Thrillers and Suspense

Playback Effect

Playback Effect
Title: Playback Effect
ASIN: B00OVJISTQ
Published: December 9, 2014
Author's Twitter: @KarenAWyle
New technology records the highlights of emotional experience for others to share. But the recordings carry hidden information. What will a sociopath do with recordings of the experience of death? “O wad some Power the giftie gie us/To see oursels as ithers see us!” But what if we could see others as they see themselves? New technology records the highlights of emotional experience for others to share. Buy a helmet and you can feel the exhilaration of an Olympic ski jumper, or the heat of a lucid dreamer’s erotic imaginings. Commit a crime, and you may be sentenced to endure the suffering you inflicted on others. But such recordings may carry more information than the public has realized. What will criminals learn about their victims? When a husband is wrongfully convicted of injuring his wife, how will their marriage change? And what uses will a sociopath find for recordings of the experience of death?

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Photographic: A Novel

Photographic: A Novel
Title: Photographic: A Novel
ASIN: B00CY1KX96
Published: May 20, 2013
Author:
Author's Twitter: @kdlovgren
Careful what you wish for. When Jane married Ian Reilly, he wasn’t famous, just a method actor with a dream. In the seven years since their marriage, he’s catapulted to the A-list, they own a secluded farm in the Midwest, and Jane and Ian are living separate lives. While Ian films a blockbuster, action-packed version of The Odyssey on the island of Crete, Jane is hunted by a tabloid photographer who won’t take no for an answer. As Odysseus, Ian is six thousand miles away and three thousand years in the past. His plunge into the tribulations of an ancient Greek hero has left her an unwilling Penelope. When the tabloids break an on-set story too outrageous to ignore, Jane undertakes an epic journey of her own to uncover the truth.

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Eye Spy

Eye Spy
Title: Eye Spy
ASIN: B00GZQK9X6
Published: November 25, 2013
Eye Spy is a 106,000-word paranormal thriller about a psychic agoraphobe, the bodies he visits, the sister who saves him, and the people they protect. CJ lives in fear. Fear of the outdoors. Fear of strangers. But his fear disappears when his mind secretly hitchhikes in someone else’s body. Undetectable, he goes where his hosts go, and he senses what they sense. As a spy hidden beyond others’ eyes, he has foiled robberies and solved murders with the support of his sister Steph. Now, they must save a kidnapped teenager from a cult leader who believes the teen is destined to bear his child. But when CJ’s mobile mind is noticed by other psychics, CJ and Steph’s attempted rescue becomes a struggle for survival.

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One Last Lie

One Last Lie
Title: One Last Lie
ASIN: B00RN52YEK
Published: December 30, 2014
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Author's Twitter: @RobKaufmanCT
Angela is beautiful and charismatic on the outside. But on the inside, a demon rages, determined to get anyone and anything she wants. And now with her biological clock ticking, she seduces her old friend Philip, and his partner Jonathan, into having a child with her through artificial insemination. From the moment the parenting agreement is signed, Angela’s mask of deceit slips away and she leads the fathers-to-be on a relentless, agonizing journey filled with lies, anguish and finally tragedy that forever changes the lives of everyone involved.

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Revolution Earth

Revolution Earth
Title: Revolution Earth
ASIN: B008AK7AV4
Published: June 10, 2012
Author's Twitter: @lambertnagle
Stephen Connor, trainee Metropolitan Police detective is first on the scene when a cyclist is killed in a seemingly ordinary hit-and-run. Just another tragedy on a London street?   A sunny London lunchtime is punctuated by a casual act of violence that will ricochet across four continents. Stephen Connor, trainee detective, is first on the scene when a cyclist is killed in a seemingly ordinary hit-and-run. Nothing seems to trouble the driver, Big Oil PR guru Greg Palmer – who treats the incident as a minor inconvenience. When Palmer walks free, the dead girl’s soulmate, Cara flees halfway across the world to confront him. Stephen is one step behind. Palmer thrives on burying bad news and there is no dirtier business than an oil company trying to hide a major environmental disaster. Can Stephen protect Cara from a group of charismatic eco-terrorists, who try to lure her in? As a publicity stunt at an oil refinery goes wrong, who will be there when Cara finds out that the target she cared so passionately about had simply moved?

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Patchwork Man

Patchwork Man
Title: Patchwork Man
ASIN: B00M37OUPY
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Published: July 23, 2014
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Author's Twitter: @StorytellerDeb
Have you ever met a patchwork man? Lawrence Juste is one, because Lawrence hasn’t always been who and what he is now. And now he’s about to get found out…   When top English barrister Lawrence Juste’s wife is killed in a hit and run, he thinks the worst he’ll have to face is a nightmare of sickly sympathy and too much press attention. Wrong. All the things he’s ever hidden in his murky past come back to confront him as he opens the blackmail letter his dead wife has left. They include the family he abandoned, crimes he’s looked the other way over and the childhood bully who wants to take him all the way back down to the gutter. His youthful aspiration to be the man his hero, Atticus Finch, of To Kill a Mocking Bird was, has been long forgotten, until the boy he’s forced to defend and the blackmail letter make him have to face his past and shape his future quite differently to the way he’d anticipated. So begins a different nightmare for him, one entwining incest with murder and intrigue with betrayal; one that he may not survive…

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The Betrothal

The Betrothal
Title: The Betrothal
ASIN: B004MPRF2A
Published: January 6, 2014
An early 18th century tale of corruption, wicked intentions, murder, obsessive love, undisclosed secrets, unstoppable destinies, and a woman whose secret will either destroy or restore lives. Richard is an overlord known for his cold manner, remarkable ambition, and debauched lifestyle. When he encounters a beautiful young woman named Emilie on the eve of her wedding to Robert. He becomes obsessed, determined to possess her, no matter the cost, even murder. As Emilie and Robert are forced to flee for their lives, a devastating chain of events threatens to forever change their lives. Captivating, haunting, and divinely suspenseful, The Betrothal is an unforgettable novel about retribution and atonement, love and obsession, betrayal and truth.

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Thump

Thump
Title: Thump
ASIN: B00I13CBFA
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Published: January 16, 2014
T.M. Jefferson (“Thump”), a handsome African American man, joined a venerable investment firm in Baltimore five years ago as a junior analyst. Henrietta Kingman, a white partner in her fifties, took him on as her lover and protégé, rewarding him with promotions and bonuses. But when Thump falls in love with a young nurse and attempts to end the relationship with Kingman, she fights back with unbridled viciousness. Faced with losing everything he holds dear, Thump files a lawsuit claiming sexual harassment. The dramatic trial cracks the facade of wealth and privilege, exposing the ugly truth – and then some.

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Counter Currents

Counter Currents
Title: Counter Currents
ASIN: B006WP4ZDK
Published: January 13, 2014
Counter Currents is a story of smugglers, river pirates, rebels, love, war, and freedom fighters. Spanning 1837 to 1845, most scenes are set against the beauty and grandeur of the Thousand Islands during the drama of the Patriot War in 1838. That year, rebels attacked Canada 12 times from the USA. Among the raiders was the legendary Bill Johnston. Bill Johnston schools Ryan in the smuggler's ways in the lawless archipelago of the Thousand Islands. Ryan’s first taste of violence is a midnight raid on a private steamer, the Sir Robert Peel. Johnston, Ryan, and a dozen others attack the ship, remove the passengers and crew, and then loot and burn it.

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