Showing results for "Love" in Thriller & Suspense

Franklin B Goodman wants to spread love wherever he goes. But love is an emotion he doesn’t understand. In Franklin’s dangerously warped mind, a damaged relationship is like a sick animal. He is willing to take extreme measures to nurse it back to health. And if that doesn’t work… …the only option is to put it out of its misery. On the other side of the River Mersey, murder detectives Nathan Cody and Megan Webley have their hands full with a manhunt to locate the killer of a beautiful and wealthy woman.

The Sunday Times No. 1 Bestseller ‘Mosse is a master storyteller’ – Madeline Miller, bestselling author of Circe Bringing sixteenth-century France vividly to life, Kate Mosse’s historical epic The Burning Chambers is a gripping story of love, betrayal, war and conspiracy. It is the first...

One little girl. Mirabelle’s mother loves her. She’s her ‘little doll’. Mother dresses her, paints her face and plaits her hair. But as Mirabelle grows, the dresses no longer fit quite as well, the face paint no longer looks quite so pretty. And Mother isn’t happy. Two little girls. On Mirabelle’s 13th birthday, Mother arrives home with a present - a new sister, five-year-old Clarabelle, who Mother has rescued from the outside world. But Mother only needs one.

Ex-SAS soldier Ben Rider falls in love with his enigmatic married boss Sir Nikolas Mikkelsen, but Nikolas is living a lie. A lie so profound that when the shadows are lifted, Ben realises he's in love with a very dangerous stranger. Ben has to choose between Nikolas and safety, but sometimes danger comes in a very seductive package.

'An exciting and multi-layered academic thriller that reads with the pace and complexity of a feminist The Da Vinci Code' Irish Independent 'A race against time through ancient manuscripts where every revelation comes with a price' Claire Douglas, bestselling author of The New Neighbours...

In this spellbinding collection, Sara Paretsky showcases her extraordinary talents with 14 short stories, including one new V.I. story and seven other classics featuring the indomitable detective. In 'Miss Bianca' a young girl becomes involved in espionage when she befriends a mouse in a laboratory that is conducting dark experiments. Ten-year-old V.I. Warshawski appears in 'Wildcat', embarking on her very first investigation to save her father. 

When travel blogger Sophie West flees London and her toxic ex for a fresh start in Santorini, the last thing she expects is to be mugged at the port—or rescued by a mysterious artist whose eyes hold secrets deeper than the Aegean Sea. Ethan Carter sketches tourists for pocket change, but Sophie glimpses the dangerous man hidden beneath his easy smile. When she stumbles into a high-stakes art auction involving Russian criminals and a lost Leonardo da Vinci, Ethan's carefully constructed new life comes apart.

Prepare yourself for the BRAND NEW, epic action thriller from BESTSELLER Andrew Warren. If you like Mark Greaney, Alan McDermott, and I Am Pilgrim, you'll LOVE this! ⚠️📚 “White Tiger is a dynamic East-West spy story, an Asian action thriller, and a yakuza crime extravaganza that is...

What if all the villains of slasher movies were real? What if the movies made about them were just adaptations of real-life killers with supernatural powers? This is a fact known to William and Carrie because their father, Billy the Undying, was one of the worst slashers of all time. So much so that they've spent the past decade in an asylum out of fear they'd end up just like him. Escaping, the two have decided to form a new life on the road. Except, a chance encounter in a dingy diner introduces William to the girl of his dreams.

When a lethal spy meets a gentle Viking scholar in the Scottish Highlands, sparks fly—and so do bullets. Samantha "Smack" McAvoy is very good at two things: eliminating threats and staying emotionally unavailable. Fresh off a mission gone wrong, she's supposed to be healing in a remote Scottish inn. Instead, she finds herself protecting Finn Colpher—a gorgeous, book-obsessed academic who quotes medieval poetry to his golden retriever and apologizes to furniture.

Set in the lush tropical rainforests of Indonesia, Sun and Flesh is a powerful story of lust, love, pride, and a fight for survival—drawn from genuine historical events. When a young Malay girl is claimed as a bride by the old chief of a powerful Java tribe, her tribe refuse. Now the Java tribe threatens violent retaliation. To escape the Java, the Malay tribe try to build a big boat to sail to another land – but before their boat is ready, a callous murder shatters the fragile peace between the tribes.

David and Julie, twins born and raised in the secluded North Yorkshire Moors of England, led a life shrouded in secrecy and isolation due to their mother's troubled past. Following their parents' tragic death in a mysterious car accident, the now-grown children must navigate a world filled with hidden truths only they are privy to. As they leave their family home to forge a new path, they encounter unforeseen foes and delve deeper into convoluted secrets, grappling with a tumultuous existence characterised by deception and falsehoods.

Buried secrets, a past she can’t outrun, and one threat that could destroy everything. Charlotte Cooper thought she’d finally rebuilt her life. A new reporting job. A home in London. A second chance with the man she loved and lost. Then an anonymous envelope arrives—five explicit photos from her past and a threat that could destroy everything. She has two weeks to uncover who’s blackmailing her… or watch her career, her reputation, and her future go up in flames.

Let us begin Banker Bingo. One banker per month will be assassinated unless the government takes practical steps to reduce the widening deficit between the rich and the poor. This is the threat made by maverick anarchist billionaire Rory Carlisle, which is intended to be carried out by ex-Baader Meinhof operative, Georg Krendler.

Due to communication issues in her own relationship, Wanda ventures outside of her marriage in the pursuit of greener pastures. Her neighbor Leroy opens up a pathway to love that Wanda constantly attempts to resist. In light of her past relationships, Wanda knows that the possibilities of finding true love are endless. Instead of trying to open up the communication lines with her husband, she resorts to reconnecting with friends from the past. Getting in touch with these friends takes her on a wild roller-coaster ride of love that sways between mental and physical attraction.

When Eliot’s wife pops from the inside out, he’s left with a question no detective, cult leader, or scientist can answer: why her — and why now? As strangers follow the mess to explode without reason, Eliot finds himself caught in a surreal investigation that makes less sense the deeper it goes. The police are baffled. The news is trembling. And somewhere between sleep and waking, love is washing off the blood.

Passion. Betrayal. Murder. A Love That Defies Time. In the heart of a raging blizzard, Theodora Hayes isn’t just chasing the past—she’s fighting for her future. Determined to rekindle the love she abandoned years ago, she embarks on a journey into darkness, where danger lurks at every turn. But can love survive a history filled with secrets, lies, and murder?

Tales of Love and Madness by Donald Pizzarello is a compelling collection of four short stories that dive into the complexities of the human mind and heart. Each story weaves its own narrative of psychological tension, exploring the fragile boundaries between love, obsession, sanity, and madness. The standout story features Nugent, a man whose paranoia and delusions spiral out of control as his town faces the dual threats of a deadly flood and an unseen, sinister force.

Fossdyke Retirement Home has seen its fair share of quirky characters, but it’s never seen the likes of these four geriatric rockers! To outsiders, they are sweet, funny, if not a tad bit ornery. To those in the know, they are meddlesome, rebellious, and way over their heads. When chaos erupts, they’re not far behind.

Could you commit murder if it meant saving the ones you love? Matthew O’Bannon has built a life most people dream of, but he’s spent most of it running from a nightmare - his past. The sins of his history pollute his days and nights, but when he meets a young woman and her daughter, everything begins to change. With a new family to love and a thriving business, things seem to be going right for the first time in decades. Until people he comes into contact with begin turning up dead.