Crime Thrillers
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On The Edge
“On the Edge by Peggy Webb is a smart, twisty read that keeps you guessing until the end. Don’t miss it!”
— USA Today and Amazon Charts bestselling author Debra Webb
Two grisly murders. Years apart. A killer hiding in plain sight.
JR Hawkins is obsessed with murder. When her podcast investigating her best friend Sully’s unsolved killing goes live, her quiet life explodes into a media frenzy… and she becomes the next target.
At a crime convention meant to elevate her career, things take a darker turn. Threatening messages appear everywhere. A black sedan stalks her every move. Someone is watching. Someone is waiting.
And someone wants her dead.
As the danger escalates, the list of suspects grows:
The mysterious man digging into a cold case from her childhood
The charismatic writer urging her to abandon the investigation
Sully’s ex-girlfriend
His rival from law school
Even the women she trusted enough to invite into her home
In a deadly game of cat and mouse, JR must uncover the truth before it’s too late.
The only person she can trust is her uncle — a retired FBI agent.
But will it be enough?
Or will the truth cost her everything?
The Italian Husband
“If you love the twists and turns of a Frieda McFadden novel, you will love this mesmerizing blockbuster by Peggy Webb where nothing is what it seems.” Debra Webb, USA TODAY and Amazon Charts bestseller
Four women loved pianist Sergio Salvatori… until they hated him enough to kill him.
When he drops dead at his farewell concert, the suspects begin spinning lies to protect their secrets.
Was it his young wife or one of his ex-wives, all hiding sordid stories? Was it his son or his composer, both with motive? Or did one of his enemies send a hitman to do the job?
And what about his singer, waiting backstage for her cue? Could she have been the one to get rid of the man with a heart the size of an English pea?
The detectives in charge are running in circles. The glitterati of Houston, Texas do not air their dirty laundry.
This sprawling novel–filled with dazzling people and shocking twists–moves between Houston, Texas and in Italy, moving seamlessly between past and present as the lives, lies, and secrets of the four women who loved the Italian husband are laid bare.
Blue Bird Flying Backward
The author Pat Conroy called “astonishing” is at the height of her powers in this historical crime thriller of a pilot’s search for her sister. If you love Kristin Hannah, you will love this lyrical novel.
The kidnapping of the Lindbergh baby in 1932 was called “the crime of the century.” Lindbergh, who had flown solo across the Atlantic, scouted and mapped out the first air mail routes, and created America’s first commercial airline, was the most famous person in the world. And the kidnapping was the most bizarre.
With reporters camped out round-the-clock in the Lindbergh mansion, suspects ranging from leading underworld criminals to household servants, scam artists holding seances, and hucksters selling souvenirs, the crime scene resembled a circus.
Using Charles A. Lindbergh’s background as a stunt pilot with the Mile High Flying Circus during the Jazz Age, Webb skillfully weaves the fictional character Riley “Sam” Samuels into the historical story. As the female pilot conducts air searches for the missing Lindbergh baby, she is drawn back into a search for her own sister.
Savage Beauty
It all started with the back rose named Poe’s Raven. Suspense, secrets and brooding evil—Clive, the patriarch of the royal family of American horticulture, controls three generations of Allistairs, rose breeders of the world’s best cultivars. The secret of their roses will die unless Clive’s grandson Stephen takes a wife. He chooses single mom Lily Perkins –survivor of a teenage pregnancy and a hard-knock life–the perfect woman to bear his child and carry on the Allistair name. What Lily finds behind locked doors is a chilling truth that threatens her fairy-tale marriage puts everyone she loves at risk. The only person she can trust is Jack Harper, her friend since childhood. But they’re in a race against time. Can the two them survive long enough to save lives and expose the ultimate evil of a SAVAGE BEAUTY?
Snow Brides
Maggie’s life feels as unpredictable as the epic snowstorm sweeping the Northwest and bearing down on Minnesota. Her marriage to Joe is on the rocks and her daughter Kate is driving home from college for the holidays. As Maggie prepares for Christmas, the unthinkable happens. On the drive home, her daughter vanishes, the third college girl to disappear near the frozen Superior Hiking Trail within the last two years. Is Kate trapped by brutal nature or is she in the hands of a monster? Maggie, a Search & Rescue handler, and Joe are galvanized into action. Can they find their daughter—and their way back to each other—before it’s too late?
Readers heaped accolades on this thriller. “Awesome!” JR Reinhold, “A non-stop roller coaster ride you won’t want to miss.” CIR, “Keeps you on the edge of your seat.’ AZ reader.
All The Lies
Julia, a once famous investigative journalist, is hidden in plain sight in Shutter Lake until the unthinkable puts her on the run. When her friend, an FBI agent, shows up looking for his partner, their investigation draws them into the search for Lake’s most prominent citizen. As they unearth deadly secrets in a once-perfect town built on lies, can they survive?
This thriller is part of a groundbreaking, multi-author series that will keep you turning pages until the end. Readers call this series “unique,” “brilliant” and “the best series of the year.”
Just One Look
Julia, a topnotch investigative reporter, is committed to keeping her readers safe by reporting every detail of the latest crime in Chicago. But when a tip leads her into an unspeakable horror, her life changes in ways she’d never have imagined. Can she leave her past behind and make a fresh start in the perfect town? Or will the past follow her, even to paradise?
This thriller is the stunning prequel to ALL THE LIES, part of a ground-breaking, multi-author series dubbed by readers as “the best series of the year.”
The Ally
At midnight in the Deep South, innocence and evil walk hand in hand.
Every waking moment Jenna Dahl re-lives the day the plane went down, plunging her husband and little girl to their deaths. She was on a book tour, promoting the series that catapulted her to wealth and fame. To get through her grief, she formed a foundation to give away the money that cost her a family. A near-reclusive, she holes up in her home with nobody for company except her dad, a cop, and the Ally, a voice on a talk radio show
The Ally is Adam Holt, pilot and single dad, who exposes the dark underbelly of his hometown. A chilling phone call puts Jenna and Adam in a race to find his daughter and uncover the evil secrets of people who will stop at nothing for money and power. In the process of saving the innocent, can they also save themselves?
“Another brilliant, page-turning thriller from the powerful pen of Peggy Webb.”
Alice and Dudley Series
Silent Bones
From bestselling author Peggy Webb comes Silent Bones, the exciting prequel to No One to Hear Them Scream: Alice and Dudley Thriller.
“You took everything from him… Now, I’m going to take everything from you.”
Twenty-five years before Dudley Stephens ended up a quiet neighborhood next door to the reclusive Alice Logan and her Search and Rescue dog, he was Detective Dudley Stephens of the Memphis Police Department. He had it all: a beautiful wife and two daughters, a home, and a younger partner on the homicide squad who always had his back… until his latest case threatened to take away everything he loved.
As Dudley and his partner search for the ruthless criminal who left behind a grisly murder scene without a body, a fire in a posh section on the other side of Memphis destroys the house and leaves another mystery to be solved.
As the intertwining cases become more personal than he would ever have imagined, Dudley is tested in every way possible for a cop and a man. This is the case that can destroy him or make him stronger. But,
which will it be?
NO ONE TO HEAR THEM SCREAM
NO ONE TO HEAR THEM SCREAM
“She stood still among the trees, listening to the secrets of the river. They came to Alice in bursts of color and sound. Blood red, staining the water, screams suddenly silenced.”
Alice lives a quiet life in smalltown Mississippi where she keeps books for local doctors and tries to keep out of reach of her nosey neighbors, retirees Dudley next door, and circus performer Madeline in the gaudy house across the street. Her only companion is Thunder, her search and rescue dog.
They find the lost. Most recently, a child taken by a depraved maniac known as the Chameleon.
Now another child is missing, not just any child, but one closer than she would ever have imagined, a little girl who draws her back into the life she thought she’d left behind.
Even worse, the case is high profile. The victim is the granddaughter of a Senator. As Alice searches for the child, she becomes the target of a heartless killer.
Can one woman and her remarkable dog survive long enough to save the children? Can she ever forgive her past and love again?
Vanished Into Thin Air
From bestselling author Peggy Webb comes the thrilling Alice and Dudley, book 2.
A serial killer is taking young women on the Gulf Coast, a hurricane is coming, and Alice faces the most heartbreaking and dangerous Search and Rescue mission of her career.
Ordinary Alice Logan Jones—a former recluse living alone with Thunder, her SAR dog—has upended her life. Her ex-husband and his little girl came to her house to recover from tragedy, and they are still with her. Now, she’s planning a Fourth of July party with her family and her eccentric neighbors, Dudley and Madeline.
It’s going to be the best day of her life… and the worst.
Alice’s bold, beautiful twin, Mary Jane Logan, will miss the party. She and a colleague are attending a medical convention on the Gulf Coast. It’s a much-needed getaway for the over-worked doctor who plans to combine
business with a quest to discover her deceased mother’s mysterious past.
Her search leads her into a trap… and a deadly cat and mouse game with the elusive kidnapper/killer known as the July Lover.
With few clues and a long list of suspects, Alice and Dudley search for the evil killer who has evaded the law for six years. Can they survive a dangerous search with the famous SAR dog in the middle of a hurricane and rescue his remaining victims before he kills them all?
Logan Sister Series
Black Crow Cabin
Single mom and teacher, Rachel Logan, lives on a ranch at the foot of Rockies, still shaken by herhusband’s sudden death. She refuses to allow her ordinary life to be shaken by whispers of a local thief called the Collector. But when two children are taken, everything changes.
Something dark stirs at the edge of forest, a warning repeated in the scent of magnolias, a bad omen foretold by the gift of seeing passed from her mother. When the Collector steals her photo and prized garden art, leaving behind his twisted signature – a Tarot card -she knows her children will be his next victims.
Though her friend Hank tries to protect her family, she knows she could be the Collector’s next target. Can Rachel outwit an unimaginable evil before time runs out for herself and two innocent children?
The first book in the thrilling Logan Sisters series, this utterly gripping small-town thriller is perfect for fans of Rachel Caine, Melinda Leigh and Mary Kubica, and anyone looking for a page-turner packed with unguessable, gripping twists.
Taken in the Dark
“I read it in 2 sittings… So good I couldn’t put it down… Was glued to it from start to finish.”
NetGalley reviewer ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Jen Logan, wife, mother, psychologist, is living her dream life in a new home on the water in Florida with a perfect family. When she discovers a threatening note in the bathroom, her world shatters. It’s signed Invisible—and it’s just the beginning of the nightmare to come.
Someone has placed white oleander all over her house, someone who knows it’s an omen of death. The gift passed down through her family tells Jen she’s in terrible danger. Her two sisters also warn that evil is heading Jen’s way. But who is Invisible, and what does he want? Before Jen can find her enemy, her children are taken. In a shuddering heartbeat, she realizes that Invisible is out to destroy her family. With night coming and a storm brewing, Jen knows there isn’t much time to find her children before darkness falls…
“Gripped me from the first page until the last… Amazing… Kept me glued all the way through…
Phenomenal.” Goodreads reviewer
Without A Trace
“Wow! This book was superb… a great page turner.” Goodreads reviewer ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Annie Logan’s carefree lifestyle as an artist in Italy is shattered when a stalker sends threatening notes, and a voice calls to her in her dreams. Help me! Save me! Her sisters also receive warnings that point to their mother’s childhood home. They beg Annie to leave their mother’s secrets buried in the Louisiana bayous. But Annie never ignores her dreams, a mystical gift passed along from her Creole mother.
Annie arrives in New Orleans to discover that a killer dubbed the Shadow is turning the bayou red with the blood of butchered victims who bear a haunting resemblance to her. Someone is sending her a twisted message. Stay away. Leave the past buried. But who would be that evil… and why?
With terrifying threats multiplying and shocking secrets coming to light, Annie’s two sisters arrive to help… and their grandmother is not far behind. But how can four ordinary women battle back an enemy so evil, he is set on destroying the entire Logan family?
“Outstanding…I couldn’t put it down… What a ride… Brilliant!” NetGalley reviewer