#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Don’t miss the hit streaming series Reacher! 

“Jack Reacher is today’s James Bond, a thriller hero we can’t get enough of.”—Ken Follett

“This is a random universe,” Reacher says. “Once in a blue moon things turn out just right.”
 
This isn’t one of those times.
 
Reacher is on a Greyhound bus, minding his own business, with no particular place to go, and all the time in the world to get there. Then he steps off the bus to help an old man who is obviously just a victim waiting to happen. But you know what they say about good deeds. Now Reacher wants to make it right.
 
An elderly couple have made a few well-meaning mistakes, and now they owe big money to some very bad people. One brazen move leads to another, and suddenly Reacher finds himself a wanted man in the middle of a brutal turf war between rival Ukrainian and Albanian gangs.
 
Reacher has to stay one step ahead of the loan sharks, the thugs, and the assassins. He teams up with a fed-up waitress who knows a little more than she’s letting on, and sets out to take down the powerful and make the greedy pay. It’s a long shot. The odds are against him. But Reacher believes in a certain kind of justice . . . the kind that comes along once in a blue moon.
 
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY EVENING STANDARD

The cold is closing in, and the enemy is even closer. The biting wind of winter is unforgiving, but Lacey Stone’s mission is clear: save her daughter at all costs.

After an EMP knocks out power across the region, Big Rock, NC, is plunged into post-apocalyptic chaos. With no heat, no light, and dwindling resources, survival becomes a race against time in this dystopian nightmare. The townspeople are on the brink, but Lacey faces an even greater challenge—her daughter has been captured by a violent group of terrorists determined to destroy everything she holds dear. In this lights out scenario, Lacey must brave the snowbound wilderness, navigate hostile terrain, and rally a town that wants nothing to do with her. With enemies lurking around every corner, and the harsh elements closing in, this prepper survival thriller tests the limits of a mother’s endurance. In this gripping EMP fiction, Lacey’s fight for her daughter becomes a battle for survival, and failure could mean the end—for both her and the town.

Perfect for fans of post-apocalyptic survival fiction, dystopian thrillers, and prepper fiction.

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK

“It’s perfection, every word, every moment. A masterpiece . . . One of the best books I’ve ever read.” —Lisa Jewell, #1 New York Times bestselling author

New York Times bestselling author Gillian McAllister has created a thriller unlike any other in this endlessly clever, twisty story of a mother who must move backward through time to prevent tragedy from striking at the heart of her family.

Can you stop a murder after it’s already happened?

It is midnight on the morning of Halloween, and Jen anxiously waits up for her 18-year-old son, Todd, to return home. But worries about his broken curfew transform into something much more dangerous when Todd finally emerges from the darkness. As Jen watches through the window, she sees her funny, seemingly happy teenage son stab a total stranger.

She doesn’t know who the victim is, or why Todd has committed such a devastating act of violence. All she knows is that her life, and Todd’s, have been shattered. 

After her son is taken into custody, Jen falls asleep in despair. But when she wakes up…it is yesterday. The murder has not happened yet—and there may be a chance to stop it. Each morning, when Jen wakes, she is further back in the past, first weeks, then years, before the murder. And Jen realizes that somewhere in the past lies the trigger for Todd’s terrible crime…and it is her mission to find it, and prevent it from taking place.

Both the story of a mother’s love and the sacrifices she will make for her child, and a thriller with a brilliant twist, Wrong Place Wrong Time is a one-of-a-kind novel that begs to be read in one sitting.

It’s been twenty-five years since she sealed the Hellgate.
Now, she’s gotta stop the apocalypse. Again.

Meg Walker, a grunge teen of the eighties, has always been rebellious and unconventional. So after a disastrous senior year she flipped destiny the bird and skipped town. But her 42nd birthday comes with an unpleasant surprise: a psychic call from her comatose best friend from high school. Someone is trying to open the Hellgate.

Resigned to her duty as the gatekeeper of evil, Meg reluctantly goes home—it’s time to live up to expectations. As she struggles to reconnect with her old friends, she learns the (second) apocalypse is a cakewalk compared to old romances, professional careers, teenage children, and unresolved emotional baggage.

Is it possible confronting the demons from your past is worse than actual demons?

Reunion is the first book in The Hell Gate Chronicles, a new over 40 women’s fantasy series.

Lucas Davenport investigates a vitriolic blog that seems to be targeting the children of U.S. politicians in the latest thriller by #1 New York Times-bestselling author John Sandford.

The daughter of a U.S. Senator is monitoring her social media presence when she finds a picture of herself on a strange blog. And there are other pictures . . . of the children of other influential Washington politicians, walking or standing outside their schools, each identified by name. Surrounding the photos are texts of vicious political rants from a motley variety of radical groups.

It's obviously alarming--is there an unstable extremist tracking the loved ones of powerful politicians with deadly intent? But when the FBI is called in, there isn't much the feds can do. The anonymous photographer can't be pinned down to one location or IP address, and more importantly, at least to the paper-processing bureaucrats, no crime has actually been committed. With nowhere else to turn, influential Senators decide to call in someone who can operate outside the FBI's constraints: Lucas Davenport.

Preacher by day. Sociopath by night.

Discharged by the Army for being mentally unfit, Cecil Omar Biggs parlays his modest disability benefits into a portfolio worth half a mil. To avoid paying taxes, he purchases a house in a rundown San Fernando Valley neighborhood, turns it into a church, and declares himself Bishop.

He recruits psychologically troubled transients and former mental patients to create his "staff and board members" who are kept––for the most part––sequestered in a basement holding cell.

As a way of luring victims, male & female, to what is essentially a cellar-turned abattoir, he promotes a rep for being generous with his cash and drugs. He enhances the scheme by investing in a classic Rolls-Royce and a brand spanking new Cadillac. He tops off this vehicle collection by buying a van he "christens" the Meat Wagon.

Should you hop in for a ride, be prepared to fight for you life. If the Bishop hauls you back to his House of Horror, you'll be begging him to kill you.

"Kirk Alex writes with a rare flair for the genre. Think Stephen King's evil cousin on a sleep deprived crack binge." ––Goodreads

“Great book. Dark––yes. Grotesque––certainly. And the writing is excellent. Character & dialogue, is as real as it gets. A terrifying, non-putdownable horror.”
––Jeff Bennington, Kindle Book Review

Ruth has never been lucky in love. But now she’s met the perfect man…

It’s been three years since Ruth’s marriage abruptly ended. Now, along with her young daughter Beth, she’s ready to move on with her life.

And there’s something else that Ruth wants to forget – her previous connection to a sinister religious cult, The Messengers.

Despite her troubled past, Ruth is ready to embrace the future. So when a new man enters her life, she’s excited to go on a date with him.

But a series of unsettling incidents suggest that nothing is quite as it seems. Is this the Mr. Right she’s been hoping for? Or does her new man have his own secret agenda? And are The Messengers really ready to let her go?

Soon Ruth is forced to confront the ghosts of her past as they become the terrors of her present. Will she ever be free of what happened back then? Or is someone determined to drag her back down into the darkness?

He Loves Me Not is a gripping psychological thriller that’ll keep you turning the pages. Perfect for fans of K L Slater, Daniel Hurst, and Kiersten Modglin.

DI Liam McLaughlin and DS Nancy D'Arcy are seasoned pros, but even their skills are stretched when a battered body turns up in an alley across from the hair salon. Declan Hoagett was a seemingly harmless wino who spent his days hanging out on the street corner where the bank used to be. He rarely asked for handouts, though occasionally burst into song. Nobody would kill him for that, would they?

More baffling, why does Hoagett seem to have been killed three different ways? Are they looking for three perps? One? Two? It's up to McLaughlin, D'Arcy and those from the Major Investigation Team to solve their most heartless homicide yet.

The third in the NUMBER ONE bestselling Derry Murder Mysteries, Three Times A Killer is another gripping, gritty mystery thriller with jaw-dropping twists and a touch of Gerald Hansen’s signature dark humor.

Kim has always had food and shelter; she grew up in a comfortable world. But she is wild. After graduating from high school, she enters The Branch and becomes a highly trained astronaut. Kim accepts a classified mission and is launched deep. However, she is not just the test pilot, she is also the test. And then there is Kala. She grew up in the open grass plain with a spear in hand, but she is not wild. Her adventure will violently choose her.

This is a playful and sometimes poetic story that is a view of us. But there is hope.

What would you do if you watched a Zodiac have your friend murdered and he was coming for you next?

Ciara wants peace from the strange things that going on, but that's not going to happen. Taurus has arrived on Earth, and he’s come to end the Guardian line.

That includes Ciara, even if she doesn't know it.

A race for the magical birthstones and the survival of the human race begins as an ancient enemy slips from the shadows to join the fight. Ciara has four days to find Taurus’s true birthstone and send him back to Polaris. Or else humanity belongs to him.

Ciara can save the world, but can she stay alive long enough to do it?

The Tenth House is the first book in the urban fantasy series, Turn of the Zodiac. If you like mystery, thrilling action that you can't put down and stepping into a unique world with zodiacs and magic, then this series is for you.

Discover D.R. Perry’s Revealed World with six book ones from six of her series. Vampires, shifters, fae, and magic fill this urban fantasy world. If you like magical academies, five of the series are set in different academies in her world. Get ready to find unique characters and settings as you spend late nights following their stories!

---

Night of Sorrow

Free bird? Don't make me laugh. I'm Mavis Merlini and I want out. Of my shady family, this rowdy school, maybe even the world. My brother got kicked out of Gallows Hill School for inciting mermaid violence. I'm determined to cut out all distractions and be the first of my six siblings to actually graduate. Will Mavis succeed in her goals?

Familiar Strangers

We all start as strangers. Why does that make me so nervous? It's magi only at my new school, Hawthorn Academy. The only person I know there is my big brother. I've already bonded with a familiar, but my dragonet means I'm destined for above-average power levels. You only get one chance at first impressions. Will I make friends or enemies?

Make Yourself

My name is Ben, and I died last year. Almost. I’d hoped I would wake up from my near-death experience as a medium just in time for high school. Turns out it just wrecked my legs. No medium talent, either. I’m something else. A summoner. Join Ben as he finds his feet at Messing Psychic Academy.

Bearly Awake

At Providence Paranormal College, class is about to start. Who’s enrolled? Students who are a bit different: vampires, werewolves, changelings, and more. For the first time, it’s opening the doors to regular humans. But someone is angry about this new admissions policy and they'll kill to stop integration. To defeat this rising evil, the students must band together and master their powers.

Be Counted

When a hitwoman apparently shoots Valentino Crispo's dad and one of Cranston’s Finest on the same night, Tino stops letting vampirism bite him. He’ll mix supernatural and PD skills to solve the crime. But he hasn’t got the hang of being a vampire yet.

The mystery of whodunit and why is tied up with Tino’s own turning. The Providence vampire elders hate nosy vamps almost as much as new ones. Will Valentino stand up and be counted or add to the body count?

Wings of Shadow

Always be yourself, unless you can be a dragon.

Speaking as one, it’s not that simple.

My sisters and I grew up oppressed by a bloodthirsty tyrant in another realm. Now we’ve got a trickier challenge, one I’m more worried about.

Starting boarding school.

If I stand out too much someone’s bound to cut me down. But is fitting in even possible when I hatched this way?

Click BUY NOW or READ FOR FREE to join the Revealed World today!

Jack Reacher races to solve the perfect crime in the fourth novel in Lee Child’s #1 New York Times bestselling series.

DON'T MISS REACHER ON PRIME VIDEO!

Across the country, women are being murdered, victims of a disciplined and clever killer who leaves no trace evidence, no fatal wounds, no signs of struggle, and no clues to an apparent motive. They are, truly, perfect crimes. In fact, there’s only one thing that links the victims. Each one of the women knew Jack Reacher—and it’s got him running blind.

Both of them said ‘Till death do us part’. One of them meant it.

Emily is on the home stretch of an acrimonious divorce from husband Teddy when she realizes someone is following her.

The stalking quickly escalates into something more sinister.

Emily starts getting hang-up phone calls and suspects someone is coming into her home when she isn’t there. Her email is hacked and she almost loses her job. She finds cameras and microphones hidden all over her house.

Someone is watching her every move, trying to destroy her. But who?

The obvious suspect is Teddy, but new boyfriend William is also acting strangely. Is he hiding something?

When someone close to her is viciously attacked it becomes clear there is much more at stake than Emily’s peace of mind.

Emily thought divorce was the worst thing that could ever happen - until she finds herself caught up in a fight for her very survival. Can she find out who is behind the campaign of terror before it’s too late?

If Only You Knew – the shocking psychological thriller by the best-selling author of The Stepfather and Not My Mother.

Hadrian Marlowe, a man revered as a hero and despised as a murderer, chronicles his tale in the galaxy-spanning debut of the Sun Eater series, merging the best of space opera and epic fantasy.

It was not his war.

The galaxy remembers him as a hero: the man who burned every last alien Cielcin from the sky. They remember him as a monster: the devil who destroyed a sun, casually annihilating four billion human lives—even the Emperor himself—against Imperial orders.

But Hadrian was not a hero. He was not a monster. He was not even a soldier.

On the wrong planet, at the right time, for the best reasons, Hadrian Marlowe starts down a path that can only end in fire. He flees his father and a future as a torturer only to be left stranded on a strange, backwater world.

Forced to fight as a gladiator and navigate the intrigues of a foreign planetary court, Hadrian must fight a war he did not start, for an Empire he does not love, against an enemy he will never understand.

After the world ended, a new one began.

Welcome to the Age of Magic.

Centuries after the collapse of the Old World, Irth has devolved into a realm of monsters and magic, ruled by petty tyrants and thieves who seek to create the world in their own image.

But despite the many changes that have befallen Irth, one thing remains the same.

Heroes walk among us.

Discover six series with the first book of each series set in this shared universe.

---

Dawn of Destiny

When the greatest horrors exist in the mind, how do you deal with a man who puts them there? Julianne is the strongest mystic of her generation. Her mental magic might even be getting stronger... it's hard to tell when her practice time is eaten up by paperwork and leading her people. That is, until a rogue mystic cult shows up, trying to drag Julianne into their plot for world domination.

Restriction

Accused of using illegal magic and sentenced to a cruel death at the hands of the Arcadian Guards, Hannah must trust in the aid of a strange old wizard who offers her the gift of unimaginable power. But power has consequences, and soon Hannah is at the center of a city-wide war to take back the future that was stolen from them. Can she control the power that courses through her?

Resistance to Magic

Magic killed her parents. Will it kill her too? The amulet Sariah found in the mines looked liked her ticket out of her backwater life. The assassin who tried to steal it apparently thought it was valuable too. She learns about magic from a mystic. With magic, she could vanquish the forces that destroyed her life. She hates magic. Will her thirst for vengeance drive her into magic’s open arms?

Storm Raiders

In a time when magic rules the sea, she only trusts her sword. Abbey has always been an outsider in Holdgate. While the people of her adopted city dominate the seas with their weather-controlling storm magic, she prefers the work in her father’s blacksmith shop.

But when her father is falsely accused of murder, she has to sneak aboard a stormship and take to the seas in a quest to clear his name.

Teaming up with a young storm mage and a no-nonsense Captain, Abbey sets off on a swashbuckling adventure.

The Arcadian Druid

She missed the war, but she’ll be damned if she loses her chance for revenge. Ten years after fleeing Arcadia to save her life, Arryn is grown up. She spent the past decade in the Dark Forest with the druids, training in warrior combat and battle magic. Arryn knows what she has to do: fight. She won't rest until the wicked are dead and innocents are able to rise from darkness.

Trading Into Shadow

After surviving a shadow monster ambush, Marsh must get back to civilization, keep two kids alive, and make a delivery. Can she discover what happened at Leon’s Deep, in time to stop it from happening again? Or did she escape the ambush, only to see the rest of her world fall to the ones behind it?

Click BUY NOW or READ FOR FREE and discover the Age of Magic!

The pandemic has receded and life in the United States has returned to normal—or that’s what the government insists. So what is causing residents in a remote religious compound in Idaho to drop dead in a grisly fashion? And why are prominent virologists meeting with untimely ends?

Something—or someone—is killing the religious followers and scientists,and Newshound reporter Nik Byron is determined to find out what’s behind the deaths. Could Xion Labs’ top-secret vaccine program be connected? Nik suspects so, but he’s being stonewalled at every turn. As he inches closer to the truth, Nik’s professional enemies move to quash his investigation, threaten his career, and destroy his personal life. With his world crumbling, Nik finds one last lead: Puck Hall, a resolute, free-spirited young woman and Xion Labs researcher, who is soloing the Appalachian Trail. It’s only when Puck, barely clinging to life after eluding trained killers, crawls out of the wilderness that Nik and a rookie reporter cobble together the nightmarish facts that bring the story into focus.

Populated with old-school journalists, double-crossing politicians, black-ops assassins, and government secrets, Black Bird follows Nik Byron on a thrilling investigative journey along the Appalachian Trail, deep into the northern Rocky Mountains, over the Pacific Ocean, and eventually right to the doorstep of the White House.

The clock is ticking, and for Margot, time has just run out.

Margot Remington exits the wood-lined boardwalk at Moonstone Beach and pedals her bike onto the highway. It's dusk, and the sky has started to grumble, the clouds shifting and bending as they turn a melancholy shade of gray. Rain is coming. Margot can smell it in the air. But after the argument she’s just had with her sister, she isn't ready to return home just yet.

Glancing at her watch, Margot realizes she’ll have little time to freshen up before her date if she doesn't return home soon. She pedals faster, slowing when a pickup driving in the opposite direction swerves, its headlights blinding her as it zooms her way. Margot skids to a stop, realizing her mistake when the pickup shows no signs of braking.

In a split-second, the pickup collides with Margot, and she finds herself hurdling through the air, the bike going one way as she goes the other. Mind whirring, her life's memories flash before her, along with a single wish--that today isn't the day she's going to die.


What Readers are Saying about this Series:

"Makes you want to keep reading the story into the night." ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

"A strong lead character and plenty of drama, it keeps the reader engaged." ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

"Leaving you wanting to read more." ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

"You feel like you live close by and can see these characters walking by and waving to you." ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

"I will definitely read more from this author." ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

"Kept me on the edge of my seat." ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Little Buried Secrets is the eighth book in the USA Today bestselling Georgiana Germaine mystery series. Reserve your copy now and get ready for a fast-paced mystery that will have you up reading all night.

Coming out of retirement can be deadly…

After tragedy struck three years earlier, art sleuth Carmen De Luca vowed to never work in the field again. But fifty is too young to fill her days with water aerobics and bingo, so when her former partner calls and begs for her help, Carmen gladly agrees.

Yet after their first assignment – the recovery of a rare medieval prayer book from an eccentric collector living in rural France – goes horribly wrong, Carmen ends up in the crosshairs of both the local police and a murderer!

With her target dead and the stolen book missing, she and her partner will have to pull out all of the stops to sleuth out the true killer’s identity – before their stay in France becomes permanent.

Introducing Carmen De Luca, an art sleuth with a nose for mystery and the job of locating valuable artwork stolen from museums around the world. If you love strong and resourceful heroines, puzzling mysteries, and a dash of art history, pick up Collecting Can Be Murder now!

Carmen De Luca Art Sleuth Mysteries:
Collecting Can Be Murder
A Statue To Die For
Forgeries and Fatalities
A Killer Inheritance

These mysteries contain no graphic violence, sex, or strong language.

*** Chosen by ManyBooks's readers as Best Mystery & Thriller of September 2023 ***
*** Finalist in the 2023 Cozy Mystery Tribe Awards ***

INTRODUCING PENN CAGE...

From the author of Cemetery Road comes the first intelligent, gripping thriller in the #1 New York Times bestselling Penn Cage series. 

Natchez, Mississippi. Jewel of the South. City of old money and older sins. And childhood home of Houston prosecutor Penn Cage. 

In the aftermath of a personal tragedy, this is where Penn has returned for solitude. This is where he hopes to find peace. What he discovers instead is his own family trapped in a mystery buried for thirty years but never forgotten—the town’s darkest secret, now set to trap and destroy Penn as well.

His name is Mason Sharpe. Victims take heart—bad guys take cover.

Army veteran Mason Sharpe’s world is turned upside down when his beloved fiancée is killed in a random shooting. Struggling to cope with his grief, Sharpe instinctively heads for the North Carolina town where he and his bride had planned to honeymoon.

Alone on a beach, contemplating a future which now seems bleak and empty, he stares into the abyss. But then…

A body washes ashore. An investigation begins and the police quickly pronounce an accidental death. But Mason isn’t buying it. He believes the man was murdered and someone is trying to cover it up.

As Mason presses the point, it soon becomes clear that the locals want him gone - and they’re ready to use force to run him off.

But Mason isn’t the kind of man to be pushed around. He’ll deal with this problem the only way he knows: Point Blank.

Point Blank - book 1 of the superb Mason Sharpe action thriller series. Perfect for fans of Lee Child, Jason Kasper & David Archer.


What readers are saying about Point Blank:

“I absolutely loved this book and managed to read it in a day. It hits the ground running immediately… The term high-octane thriller is very apt for this book.” -Goodreads Reviewer

“… so full of action that you might lose some sleep as I did. But oh, it was so worth it. I highly recommend this to anyone that enjoys gritty action/adventure stories.” -Booksprout Reviewer

“I loved everything about this book. Mason is a complex character, at once intelligent, humble, compassionate, cocky, and inquisitive. He is just the kind of protagonist that makes a story enjoyable...” -Netgalley Reviewer

“Edge of your seat thrilling, heartbreaking and at times both. A stand out, can’t miss read... I know it will stay with me for a long time in the way that all great stories do.” -Goodreads Reviewer

“Mason Sharpe is the new Jack Reacher! I couldn't put the book down and when I did, I couldn't wait to pick it back up...” -Netgalley Reviewer

“… just the kind of protagonist that makes a story enjoyable and keeps me turning the pages to see what he does next. I’m looking forward to reading more Mason Sharpe adventures.” -Goodreads Reviewer