Showing results by publisher "Avon" in Suspense

It's hard to sit still when your client is scheduled to die in 15 hours…. As he makes an 11th hour plea for mercy, lawyer Alex Sedaka is resigned to the fact that Clayton Burrows will be executed. Charged with the rape and murder of 18-year-old classmate Dorothy Olsen – a girl he mercilessly...

‘Hair-raising, addictive and absolutely terrifying, gangland thriller fans are going to devour the latest gritty chiller by best-selling author Jacqui Rose.’ Reader review Dying is easy. It’s living that’s hard… An eye for an eye. Cabhan Morton wants to leave the Russo crime family for...

‘Dark. Twisty. Addictive. I couldn’t put it down’ LISA JEWELL She loves her family. She’d never let anything happen to them . . . Would she? On the outside, Maddie is a happy young mother with a new baby. But on the inside, she’s afraid. Afraid that her marriage to Lucas isn’t what...

We all see what we want to see… 1990: Holly is a fresher student at Oxford University. Out of her depth and nervous about her surroundings, she falls into an uneasy friendship with a group of older students from the upper echelons of society and begins to develop feelings for one in particular...

There’s no way back… The picturesque city of York is rocked when the hellraiser and lottery winner Billy Privett is found murdered in a town centre hotel – his corpse brutally dissected, as if someone had performed a post mortem whilst he was still alive. Chillingly, the walls of the room...

Moving and suspenseful, Lisa Ballantyne’s The Guilty One is a psychological thriller about the darkness in each of us. It explores how we are all tied to our pasts, and what it means to be guilty. Solicitor Daniel Hunter is called to defend 11-year-old Sebastian who has been charged with the...

New York Times bestselling author Lori Wilde invites you back to Cupid, Texas, where love is only a heartbeat away . . . Sexy cowboy-scholar Jericho Chance always knows exactly what he wants and how to get it. And after sauntering back home to Cupid, he’s shocked to discover that he wants Zoe...

‘He could be out there right now. Passing you on the street. You’d never know …’ DI Charlotte Savage is back, chasing a killer who was last at large ten years ago, a killer they presumed dead … Now he’s back and more dangerous than ever. When three headless bodies are found mutilated...

New York Times bestselling author Wendy Corsi Staub returns to Mundy’s Landing—a small town where bygone bloodshed has become big business. Hair neatly braided, hands serenely clasped, eyes closed, the young woman appeared to be sound asleep. But the peaceful tableau was a madman’s...

“Dimon excels at creating memorable, complex characters.” — Publishers Weekly (starred review) Salvation, Pennsylvania. The commune located in the small town was advertised as a modern Utopia: a place to live, share, and learn with other like-minded young people. Cate Pendleton’s sister...

From New York Times Bestselling Author Wendy Corsi Staub comes a gripping novel of psychological suspense, as a young foundling’s path to her biological parents leads to a killer with a chilling agenda. MAY, 1968 On a murky pre-dawn Mother’s Day, sinister secrets play out miles apart in New...

Sometimes love is toxic… Bree Dwyer is desperate to escape her husband, take the children and run. But he’s always watching. And she always gets caught. Until her first love, Alfie Jennings, returns to Essex… Gangsters Alfie and Vaughn have been out of the game for a while, but a life of...

The young girl you have found isn’t the first experiment I’ve carried out. She won’t be the last. A tense, unpredictable crime debut that will not only have you gripped, but will chill you to the bone. Perfect for fans of Stuart MacBride and Mark Billingham. A serial killer is stalking the...

He's out of control Dougal Kincaid has something to prove. After being injured in a battle with the Malcontents, he's ready for active duty protecting unsuspecting mortals from these villainous vampires who want to rule the world. But first he has to get control of himself . . . because just the...

‘Impeccable descriptions made the story come alive…Exhilarating stuff’ THE SUN The first in an electrifying new British detective series starring PC Donal Lynch. Meet PC Donal Lynch. Irish runaway. Insomniac. Functioning alcoholic. Donal is new to working the beat in London, trying his...

Five dishonored soldiers. Former Special Forces. One last mission. These are the men of Hard Ink. Ever since hard-bodied, drop-dead-charming Shane McCallan strolled into the dance club where Crystal Dean works, he's shown a knack for getting beneath her defenses. For her little sister's sake...

When TV talkshow host Elias Claymore is accused of raping a 19-year-old girl he turns to his friend Alex Sadaka to defend him. But Alex has a fight on his hands, for Claymore – a former Black Power activist – is anything but squeaky clean and this time even the DNA evidence is stacked...

‘A wonderfully twisty maze’ JAMES OSWALD A missing boy. A brutal killer. D.I. Charlotte Savage is ready . . . DI Charlotte Savage has been warned to lay low. After a string of high profile cases, her infamous reputation precedes her. But when a vulnerable child goes missing, for Savage...

In New York Times bestselling author Cynthia Eden’s latest novel, the Last Option Search Team (LOST) returns— and for one agent, the hunt for a serial killer just got very personal . . . HE SWORE TO PROTECT HER . . . Bailey Jones somehow survived her harrowing abduction by the infamous Death...

In New York Times bestselling author Cynthia Eden’s latest novel featuring the Last Option Search Team (LOST), one agent’s investigation entices a killer into making her his prey. PARTNERS . . . FRIENDS . . . Forensic anthropologist Victoria Palmer has always been better with the dead than...