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- The Bourbon Kid
series3 books2007
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The Bourbon Kid series is a horror/thriller series by an anonymous British author. The series began with The Book With No Name, which was originally published in 2006 through Lulu.com, but has since been re-released through Michael O'Mara Books. The books center on a supernatural serial killer only known as the "Bourbon Kid". The first book in the series was initially written with the intent to make it a Western novel, with the author choosing to move the series to the present day partway through the book.
- Songs of the Seraphim
series2 books2009
completed
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Angel Time introduces Toby O'Dare, a contract killer given a chance at redemption when an angel recruits him to intervene in a medieval crisis, sending him back through history rather than forward. Anne Rice's Songs of the Seraphim continues with a second book, Of Love and Evil, following the same reluctant assassin-turned-angelic-agent into another past errand; the series stayed short, with no further volumes.
- Joe Ledger
series63 books2008
part of Night
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Jonathan Maberry's Joe Ledger series follows a former cop turned special operative for a black-ops unit fighting bioterrorism threats that routinely turn out to be supernatural or genetically monstrous, beginning with Patient Zero and its zombie-outbreak plot. Later books widen the threats to rogue AI, genetic supersoldiers, and other high-concept horrors, with numerous other authors contributing spin-off novellas and short fiction to the same continuity. The series sits within a wider connected universe of Maberry's horror-thriller fiction.
- Children of Paranoia
series3 books2011
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- Doc Savage (Patterson and Sitts)
series2 books2022
part of Doc Savage
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The Perfect Assassin and Murder Island relaunch the pulp-era Doc Savage character for a contemporary thriller readership, with James Patterson and Brian Sitts pairing Doc Savage's inventor-adventurer legacy with the crime-thriller pacing and superhero-adjacent stakes Patterson's imprint is known for. Both books reached the New York Times bestseller list on release. As part of the wider Doc Savage franchise, they sit alongside decades of earlier pulp and paperback revivals of the same character rather than starting the concept from scratch.
- Deadly Memoir
Ardath Mayharstandalone novel2009
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When Margaret Thackrey, ex-government agent and writer, decides to pen her memoirs, she unwittingly gets the attention of a vicious assassin - a man whose nefarious deeds she'd nearly uncovered during her service. Now he must stop the publication of her book before his true character is revealed. He murders Margaret's husband, and stalks her from Oregon to Texas, where she must finally confront her past - and a determined, stone-cold killer!
- The Fury
series4 books1976
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John Farris's The Fury centers on a teenage girl and boy with escalating psychic and telekinetic powers who become targets of a covert government program trying to weaponize them. The 1976 novel, adapted into Brian De Palma's 1978 film, gave rise to a string of later sequels following the same family's psychic bloodline across decades. Farris writes it as paranoid conspiracy thriller as much as horror, with the powers themselves treated as a violent, destabilizing force.
- Vitals
Greg Bearstandalone novel2002
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From the flaps of the Del Rey first edition: "Hal Cousins is one of a handful of scientists nearing the most sought after discovery in human history: the key to short-circuiting the aging process. Fueled by a wealth of research, an overdose of self-confidence, and the money of influential patrons to whom he makes outrageous promises, Hal experiments with organisms living in the hot thermal plumes in the ocean depths. But as he journeys beneath the sea, his other world is falling apart. Across the country, scientists are being inexplicably murdered - including Hal's identical twin brother, who is also working to unlock the key to immortality. Hal himself barely eludes a cold-blooded attack at sea, and when he returns home to Seattle, he finds himself walking into an eerie realm where voices speak to him from the dead ... where a once-brilliant historian turned crackpot is leading him on a deadly game of hide-and-seek ... and where the beautiful, rich widow of his twin is more than willing to pick up the pieces of Hal's life-and take him places he's never been before. Suddenly Hal is trapped inside an ever-twisting maze of shocking revelations. For he is not the first person to come close to ending aging forever - and those who came before him will stop at nothing to keep the secret to themselves. Now every person on earth is at risk of being made an unsuspecting player in one man's spectacular and horrifying master plan. From the bottom of Russia's Lake Baikal to a billionaire's bionic house built into the cliffs of the Washington seashore, from the darkest days of World War II and the reign of Josef Stalin to the capitalist free-for-all that is the United States, Vitals tells an astounding tale of the most unimaginable scientific secret of all - exposed by the quest for immortality itself..."
- Finders Keepers (Stephen King)
series7 books2014
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The books gathered here follow Holly Gibney, who first appeared as a supporting character in Stephen King's Bill Hodges trilogy (Mr. Mercedes, Finders Keepers, End of Watch) before graduating into her own strand of stories: a major role in The Outsider, then top billing in the novella If It Bleeds and the novels Holly and Never Flinch, where she works as a private investigator taking on cases with a supernatural edge. The mix of true-crime procedural instincts and creeping horror is a hallmark of King's later work with the character.
- Queen and Country
series2 books2005
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Queen & Country is an American comic book published by Oni Press and written by Greg Rucka with various artists illustrating.
