Thriller stories

Abstract: Artie Cohen is temporarily alone in Manhattan when his nephew Billy Farone is released for two weeks from the young offenders' institution where he was sent after stabbing Heshey Shank to death. Artie is the only person Billy wants to come home to. Now fourteen-year-old Billy seems to b...

Abstract: How does it feel to be desired by every man and envied by every woman? Wonderful. This is the life Noral Sinclair has dreamed about, the life that she's worked hard for, the life she will never give up. When FBI Agent John O'Hara first meets her, she seems perfect. She has the care...

Abstract: Geoff Howells, a government-trained killing machine, is brought out of retirement and sent to Hong Kong. His brief: to assassinate Chinese Mafia leader, Simon Ng. Howells devises a dangerous and complicated plan to reach his intended victim - only to find himself the next target...Patri...

Abstract: "You're going to hell, Jack Nightingale": They are words that ended his police career. Now Jack's a struggling private detective - and the chilling words come back to haunt him. Nightingale's life is turned upside down the day that he inherits a mansion from a man who claims to be his f...

Abstract: A missile tears a passenger plane from the skies over London. Everyone on board is killed, including 37 exceptional children. As terror turns to international chaos, can the government survive? When Harry Jones starts searching for answers, he stumbles into the middle of a plot that str...

Abstract: Painter's Creek, Ohio may be a sleepy town with both Amish and "English" residents, but it's also the place where a series of brutal murders shattered the lives of an entire community over a decade ago. When the killing stopped, it left in its aftermath a sense of fragility, and for the...

Abstract: By all accounts acid-tongued Vita Berlin had not a friend in the world, but who did she cross so badly to end up arranged in a such a grotesque tableaux? One look at her apartment turned charnel house is enough for hard-bitten LAPD detective Milo Sturgis to summon his go-to expert in hu...