Thriller January

Our Themed Reading List This Month, In Addition To Other Great Books!

About: Hayley was destined to be something she never wanted. Stuck in a relationship that undermines her very sense of self, she runs. Hiding however, comes at a price. A price she pays daily. Getting close to people isn’t easy, and maintaining friendships is impossible when you have secrets to keep. But just as Hayley’s life begins to take shape, her past comes back to haunt her. Can she remain in the shadows when its the very place the darkness resides?
Jesse is a newly promoted Detective Inspector with a lot to prove. With two cases causing him headaches, he decides to do a little undercover work to gather some new leads. Knowing he’s taking a risk, he elicits the help of his brother to gain access to a dangerous group of people. Only his plans are thwarted when a girl needs help. Can they join forces and help each other, or have they just set off a chain of events neither can stop? As the two get closer, so do their adversaries. Can they each be what the other needs, or was there always going to be a sacrifice made?

/Please Note: This story involves mature themes so is advised for 18+. Content warning; Physical violence, rape, graphic language. This story is set in the UK, and written in British English./

About: Billy Russell’s career as narcotics officer abruptly ends when he cold-bloodedly executes the man who committed a heinous crime against him. Sentenced to 20 years hard labor in total isolation from the outside world, he’s suddenly, and without explanation, released on parole five years early. Returning to society, he learns that an isolated nuclear attack spread primal fear of a nuclear holocaust, allowing autocratic billionaires to seize control of the world. But their faulty economic policies have caused rampant poverty, crime, disease, and drug addiction. As a condition of his parole, Billy is assigned to a government drug enforcement unit in Boston but soon makes a gruesome discovery of the unit’s true mission. Approached by a secret underground dissident group planning to overthrow the authoritarian world government, Billy joins them to end the demonic reign of tyranny, only to discover the shocking details of what is really taking place.

About: Set in a near-future America, the story follows Lieutenant Detective Jason Thane as he battles to uncover the truth behind the connection between a child abduction and a gruesome murder scene. As he falls deeper into the rabbit hole of the crimes and his own imperiled career, he finds himself forced to make tough choices about what’s right, and where his true loyalties lie.

/First Published Book in a Trilogy/

About: Gabby and Greg Rizzo are embarking on the trip of a lifetime—an elite baseball tournament where the best teens from across the nation will compete for major league attention. Not only is their thirteen-year-old son Cameron the one to watch, but he’s also the single last thread holding their fractured marriage together. Gabby and Greg have high hopes for their little getaway, but when Cameron disappears from his hotel bed the night before the tournament, all thoughts of a second honeymoon are shattered. Suddenly, their four-star resort is transformed into a dugout of suspects—because who would kidnap the best player on the team, and why? As fingers begin pointing, secrets are blown wide open. And then, when a double homicide over seven hundred miles away becomes connected with this missing child case, Gabby and Greg are left fearing the worst. One of them might just not make it back from this trip.

About: Jose Castillo is a cynical, wise-cracking Cuban-American who restores classic cars. He’s also a private eye whose sarcastic ways sometimes get him into trouble. One day in the process of installing a four-barrel carburetor on a 1965 Mustang, into his shop walks trouble — in the shape of a mysterious, beautiful woman surrounded by an entourage of goons. Mrs. Santana is the wife of one of Miami’s most well-known, successful and untouchable mobsters and she wants to avail herself of Jose’s services. What starts out as a job mediating a multi-million dollar casino land deal rapidly escalates into a case involving deceit, betrayal, blackmail and even two of Jose’s long estranged relatives. With the help of his fiancée Kat and best friend/police detective Nate, he hopes to untangle the mess quickly so he can enjoy a stiff drink and a fat stogie, but when things get hotter than usual in tropical Miami and a murder is committed, Jose has no choice but to keep his Glock close and his enemies closer. There’s no telling who you can trust when the temperature rises in Miami Beat.

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