True Thrillers

Three years after the 9/11 attacks, Mike a staff sergeant in the Army, has command of a squad of 10 soldiers stationed in Kabul, Afghanistan. The squads orders are to protect the Kabul markets as the city comes back to life after years of war. Mike learns of a time honored tradition favored by the Taliban warlords and corrupt businessmen. The buying of “Bacha Batzi Boys”, meaning “Boy Play”, boys trained to entertain for the Taliban warlords. The abused and exploited boys are taken to the caves deep into the Hindu Kush mountains.

When Samantha True witnesses Wind River's most popular principal keel over dead she knows three things. He's been murdered. Proving it will be impossible. They're gonna think she did it. As she works to clear her name, Samantha learns "Principal Josh" is the king of slime balls. Eliminating suspects proves tricky when half the town has a motive for murder.

Germany, shortly after World War ll. Wolfgang’s exciting train ride ends in a place called “orphanage”. He is unimaginably devastated! His heart screams "Mama! What did I do wrong?" Two beautiful imaginary friends understand his incredible pain, and sometimes comfort him, but he is not safe unless they are secret. At seven he is adopted by an abusive American military couple, and life goes from bad to worse. As an adult, his exciting music career uplifts him and gives him hope, and many actual dreams come true.

A woman’s search to find her son uncovers the shocking truth about one of Britain’s darkest periods. Struggling with the demons of her past, Emily is a children’s author, with a dark secret, and a guilt that threatens to consume her. For 20 years she has lived in Brighton, England, trying to forget the day they took her baby from her, just hours after he was born. But now, in the summer of 1987, she decides to begin the search for her son.

Nicholas Nicastro revisits a haunting mystery that still fascinates a nation a century later. His masterly re-imagining of these tragic events sees beyond the prejudices that destroys families and taints small communities but corrodes civilization itself. Nicastro’s simple storytelling style with its kaleidoscopic perspectives is moving, beautiful, and profound.

A dark and riveting thriller that reimagines the life and mission of the Spanish nationalist enlisted to murder Leon Trotsky: Based on a true chapter of world history and ten years of research, here is the story of the real-life reluctant soldier and killer, Ramn Mercader—the obedient assassin. Ramn Mercader was plucked from the front of the Spanish Civil War by the Soviets and conscripted to murder the great intellectual Leon Trotsky, a leader of the Bolshevik Revolution who was exiled in the 1920s for opposing Joseph Stalin.

Sookie og Sam har svært ved at koncentrere sig om arbejdet på Merlotte's efter de seneste voldsomme begivenheder, og indtjeningen i baren lider under det. Sookie afviser dog med det samme Arlene, da hun beder om at få sit gamle job som bartender tilbage. Det var trods alt hende, der forsøgte at få Sookie dræbt. Men så bliver Arlene fundet myrdet, og mistanken falder straks på Sookie, som bliver anholdt. Beviserne mod hende er dog ikke stærke nok, og hun kan løslades mod kaution. Med hjælp fra sine venner, både de dødelige og ikke-dødelige, beslutter hun sig for at lave sin egen efterforskning og rense sit navn. Hun finder snart ud af, at for nogen er sandheden bare en hvid løgn og retfærdighed lig med spildt blod. Og kærlighed er aldrig bare nok...

"Til døden os skiller" er den trettende og sidste bog i serien om Sookie Stackhouse.

An ambitious lieutenant puts seven bad apple cops back out on patrol and appoints a tired sergeant to keep them in line. They patrol the streets of Los Feliz trying to make sense of a constantly changing world. All unaware of the ticking time bomb in one ambitious meth dealer named Bigfoot.

1797: Rachel Taylor lives a rather mundane existence at the way station her family runs along the Wilderness Road in Tennessee. She attends her friend's wedding only to watch it dissolve in horror as the groom, Wiley Harpe, and his cousin become murderers on the run, who drag their families along. Declaring a "war on all humanity", the Harpes won't be stopped, and Ben Langford is on their trail to see if his own cousin was one of their latest victims. How many will die before peace can return to the frontier?

Sommer 1924. Die beiden Freunde Ludwig und Theo sind gerade auf einer Fahrradtour unterwegs, als Theo plötzlich verschwindet. Hat etwa der Serienmörder, der gerade in Hannover sein Unwesen treibt, etwas damit zu tun? Der Verdacht erhärtet sich, als ein menschlicher Schädel am Ufer der Leine gefunden wird... Wer wird dem Werwolf von Hannover als nächstes zum Opfer fallen?

Chief Warrant Officer Gary O'Neal is no ordinary soldier. For nearly 40 years, he has fought America's enemies, becoming one of the greatest Warriors this nation has ever known. Part Native American, O'Neal was trained in both military combat and the ways of his Native people, combining his commitment to freedom with his respect for the enemy, his technical fighting skills with his fierce warrior spirit.

A suspenseful tale of murder and intrigue centering around one mysterious woman and the conspicuous tattoo on her back. Can New Orleans' finest solve the case before all the city's men vanish?

The “Salton Riviera” was a desert playground in the 1950s. Private boats and skiers dotted the clear blue waters. Celebrities drove in from Hollywood and mingled with upscale tourists at the resorts. Fast forward several decades. The Salton Sea is drying up, leaving the rotting skeletons of birds and fish in its wake and the only ones left are outsiders, outlaws, and those too poor to move. Howling desert winds carry toxic dust from the retreating tidelands.

"Stay away" - Those are the two words written on the forehead of every pedophile murdered in the San Francisco Bay Area. Joshua Theaker is tasked with finding the killer whose killing methods involve strange weapons. Theaker and local law enforcement find it hard to agree on where the trail goes, while the local FBI is distracted by child kidnappings. For Theaker, there is a pattern among the victims. But just when Theaker thinks he is getting closer to the killer, he strikes again. And again.

Everyone eventually loses their childhood dreams. It's a fact of life, an indelible element of growing up. You get wiser, older, more jaded, and realize that all the things you wanted when you were young are impractical. Difficult. Impossible, maybe. This is the story of a man who never gave up on his childhood dream: to become an actor. But when the television and film markets proved a tough nut to crack, he took his acting skills to the streets and used them as a con man.

The Cult Next Door: Britain’s Quietest Nightmare is a chilling blend of true crime realism and psychological thriller, set in the deceptively peaceful suburbs of Berkshire. When seven residents vanish without a trace from Lavender Close, an ordinary cul-de-sac in Reading, the nation is stunned. But behind the disappearance lies a sinister truth: a cult has been operating in plain sight, its rituals masked as community meetings, its leader cloaked in charm and manipulation.

In the summer of 1977, thirteen-year-old Scott Bergman's life takes an unexpected turn when his summer vacation plan is obliterated, and is forced to spend the summer in Palo Alto, California with his mother and her new boyfriend. As he navigates a new world of friendship and intrigue, Scott discovers a startling secret behind his enigmatic neighbor, uncovering a long-buried past connected to the most fascinating prison escape in American history.

A work of true crime following one American family’s search for the truth after a 1984 murder in war-torn Beirut, where the Iranian revolution collided with the Israeli invasion of Lebanon, setting off the geopolitical conflagration that burns to this day, from acclaimed and bestselling author...

Sam’s new client, YouTube star Lora Darling, is famous for breaking barriers as a female gamer. But fame has its price. Lora has a stalker, one who intends to see her dead. When Lora’s partner is poisoned and Lora is drugged, Samantha knows the stalker is closer than they ever imagined.

In the scorching heat of Afghanistan, Corrado believes everything will be all right if he can just focus all of his energy on following orders and maintaining his sanity, until he learns that - even though he’s just a supply guy, in the rear with the gear - every soldier in the Army is an infantryman first. Surrounded by officers and enlisted soldiers from almost every walk of life, both the beauty and ugliness of America are revealed. But will this revelation allow Corrado to get back home and live the American Dream?