Showing results for "Design" in Thriller & Suspense

Edison Bixby is wealthy, handsome, and, due to a traumatic brain injury, impulsively rude. He’s also a brilliant insurance investigator who solves baffling crimes by figuring out how the design of the man-made world around us makes them possible. Enter Wally Nash: a struggling actor hired to keep Bixby from offending everyone he meets. Their first case together looks like a simple accident. Caroline Crowley took a nasty fall down a staircase at a shopping mall in front of dozens of witnesses. Video clearly shows the deadly misstep.

A young couple in their prime is found dead in the marital bed. As they lie naked, staring at each other with eyes wide open - filled with fear, his colleagues assume a double suicide, but Detective Andrew Deans senses that darker forces are at work. Deans is facing an awakening - a spiritual birth, but he is stuck in a living nightmare. Those around him are watching...judging...expecting him to break.

Sandra Brown, author of more than forty New York Times bestsellers, explores how an ambitious executive-whose lonely personal life clashes with her career success-discovers that the business of love means taking the biggest risks of all. SEDUCTION by DESIGN Hailey Ashton projects an image that...

Wilson Abby's life as a carefree programmer has reached a crossroads. Since birth, Wilson has known unconditional comfort and security in a global super-community. Thanks to the planet's NEXUS framework, instant gratification is a mere transaction away. But when his closest friend mysteriously turns up dead, Wilson suspects that not all is as it seems. Peeling back a veneer of half-truths, Wilson makes a startling discovery - one that people will kill to bury, starting with Wilson's coworkers and loved ones.

"With tons of suspects and plenty of danger, this is Coble at her best." --Library Journal | "Nobody does romantic suspense better than Colleen Coble." --Lisa Gardner | "Engaging characters, irresistible intrigue, and a slow-burning romance." --Mary Burton USA TODAY bestselling author Colleen...

An untreatable illness. A dangerous misdiagnosis. A deadly plot that hits too close to home, Drs. Jack Wyatt and Madison Shaw have finally settled in to a comfortable life together. But during a friendly college tour with Jack's daughter Anise, they learn that her mother, Jack's ex-wife, is suffering from a perplexing combination of ominous symptoms. Within days, she and ten of her work colleagues are in the ICU with an identical untreatable illness, Wyatt and Shaw soon find themselves embroiled in another medical mystery. The brightest doctors in Washington D.C.

Dr. Jack Wyatt is renowned for solving the unsolvable. When a colleague approaches him about a dangerous new malady affecting only Leukemia patients at a prestigious oncology hospital, the mysterious case is too intriguing to pass up. So he and the brilliant Dr. Madison Shaw, a physician who shares not only his expertise but also his devotion to medicine, embark in a race against time to save the children as cases mount. Within the hospital walls, they confront a labyrinth of medical conundrums, hostile colleagues guarding their territory, and a web of political intrigue.

Seitka is a young shapeshifter who has a hard time following orders. The evil leader of a rival wildcat shifter clan has left her with child, and she flees to the protection of the abbey, thinking this is best for her clan and her child. But Daniel, her fiancé, follows her, and a new alliance is formed between the lairds, their healer wives, and the shifter couple. Seitka has been told that her child is destined to do great things. Will the babe survive long enough to grow, train with the lairds, and fulfill that destiny?

When Erin Delaney learns that a serial killer has mimicked the murder portrayed in her bestselling novel, her career as an author takes a detrimental turn. She joins her friend Kaely Quinn-Hunter, a former FBI profiler, to help identify a suspect, but the team is stumped, and Kaely fears for Erin's safety as they work to dismantle a web of fear and chaos.

Some towns vanish from maps. Burrington vanished from time itself. Beck Escarra, an ambitious young filmmaker searching for her breakthrough, stumbles across the story of a forgotten town—a town that doesn’t appear on any GPS, that nobody remembers visiting, and that seems frozen in another century. Determined to uncover the truth, Beck ventures into Burrington and finds herself trapped in a nightmare she cannot escape. The town is alive at night, its residents cursed to relive the same day from 1827.

Truman's wise planning and assistance find Alexa Silven being resuscitated in the ambulance in route to the hospital. Slipping into a coma, but alive after surgery, Alexa is stolen away to a mountain retreat by Truman, Gother, and Fuller...and her father. The assassin finds her and by the end of his attack two people lie dead. Alexa becomes a major federal witness on the run and on the offense.

Looking back on his career, freelance graphic designer Remi Painter is proud of his many contributions. There are occasional days, however, where he wonders how life without epilepsy might have gone. Whether it would have been quite the fight. For that matter, whether it is time to try something new. What if a treatment for epilepsy already exists out there somewhere? It's an innocent question, a deep longing for Remi and many others with seizures. Until the day he happens upon a remedy no one is meant to discover.

Vivacious interior designer Amanda Billings is plagued by nightmares but determined to press on as if her ex-boyfriend hadn't turned her world completely upside down. Ad man Mick Thompson believes Amanda is the one to make him forget the fiancée who dumped him and prompted his move to Kansas City from Napa Valley. As Amanda begins to transform his depressing life right along with his sterile apartment, Mick is ready to jump on the relationship road with her, only to find out that the past is tagging along.

The blunt and ruthless Cole King is interviewing Michelle Hartmann, a now disgraced lawyer who won her cases through fraud. Michelle began her law career helping the ignored, supporting fairness and moral rightness in the legal system. Until she got a strong desire for power and saw herself above all of the ignored she once pretended to care about. In a harsh and swift motion, Michelle made her switch to become a defence attorney. She wasted no time finding herself a challenging case representing a child killer and paying to prove the innocence of a monster.

Jenna McInnis lives alone in the backwoods of Maine, and she likes it that way. Unfortunately, her antisocial calm and quiet is about to be disrupted by John Merck, an undercover cop whose big drug bust has gone horribly awry. Breaking into her house, the intimidating man hopes to find some kind of treatment for the gunshot he sustained during the firefight. Instead, he finds a woman who is more than a match for him, even when he is nearly dead.

Jogging through Chicago's Lincoln Park, Dr. John Caleb comes upon a group of fanatics setting a police car on fire - with the officer inside. Caleb rescues the man but as Chicago heats up in the most brutal summer on record, it becomes clear that this is the first of a series of deadly arsons. As Detective John Thinnes races to find the culprit and Dr. Caleb sets a trap for a murderer, both men are nearly incinerated in the killer's final act.

For up-and-coming Formula One engineer Jack Pressley-Coombes, there is nothing better than the smell of rubber and the roar of a race car engine. When he witnesses a crash at the first international Grand Prix of the season, Jack makes a shocking discovery: his design is on a competitor’s car. To keep Davis Racing Ltd., his British Formula One employer, from closing its doors, Jack goes undercover for MI6 to ferret out the company saboteur.

After years behind bars, Thor resolves to get out. But as the latest inmate to attempt the most recent high profile prison break from PA’s York County Prison, he, once again, has to face his curse. Just feet from freedom, he has an epileptic seizure and is caught by the guards. Even so, in the ensuing days, he refuses to give up information regarding the design to escape.

After a brief vacation, graphic designer Remi Painter starts working for the Hunger House, a homeless shelter in downtown York, Pennsylvania, refining their website under a tight deadline for chump change and feeding the community in his off time. But when he finds remnants of human remains in a dumpster behind the nonprofit headquarters after serving, Remi's random observation is called into question.

All Rachel wanted to do was retire to a quiet island and start her life over. But all that changes when the shipment she had crated for Don Santoro goes missing. Now she has fourteen days to get it back. She sets out on a quest that leads her to the doors of the Celtic Demons motorcycle club - and Killian. A man who, by rights, should be her enemy, but who sets her body on fire.