If you like the knockout suspense of Michael Connelly and the gritty "who done its" by Linda Fairstein, you'll love Joel Goldman's Shakedown!

"Goldman tells a story at a breakneck pace..."
Kansas City Star

"A killer identified via a fleeting facial expression and behavioral clues turns a middle-aged FBI agent dealing with a disruptive disability into an unexpected hero in Goldman's latest terrific thriller."
Publisher's Weekly

When FBI Agent Jack Davis investigates a mass murder, a leak of crucial information and his imploding personal life throw him into the ultimate danger zone - where truth lies at the heart of betrayal.

Need a thrill pill? Take Shakedown and stay up all night!

A veteran of battles with mythological demons, Carter stumbles upon something that defies reason. While waiting in a church for Stella, meeting with a cleric-friend who recently returned from Greece, he witnesses an apparent miracle. Stella’s next book will be about texts and treasures because she is an authority on the Byzantine period. Her original plan was to continue gathering material for her book with Carter coming along for moral support—and company. However, once a mysterious call comes in the middle of the night, and a raspy voice pleads with him for help, research gathering takes a backseat. When their search for Stella’s friend take them to Savannah, once again Carter is forced to consider that what he believed to have been resolved—and forever buried—is not finished threatening humanity. And this time, the ancient evil has company of modern-day evil because men and women with money and power will always want something more….

A killer is placing his cross hairs over the American heartland....

The pair of frozen corpses were found under a tarp in the machine shed of an empty farmhouse. Two males -- brothers -- both killed by bullets from a Russian automatic fired at close range. The cops have a suspect: a man Deputy Sheriff Carl Houseman busted five years earlier and the county's lead suspect in a series of recent robberies.

Houseman knows they have the wrong guy. He also knows they've got something bigger than a burglary gone bad ... especially when the FBI starts showing up in Maitland. The brutal double homicide is just the tip of the iceberg in a case where a killer's trail keeps disappearing like footprints in freshly fallen snow, and where one bad break can send a good cop into a deep freeze.


From the Paperback edition.

She can’t run fast enough to escape her past.

Authorities find five-year-old Gabriella LeBlanc walking on the ice of Lake Superior six months after an unspeakable crime. Michigan police discover a dead man in a wilderness cabin, but the child has no memory of her abduction or captivity.

Thirty years later, Gabriella disappears from her home after calling 911 and accusing her husband of assault. Toronto PI Samantha McNamara and ex-OPP Inspector Reece Hash must unravel the shocking truth behind the woman’s haunted life before a jury convicts her husband of murder.

But the web of lies Sam is weaving around her past begins to disintegrate when their investigation reveals hidden ties her father had to the murdered woman’s childhood. As Reece’s suspicions mount, Sam struggles to guard her secrets and uncover Gabriella’s disturbing history before time runs out.

A dark thriller with twists that keep readers turning the pages.

A spy quit and blackmailed her way out of the business. Now she finds the leverage needed to keep her alive falling apart…

Cassandra Sashakovich quit spying for her country. To do this, she blackmailed the White House to get her boyfriend, Lee Ainsley, released from Gitmo. She also rescued the teenager, Ann Silbee, from homelessness. Now they're safe and so is she. So everything should slowly become normal.

But Lee and Ann hate each other. Worse still, all those she broke and mangled on her mad run to survive want revenge.

Her life starts to unravel when the brother of murdered terrorists discovers it was Cassandra that killed them. Then the President's secret, the one she promised to keep hidden in exchange for her boyfriend's release, leaks to the press.

Her leverage is vaporizing.
It's time to run again…

Another gripping serial killer thriller from the Queen of Scream.

Young girls are being kidnapped and so are their mothers. They are being bought and sold as slaves. Behind these kidnappings stands a ghostly person who calls himself the Boxer. He finds the girls and their mothers online, where he stalks and chats with the girls until he decides who to pick up and sell.

A new reign of terror has fallen on the unsuspecting residents of Cocoa Beach. They think their worst nightmare is the environmental catastrophe causing the thousands of dead fish in the river”"until the first body turns up among the dead fish.

Mary Mills’ personal life is in chaos. She is trying to balance being a divorced mother and dealing with the presence of her ex-husband’s new girlfriend in her, and especially her son’s, life.

Mary gets on the trail of the disappearing mothers and daughters, and when she finally thinks she has it all figured out, it becomes clear that nothing is what it seems.

Meanwhile, Mary’s brother Blake is preparing an attack on her, and before she knows it, she is the one who desperately needs the help from her friends in the 7th Street Crew.

Every bit as pulse-pounding as her other books You Can’t Hide, delivers further proof that Willow Rose is the most addictive thriller writer around.

For fans of Cussler, Crichton and tense, riveting adventures...

A deadly carnivorous insect.
A group of scientists trapped in the remote rainforest.
One horror filled night.

Entomologist Howard Duncan has a generous grant and a wealthy lover. Now he's on the verge of a find in the Brazilian rainforest that will reenergize his career: the rarely sighted reptilus blaberus, an insect like no other.

But something has changed - nature has started producing an antidote to the fungal infection that previously held the insect population in check. Skeletons provide Duncan and his team with an ominous first clue about the potential consequences.

And as the hunters become the hunted, the team must fight for their lives if they want to survive the terror-filled night.

In the tradition of The Stand, The Man in the High Castle, and The Road, comes an epic story of struggle against tyranny in a future America....

The year is 2141. Islam controls most of the civilized world, including all that exists of the former United States. Climate change has made fresh drinking water a scarce, and valuable, commodity. Islamic states that once controlled the oil now control the largest fresh water deposit in the world, the American Great Lakes.

Washington D.C. and New York City are mere memories of the old world, as a new regime of Caliphs has ruled the eastern half of the country for the past century. The barren ‘no man’s land’ east of the Mississippi River is but an encroaching desert, and the realm of the Great Lakes—known as Al-hayat Miyaah—dictates life for the rest of the realm.

Jihadic allegiance and the Lakes’ bounty decide a person’s worth, where clean, drinkable water is far more precious than gold… and more valuable than the lives of infidels.

Aligned with a much smaller Muslim nation in Kentucky, the Caliphate seeks to steadily eradicate the less privileged southern states, collectively known as the Southern Lowlands. Forever viewed as the scourge of the new America, or Amreeka, the Fourth Caliph of the Bashir dynasty, Abdul-Muttalib Bashir, moves to cut off the Mississippi River’s flow to the south, as part of the Caliphate’s Centennial Celebration. The enormous dam at Cairo, Illinois was created for this very purpose. The perpetual hardships facing townships in Mississippi, Tennessee, and Alabama now worsens dramatically.

In this hostile environment, Joaquin Martinez and six others risk certain death, as fugitives crossing state lines to reclaim loved ones stolen from Hernando, Mississippi, and sold into slavery in Detroit. At the same time, survivalist Malcolm Foster and his daughter Renee begin a journey to Kentucky with other survivalists hoping to strike a blow to the Muslim empire. Lastly, in the heart of Al-hayat Miyaah, the youngest son of the Caliph, Abdul-Bari, sets out on a quest to determine the truth about infidels… their worthiness of scorn and indiscriminate death.

Much is at stake for them all, as a crossing of paths determines who inevitably is destined to win… and who must lose everything.


****Disclaimer: The book is not a religious condemnation, although it supports none of them. The story is about the wickedness of human nature—a treatise, if you will, about mankind’s desire to subjugate others—especially when bad men are in control of that power.

Arctic Wargame is the first book in the wildly popular Justin Hall spy thriller series, hitting Amazon’s Best Sellers lists in 2012, 2013 and 2014.

Canadian Intelligence Service Agent Justin Hall—combat-hardened in operations throughout Northern Africa—has been demoted after a botched mission in Libya.

When two foreign icebreakers appear in Canadian Arctic waters, Justin volunteers for the reconnaissance mission, eager to return to the field. His team discovers a foreign weapons cache deep in the Arctic, but they are not aware that a spy has infiltrated the Department of National Defence.

The team begins to unravel a treasonous plan against Canada, but they fall under attack from one of their own. Disarmed and stripped of their survival gear, they are stranded in a remote location. Now the team must survive the deadly Arctic not only to save themselves, but their country.

Arctic Wargame is an action-packed spy thriller in the bestselling tradition of David Baldacci, Brad Thor and Vince Flynn. Readers will enjoy a great tale of courage, fear and betrayal.

What happens when a Serial Killer takes on a bunch of Hijackers?

The Plan: Hijack an airliner and do some real bad things.
The Problem: One by one, the hijackers start getting killed.

Yep, someone in economy class is taking out the hijackers one by one. Caught off guard by the unexpected 'attrition' in their ranks, the remaining hijackers split their time between hunting the elusive killer and doing their best to keep the hijacking alive.

Part extreme-satire, part super-conspiracy, this novella involving planes and other bad things should be right up the alley for fans of Archer, Johnny English and other irreverent spies.

Inflight Terror is a deadly saga of evil vs super evil... may the better evil win

Heart gripping mystery from an Amazon ALL-star Best-selling author.

It’s not the kind of thing you’d expect to happen on an ordinary Saturday morning.

Her kids are arguing and her husband is still sleeping. Lisa is tired and wonders why her husband keeps working late. Is he having an affair? Is it the same girl as last time?

Lisa’s teenage daughter is acting up, and just as Lisa is about to walk up to her room and tell her who’s the boss around here, she feels the cold steel of a gun pressed against her cheek, while a hand covers her mouth.

Years later, it remains a mystery. Who killed Lisa’s family after holding them captive for twenty-four terrifying hours in their own house?

Mary Mills is enjoying her new life in Cocoa Beach. She is back with her husband Joey and the rest of the 7th Street Crew that she grew up with. She is writing a blog and doing pretty well for herself when she realizes one of her best friends, Marcia is in serious trouble.

It is well known within the crew that Marcia likes to drink a lot, but things are getting worse. Marcia is deep in over her head and she risks losing her children. Soon Mary realizes that maybe she doesn’t know her old friend as well as she thought.

It is said that a friend will help you if you’re knocked down, while a real friend says, “Stay down; I’ve got this.”

Will Mary be able to live up to this? Will she be able to help Marcia, to save her before it is too late? Does she want to after she digs deeper into Marcia’s story and finds out who she really is?

Silas wakes with a start in the middle of the night, feeling a suffocating sense of unease -- as if he's being watched. His wife is asleep. He scans the bedroom of their rented holiday cottage, a spooky and unfamiliar place.

He makes out something in the dark. On the chair in the corner of the room. What the...? He's mistaken, surely. It's his over-active imagination. A trick of the moonlight. No. Someone's there - an old man. Sitting there, staring back at him. With a terrifying grin on his face...

Featuring two characters in one location over the space of three days, Leave This Place is a stripped down, unnerving tale of quiet horror from the mind of supernatural thriller author Spike Black (Don’t Look Inside).

PRAISE FOR LEAVE THIS PLACE:

“I just could not put this book down. Best horror story I’ve read in a long time.”

“Had me on the edge of my seat. Finished it in 2 days, it was that good!”

“Very, very creepy. Quite a few scary surprises. The more Spike Black books I read, the more I want.”

“I was completely blown away! Great to read next to a campfire while on vacation.”

“Absolutely could NOT put this down until I finished it! Grabs you at the beginning and refuses to let go. Just HAD to see how it ended!!"

"In the spirit of Law Abiding Citizen, this is a case of egregious American corruption"

Two criminals are responsible for an innocent man getting sentenced to life for murder. An inept defense attorney and a crooked prosecutor let these criminals serve short sentences with a bogus plea deal.

The four of them have been lured into a trap in an abandoned warehouse. Someone wants vengeance. This is a story of vigilante justice for the wrongfully convicted. Marked doors lead to four locked rooms, one where each of them will have to pay a price for what they have done. What will they be required to do in order to survive? Will they make amends for what they've done and set everything right again, or face unspeakable punishments?

This riveting crime thriller puts the American justice system in public view and will keep you guessing until the very last scene. A dark masked figure watches...waits...and wants revenge. See if you can figure out who really wants vigilante justice in The Conviction.

A COMPELLING MYSTERY FULL OF TWISTS AND TURNS

Fifteen years ago a teenage boy, Teddy Bartlett, left a mysterious note and went to a woods on the outskirts of London. In the forest twilight he was beaten to a pulp and left damaged for life. The police never discovered who did it or why he was attacked.

Now, the boy’s father, recently returned from Australia, wants to find out what really happened to his son. He hires private detective Tyrone Swift to investigate the tragic crime.

Swift quickly realises that the Bartletts are a family with dark secrets. Teddy’s seemingly devoted sister Sheila, his estranged brother, and his father Rowan, who left his wife for her sister, are not what they seem.

Swift himself has his own family and relationship issues . . . plus someone is out to get him, targeting him with an escalating series of attacks. Could it be a disgruntled client or a criminal he came across in his days as a police inspector? In a thrilling conclusion, Swift will face losing everything he loves as he closes in on the perpetrators.

BLOOD SECRETS is a beautifully written mystery that will have you gripped from start to heart-stopping finish.

Perfect for fans of Robert Galbraith, Paula Hawkins, P.D. James, Gillian Flynn, or Ruth Rendell.

This is a story of secrets, abandonment, repressed sexuality, dysfunctional families and brutality, with a hint of hope at the end.

PRAISE FOR BLOOD SECRETS
“OMG this was so good, I can't believe that I just started this today and I finished it in one sitting, I just had to know what was going to happen next, if the case of Teddy Bartlett was ever going to be closed and why he was beaten to a pulp and left damaged for life.” Elizabeth Means

“There are twists and turns never expected, and a couple surprise side trips along the way. Lots of interesting characters and settings. A very good book.” Teresa Jilard

Available now by Gretta Mulrooney: THE LADY VANISHED, the first book featuring Tyrone Swift
How can someone vanish without a trace? Carmen Langborne is a woman who no one seems to like very much, and now she's gone missing. But there is no body, no leads and no real suspects. And the police have stopped investigating her disappearance. Carmen's stepdaughter Florence hires private detective Tyrone Swift to find the missing woman.

“Spell-binding! Will keep you on the edge of your seat. Call it techno-thriller, call it science fiction, call it just terrific story-telling.” Terry Brooks, #1 NY Times Bestselling author of the Shannara series and Star Wars Phantom Menace

A war beyond time. An enemy beyond space. A thriller beyond your wildest dreams. Three areas on the Earth’s surface defy explanation: the Bermuda Triangle, the Devil’s Sea of Japan, and a small region of Cambodia. Inside these realms, planes have disappeared, ships have vanished, and, in Cambodia, an entire civilization has been lost leaving behind Angkor Wat.

In 1945, Training Flight 19 disappears in the Bermuda Triangle.

In 1963, the USS Thresher, a nuclear submarine, is lost under unusual circumstances, part of a secret government investigation into mysterious gates.

Near the end of of the Vietnam War, Green Beret Eric Dane led a team of operatives deep into Cambodia and encountered a strange fog near the legendary city of Angkor Kol Ker. His entire team disappears, attacked by strange creatures out of the fog. Only Dane survives to return.

Now a plane goes down. In the same area Dane lost his team. He’s called back. To find out who is the darkness behind these gates to our planet. What does this Shadow force want? It is a threat that will take on the world’s greatest military forces and defeat them. A power that will overwhelm our science and technology. A merciless enemy that will lead Dane—and the whole planet—into the final desperate battle for survival.

If you enjoyed LOST, you’ll love this book and be amazed at the similarities in concept (although this book was published before Lost).
 

If you enjoy current best-selling thriller novels by authors such as Clive Cussler, James Rollins, Steve Berry and Brad Thor, if you like high adventure, exotic locations and action thrillers with a historical twist, then this is page-turner for you!

THE EMPRESS HOLDS THE KEY is a mystery action thriller for the thinking reader who has an open mind and likes to be challenged.

In THE EMPRESS HOLDS THE KEY, author Gabriel Farago takes you on an exciting journey of discovery where the stakes are high, the rewards great, but where the price of failure is oblivion.

This fast-paced international thriller weaves fact and fiction into an adventure of epic proportions as it follows the lives of a handful of diverse individuals tied together by destiny and fate.

Journalist Jack Rogan knows a great story when he finds one. A charred old photograph found in the ruins of a burnt-out Blue Mountains cottage hints at dark secrets and unwittingly reignites an ancient and deadly quest for a holy relic mysteriously erased from the pages of history.

Federal Police officer Jana Gonski in pursuit of a suspected Nazi war criminal joins forces with Rogan, barrister and amateur archaeologist Marcus Carrington QC, and celebrated composer Benjamin Krakowski. Together they uncover a murky web of intrigue and greed, hoards of Nazi gold and hidden Swiss bank accounts. All implicate wealthy banker Sir Eric Newman. When Newman goes on trial, unexpected clues are discovered pointing the way to a mystery that has haunted the Catholic Church for centuries.

On a dangerous journey to find the relic, Rogan and his companions trace links back as far as the reign of Akhenaten, the heretic pharaoh of ancient Egypt, and King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba. What is this dark secret guarded by the Knights Templar, and so feared by the Vatican? Will religious fanatics foil the quest which could destroy the very foundations of their Church and challenge Christianity itself?
 

Eighteen suspenseful short stories of horror and supernatural from top #10 Amazon Horror genre author Susan May. Will delight fans of Twilight Zone, Outer Limits and any lovers of genius twists you won't see coming. By the author readers are calling the next Gillian Flynn (Gone Girl) and the female Stephen King.

Includes:

DO US PART
Those darling, elderly couples married for decades always look happy on the news. When you're married for seventy years, what secret thoughts lie behind the smiles?

HELL'S KITCHEN
Gordon must survive the elimination round in an intense cooking competition. As the tension mounts, he's convinced of his imminent elimination with terrible consequences.

MITIGATING CIRCUMSTANCES
Bullying is always a volatile subject, but when a parent-teacher interview goes very wrong, "volatile" is too mild a word.

I HATE EMMA CARTER
Emma Carter is the new girl in class. Class bully Angie Dutton is assigned to be her babysitter. Perhaps Angie has picked the wrong victim this time.

IT'S IN THE GENES
Another morning of Helen yet again struggling to motivate her teenage son to get out the door on time. Since Brandon joined his father on late night fishing trips he's changed. Today, Helen will discover why.

THE WAR VETERAN
For seventy years, World War II veteran Jack Baker has endured vivid flashbacks to that horrific June day on Omaha Beach. Tonight, the flashbacks are terrifyingly different. Tonight, Jack's seventy-year-old secret comes to claim him.

SCENIC ROUTE
When Pam, Michael, and their young sons take the scenic route, they stop overnight at a quaint bed-and-breakfast. What they won't know until its too late, is something is wrong in Broken Springs, Population 402.

HIDE-AND-SEEK
Henry doesn't like playing hide-and-seek until the day he discovers the perfect hiding spot, where he learns there are worse things than being found.

HARASSMENT DAY
Edwin thought he would spend another lovely afternoon with his daughter and granddaughter. But dammit, they had followed him yet again.

THE MONSTER RULES
Harry had survived his 11 years blissfully unaware there really are creatures just itching to steal him away. When his best friend shares the Monster Rules, Harry learns how to stay safe.

WHERE WE ONCE WERE
Tamara dreamed of visiting her distant ancestors' 1897 time world for her PhD research paper. What she discovers is a secret two hundred years in the making.

DESPERATE
Two agitated women run out into oncoming freeway traffic. Are they insane or is their desperation due to stakes so high they're prepared to give their lives?

GONE
On a rainy night, Crystal's husband disappears while fetching their car. Her mind races with the possibilities that may have befallen him. The truth is far more terrible than she can imagine.

RING RING
Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone, is about to patent his telegraphic transmitter. If not for a mysterious phone call from the future, he would have nothing to patent.

TO BE OR NOT TO BE
The only hope for mankind is to create Oxygen Conversion plants to support key cities. All seemed doomed until THEY came. Now Keriss must face a heart-breaking decision.

THINGS THAT WILL KILL YOU IN AUSTRALIA
American tourist and blogger R.P. Kraul is on the trip of a lifetime in the Australian outback. R.P. has come prepared for anything. But perhaps not prepared enough.

PROGRAM DELETE
The Intelervate Chip repaired brain-damaged babies good as new. In fact, better than new: they were superior in so many ways. As the children matured, they become the focus of a fearful world.

BACK AGAIN
A tragic accident takes Dawn's only child. The following surreal days are filled with grief and moments she never wants to live again, until she finds herself back again, living that day. It's a second chance to save her son. Changing fate is not as simple as it first appears.

A breathtaking thriller that will leave you second guessing every prescription you've ever filled.

Sixty-eight-year-old Emma Rowen's first inkling of trouble was the swelling in her fingers. Three days later the intensive care nurse watched Emma breathe with the help of oxygen delivered through translucent green tubes.

On the other side of town, electronic evidence specialist, Jeremy Cole is working on a new project for a small law firm. Jeremy's company Global ESI, has a reputation for fast turnaround and cut rate pricing. Civil litigation wasn't exciting, nothing like people see on CSI. But the steady stream of employment disputes and the occasional high profile divorce case kept the lights on during the last recession.

When a routine collection of documents and email goes awry, Jeremy discovers a web of international crime and deceit. His search for answers takes him from a corrupt medical wholesaler in Minneapolis to the free trade zone of Malaysia. A place where criminal syndicates move billions of dollars’ worth of counterfeit pharmaceuticals around the globe.

It’s up to Jeremy, to uncover this shadow world before any more seniors fall victim to the deadly concoction. And someone else is determined he won't live to find out.

Uncertain Origin is the debut novel featuring electronic evidence specialist Jeremy Cole and Dr. Nora Galloway.
 

"I did something terrible Grace. I hope you can forgive me ..."

Grace hasn't been the same since the death of her best friend Charlie. She is haunted by Charlie's last words, and in a bid for answers, opens an old memory box of Charlie's. It soon becomes clear there was a lot she didn't know about her best friend.

When Grace starts a campaign to find Charlie's father, Anna, a girl claiming to be Charlie's sister steps forward. For Grace, finding Anna is like finding a new family, and soon Anna has made herself very comfortable in Grace and boyfriend Dan's home.

But something isn't right. Things disappear, Dan's acting strangely and Grace is sure that someone is following her. Is it all in Grace's mind? Or as she gets closer to discovering the truth about both Charlie and Anna, is Grace in terrible danger?

There was nothing she could have done to save Charlie ...or was there?

A compelling, gripping psychological thriller perfect for fans of The Girl on the Train, I Let You Go, and The Girl With No Past.

Adam Austin hasn't spoken to his brother in years. When they were teenagers, their sister was abducted and murdered, and their devastated family never recovered. Now Adam keeps to himself, scraping by as a bail bondsman, working so close to the town's criminal fringes that he sometimes seems a part of them.

Kent Austin is the beloved coach of the local high school football team, a religious man and hero in the community. After years of near misses, Kent's team has a shot at the state championship, a welcome point of pride in a town that has had its share of hardships.

Just before playoffs begin, the town and the team are thrown into shock when horrifically, impossibly, another teenage girl is found murdered. As details emerge that connect the crime to the Austin brothers, the two must confront their buried rage and grief-and unite to stop a killer.

Michael Koryta, widely hailed as one of the most exciting young thriller authors at work today, has written his greatest novel ever-an emotionally harrowing, unstoppably suspenseful novel that Donald Ray Pollock has called "one of the sharpest and superbly plotted crime novels I've read in my life."