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Gone Without A Trace: a gripping psychological thriller with a twist readers can't stop talking about
by Mary TorjussenGONE WITHOUT A TRACE by Mary Torjussen is a chilling psychological thriller about a woman whose boyfriend has vanished. Fans of I LET YOU GO and THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN will be gripped. No one ever disappears completely... You leave for work one morning. Another day in your normal life. Until you come home to discover that your boyfriend has gone. His belongings have disappeared. He hasn't been at work for weeks. It's as if he never existed. But that's not possible, is it? And if he has gone without a trace why do you still feel that someone is watching you?(P)2016 Headline Digital
The Gone World
by Tom Sweterlitsch"I promise you have never read a story like this."--Blake Crouch, New York Times bestselling author of Dark MatterInception meets True Detective in this science fiction thriller of spellbinding tension and staggering scope that follows a special agent into a savage murder case with grave implications for the fate of mankind...Shannon Moss is part of a clandestine division within the Naval Criminal Investigative Service. In western Pennsylvania, 1997, she is assigned to solve the murder of a Navy SEAL's family--and to locate his vanished teenage daughter. Though she can't share the information with conventional law enforcement, Moss discovers that the missing SEAL was an astronaut aboard the spaceship U.S.S. Libra--a ship assumed lost to the currents of Deep Time. Moss knows first-hand the mental trauma of time-travel and believes the SEAL's experience with the future has triggered this violence. Determined to find the missing girl and driven by a troubling connection from her own past, Moss travels ahead in time to explore possible versions of the future, seeking evidence to crack the present-day case. To her horror, the future reveals that it's not only the fate of a family that hinges on her work, for what she witnesses rising over time's horizon and hurtling toward the present is the Terminus: the terrifying and cataclysmic end of humanity itself.Luminous and unsettling, The Gone World bristles with world-shattering ideas yet remains at its heart an intensely human story.
The Gone World
by Tom SweterlitschThe Silence of the Lambs meets Interstellar. The terrifying, thrilling and ingenious science-fiction thriller from Tom Sweterlitsch. Film rights bought by Twentieth Century Fox with Neil Blomkamp (District 9, Elysium) to direct.'Thrilling . . . [a] dark, page-turning thriller' The GuardianA murdered family. A missing girl. Time is running out...1997. Shannon Moss of the Naval Criminal Investigative Service is assigned to solve the murder of a Navy SEAL's family - and to locate the soldier's missing teenage daughter. When Moss discovers that the SEAL was an astronaut aboard the spaceship U.S.S. Libra - a ship assumed lost to the darkest currents of Deep Time - she comes to believe that the SEAL's experience with the future is somehow related to this violence. Determined to find the missing girl and driven by a troubling connection to her own past, Moss must travel forward in time to seek evidence that will uncover the truth. To her horror, the future reveals that it's not only the fate of a family that hinges on her work; for what she witnesses is the Terminus: the terrifying and cataclysmic end of humanity itself.'Edge-of-your-seat crime fiction that bends both time and mind. Think True Detective meets 12 Monkeys. Throw in the end of the world and you can begin to imagine where this gut-twisting tale will take you. This is cross-genre fiction at its best' Sylvain Neuvel, author of Sleeping Giants
The Good Afghan
by Kevin MaurerA Special Forces soldier sacrifices everything to achieve one victory in America&’s forever war in Afghanistan.When Charlie, an American Special Forces soldier, finds out the Taliban is trying to sell a Soviet suitcase nuke to Al-Qaeda, he enlists his former interpreter-turned-contractor Ahmed Wali to help recover it. But Wali—one of the &“good&” Afghans—has his own problems. The first is with the local warlord, Jan, who is trying to drive him out of business; the second is with his uncle, Razaq, whose ties to the Taliban jeopardize his ability to work with the Americans. As Charlie and Wali—with the help of Felix, a morally fluid but pragmatic CIA officer—work to get the suitcase nuke off the battlefield, Air Force Tech Sgt. Canterbury starts to investigate Wali&’s business. Canterbury is convinced Wali is a bad guy and arrests him for working with the Taliban. The arrest sends the whole operation awry and forces Charlie and Felix to work in the moral gray areas in order to achieve their objectives. The Good Afghan is an exploration of identity, politics, and the story of the Afghan war and America&’s nation-building experiment gone wrong.
Good and Dead (The Homer Kelly Mysteries #Bk. 6)
by Jane LangtonThe scholar/sleuth investigates a series of deaths in a church congregation in an &“agreeably malevolent&” mystery that &“comes to a spirited conclusion&” (Publishers Weekly). The Baptists of Nashoba are healthy. So are the Quakers, Lutherans, and Methodists. Every religious sect in this small New England town is in ruddy good health, save for the congregation at the Old West Church, whose members are dying like flies. As a rash of heart failure claims victim after victim, what first seemed like tragic coincidence begins to look a lot like murder. And in the small hamlets of Massachusetts, there is no better authority on bloodshed than Homer Kelly. A transcendentalist scholar who dabbles in the unraveling of violent crimes, Homer is just a township away when the plague of heart failure strikes Nashoba. As he attempts to separate natural deaths from the unnatural, Homer sees that beneath the piety of Old West Church lurks at least one parishioner who missed Sunday school the day they explained that thou shalt not kill.
A Good and Happy Child: A Novel
by Justin EvansThirty-year-old George Davies can’t bring himself to hold his newborn son. After months of accepting his lame excuses and strange behavior, his wife has had enough. She demands that he see a therapist, and George, desperate to save his unraveling marriage and redeem himself as a father and husband, reluctantly agrees. As he delves into his childhood memories, he begins to recall things he hasn’t thought of in twenty years. Events, people, and strange situations come rushing back. The odd, rambling letters his father sent home before he died. The jovial mother who started dating too soon after his father’s death. A boy who appeared one night when George was lonely, then told him secrets he didn’t want to know. How no one believed this new friend was real and that he was responsible for the bad things that were happening. Terrified by all that he has forgotten, George struggles to remember what really happened in the months following his father’s death. Were his ominous visions and erratic behavior the product of a grief-stricken child’s overactive imagination (a perfectly natural reaction to the trauma of loss, as his mother insisted)? Or were his father’s colleagues, who blamed a darker, more malevolent force, right to look to the supernatural as a means to end George’s suffering? Twenty years later, George still does not know. But when a mysterious murder is revealed, remembering the past becomes the only way George can protect himself–and his young family.A psychological thriller in the tradition of Donna Tartt’s The Secret History–with shades of The Exorcist–the smart and suspenseful A Good and Happy Child leaves you questioning the things you remember and frightened of the things you’ve forgotten.From the Hardcover edition.
The Good and the Bad
by Joan FlemingIn Paris, small-time crook Ginger meets Marie Céleste. She is a middle-aged woman, the essence of the Paris streets, who is dying on her feet. They form an amoral yet oddly touching liaison, and plan a fraud that takes them to England.But among the shires nothing is as they expected and their plan falls to pieces. Ginger cannot shake his impressions of the murder that he watched Marie Céleste commit in Paris, and in the end he follows its grim pattern to his own destruction.
The Good and the Dead
by Seymour ShubinA Ben Newman Mystery. Elementary Murder True crime writer Ben Newman has a talent for re-creating murder, though until now he's viewed homicide only as an outsider looking in. But suddenly bodies are turning up in his suburban Philadelphia hometown. And he knows each and every one of them: they were all classmates at the same elementary school. A grown-up third-grader harboring a secret grudge? A teacher gone berserk? Ben's ability to get inside the mind of a killer has yet to lead him to the motive. What secrets lie behind the innocent facade of childhood in this small, tigh-knit community? As corpses and old memories come to light, he's reconnecting with the past . . . and getting worried about his own future. Especially when it comes to thwarting a killer intent on making Ben his next victim.
Good and Valuable Consideration: An Original Short Story
by Lee Child Joseph FinderIn this original short story from the New York Times bestselling thriller anthology Face Off, international bestsellers Lee Child and Joseph Finder - along with their popular series characters Jack Reacher and Nick Heller - team up for the first time ever. When Jack Reacher sits down to watch a baseball game at a Boston bar, he has no way of knowing what kind of trouble is about to walk in the door - and not just because he's a Yankees fan in a Red Sox town. In this action-packed short story, Reacher and a new acquaintance - Sox fan Nick Heller - find themselves drawn into a much less friendly rivalry when the guy sitting between them at the bar turns out to be a marked man... For more exciting short story pairings, don't miss all eleven short stories in Face Off!
Good and Valuable Consideration: Jack Reacher vs. Nick Heller
by Joseph Finder Lee ChildIn this story from the thrilling anthology FaceOff, bestselling authors Lee Child and Joseph Finder--along with their popular series characters Jack Reacher and Nick Heller--team up for the first time ever.When Jack Reacher sits down to watch a baseball game at a Boston bar, he has no way of knowing what kind of trouble is about to walk in the door--and not just because he's a Yankees fan in a Red Sox town. In this action-packed short story, Reacher and a new acquaintance--Sox fan Nick Heller--find themselves drawn into a much less friendly rivalry when the guy sitting between them at the bar turns out to be a marked man. For more exciting pairs, check out all eleven short stories in FaceOff!
Good As Dead (Tom Thorne Novels Ser. #10)
by Mark Billingham'Billingham's most desperately gripping read yet' Daily MirrorPolice officer Helen Weeks walks into her local newsagents on her way to work. It's the last place she expects to be met with violence, but she is about to come face to face with a gunman.The hostage-taker is desperate to know what happened to his beloved son, who died a year before in youth custody. By holding Helen at gunpoint, he will force a re-investigation into his son's death. And one man knows the case better than any other - DI Tom Thorne.As the body count rises, Thorne must race against time to bring a killer to justice and save a young mother's life.Taking place over three action-packed days, this is the fastest and most surprising Thorne thriller yet from Sunday Times bestseller Mark Billingham.'One of the great series of British crime fiction' The Times'A new Mark Billingham is always a treat' Susie Steiner________________The outstanding new Tom Thorne thriller, THEIR LITTLE SECRET, is available to pre-order now
Good As Dead (Tom Thorne Novels #10)
by Mark BillinghamThe tenth book in the Tom Thorne series, from bestselling author Mark Billingham.'Billingham's most desperately gripping read yet' Daily MirrorPolice officer Helen Weeks walks into her local newsagents on her way to work. It's the last place she expects to be met with violence, but she is about to come face to face with a gunman.The hostage-taker is desperate to know what happened to his beloved son, who died a year before in youth custody. By holding Helen at gunpoint, he will force a re-investigation into his son's death. And one man knows the case better than any other - DI Tom Thorne.As the body count rises, Thorne must race against time to bring a killer to justice and save a young mother's life.Taking place over three action-packed days, this is the fastest and most surprising Thorne thriller yet from Sunday Times bestseller Mark Billingham.'One of the great series of British crime fiction' The Times'A new Mark Billingham is always a treat' Susie Steiner________________The outstanding new Tom Thorne thriller, THEIR LITTLE SECRET, is out now!
Good As Dead (Tom Thorne Novels #10)
by Mark BillinghamThe HostagePolice officer Helen Weeks walks into her local newsagent's on her way to work. Little does she know that this simple daily ritual will change her life forever. It's the last place she expects to be met with violence, but as she waits innocently at the till, she comes face to face with a gunman.The DemandThe crazed hostage-taker is desperate to know what really happened to his beloved son, who died a year before in youth custody. By holding a police officer at gunpoint, he will force the one man who knows more about the case than any other to re-investigate his son's death. That man is DI Tom Thorne.The TwistWhile Helen fights to stay alive and the body-count rises,Thorne must race against time if he is to bring a killer to justice and save a young mother's life.
Good as Gone: A Novel of Suspense
by Amy GentryThirteen-year-old Julie Whitaker was kidnapped from her bedroom in the middle of the night, witnessed only by her younger sister. Her family was shattered, but managed to stick together, hoping against hope that Julie is still alive. And then one night: the doorbell rings. A young woman who appears to be Julie is finally, miraculously, home safe. The family is ecstatic—but Anna, Julie’s mother, has whispers of doubts. She hates to face them. She cannot avoid them. When she is contacted by a former detective turned private eye, she begins a torturous search for the truth about the woman she desperately hopes is her daughter. Propulsive and suspenseful, Good as Gone will appeal to fans of Gone Girl and The Girl on the Train, and keep readers guessing until the final pages.
The Good Assassin: A Novel
by Paul Vidich“Paul Vidich’s likable and reluctant spy, George Mueller, will keep readers guessing in this eerily real Cuba of 1958. The Good Assassin is a keen historical adventure from the best noir tradition.”—Elizabeth Kostova, #1 New York Times bestselling author “The Good Assassin opens up Hemingway’s Cuba. Possessing Alan Furst’s attention for period detail and the deft character touches of John Le Carré, Vidich has quickly carved out a place for himself among the very first rank of espionage writers. It’s a masterful effort and the author’s best work to date.”—Michael Harvey, New York Times bestselling author of The Chicago Way “The Good Assassin is first-rate literary espionage . . . Author Paul Vidich has evoked not only the intrigue and brutality of Batista’s Cuba, but the island itself . . . a masterful work of noir fiction.”—Susan Isaacs, New York Times bestselling author of A Hint of Strangeness Paul Vidich follows up his acclaimed debut spy thriller with a suspenseful tale of Cold War espionage set in 1950s Cuba, as foreign powers compete to influence the outcome of a revolution.Former CIA Agent George Mueller arrives in Havana in August 1958—the last months before the fall of Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista—to look into the activities of Toby Graham, a CIA officer suspected of harboring sympathies for the rebel forces fighting the unpopular Batista regime. Mueller knew Graham as an undergraduate and later they were colleagues in Berlin fighting the Soviet NKVD. Under the guise of their long acquaintance Mueller is recruited to vet rumors that Graham is putting weapons, covertly provided by the CIA to Batista, into the hands of Castro’s forces. Public exposure of the CIA weapons mission, and the activity of one rogue agent, threaten to embarrass the agency. Mueller uncovers a world of deceit as the FBI, CIA, and State Department compete to influence the outcome of the revolution in the face of the brutal dictatorship’s imminent collapse. Graham, meanwhile, is troubled by the hypocrisy of a bankrupt US foreign policy, and has fallen in love with a married American woman, Liz Malone. Paul Vidich has written a powerful story of ideals, passions, betrayals, and corrupting political rivalries in the months before Castro’s triumphant march into Havana on New Year’s Day 1959. This sequel showcases the widely praised talents of Paul Vidich, who Booklist says, “writes with an economy of style that acclaimed novelists might do well to emulate.”
A Good Baby: A Novel
by Leon RookeDuring the night of a storm, an Appalachian girl delivers a baby and disappears. Next morning, Raymond Toker finds the baby under a bush and takes to the mountain roads to find her a home. While Turner carries out his quest, the child's father, Truman, with teeth as rotten as his soul, drives his battered car along the same paths.
Good Bad Girl: A Novel
by Alice FeeneyTHE INSTANT USA TODAY BESTSELLER!!Sometimes bad things happen to good people, so good people have to do bad things.Queen of Twists, bestselling author of Daisy Darker and Rock Paper Scissors Alice Feeney, returns with another thrilling mystery filled with drama and her trademark surprises.Twenty years after a baby is stolen from a stroller, a woman is murdered in a care home. The two crimes are somehow linked, and a good bad girl may be the key to discovering the truth.Edith may have been tricked into a nursing home, but at eighty-years-young, she’s planning her escape. Patience works there, cleaning messes and bonding with Edith, a kindred spirit. But Patience is lying to Edith about almost everything. Edith’s own daughter, Clio, won’t speak to her. And someone new is about to knock on Clio’s door…and their intentions aren’t good.With every reason to distrust each other, the women must solve a mystery with three suspects, two murders, and one victim. If they do, they might just find out what happened to the baby who disappeared, the mother who lost her, and the connections that bind them.In the style of Daisy Darker and Rock Paper Scissors, Good Bad Girl is a thriller in which nobody can be trusted and the twists come fast and furious.
Good Bad Love: From the Richard & Judy Book Club bestselling author of The Guilty One
by Lisa Ballantyne'Gripping and emotionally charged' Clare Mackintosh'Emotionally compelling' Chris Brookmyre There's a fine line between good and bad . . . 'Big George' McLaughlin is a bad person. He's snatched a little girl from her family, and he's not planning on giving her back.But George is also inherently good. He loves this little girl and has kidnapped her with pure intentions. She's his daughter and he wouldn't do a thing to hurt her.So when being together feels so right, why is it so terribly wrong?Is there such a thing as good bad love?From the Richard & Judy Book Club and international bestselling author of The Guilty One comes a suspenseful, gritty and emotionally charged journey of an estranged father and daughter, exploring the strength of family ties and our huge capacity for forgiveness.***Originally published as REDEMPTION ROAD***Praise for Lisa Ballantyne:'Thought-provoking, brave, challenging, compulsive' Rosamund Lupton'Moving, insightful' Guardian'Sophisticated, suspenseful, unsettling' Lee Child'Tense' Sunday Times'Grips like a vice' Daily Mail'Thought-provoking and clever' Gilly Macmillan'Will touch your heart, even as it leaves you unsettled' Hallie Ephron'Tense and moving' Rachel Abbott'A page-turner with real emotional depth' Daily Express'I couldn't get this book out of my head' Jenny Colgan
Good Bad Woman: A Frankie Richmond Mystery
by Elizabeth WoodcraftLondon barrister is accused of murder and is also in pursuit of the woman of her dreams; first in a series.
Good Bait: A Novel
by John HarveyA stunning new crime novel from the Cartier Diamond Dagger winner and London Times bestselling authorWhen a 17-year-old Moldovan boy is found dead on Hampstead Heath, the case falls to DCI Karen Shields and her overstretched Homicide & Serious Crime Unit. Karen knows she needs a result. What she doesn't know is that her new case is tied inextricably to a much larger web of gang warfare and organised crime which infiltrates almost every aspect of London society.Several hundred miles away in Cornwall, Detective Inspector Trevor Cordon is stirred from his day-to-day duties by another tragic London fatality. Travelling to the capital and determined to establish the cause of death and trace the deceased's daughter, Cordon becomes entangled in a complicated situation of his own. A situation much closer to Karen's case than either of them will ever know.Brilliantly plotted and filled with rich, subtle characters, John Harvey's latest novel reveals him once again as a masterful writer with his finger firmly on the pulse of twenty-first century crime.
Good Bait: A Novel
by John HarveyA stunning new crime novel from the Cartier Diamond Dagger winner and London Times bestselling author. When a 17-year-old Moldovan boy is found dead on Hampstead Heath, the case falls to DCI Karen Shields and her overstretched Homicide & Serious Crime Unit. Karen knows she needs a result. What she doesn&’t know is that her new case is tied inextricably to a much larger web of gang warfare and organized crime which infiltrates almost every aspect of London society. Several hundred miles away in Cornwall, Detective Inspector Trevor Cordon is stirred from his day-to-day duties by another tragic London fatality. Traveling to the capital and determined to establish the cause of death and trace the deceased&’s daughter, Cordon becomes entangled in a complicated situation of his own. A situation much closer to Karen&’s case than either of them will ever know. Brilliantly plotted and filled with rich, subtle characters, John Harvey&’s latest novel reveals him once again as a masterful writer with his finger firmly on the pulse of twenty-first-century crime.
Good Behavior: A Dortmunder Novel (The Dortmunder Novels #6)
by Donald E. WestlakeA hapless thief is drafted by a gang of nuns in need, in a novel by an Edgar Award winner who &“has no peer in the realm of comic mystery novelists&” (San Francisco Chronicle). It was supposed to be a simple caviar heist. Dortmunder is almost in the building when the alarm sounds, forcing him up the fire escape and onto the roof. He leaps onto the next building, smashing his ankle and landing in the den of the worst kind of creature he can imagine: nuns. Although decades removed from his Catholic orphanage, Dortmunder still trembles before the sisters&’ habits. But these nuns are kinder than the ones he grew up with. They bandage his wound, let him rest, and don&’t call the cops—for a price. The father of the youngest member of their order, disgusted by their vow of silence, has kidnapped his daughter, locked her in a tightly guarded penthouse apartment, and is attempting to convince her to renounce her faith. The nuns ask Dortmunder to rescue the girl. It&’s an impossible assignment—but one he cannot refuse.
Good Blood (Gideon Oliver Mystery #11)
by Aaron ElkinsWhat was supposed to be an Italian vacation for forensic anthropologist Gideon Oliver and his wife turns into a busman's holiday when their hosts' only child goes missing--and nearby construction workers unearth human bones. The family awaits Oliver's conclusions with both dread and cautious hope. But along the way, he'll expose some extraordinary deceptions that lay bare the long-hidden secrets at the dark heart of a highborn family.
The Good Boss (Mafia Made #3)
by Scott HildrethThe breathtaking conclusion to #1 ebook bestselling author Scott Hildreth’s Mafia Made seriesTrippI never wanted to rule. But I’m not the kind of man who turns his back when family asks him to step up.With the ATF breathing down our necks, there is no room for error.Not when my familia—and my beautiful Terra—is on the line.TerraOnce I hid who I am—now I must embrace it. My fiancé now sits at my father’s desk. He’s the only one who can protect this empire from being exposed and crumbling to the ground.If Michael is going to succeed, he needs me to be strong. I won’t fail him. This is our family and we will fight for it with everything we have.This book is approximately 50,000 wordsRead how Tripp and Terra began in The Gun Runner and The Game Changer, available now! One-click with confidence. This title is part of the Carina Press Romance Promise: all the romance you’re looking for with an HEA/HFN. It’s a promise!
The Good Byline: A Riley Ellison Mystery (The Riley Ellison Mysteries #1)
by Jill OrrMeet Riley Ellison, a smart, quirky, young library assistant who’s become known in her hometown of Tuttle Corner, Virginia, as Riley Bless-Her-Heart. Ever since her beloved granddaddy died and her longtime boyfriend broke up with her, Riley has been withdrawing from life. In an effort to rejoin the living, she signs up for an online dating service and tries to reconnect with her childhood best friend, Jordan James, a reporter at the Tuttle Times. But when she learns that Jordan committed suicide, Riley is shaken to the core.Riley agrees to write Jordan's obituary as a way to learn more about why a young woman with so much to live for would suddenly opt out. Jordan’s co-worker, a paranoid reporter with a penchant for conspiracy theories, convinces Riley that Jordan’s death was no suicide. He leads her down a dangerous path toward organized crime, secret lovers, and suspicious taco trucks.Riley’s serpentine hunt for the truth eventually intersects with her emerging love life, and she makes a discovery that puts everything Riley holds dear-her job, the people she loves, and even her life-in danger. Will writing this obituary be the death of her?