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The FBI Profiler Case Files: The Complete Collection of First Chapters
by Lisa GardnerDo you love NYT #1 Bestselling Lisa Gardner's brilliant novels? Have you never read her? Do you want to know more about her series and characters?Lisa Gardner's FBI Profiler series feature some of her most fascinating and unpredictable characters and cases. This is an introduction to the series featuring opening chapters from all six novels . . . do you dare delve into a world that tries to make sense of serial killers?Heart-racing suspense and irresistible characters from the bestselling author of TOUCH & GO, CATCH ME, LOVE YOU MORE and many others.
The FBI Profiler Series 6-Book Bundle
by Lisa GardnerThroughout this electrifying series from "one of the best thriller writers in the business" (Associated Press), brilliant FBI profiler Pierce Quincy faces off against all manner of serial killers and psychopaths alongside his partner, Rainie Conner, and his daughter, Kimberly Quincy. Now this edge-of-your-seat eBook bundle assembles all six of the superb novels featuring Lisa Gardner's extraordinary protagonist: THE PERFECT HUSBAND THE THIRD VICTIM THE NEXT ACCIDENT THE KILLING HOUR GONE SAY GOODBYE A convicted murderer escapes from a maximum security prison--to go after the wife who put him behind bars. A maniac who kills for sport hides in the shadows, even as a boy confesses to his horrific crimes. A predator torments his victims with unspeakably intimate acts of violence. A butcher leaves two bodies each time he strikes, with the first containing clues that lead to the second. A madman pursues money, power, and celebrity by adopting the alias of a notorious killer. A sadist hunts the streets for vulnerable girls--and makes their nightmares come alive. These are just a few of the souls that haunt Lisa Gardner's riveting series. But all these criminals have one thing in common: They are no match for Pierce Quincy. Praise for Lisa Gardner and her Pierce Quincy novels "Lisa Gardner always delivers heart-stopping suspense."--Harlan Coben "An unforgettably evil villain and a throat-gripping climax make The Perfect Husband a real page-turner!"--Tess Gerritsen "Riveting, hold-your-breath suspense!"--Iris Johansen, on The Third Victim "A suspense-laden, twist-filled tale that easily equals the best of Sue Grafton and Kathy Reichs."--The Providence Journal, on The Next Accident "Gardner keeps us guessing. . . . She also keeps us on edge."--Los Angeles Times, on The Killing Hour "As usual, Gardner delivers the thrills."--The Orlando Sentinel, on Gone "Just when you thought Lisa Gardner couldn't get any better . . . she does. Say Goodbye is a stunning, chilling, up-all-night thriller that will leave you shaken."--Lee Child
The Fabian Risk Series eBook Bundle: Victim Without a Face (Book 1), The Ninth Grave (Book 2), Eighteen Below (Book 3) (A Fabian Risk Collection #1)
by Stefan AhnhemAn exclusive ebook bundle of three spine-tingling thrillers in the internationally bestselling Fabian Risk series.In the first book in the Fabian Risk series, Victim Without a Face, criminal investigator Fabian Risk is asked to investigate the brutal murder of one of his former classmates. Soon the bodies of more old classmates are found, and Risk finds himself in a race against time: Can they find the murderer before the entire class is killed?Fabian Risk returns in The Ninth Grave to investigate the disappearance of the Swedish Minister for Justice. Meanwhile, in Denmark, the wife of a famous TV-star is found brutally murdered in her luxury home north of Copenhagen. As Risk and his Danish counterpart Dunja Hougaard race to put the pieces together, they are dragged into a dark and dangerous conspiracy.In the gritty and chilling third novel, Eighteen Below, Dunja Hougaard’s investigation into the brutal beating of a homeless man takes her to Sweden, where Risk is working on a peculiar case of a frozen millionaire.
The Fabric of Our Souls
by K. M. MoronovaTwo troubled souls find solace in each other at a rehabilitation facility in this spellbinding dark romance sizzling with angst. I&’m twenty-six years old, and I want to die. So when I wake up at the hospital with my brother weeping over me, I know my life is about to change. What I didn&’t expect was to get a nurse with cruel eyes and a morbid sense of humor that surpasses my own. I&’m even more surprised when I arrive at Harlow Sanctum and realize that my brother selected an unorthodox rehabilitation center that rooms people based on their treatment plan. And my roommate is none other than the man with cruel eyes I met the day prior. I crave death—he craves life. Can two people like us cure each other?
The Fabric of Sin
by Phil RickmanThe Master House, close to the Welsh border, is medieval and slowly falling into ruins. Now the house and its surrounding land have been sold to the Duchy of Cornwall. But the Duchy's plans to renovate the house and its outbuildings are frustrated when the specialist builder refuses to work there. "This is a place," he tells the Prince's land-steward, "that doesn't want to be restored."Directed by the Bishop of Hereford to investigate, deliverance consultant Merrily Watkins discovers ancient connections between the house and the nearby church, built by the Knights Templar whose shadow still envelopes isolated Garway Hill and its scattered communities. Why did all the local inns have astrological names? What deep history lies behind the vicious feud between two local families? And what happened here to intimidate even the great Edwardian ghost-story writer M. R. James? When Merrily learns that she--and even her daughter, Jane--are under surveillance by the security services, she's ready to quit. But a sudden death changes everything, and she returns to Garway to uncover fibres of fear and hatred stitched into history and now insidiously twisted in the corridors--and the cloisters--of power.
The Fabric of Sin
by Phil RickmanThe Master House, close to the Welsh border, is medieval and slowly falling into ruins. Now the house and its surrounding land have been sold to the Duchy of Cornwall. But the Duchy's plans to renovate the house and its outbuildings are frustrated when the specialist builder refuses to work there. 'This is a place,' he tells the Prince's land-steward, 'that doesn't want to be restored.'Directed by the Bishop of Hereford to investigate, deliverance consultant Merrily Watkins discovers ancient connections between the house and the nearby church, built by the Knights Templar whose shadow still envelopes isolated Garway Hill and its scattered communities. Why did all the local inns have astrological names? What deep history lies behind the vicious feud between two local families? And what happened here to intimidate even the great Edwardian ghost-story writer M R James? When Merrily learns that she - and even her daughter, Jane - are under surveillance by the security services, she's ready to quit. But a sudden death changes everything, and she returns to Garway to uncover fibres of fear and hatred stitched into history and now insidiously twisted in the corridors - and the cloisters - of power.
The Fabric of Sin (Merrily Watkins Series #9)
by Phil RickmanThe Master House, close to the Welsh border, is medieval and slowly falling into ruins. Now the house and its surrounding land have been sold to the Duchy of Cornwall. But the Duchy's plans to renovate the house and its outbuildings are frustrated when the specialist builder refuses to work there. 'This is a place,' he tells the Prince's land-steward, 'that doesn't want to be restored.'Directed by the Bishop of Hereford to investigate, deliverance consultant Merrily Watkins discovers ancient connections between the house and the nearby church, built by the Knights Templar whose shadow still envelopes isolated Garway Hill and its scattered communities. Why did all the local inns have astrological names? What deep history lies behind the vicious feud between two local families? And what happened here to intimidate even the great Edwardian ghost-story writer M R James? When Merrily learns that she - and even her daughter, Jane - are under surveillance by the security services, she's ready to quit. But a sudden death changes everything, and she returns to Garway to uncover fibres of fear and hatred stitched into history and now insidiously twisted in the corridors - and the cloisters - of power.
The Fabulous Clipjoint
by Fredric BrownIn Fredric Brown’s Edgar Award-winning debut, a teen is joined by his carny uncle to investigate his father’s death. In the rough edges of 1940s Chicago, the discovery of a corpse in an alleyway isn’t always enough to cause a big stir—especially when the victim is killed in the midst of a night-long bender, caught between barrooms in what appears to be a mugging gone awry. Which is why the police don’t take a huge interest in finding the murderer of Wallace Hunter, a linotype operator who turns up dead after a solitary drinking adventure that led through many of the Loop’s less reputable establishments. But for his teenage son, Ed, and his carny brother, Am, something about Wallace’s death feels fishy, a fact that grows increasingly bothersome when it becomes clear that some of the witnesses aren’t telling the whole story. In order to get to the heart of the matter, they’ll need all the skills Am picked up in the circus life—skills that young Ed will have to pick up on fast. And in the process of discovering the killer, they make another discovery as well: Wallace was a much different man than the father Ed thought he knew. The Edgar Award-winning novel that announced a legendary voice in crime fiction, The Fabulous Clipjoint is the first in Fredric Brown’s long-running Ed & Am Hunter series. The book’s memorable mixture of a hardboiled mystery with an urban coming of age narrative remains fresh to this day.
The Face
by Angela Elwell HuntOrphaned and severely deformed, from her earliest moments Sarah Sims has been kept hidden away in a secret CIA facility until an unexpected discovery gives her an opportunity to make a life for herself at last. Now Sarah has an ally, a long-lost aunt who has discovered her true identity. Aided by this brave psychologist, twenty-year-old Sarah must find the courage to confront the forces that have confined her for so long. And the strength to be reborn into a world she has never known.
The Face At The Window
by Ruby SpeechleyA blogger&’s life begins to unravel after her son is kidnapped in this psychological thriller by the author of A Mother Like You. To the world, I&’m @HappyWife. Online, people only see my picture-perfect home, my handsome husband, Nick, and my beautiful baby, Thomas. They don&’t see the real Gemma Adams. They don&’t see my past, the dark secrets I&’m hiding in my marriage. They don&’t see the fear I live in every single day. But I know someone is watching me. And now, they&’ve taken Thomas. I just don&’t know why. But I&’m going to stop at nothing to get my baby back. Even if it destroys everything, I&’ve got to find him . . . A perfect choice for fans of K. L. Slater and Lisa Jewell.Praise for The Face at the Window &“A chilling page-turner . . . Gripping and twisty, I was hooked until the last page.&” —Sophie Flynn, author of All My Lies&“Tense and heartbreaking, this emotional thriller really got under my skin.&” —Barbara Copperthwaite, author of The Girl in the Missing Poster&“Races towards an explosive ending. A compelling and engrossing read!&” —Jane Isaac, author of One Good Lie
The Face Of Death (Barney Thomson)
by Douglas Lindsay<p> In Blackmuir Wood, above the Victorian Spa village of Strathpeffer, sixteen miles west of Inverness, in the Highlands of Scotland, four American students are found with their throats slit. Worse, each has been given a chilling new haircut. The FBI arrive, but too late to prevent another terrible murder, and into town strolls everybody's favourite accidental death-junkie barber, Barney Thomson, looking for a short back and sides and a different hair colour.</p> <p> THE FACE OF DEATH is a 17000-word Barney Thomson novella that takes place after the events of THE BARBER SURGEON'S HAIRSHIRT (Barney Thomson book 2). However, knowledge of the events of the first two Barney novels is not necessary to enjoy THE FACE OF DEATH.</p> <p> THE BARNEY THOMSON novels in order:</p> <p> #1 THE LONG MIDNIGHT OF BARNEY THOMSON<br /> #2 THE BARBER SURGEON'S HAIRSHIRT (aka THE CUTTING EDGE OF BARNEY THOMSON)<br /> #3 MURDERERS ANONYMOUS (aka A PRAYER FOR BARNEY THOMSON)<br /> #4 THE RESURRECTION OF BARNEY THOMSON (aka THE KING WAS IN HIS COUNTING HOUSE)<br /> #5 THE LAST FISH SUPPER<br /> #6 THE HAUNTING OF BARNEY THOMSON<br /> #7 THE FINAL CUT</p> <p> THE END OF DAYS, a novella, can be read at any point in the sequence.</p> <p> <strong>About the author</strong></p> <p> Douglas Lindsay is the author of the Barney Thomson barbershop crime series, as well as the thriller, LOST IN JUAREZ and the police procedurals, THE UNBURIED DEAD and WE ARE THE HANGED MAN. He lives in Somerset.</p>
The Face Of Trespass
by Ruth RendellTwo years ago he had been a promising young novelist. Now he survived - you could hardly call it living - in a near derelict cottage with only an unhooked telephone and his own obsessive thoughts for company. Two years of loving Drusilla - the bored, rich, unstable girl with everything she needed, and a husband she wanted dead. The affair was over. But the long slide into deception and violence had just begun. . .
The Face Out Front
by Robert R. Irvine Timothy Andrés PabonChannel Three News is out to keep its ratings up. When a bestial killer starts sending in little packages of his victims' gruesome remains, it is the shot in the arm the news team needs. They play the story to the hilt, with grisly death in living color. But for the show's producer, ex-star anchorman Tim Bishop, this newsman's dream is a private nightmare. Once before, a story on a maniac murderer had backfired on him, leaving his wife slain and his life in shreds. Now Bishop has a new life, a new love, and the old feeling that unspeakable evil is zooming in for a rapid replay.
The Face That Must Die
by Ramsey CampbellThis tense realisticly written horror novel is preceded by two short stories, one of which is semi autobiographical.
The Face Thief: A Novel
by Eli GottliebEli Gottlieb’s previous novel, Now You See Him, was acclaimed by reviewers as “irresistible … moving” (New York Times Book Review), “a triumph…of literary suspense” (Los Angeles Times), and “gorgeous” (USA Today). With The Face Thief, he returns with a driving, compulsively readable novel that probes the wellsprings of human greed and loyalty beset by temptation. Gottlieb introduces the mystery of the charismatic Margot, a promising journalist who morphs—with stunning panache—from a high-achieving affluent twentysomething into a grifter making her living preying on the weaknesses of men. Having studied the ancient Chinese art of face reading, she becomes an expert at reading people and is also able to rearrange her look and persona with uncanny skill to fit any social situation. She is an avenging angel, shattering marriages and draining bank accounts. What drives her quest to deceive and disarm? Exploring this question, The Face Thief moves fluidly forward and back in time, drawing vivid portraits of Margot’s rocky childhood and her adult victims: an amiable, newly married man enticed into a catastrophic fraud; an esteemed teacher outwitted by his most dangerous student; and a well-meaning New York City cop tripped up by his belief in redemption.Ingeniously constructed and exquisitely written, The Face Thief swirls a hypnotic dance of predator and prey, creating a contemporary landscape where the educated are violent, the beautiful ugly, and the well-intentioned hapless. And yet we never give way to despair, because the protagonists of the book push back against the maelstrom and attempt tirelessly to right their toppled lives. Rich in suspense, psychological depth, and nuance, The Face Thief confirms Gottlieb’s standing as “a master” (Denver Post) and, in the words of essayist Phillip Lopate, “an enthralling stylist who[se] . . . characters are shockingly, electrically alive.”
The Face and the Mask
by Robert BarrTwenty-four delightful short stories are collected in this volume. Mr. Barr is one of the most interesting and remarkable of American writers. "A pure humorist," A. Conan Doyle calls him. He is happily described by The London Atheneaum as a writer who deals with real men and women.
The Face in the Cemetery: A Mamur Zapt Mystery (Mamur Zapt Mysteries #14)
by Michael PearceEgypt, 1914. The outbreak of war in Europe casts ripples even in Cairo. Gareth Owen, Mamur Zapt and Head of the Khedive's Secret Police, is given the task of rounding up enemy aliens. But determining who counts as a German proves contentious.And then there's the face in the cemetery. Who disturbed the mummified remains of cats by placing a human corpse among them? Is the villagers' talk of a mysterious Cat Woman mere superstitious nonsense, or something rather sinister?Owen has more pressing concerns in the shape of missing rifles and dubious gun-toting ghaffirs or watchmen. But the face in the cemetery refuses to go away, and Owen comes to realize that it poses questions that are not just professional but uncomfortably personal.
The Face in the Mirror
by Joaquin BarrientosJack Fletcher once had a promising career as the youngest social worker in the Middlesex County Hospital's Adult Mental Health Programme. But after suffering an attack at the hands of a client, he is left with a failed marriage, alcoholism, anxiety attacks and a social work license that is under threat of being revoked. Jack's life is spiralling downward until he is assigned to the newest patient, Crista Sunderland, a woman who burned her house down while her twin sister was trapped inside. Crista won't speak with police or any counsellor about what happened, but she will talk to Jack, since she can see that he is as broken as she is. Jack is tasked with finding out if the woman is as mentally ill as everyone suspects or if she is telling the truth about her sister being a serial killer. A killer whose body wasn't found in the fire.
The Face in the Mirror: A Molly Murphy Story (Molly Murphy Mysteries Ser.)
by Rhys BowenMolly Murphy—Molly Sullivan, now that she and Daniel are finally married—is bored. Having given up her detective agency when she married, she now finds that her life is much less exciting, her days an endless stretch of housekeeping and chores. But when Molly secretly attends a suffragist meeting with her friends Sid and Gus and meets a shy, distracted woman who claims to live in a haunted house, everything is about to change.Rhys Bowen’s short story The Face in the Mirror offers just the taste of mystery and mayhem fans will need to tide them over until the next Molly Murphy novel.
The Face in the Night: Large Print
by Edgar WallaceAudrey Bedford, a small town girl, goes to London and is arrested for stealing the Queen of Finland&’s necklace. She realizes immediately that her sister is the guilty party, but family loyalty leads her to accept the charge and she does the time rather than implicate her sister. Once released from prison she takes the only job she can find and ends up embroiled in a case of murder, robbery and stolen diamonds. Because of her past she can&’t afford to let events unfold as they will, to keep her freedom she must be an active participant in getting to the bottom of this mystery.
The Face in the Window
by Heather GrahamExperience a heart-pumping and thrilling tale of suspense!Originally published in THRILLER (2006),edited by #1 New York Times bestselling author James Patterson.In this haunting Thriller Short, New York Times bestselling writer Heather Graham pays homage to the film Key Largo with a lightning-paced drama that unfolds as a killer storm bears down—and other storms converge around the characters’ lives. It’s a ticking clock of a different kind.Don’t miss any of these exciting Thriller Shorts:James Penney’s New Identity by Lee ChildOperation Northwoods by James GrippandoEpitaph by J. A. KonrathThe Face in the Window by Heather GrahamKowalski’s in Love by James RollinsThe Hunt for Dmitri by Gayle LyndsDisfigured by Michael Palmer and Daniel PalmerThe Abelard Sanction by David MorrellFalling by Chris MooneySuccess of a Mission by Dennis LyndsThe Portal by John Lescroart and M. J. RoseThe Double Dealer by David LissDirty Weather by Gregg HurwitzSpirit Walker by David DunAt the Drop of a Hat by Denise HamiltonThe Other Side of the Mirror by Eric Van LustbaderMan Catch by Christopher RiceGoodnight, Sweet Mother by Alex KavaSacrificial Lion by Grant BlackwoodInterlude at Duane’s by F. Paul WilsonThe Powder Monkey by Ted BellSurviving Toronto by M. Diane VogtAssassins by Christopher ReichThe Athens Solution by Brad ThorDiplomatic Constraints by Raelynn HillhouseKill Zone by Robert LiparuloThe Devils’ Due by Steve BerryThe Tuesday Club by Katherine NevilleGone Fishing by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
The Face of Clara Morgan: A Gripping and Chilling Psychological Suspense Thriller
by J.A. BakerA small town in northern England is rocked by murder and scandal at the local school in this chilling novel of psychological suspense.Dominic Rose is a North Yorkshire school teacher with an antiquated hobby. He studies physiognomy, the art of judging somebody's character by their facial features and expressions. Living alone with his bedridden mother, he has spent decades pining after Clara, the love of his life, who vanished while staying with her grandparents.When Kate Winston and her family move town, she hopes her children will fit in at school. But her son’s new friend has a bad reputation—and a serious grudge against their teacher, Mr. Rose. As rebellious mischief and dark secrets collide, they set in motion a chain of events that lead to terrifying consequences.
The Face of Death (Smoky Barrett #2)
by Cody McfadyenA young woman loses her family, her friends, almost anyone who has ever even done her a kindness to a maniacal serial killer. It's as if every trace of human contact is being wiped out of her life. Her terrifying case is handed to a woman who has had so much of her own happiness snatched away from her: Smoky Barrett, the extraordinary heroine of Mcfadyen's stunning debut SHADOW MAN. Now caring for her murdered friend's mute daughter, Smoky must decide whether or not she can rise to one more fiendish c...
The Face of Death: Smoky Barrett, Book 2
by Cody McfadyenWhy did he leave her alive?They find the girl in the master bedroom, the bodies of the family around her. She's holding a gun to her head. And she will only talk to Smoky Barrett.Smoky is just starting to pick up the pieces of her own life. She knows what it's like to lose everyone you love. But her tragedy is nothing compared with this case. Because this isn't the first time it's happened. Sixteen-year-old Sarah Kingsley has lost her family before. Not once, but twice.Someone out there wants her to stare death in the face - again and again . . .
The Face of Deception: The first Eve Duncan novel (Eve Duncan #1)
by Iris JohansenAn unidentified skull...A trail of terrifying secrets...And a woman whose talented hands could reveal the shocking truth...As a forensic sculptor, Eve Duncan helps identify the dead from their skulls. Her own daughter murdered and her body never found, the job is Eve's way of coming to terms with her personal nightmare. But more terror lies ahead when she accepts work from billionaire John Logan. Beneath her gifted hands a face emerges from the skull he has given her to reconstruct--a face no one was ever meant to see. Now Eve is trapped in a frightening web of murder and deceit. Powerful enemies are determined to cover up the truth, and they will make certain that truth goes to the grave...even if Eve gets buried with it.From the Paperback edition.