Mind Thriller

Assistant District Attorney Alex Hayes is no stranger to high-stakes cases, but when a key witness in a human trafficking investigation vanishes, she’s thrust into a battle unlike any she’s faced before. What starts as a desperate search for answers takes a shocking turn when Alex uncovers ties between the case and her late mother’s secret past—a past shrouded in conspiracy and betrayal.

“Ingeniously twisted.” —Entertainment Weekly, “Must List” “Will leave even the most seasoned crime fiction readers guessing.” —CrimeReads "[Jeong] maintains suspense about her inhuman-seeming protagonist's fate until the bitter end.” —The Wall Street Journal Finalist for...

Investigative journalist Stella LaRosa has spent her career exposing corruption, but when whispers of a brewing war between San Francisco’s crime syndicates reach her, she realizes this fight is closer to home than she ever imagined. The Emerald Legion, a ruthless Irish gang, is making a move for power—and they’re willing to reduce the city to ash to claim it.

They stole Carcer’s technology. But to use it, Moss will need to get the team back together.

At an exclusive school somewhere outside of Arlington, Virginia, students aren’t taught history, geography, or mathematics—at least not in the usual ways. Instead, they are taught to persuade. Here the art of coercion has been raised to a science .Students harness the hidden power of...

Failure has never been an option for Rachel Hatch. A promise made to a teenage girl trapped by a powerful human trafficking ring must be kept. Hatch's search takes her deep into Mexico, where the rules are different and the enemies are numerous. Finding the girl is only half of the problem. Getting her back home proves to be just as difficult, if not more so. With two rival cartels on the brink of war and Hatch caught in the middle, she must use everything in her arsenal to survive.

Our brains are noisy; certain regions are always grinding away at involuntary activities like daydreaming, worrying about the future, and self-chatter, taking up to forty-seven percent of our waking time. This is mindwandering—and while it can tug your attention away from the present, cognitive neuroscientist Moshe Bar is here to tell you about the method behind this apparent madness. Mindwandering is the first popular book to explore this multi-faceted phenomenon of your wandering mind and introduces you to the new, exciting research behind it.

When the body of a young Native American protester is found on the building site of a controversial new development, Sheriff Savage fears this is just the beginning. Unfortunately, he’s right. The young man’s been murdered. But was it to silence him? Or was it to do with the lethal new drug in his system? A drug that up until now has never been found in the sleepy town of Hawk’s Landing?

Maddie Castle has taken on plenty of tough cases as a private investigator, but nothing could prepare her for this. When a desperate mother begs Maddie to find her missing daughter, she expects to track down a runaway. Instead, she uncovers the dark heart of Willow Grove—a secluded community tucked deep in rural Pennsylvania.

On the trail of her father's killer, Hatch finds the path leads to a remote village in Africa. A vicious warlord controls the area in a stranglehold of violence. Hatch finds a fight she never sought, but one her personal code won't let her walk away from. Outnumbered and outgunned, Hatch is forced to hold nothing back if she ever hopes to get out alive.

The fourth installment in the best-selling Cassie Quinn mystery series from Wall Street Journal best-selling author L.T. Ryan and K.M. Rought. A gripping thriller with a touch of the paranormal that will keep you guessing until the end. When a friend’s relative passes away, the family suspects foul play, but the evidence doesn’t match the accusation. But in the Big Easy, nothing is as it seems, and Cassie soon discovers there’s more to the story. Deciphering clues no one else can see becomes Cassie’s sole focus.

When an elderly couple is found dead in their own home, Chevy and Seneca are pulled into the case. But what's unusual is that it appears neither of them were killed; instead, they simply stopped existing. Even with Chevy's ability to go into the memories of the victims, he's unable to tell what happened to the seemingly normal couple. That is, until it happens again. This time, the victims are found alive, all of them kneeling and staring at a blank wall as if hypnotized by it. It's up to Chevy and Seneca to figure out what is drawing these people and who might be manipulating them.

Children are vanishing without a trace. No ransom demands. No warnings. Just gone. When Jack Noble is dragged into the twisted underworld of child trafficking, the mission becomes personal. Manipulated by a shadowy mastermind with unimaginable power, Jack finds himself thrust into the role of both hunter and hunted. Every step deeper into the darkness reveals more than Jack is prepared to face. The deeper he goes, the higher the stakes rise—not just for the innocent lives at risk, but for his own survival.

When Bear and Mandy Logan’s travels take them to Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, they expect to settle in for a quiet winter on the barrier island. But when a mysterious man shows up harassing their elderly neighbors, Bear can’t stop himself from getting involved. His search for answers soon leads him to more shocking discoveries, as he realizes the small town where he spent summers as a kid holds more secrets than he could have imagined.

When three CIA operatives vanish in London, an acquaintance reaches out to Bear Logan. But as he delves deeper into the disappearance, he quickly finds that the rules don't apply, and nothing is as it seems. And to solve the mystery, Bear has to trust the one man he thought he'd never face again.

Twelve-year-old Crispin has lived on the streets since he was nine - with only his wits and his daring to sustain him, and only his silent dog, Harley, to call his friend. He is always on the move, never lingering in any one place long enough to risk being discovered. Still, there are certain places he returns to. In the midst of the tumultuous city, they are havens of solitude: like the hushed environs of St. Mary Salome Cemetery, a place where Crispin can feel at peace - safe, at least for a while, from the fearsome memories that plague him... and seep into his darkest nightmares.

Still reeling from her young son's death, Jackie Sheppard retreats to a small town in the Colorado Rockies. Comforted that no one knows of her tragic past, she's thrilled to take a job at a family law firm, where she meets Tom, the local carpenter. Jackie's distrust of others hinders their relationship, but they slowly build a budding romance. However, as she begins to settle into her new life, disturbing things start happening to Jackie...

For Hatch, normal is never easy. But in the months since surviving a deadly encounter atop an Alaskan glacier, she's settled into her life in Coronado. With Cruise's team still physically recovering and out of commission, Hatch receives her first mission. To find a missing girl who disappeared after a church picnic. Hatch finds herself in Jericho Falls, a small town outside of Nashville, Tennessee. The small town carries a dark secret. As she seeks to expose it, Hatch finds that there are forces willing to do anything to keep that from happening.

The dust has settled on Savage's tainted past as he puts to rest the demons of his previous life. Putting the mile-high city in his rearview, he returns to the place he now calls home to care for his budding family and the town he serves. Unfortunately, for the stalwart lawman, nothing is ever that simple. A trail of blood on the icy ground leads to a gruesome discovery.

News of a teenage boy’s murder in Denver reaches Sheriff Dalton Savage. With insight into the killer, whose identity is still unknown, Savage feels duty-bound to investigate. Despite the challenges of being a new father, Savage leaves his family behind on a quest for answers. Returning to the city he once served as a homicide detective, Savage must confront his past and face off against old adversaries and new.