suspense

"Kevin Delavan wants only one thing for his fifteenth birthday: a Polaroid Sun 660. There's something wrong with his gift, though. No matter where Kevin Delevan aims the camera, it produces a photograph of an enormous, vicious dog. In each successive picture, the menacing creature draws nearer to the flat surface of the Polaroid film as if it intends to break through. When old Pop Merrill, the town's sharpest trader, gets wind of this phenomenon, he envisions a way to profit from it. But the Sun Dog, a beast that shouldn't exist at all, turns out to be a very dangerous investment."-- Page [4] of cover.

When she was sixteen years old, Angela Wong?one of the most popular girls in school?disappeared without a trace. Nobody ever suspected that her best friend, Georgina Shaw, now an executive and rising star at her Seattle pharmaceutical company, was involved in any way. Certainly not Kaiser Brody, who was close with both girls back in high school. But fourteen years later, Angela Wong's remains are discovered in the woods near Geo's childhood home. And Kaiser?now a detective with Seattle PD?finally learns the truth: Angela was a victim of Calvin James. The same Calvin James who murdered at least three other women.

"It's the summer of 1954 and the residents of Cottonwood, California are dying. At the center of it all is six-year-old Danny McCray, a strange and silent child the townspeople regard with fear and superstition, and who appears to bring ruin to those around him. Even his own mother is plagued by an illness that is slowly consuming her. Sheriff Jim Kent has stood by and watched the people of his town suffer, increasingly aware of the whispers and rumors surrounding the boy--and he worries someone might take drastic action to protect their loved ones. Then a stranger arrives and Danny and his ten-year-old brother Sean go missing. In the search that follows, everyone is a suspect--even their own parents--and the consequences of finding the two brothers may be worse than not finding them at all."--Provided by publisher.

Ryan Quinn finds out his parents are part of the Emergency Rescue Committee after his father disappears and his mother is kidnapped and goes on a rescue mission.

Natasha Romanov, called the Black Widow, agent of S.H.I.E.L.D, rescues a young girl from Ivan, the man who once trained her as an assassin--and eight years later she is called upon to protect the teenager Ava has become from a threat from the past--and possibly from S.H.I.E.L.D. itself.

The citizens of Chester's Mill, Maine, find their relationships strained and lives in danger after an inexplicable force field develops around the town, cutting it off from the outside world and resulting in a power struggle between local politician and drug lord Big Jim Rennie, who enjoys the idea of dominating an isolated populace, and people who disagree with Jim and want to investigate the origins of the dome.

Set in the gilded world of luxury hotels, high-stakes politics, drug czars, and money launderers, Pinnacle of Deceit follows the astonishingly successful lives of four men who share a dark secret from their troubled past in an Arizona orphanage, and a sadistic killer bent on hunting them down. Anthony Marshall, self-made owner of the world?s largest luxury hotel chain, Pinnacle Hotels?Gerald Pratt, his tortured accomplice?Ricardo Sanchez, the world?s most ruthless drug lord?and Harmon Baker, an aspiring congressman who becomes an accidental world leader?are all caught up in a web of intrigue that not only pits them against a merciless outside force, but also against one another. As the plot surges through the glamour capitals of the world to its shocking conclusion in Montreal, the price that the relentless pursuit of wealth and power can extract is made devastatingly clear.