Thriller

"I have been a fan of Steve's accounting series since its inception. I have followed Ben and Sharon's adventures to Philadelphia, Malta, Belgium, Finland, and New Orleans. This time they are at the Outer Banks of North Carolina. As always with Steve's books, Ben and Sharon engage in lively banter, but they also get serious when it's time to save the day. And though I'm not an accountant, Steve always provides some understandable accounting insights that add to the depth of his works. Steve's novels make accounting seem fun as long as there is some murder and intrigue included." -Norah Shultz, Professor of Sociology and Mystery FanThe Outer Banks of North Carolina are known as the Graveyard of the Atlantic due to all the shipwrecks in the area, including many pirateships. Off of one of the islands, Ocracoke, three young divers discover a pirate chest loaded with gold, jewels, and other valuables. While the three are deciding their next move with the treasure, Ben Stone, an accounting professor, and his girlfriend, Sharon Levin, a Philadelphia homicide cop, are at a conference in the Outer Banks. Ben and Sharon become involved with the treasure, Jamaican mobsters, and even murder. What was supposed to be a professional opportunity and a much-needed vacation for Ben and Sharon turns into a race to save both lives and treasure.

Can this brokenhearted private operative Dom find love?After losing his chosen brother on his last job, Quinn Walsh is done being a private operative. And his ex gave him enough trouble; he's done being a Dom. But when he is mistaken for an arsonist for hire, Quinn is pulled right into Simone's world.Fresh from her disastrous marriage, Simone Roberts isn't looking for love, and as an up-and-coming interior designer, her plate is full. And she isn't the type of woman to jump into bed with a stranger even if the stranger is smoking hot, with eyes as deep as the ocean and gives off enough serious Dom vibes to leave her heart racing.

Would you kill to keep a secret?That's the question haunting three people whose lives become inescapably intertwined by the secrets that define them and ultimately threaten to tear them apart. A disgraced professor, a disenchanted psychologist and a deceitful patient are about to learn more than they expected about each other and themselves. Will their relationships survive their secrets? Will they? Everyone has secrets. Some are just darker than others. And some, well, they're worth killing to keep. "A Killer Secret," the debut novel by Jeff Berney, is a character study in good and evil, and the large swath of gray area in between where most of us live. That is, unless our secrets kill us first.Initial Reader Reactions:"Really enjoyed the book (in a twisted thriller kind of way). I was shocked multiple times and couldn't sleep for a few nights after reading the end."- Apple Books reader"Just when I thought I had it figured out...BOOM, I was wrong!"- Amazon reader"This book is definitely not for the faint of heart."- Instagram reviewer"Everything seems to follow the normal pattern of a suspense/thriller novel, until it absolutely doesn't!"- Amazon reader"I was riveted to the story."- Instagram reviewer"So many twists and turns ... absolutely did not see that ending coming!"- Apple Books reader"Wow. I literally could not put this book down. I was shocked by the ending, and I want to read again just to make sense of it all."- Amazon reader"I was surprised of the ending and happy to see that there is room for a sequel possibly in the future. I highly recommend this book for an amazing thriller read that surprises the reader."- Instagram reviewer"Really great book. Can't recommend it enough. Keep in mind 1)you won't be able to put it down 2) you will need a friend to talk to about it."- Amazon reader"Jeff Berney knows how to craft a suspense story that is as compelling as any Alfred Hitchcock could have shaped. As events in multiple lives move forward in a chess match-style of intrigue, readers will not only find the story replete with surprises, but should be advised that if it's chosen for late night reading, dawn might arrive before the story's completed."- Midwest Book Reviews

Ryan Spencer won't get on a plane...and a major league ballplayer who won't get on a plane better hit .400, knock in one hundred and fifty runs and never chase the high cheese. So, it's fortunate that Ryan is a five-tool player. He can take one low and outside and turn it into two. He can jack a mistake, back-row bleachers, and cherry-pop quick. He can smother the short hop like an unwanted puppy and throw strikes from shallow leftfield. But he won't fly.So, like Babe Ruth, Ty Cobb, and Ted Williams before him, Ryan rides the rails from town to town. But as he travels across the continent he also travels back in time. The first time Ryan wakes on the train, he's in 1939, sitting beside thirteen-year-old Georgie Abbott who has snuck aboard and is looking for the man who murdered his sister. Ten days later, Ryan wakes between Denver and Kansas City, it's 1941, Georgie's two years older, more determined, and looking for help. More help than Ryan can give.Two weeks later, when Ryan falls asleep on the train from Montreal to New York City, the Expos are struggling, Ryan can't lay off the outside slider, and his teammates hate him. When he wakes up, Hiroshima is still smoldering, Richard Nixon is running for Congress, seven more girls have been murdered and Georgie Abbott won't take no for an answer. Georgie and Ryan spend seventy years and the rest of that summer tracking down the men who killed Georgie's sister and a dozen other young women. And in between Ryan and the Montreal Expos scramble after a wild-card spot and a shot at the big prize.Long Train Home, a literary thriller, owes something to WP Kinsella and Field of Dreams. It's about baseball, time's thin veil, and the weight of accumulated regret, but it's a new story and a new voice.

Kadie Andrews is traveling across the West to photograph ghost towns when she takes a wrong turn. She ends up in Morgan Creek, Wyoming, a spot that isn't on the map. It's a quaint little place, but there's something strange and sinister about it. No cell phone reception, no gas for her car, no hotel. She can just move into a vacant furnished house. No one pays for anything. And no one can leave once they come to town.Unable to find any way out, Kadie is a prisoner hunted for her blood, in a town full of vampires and their human prey.

Emily Branford's perfect life as the wife of a prominent surgeon is suddenly changed when a terrifying dream awakens her to an even more terrible reality: something so dreadful is happening to her body that even the finest doctors and scientists cannot diagnose the cause of the symptoms.A naturally shy, quiet woman, Emily gathers the strength to try and find the cause of something that may be killing her. Could someone deliberately be doing this to her? And if so, who is responsible? And why?The answer, if it can be found, will give you a chilling glimpse into the future.

From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Summerwater, The Fell is a novel for our times - the story of a woman in quarantine who can't take it any more and goes hill-walking at dusk . . .

Le confessioni d'un Italiano è un romanzo di carattere storico di Ippolito Nievo, concluso nel 1858 ma pubblicato postumo nel 1867: i fatti si svolgono negli anni che vanno dalla nascita del protagonista nel 1775 fino all'anno 1858. Nel romanzo, considerato un capolavoro della letteratura, vengono narrate, sotto forma di un'autobiografia fittizia, le vicende di Carlo Altoviti, il protagonista che narra, ormai ottantenne, in prima persona la propria vita trascorsa come patriota, ma soprattutto come uomo che ha vissuto la trasformazione della propria identità da veneziano a italiano intrecciando i propri casi personali con le vicende storiche del Risorgimento italiano (Aonia edizioni).

Small town mayor Kacie Nolan's life is thrown into turmoil by the mysterious arrival of world famous musician Jett Vanders. Will a shocking revelation lead to a connection that could change their lives forever?It's taken Kacie Nolan more than five years to piece her life back together after a tragic accident widowed her at a young age. She's now the mayor of a small town and the owner of her own business. She's content with the life she's created for herself in idyllic Sycamore Ridge, but the mysterious arrival of a new resident is about to throw her future into turmoil.Jett Vanders is desperate to escape the limelight. The pressures of an international tour and the looming threat from a stalker are taking a toll on his already fragile health. Unsure of what's to come, he decides his only option is to disappear.Jett's arrival in Sycamore Ridge, under an alias, leads to an unexpected encounter with Kacie that connects them in a guarded friendship. Neither is ready to risk their hearts, but they are drawn to each other, and their relationship slowly evolves into something much deeper.When a shocking revelation comes to light, it threatens to rip the pair apart, and Kacie and Jett must decide if they are willing to let go of the past for a chance at a future together."What a great read, combining lovely characters, many of whom are so relatable, with a suspenseful and intriguing narrative." - Goodreads Review"[Shail] writes each character in such detail they feel like real people as I'm reading. I loved the way this story flowed with a budding romance while still building a secondary suspenseful plot." - Goodreads Review

Emily Boysen is sick of low-level bounty hunting jobs that don't pay her rent, and sick to death of her ex-boyfriend taking credit for her work. Ready to claim her due, she takes on the quarry of a lifetime, the notorious Fernando Benitez. But instead of the fugitive, she captures his sexy younger brother, Javier.Javier Benitez never wanted to know the truth about his older brother's activities, instead protecting him out of loyalty. When he uses his hacking skills to pose as Fernando, he never expects to uncover crimes he can't stomach. Beautiful Emily has no idea how glad he is to be in her custody-as long as he's her prisoner, he doesn't have to face his brother.Passion flares between Emily and Javier, and soon he's putting the handcuffs on her. But suspicion grows along with their feelings. A sinister plot centers around Fernando, and untangling it will test their loyalties to the limit.This work has been revised and updated since its original edition.