suspense fiction

John Corey fears his allotment of good luck may have run out when he signs on as a contract agent with the federal government's Anti-Terroist Task Force and is assigned to apprehend an alleged Libyan terrorist known as "The Lion.".

Searching for a serial killer who leaves playing cards at the scenes of his crimes, police officer Elizabeth Needham teams up with brilliant professor Dylan Reinhart, whose book has been connected to the murders.

This virtuosic novel, set in a near-future, high-tech surveillance state, is equal parts dark comedy, gripping detective story, and mind-bending philosophical puzzle.

"The Harbinger opens with the appearance of a man burdened with a message he has received from a mysterious figure called The Prophet. The Prophet has given him nine seals, each containing a message about America's future ... As the story unfolds, each revelation becomes a piece in a greater puzzle -- the ramifications of which will even alter the course of world history."--Publisher's website.

Four years ago, Willow Lamott's best friend Ashton was convicted of murder. Now, he's returned to high school from juvie, fueled by revenge. As the two try to become close again, Willow sinks into his sinister world and begins to question whether Ashton is a villain, savior, or both.

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.

In a little copse near the east coast main line of Yorkshire, in a house that Daddy built himself, live siblings Daniel and Cathy. They roam their wood, completely free of modern living conventions. They know Daddy sometimes has to go off and do hard work to get money, but what exactly he does never enters their minds. Then one day a local landowner shows up on their doorstep, and the modern world seems like crashing in on their happy existence.

Sixteen-year-old Mae Cole is determined to uncover who is responsible for her sister's mysterious death, but Mae's search takes a terrifying turn when she starts to dig up long-buried secrets about her family's dark past.

"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.

Juliette has escaped to Omega Point, the headquarters of the rebel resistance and a safe haven for people with abilities like hers. She is finally free from The Reestablishment and their plans to use her as a weapon, but Warner, her former captor, won't let her go without a fight.