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Watchers
by Dean Koontz
A story of terror and suspense as a genetically engineered creature wreaks havoc in a small town.
Travis Cornell, a former Delta Force operative, feels that his life has become pointless, and is exploring a canyon near his home when he encounters two genetically engineered creatures that have ... (Wikipedia)
Phantoms
by Dean Koontz
A small town is plagued by a mysterious force that leaves no survivors. A team of scientists and locals must uncover the truth before it's too late.
Jenny and Lisa Paige, two sisters, return to Jenny's hometown of Snowfield, California, a small ski resort village nestled in the Sierra-Nevada Mountains where Jenny works as a doctor, and find no ... (Wikipedia)
Whispers
by Dean Koontz
A family's battle against a mysterious force that is transforming their lives.
Hilary Thomas, a screenwriter living in Los Angeles, is attacked in her home by Bruno Frye, a mentally disturbed man whose vineyard in Napa Valley she recently visited. Frye tries to rape her, but ... (Wikipedia)
The Door to December
by Richard Paige
A mother searches for her daughter who was kidnapped and subjected to a sinister experiment that altered her mind.
The #1 New York Times bestselling author delivers a truly suspenseful novel of a mother who must save her daughter from a threat she can hardly understand. What happened to nine-year-old Melanie ... (Goodreads)
The Servants of Twilight
by Leigh Nichols
A mother and her son are stalked by a religious cult convinced the child is the Antichrist. A thrilling horror novel.
Single parent Christine Scavello and her young son Joey are confronted in a mall parking lot by a madwoman who claims that Joey is the Antichrist . After a distressing attack on the family home ... (Wikipedia)
The House of Thunder
by Leigh Nichols
After a car accident, a woman wakes up in a hospital with no memory of how she got there. Strange occurrences and a sinister conspiracy follow.
Susan Thorton awakens in a hospital, after a near-fatal car crash, to see four men lurking outside her door–men who exactly resemble those who killed her boyfriend years before. Can these be the same ... (Goodreads)
Pet Sematary
by Stephen King
A family's terrifying journey of life and death, as the line between the living and the dead blurs.
Louis Creed, a doctor from Chicago , is appointed director of the University of Maine 's campus health service. He moves to a large house near the small town of Ludlow with his wife Rachel, their two ... (Wikipedia)
The Dead Zone
by Stephen King
A man awakens from a coma with supernatural powers, and must grapple with the consequences.
As a child in 1953, Johnny Smith falls unconscious while ice-skating, then mumbles a prophetic warning to an adult who later suffers an accident. In an unconnected incident, a young, emotionally ... (Wikipedia)
The Key to Midnight
by Leigh Nichols
A woman with amnesia is haunted by nightmares of a past she can't remember. She must uncover the truth before it's too late.
Joanna Rand left the U.S. ten years ago to sing in a Japanese nightclub. Ever since, she's been plagued with nightmares of terror. There is only one man can help her – Alex Hunter. Ten years ago he ... (Goodreads)
The Dark Half
by Stephen King
A writer's dark doppelganger takes over his life and wreaks deadly chaos.
Thad Beaumont is an author and recovering alcoholic who lives in the town of Ludlow , Maine . Thad's own books – cerebral literary fiction – are not very successful. However, under the pen name ... (Wikipedia)
The Witching Hour
by Anne Rice
A dark and mysterious tale of secret families and supernatural forces.
From the author of the extraordinary Vampire Chronicles comes a huge, hypnotic novel of witchcraft and the occult through four centuries. Demonstrating, once again, her gift for spellbinding ... (Goodreads)
Thinner
by Richard Bachman
A man cursed by a gypsy to lose weight uncontrollably seeks revenge on those who wronged him.
Billy Halleck, a successful, arrogant, and morbidly obese lawyer, is distracted while driving across town by his wife Heidi giving him a blowjob , and he runs over an elderly Romani woman as a ... (Wikipedia)
Swan Song
by Robert R. McCammon
After a nuclear war, a group of survivors journey across a devastated America, facing danger and hopelessness.
The novel begins with nuclear war breaking out between the submarine fleets of the U.S. and the Soviet Union . The President , wracked with guilt over his role in the carnage, prepares to input a ... (Wikipedia)
The Face of Fear
by Brian Coffey
A psychopath terrorizes a woman and her son, forcing them to confront their deepest fears.
Graham Harris was once one of the world's foremost mountain climbers, until a fall five years earlier left him with a lame leg, a fear of heights...and a frightening psychic ability in which he can ... (Wikipedia)
The Pelican Brief
by John Grisham
A law student's investigation into a political assassination, uncovering a deadly conspiracy.
The story begins with the assassinations of two ideologically divergent Supreme Court Justices. Both murders are committed by Khamel, the most wanted hitman in the world. Justice Rosenberg, a ... (Wikipedia)
The Runaway Jury
by John Grisham
A jury trial where the jury's decision is up for sale as two sides battle for a multi-million dollar verdict.
Wendall Rohr and his team of tort lawyers have filed suit on behalf of plaintiff Celeste Wood, whose husband died of lung cancer , against the tobacco company Pynex. The trial is to be held in Biloxi ... (Wikipedia)
Along Came a Spider
by James Patterson
A detective races against time to solve a kidnapper's twisted game.
What have we got? A missing little girl named Maggie Rose . . . a family of three brutally murdered in the projects of Washington, D.C. . . . the thrill-killing of a beautiful elementary school ... (Goodreads)
Flight of the Old Dog
by Dale Brown
A high-tech bomber is sent on a secret mission to destroy a Soviet missile silo. Action-packed military thriller.
Flight of the Old Dog is the story of a secret highly modified B-52 bomber flying into the Soviet Union on an impromptu strike mission. The book begins with a B-52 crew during a military exercise in ... (Wikipedia)
The Exorcist
by William Peter Blatty
A priest's battle against a powerful demon possessing a young girl.
An elderly Jesuit priest named Father Lankester Merrin is leading an archaeological dig in northern Iraq and is studying ancient relics. After discovering a small statue of the demon Pazuzu (an ... (Wikipedia)
The Wolf's Hour
by Robert R. McCammon
A werewolf spy, Michael Gallatin, is sent on a mission to Nazi Germany during World War II.
Michael Gallatin, a werewolf, is a British emigrant that is a top spy for Britain during World War II. In 1942, he overtakes Rommel in North Africa and foils the Nazis plan to control the Suez Canal. ... (Wikipedia)
Red Dragon
by Thomas Harris
A serial killer stalks the night, and a former FBI agent is the only one who can stop him.
In 1975, Will Graham , a brilliant profiler of the FBI , captured the serial killer Hannibal Lecter . However, Graham suffered serious injuries from the encounter and retired afterwards. Four years ... (Wikipedia)
Taltos
by Anne Rice
A vampire's pursuit of immortality, set against a backdrop of ancient secrets and dark magic.
Rice's new novel continues the epic occult saga that began with The Witching Hour and Lasher. Taltos takes readers back through the centuries to a civilization part human and part of wholly ... (Goodreads)
Fatal Voyage
by Kathy Reichs
A cold case is reopened, leading to a thrilling web of secrets and murder.
A plane crash in the mountains of North Carolina and an unidentified severed foot found in the vicinity lead Brennan and would-be lover Detective Andrew Ryan to investigate a mysterious cult. The ... (Wikipedia)
Shutter Island
by Dennis Lehane
A U.S. Marshal investigates a psychiatric hospital on a remote island, uncovering chilling secrets and an unexpected truth.
In 1954, widower U.S. Marshal Edward "Teddy" Daniels and his new partner, Chuck Aule, go on a ferry boat to Shutter Island, the home of Ashecliffe Hospital for the criminally insane, to investigate ... (Wikipedia)
A Swiftly Tilting Planet
by Madeleine L'Engle
A young girl must use the power of her imagination to save the world.
The book opens on Thanksgiving evening, 10 years after the events of, A Wind in the Door, . Meg is now married to Calvin and is expecting their first child . Calvin has become a scientist and is in ... (Wikipedia)
The Honor of the Queen
by David Weber
Honor Harrington, a captain in the Royal Manticoran Navy, is sent on a diplomatic mission to a planet with a dangerous secret.
Three years after the events in, On Basilisk Station, , Captain Honor Harrington returns to the Star Kingdom after a long anti-piracy campaign in the Silesian Confederacy. While her ship, the heavy ... (Wikipedia)
Kiss the Girls
by James Patterson
Detective Alex Cross races against time to stop a serial killer from abducting more victims.
As a teenage boy in 1975 Boca Raton , Florida , a future serial killer calling himself Casanova kills his first four victims. Elsewhere in 1981 Chapel Hill , North Carolina , another killer calling ... (Wikipedia)
I Let You Go
by Clare Mackintosh
A mother's heartbreaking journey of grief and guilt as she struggles to come to terms with the death of her son.
THE, NEW YORK TIMES, BESTSELLER,One of, The New York Times Book Review’,s 10 Best Crime Novels of 2016!,Now in paperback—the next blockbuster thriller for those who loved, The Girl on the Train, and, ... (Barnes & Noble)
The Chamber
by John Grisham
A lawyer's battle to uncover the truth behind a long-concealed crime.
In 1967, in Greenville, Mississippi , the office of Jewish lawyer Marvin Kramer is bombed, injuring Kramer and killing his two young sons. Sam Cayhall, a member of the Ku Klux Klan , is identified, ... (Wikipedia)
Shadows
by John Saul
A family moves into a new home, unaware of the dark secrets hidden within its walls. As they uncover the truth, they must fight for their survival.
They call it the Academy. A secluded, cliff-top mansion overlooking the rugged Pacific coast. A school for children gifted – or cursed -- with extraordinary minds. Children soon to come under the ... (Goodreads)
