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"Nail-biting suspense!" -Publishers Weekly
In this "edge-of-the-chair thriller" (San Francisco Chronicle), six people are trapped in an avalanche of horror-and one of them is an armed psychopath gone berserk.
An isolated cabin high on a stormy Colorado mountain that becomes snowbound in a raging blizzard. A homicidal maniac with superb mountaineering skills and sharpshooting aim with a rifle. Two local forest rangers unaware of what they're...
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FIND HIM. Bernadette Kane never believed that her sister committed suicide. And what she heard about her sister's mysterious-and sadistic-lover, Wesley Edwards, made her suspect the worst. With his good looks, private jet, and successful career, he could turn a girl's head. And get away with murder.
SEDUCE HIM. Bernadette's plan: use her body to seduce Wesley, use her wits to gain his confidence, and use the evidence she finds to bring him down. First,...
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The man: Wolfgang Schmitt: former model, newly single, habitual wiseass. It's a profile only his ailing mother could love-but it makes him perfect for one thing ...
The bait: Billionaire Nelson Scott wants Schmitt to seduce his wife-setting off a prenuptial clause that will keep her hands off his money. The job pays a million bucks just for trying. Another four if Schmitt pulls it off. All he has to do is say yes ...
The switch: Next thing he knows,...
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In this enticing thriller, Dan Shaw risks the deep waters of wealth, deception, and murder off the Gold Coast to see rustic done for a beautiful woman.
Dan Shaw has been practicing law for only four months and he's already burned out. Add the fact that he's just lost his longtime girlfriend and the cops are scouring his dubious past, and it's no wonder that Shaw decides to set sail for the summer and get away from it all. But even alone in the middle...
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The game is a weeklong retreat. It's located in a remote region of northern California. It's designed to build teamwork, establish trust, and increase awareness.
The players are three ambitious executives-one woman and two men, each prepared to put his physical, mental, and moral limits to the test. They never dreamed how far they could go.
The rules are simple. First you run. Then you hide. Don't appear weak, don't admit to the fear, and don't...
6) Snowkill
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In a small village snuggled in the snow-shrouded French Alps, the son of a long-dead, high-ranking Nazi who had terrorized the area during the war, Adolph Streicher, vanishes on the ice-slick slopes. Robert Holmes, a vacationing American journalist and mountain climber, tries to unravel the son's disappearance. Instead, he becomes ensnared in a desperate and deadly plot, sparked by the arrival of one man-Walter Streicher, twin brother of the notorious...
7) Split Image
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A man brutally murders another in a peculiar hunting incident-and then proceeds to assume his persona, his life, and his wife.
When a petty argument with an arrogant stranger deep in a Wisconsin forest over who killed a deer escalates to murder, playwright Andrew Neville's life becomes a tangled web of deceit-and self-deception. Back in hometown Chicago, Neville attends the funeral of the man he's murdered and meets his widow, Claudia, and her 3-year-old...
8) Sea of Bones
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Dan Shaw hopes to be a lawyer someday-if he can only stay out of prison long enough to pass the bar. Neither is likely when he agrees to help hotshot Florida attorney Thomas Petrie track down a slick con man who's swindled a consortium of well-to-do Paradise Key clients out of $22 million. But the charismatic Victor Trebuchet and his sexy partner in crime are a lot more dangerous than anyone imagined. And the silken counter-sting set up in an Italian...
9) Deadly Faux
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Wolfgang Schmitt, ex-underwear model, self-proclaimed wisecrack, and cynical copywriter turned undercover agent, is biding his time, unsure how to spend the millions he scored after his recent undercover mission for the FBI. Complicating matters is the fact that he might be called in for a new mission; if it's off the books and calls for a touch of seduction, Wolf is the man for the job. But, in Wolf's words, shit-storms come in threes. On the same...
10) Mongoose, RIP
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"Mongoose, R. I. P.", by William F. Buckley Jr. Mongoose, R. I. P. is set in 1963 in the middle of the cold war. Fidel Castro and John F. Kennedy plot against one another. Castro seeks revenge for his humiliation during the missile crisis, and Kennedy has set in motion a plot that could prove his own undoing. Blackford is caught in the middle of their plots.
11) Darkness Bound
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A twisting thriller that taps into a deep well of erotic obsession, sexual betrayal, madness, and murder, Darkness Bound goes to fearless extremes to become an authentic and shocking suspense novel. In Darkness, two strangers meet. A woman without inhibitions, a man without limits, for a private game between two consenting adults. In Darkness. They indulge in every secret fantasy, cross every boundary of sexual deviation. But one of them has a secret...
12) Sierra
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Even in the wilderness, trouble seems to find Karl Bergman. Years after his run-in with a serial killer on the Appalachian Trail, Bergman sets out on a thru-hike of the Pacific Crest Trail with his dog, Blazer, with hopes of returning home a better man. But the discovery of a dead body on the outskirts of the Anza-Borrego Desert threatens to embroil Bergman in another violent chain of events with even higher stakes than his previous ordeal. This time...
13) Blood Lines
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The vampire stories in Blood Lines all take place in New England, where the sense of lineage and place is unmatched in any other region of America.
14) Night Harvest
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A riveting debut thriller from one of New York's most eminent surgeons, Night Harvest follows the bizarre disappearance of patients from a Manhattan hospital into the murky underground of the city.
Fourth-year medical student Demetri Makropolis has been assigned to cover orthopedics at Eastside Medical Center, one of New York City's finest hospitals. Just as his surgery team begins to operate on New York's leading drama critic, F. J. Pervis III,...
15) Task Lyst
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Elliott is a struggling musician who is trying to piece together enough cash every month to keep his dream of performing alive while also paying his rent. That's when he discovered the new app TASK LYST. As a service provider, he sets his own hours, his funds are delivered covertly in bitcoin and the rates continue to grow…but so does his suspicion over the type of tasks that he is being asked to complete. Is the anonymous nature of app-based...
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In 2082, a catastrophic explosion rocks the dedication ceremony of the new United Nations in New York City. Security Director Julia Moro is on the job, chasing after the misogynistic leader of Patria, a long-disbanded international terrorist organization now being whispered about again on the streets. This dangerous, shadowy figure has been linked to several bombing attempts and vicious attacks on women, including the Women of Peace-an organization...
17) Sudden Impact
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Bestselling author William Wood spins this dark, riveting tale of a beloved Sacramento cop killed in a bizarre accident, and the hunt to track down his killer-a fast-paced thriller of murder, deceit, haunting pasts, and one man's dangerous scheme to fight for those he loves.
Officer Tommy Ensor did not see the car that struck him down on a rainy night in California's capital.
Ensor is no ordinary cop. He's a hero, winner of the Medal of Valor, devoted...
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From bestselling historical novelist Max Byrd comes a new novel set against the dramatic backdrop of Paris in the Jazz Age-a fascinating suspense tale interwoven with rich historical detail.
Paris, 1926. Newspaper reporter Toby Keats, a veteran of the Great War and the only American in Paris who doesn't know Hemingway, has lived a quiet life-until one day he comes into possession of a rare eighteenth-century automate, a very strange and somewhat...
19) The Inheritor
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America's Most Deadly Enemy is still loose. . . and he's ready to move.
On the eve of the takedown of the world's leading terrorist, his protégé eluded U.S. forces. . . and now he's racing across four countries in a scenario that could happen tomorrow.
Following his dead mentor's desire to reestablish the Islamic Caliphate, Aziz Abdul Muhammad, hand-picked by bin Laden himself, masterminds a series of attacks on the U.S. energy infrastructure...
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Felix Allsey is a travel writer with a keen eye for the paranormal, and he's carved out a unique, if only slightly lucrative, niche for himself in nonfiction; he writes travelogues of the country's most haunted places, after haunting them himself.
When he convinces the owner of the infamous Rotterdam Mansion to let him stay on the premises for 13 nights, he believes he's finally found the location that will bring him a bestseller. As with his other...
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