Shock Wave (Stormswept)
By Dana Mentink (Love Inspired Suspense)
Release date: August 6, 2013
TRAPPED…WITH A KILLER? When an earthquake rips through San Francisco, the last person journalist Sage Harrington expects to run into is ex-soldier Trey Black. After what they survived in Afghanistan, she doesn’t know if she can face him again. But now they’re trapped in the bowels of a ramshackle opera house on a mission to find Sage’s missing cousin. And they may not be the only ones. Someone is desperate to keep them from discovering the truth.
The Shock of Night (The Darkwater Saga)
By Patrick W. Carr (Bethany House Publishers)
Release date: November 3, 2015
Patrick Carr Launches a New Suspense-filled Fantasy EpicWhen one man is brutally murdered and the priest he works for mortally wounded on the streets of Bunard, Willet Dura is called to investigate. Yet the clues to the crime lead to contradictions and questions without answers. As Willet begins to question the dying priest, the man pulls Willet close and screams in a foreign tongue. Then he dies without another word. Willet returns to the city, no closer to answers than before, but his senses are skewed.
Shoofly Pie (Bug Man Series #1)
By Tim Downs (Howard Books)
Release date: July 1, 2003
Forensic entomologist Nick Polchak (a. k. a. the Bug Man) is hired by thirty-year-old Kathryn Guilford, who is terrified of bugs, to solve her friend’s death. When Polchak stumbles into the mystery of how Kathryn’s husband was killed years earlier, the action kicks into high gear — and Polchak finds himself on the run with his client from someone who will do anything to keep a secret.
Showdown (Paradise Series, Book 1) (The Books of History Chronicles)
By Ted Dekker (Westbow Pr)
Release date: January 11, 2006
A stranger named Marsuvees Black appears and announces he has come to bring hope and grace to the mountain town, Paradise, offering dazzling love, faith, and fun to residents, but as dark clouds and sandstorms shut Paradise off from the rest of the world, the unthinkable happens in an ultimate collision between good and evil. By the author of Obsessed.
Showdown in the Rockies
By Kathleen Tailer (Love Inspired Suspense)
Release date: July 23, 2024
A secret cartel operation in the wilderness. A perilous winter pursuit. When their helicopter is shot out of the sky after they discover a drug operation, Detective Flynn Denning—along with her nephew and her ex-boyfriend Derek King—is stranded in the unforgiving Colorado mountains. They’ll need to rely on Derek’s military skills to survive the treacherous conditions and the assailants on their trail. But with the cartel dead set on eliminating any witnesses to their operation, this mission might be their last….
The Shroud Conspiracy: A Thriller (1) (The Shroud Series)
By John Heubusch (Howard Books)
Release date: March 14, 2017
In this intense and “absolutely brilliant thriller” (#1 New York Times bestselling author Brad Thor), a forensic anthropologist sets out to prove that the Shroud of Turin is a fake, but quickly discovers the opposite—and must race to stop the evil forces who want to use traces of blood in the fabric to clone Jesus Christ and bring on the second coming of their own design. Throughout his career, forensic anthropologist and outspoken atheist Dr. Jon Bondurant has investigated many religious artifacts said to be real, but he knows better. Only weak minds rely on such obviously false relics to maintain their silly, pointless faith. So when he is invited by the Vatican to examine the Shroud of Turin, said to be the burial cloth that covered the body of Christ—and the most revered of all Christian artifacts—he is delighted for the opportunity to prove once and for all that the Shroud is a fake.
Shrouded in Silence
By Robert Wise (Abingdon Press)
Release date: March 1, 2011
Determined to find an answer, Jack and Michelle Townsend set out on a quest to find the original ending to the Gospel of Mark. Following ancient clues, they head for Rome, but what starts out as a scholarly search turns violent as two separate groups strive to stop the Townsends, plunging their quiet research into chaos. After a bomb destroys their office, the Townsends are pushed to the limits of their determination and commitment to God’s will. Can faith in God’s purposes endure in a swirl of conspiracy and espionage that brings the couple to the brink of death? “This is a story of well-hidden biblical secrets that have endured throughout the ages and of a couple’s devotion to finding the truth. It’s a story fraught with death, danger, and deception–of never knowing who to trust, and with a twist of an ending I didn’t see coming.
Silence in the Dark: A Novel (Logan Point)
By Patricia Bradley (Revell)
Release date: April 19, 2016
Two years ago, Bailey Adams broke off her engagement to Danny Maxwell and fled Logan Point for the mission field in Chihuahua, Mexico. Now she’s about to return home to the States, but there’s just one problem. After Bailey meets with the uncle of one of the mission children in the city, she barely escapes a sudden danger. Now she’s on the run–she just doesn’t know from whom. To make matters worse, people who help her along the way find themselves in danger too–including Danny.
Silenced (Alaskan Courage) (Volume 4)
By Dani Pettrey (Bethany House Publishers)
Release date: May 6, 2014
After Kayden McKenna discovers the body of a fellow climber, she and Jake Westin team up to investigate the death–provoking threats on her entire family.
Silenced: The Wrath of God Descends
By Jerry B. Jenkins (Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.)
Release date: June 21, 2004
Enter the continuing story of double agent Paul Stepola as he works to protect his fellow believers from the government that is trying to eliminate Christians. The underground church is in mortal peril following the apocalyptic events in Los Angeles, which have only cast further suspicion upon Christians. Meanwhile, Paul struggles with how to tell his family about his newfound faith without raising the suspicions of his ruthless father-in-law. A gripping, futuristic thriller that will keep you glued to the page.

