Gripping Thriller

When beautiful, young social-media star and poster-girl for meat-eating Violet goes missing, her supporters are quick to accuse animal-rights activists of playing a part in her disappearance. The clock is ticking for DI Meg Dalton to find Violet before an all-out war escalates. And then the blood and hair of a young woman are found in an empty pig trough at the local abattoir. When a second body is discovered, a murder investigation is launched. The more Meg finds out about this chilling case, the more she’s convinced that someone has Violet - someone who knows her.

After the police discover a ritualistic murder in South Carolina, Agent Scarlett Bell notices the killing is eerily similar to a case from seven years ago. Is the new murder linked to the assassination of a popular congresswoman? When the serial killer abducts another woman, Scarlett battles government officials who wish to silence her investigation and aligns herself with fugitive Logan Wolf.

FBI Special Agent Ilona Farris has barely recovered from her first escapade with the newly formed Unsolvable Crimes Unit when a bizarre case lands on her desk. A man has been chained to a sack of stones and pushed into the water at Seattle Marina. However, the victim supposedly died in a plane crash over twenty years ago. Witnesses report seeing a man in a straw hat and long coat at the scene. There one moment, then disappearing without a trace.

A murderer stalks a lake community in Virginia. Three women missing. Vanished from the face of the earth. And local law enforcement can't stop the serial killer. The police call upon Special Agent Scarlett Bell, the FBI's talented profiler, to hunt the murderer. When a pattern emerges with the victims, Scarlett and her partner, Neil Gardy, close in on the killer. But someone is hunting Scarlett Bell. A deadly sniper who wants her dead. The problem is...nobody believes the gunman exists except her.

When Special Agent Scarlett Bell investigates a gruesome murder in a small farming village, she discovers a murderer like none she's previously encountered. Brilliant and insane, he taunts the FBI, who are powerless to stop him. A schoolteacher disappears, and now Scarlett must discover the link between the two women before the killer claims another victim. But the FBI won't give Scarlett the support she needs, and her own partner turns against her, forcing Scarlett to go rogue if she hopes to rescue the teacher.

Even for the sleazy backwater of Cooper, Nebraska, the multiple murder of an entire family, brutally bludgeoned to death in their beds, is big news. Detective Joe Finch, raw with guilt over his partner’s traumatic shooting during a routine traffic stop, hopes the case will at least focus his mind. But then he discovers that the crime scene is the house he grew up in, and the ghosts of his own tragic childhood come rushing back to confront him.

If you like gripping mysteries, thrilling action, and suspense, you’ll love this pulse-pounding collection from acclaimed author P.T. Reade. Includes the books Night Runner, Marked for Death, Private Lie, and Taken Below. Discover murder, mystery, danger, and betrayal across Los Angeles, New Orleans, and deep below New York City in this exciting series of short thrillers that readers are calling "captivating" and a "must read".

From the outside, my life appears normal, boring even – but in that way you treasure when you once had nothing. These days, I have a loving new husband, a polite and intelligent teenage son. Everything seems perfect, but beneath the surface, I feel afraid. My son, the child I’ve sacrificed everything for, is scaring me. When he looks at me, his gaze is dark and calculating. In public he’s as sweet as always, but the things he says to me at home make my neck prickle with fear. I'm a mother – I've learned to trust my instincts, and right now, they're screaming that something is very wrong.

It is an ordinary September morning when I nearly lose my little girl. My mouth is dry, my hands shake when I see that she has darted unexpectedly into the playground.... The place where my own childhood ended. Where I can’t set foot inside. As she wobbles on top of the climbing frame about to fall, a silent scream freezes in my throat. So when a stranger hears her cries and rushes to help, I feel weak with relief. I thank him as my daughter presses her tear-stained face into my skirt. Looking into his warm brown eyes and gentle smile, I feel an instant connection.

When elderly millionaire and eccentric entrepreneur Clarence Lightman dies, his nearest and dearest gather one final time at Justice House, Clarence’s beautiful country estate in rural Shropshire, for the reading of his will. But the day ends in uproar when Clarence’s will reveals that whoever solves a series of complex clues will inherit everything, whether that’s one of Clarence’s disagreeable children, his devoted housekeeper, or Francesca herself.

Beth Haldane stands on a quiet street outside an ornate front door, glances down at her watch and taps her foot impatiently. Since her partner Detective Harry York moved into her little house in Dulwich Village, things are a bit too snug. Now Beth whiles away the hours waiting for house viewings and searching for the perfect new home. When a flustered young woman finally arrives and introduces herself as the estate agent, Beth is looking forward to the charming Edwardian property. But when she peeks into a built-in wardrobe, a lifeless body is a greeting she wasn’t expecting.

Beth Haldane is getting ready for a quiet Christmas with her son and their beloved grumpy cat when fellow single mother Nina begs her for help. Something fishy is going on with Mr. Potter, the solicitor she works for.... Business is slow, with the accounts empty. So why does his wife have such an impressive collection of designer dresses? Unable to resist a puzzle, Beth agrees to cover Nina’s job as a receptionist to get a closer look. But just as she finds a mysterious key hidden away in the office, Mrs. Potter arrives in floods of tears with terrible news for her husband.

Single mom and school historian Beth Haldane has promised her new beau, Detective Harry York, that her sleuthing days are behind her. But when she stumbles over the body of local artist Mark Smeaton while ambling in the park, it’s clear a dangerous killer is on the loose in peaceful Dulwich Village. Shocked, Beth can’t resist delving into the mystery. Snooping around the nearby cozy cafes, Beth listens carefully to gossip and soon learns Mark's graffiti-style art was famously controversial. There are plenty who might want him gone.

The serial killer who murdered Scarlett’s childhood friend terrifies the country. Referring to himself as “God’s Hand”, the killer threatens one of Washington’s most powerful congresswomen, a woman who can destroy Scarlett’s career if she doesn’t solve the case. Now God’s Hand kidnaps the congresswoman’s daughter. It’s up to Scarlett Bell to rescue the girl before the madman claims another victim. But not everyone is who they seem, and a dark figure tracks Scarlett. Friend or foe? Solving the mystery is key to apprehending a vicious serial killer.

Twenty-three years ago, someone murdered Scarlett Bell's childhood friend. And now, the killer is back. When the police discover another child's body along a small-town Georgia creek, Scarlett notices the similarities between the latest killing and the murder 23 years ago. But Scarlett's boss won't allow her to rejoin the FBI until her doctors clear her for duty. Now another young girl goes missing. Alone and without her partner, Neil Gardy, Scarlett defies the FBI and stalks the killer on her own. Is Scarlett the killer's next victim?

The FBI sends BAU profiler Scarlett Bell to investigate a series of shocking murders in a tropical Florida paradise. But the local detective is a former BAU agent who doesn't like Scarlett Bell and wants her off the case. Good thing Scarlett doesn't play by the rules.

One killer. Three dead. Now you're in the cross-hairs. A college shooting sends the campus into a panic. A sniper hunts a small town. Now Special Agent Scarlett Bell must find the shooter before more innocent lives are lost. Is the sniper a member of a fringe white supremacist group? Scarlett gets off on the wrong foot with a local detective when she questions who the killer is. Scarlett's boss doesn't trust her methodologies, the detective undermines the investigation, and Scarlett's partner wants her out of harm's way. Good thing Scarlett never plays by the rules.

He hides in darkness. Stalks the lost and vulnerable. And now a monster hurricane is barreling toward the beach. FBI profiler Scarlett Bell faces her deadliest case. She must stop a bloodthirsty killer before the hurricane destroys the island. The evidence trail is cloaked in darkness, and Scarlett must track the killer through the worst storm to hit the coast in decades.

Cooper, Nebraska, is forgettable and forgotten, a town you’d only stumble into if you’d taken a seriously wrong turn. Like Detective Thomas Levine’s career has. But when a young woman is found lying in the snow, choked to death, her eyes gouged out, the disgraced detective is Cooper’s only hope for restoring peace and justice.

A compelling, gripping thriller with a brilliant twist that will keep you awake until the early hours. Perfect for fans of The Girl on the Train, Behind Closed Doors, and Gone Girl. In a garrison city of North Queensland, Australia, a child has been tragically, accidentally killed. Years before, her own mother, Erin, wrote a strikingly similar scenario into her acclaimed novel. Is she somehow responsible? Years later, Erin's trying to cope with the unanswered questions, and thinks she's finally come to a solution.