suspense fiction

"Boston, 1976. Daniel Fitzsimmons is just sixteen years old and totally on his own--his parents are long dead, and his beloved brother, Harry, is off at Harvard, the star of the football team. When Harry is murdered, Daniel wrestles not only with inconsolable grief but with strange new powers he never knew he possessed. Powers he's not sure he can control. Detectives William Barkley 'Bark' Jones and Tommy Dillon are assigned to Harry's case. The veteran partners thought they'd seen it all, but they are stunned when Daniel wanders into the crime scene. Even stranger, Daniel claims to have known the details of his brother's murder before it ever happened. The investigation leads the detectives deep into the Fitzsimmons brothers' past. They find heartbreaking loss, sordid characters, and metaphysical conspiracies. Even on the rough streets of 1970s Boston, Jones and Dillon have never had a case like this"--Dust jacket.

Vanessa's husband Richard has left her for a younger woman named Emma. And though it seems to be a typical scenario, there's more to this love triangle than meets the eye.

"Set in the fictional town of Castle Rock, Maine The latest from legendary master storyteller Stephen King, a riveting, extraordinarily eerie, and moving story about a man whose mysterious affliction brings a small town together--a timely, upbeat tale about finding common ground despite deep-rooted differences. Although Scott Carey doesn't look any different, he's been steadily losing weight. There are a couple of other odd things, too. He weighs the same in his clothes and out of them, no matter how heavy they are. Scott doesn't want to be poked and prodded. He mostly just wants someone else to know, and he trusts Doctor Bob Ellis. In the small town of Castle Rock, the setting of many of King's most iconic stories, Scott is engaged in a low grade--but escalating--battle with the lesbians next door whose dog regularly drops his business on Scott's lawn. One of the women is friendly; the other, cold as ice. Both are trying to launch a new restaurant, but the people of Castle Rock want no part of a gay married couple, and the place is in trouble. When Scott finally understands the prejudices they face-including his own--he tries to help. Unlikely alliances, the annual foot race, and the mystery of Scott's affliction bring out the best in people who have indulged the worst in themselves and others. From Stephen King, our "most precious renewable resource, like Shakespeare in the malleability of his work" (The Guardian), Elevation is an antidote to our divisive culture, as gloriously joyful (with a twinge of deep sadness) as "It's a Wonderful Life.""--.

Grace has premonitions. They've haunted her since before her mother's death. She doesn't know how to deal with them, and doesn't want to. Then Grace's best friend Emily disappears. Can she be saved in time?.

An unnamed narrator feels her life unraveling--she is childless, her husband left her, and her job is at a dead-end. She becomes obsessed with her neighbor, a celebrity actress with a husband, three kids, and fame. The narrator's chance interaction with the actress at the annual block party creates disaster, and her innocent preoccupation spirals into lethality and madness.

Patrick Cusimano and his brother, Mike, become the pariahs of their town after their father kills a boy while driving drunk, seemingly attracting people with troubled pasts to themselves--like Caro, Mike's girlfriend, and Layla Elshere, a goth teenager whose friendship Patrick distrusts, as well as Layla's sister Verna. Toxic relationships lead them all to a crisis of friendship and trust.

When fourteen-year-old Marley Willits runs away, her parents Rachel and Paul launch a social media campaign to locate her and convince her to come home, but the public exposure widens the cracks in Rachel and Paul's already tenuous marriage.

Five weeks after arriving in Buenos Aires as part of a foreign exchange program, Lily Hayes is arrested for murdering her roommate. As those around her grapple with this turn of events and either seek her innocence or her conviction, Lily's true face begins to come to light and raises questions about who she really is.

Jessica Farris signs up for an anonymous psychological study on ethics and morality done by the mysterious Dr. Shields. The sessions turn into intense outings where Jessica is told what to wear and how to act, and she fears Dr. Shields knows a secret from her past that she's hiding. Before Jessica realizes it, she has become trapped in a web of deceit, jealousy, and deadly obsession.

When Shelby and her friend Gina take a summer road trip after high school graduation in 1981, they're goals include getting to California to reunite with Shelby's mother who left her years before, finding Gina's wayward boyfriend, and returning home in time to start college in the fall. But their plans get derailed when the girls pick up a hitchhiker who calls herself Candy Cane. Now their only goal is to survive.