Family Thriller

Welcome to picturesque Provence, where the Lady of the Chateau, Séraphine Demargelasse, has opened its elegant doors to her granddaughter Darcy and her three friends. Twenty years earlier, the four girlfriends studied abroad together in France and visited the old woman on the weekends, creating the group’s deep bond. But why this sudden invitation? Amid winery tours, market visits, and fancy dinners overlooking olive groves and lavender fields, it becomes clear that each woman has a hidden reason for returning to the estate after all these years.

Murder is Easy. But the consequences are Deadly. Amy Sholes has a problem. An obsession. She's a murderer. A talented and prolific serial killer. To most, Amy is a monster--evil, a cancer on her soul. But to many, she is an angel, avenging, serving justice and helping those who could not help themselves. Amy's only rule, she only kills those who prey on others. Beautiful and sexy, Amy is a killer you'll want to root for. Book 2 continues Amy’s story and her Affair with Murder.She’s not dangerous—not like other murderers. Amy has kept to her rule, killing only those who the world ...

Birmingham detectives Kerri Devlin and Luke Falco arrive at the scene of a double homicide to discover that nothing makes sense. A woman and her child are dead, and though the husband says he killed them, the evidence says otherwise. Why would a man confess to unspeakable murders he didn’t commit? What starts as an open-and-shut case explodes into a web of new leads. Devlin and Falco get to work tracking down every single one - including a disturbing connection between the murders and Falco’s dark past.

Amelie has always been a survivor, from losing her parents as a child in Paris to making it on her own in London. As she builds a life for herself, she is swept up into a glamorous lifestyle where she married the handsome billionaire Ned Hawthorne. But then, Amelie wakes up in a pitch-black room, not knowing where she is. Why has she been taken? Who are her mysterious captors? And why does she soon feel safer here, imprisoned, than she had begun to feel with her husband Ned?

Linda Martin understands what is to be lonely: her parents died when she was young, and she was raised in an orphanage. When she is hired as a governess to the orphaned young Philippe, Comte de Valmy, Linda finds a kindred spirit in the lonely little boy. But Philippe is the heir to a vast estate in Savoy, and his dangerously handsome uncle may be willing to kill to ensure that Philippe never inherits it.

When Olivia Shaw’s mother dies, the sophisticated food editor is astonished to learn she’s inherited a centuries-old English estate—and a title to go with it. Raw with grief and reeling from the knowledge that her reserved mother hid something so momentous, Olivia leaves San Francisco and crosses the pond to unravel the mystery of a lifetime. One glance at the breathtaking Rosemere Priory and Olivia understands why the manor, magnificent even in disrepair, was the subject of her mother’s exquisite paintings. What she doesn’t understand is why her mother never mentioned it.

Craig Finnigan is determined to finish his book this summer, but being an aspiring writer while wrangling his seven-year-old daughter is not easy. So when Alice makes fast friends with a neighborhood boy, Levi, Craig is happy she has a distraction from her constant visits to his home office. But that happiness soon turns to misgivings as Levi’s behavior evolves from that of a shy, odd boy into something far more disturbing.

They had it all -- love, privacy, security... Until betrayal and lies forced them apart. Now, seven years later, Charli is on the run with her young son. Their lives are at stake, and the only ones who can help her are Tek and Nico, the brothers she burned so long ago. Thrown together by fate, they'll need to learn to trust each other again if any of them are to survive! Charli Capelli - A strong, fierce woman, determined not to let anything stand in the way of saving her son from a life of violence. Tek Lauro - Brilliant and intense, his silence masks a rage that time hasn't dimmed. Nico ...

«How do you keep living after something like that?» The famous writer Daniel Monzón and his family spend their summer in their beautiful house on the Costa Brava. Vera, his wife, during her morning escapes to the cove, will reunite with Alan, an impossible summer love haunted by his own ghosts. The distance between them shortens when one night they discover Daniel with Patricia, one of his supposed lovers. But what seemed like just another summer turns into a nightmare with more questions than answers when the writer disappears, and three days later, Patricia's lifeless body is found. ...

A handsome stranger comes to the sleepy New England town of Salem Falls in hopes of burying his past: Once a teacher at a girls' prep school, Jack St. Bride was destroyed when a student's crush sparked a powder keg of accusation. Now, washing dishes for Addie Peabody at the Do-or-Diner, he slips quietly into his new routine, and Addie finds this unassuming man fitting easily inside her heart. But amid the rustic calm of Salem Falls, a quartet of teenage girls harbor dark secrets - and they maliciously target Jack with a shattering allegation.

The three Maxwell siblings keep their distance from the lily-white gated enclave outside Dallas where they grew up. When their family moved there, they were the only Black family in the neighborhood. The neighbors acted nice enough, but right away bad things, scary things—the strange and the unexplainable—began to happen in their house. Maybe it was some cosmic trial, a demonic rite of passage into the upper-middle class. Whatever it was, the Maxwells, steered by their formidable mother, stayed put, unwilling to abandon their home, terrors and trauma be damned.

A God in Ruins tells the dramatic story of the 20th century through Ursula's beloved younger brother, Teddy - would-be poet, heroic pilot, husband, father, and grandfather - as he navigates the perils and progress of a rapidly changing world. After all that Teddy endures in battle, his greatest challenge is living in a future he never expected to have.

Rosie and Laura are as different as two sisters can be. One is stable and has the perfect family. The other struggles to break free from her troubled past. When Laura disappears after going on a blind date, Rosie takes matters into her own hands. But as Rosie begins to search for her sister, her greatest fears come to the surface. Could Laura be more of a danger than the stranger she meets, or is the night before her last night alive?

One unbearable mistake at the edge of the forest. In a moment of crisis, Ellis Abbey leaves her daughter, Viola, unattended - for just a few minutes. But when she returns, Viola is gone. A breaking point in an already fractured marriage, Viola’s abduction causes Ellis to disappear as well - into grief, guilt, and addiction. Convinced she can only do more harm to her family, Ellis leaves her husband and young sons, burying her desperate ache for her children deeper with every step into the mountain wildernesses she treks alone.

A twisted game of hide and seek Navy SEAL Christopher "Fish" Hill ends his latest mission with a midnight ride to his cabin in the Blue Ridge Mountains—but he never makes it. Rounding a sharp curve, he crashes his bike to avoid hitting a small, ghostly figure standing in the middle of the road. The specter turns out to be a lost child, kidnapped and hunted by a masked man playing a sick, sadistic game. A game her mother is still being forced to play. The most important mission of his life The tiny girl steals Chris’s heart, and every instinct in him locks onto a new mission: find her ...

Catherine Brewer has a secret to keep. And Vincent Lemont has a score to settle. One of them has to lose in this taut, no-frills, edge-of-your-seat suspense thriller. Catherine is happy and settled with what she always wanted: a loving husband, two cute kids, and a comfortable home. She also has a dangerous secret, a suppressed fragility, and a life about to be torn apart by her own history. Vincent has just been freed from a long stretch in San Quentin. Memories of his incarceration run riot in his mind. He’s bitter, single-minded, and quite prepared to crush whoever and whatever stands ...

Powers She Never Wanted. Powers She Can’t Control… Being an orphan is never easy. For teenagers like Emily Heart, it’s nearly impossible when you’re living on the streets. Yet, none of this is her fault. Someone kidnapped her and rewired her DNA. Now every day is a struggle. Everyone wants a piece of her. All Emily wants is her old life back. A life filled with family, friends, and a future she can count on. But staying alive won’t be easy, not with powers she can’t control. Even the slightest emotion can send her rocketing forward through time, never knowing how far she’ll ...

Most people’s births aren’t immortalized in a police report—but Olivia was born during the infamous Camp Lost Lake murders. Seventeen years later, Olivia’s life looks pretty perfect . . . until she discovers the man she calls dad is not her biological father. Now she wants answers about her bloodline, and the only place she knows to look is Camp Lost Lake. Most people don’t spend their formative years on the run with an alleged murderer—but Reagan did. In the court of public opinion, her mom was found guilty of the deaths at Camp Lost Lake, and both of them have been in hiding ever since.

Jacob Hunt is a teen with Asperger's syndrome. He's hopeless at reading social cues or expressing himself well to others, though he is brilliant in many ways. But he has a special focus on one subject - forensic analysis. A police scanner in his room clues him in to crime scenes, and he's always showing up and telling the cops what to do. And he's usually right. But when Jacob's small hometown is rocked by a terrible murder, law enforcement comes to him. Jacob's behaviors are hallmark Asperger's, but they look a lot like guilt to the local police.

Flavia de Luce - "part Harriet the Spy, part Violet Baudelaire from Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events" ( The New York Times Book Review) - takes her remarkable sleuthing prowess to the unexpectedly unsavory world of Canadian boarding schools in the captivating new mystery from New York Times best-selling author Alan Bradley.