thrillers (fiction)

Iconic author John Rothstein hasn't published a book for decades, and a deranged fan named Morris Bellamy is livid. Bellamy kills the author and empties his safe of cash, also discovering a secret stash of notebooks containing at least one more novel. The killer decides to hide the money and notebooks, before being locked away for another crime. Decades later, a boy named Pete finds the notebook, but later discovers he and his family are in danger from the vengeful and psychotic Morris when he's finally released from prison.

"Working in the maguey fields of the Southwest, Sarah Jac and James are in love but forced to start over on a ranch that is possibly cursed where the delicate balance in their relationship begins to give way"--Provided by publisher.

"When a girl is found dead at her elite boarding school, soccer-star Kay Donovan follows a scavenger hunt which implicates suspects increasingly close to her, unraveling her group of popular friends and perfectly constructed life"--Provided by publisher.

"Anna Fox lives alone, a recluse in her New York City home, drinking too much wine, watching old movies and spying on her neighbors. Then the Russells move next door: a father, a mother, their teenaged son. The perfect family. But when Anna sees something she shouldn't, her world begins to crumble and its shocking secrets are laid bare. What is real? What is imagined? Who is in danger? Who is in control?"--Provided by publisher.

"Determined to clear her father of the wrongful conviction for a gang-related crossfire death, thirteen-year-old Trell persuades a reporter and a lawyer to investigate the case and uncover the truth"--OCLC.

Kadija is the music-loving daughter of a guardian of the library in the ancient city of Timbuktu, Ali is a former shepherd boy, trained by Islamist militants--and both are caught up in the war in Mali and on opposite sides of the stuggle to save the sacred Sufi manuscripts that the militants want to destroy.

When Kaine Prescott's husband died two years ago, her pleas for further invegestigation fall on deaf ears, but when the house's dark history comes back to haunt her, Kaine realizes there's nowhere left to hide.

A fifteen-year-old boy's disappearance exposes the guilty feelings of a family whose members have a history of lying to each other.

"Four girls are best friends and inseparable at Salten,a second-rate boarding school near the cliffs of the England Channel. They are notorious for playing the Lying Game, telling lies to both fellow boarders and faculty. Their little game has consequences when they soon learn theirshared past was not as safely buried as they had once hoped"--OCLC.

"Kate has spent fifteen years bringing global injustice home: as a decorated war reporter, she's always in a place of conflict, writing about ordinary people in unimaginable situations. When her mother dies, Kate returns home from Syria for the funeral. But an incident with a young Syrian boy haunts her dreams, and when Kate sees a boy in the garden of the house next door--a house inhabited by an Iraqi refugee who claims her husband is away and she has no children--Kate becomes convinced that something is very wrong. As she struggles to separate her memories of Syria from the quiet town in which she grew up--and also to reconcile her memories of a traumatic childhood with her sister's insistence that all was not as Kate remembers--she begins to wonder what is actually true...and what is just in her mind."--Page 4 of cover.