Suspense fiction

In 1964, Linda Carr is trying to track down the wreckage of the Liberator bomber in which her father died when it crashed in 1944. She asks Jack Kirby, a British Mosquito fighter pilot who was on operations in the area when her father died, to help.

Alexander the Great, history's most enigmatic warrior king. His fabled tomb a wonder of the ancient world, seemingly lost forever. Then a construction crew unknowingly rip open the mouth of an Alexandrian catacomb and trigger a deadly race for the greatest treasure of all time.

Ross Bell, a researcher working for an arms manufacturer in Switzerland, is forced to disappear before he is 'persuaded' to part with the secrets of his research. Ross's firm is desperate to locate him and believe that his mother, who had teenage dreams of fast cars, extreme action and James Bond...

This suspense novella from Mary Higgins Clark sees husband and wife amateur sleuths Alvirah and Willy investigate the disappearance of a child from an after-school centre in New York.

Massachusetts State Trooper Bobby Dodge watches a tense hostage standoff unfold through the scope of his sniper rifle. Just across the street, an armed man has barricaded himself with his wife and child. The man's finger tightens on the trigger and Dodge has only a split second to react - and for...

Freeman Lockhart is working for his old friend Omar in Amman, Jordan. And spying on him too. Hoping to prevent his own secrets from ever coming to light, Freeman has agreed to report back on his friend to a clandestine agency interested in Omar's finances.

Back in the liquidating business, Boysie Oakes finds himself on the shores of Lake Maggiore where he is tasked with the assassination of an MP. But things go horribly wrong and Boysie is drawn into the biggest espionage foul-up of the century.

On Parrish Island, a restricted island off the coast of Virginia, there is a little-known and never visited psychiatric facility. There, far from prying eyes, the government stores former intelligence employees whose psychiatric state make them a danger to their own government and people.

On Parrish Island, a restricted island off the coast of Virginia, there is a little-known and never visited psychiatric facility. There, far from prying eyes, the government stores former intelligence employees whose psychiatric state make them a danger to their own government and people.