Recommended Suspense Books

Grisham again goes after greedy tort lawyers who accumulate enormous fees in class-action settlements against corporations, with hardly anything left for the corporations' actual victims. In this novel, lawyer Clay Carter is offered a role in the...

Melis Menid lives an idyllic life on a tropical island, with her two pet dolphins for company. It's idyllic, that is, until an arms dealer becomes determined to ferret out a secret known only to Melis's foster father--a secret that could unleash...

The New York Times bestselling author of Firestorm, Iris Johansen, returns with a psychological thriller so terrifying, so relentlessly paced, it won't leave you time to catch your breath before the next shock comes. A forensic sculptor is locked in...

Bestselling horror and suspense novelist Dean R. Koontz pens a tale of alien invasion, told mainly from the perspective of couple Molly and Neil. A glowing silver rain, arriving at night, heralds bizarre and sinister changes for their California...

In her latest thriller, New York Times bestselling author Tami Hoag takes readers on a suspense-filled ride of shocks and twists leading to an explosive finish. It is the story of an ex-cop, a missing girl, and a killer locked in a race where there...

After being abruptly pardoned by a lame duck president, a notorious former Washington powerbroker is released from prison and smuggled out of the country, given a new identity, and hidden in a small town in Italy, but old enemies from the past are...

When a ruthless Columbian revolutionary (and highly skilled assassin) takes a dislike to the daughter of his former (and now deceased) major competitor, she must flee to the US with her son. But, with Rico Chavez's operatives lurking behind every...

After eighteen years as a hired assassin working for the CIA, Lily Mansfield risks everything to pursue her own quest for vengeance, compromising her cover, endangering her own life, and drawing unwanted attention in her pursuit, until CIA agent...

Agreeing to attend a seminar given by a psychologist with a shady reputation as a favor to a reporter friend, Regan Madison takes part in an exercise in which guests are asked to identify those who have hurt or deceived them over the years, but the...

''#1 New York Times bestselling author Iris Johansen turns up the heat in this explosive new psychological thriller. This time a gifted arson investigator teams up with a mysterious operative to stop a killer raging completely out of control......

An ordinary man is pushed to his very limits to save the woman he loves in this novel from the master of suspense, Dean Koontz. Someone kidnaps Mitchell Rafferty's wife, Holly, and threatens to kill her within the next 72 hours unless Mitch produces...

Jordan Buchanan is thrilled that her brother and best friend are tying the knot. The wedding is a lavish affair–for the marriage of Dylan Buchanan and Kate MacKenna is no ordinary occasion. It represents the joining of two family dynasties. The...

Psychic twins serve as the hook for this thriller by the bestselling writer who set the benchmark for the Children-in-Peril subgenre. A kidnapper snatches Kathy and Kelly Frawley on the evening of their third birthday, leaving behind an unconscious...

It's harvest time at the Chandler family farm in Arkansas, and there are two groups of workers on hand to help pick the burgeoning cotton crop. There are the Spruills, a large family from the Ozark mountains; and there is also a group of migrant...

With characters from the Sherbrooke novels and a paranormal twist, Catherine Coulter delivers a sensational novel of a woman at the center of a centuries-old mystery and the man who will help her unravel the secrets of her heart.

Ellie Cavanaugh was seven years old when her older sister was murdered near their home in New York's Westchester County. It was young Ellie's tearful testimony that put Rob Westerfield, the nineteen-year-old scion of a prominent family, in jail...

Attorney Nina Reilly is being framed by someone who wants to see her disbarred. In preparation for her disciplinary hearing, she enlists the help of her ex-husband, lawyer Jack McIntyre, and detective Paul van Wagoner. Paul and Jack squabble as...

A one-time successful securities broker who has spent a year behind bars for a crime she did not commit, Alexis Thorn enlists the aid of the Sisterhood to bring to justice the real criminals--her former employer, Roland Sullivan, and his lover, Arden...

Joanna Brady is an Arizona sheriff who is in the middle of a tough reelection campaign. She is distracted, however, by three murders that seem to be related--one of them involving a pile of dead dogs. And then there's a strange Mexican cult that may...

Recently divorced, Emily Graham moves into her great-grandmother's childhood home in an old resort town on the New Jersey shore. When workers find a skeleton buried in the backyard, an age-old family mystery is solved: this is the body of Emily's...

Eve Duncan has turned down the job twice already. Her skill and devotion in identifying murder victims and helping bring their killers to justice may be world-renowned. But Eve works exclusively for law enforcement and the families of the innocent,...

In a small town out west, Odd Thomas works as a short-order cook at the Pico Mundo Grill. But he also communicates with ghosts, and has a particular talent for scoping out bad spirits called bodachs. When he finds a clutch of them hanging around with...

The 11th Harry Bosch novel marks the detective's return to the LAPD after nearly three years of retirement, when he joins a unit of 'closers' who specialize in using new technology and improved police techniques to find the answers to long-unsolved...

Bill Wile is an easygoing, hardworking guy who leads a quiet, ordinary life. But that is about to change. One evening, after his usual eight-hour bartending shift, he finds a typewritten note under the windshield wiper of his car. If you don’t...

FBI profiler Avery Delaney deserves a vacation, and in the form of an invitation to a spa by her Aunt Carolyn, she gets it. The trouble is that Aunt Carolyn never shows up at the spa and Avery begins to suspect that there may be more at work than a...

At crucial moments eight years apart, two Secret Service agents are distracted--with disastrous results: in one case, a presidential candidate is assassinated, and in the second, one is kidnapped. The two disgraced agents set out to trace the myriad...

While photographing the rescue and cleanup efforts following a dam collapse in Colorado, journalist Alex Graham finds herself overhearing a conversation that she shouldn't--it seems that the dam collapse was not the result of an earthquake, but...

When a horrifying attack leaves one of the four members of the Women's Murder Club struggling for her life, the others fight to keep a madman behind bars before anyone else is hurt. And Lindsay Boxer and her new partner in the San Francisco police...

Twenty years ago at summer camp, Paul Copeland's sister died in the woods, the alleged victim of a serial killer. Her body was never found. Now, Paul is the prosecutor for Essex County, New Jersey, immersed in one of the biggest cases of his career-a...

The #1 New York Times BestsellerMike and Tia Baye decide to spy on their son Adam, who has become moody and withdrawn since his friend's suicide. The software they install on his computer exposes every website visited, every e-mail and...