suspense fiction

Abandoned to the workhouse after the death of her guardians, Cora Parry refuses to accept her fate. Under the tuition of persuasive street-rat Fletch, Cora finds herself reluctantly drawn deep into the Victorian underworld. As she is gradually seduced into a life of crime, Cora creates a persona for herself?Carrie?allowing her to separate her uneasy conscience from her actions, but soon things are spiraling out of control. Carrie is committing acts of crime that Cora knows she can't possibly have done. Where does Carrie end and Cora begin? Who is really in control, and where will it end?.

When reclusive crime writer, Leonora Shaw, is invited to spend a weekend with old friends in a remote cabin known as the Glass House, secrets from her past are slowly unveiled. Leonora finds herself confronted with a truth she would much rather leave forgotten.

When a former student bungles the investigation of a mother-daughter double murder, clinical psychologist Joseph O'Loughlin discovers a link between the case and a series of escalating attacks.

"Pay close attention and you might solve this. On Monday afternoon, five students at Bayview High walk into detention. Bronwyn, the brain, is Yale-bound and never breaks a rule. Addy, the beauty, is the picture-perfect homecoming princess. Nate, the criminal, is already on probation for dealing. Cooper, the athlete, is the all-star baseball pitcher. And Simon, the outcast, is the creator of Bayview High's notorious gossip app. Only, Simon never makes it out of that classroom. Before the end of detention Simon's dead. And according to investigators, his death wasn't an accident. On Monday, he died. But on Tuesday, he'd planned to post juicy reveals about all four of his high-profile classmates, which makes all four of them suspects in his murder. Or are they the perfect patsies for a killer who's still on the loose? Everyone has secrets, right? What really matters is how far you would go to protect them.".

Four months ago Sara Zapata's best friend, Linda, disappeared from the streets of Juarez, Mexico. Ever since Sara has been using her job as a reporter to draw attention to the girls who have been kidnapped by the criminals who control the city. But now she and her family are being threatened. Meanwhile her younger brother, Emiliano, is being lured into the drug business by the promise of big money. Soon, the only way for both of them to escape is to risk the dangerous trek across the desert to the United States border.

It's been more than ten years since Kit Owens and Diane Fleming where friends in high school and a horrible secret tore their friendship apart. Now, as they're both vying for the same position working in research alongside their idol, the past comes roaring back and threatens to ruin them both.

Laura, a rich woman with a successful career and a long marriage to a rich husband, has a son, Daniel. Daniel, twenty-three, is handsome, talented, and genuine--then he meets Cherry, a beautiful and smart girl, who becomes his girlfriend, but who has not had the same life as Laura has had. Cherry wants Laura's life, and one little, unforgivable lie is all it takes--and it will have far-reaching consequences for everyone involved.

Ten years after the events that changed his life and made him famous, Johnny Merrimon lives alone on 6,000 acres, attempting to maintain his privacy and sanity. His only link to his old life is Jack, his childhood friend. However, when Jack visits Johnny's secluded home, he senses danger in the wild places, a darkness and hunger, and evil intent. Johnny won't listen to Jack, but Jack is a true and persistent friend.

In 1982, in a paradise-like hamlet ninety miles from New York City, three teenage friends--Patrick, Matthew, and Hannah--find themselves bound together by a horrid crime. Almost thirty years later, the three meet up again, living lives their younger selves never could have dreamed, with even worse results.

High-class Manhattan husband and wife Mark and Karen Breakstone arrange their lives around their beautiful, compassionate, and entrancing daughter, Heather, and the world seems to follow her, too--and all its dark interests begin to gravitate towards her as well.