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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.

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...

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...

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.