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Saving Meadow by Riley Edwards
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsA sexy FBI suspense thriller romance Meadow The road was long, it was painful, and it was raw. It has taken me four years to come to terms with my new reality. A life in which I live with the daily reminders of a vicious attack that has left me scarred both emotionally and physically... -
Jack Frost by Christopher Greyson
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsWhat do you get when you mix Agatha Christie's masterpiece And Then There Were None with the blockbuster television show Survivor? JACK FROST! Jack has a new assignment: to investigate the suspicious death of a soundman on the hit TV show Planet Survival. Jack goes undercover as a security agent where the show is filming on nearby Mount Minuit...Categorized as:
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Wire by LP Lovell, Stevie J Cole
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsTor Jude and I managed to salvage something beautiful from the war torn rubble of our lives, a blissful happiness that we paid for in blood. We fought our way here, leaving pieces of ourselves along the way. I thought this was the happily ever after in our twisted fairy tale, but I was wrong. Jude I may be free by definition... -
Love Me Dead by Lisa Renee Jones
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe next heart-racing Lilah Love story is coming. This installment to Lilah's series is a standalone. Women are dying. The killer wants to play a game with Lilah Love. Lilah doesn't play games, she doesn't submit to demands... -
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Jacks Are Wild by Christopher Greyson
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsAMAZON BEST-SELLER! • Best-Seller – Romance Mystery & Suspense – Organized Crime If you love a strong hero, smart women sleuths, and more twists and turns than a piece of licorice – you have found your book! Handsome, white-knight, Police Officer Jack Stratton is back in this action-packed, thrilling adventure...Categorized as:
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Catherine Coulter the FBI Thrillers Collection Books 1-5 by Catherine Coulter
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe #1 New York Times bestselling FBI thrillers are “excellent beach reads”*—stock up today on these five suspense novels featuring Dillon Savich and Lacey Sherlock. From the debut of the series, The Cove, through the “fast-paced twists and turns” of Riptide (San Francisco Examiner), you’ll be swept away...Categorized as:
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Tell No One / Gone For Good by Harlan Coben
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsFrom New York Times bestselling author Harlan Coben comes an unforgettable duet of classic novels—two top-notch thrillers filled with the author’s signature storytelling genius.TELL NO ONEFor Dr. David Beck, the loss was shattering. And every day for the past eight years, he has relived the horror of what happened. The gleaming lake. The pale moonlight. The piercing screams... -
Bone's Destiny by Naomi Porter
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThey say don’t drink too much tequila... Funny, I can’t remember why.Oh, right… Or we’ll wake up chained to a wall.The scary-ass biker staring at me says I’m paying for my father’s debt.I’m devastated and scared.Utterly clueless about my dad’s dirty dealings.The tattooed, brooding biker isn’t helpful or friendly.He just watches me with those laser-gray eyes... -
Hideout at Whiskey Gulch by Elle James
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe town's former bad boy...is aiding and abetting the lawAfter saving a woman and baby from would-be kidnappers, ex-marine Matt Hennessey discovers he and Aubrey Blanchard have much in common--starting over, painful pasts and an ice-cold murder case. Their attraction is instant and undeniable. But as they search for the baby's abducted sister, a human trafficking cartel threatens their lives...Categorized as:
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Hunted by Piper Stone
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsShe was supposed to be a job. Then I made her mine. Hope Gracen was just another target to be tracked down... until I caught her. When I discovered I'd been lied to, I carried her off. She'll tell me the truth with her bottom still burning from my belt, but that isn't why she's here. I took her to protect her. I'm keeping her because she's mine... -
Revenge by Meli Raine
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsMY HEART WANTS A KIND OF JUSTICE THE LAW CAN’T GIVE Everything I know about my life is a lie. The more I dig into my father’s death the more I find myself in peril. Mark turns out to be a liar, someone I thought I could trust. He’s not what he seems, and worst of all, a part of me can’t let go...Categorized as:
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Flamingo by James Lee Burke
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsA routine assignment transporting two death-row prisoners to their executions goes fatally wrong, leaving Dave Robicheaux brutally wounded and his partner dead. Obsessed with revenge, Dave is persuaded by the DEA to go undercover into the torrid sleepy depths of New Orleans, a volatile world of Mafia drug-running and Cajun voodoo magic...Categorized as:
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Eight Million Ways to Die by Lawrence Block
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsNobody knows better than Matthew Scudder how far down a person can sink in this city. A young prostitute named Kim knew it also—and she wanted out. Maybe Kim didn't deserve the life fate had dealt her. She surely didn't deserve her death. The alcoholic ex-cop turned p.i. was supposed to protect her, but someone slashed her to ribbons on a crumbling New York City waterfront pier... -
What Lies Beneath by Bill Kitson
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsDetective Mike Nash thought that moving back to Yorkshire from London would give him a quieter life. Little did he know . . .Two skeletons are discovered in Lamentation Tarn, a mountain lake.Talented detective Mike Nash and his team have little evidence with which to work, until a surprising discovery prompts them to contact law enforcement agencies in Eastern Europe... -
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Highlander by Julia Sykes
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA woman on the run... My Master is dead. He was my whole world. He was also my protector. Without his ownership, I've become a pawn to be used by the more bloodthirsty members of the Russian Mafia. To survive, I need to outwit them. If the man who helped kill my Master doesn't find me first. A man on the hunt... She put a bullet in my chest to protect the monster she called Master...Categorized as:
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Dare Game by Melinda Colt
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsOne dead body, one ace of spades… Is the playing card an oversight—or a trademark?Detective John O’Sullivan needs to find out if the murder was a one-off, or if the killer plans to work his way through a whole deck of cards. The plot thickens as his team discovers more unsolved murders with the same modus operandi—worldwide...Categorized as:
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Tango One by Stephen Leather
Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars · 11 ratings***Now a motion picture, out 5th March 2018*** In different parts of London, three recruits prepare for their first day at the Metropolitan Police's training centre at Hendon. All three had succeeded in getting into the police in spite of weaknesses. But on their first day, the assistant commissioner announces that he wants them to join a team of undercover detectives... -
Mine to Protect by Cynthia Eden
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsHe agreed to protect her...not love her.Victor Monroe left behind a brutal past when he decided to become an FBI Agent. He knows that other agents think he's too cold, that he has ice in his veins, but he doesn't care what folks say about him. He gets the job done—always. No matter the cost.Then he's blackmailed into guarding...her... -
Pretty Broken Dolls by Jennifer Chase
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIn the thin light of the moon, the woman’s limp body hangs from the iron fence amongst the redwoods. Looped over the railings is the little gold locket her mother gave her when she turned sixteen. The picture of the girl inside smiles out at a future she’ll never see…As day breaks over the fairground, Detective Katie Scott forces herself to take in another disturbing scene in front of her...Categorized as:
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The Deception by Kat Martin
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsWhen missing turns to murdered, one woman's search for answers will take her to a place she never wanted to go... After searching for her runaway sister for two long years, Kate Gallagher is devastated when she's called to the morgue to identify Chrissy's body, clearly the victim of a brutal attack. Guilt and grief send Kate into a tailspin. She failed Chrissy once...she won't do it again...Categorized as:
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The Secret Fear by Solomon Carter
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsDETECTIVE JOE HOGARTH IS CALLED TO A BRUTAL MURDER AT A TURKISH TAKEAWAY. THE TELL-TALE MARK OF A ONCE NOTORIOUS LONDON CRIME FAMILY IS FOUND ON THE VICTIM’S BODY. HOGARTH FEARS THE NEW CASE COULD OPEN A PANDORA'S BOX. BUT HE HAS NO CHOICE.HOGARTH MUST FIND THE KILLER AND TAKE ON THE DEADLIEST RISKSMurdered kebab shop owner Baba Sen was beloved by his clientele... -
Her Last Wish by Blake Pierce
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsFBI Agent Rachel Gift, 33, unparalleled for her ability to enter the minds of serial killers, is a rising star in the Behavioral Crimes Unit—until a routine doctor visit reveals she has but a few months left to live.Not wishing to burden others with her pain, Rachel decides, agonizing as it is, not to tell anyone—not even her boss, her partner, her husband, or her seven-year-old daughter... -
Pale Gray for Guilt by John D. MacDonald
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsTush Bannon was in the wrong spot at the wrong time. His measly plot of land just so happened to sit right in the middle of a rich parcel of five hundred riverfront acres that big-money real estate interests decided they simply must have.It didn’t matter that Tush was a nice guy with a family, or that he never knew he was dealing with a criminal element... -
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Lupa nera by Juan Gómez-Jurado
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsRestare viva non è mai stato tanto difficile. Dopo Regina Rossa, che ha incoronato Antonia Scott come la nuova protagonista assoluta del thriller spagnolo, il secondo capitolo della trilogia bestseller di Juan Gómez-Jurado. Antonia Scott e Jon Gutiérrez sono ancora alla ricerca di Sandra Fajardo, quando Mentor li convoca per un altro caso al momento più pressante... -
Worse Angels by Laird Barron
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsEx-mob enforcer-turned-private investigator Isaiah Coleridge pits himself against a rich and powerful foe when he digs into a possible murder and a sketchy real-estate deal worth billions.Ex-majordomo and bodyguard to an industrial tycoon-cum-U.S. senator, Badja Adeyemi is in hiding and shortly on his way to either a jail cell or a grave, depending on who finds him first... -
Wings of Fear by Helene Young
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsContemporary Suspense Novel set in Northern Australia. Above the crystal-blue waters of North Queensland, Captain Morgan Pentland patrols the vast Australian coastline. When Customs Agent Rafe Daniels joins her crew, she is immediately suspicious... -
Breed for the Beast by Siggy Shade
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsBreeding for a beast was not the fairy tale, happily ever after ending I had in mind…I always knew my husband was shady. But drugging me and selling me in an auction to the highest bidder was dirty, even for him.I practically begged the one-eyed giant in the crowd to bid on me, to save me. And he did.He didn’t do it out of the kindness of his heart, though. If he even has one... -
Reckless Vows by Lisa Lovell
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsHe comes as the villain in search of vengeance.What he finds instead is me.I’m flirting with death.Buried beneath scarred muscles and black tattoos.Face down on his bed,Over the desk and out in the open.It’s impossible to stop.He will either destroy me or I’ll destroy him.But now there’s more at stake than just us.Because I’m carrying his baby... -
Special Agent Francesca by Mimi Barbour
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAn introvert, Special Agent Francesca moves to Las Vegas to escape her powerful, domineering mother. On arrival, multiple obstacles challenge her. She needs to approach a father she’s never met, a man who doesn’t even know she exists. Then she must play the role of a loving fiancée with a stranger. One who makes her question every unexpected emotion he provokes... -
Tempting Evil by Allison Brennan
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsBIG DIE COUNTRYJoanna Sutton can cope with the fierce winter storm bearing down on the small rural community of Centennial Valley, Montana; the popular romance writer has survived much worse in life. Haunted by the loss of her husband and child, Jo has found refuge at her family’s secluded lodge, but her haven soon becomes a hell... -
The Scarlet Ruse by John D. MacDonald
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsTravis McGee is too busy with his houseboat to pay attention to the little old man with the missing postage stamps. Except these are no ordinary stamps. They are rare stamps. Four hundred thousand dollars worth of rare. And if McGee doesn't recognize their value, perhaps Mary Alice McDermit does, a six-foot knockout who knows all the ways to a boat bum's heart... -
Dirty White Boys by Stephen Hunter, Will Patten
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThey busted out of McAlester State Penitentiary--three escaped convicts going to ground in a world unprepared for anything like them....Lamar Pye is prince of the Dirty White Boys. With a lion in his soul, he roars--for he is the meanest, deadliest animal on the loose....Odell is Lamar's cousin, a hulking manchild with unfeeling eyes. He lives for daddy Lamar. Surely he will die for him... -
The Gentleman's Hour by Don Winslow
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsBoone Daniels, the most laid-back of private investigators, gathers with his surfing buddies on Pacific Beach, California as per usual. There's no surf to speak of, but the Dawn Patrol are out in force anyway...it's what they do... -
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Dress Her in Indigo by John D. MacDonald
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsA wealthy old man laid up in the hospital is desperate to understand the last months of his daughter's life before she was killed in a car crash in Mexico. It was puzzling. She'd cleaned out her considerable bank account, left Miami and hadn't been heard from again... -
Vengeance by A.J. Scudiere
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe enemy of her enemy is ... still her enemy.Readers say A.J. Scudiere’s start to this award-winning trilogy is “seriously one of the best action/suspense books I've ever read.”All Cyn wants is justice. Kolya Kurev murdered her family in cold blood and got away with it. Single-minded in her determination, Cyn becomes the killer she needs to be... -
Cards of Love: The Emperor: A Dark Romance by Fawn Bailey
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsFawn Bailey presents The Emperor, a STANDALONE full-length dark romance novel. In Venice, Italy, a world of cursed diamonds, hidden secrets and twisted fantasies awaits a star-crossed couple who were meant to be together. But can they work together to bring down a villain? And will their love survive it all... or break into a thousand pieces? GINGER I've always been a pawn... -
The Water Rat of Wanchai + The Dragon Head King of Hong Kong by Ian Hamilton
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsGet the very first book in the wildly popular Ava Lee series, which includes the prequel — The Dragon Head of Hong KongIn the first electrifying book of the series, Ian Hamilton introduces us to Ava Lee — the smartest, most stylish heroine in crime fiction since Lisbeth Salandar... -
Three by Cain: Serenade/Love's Lovely Counterfeit/The Butterfly by James M. Cain, Jeff Stone
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAll three books are written with an enduring view of the dark corners of the American psyche. Cain hammered high art out of the crude matter of betrayal, bloodshed, and perversity... -
Nine-Month Protector by Julie Miller
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe Baby was a Blessing But Cooper Bellamy was a MiracleMorning sickness used to be Sarah Cartwright's biggest problem - until she became the only witness to a murder. Now, newly pregnant, she had a killer on her trail - and Cooper Bellamy, KCPD's finest, by her side. Her brother's best friend and her sworn protector, it was impossible to keep Coop at arm's length... -
The Dangerous Thief by Mallory Crowe
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsJames Weston hasn't given a damn about anything or anyone ever since the first time he took a life. Except now the hired killer is on a very different type of job: Babysitting. Willa Belli has trouble following her. She is used to partying and trips to the most exotic parts of the world, but her glamorous lifestyle has taken a heavy blow... -
The Scythe by Jonas Saul
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn Book One, The Kill, the Italian Mafia go after the wrong man.In Book Two, The Blade, the Gambino Family do it again.In Book Three, The Scythe, the Russian Mafia have different plans. They want to take over Toronto, a territory so large it was previously thought to be too big for one family. But Darwin Kostas and his wife, Rosina, stand in the way...Categorized as:
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Brutal Prince by Lisa Lovell
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsOur first He steals my heart and leaves me pregnant.Our I’m kidnapped and tied up like a turkey.Our I don’t think I’ll make it that far.He is the drug I crave although I know he will destroy me.He’s hotter than fire but a villain lurks beneath all that passion.Except I didn’t get the memo before I climbed into his bed.The more I tell myself to escape, the harder it becomes to resist him... -
Damaged Empire by Lisa Lovell
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHe did not have a heart.So, he took mine.He’s cold.Calculating.The Bratva assassin who knows nothing but rage and violence.Yet, his darkness is pulling me in like a magnet.He consumes me like a predator does its prey.The more I fight him, the more I’m his prisoner.I have no doubt I’m as good as dead.Just a number on his list.But to my surprise,He ends up rescuing me instead... -
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Ruthless King by Lisa Lovell
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsI was meant for someone else.So, he decided to take me for himself.The man pounding at my door is no knight in shining armor.He’s the polar f***ing opposite.And now, he decided I belong to him.I’m a pawn in a brutal game for his pleasures.The perfect match for his twisted desires.There’s a devil at my door,Ready to devour me as a whole.And when he decides he wants me,I'm helpless to resist him... -
Strong Women by Roberta Kray
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsJo Strong is the youngest widow in the East End. Running her late husband's jewellery shop she is trying to get her life back together again. But then the 14-year-old daughter of one of the East End's most notorious gangsters is kidnapped, and Jo finds herself in a deadly race against time to rescue the girl - before it is too late... -
The Loot by Craig Schaefer
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsShe fought for her country. Now she’s fighting for her family.When Sergeant Charlie McCabe returns from fighting in Afghanistan, she hopes to leave the war behind. Instead, she comes home to a father whose gambling has put him in deep trouble with a violent loan shark. She finds work as a professional bodyguard, but to save her father, she needs to get serious cash together fast... -
The Death and Life of Bobby Z by Don Winslow
Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsFrom the bestselling author of Savages (now an Oliver Stone film). When Tim Kearney, a small-time criminal, slits the throat of a Hell's Angel and draws a life sentence in a prison full of gang members, he knows he’s pretty much a dead man... -
Cauchemar by Paul Cleave
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsUn cauchemar qui va vous tenir éveillé toute la nuit.Acacia Pine, États-Unis. Une petite fille, Alyssa Stone a mystérieusement disparu. Noah, un des flics du village fait irruption chez le principal suspect. Envahi par la colère, il le séquestre et le torture jusqu'à ce que l'homme lui révèle le lieu où Alyssa est captive... -
Endless Obsession by M. James
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAs long as I never meet him in person, it’s safe. As long as he never knows who I really am… On paper, I have almost everything I want. A good job. My own apartment. A steady boyfriend. But when I find him cheating, the picture-perfect life I thought I made for myself starts to unravel.I find myself on the kind of website I should know better than to visit...
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