suspense fiction

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Bird box

In a postapocalyptic world, Malorie and her two children try to survive indoors without looking outside at the force that can turn humans into murderers. Malorie remembers back over the last four years at the circumstances that have brought them to this moment. Now Malorie must decide whether to take her small family downriver in a boat--blindfolded--to safety, and risk the force outside getting them.

Some kind of magic

2015
Four high school friends--Cass, Jemmie, Ben, and Justin--and Ben's younger brother Cody explore an abandoned building with a tragic past in the woods, where they each discover something relevant to their lives and their futures.

Final judgment

2012
A man's body is found decapitated, wrapped in plastic, and stuffed in the trunk of a Fleetwood Cadillac parked outside a federal courthouse. The car's owner is a sweet-natured con man who's on trial for mail fraud--but innocent of murder. Kansas City defence attorney Lou Mason has no idea how a corpse ended up in his client's car. But when the victim is identified as a criminal defendant in a sexually charged lawsuit, Mason is forced to team up with a woman from his past--a brilliant FBI agent who may be playing head games of her own.

The masked truth

2015
Stuck in a weekend therapy camp alongside five other troubled teens, Riley and Max must work together for survival when three masked men break into the building and go on a killing spree.

Leaving time

a novel
Jenna Metcalf, with the help of psychic Serenity Jones and private detective Virgil Stanhope, seeks to uncover the mystery surrounding the disappearance of her mother Alice, a scientist who studied grief among elephants.

Luckiest girl alive

Ani FaNelli once endured a terrible public humiliation that made her want to reinvent herself. Now she has a great job, expensive clothes, and a wealthy fiance--but all that is a cover up for a shocking secret, one that is either going to ruin her once it is revealed, or at last set her free.

Every fifteen minutes

Dr. Eric Parrish, newly a single father, is trying to hold his personal and professional lives together. His latest patient is a teenaged boy who is disturbingly obsessed with a girl. Before Eric can report the boy to the authorities, potentially breaking doctor-patient confidentiality, a sociopath strikes, seemingly targeting Eric, his practice, and his family. Eric will have to use his knowledge of psychology to stop this murderer before he can enact his final plan.

Southern gods

A Memphis DJ hires Bull Ingram to find Ramblin' John Hastur, a bluesman whose dark music is broadcast on a phantom radio station and who can make men insane and the dead rise. The music fills Bull with rage and sends him in search of the bluesman who sold his soul to the devil. However, during the search, Bull finds something worse than the devil and Hell.

Full force and effect

U.S. president Jack Ryan enlists the help of "The Campus," a secret organization run by Ryan's son, Jack Ryan Jr., to put a stop to a North Korean nuclear weapons program targeting the U.S.

14th deadly sin

Detective Lindsay Boxer and her fellow members of the Women's Murder Club of San Francisco investigate the brutal killing of a woman caught on video.

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