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Definition of "Thriller Genre": The thriller genre is very broad and can be difficult to define. However, the focus of a thriller ebook is typically on action, danger and suspense. The genre can be broken into an almost infinite number of sub-genres, including action thrillers (think Clive Cussler ebooks), romance thrillers, psychological thrillers (think Psycho by Hitchcock), science fiction thrillers, and spy thrillers, just to name a few. Common elements can include car chases, gun shoot outs, explosions, or in the case of psychological thrillers, the elements of danger can be related to the mental manipulation of characters by other characters. It is an expansive genre, and one of the most popular at eBookHounds.
Some examples of the best thriller authors and ebooks of all time: Dan Brown (The Da Vinci Code), Robert Ludlum (The Bourne Identity), Michael Crichton (The Andromeda Strain), John Grisham (Time to Kill), John D. MacDonald (Cape Fear); James Patterson (Kiss the Girls). As you can see, ebooks in the thriller category vary widely in their substance, and the sub-genres can almost be considered genres of their own!
Ryker wants blood, and one way or another he’ll get it...
Still tormented by the disappearance of his wife, ex-intelligence agent James Ryker sets out on a personal mission of revenge, prepared to go to any lengths in search of the truth.
The trail takes him from the crystal waters of Mexico’s Caribbean coast, back to a place he thought he would never set foot again - his country of birth, England. But there he discovers more than even he bargained for. Stumbling across a terrorist attack targeted against his old employers - the secretive Joint Intelligence Agency -the faint clues to many events in his recent past are all seemingly linked to one mysterious character; The Silver Wolf.
But just who is the Silver Wolf, and why is he hell bent on punishing not just Ryker, but his closest allies at the JIA too?
Has Ryker finally met his match?
The Silver Wolf is a globe-trotting thriller that sees James Ryker at his hard-nosed best as he fights the ghosts of his past. As skilled as Jason Bourne, as no-nonsense as Jack Reacher, James Ryker delivers in another heart-pounding thriller.
"He is a man on a mission and I love his passion and tenacity! He is my total action man!!" Claire Knight - Crimebookjunkie
"With the build-up to the finale, it is a gritty read with an enthralling ending." Alexina Golding - Bookstormer
"The Silver Wolf is an exciting and thrilling read that sent my heart racing." Sarah Hardy - By The Letter Book Reviews
"Sinclair has generated a lovable, yet deeply flawed, character who readers instantly champion." Lisa Harrison - Segnalibro
"If you love The Bourne series then you absolutely have to read The James Ryker series. I promise you won’t be disappointed!" Joanne Robertson - My Chestnut Reading Tree
"There’s just something about the writing that makes a film play in my head so I can see the action playing out, it’s quite brilliant!" Kate Noble - The Quiet Knitter
"The Silver Wolf offers everything you could need in a thriller, it’s dark and heavy hitting which gives it an edge..." David Baird - David's Book Blurg
"It has everything you’d want in an espionage thriller – a tight twisty plot, great characters, horrible villains and surprise twists." Cathy Ryan - Between The Lines
"Another absolutely brilliant read from an author that never disappoints." Jill Burkinshaw - Books n All
"OMG what a story….. Once again the author draws you in straight from the start and doesn't let you go until the very last page." Shell Baker - Chelle's Book Reviews
***the content of this book has been updated to address some editorial issues raised by some reviewers***
Praetorian Carina Mitela is courageous, fallible and sassy. She hefts a gladius or assault rifle as required. But can she defeat treachery, conspiracy and a dark nemesis and still keep an enduring love burning?
"My ancestors fought to hold this land sixteen hundred years ago. I'm not letting some throwback destroy it."
Nearly a thousand pages of action adventure and alternative history thrills in three books with over 150 five star reviews on Amazon between them.
Transformation, deception, rebels, vengeance takers, comradeship and an epic love story bind these three adventures in a new Rome founded sixteen hundred years ago by dissidents from the Roman Empire, and ruled by women.
INCEPTIO – the beginning
“Grips like a vice – a writer to watch out for.”
– Adrian Magson
Terrified after a kidnap attempt, New Yorker Karen Brown, has a harsh choice - being eliminated by EUS government enforcer Renschman or fleeing to mysterious Roma Nova, her dead mother's homeland in Europe. In Roma Nova Karen finds safety – at a price – but the enforcer pursues her and sets a trap knowing she has no choice but to spring it...
B.R.A.G. Medallion, finalist, 2013 International Rubery Book Award
PERFIDITAS – betrayal
“Alison Morton has built a fascinating, exotic world! Carina’s
a bright, sassy detective with a winning dry sense of humour.”
– Simon Scarrow
Captain Carina Mitela of the Praetorian Guard Special Forces is in trouble – one colleague attacks her with a knife and another sets a trap to incriminate her in a conspiracy to topple the government of Roma Nova.
Once proscribed and operating illegally, she risks being terminated by both security services and conspirators. Seeking help from a not quite legal old friend could wreck her marriage to the enigmatic Conrad. As she struggles to save her beloved Roma Nova and her own life, she faces the ultimate betrayal…
B.R.A.G. Medallion, finalist, 2014 Writing Magazine Self-Published Book of the Year
SUCCESSIO – the next generation
“I thoroughly enjoyed this classy thriller, the third in Morton’s epic series set in Roma Nova.”
– Caroline Sanderson in The Bookseller
Roma Nova seems at peace. But senior Praetorian Guard Special Forces officer Carina Mitela is soon plunged into a nightmare of drugs, blackmail and breakdown.
Faced with a gifted and vicious enemy, Carina may have met an adversary she cannot overcome. In this part historical thriller, part alternate history, but always Roman thriller, Carina has moments in which to make the hardest decision of her life…
B.R.A.G. Medallion, Historical Novel Society’s indie Editor’s Choice Autumn 2014, Editor’s choice, The Bookseller’s inaugural Indie Preview, December 2014, longlisted for the 2015 HNS Indie prize
Winner 2018 Listeners Choice: Best Sci-Fi
The Martian meets Gravity when Earth's last man, Army Captain Vaughn Singleton, discovers that the last woman is stranded alone aboard the International Space Station. Commander Angela Brown could reverse the event that swept humanity from Earth's surface … if only she could get there. If you like action-packed, page-turning novels, you'll love the electrifying action in this award-winning, apocalyptic thriller.
Can Humanity's Last Two Unite?
Separated by the gulf of space, the last man and woman of the human race struggle against astronomical odds to survive and unite.
Army Aviator Vaughn Singleton is a highly intelligent, lazy man. After a last-ditch effort to reignite his failing military career ends horribly, Vaughn becomes the only human left on Earth.
Stranded alone on the International Space Station, Commander Angela Brown watches an odd wave of light sweep across the planet. Over the next weeks and then months, Angela struggles to contact someone on the surface, but as she fights to survive aboard a deteriorating space station, the commander glimpses the dark underpinnings of humanity's demise.
After months alone, Vaughn discovers there is another. Racing against time, he must cross a land ravaged by the consequences of humankind's sudden departure.
Can Vaughn find a path to space and back? Can Angela—the only person with clues to the mystery behind humanity's disappearance—survive until he does?
"R.C. Bray and Julia Whelan are individually stellar. Having them co-voice the first in Dean M. Cole's superb Dimension Space Series is a stroke of genius. Rich with elements of every genre, Solitude is an outstanding listen. "
—USA Today Bestselling Author of Hell Divers, Nicholas Sansbury Smith
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FROM USA TODAY BEST-SELLING AUTHOR JOHN ELLSWORTH
Michael Gresham is a criminal attorney whose priest has fathered a son. The boy is now seventeen, acting-out, and arrested for first-degree murder. The priest asks Michael to take his son into his home so he can be released on bail. Michael and his wife agree and the boy, with his snake and mice, moves in.
One young client who looks more guilty with each new death...
The new houseguest gets questioned by the police for yet a second murder. Michael Gresham and his wife become uneasy and, when the young man begins acting out, they finally move him out. The snake and mice move out with him.
A shadow group of powerful men combine forces and hatch a plan to make a ruthless power play to control the Middle East. United by a common foe in the Saudi Government, the secret cabal manipulates social media and a newly discovered religious artifact to create a revolution.
In Arabian Collusion, Pat Walsh and his band of CIA backed mercenaries face their most formidable adversary yet. The former special operator and his elite team of warriors race the clock to solve a mystery and save the region from descending into anarchy.
Lawrence's latest military thriller is filled with political intrigue, espionage, action and adventure.
No one knew how it happened. One day, the earth simply opened up, monsters came out, and very few humans were left alive…
Headstrong and determined, Cia is not your ordinary seventeen-year-old – she is resourceful, tenacious, and a survivor. She’s had to be to stay alive in this perilous world she finds herself in.
On her travels she comes across an autistic boy, hiding from the monsters who’ve just killed his parents, terrified and alone. She decides to take care of him, and comes to love him like a brother.
But what happens when, during an attack, her and the boy get separated?
In a desperate attempt to re-find him, she battles against monsters, her surroundings, and humans with the sickest of intentions. She kills, she fights, and she endures the vilest tasks imaginable in order to try and get back to him.
But will she find her boy before it’s too late? Will she survive the trials she has to endure? Or will she be killed or eaten before she even gets the chance?
Download now to witness the true lengths a young woman would go to for sisterly love, and experience an apocalyptic world like no other.
When celebrated war correspondent Jack Rogan receives a phone call during a bloody battle in Afghanistan, he knows something is wrong; his father is dying. With his last breath, Rogan’s father makes a disturbing revelation that rocks his son to the core and leaves him pondering who he really is, and where he came from. With his world turned upside down, Rogan soon finds himself irresistibly drawn into a desperate search to find his true identity, and turns to an old friend for help.
On a dangerous journey of discovery that takes him around the globe and the remote wilderness of outback Australia, Rogan follows clues hidden in unexpected places to uncover the truth. Will Rogan succeed? Will the truth – if and when he finally finds it – crush him, or will lifting the curtain of uncertainty and doubt be liberating, and finally bring peace by showing him who he really is?
Ramon Banu Lasso de la Vega was born into Spanish nobility.
A desperate plea from the Vatican. A kidnapped chef. An ambitious mob boss. One perilous game.
When Professor Alexandra Delacroix is called in to find a cure for the dying pope, she follows clues left by her mentor and friend, the late Professor K, which lead her on a breathtaking search through historical secrets, some of them deadly.
Her old friend Jack Rogan must step in to assist while also searching for kidnapped Top Chef Europe winner Lorenza da Baggio.
He joins forces with his young friend and gifted psychic, Tristan, a dedicated mafia hunting prosecutor, a fearless young police officer, and an enigmatic Egyptian detective on a perilous hunt for a notorious IS terrorist.
Together, they stand off with the head of a powerful Mafia family in Florence and uncover a network of corruption and heinous crimes reaching to the very top.
Will Rogan and his friends succeed in finding Lorenza and curing the pope, or will the dark forces swirling around them prevail in their sinister plots?
"Fury of a Phoenix takes the best blend of action adventure, urban fantasy, and the supernatural all with a dash of magic and the paranormal that leaves you unable to put it down."~ Top 1000 Reviewer
"I knew the sins of my past would call to collect what was left of my soul. If I’d known the price I’d pay, I would’ve sacrificed more to stay hidden from the magic."
In the middle of Wyoming—away from the abnormals of the world—I thought I was free and clear. I started a new life. Found a love I’d never known in a husband, and a son who was my everything.
And in a blinding instant, that life was stolen from me.
The rage of a grieving mother is an ugly beast. More so when she has the skills and killer instinct to back up the wrath and the knowledge that an accident was anything but.
Once more, I will pick up my guns. This time to hunt those who took my husband’s and son’s lives.
Let them see the assassin, trained to kill abnormals, stalk the shadows again.
Let them see the Phoenix rise from the fragments of a broken life as she burns with a fury that cannot be contained.
Let the killing games begin.
~An electric and gritty first in the series from the indomitable Shannon Mayer. I found myself laughing, and cheering for the sharp-tongued, edgy Phoenix as she hunted those who'd destroyed her world~ Reviewer
Thanks to nanochips implanted in human brains, the world is at peace in 2055. But not everyone likes having their emotions controlled, or their religion suppressed.
Eighteen-year-old Raissa embarks upon a perilous mission to free the world, just days before the release of nanochip Version 7, which will broadcast every citizen's thoughts to the Collective.
The countdown has started, and Raissa must make choices that jeopardize the lives of billions, including the only boy she has ever loved.
The high-end contemporary art scene drops into Santa Fe, New Mexico with ugly feuds, temperamental egos, sexual entanglements and murder.
Vincent Malone, one-time attorney and legal investigator, now down-on-his-luck shuttle driver, is right in the middle of all of the action. His employer, the Blue Door Inn, is hosting a big international artist in Santa Fe for her U.S. debut, and nothing is going smoothly.
Before long there is one dead body and plenty of suspects. Malone dusts off his investigating skills to solve this classic whodunit.
Paradise has a dark side.
Surfing in Hawaii can be fame, talent and… murder.
Poised to win the prestigious Triple Crown of Surfing, Maui surf star Makoa Simmons washes up tragically dead. Detective Lei Texeira plunges into a high-profile case whose dark and tangled motives reach deep into the elite world of professional surfing on the North Shore of Oahu. Lei must follow her instincts into new territory even as husband Michael Stevens struggles with heartbreak of another kind.
“Another fantastic mystery featuring Lei Texeira and the wonderful, deftly drawn characters populating the Lei Crime Series.” Emily Kimelman, author of the Sydney Rye Mystery Series
***Winner! 2016 Independent Publishers AWARD (IPPY) Bronze Medal for Best Suspense/Thriller***
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This is the FOURTH book in Edgar-winner Julie Smith’s Rebecca Schwartz series.
"A delightfully modern sleuth." --Minneapolis Tribune
"If you haven't discovered Smith yet, now is the time to do so . . . Move over, Sara Paretsky." —KPFA-FM (Berkeley, CA)
WHAT'S THE ETIQUETTE WHEN YOUR HOSTESS IS ARRESTED FOR MURDER?
San Francisco lawyer Rebecca Schwartz has occasion to wonder when she and her weekend hostess, Marty Whitehead, find a body floating in the 30-foot kelp tower at the Monterey Aquarium, and Marty's promptly dragged off to the slammer.
Rebecca quickly grasps the Emily Post solution—sign on as Marty's lawyer, try to keep her client's two young kids out of the deep end, and somehow avoid drowning in the sea of lies gushing from Marty's mouth--and everyone else’s. There’s a lot of intrigue among the aquarium's oceangoing primates, as well as rumors of a pearl beyond price.
For Rebecca, the sea and all its animals have always held a huge attraction, but now her attention turns to a particularly fine specimen of homo sapiens--hot marine biologist Julio Soto. As her investigation picks up speed, she finds she better act fast to keep Julio from sleeping with the fishes he collects. Because if she doesn’t, he could be next in line for the shark tank—along with Rebecca herself.
Author's note: I wrote this after I'd written the first book in the Skip Langdon Police Procedural Series, which is a much darker proposition than the Rebecca Schwartz books. Usually. But some readers have remarked that this one is a good deal darker than the three previous titles in the series. It does have some scary scenes, but I think Rebecca kept her sense of humor. Try it--money back if you don't like it! I promise. Just write me at juleorleans@cox.net. --Thanking you in advance for your kind indulgence--Julie Smith
"Nobody gets inside her characters like Julie Smith." -Linda Barnes, author of the Carlotta Carlyle series
"Smith is a gifted writer." -The Washington Post Book World
A career soldier who survived a deadly riot in Cairo, and a reclusive mythology expert from Montana, race against time to find the product of legends that’s cutting a bloody path across the continent.
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One snowy evening, a stranger with a horribly scarred face stomps on the porch of Stella Hunter’s house, holding her latest book of myths and legends. He points to the bloody fingerprints of the book’s now deceased owner, marking a passage of the Peacetaker myth. When she asks how he came by the book, he tells her he took the controversial book from the lifeless hand of a traffic fatality in Cairo. And suddenly, Stella could swear that somewhere a clock started ticking down to doomsday. After all, the fate of humanity depends on whether she was right or wrong when she wrote her infamous book.
"The Room is a compelling story of possession, evil, and the struggle of a family dealing with the unknown."
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Don and Faith Paxton just moved into the house of their dreams--a 1929 remodel. Add a great job and two vibrant twins, and there's nothing else a family could ask for. Except for some peace. Before the smell of new paint fades away, the house's history starts seeping through. From an attic room, Don's transformation commences. His dreams become nightmares, his actions become inexplicable, and he slowly becomes the house. Can he save himself and his family before the transformation is complete? Or, will the room consume them all?
From New York Times bestselling author Toni Anderson comes a heart-stopping Romantic Thriller...
An assassin risks everything when he falls in love with an FBI agent hunting her sister's killer.
“Sometimes, you have to take a chance.”
As a marketing executive, Heather Stanton is used to spinning anything negative that comes her way into gold, but now both her personal and professional lives have hit a glitch, so she cuts her losses and boards the first train out of town, leaving it all behind.
Heather never expects to run into her independent, free-wheeling Aunt Julia in a speck on the map called Willows Bend. Nor does she expect the turn her life takes when her aunt is suspected of murder.
Putting her own problems aside, Heather teams up with a handsome ex-private investigator to clear her aunt’s name. But will Julia’s innocence be questioned when the odds turn against her in a race to find the killer?
When the top American diplomat in Tokyo, Bernard Mattson, is killed, he leaves more than a lifetime of successful Japan-American negotiations. He leaves a missing manuscript, boxes of research, a lost keynote speech and a tangled web of relations.
When his alluring daughter, Jamie, returns from America wanting answers, finding only threats, Detective Hiroshi Shimizu is dragged from the safe confines of his office into the street-level realities of Pacific Rim politics.
With help from ex-sumo wrestler Sakaguchi, Hiroshi searches for the killer from back alley bars to government offices, through anti-nuke protests to military conspiracies. When two more bodies turn up, Hiroshi must choose between desire and duty, violence or procedure, before the killer silences his next victim.
THE MOVING BLADE is the second in the Tokyo-based Detective Hiroshi series by award-winning author Michael Pronko.
A juvenile delinquent chases his dream to build the greatest aircraft in history--and the world tries to stop him. A rising political star runs from her childhood dream--and the world encourages her on. A self-loathing geneticist hides below the streets of Las Vegas--and rebels against the whole world. An artist tries to make his father proud--at the cost of everything he loves.
When all four lives collide, each must make a choice. And the world will never be the same.
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Quote from the back cover:
Alexa counted her shallow breaths. “Roble, what...what is it you need?”
He pulled his arrowhead out from his shirt and rubbed it. “I don’t need to hear how scary the world is and how I shouldn’t try anything. I don’t need to know how much suffering there is out there,” he pointed out the window, “or how bad I should feel about it. What I need…” he looked up, his grey eyes pleading, “…is to see someone who is still happy after growing up.”
Lowering his head, he added, “I need to see living, Ms. Patra, because I actually want to live.”
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Quote from inside:
The East China Sea glistened like an endless glass sheet. The F-22 Raptor Super Kai flashed just above its surface, ripping twin aerated water plumes into the air.
A grey destroyer sat broadside in the water just ahead. Roble hurtled toward its bow without slowing.
Crossing above the ship, the jet's sonic shockwave rocked sailors to the deck as if Roble's soul had exploded through their bodies. Sea spray from the wake doused the ship's hull like an exclamation point.
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Advisory: This novel contains sex, drugs, and fighter jets.
Author's note: Sample chapters are provided with the "Look inside feature." A five minute audible sample is also available on this page. Additional reviews and information can be found on goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34096586-the-untethered