suspense fiction

Exhausted and rebellious after three years of working for her father and mothering her brother, eighteen-year-old Arcadia "Cadie" Wells joins two cousins who are camping their way through Florida, soon learning that one is a murderer.

When beautiful, eighteen-year-old Rosie goes missing and later is found brutally murdered, Kate, who has a daughter the same age, is deeply troubled by the idea that anyone would murder a member of such a seemingly wonderful family. And the closer she gets to Rosie's family, the more troubling the situation becomes.

Kyra is one of the Returned, having been abducted by aliens and now apparently no longer fully human, but something else. She has possible telekinesis, can hold her breath a great while, and her body heals itself at an accelerated rate. The Daylighters, a shadow organization, are after her, and will certainly experiment on her if they catch her. When Kyra and the Returned learn that their friend Tyler has been captured by the Daylighters, they mount a desperate rescue mission.

When Cole Logan's entire high school football team dies in a bus accident, Cole visits a man skilled in black magic to resurrect his dead teammates. Now, Cole and his undead team must defeat those responsible for their deaths on the football field, or they're all bound for Hell.

"Rachel takes the same commuter train every morning ... past a stretch of cozy suburban homes, and stops at the signal that allows her to daily watch the same couple breakfasting on their deck. She's even started to feel like she knows them ... Their life-as she sees it-is perfect. Not unlike the life she recently lost. And then she sees something shocking. It's only a minute until the train moves on, but it's enough. Now everything's changed. Unable to keep it to herself, Rachel offers what she knows to the police, and becomes inextricably entwined in what happens next, as well as in the lives of everyone involved. Has she done more harm than good?"--Provided by publisher.

In 1970s Clanton, Mississippi, college dropout Willie Traynor turns a failed small-town paper into a success covering a local rape and murder case and finds his life coming full circle when the man convicted of that crime is paroled nine years after receiving a life sentence and jury members from the trial begin turning up dead.

The murder of a Connecticut family is almost written off as a burglary gone bad by the local police force, but former police lieutenant Ty Hauck, an investigator for a global securities firm, is drawn to the case and led to a global terrorist conspiracy when he learns that the murdered woman is a former lover of his and that the male victim, Mark Glassman, was the chief equities trader at a top investment bank.

After the daughter of a Georgia senator is murdered and her body drained of blood, Eve Duncan becomes enmeshed in the nefarious plot of serial murderer Kevin Jelak, who Eve thinks might know something about her missing daughter.

"Kate, Aubrey, and Jenny. They first met as college roommates and soon became inseparable, even though they are as different as three women can be. Twenty years later, one of them is standing at the edge of a bridge, and someone else is urging them to jump. How did things come to this? As the novel cuts back and forth between their college years and their adult years, you see the exact reasons why these women love and hate each other--but can feelings that strong lead to murder? Or will everyone assume, as is often the case, that it's always the husband?"--.

Henry and Tess, once part of a quartet of college art majors who called themselves the Compassionate Dismantlers, find their lives unraveling when Suz, a member of the group who died ten years earlier during one the Dismantler's twisted experiments, seems to be haunting their daughter.