Browse Movies : Development : Suspense : T

A disillusioned lawyer steals $90 million from his law firm, stages his own death and successfully disappears for several years. What at first seems to be a brilliant white-collar crime is further complicated by a murder charge.

Peter Chancellor turns in a novel about D.C. power brokers who are blackmailed into altering U.S. policies. When some operatives get hold of the manuscript, they think he has uncovered their actual scheme and they try to hunt the author down.

Revolves around a tall, slender man who walked a crooked mile. He found a crooked sixpence upon a crooked stile. He bought a crooked cat, which caught a crooked mouse. And they all lived together in a little crooked house.

True series of events from author Douglas Preston's life. Shortly after moving his family to Italy in 2000, Preston learned that an olive grove on their property had been the scene of a brutal murder. Teaming with Italian journalist Mario Spezi, Preston began investigating the crime, which was part of a series of eight double homicides between 1968-85.

The legal thriller follows Kyle McAvoy, a young law graduate from Yale who should have the world at his feet - but instead his life becomes a nightmare. Blackmailed into taking a job on Wall Street with the world’s most prestigious law firm, he becomes a pawn in a deadly game of corporate espionage.

On a late-night flight from London to Boston, Ted Severson meets fellow passenger Lily Kintner. Thinking he will never see her again, he tells her he's been thinking about murdering his faithless wife. When they land, Lily tells the guy she wants to help, and they form a strange twisted, bond plotting the wife's demise. He doesn’t know she has some experience in this kind of thing.

After believing his wife has been murdered years before and in fact after being named as a suspect in the case,a doctor begins getting mysterious messages suggesting she may still be alive.

The story follows a top assassin who is suddenly plagued by his conscience and a highly competent cop hot on his tail.

A spy risks everything to reveal a conspiracy after he's accused of a murder he didn't commit.

An elderly physician named Dr. Emlyn McCarron recounts an incident in his career of a patient who was determined to give birth to her illegitimate child, despite her financial difficulties and the social stigma in the 1930s. The patient turns to the doctor because of the book he has written about the Breathing Method, a system to help women through childbirth. She grows close with the doctor, who finds that she is so determined to have the child through the method that she lingers on even after a horrific accident on the way to the hospital.

The story focuses on the lives of two men who turned the 1893 Chicago World's Fair into their playground. One man, Daniel H. Burnham, the architect responsible for the fair's construction, in a short period of time was forced to overcome immense obstacles to construct the famous "White City" around which the fair was built. The other, H.H. Holmes, was a serial killer masquerading as a charming doctor who is believed to be responsible for scores of murders around the time of the fair. Holmes devised and erected the World's Fair Hotel, complete with crematorium and gas chamber, near the fairgrounds and used the event as well as his own charismatic personality to lure victims to their death.

Casey Fletcher, a recently widowed actress trying to escape a streak of bad press, has retreated to the peace and quiet of her family’s lake house in Vermont. Armed with a pair of binoculars and several bottles of bourbon, she passes the time watching Tom and Katherine Royce, the glamorous couple living in the house across the lake. They make for good viewing—a tech innovator, Tom is powerful; and a former model, Katherine is gorgeous. One day on the lake, Casey saves Katherine from drowning, and the two strike up a budding friendship. But the more they get to know each other—and the longer Casey watches—it becomes clear that Katherine and Tom’s marriage isn’t as perfect as it appears. When Katherine suddenly vanishes, Casey immediately suspects Tom of foul play. What she doesn’t realize is that there’s more to the story than meets the eye—and that shocking secrets can lurk beneath the most placid of surfaces.

An ambitious architect is offered the chance to design the building of his dreams in Rio de Janeiro but soon finds himself a pawn in an international conspiracy.

The story chronicles the events that transpire in a small Pacific Coast town after the birds begin attacking in mass for no reason.

"The Birth Mother" is a thriller about a couple whose marriage is threatened when their surrogate falls in love with the husband and becomes obsessed with keeping the baby.

On a university campus, seven students are lured into a world of modern voodoo. When a series of violent murders take place within the group, the terrified students surmise that they are being hunted by a conjured demon. Or are they?

When Will and Sadie Foust inherit a house on a small, remote island off the coast of Maine, they jump at the chance to make a fresh start with their family. However, they can't escape the secrets of their past.

A horrific accident during a girl party sleepover leaves a young guest disfigured, and the host family begins to unravel. Secrets are ultimately revealed about the family and daughter.