Womens Fiction Thriller

Samantha Frayn doesn’t know why Peter Bridges picks her - a nobody with bitten fingernails and a troubled childhood behind her - but she falls quickly. He’s older, charming, likes fine wine and French films, and his beautiful home has real art on its walls. Peter transforms Samantha’s life in an instant. He sees the better version of herself - the one she’s always wanted to be. It’s only normal that there’s a little friction, when she moves in, over domestic matters like where things are kept, or the proper times to eat, sleep, and shower.

A snowstorm in tiny Crescent Bay, California. But the show must go on. Volunteering to help with the Swan Lake ballet at the historic Crown Theatre was supposed to be a distraction. It’s better than thinking deeply about what I want to do next with the strange fortune I inherited, and this big, empty house. Snow is a fun bonus. When my cousins surprise me with a visit despite the unexpected storm, Covett House is suddenly full of life. And questions. Some of which are as simple as ‘Do you have a bathroom?’ Others are more alarming, like ‘Did you know your cat sees ghosts?

Kit Mason has lived a life of unimaginable pain. An ex-prostitute, she has fled the clutches of an abusive pimp and now finds herself living hand to mouth in a new city, without anyone to help her. Frances Thornton seems to be living the perfect life. A lawyer from a privileged background, her perfect façade hides the painful secrets that still haunt her.

An ancient curse seems to be causing bad luck in the charming village of Ballydehag, Ireland - witch Quinn Callahan’s new home. When someone is murdered, is it the curse? Or, is there a very human murderer on the loose? Moving to a small Irish village was supposed to keep the middle-aged witch out of trouble. Yeah, that didn't happen. Quinn and her bookish vampires must find the real killer and end the curse before someone else dies.

Who says you can’t live the rock and roll life after 40? You just need a lot more vitamins and a bigger bottle of aspirin. Valerie Costa was pretty sure she was rocking her 40s. She had an amazing coffee shop, two cool teenagers, and a new superpower that gave her insight into any random object she touched. Okay, she wasn’t thrilled about that last one. Ever since Val and her two best friends had driven their car off the edge and into Glimmer Lake the year before, Val has struggled with her new abilities.

Robin Brannon was a normal wife, mom, and antique shop owner until a brush with death turned her day-to-day life upside down. Now, she and her two best friends are seeing things that belong in a fantasy novel. Ghosts. Visions. Omens of doom. Nothing that belongs in the peaceful mountain town they call home. Added to that, Robin's marriage is on the rocks, her grandmother's health is failing, her mother is driving away the customers at her shop, her teenage daughter refuses to get her driver's license, and her left knee aches every darn morning.

It’s been four years since Monica lost the love of her life to a sudden and devastating heart attack. She’s held her family together and picked herself up with the love and help of her two best friends. Now Monica has a new business, a new wardrobe, and a new vision for the future. As in actual psychic visions. Dreams that manifest in reality? Monica’s still not sure why or how it happened, but she’s been seeing everything from unexpected visitors to visions of fire and destruction.

When an alarming pattern emerges of mail order brides found dead under mysterious circumstances, profiler Jessie Hunt must untangle a web of deceit and betrayal. With each bride's hope for a new life snuffed out, Jessie faces the daunting task of tracking down a killer who may have mastered the ultimate deception—by hiding in plain sight.

A new life in a new town. But keeping secrets is not my style. I moved to Crescent Bay because of my cat. I inherited Thomas along with Nanna’s old Victorian house. When his antics uncovered a family secret in the woods behind Covett House, I suddenly found myself guarding a moon garden for a pair of snooty fae princesses. To top it off, I’m keeping secrets from my best friend. Important stuff. Magical stuff. Soon they’ll know how much I’ve been hiding. Finding a body is a twist even I couldn’t worry up.

Private detective Olivia Welles hasn’t been to her hometown since childhood, not since the night she died. She has no memory of the world before the car crash, or of coming back to life in the morgue. But now, years later, when fellow survivor Bonnie Ray calls from a Kansas jail begging for help, Olivia feels the tug of a dark and unremembered past. Bonnie looks guilty of murdering her young son—the third child to die under suspicious circumstances. Intrigued and seeking closure, Olivia agrees to investigate.

When Detective Katie Scott is called to the discovery of a young girl buried on the grounds of a former children’s home in Pine Valley, California, she’s hopeful it’s the end to a devastating cold case she’s been working on. No one has seen Candace Harlan since she ran away from Elm Hill Manor five years ago. Her death will be a tragedy, but it will also bring peace to those who miss her most. But the girl in the ground is not Candace.

FBI Agent Ella Dark has studied serial killers from the time she could read, devastated by the murder of her own sister, and has gained an encyclopedic knowledge of murderers. When johns are found murdered in their cars, the echoes of past cases are clear: It appears to be a jilted prostitute turned serial killer. But might everything Ella learned be wrong?

Amid a night of fun and festivities, Isabella Walker found herself alone with a bold, masked man at her front door. Unable to fight off her would-be abductor, the mother of two soon found herself a victim of extraordinary and grim circumstances. FBI agent Olivia Knight has investigated her fair share of bizarre cases. When she and Brock are called to the suburbs of Hidden Hills to investigate a strange abduction, Olivia quickly realizes that there’s more to this case than a mere kidnapping. Why was Isabella Walker targeted? Is there more to this housewife than meets the eye?

For fans of gripping thrillers and intense police procedurals comes a story that will keep you on the edge of your seat. Eden Mercer, now a rising star in Nightfall's police department, faces her most challenging case yet. When a staff member is found dead at the secretive Cascade Residential Academy deep in the Oregon woods, Eden and her loyal K-9 partner, Shadow, are thrust into a dark world of troubled teens and sinister secrets. As Eden investigates, she uncovers a web of abuse, manipulation, and corruption hidden behind the academy's façade of reform.

Haunted by visions of the future, FBI Special Agent Laura Frost must tap her psychic talent to hunt diabolical serial killers—while keeping it secret from everyone around her. But with a ticking clock and lives on the line, might her visions lead her astray?

Three women—Sissy, Mona, and Carmen—reunite to commemorate their unforgettable journey to Africa 50 years ago. When they discover their beloved mentor was fired for stealing, the reunion takes a dramatic turn. Meanwhile, they must unravel the dilemmas of their own lives. Sissy is facing eviction from the only home she’s ever known because of her inability to move beyond the past. Carmen is juggling between her desire to reach the pinnacle of her career and her husband’s invitation to retire into the sunset of their lives.

London summer 1918, stylish lady detective Miss Isabel Hewitt is approached by a young woman, Violet Moses, who says she is being threatened. Her husband witnessed a man being murdered at his place of work, a dental surgery in Harley Street. She cannot go to the police as it was a detective sergeant who has threatened her.

Verónica llega a Londres en un vertiginoso viaje, siguiendo los pasos del sospechoso de un crimen cometido en España. Todo se complica cuando es asesinado nada más entrar en un pub londinense y Verónica se encuentra cara a cara con Santi, un personaje de su pasado que parece estar implicado en el tiroteo. Eso desencadenará una serie de eventos que la arrastran a un profundo laberinto de intrigas y sospechas, que pondrán en peligro su vida a partir de ese momento.

In The Girl He Pined (Book 1), Paige King, 25, in her PhD residency at a psychiatric hospital for the criminally insane, is summoned urgently by the FBI: her most notorious patient, a diabolical and elusive serial killer, has escaped. And they need her to help hunt him down. Paige, as brilliant as she is, knows she is up against a mastermind with no equal. This killer will stop at nothing to outwit them all, and going too deep into his mind may be just the thing that undoes them all.

FBI Agent Ella Dark has studied serial killers from the time she could read, devastated by the murder of her own sister, and has gained an encyclopedic knowledge of murderers. But when Ella investigates a murder and realizes this is no ordinary dead body, she is at a loss: It’s pieced together with parts of multiple victims. How many people has this killer killed? And can Ella discover who did this—and why—before time runs out?