Search Results: Suspense from DASHbooks

In good condition - dust jacket has small tear on top left of front cover near spine - ex library - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.
In the fall of '73, Brooklyn, New York, is home to worn-down hotels, wise guys, immigrants, the disturbed, the disenfranchised, and a few people just trying to make an honest buck. When Silvano Iurata's troubled brother, Noonie, rumoured to be living in Brooklyn Heights, goes missing, Silvano returns to a place he swore he'd never set foot in again.
He left Brooklyn a long time ago -- wanting to leave behind his family and its seedy mob connections and a past that just won't stay buried. The jungles of Viet Nam felt more hospitable to him than his own hometown; now that he's back, he doesn't intend to stay for long. His cousin Domenic has harboured a deadly grudge against Silvano for something that happened when they were teenagers, but they aren't kids anymore, and his cousin has some dangerous friends.… Read More

In good condition - ex library - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.It is 1993, and Thomas Penmarsh has lived in Finisterre, the house by the sea, all his life, sleeping each night in the room with the barred window. He's only forty-eight but has been an old man since one evening in 1967 when he lost everything he valued.However, now his controlling mother has died and he is master of the house. When Esmond, his cousin and childhood confidant comes to live with him, Thomas is overjoyed - Esmond always looks after him...But is Esmond all that he seems? And why is he so concerned that Alice wants to come home too? Darling Alice, whom neither has seen since that fateful night twenty-six years ago...

In good condition - ex library - has markings from use - due to differing weights on books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.It was insane, it was suicidal, it was wrong - and by God he was going to do it.The Hammer Worlds have Helfort exactly where they want him. The ultimatum is brutal and precise. Unless the Federated hero surrenders, the Hammer World's prisoner Anna Cheung - the only woman Helfort has ever loved - will be handed over to a bunch of depraved troopers to be violated, then executed by firing squad.Helfort can obey, or he can do what the crew proposes: sail his three frontline dreadnoughts into the Hammers' stronghold Commitment Planet, liberate Anna and the rest of the POWs held captive there, and continue the fight in the jaws of the enemy. Helfort's decision? Bring it on!

In good condition - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.It is a summer afternoon in 1981. At a wedding party being given by the Napier family, Chris Napier is shocked to recognize a drunken, dishevelled intruder. It is his childhood friend, Nicky Lanyon, whom Chris has not seen since his father, Michael Lanyon, was hanged for the murder in 1947 of Chris's great-uncle, Joshua Carnoweth.Is was the the inheritance of old Joshua's fortune that led the Napier family to their present state of affluence. When Nicky hangs himself in the grounds of the Napier house, Chris sets out on a journey into memory that takes him into greater depth than at any time since the tragic event in his boyhood. He soon realizes that his understanding of the events surrounding the murder is no understanding at all. The conduct of members of his own family begins to seem mysterious. And soon other, larger mysteries begin to dog his footsteps into the past.

In good condition - ex library - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.Edward Hunter is a family man with a beautiful wife and daughter, a great job, a bright future, and a very dark past.Edward's father is a man of blood. He's been in jail for twenty years and he's never coming out. Edward has struggled his entire life to put all that behind him, but it's hard. It's hard when everybody knows you're the son of a serial killer. Then, a week out from Christmas, Eddie's world is turned upside-down. Suddenly he's going to need the help of his father, a man he hasn't seen since he was a boy.Is Edward destined to be just like his father, to become a man of blood?

In good condition - spine clean - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.Imagine yourself in a bar. A man approaches you. He doesn't seem familiar but he knows your past, your job, hobbies and your ex-boyfriend's name. You go for a drink.This is your first - and last - mistake. You're the latest victim of the latest killer. A man who can rip away the thin carapace protecting the secrets of your life - before ending it.Streetwise cop Frank Bishop has been charged with the job of halting the mounting body count. He enlists the help of Wyatt Gillette, a young hacker who himself has fallen on the wrong side of the law. They must stalk this faceless criminal through both the real and the virtual universe, combining their old and new world skills to beat this mastermind. But how do you stop a man who knows your every move?You must go into the blue nowhere...

In good condition - ex library - has markings from use - due to differing weights on books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.An evil wind blows through the air of Bass Strait, promising the birth of a charismatic child.On the far northwest coast of Tasmania at Cape Grimm lies the isolated community of Skye, which practises a religion that reveres the imagination.When Caleb Mean is born, his grandmother has a vision telling her he is the Chosen One.On Caleb's thirty-third birthday, he locks the whole community into the meeting hall and incinerates them.The only survivors are Caleb, his lover Virginia, and their baby daughter, Golden.How could such a thing happen? Do the answers lie in the history of Skye itself, founded by the unlikely survivors of a nineteenth-century shipwreck? Or do the only real clues lie in the dark truths of fairytales?

In good condition - ex library - has markings from use - due to differing weights on books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.Detective Lincoln Rhyme, the foremost criminalist in the NYPD, is on the hunt for an elusive murderer known as the Coffin Dancer. He's a brilliant hit man who changes his appearance faster than he adds to his trail of victims, only one of whom has lived long enough to offer a clue: the assassin has an eerie tattoo on his arm of the Grim Reaper waltzing in front of a casket.Rhyme, paralyzed from a line-of-duty accident, is certain he's seen this killer before, and his suspicion of an earlier encounter fuels a bitter taste for vengeance. When the chameleon-like assassin targets three federal witnesses for death, the stakes reach a new high. Now Rhyme's brainpower and his protégée Detective Amelia Sachs's legwork are the only tools they have to track the cunning murderer through a darkly painted New York City—and they have only forty-eight hours before the Coffin Dancer… Read More

In good condition - ex library - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.Was the explosion that took the lives of Sarah Russell's parents an act of murder? Her teenage daughter thinks so and is determined to seek answers in the sleep small town where Sarah grew up. Sarah fears the teen will uncover a secret she's not ready to share: everyone, including Sarah's daughter, believes the girl is Sarah's kid sister. Even the child's father doesn't know the truth. But as Sarah reunites with Nick Tyler to look into the mysterious deaths, she knows she'll have to tell him - and their daughter - the truth. Yet someone wants to ensure that no one uncovers any long-buried secrets.

In good condition - ex library - has markings from use - due to differing weights on books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.Brain surgeon Allen Wyler has written a thriller on the bleeding edge of new millennium hospital technology.When a brain surgeon discovers that a revolutionary computerized medical records system is responsible for a series of patient deaths - and threatens many more - he must navigate a treacherous maze of conspiracy. And risk his life to expose it.A comatose man is given a fatal dose of insulin in the emergency room - even though he isn't diabetic.A ulcer patient dies of haemolytic shock after receiving a transfusion - of the wrong blood type.A recovering heart patient receives a double dose of the same medication - triggering a fatal cardiac arrest.When doctors and nurses at Seattle's prestigious Maynard Medical Centre start making preventable drug and treatment errors that kill their patients, neurosurgeon Dr. Tyler Mathews suspects that something is murderously wrong with… Read More

In good condition - ex library - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.Old Army buddies Fred Custer and Green Beret Hickey team up to rescue Jim Simpson, the beloved son of an old colleague. Jim's job was to handle the finances of a Halliburton-like company, but he discovers much to his dismay that the company is rotten to the core and people who should be dedicated to the mission are in fact dedicated to lining their own pockets. Now a whole lot of money has gone missing along with Jim. Custer and Hickey end up in Cairo, where they discover a dark torture prison deep within the heart of the Egyptian desert, nicknamed "The Death Factory." Action movie fans and military thriller readers will love this blend of fire-power, non-stop forward motion, and suspense.

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'For a while after Peter Garvey was convicted and sent to prison for killing Luci, I thought I might succeed in putting the awful experience behind me. But for months now, since last winter, I have frequently felt someone watching to see if I'm finally beginning to show signs of nervousness, or fear . . .'
Linda Garbo was the sole witness to her friend Luci's murder. It was her testimony that saw a man convicted and sent to prison. Now, two years later, a question gnaws at her soul. Did she really see what she remembers?
Struggling to live with her memories, Linda has married Luci's former lover and is living in the house where the murder occurred. Convinced that someone is following her, she is compelled to unravel the mystery surrounding Luci's final days. As she digs deeper, Linda finds that Luci's life was a complex tapestry, and that there is more than just the secret of her death to… Read More

In good condition - ex library - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.The unknown betrayer attacks...I fear you're next.One by one, practitioners of magic are dying in violence, as if fired from within. And the last words of a dead mage identify Grace Armatrading as the next victim.Use Adam's help; You need him.Adam Zolton is the last person in the world Grace wants to trust. Once before, he brought her to a fever pitch of need, then sacrificed her to pursue his own agenda. Now she has no choice but to team up with the darkly dangerous enigma.The Dragon burns me.Drawn into a twisting maze of fiery danger and desire, Grace fights off a deadly computer virus, violent thugs and her own uncontrollable blackouts. But with Adam to balance her frightening paranormal gift, she will see the...DRAGON UNMASKED

In good condition - ex library - has markings from use - due to differing weights on books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.A vengeful Sioux spirit wreaks havoc in Minneapolis - When her children are kidnapped, in desperation Lily Blake seeks the services of a Sioux shaman, who summons up the Indian spirit, Wendigo, to find them. The price for this service is a spit of land that Lily's firm is selling for development land that once belonged to the Sioux. Lily is soon drawn into the destructive world of the Wendigo and learns to the detriment of those closest to her that you should never underestimate the power of a spirit betrayed . . .

In good condition - ex library - has markings from use - due to differing weights on books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.For two minutes she was dead.The assailant was vicious, the attack brutal - and it left her lifeless...until her pulse fluttered and she jolted awake. Now, a year later, detective Nan Vining is still questioning her strength, her safety, even her sanity: can she ever again be the cop - and mother - she was before? And will her attacker some day return to finish the job, before she can track him down herself?Shaky but determined, Vining rejoins the Pasadena PD, only to confront a murder case that strikes close to home: a slain policewoman has been discovered dumped on a hillside, her body bruised, her throat slit. Even as Vining struggles to recover her standing within the department, she can't help but fee; drawn to the murdered officer, Frankie Lynde - and deeply troubled by the baffling otherworldly visions that haunt her waking hours. Is her mind playing tricks or could… Read More

In good condition - ex library - has markings from use - due to differing weights on books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.Ten years ago, Jonat deVrai was a rising star in the Marines. But he shocked his superiors by walking away from the Corps after witnessing atrocity and hypocrisy during the Reclamation of Guyana. Starting his life over, he established himself as the world's expert on the effectiveness of "prod"-- product placement, the only advertising which viewers will allow through the sophisticated filters they all use against unwanted intrusions on their electronic link networks. Prod, reinforced with sublims and the "res" -- resonant frequencies, a form of sonic branding -- is the wave of the future.Jonat now advises multinational corporations on their prod campaigns, his busy life only occasionally disturbed by vivid flashbacks to his military years. Then his comfortable world is upset when the Centre for Societal Research approaches him to study the effects of res and prod on political… Read More

In good condition - ex library - has markings from use - due to differing weights on books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.The return of Essington Holt.When he inherited a fortune, moved to the south of France, and settled down, Essington promised his wife there'd be no more art forgery. But being rich is boring, and he couldn't help selling property developer Stan Kriticos a small collection of modernist masters, Kandinsky, Matisse, Delaunay, that sort of thing.But it emerges Kriticos is a killer and he's just learnt the art on his walls is fake. He comes after Essington and his family and the killing begins. Essington flees home and holes up in a Sydney high-rise, his world collapsing around him as he tries desperately to avoid the vengeance of an insane and powerful enemy.

In good condition - ex library - has markings from use - due to differing weights on books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.When farmers cutting turf in a peat bog make a grisly discovery -- the perfectly preserved severed head of a young woman with long red hair -- Irish archaeologist Cormac Maguire and American pathologist Nora Gavin team up in a case that will open old wounds. Peat bogs prevent decay, so the decapitated young woman could have been buried for two decades, two centuries, or even much longer. Who is she? When was she killed? The extraordinary find leads to even more disturbing puzzles. The red-haired girl is clearly a case for the archaeologists, not the police. Still, her tale may have shocking ties to the present, and Cormac and Nora must use cutting-edge techniques to preserve ancient evidence. And the red-haired girl is not the only enigma in this remote corner of Galway. Two years earlier, Mina Osborne, the local landowner's Indian-born wife, went for a walk with her young son… Read More

In good condition - ex library - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.To save their Russia they will lay waste to the worldThey are four old comrades from cadet school - one KGB, one Army, one Air Force, and one Navy. Together, they stand ready to re-establish the old Soviet Union the way they liked it best. They wait only for the perfect moment to seize control, oust Yeltsin, and assume power over the breakaway republics that will yield to their domination.Meanwhile, the tools of global mass destruction and weapons-grade nuclear material are traded on the black market by men ruthless enough to exploit the situation. Jordan Blish, a junior diplomat in the British foreign service, has stumbled onto one such perilous transaction which has terrible implications for his own life and the future of the world...

In good condition - ex library - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.In a remote Greek village, Captain Elias and his guerrillas in the resistance are engaged in battle with the Nazis. A church burns to the ground in an act of betrayal, and several die trying to protect a religious icon hidden there. What happens that day lies shrouded in mystery until, sixty years later, the icon surfaces on the New York art market, generating keen - and possibly deadly - interest from a variety of interested parties, each wanting if for a different reason...