel, The Big Picture, is living proof of that adage. At the start of Kennedy's novel, Ben Bradford would ...read more

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