Charlie Thurston
On a cold night in October 1937, searchlights cut through the darkness around Alcatraz. A prison guard's only daughter—one of the youngest civilians who lives on the island—has gone missing. Tending the warden's greenhouse, convicted bank robber Tommy Capello waits anxiously. Only...
3) American Pain: How a Young Felon and His Ring of Doctors Unleashed America's Deadliest Drug Epidemic
* New York Post, "The Post's Favorite Books of 2015"
* Suspense Magazine's "Best True Crime Books of 2015"
* Foreword Reviews' INDIEFAB Book of the Year in True Crime
* Publishers Weekly, Big Indie Book of Fall 2015
The king of the Florida pill mills was American Pain, a mega-clinic expressly created to serve addicts posing as patients. From a fortress-like former...
5) Southernmost
Asher Sharp is willing to give up everything for what he believes in. Except his son.
In the aftermath of a flood that washes away much of a small Tennessee town, evangelical preacher Asher Sharp offers...
6) Bloomland
An Indies Introduce pick
"Hugely important, hauntingly brutal—Englehardt has just announced himself as one of America's most talented emerging writers." —Kirkus starred review
Bloomland opens during finals week at a fictional southern university, when a student walks into the library with his roommate's semi-automatic rifle and opens fire. When he stops shooting, twelve...
8) Swagger
Levi was simple, like a child. It was the best thing about him, and it was the worst, too.
When high school senior Jonas moves to Seattle, he is glad to meet Levi, a nice, soft-spoken guy and fellow basketball player. Suspense builds like a slow drumbeat as readers start to smell a rat in Ryan Hartwell, a charismatic basketball coach and sexual predator. When Levi reluctantly tells Jonas that Hartwell abused him, Jonas has to
...9) The Morels
The Morels—Arthur, Penny, and Will—are a happy family of three living in New York City. So why would Arthur choose to publish a book that brutally rips his tightly knit family apart at the seams?
Arthur’s old schoolmate Chris is fascinated with this very question as he becomes...
10) I hunt killers
11) Hideout
13) Pirata: A Novel
New York Times bestselling author Faye Kellerman delivers an electrifying crime novel of suspense as a young man's obsessive investigation into his sister's death draws him into the path of a sadistic serial killer.
He went searching for the truth. Now a killer has found him.
The more you know, the more there is to fear...
Three years ago, fifteen-year-old Ellen Vicksburg went missing in the quiet town of River Remez, New Mexico.
...17) Good Kids
The critically acclaimed author of American Nerd makes his fiction debut with this romantic tragicomedy about a teenage boy and girl who discover his dad is having an affair with her mom. At fifteen, Josh Paquette and Khadijah Silverglate-Dunn catch Josh's father and Khadijah's mother kissing in a natural foods store. They make a pact never to cheat on anyone, ever. They have no problem keeping the vow—until they meet again at twenty-eight,
...A heart-stopping true-life tale of maritime disaster,survival, and daring rescue from a master storyteller
Seventy-foot waves batter a torn life raft 250 miles out tosea in one of the world's most dangerous places, the Gulf Stream. Hanging on tothe raft are three men, a Canadian, a Brit, and their captain, Jean Pierre de Lutz, adual citizen of America and France. Their capsized forty-seven-foot sailboathas filled with water and disappeared
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