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Definition of "Thriller Genre": The thriller genre is very broad and can be difficult to define. However, the focus of a thriller ebook is typically on action, danger and suspense. The genre can be broken into an almost infinite number of sub-genres, including action thrillers (think Clive Cussler ebooks), romance thrillers, psychological thrillers (think Psycho by Hitchcock), science fiction thrillers, and spy thrillers, just to name a few. Common elements can include car chases, gun shoot outs, explosions, or in the case of psychological thrillers, the elements of danger can be related to the mental manipulation of characters by other characters. It is an expansive genre, and one of the most popular at eBookHounds.
Some examples of the best thriller authors and ebooks of all time: Dan Brown (The Da Vinci Code), Robert Ludlum (The Bourne Identity), Michael Crichton (The Andromeda Strain), John Grisham (Time to Kill), John D. MacDonald (Cape Fear); James Patterson (Kiss the Girls). As you can see, ebooks in the thriller category vary widely in their substance, and the sub-genres can almost be considered genres of their own!
Emily Henderson walks out of the West End Steak House and begins a journey that destroys her marriage, leaves her teetering on the brink of insanity, and may well cost her life.
Three days after Police Officers James Hunter and Philip Barnes kidnap, shoot, and leave Emily for dead, they are brutally murdered. Emily is charged with the crimes.
Coulter McBride has gained the reputation of being the guy to hire if your life is on the line. He swore to never again engage in the courtroom battles he once loved so much, but he agrees to take on the most important battle of his career.
Coulter's investigation brings to light four women, each with a strong motive for the murders. He moves through the labyrinth of the shadow side of these suspects to uncover the truth. The answer to the question which eludes him is why Emily was singled out by the policemen—who obviously meant to kill her.
A witness comes forward whose testimony destroys Emily's defense. Though all the evidence points to her guilt, Coulter still believes in her. Now all he has to do is trap a murderer.
When a local art shop owner is murdered, Jessica Fletcher is surprised to once again be working alongside her old friend MI-6 agent Michael Haggerty to solve the case in the newest mystery in this USA Today bestselling series.
When Nelson Penzell, co-owner of a local art and treasure store in Cabot Cove, is murdered, the nail tech from Jessica Fletcher's favorite beauty parlor is the main suspect. After all, she's the one who ran out of the store screaming, covered in blood, and holding the murder weapon. Jessica is positive that despite the circumstances, Coreen can't possibly be guilty, and is determined to prove it.
When Michael Haggerty, handsome MI-6 agent and Jessica's old friend, is caught snooping around the victim’s home, it's quickly apparent to her that she was right. Nelson has always had a bit of a reputation for being a rake, but Haggerty is sure his sins go far beyond what anyone in town imagined. If she wants to clear Coreen's name, Jessica will have to work alongside Michael to find out who killed Nelson—and maybe help bust a crime ring in the process.
A girl who uses her illusions to fool the world into thinking she's just like all the other magi.
A dragon who sees through her lies.
Together they just might survive a world that wants to control or destroy them both.
Kimberly may wield ultimate cosmic power, but even a mage has to pay the rent. No one will hire her for her magic talents until she's got the credentials, so she’s stuck in a crappy rent controlled apartment with her mother, yearning for treats she can't afford at her part time job in a café, counting down the days until she graduates the secret Blackhollow Academy school for magi. Only then will she have the certificate she needs to land her dream job in a coven.
The problem? She needs a familiar to graduate.
As an illusionist, she doesn't have the ability to summon or create a familiar of her own. Her only option is to convince a supernatural creature to let her bind it instead. Since having a powerful Other at her beck and call would guarantee her a place in a coven after she graduates—and legendary treasure hoards are an added bonus—she thinks binding a dragon as her familiar will solve all her problems...
Because sometimes a girl needs a dragon, not a knight.
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"It was an interesting mix of Harry Potter meets Lost Girl, meets Dresden – and it worked."
-Amazon Reader ★★★★★
"Magic, dragons, romantic tension. What more could you ask for? I am a sucker for most fantasy but it's been a long time since I found I book I couldn't put down and I could not put this book down!"
-Amazon Reader ★★★★★
"Part of having a successful book or series that deals with magic or fantastical things is creating a believable world, and the author did just that. There are the obvious things like whether magical creatures are out in the open or hidden, and who the different beings are (from vampire to dragons to your average magical human), but the book went beyond those details and dealt with discrimination, slavery, powerful leaders that could misuse their influence, and the taboo-ness of magical and non-magical co-mingling. This was a well developed world and I loved to soak in all the details of it."
-Amazon Reader ★★★★★
"I love the writing style. I love the plot line, I love the surprises. Yeah I just loved this one."
-Amazon Reader ★★★★★
"This was a strong start to a new series. I think that fans of the Other books, Kim Harrison The Hollows series, Kelly Armstrong Otherword series, and Jeanne Stein's Anna Strong Vampire series will enjoy this book."
-Amazon Reader ★★★★★
Some Killers Want More Than Blood
A mysterious man with a strange background, unique abilities, and a dangerous grudge. Three strangers, each of whom has lost a loved one through a series of brutal murders. One peculiar woman whose knowledge and intuition will connect each of them.
With the help of Detectives Daniels and Remalla, can they put the pieces together and expose the secrets of a killer before he seeks his revenge and destroys them all?
Enjoy the Family or Foe Saga, including First Cut, Second Slice, Third Blow and Fourth Strike.
If you love a charismatic partnership and thrillers with a supernatural element that keep you guessing until the end, then it's time to meet Detectives Daniels and Remalla.
Other Books in the Detectives Daniels and Remalla Series
Haunted River
Of Breath and Blood
Of Body and Bone
Of Mind and Madness
Of Power and Pain
Of Love and Loss
They say everybody has a double. What if yours is hunting you?
A cynical detective. A dangerous beauty. Estranged twins, one a recluse, the other a playboy — at least one of them insane.
McBride is an aging Boston private eye. Sylvia is his threatening and seductive partner. Gray hires them to find his brother before his brother finds him. The only clue is an unsourced photo of the twin in the stands at a Bruins game — or is it Gray himself? Increasingly convinced their client is either insane or playing a double game — or both — McBride and Sylvia chase dead-ends across Boston, New York, and hockey — and when Gray's doppelganger finally turns up (with the equally colorful name of Brown), Gray vanishes. The Brown version is every bit as odd as the Gray: but where Gray is paranoid, rootless, and secretive, Brown lives amidst an endless party in a suburban mansion. McBride arranges a meet — and that's when the cat-and-mouse game really gets weird.
In The Brothers Brown & Gray, Gary Glass twists noir fiction into strange new shapes that make for compulsive reading.
Get it — and clear your schedule. You won't want to put it down.
It will take a monster to protect a prophet.
Evie looks like an ordinary single mother. But she is more than she appears. When she was a young girl, Evie rebelled against the cult her mother led because she was expected to commit matricide during an elaborate ritual. Without Evie's leadership the cult was forced to disband.
Eventually, she falls in love and gives birth to Victor. He grows up to become a gifted young boy. His classmates nickname him, Prophet.
While at school, young Victor is kidnapped.
Evie suffers in agony. There’s only one way to find her son and save his life. She has to become the monster. She surrenders without hesitation. She unleashes the fury of a wounded demigoddess by trapping the southern city in an icy hell while she creeps into the minds of the citizens. Madness and death ensues as she searches for him through them. She will find Victor. There's no one to stop her...or is there?
From #1 New York Times bestselling author James Rollins, the latest riveting, deeply imaginative thriller in the Sigma Force series, told with his trademark blend of cutting-edge science, historical mystery, and pulse-pounding action.
It begins in Africa . . .
A United Nations relief team in a small village in the Congo makes an alarming discovery. An unknown force is leveling the evolutionary playing field. Men, women, and children have been reduced to a dull, catatonic state. The environment surrounding them—plants and animals—has grown more cunning and predatory, evolving at an exponential pace. The insidious phenomenon is spreading from a cursed site in the jungle — known to locals as the Kingdom of Bones —and sweeping across Africa, threatening the rest of the world.
What has made the biosphere run amok? Is it a natural event? Or more terrifyingly, did someone engineer it?
Commander Gray Pierce and Sigma Force are prepared for the extraordinary and have kept the world safe, vigilance for which they have paid a tragic personal price. Yet, even these brilliant and seasoned scientific warriors do not understand what is behind this frightening development—or know how to stop it. As they race to find answers, the members of Sigma quickly realize they have become the prey.
To head off global catastrophe, Sigma Force must risk their lives to uncover the shattering secret at the heart of the African continent—a truth that will illuminate who we are as a species and where we may be headed . . . sooner than we know.
Mother Nature—red in tooth and claw—is turning against humankind, propelling the entire world into the Kingdom of Bones.
Rookie detective Dee Callender has a puzzling crime scene: two men murdered, two wounded on a Sacramento golf course with top-of-the-line security. How did the killer–or killers—get in and out without being seen or their images captured on surveillance cameras? And why this strange foursome: a city councilman, an attorney with a questionable reputation, the owner of a suspected prostitution site, and a children’s dentist?
Pre-order the next gripping mystery in the bestselling EVA RAE THOMAS MYSTERY series written by Willow Rose .
It is a dream come true for ten-year-old Becky when her parents take her and her younger sister on a cruise to the Bahamas.
But nothing is how it is supposed to be when her parents can’t stop fighting, and soon the trip turns out to be a true nightmare.
It becomes a puzzling mystery when she and her sister disappear as the ship is about to dock in Coco Cay.
How do you disappear on a cruise ship?
Why can’t they be found?
Could they have fallen overboard?
FBI profiler Eva Rae Thomas is flown in to assist on this bizarre but very time-sensitive case.
The parents both claim to know what happened to their children. Each of them blames the other for kidnapping them.
Who is telling the truth?
Meanwhile, the passengers are not allowed to leave the ship as the search continues, causing the tension to rise onboard. It becomes a race against time as a frustrated Eva Rae Thomas tries to find out what happened in the hours up until the disappearance of the two children.
When one of the children is found dead, she realizes this is more than a simple case of a parental dispute.
There’s a killer onboard.
A phenomenal worldwide bestseller for over thirty years, Richard Adams's Watership Down is a timeless classic and one of the most beloved novels of all time. Set in England's Downs, a once idyllic rural landscape, this stirring tale of adventure, courage and survival follows a band of very special creatures on their flight from the intrusion of man and the certain destruction of their home. Led by a stouthearted pair of friends, they journey forth from their native Sandleford Warren through the harrowing trials posed by predators and adversaries, to a mysterious promised land and a more perfect society.
JOIN THE CORPS AND EXPLORE NEW PLANETS. EXPERIENCE ADVENTURE IN FARAWAY LANDS
The Corps of Discovery goes where most men fear to tread - unexplored alternate Earths!
Bill Clark thought he had joined the Corps to explore new planets, only to find out there was a lot more to it than that. His new home is far freer than the one he left, but also more dangerous.
Bill begins to wonder if he'll be able to survive on these new worlds. It’s not just the Pleistocene predators he has to avoid, but somebody is actively trying to kill him and the woman he loves.
Is his life really worth joining the Corps?
Join Bill in this cross-time adventure as he finds out that adventure generally means someone else in danger in a faraway land, and he's on the adventure of his life.
A great read for lovers of action and adventure.
The blackmail letter reads, I know what you’ve done.
Court Lane has worked hard to create her fairytale life—loving and trusting husband, well-adjusted kids, safe neighborhood. So when the letter arrives at her doorstep, the message is clear—pay up or have your world destroyed. With nowhere to turn, Court succumbs to the blackmailer’s demands. But she can’t forget about the letter. It haunts her.
A girls’ trip offers the perfect distraction. She and her three closest friends head to a remote cabin in the Appalachians for a weekend full of massages and wine. But the fun comes to an abrupt end when an unexpected ice storm strands them without electricity and phones. And then one friend never wakes up.
It looks like an accident. But as the storm rages outside cutting off any chance of escape, and secrets start to spill—secrets related to the blackmail letter—Court discovers her friends aren’t who she thinks they are. And maybe, just maybe, her friend didn’t die accidentally at all. Perhaps she was murdered.
Now, Court must decide who's lying, who's telling the truth, and who can be trusted. Otherwise, she could be the next to die. After all, best friends can be killer.
What readers are saying about DON'T TRUST HER:
"This book grips the reader right from page 1 !" -- NetGalley reviewer ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
"The book had me hooked from the beginning." -- Goodreads reviewer ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
"...this was a real thriller and page turner..." -- Goodreads reviewer ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ From USA Today Bestselling Author Diana Orgain ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
A body has been dredged from the San Francisco Bay. Kate Connolly, pregnant and ready to pop, has reason to fear it may be her long lost brother-in-law. When a private investigator begins nosing around, Kate decides on a new career path. Battling sleep deprivation, diaper blowouts and breastfeeding mishaps she muddles through her own investigation, Mommy style:
To do:
1. Find Killer
2. Figure out hideous breast pump.
3. Avoid cranky cop.
4. S̵e̵n̵d̵ ̵o̵u̵t̵ Make birth announcements.
5. Buy pink paper for the birth announcements.
6. FIND KILLER
Family life has never been so exciting, but after Kate launches her own female detective agency, she may just get more than she bargained for. Full of suspense, this cozy is unputdownable!
"Engaging…[A] charming debut thriller.”--Publishers Weekly
"If you were expecting warm and cute you'll be mistaken. Fast-paced and fun, this book gives a true feel of the modern mom, trying to juggle motherhood and career (when that career happens to be solving crimes)."--Rhys Bowen, New York Times Bestselling Author
Clean read: no graphic violence, sex, or strong language.
Genre: humorous culinary cozy mysteries, cat cozy mystery series / women amateur sleuth / detective mystery
MATERNAL INSTINCTS MYSTERIES
"Sordid secrets and a violent encounter rip open a decades-old murder. Lean prose and tight plotting. An excellent read with a hell of twist." -- Brody Weatherford, author of The Guns of Legende series.
The Marti Stahl saga begins here--and tears through Stage Fright before ending with Dead Beat!
Ex-state cop Dan Spalding has a hell of a time keeping up with his record shop and watching out for hairy dog friends like old Digger Strickland.
When Digger’s sordid secrets call up a decades-old evil involving evangelist and Senate-hopeful Darian Cole, Spalding needs all the help he can get.
But a backwards message on an old record can only bring sorrow and ruin.
But for who?
Join Dan Spalding as he calls in his markers and picks up his guns for a dark and bloody showdown that will change the future of Ozark City and rip apart Dan’s world forever.
Tales of Ghosts, Crimes, and the Paranormal: The Ghostly Visitation
A Sycamore Grove Ghostly Cozy Mystery
“Excuse me. Can we help you?” I wonder if she forgot to tell me someone else was helping us. The man looks up at me, shocked, while Maddie looks at me like I have three heads.
“Who are you talking to?” Her head whips around, clearly not seeing what I’m seeing.
Great. It’s official. I’m losing my mind. “Please tell me you can see him.” I point in the man’s direction at the man who’s still staring at me.
“You see me?” he asks, standing.
“Stay right there. Don’t move a muscle!”
“Eden, you’re kind of freaking me out. I don’t see anyone. We’re the only two back here.”
When Eden Kyle, an artist and tarot reader, moves to Sycamore Grove to help her niece develop a new store as a business, she starts seeing and hearing ghosts in the building where she is visiting. She soon has an encounter with the spirit of a recently murdered man who had been staying at the local B and B.
Eden gets pulled into figuring out who killed him.
Will she be able to uncover the disturbing secrets surrounding his death?
Miranda Rose Barker brilliantly combines engaging storytelling and nail-biting intrigue into a fascinating story. Fans of ghost cozy mystery fiction novels and amateur women sleuths will love The Ghostly Visitation, the first book in this exciting cozy mystery series that will captivate readers from the very first page.
And fans of the author's Tansy & Hank Pet Psychic Cozy Mystery Series will be delighted to visit again with some old friends from those books - and make some new friends - in this current series.
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It’s November in Chicago. Still healing from an encounter with the Corn Flakes Killer, Lieutenant Michelle “Mickey” Rooney and her partner, Sam Tanner, head out into the snowy night to investigate four seemingly unrelated drug killings. They appear to be run-of-the-mill drug deals gone bad…until witnesses at one of the crime scenes report that they saw the shooting. And they have overheard the name of the killer: Esteban Fernandez.
Mickey and the Chicago PD notify the Federal authorities, thanks to a new Federal APB on Fernandez. Fernandez has been declared a threat to National Security, and all movements are to be reported.
Justice Security has been given a government contract: find Esteban Fernandez and stop him. Bring him in for trial if possible, but stop him. When word reaches them that Fernandez is in Chicago, Joey Justice, his partners, and their FBI liaison, Marcus Moore, move quickly to the Windy City, and they take over the investigation.
They also take over Mickey Rooney and Sam Tanner, and draft them into the biggest crime case in Chicago’s history…a crime case that Mickey will never be allowed to talk about.
Action, humor, and a two-night-romance for Mickey and Marcus…find out what happens when Justice Security takes on insane Mexican drug cartel leader, Esteban Fernandez, in the Windy City! Read T. M. Bilderback’s novel, inspired by the classic song performed by Paper Lace, The Night Chicago Died!
It’s been less than a year since Silvia Amichi found out the things that go bump in the night are real. On her way home from the main faction of vampires, she’s abducted by a vampire clan that rarely listens to the main faction. She find out that certain vampires that she put her trust in was misplaced and they rolled her. Does she want to use the “Get out of this whole vampire mess free card” and leave this whole vampire world behind? Otherwise, she’ll be thrown into gladiatorial-like fights and if she wants to try to make it home by this route, it’s going to take more than her fighting prowess to win. Will Silvia find a way to overcome her odds; will she be stuck in the sexist compound for the rest of her human life or will she chose to be free of this immortal plan?
Join Silvia's adventure as she fights her way through this action packed urban fantasy!
NOTE: This book is set up to be stand alone or read in a series. It’s full of action-packed fights, swordplay, amusing banter mild gory scenes and an emotional hit or two.
Approved by the CIA Publication Review Board
“Duncan Hunter is a great character… an excellent read.” –A Good Thriller
PenCraft Award Winner - Best Thriller
***This box set includes the first four thrillers in the award-winning Duncan Hunter Thrillers. Book #5, Wet Work, is now available. Book #6, Special Activities, releases April 29, 2021.
SPECIAL ACCESS (#1)
Basking in the glory of killing Osama bin Laden, the President revealed that US Navy SEALs carried out the mission. His constant heralding of their heroism and capabilities damaged the SEAL's operational security, revealed tricks of their trade, and endangered them and their families. As some in the Special Operations community expected and feared, a number of SEALs are systematically killed across the country. The Navy's legendary SEAL commander, Captain Bill McGee, believes he is the next target of a sniper and seeks help from a close friend with unusual contacts and capabilities.
Duncan Hunter, a retired Marine Corps fighter pilot, flies a top-secret airplane with his mentor, Greg Lynche, the sometimes über-liberal retired CIA Chief of Air Branch. Together, in their quiet airplane, they execute some of the CIA's most sensitive airborne counterterrorism missions under a Special Access Program.
SHOOT DOWN (#2)
Shortly after takeoff, a jumbo jet explodes over the waters of Long Island. Witnesses claim the aircraft was shot down by a surface-to-air missile; the government insists a mechanical malfunction brought down the airplane. An old CIA file is uncovered which details the President was warned-to preclude commercial airliners from being shot out of the sky either pay a ransom or suffer the consequences.
Just as the Agency identifies the shadowy man responsible for the shoot-down of the airliner, the Libyan dictator Gaddafi is overthrown, sparking a race between the CIA and terrorist networks to win the ultimate terrorist prize-hundreds of man-portable, shoulder-launched, anti-aircraft missiles.
Duncan Hunter and his top-secret airplane once again team up with an expert crew to find the anti-aircraft missiles ahead of the al-Qaeda and Muslim Brotherhood and kill the man who shoots down airliners for profit.
NO NEED TO KNOW (#3)
A major security breach finds the CIA's closest secrets divulged and dozens of their highly-placed spies exposed and killed. As the Agency investigates the source of the disclosures, an old Office of Strategic Services file and the former Director of Central Intelligence become the focal point of their research. A race is on to find the file's secrets. If al-Qaeda's wins, they can acquire "suitcase" thermonuclear devices to attack America. If the CIA gets there first, they can make a deal with a Russian billionaire and trade the missing treasure for the weapons al-Qaeda craves.
The political awakening of Duncan Hunter continues as he battles radical fundamentalists across the globe, he thwarts the terrorists' best plans and eliminates their leaders.
BLOWN COVER (#4)
When a stolen CIA file is released to the public, America learns that their President is not the man he claims to be.
Three years after being chased from office, the former president discovers the identity of the man who released his secret file. The ex-President begins to exact revenge while plotting his return to power. A fatwa makes CIA pilot Duncan Hunter the most wanted man in America. Then an airliner disappears over the Pacific Ocean.
The new President gives the CIA two time-sensitive missions: find and eliminate his traitorous predecessor, and stop a self-radicalized computer scientist before another airliner goes missing.
Duncan Hunter is in the race of his life.
“Silver or Lead is an exciting thriller fueled with humor, secrets, and revenge.” –Sublime Book Review
"What would you do if you found out that the person you were trying to save might have to kill you?"
Teddy Dabrowski is a man harboring a dark secret until one fateful day a horrific crime at his favorite coffee house forces him to confront his past.
As the authorities search for suspects, Teddy and his best friend are propelled into a world of bizarre characters, some real and some not of this earth, but all, inextricably leading him to a former life that might best be left buried.
James Cox, most recently known for creating his critically acclaimed solo show, Love Madness, and Somewhere in Between at the Hudson Guild in Hollywood has crafted a debut novel that recalls the best of Elmore Leonard and indeed a bit of Stephen King. Silver or Lead takes the reader on a journey filled with so many twists that we are at once madly turning pages while at the same time wishing the story would never end.
The United States has stared down many threats with President Jack Ryan at the helm, but what if he’s not there when we need him? That’s the question facing a nation in the most shocking entry in Tom Clancy's #1 New York Times bestselling series.
A shadowy billionaire uses his fortune to further his corrupt ambitions. Along the way, he’s toppled democratically elected governments and exacerbated divisions within stable nations. The competitors he’s destroyed, the people he’s hurt, they’re all just marks on a ledger. Now, he’s ready to implement his most ambitious plan of all. There’s only one force standing in his way—President Jack Ryan.
How do you compel a man like Jack Ryan to bend? He’s personally faced down everything from the Russian navy to cartel killers. It will take more than political headwinds or media disfavor to cause him to turn from his duty to the American people, but every man has an Achilles heel. Jack Ryan’s is his family.
The answer is as simple as it is shocking. The billionaire has assembled an international team of the most ruthless mercenaries alive. Their mission—kidnap the First Lady.