Recommended Thriller Books

Wealthy, sexy interior designer Nora doesn't just love 'em and leave 'em --she loves 'em and murders 'em. While Nora plots to kill her current husband as well as her current fianc', FBI agent John O'Hara has been assigned to gather evidence on her....

In 1970, one of Mississippi's more colorful weekly newspapers, The Ford County Times, went bankrupt. To the surprise and dismay of many, ownership was assumed by a 23 year-old college dropout, named Willie Traynor. The future of the paper looked grim...

The curious circumstances of a museum curator’s murder lead Harvard professor Robert Langdon into the heart of a centuries-old religious conspiracy in this follow-up to ANGELS & DEMONS. With help from a French police cryptologist (the...

When Lauren Stillwell discovers her husband leaving a hotel room with another woman, she decides to beat him at his own game. But while she's sneaking around, her husband is hatching a plan of his own. After a torrid quickie with a co-worker, Lauren...

Leaving behind her private forensic pathology practice in Charleston, South Carolina, Kay Scarpetta accepts an assignment in New York City, where the NYPD has asked her to examine an injured man on Bellevue Hospital's psychiatric prison ward. The...

The 10th entry in the suspenseful and romantic FBI series takes on two separate cases. FBI agent Dillon Savich and his wife, agent Lacey Sherlock, pit themselves against a violent pair of kidnappers bent on revenging themselves on comedian Pinky...

A woman must defend herself against the sinister, money-grubbing machinations of an estranged branch of her family in this work of romantic suspense by the New York Times bestselling author of MURDER LIST. Unbeknownst to Kate McKenna, her long-lost...

When newswoman Britt Shelley wakes up to find herself in bed with Jay Burgess, a rising star detective in the Charleston PD, she remembers nothing of how she got there...or of how Jay wound up dead.Handsome and hard-partying, Jay was a hero of...

As the fifth installment in the bestselling thriller series the Women's Murder Club opens, Lieutenant Lindsay Boxer and the Club's new member, Yuki Castellano, watch in horror as Yuki's mother Keiko crumples to the pavement on their way to lunch....

A pediatrician and a detective fall in love as they search for the pediatrician's missing nephew in this work of romantic suspense. Andrew and Sara Taylor are flying to Florida under FBI protection so that Andrew can testify in a drug-trafficking...

Vastly entertaining... Full of plot surprises and featuring a balanced mix of intrigue, hard action, and angst, the novel...grips from start to finish. The Alex Cross series remains Patterson's finest, and this is the finest Cross in years.

When a terrorist leader and a drug warlord form a dangerous alliance, three new Hendley Associates agents--FBI agent Dominic Caruso, his Marine captain brother Brian, and their cousin, Jack Ryan, Jr.--encounter unexpected dangers. Reprint.

The memorable story begun in When the Wind Blows continues in this thrilling new novel, and it's one that really soars! Frannie O'Neil, a Colorado veterinarian, knows a terrible secret that will change the history of the world. Kit Harrison, an FBI...

Defense attorney Paul Madriani has quite a challenge in the eighth legal thriller in which he stars: his close-mouthed client, accused of a high-profile murder, refuses to provide information vital to developing his defense. Only a military marksman...

A killer is leaving a puzzling calling card in the mouths of his victims. And in the middle of a steamy Minnesota summer, Virgil Flowers of the Bureau of Criminal Apprehension finds himself embroiled in an investigation with no easy answers-and no...

Boston Medical Examiner Maura Isles's newest case provides clues to her hitherto unknown past in this fourth thriller to star her and Homicide Detective Jane Rizzoli. Isles is shocked by the sight of a murdered woman who resembles her in every...

Originally serialized in the New York Times magazine, this standalone procedural stars Winston 'Win' Garano, a stylishly dressed, maverick police investigator dragged into a morass of dirty politics surrounding the Massachusetts gubernatorial race...

Coulter's electrifying new FBI thriller features married agents Savich and Sherlock in their most challenging and baffling case yet when they are charged with heading up an investigation into the killings of some of Washington's prominent figures.

A VERY PUBLIC DISAPPEARANCE California's 'Boy with a Broken Heart,' the teenage son of a recent governor, has disappeared under mysterious circumstances. Michael Campion, born with an incurable heart defect, has grown up under the...

After one troubled college-age student disappears and two are found slashed to death, Lucas Davenport finds himself hunting what appears to be a modern-day Jack the Ripper. But Lucas keeps getting the sneaking suspicion that there is something else...

He gave up the money. He gave up the power. Now all he has left is the law.Michael Brock is billing the hours, making the money, rushing relentlessly to the top of Drake & Sweeney, a giant D.C. law firm. One step away from partnership, Michael...

Jason Bourne. He has no past. And he may have no future. His memory is blank. He only knows that he was flushed out of the Mediterranean Sea, his body riddled with bullets. There are a few clues. A frame of microfilm surgically implanted beneath...

When reporter Ellen Gleeson gets a "Have You Seen This Child?" flyer in the mail, she almost throws it away. But something about it makes her look again, and her heart stops—the child in the photo is identical to her adopted son, Will....

'Dick, I need a war.' Nicolas Creel is a man on a mission. He heads up the world's largest defense contractor, The Ares Corporation. Dick Pender is the man Creel retains to 'perception manage' his company to even more riches...

Readers who consider a good thriller as essential as an even tan will flock to this seaside offering by blockbuster bestselling author James Patterson. Ned Kelly is a poor lifeguard with a rich girlfriend, and he desperately wants to be able to live...

Out of Lucas Davenport's past comes a psycho nursing a violent grudge. But why go after Davenport for revenge when Davenport's young daughter is so close-and so vulnerable?

This thriller set on the high seas is the fifth in the NUMA Files series. A life-extending chemical found deep in the ocean, a corpse frozen in a glacier, and various murders and disappearances are linked to the sinister plottings of a family of arms...

Theirs was a marriage made in tabloid heaven, but no sooner had supermodel Laura Ayars and Celtics star David Baskin said "I do" than tragedy struck. While honeymooning on Australia's Great Barrier Reef, David went out for a swim — and...

Do you still miss your little Bonnie? This one sentence, spoken by a male voice in anonymous phone call, is all it takes to drag Eve Duncan right back to that horrifying moment years ago when her only daughter vanished without a trace. Since then,...

In this standalone thriller, Lisa Scottoline introduces a Philadelphia judge whose life spirals into crisis after a mere six months on the job. When Richard Marz sues TV producer Art Simone for grabbing Marz's pitch about a quartet of computer-savvy...