suspense fiction

While playing the traditional "game", Killer Game, at boarding school, Cate and her friends notice that this year it appears to be even more real than in the past.

After a series of suspicious suicides, rogue FBI agent Jane Hawk uncovers a secret cabal of powerful people with an insidious plot. She must find a way to break up their plans to destroy America while staying on the run as a falsely accused, most wanted fugitive.

Sarah Jac Crow and James Holt fall in love, but working in the endless fields of a drought-stricken Southwest in the near future, they must hide their love from those who would use it against them. Quietly, they save money for a house on the coast--then, tragedy sends them both on the run to another ranch, possibly cursed, where the balance of their lives tilts and their love may have a higher price than they ever imagined.

After her husband commits suicide, former FBI agent Jane Hawk is consumed with grief and fury. She slowly learns that many more people--talented, happy, and accomplished--are also committing suicide with no apparent reason. Jane decides to find out why, and her investigative efforts make her the target of powerful people who are trying to protect a deadly secret.

Sixteen-year-old Meringue agrees to take over her friend Jeff's pizza route on her scooter without knowing that Jeff uses the route as a cover for his drug dealing. Meringue inadvertently becomes the target of a rival drug dealer, and struggles to find a way to extricate herself without snitching.

"In the . . . Maine woods, a partly preserved body is discovered. Investigators realize that the dead young woman gave birth shortly before her death. But there is no sign of a baby. Private detective Charlie Parker is hired by a lawyer to shadow the police investigation and find the infant but Parker is not the only searcher. Someone else is following the trail left by the woman, someone with an interest in much more than a missing child"--OCLC.

A teen boy in upstate New York begins breaking into homes and hacking the owners' computers to learn their secrets; sometimes he even shares the secrets in prank emails. However, when a woman in the neighborhood is murdered, suspicion mounts. The neighbors will do anything to protect their secrets, to find out who the boy is and what he knows.

""[Evokes] both Jeanette Winterson and Ian McEwan. an elegiac and uplifting novel about the indissoluble bonds between mothers and daughters, and a reminder of how the imagination can set you free." -- The Guardian On Ruby's thirteenth birthday, a wishshe didn't even know she had suddenly comes true: the couple who raised her aren't her parents at all. Her real mother and father are out there somewhere, and Ruby becomes determined to find them. Venturing into the forest with nothing but a suitcase and the company of her only true friend--the imaginary Shadow Boy--Ruby discovers a group of siblings who live alone in the woods. The children take her in, and while they offer the closest Ruby's ever had to a family, Ruby begins to suspect that they mightneed her even more than she needs them. And it's not always clear what's real and what's not--or who's trying to help her and who might be a threat. Told from shifting timelines, and the alternating perspectives of teenage Ruby; her mother, Anna; and even the Shadow Boy, The Doll Funeral is a dazzling follow-up to Kate Hamer's breakout debut, The Girl in the Red Coat, and a gripping, exquisitely mysterious novel about the connections that remain after a family has been broken apart"--.

In this pulse-pounding thriller from the author of the "haunting, twisting thrill-ride" (Megan Miranda, New York Times bestselling author) The River at Night, a young woman leaves behind everything she knows to take on the jungle of Bolivia, but her excursion abroad quickly turns into a fight for her life.

"... an electrifying thriller about a mysterious killer virus bringing the world to its knees"--Publisher.