Action Suspense category: 46663 books

A dashing private detective enters the glamorous and grimy world of the Cannes Film Festival to find a missing starlet in this “fast and clever” mystery (Library Journal). Enigmatic Englishman Patrick de Courvoisier has left his troubled past behind for a life of leisure on a houseboat...

Maverick journalist Winston Gandhi is on the hunt for a killer story. A terrorist mastermind lurks in the shadows. Will Gandhi and Shannon O'Grady crack the code or will thousands die? When Winston Gandhi is slipped an encrypted list with 19 female names, and discovers a murdered, U.S. embassy...

The best part of Emily's childhood may have been the time she spent with her quirky aunt. So when her favorite relative passes away, she drops everything to attend the funeral in the small town of Oak Creek. But she never expected to inherit her aunt's entire estate, including her massive black dog...

Love, mystery, failure, success, sorrow and joy all vibrate throughout Kennedy's dynamic new work of suspense and action, The Fatal Cache. Hide and go seek with adults.We've all experienced the thrill of hiding, the terror of being found. But what if no one's searching? What...

The dream of action and adventure, mystery and suspense in the intrigue of international security, global monetary maneuvers and covert espionage proves irresistible to our heroes. Reluctant pawn Michael Charles and the ex-Shah of Iran’s nephew Bobby King finds themselves the prey of every espionage...

In 2010 the journalist, Jon Drago, embarks on an extended sabbatical to Eastern Europe. His life at home appears to have reached a crossroads and he has taken to filling his days and nights with high living and fast romance. Then one drunken evening changes everything for Drago as he is catapulted...

Will Sue Anne be John Cross' next victim or will the FBI or the mob get him first?His first two killings, in Paris, were in self-defence. The one in Las Vegas was an accident, that guard should have just handed over the $3,500,000 instead of trying to be a hero. Drowning the two lovers in Delaware...

The novel is about an old-school lawyer, Edwin Hillyard, who struggles with the new dotcom world. He accidentally kills his indulged wife, when he discovers her in bed with another woman. Before he knows it, he is the main actor in a dramatic and nail-biting trial. What will the verdict...

Captain Kent Allison and his beautiful wife, Teddi, are owners of the Sea Rose, a long-time fishing boat sailing in the South Pacific. Their adventure starts when they are hijacked by the notorious pirate Captain Armond Yang. Several anxious days later, they escape with their two Polynesian crew members...

A calling can consume… When Louis Ferreira, a missionary, allows hidden agendas, secret deals, and fanatic interpretation of church doctrine to cloud common sense, the buffalo hunt he organizes with a colleague, Phil Vermeulen, spirals out of control. It is one thing for a driven preacher...

Private investigator Archer Lake earns his keep investigating cheating spouses, and until the beautiful Judge from the palatial cabin on the hill overlooking his moored houseboat invites herself in for coffee, the worse thing he ever faced was a distraught husband or a bounced client check. One event...

Suspense story about a cultural victim of our time.  Girl of 12 is abducted in the American Deep South, taken into the narco-porn world of a low-level pimp in suburban Rio.  An Olivia Twist tale 150 years after Dickens.  She fares worse than the Elizabeth Smart case in the American West.   We first...

The chase is reaching its climax, and the prize is close. But with every step that Talya and Samuel take that brings them closer to solving the mysteries around Carmine, Savoi and Richard Gilman, the danger they place themselves in increases exponentially. The closer they get to uncovering the identity...

Sarai, a Biblical Studies lecturer, learns a great and terrible truth – a core knowledge she must impart to a successor. Will she choose society wife, Jen, or bondage and discipline prostitute, Kat? The lives of these two women collide in unexpected ways around Sarai, while in the wings lurk a coven...