Showing results for "Ronnie" in Thriller & Suspense

Frankie James is a young man with a lot on his shoulders. His mother disappeared when he was 16, his father's in jail for armed robbery and he owes rent on his Soho snooker club to one of London's toughest gangsters. Things, you'd think, can only get better. Actually, they're about to get a whole lot worse.

Detectives Coleen Clayton and Lester Pruitt are searching for a missing person when they turn up a dead body. Fitting into a pattern of gruesome homicides hitting South Carolina, the case bears an unnerving resemblance to one from 30 years ago—one that still haunts Exeter. The killer has become a legend, spawning countless ghost stories and Halloween costumes. A killer named Crouchback. But Crouchback died in prison 30 years ago, right?

After the sudden death of her sister, devastated detective DS Ronnie Blake relocates to Cambridge to help her brother Alex raise their sister's young son, Noah. She reports for her first day but instead finds herself being questioned by a special investigations unit, nicknamed the DEAD Team. With a small group of six, led by DI Fenton, the once-successful DEAD team has a single outstanding case, Operation Byron, and the failure to resolve it threatens the unit's existence.

It’s 1997, and Cool Britannia’s in full swing. Oasis and Blur are top of the pops, and it feels like the whole country’s sorted out for E’s and wizz. But it’s not just UK plc that’s on a high. Life’s looking up for Frankie James, too. He’s paid off his debts to London’s fiercest gang lord, Tommy Riley. His Soho Open snooker tournament is about to kick off at his club. He might even have fallen in love. But then Frankie finds himself being blackmailed by a face from his past. They want him to steal something worth millions. Enough to get him killed.

When Teddy Colne arrives in the small town of Rye, he believes he will be able to leave his past behind him. Little does he know that fear blisters through the streets like a fever. The locals tell him to stay away from an establishment known only as Berry & Vincent, that those who rub too closely to its proprietor risk a bad end. Despite their warnings, Teddy is desperate to see what really hides behind the doors of his shop. Ada moved to Rye with her young son to escape a damaged childhood but she’s lonely and ostracised by the community.

Frankie James thought that his troubles were behind him. He's busy running his Soho Club, and his brother's finally out of jail. But he's stopped in his tracks when a postcard arrives from Mallorca. The card is signed off with a kiss, and it reminds him of his mother. The mother who's been missing for eight years, presumed dead....

Ronnie is a beautiful, strong-willed, and ruthless young woman. She comes off as a demure, sweet little thing. Ronnie and her clan are a low-level troop of Romany Gypsy grifters. Fraud is the family business. She and Logan have the classic love/hate relationship. Ronnie plays him, but for Logan it is love at first sight; and for that reason he cannot escape her many charms.

When sisters Lily and Della Pedley are persecuted for the shocking murder of their parents, they flee from their home in Cornwall to a remote and unnamed island in Scotland - an island known for its strange happenings, but far away from the whispers and prying eyes of strangers. Lily is terrified of what her sister might do next, and she soon realises that they have arrived at a place where nothing is as it seems.

Last Stop, Ground Floor is a horror-thriller novel about a young man who learns that spending eternity in the place of eternal punishment for the crimes he committed during his lifetime wasn't what he expected, nor what he could have imagined. It didn't surprise Nick that he ended up in hell for what he'd done, but he wasn't prepared to follow the rules.

Staff Sergeant Mack Murphy is on a routine reconnaissance mission in the mountains of Afghanistan to gather intelligence on the emerging insurgency. His Force Recon team stumbles into battle-hardened insurgents from the surrounding Arab states. Forced into a game of cat and mouse, Mack harnesses his skills as a Marine Sniper to keep the enemy from gaining the upper hand, but the situation becomes more dire with each passing moment. Mack didn't think things could get any worse, and then they did.

Ronnie is a young, beautiful, and elusive con-man. She cannot be taken at face value. Just when you think you have her figured out, you find that you don't. She died in prison, or did she? What you see, is not always what you get. She's cold, and hot, but don't think you know her. She'll take your money, and/or your life, and not regret either.

John has a perfect life until the day his daughter goes missing. Maisie cares for her patients but hides her own traumatic past. Miller should be an innocent child but is obsessed with something he can’t have. They all have something in common, though none of them know it - and the truth won’t stay hidden for long....

There was once a man who chose to confront his demons. Not the demons we speak of today - you know, merely used as metaphor and symbolism for our personal struggles - but real demons: short little things with small horns, beady eyes, and the worst trait of all - a bad attitude. He’d been fighting these demons for years, and, just like the way our emotions can wrap and twist and build houses, laying foundations within our minds, so, too, had these demons invaded and claimed territory and set up camp within this mans interior.

Harper James died. He just didn't know it yet. He walked - or so he thought - through a perfectly level, smooth dirt path in the woods. Had he not been lost in thought he would have realized that the setting, much like a postcard, was not real. He liked to reminisce and when he did he never failed to think of his students. He had worried about Arianna, the sad, beautiful, lost girl from Iran with the sparkling, inquisitive eyes and unsmiling mouth, who struggled with adapting to American life.

Love-cursed journalist Quinn Harris has a terrible talent for being at the wrong place at the right time. When a chance reunion brings him face-to-face with a flame from his past, the sparks quickly turn to ice as evidence of foul play arises! He soon learns that it’s no coincidence his high school crush disappeared years ago, without a trace. It’s also no coincidence that his victims look exactly like Quinn.