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A 4,000-year-old mystery lurks in the hills of Georgia. While investigating a strange series of ancient symbols, an archaeologist vanishes, and a professor he entrusted with the secret is murdered. Former government agent Sean Wyatt learns of his friend's disappearance and the murder. Now he must unravel the clues to the ancient mystery that holds incredible power.

When Perdita McKell's brother Lennox asks her for help to fund his harebrained scheme to renovate a tumbledown Scottish castle, she fears it will only end in disaster. The castle in question, Dunaire Castle, was the seventeenth-century home to their ancestor, the Earl George McKell, so Perdita can understand Lennox's romantic notion that they should be the rightful owners and the ones to love it back to life. Slowly and in ways Perdita could never have expected, Dunaire Castle begins to reveal its secrets; secrets and choices that have shaped the lives of generations of her family.

Bloomsbury presents The Lost Boys by Tim Sullivan, read by Finlay Robertson. Don't miss THE BOOKSELLER, the latest George Cross Mystery - available now. A short story from the George Cross Mystery series. DS George Cross's father, Raymond, always takes an annual holiday in a local care home. He...

When the body of hotel owner Piet Jansen is discovered amid the ruins of an archaeological site by the Nile, it looks like a routine investigation for Inspector Yusuf Khalifa of the Luxor Police. But the more he learns about Jansen, the more he is reminded of the brutal murder, some years earlier, of an Israeli woman at Karnak for which he always suspected the wrong man was convicted.

In Egypt’s Western desert lies the tomb of an unnamed pharaoh that hides a secret so powerful, it could destroy the world as we know it. Archaeologist and adventurer Matthew Connor has made a career of finding legends the world has all but forgotten. Though there’s one in particular that has fascinated him for years - the Emerald Tablets. Myth says that they possess the knowledge of the universe, allowing humankind to traverse Heaven and Earth, and have the power to bestow wealth and wisdom upon whoever possesses them.

They were about as dysfunctional as a family could get. Jason, their teenage son is a heroin addict, her husband Ryan is a workaholic, and young Piper wants more. So, when Kim sees what she thinks will be the perfect opportunity to change everything and bring her family together she convinces the reluctant Ryan to take it. That’s when they move to a sleepy little town, outside San Antonio. Then life really gets interesting: high-speed car chases, run-ins with criminals and the law, football, a shoot-out, life and death situations, mysterious legends, and gold. What did Kim get them into?

Jefferson Burke and the Secret of the Lost Scroll is a mystery as old as the Christian church wrapped in a modern-day thriller. Though an unwilling hero, professor Jefferson Burke's intellectual curiosity pits him against the powerful Bruno Krueger in a race to find a 2000-year-old scroll that...

Following a brutal massacre, the Ethiopian Ark of the Covenant – a revered religious artifact–sells on the international black market. Soon afterward, the death of an aging Saudi King spurs a flawed Saudi-Israeli peace deal, promoted by a polarizing former US president under criminal indictment and seeking political asylum.

New York Times bestselling author Javier Sierra returns with a heartpounding, apocalyptic thriller about mankind’s most ancient desire—and the modern evil some will unleash to obtain it. New York Times bestselling author Javier Sierra returns with a heart-pounding thriller about mankind’s...

Conflict, love, and Apache Indian attacks are all that stand between Julia Heady and fate. As one young woman travels across the fledgling United States, she must use every ounce of her power to stay alive. This book has all the excitement of a true Western, but I guess you could call it more of an "Eastern." There is love, lust, and death. It also contains gunplay, dead hombres, sheriffs, and its fair share of bloodshed. This Eastern originates in upstate New York.

When three-year-old Sara disappeared from their lives, it tore the Turner family apart. Years later, they are still startling at every knock, convinced it is Sara at the door. But the only trace of the cherished little girl is a fading photo in the hall, a single white knitted baby shoe tucked behind the frame. Then, one day, as they pick at sandwiches in a crowded local café, a beautiful girl approaches, claiming to be Sara. With her wide green eyes and soft, straight hair, could she really be their long-lost girl? But where has she been all this time?

When Dr. Susan Hale, curator of Christian antiquities at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, unearths an ancient scroll in the hills of southern France, she steps into a mystery so dangerous it has been hunted for centuries. The Silentii-an order, founded in the shadows of Constantine's reign, exists to protect Christian orthodoxy at any cost. To them, the scroll is not a relic but a threat, one that must be silenced forever.

An instant New York Times bestseller from the author of The Last Thing He Told Me “Dave’s signature blend of twisty mystery, family drama, and moving love story is top-notch” (The Boston Globe) in this instant New York Times bestseller where estranged siblings chase a fifty-year-old family...

Set in untamed wilderness, "Lost in the Swamp" is a laughter filled tale of adventure, resilience, and brotherhood. Eleven-year-old Austin and his eight-year-old brother Adam, well-versed in the ways of the wild, embark on what starts as a routine hunting expedition. Armed with their trusty .22 rifles, they seek the bounty of the land, but as daylight fades, they find themselves stranded in a dense, mysterious swamp, far from the safety of their camp.

Many hybrid forms of the mystery-crime-thriller genre exists. All of them are narratives that keep one in suspense about what is about to happen. The thriller also shares a literary lineage with ancient epic and myth populated by monsters, terror and danger. Alexandre Dumas, Alfred Hitchcock, and Robert Ludlum are some of the masters of the genre.