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  • Different Seasons by Stephen King

    Different Seasons by Stephen King

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 67 ratings
    From the Magical Pen of Stephen King, Four Mesmerizing Novellas…“Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption”An unjustly imprisoned convict seeks a strange and startling revenge…the basis for the Best Picture Academy Award nominee The Shawshank Redemption...
  • An Evil Mind by Chris Carter

    An Evil Mind by Chris Carter

    Rated: 4.48 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    A freak accident in rural Wyoming leads the Sheriff's Department to arrest a man for a possible double homicide, but further investigations suggest a much more horrifying discovery - a serial killer who has been kidnapping, torturing and mutilating victims all over the United States for at least twenty-five years...
  • Hunting Evil by Chris Carter

    Hunting Evil by Chris Carter

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    'Every story one day comes to an end.' As roommates, they met for the first time in college. Two of the brightest minds ever to graduate from Stamford Psychology University. As adversaries, they met again in Quantico, Virginia. Robert Hunter had become the head of the LAPD’s Ultra Violent Crimes Unit...
  • Written in Blood by Chris Carter

    Written in Blood by Chris Carter

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Don't miss GENESIS, the latest must-read serial killer thriller from master of the genre, Chris Carter. Available to order now. ‘Wonderful storytelling, with a superbly drawn killer, it underlines exactly how good Carter has become’ Daily MailTHE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER    A serial killer who will stop at nothing…  The Killer His most valuable possession has been stolen...
  • The Good Lie by A.R. Torre

    The Good Lie by A.R. Torre

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    Six teens murdered. A suspect behind bars. A desperate father. In a case this shadowy, the truth is easy to hide.Six teenagers dead. Finally, the killer behind bars. But are the games just beginning?Psychiatrist Dr. Gwen Moore is an expert on killers...
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    crime  dark  spooky  thriller  abuse  adult  audiobook  book
  • Sul lato selvaggio by Tiffany McDaniel

    Sul lato selvaggio by Tiffany McDaniel

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Six women—mothers, daughters, sisters—gone missing. Inspired by the unsolved murders of the Chillicothe Six, this harrowing novel tells the story of two sisters, both of whom could be the next victims, from the internationally best-selling author of Betty."Capture[s] what goes horribly wrong when women don’t fit a customary victim profile..
  • Labyrinthes by Franck Thilliez

    Labyrinthes by Franck Thilliez

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Une scène de pure folie dans un chalet. Une victime au visage réduit en bouillie à coups de tisonnier. Et une suspecte atteinte d’une étrange amnésie. Camille Nijinski, en charge de l’enquête, a besoin de comprendre cette subite perte de mémoire, mais le psychiatre avec lequel elle s’entretient à bien plus à lui apprendre. Car avant de tout oublier, sa patiente lui a confié son histoire...
  • I Will Make You Pay by Teresa Driscoll

    I Will Make You Pay by Teresa Driscoll

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Every Wednesday, like clockwork, the terror returns. It seems like an ordinary Wednesday, until the phone rings. A mysterious caller with a chilling threat. Journalist Alice Henderson hangs up, ready to dismiss it as a hoax against the newspaper. But the next Wednesday, the stalker makes another move—and it becomes clear that this is all about Alice...
  • The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides

    The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 95 ratings
    Alicia Berenson’s life is seemingly perfect. A famous painter married to an in-demand fashion photographer, she lives in a grand house with big windows overlooking a park in one of London’s most desirable areas. One evening her husband Gabriel returns home late from a fashion shoot, and Alicia shoots him five times in the face, and then never speaks another word...
  • Dearest by Jacquie Walters

    Dearest by Jacquie Walters

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A new mom in need of help opens her door to her long-estranged mother—only to invite something much darker inside—in this "fast-paced and frightening debut" (Rachel Harrison) about the long shadows cast by family secrets, perfect for readers of Grady Hendrix or Ashley Audrain. Flora is a new mom enamored of her baby girl, Iris, even if she arrived a few weeks early...
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    dark  thriller  spooky  gothic  horror  fiction  mystery  audiobook
  • The Eyes Are the Best Part by Monika Kim

    The Eyes Are the Best Part by Monika Kim

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Feminist psychological horror about the making of a female serial killer from a Korean-American perspective.Ji-won’s life tumbles into disarray in the wake of her appa’s extramarital affair and subsequent departure. Her mother, distraught. Her younger sister, hurt and confused. Her college freshman grades, failing. Her dreams, horrifying… yet enticing...
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    dark  crime  thriller  horror  fiction  contemporary  mystery  feminism
  • Wicked Little Words by Stevie J. Cole, B.T. Urruela

    Wicked Little Words by Stevie J. Cole, B.T. Urruela

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Edwin Allen Mercer I want them all to read my words. And they do. Every last blood-stained sentence, they've read and praised me for. They love the gore and violence, the realness. And I get a sense of power with it all because I know a secret: the victims in my books—they’re real and have all died on my table. And maybe that’s why the last book had such awful reviews...
    Categorized as:
    crime  dark  thriller  adult  book  contemporary  fiction  high-school
  • Demon by Matt Wesolowski

    Demon by Matt Wesolowski

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Scott King’s podcast investigates the 1995 cold case of a demon possession in a rural Yorkshire village, where a 12-year-old boy was murdered in cold blood by two children. Book six in the chilling, award-winning Six Stories series.In 1995, the picture-perfect village of Ussalthwaite was the site of one of the most heinous crimes imaginable, in a case that shocked the world...
    Categorized as:
    crime  thriller  spooky  dark  horror  mystery  fiction  audiobook
  • What Lies in the Woods by Kate Alice Marshall

    What Lies in the Woods by Kate Alice Marshall

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    They were eleven when they sent a killer to prison . . .They were heroes . . . but they were liars.Naomi Shaw used to believe in magic. Twenty-two years ago, she and her two best friends, Cassidy and Olivia, spent the summer roaming the woods, imagining a world of ceremony and wonder. They called it the Goddess Game. The summer ended suddenly when Naomi was attacked...
  • The Likeness by Tana French, Heather O'Neill

    The Likeness by Tana French, Heather O'Neill

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 43 ratings
    Listening length: 22 Hours and 18 MinutesIn this follow-up to Tana French’s runaway bestseller In the Woods, itʼs six months later and Cassie Maddox has transferred out of the Dublin Murder Squad with no plans to go back—until an urgent telephone call summons her to a grisly crime scene...
  • In My Dreams I Hold a Knife by Ashley Winstead

    In My Dreams I Hold a Knife by Ashley Winstead

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    10 hours, 22 minutes Six friends. One college reunion. One unsolved murder.Ten years after graduation, Jessica Miller has been invited back to her university for a reunion and she is obsessed with dazzling everyone with her beauty and success. This time when they see her, it has to be perfect because she is perfect...
  • Never Lie by Freida McFadden

    Never Lie by Freida McFadden

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 40 ratings
    Newlyweds Tricia and Ethan are searching for the house of their dreams.But when they visit the remote manor that once belonged to Dr. Adrienne Hale, a renowned psychiatrist who vanished without a trace four years earlier, a violent winter storm traps them at the estate… with no chance of escape until the blizzard comes to an end...
  • One Fear by Belle Brooks

    One Fear by Belle Brooks

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    “My one fear is now my reality.” He didn’t offer his name when he fulfilled his need to include me as a player in his game. I’m number thirteen. Just a number given to the bitches who wronged him. I was blindsided. Stolen from my life. In his devilled eyes, I have a debt to pay…he wants my final breath to see us even...
  • The Shards by Bret Easton Ellis

    The Shards by Bret Easton Ellis

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A sensational new novel from the best-selling author of Less Than Zero and Imperial Bedrooms that tracks a group of privileged Los Angeles high school friends as a serial killer strikes across the city...
  • The Pale White by Chad Lutzke

    The Pale White by Chad Lutzke

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    After being held against their will in a house used for trafficking, three girls plan their escape.Alex: A hardened goth-punk who’s convinced she’s a vampire with a penchant for blood.Stacia: A seventeen-year-old raised by an alcoholic mother, her fellow captives the only family she’s ever truly had.Kammie: The youngest of the three—a mute who finds solace in a houseplant...
  • Black for Remembrance by Carlene Thompson

    Black for Remembrance by Carlene Thompson

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Caroline Webb knows what it means to lose the person you love most. Twenty years ago, her five-year-old daughter, Hayley, was the light of her life, her treasure, her angle. Then came the terrible day when Hayley was kidnapped from her favorite swing. More than a month passed before her burned, lifeless body was found. All that remained was the silence of Caroline's heartache--and her guilt..
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    crime  thriller  adult  book  contemporary  fiction  horror  mystery
  • Hard Candy by Andrew Vachss

    Hard Candy by Andrew Vachss

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    In this mercilessly compelling thriller, Burke—the private eye, sting artist, and occasional hit man who metes out a cruelly ingenious vengeance on those who victimize children—is up against a soft-spoken messiah, who may be rescuing runaways or recruiting them for his own hideous purposes...
  • The Girls He Adored by Jonathan Nasaw

    The Girls He Adored by Jonathan Nasaw

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    For ten years, the charmingly disheveled veteran FBI Special Agent E.L. Pender has been investigating the apparently random disappearances of a dozen women across the country. The only detail the cases have in common is the strawberry blond color of the victims' hair, and the presence of a mystery man with whom they were last seen...
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    crime  dark  thriller  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary  fiction
  • Either Side of Midnight by Tori de Clare

    Either Side of Midnight by Tori de Clare

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    WHAT IF THE BEST DAY OF YOUR LIFE TURNED INTO YOUR WORST NIGHTMARE? When nineteen-year-old Naomi Stone is snatched from her husband at knifepoint on the night of their wedding and taken to a deserted cemetery, she knows her life is finished. Drugged and disorientated, she loses consciousness as she lies in an open grave with a gun to her head...
  • Evil Eye by Madhuri Shekar, Harsh Nayyar

    Evil Eye by Madhuri Shekar, Harsh Nayyar

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Pallavi is an aspiring writer living in California. Her mother, Usha, is thousands of miles away in Delhi - and obsessed with finding her daughter a husband...
  • Boy Parts by Eliza Clark

    Boy Parts by Eliza Clark

    Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Irina obsessively takes explicit photographs of the average-looking men she persuades to model for her, scouted from the streets of Newcastle.Placed on sabbatical from her dead-end bar job, she is offered an exhibition at a fashionable London gallery, promising to revive her career in the art world and offering an escape from her rut of drugs, alcohol, and extreme cinema...
  • People Like Them by Minka Kent

    People Like Them by Minka Kent

    Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Nobody’s perfect—although one beautiful couple certainly comes close. Discover the cracks beneath the polished surface in this unsettling short story from bestselling author Minka Kent.Veronica and Ryan Hartley are the envy of Auburn Drive. When the exclusive neighborhood hosts its annual progressive dinner party, the couple’s perfection is on display...
  • The Good Samaritan by John Marrs

    The Good Samaritan by John Marrs

    Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    She’s a friendly voice on the phone. But can you trust her?The people who call End of the Line need hope. They need reassurance that life is worth living. But some are unlucky enough to get through to Laura. Laura doesn’t want them to hope. She wants them to die.Laura hasn’t had it easy: she’s survived sickness and a difficult marriage only to find herself heading for forty, unsettled and angry...
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    crime  dark  literary-fiction  thriller  abuse  adult  audiobook  book
  • The Lottery and Other Stories by Shirley Jackson

    The Lottery and Other Stories by Shirley Jackson

    Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars
    · 58 ratings
    The Lottery, one of the most terrifying stories written in this century, created a sensation when it was first published in The New Yorker. "Power and haunting," and "nights of unrest" were typical reader responses. This collection, the only one to appear during Shirley Jackson's lifetime, unites "The Lottery:" with twenty-four equally unusual stories...
  • Kiss Kiss by Roald Dahl

    Kiss Kiss by Roald Dahl

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 33 ratings
    In these dark, disturbing stories Roald Dahl explores the sinister side of human nature: the cunning, sly selfish part of each of us that leads into the territory of the unexpected and unsettling.Originally published in 1960, Kiss Kiss brings together 11 of Roald's macabre adult tales...
  • Revenge: Eleven Dark Tales by Yōko Ogawa

    Revenge: Eleven Dark Tales by Yōko Ogawa

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    An aspiring writer moves into a new apartment and discovers that her landlady has murdered her husband. Elsewhere, an accomplished surgeon is approached by a cabaret singer, whose beautiful appearance belies the grotesque condition of her heart. And while the surgeon’s jealous lover vows to kill him, a violent envy also stirs in the soul of a lonely craftsman...
  • Magpie Lane by Lucy Atkins

    Magpie Lane by Lucy Atkins

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    When the eight-year-old daughter of an Oxford College Master vanishes in the middle of the night, police turn to the Scottish nanny, Dee, for answers...
  • Clean by Alia Trabucco Zerán, Sophie Hughes

    Clean by Alia Trabucco Zerán, Sophie Hughes

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER!From a global star and International Booker Prize finalist, a razor-sharp, unforgettable novel about a maid who’s seen too much and a family at a breaking pointA young girl has died and the family’s maid is being interrogated. She must tell the whole story before arriving at the girl’s death...
  • The Birds and Other Stories by Daphne du Maurier

    The Birds and Other Stories by Daphne du Maurier

    Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars
    · 33 ratings
    How long he fought with them in the darkness he could not tell, but at last the beating of the wings about him lessened and then withdrew...A classic of alienation and horror, The Birds was immortalised by Hitchcock in his celebrated film. The five other chilling stories in this collection echo a sense of dislocation and mock man's sense of dominance over the natural world...
  • The People Next Door by Keri Beevis

    The People Next Door by Keri Beevis

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    "Hooked from the start . . . absolutely brilliant. Wish I could rate it higher . . . Just wow!" --Amazon reviewer, five starsHer new house has a mysterious past--and her new life in the English countryside is about to take a dark turn . . .When Ellie and Ash move into a beautiful old house in rural Norfolk, England, they believe they've found their perfect home...
  • Full Brutal by Kristopher Triana

    Full Brutal by Kristopher Triana

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Kim White is a very popular cheerleader. She’s pretty, healthy, and comes from a well-off family. She has everything a girl of sixteen is supposed to want. And she’s sick to death of it. In search of something to pull her out of suicidal thoughts, she decides to lose her virginity, having heard it’s a life-changing event. But Kim doesn’t want to do it the same way the other girls do...
  • Daisy Darker by Alice Feeney

    Daisy Darker by Alice Feeney

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    The New York Times bestselling Queen of Twists returns…with a family reunion that leads to murder.After years of avoiding each other, Daisy Darker’s entire family is assembling for Nana’s 80th birthday party in Nana’s crumbling gothic house on a tiny tidal island. Finally back together one last time, when the tide comes in, they will be cut off from the rest of the world for eight hours...
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    crime  gothic  thriller  adult  book  contemporary  fiction  horror
  • The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane by Laird Koenig

    The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane by Laird Koenig

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Alone in the darkened house, with only fire's glow and thirteen flickering candles for illumination, silent except for the mounting chords of a Liszt concerto, Rynn was preparing a solemn celebration. Until a knock at the door shattered sanctuary.Rynn is the little girl who lives in the house at the end of the lane with her father-or so she says...
  • Prey by James Carol

    Prey by James Carol

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    HAS JEFFERSON WINTER FINALLY MET HIS MATCH?Six years ago a young married couple were found brutally stabbed to death in their home in Upstate New York. Local police arrested a suspect who later committed suicide...
  • The Writing Retreat by Julia Bartz

    The Writing Retreat by Julia Bartz

    Rated: 3.95 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    The Plot meets Please Join Us in this psychological suspense debut about a young author at an exclusive writer’s retreat that descends into a nightmare.Alex has all but given up on her dreams of becoming a published author when she receives a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity: attend an exclusive, month-long writing retreat at the estate of feminist horror writer Roza Vallo...
    Categorized as:
    crime  dark  gothic  spooky  thriller  adult  book  contemporary
  • The Mary Shelley Club by Goldy Moldavsky, Голди Молдавски

    The Mary Shelley Club by Goldy Moldavsky, Голди Молдавски

    Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    New girl Rachel Chavez is eager to make a fresh start at Manchester Prep. But as one of the few scholarship kids, Rachel struggles to fit in, and when she gets caught up in a prank gone awry, she ends up with more enemies than friends...
    Categorized as:
    crime  dark  dark-academia  humor  satire  spooky  thriller  audiobook
  • The Butcher by Jennifer Hillier

    The Butcher by Jennifer Hillier

    Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    A rash of grisly serial murders plagued Seattle until the infamous "Beacon Hill Butcher" was finally hunted down and killed by police chief Edward Shank in 1985. Now, some thirty years later, Shank, retired and widowed, is giving up his large rambling Victorian house to his grandson Matt, whom he helped raise...
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    crime  dark  spooky  thriller  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary
  • Problem Child by Victoria Helen Stone

    Problem Child by Victoria Helen Stone

    Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    She’s cold, calculating, and can deceive with a smile. Jane Doe is back in the Amazon Charts bestselling series - and this time she's met her match.After a brutal childhood, Jane Doe has been permanently wired to look after herself and only herself. Now, looking next to normal, Jane has a lover and a job. But she hasn't lost her edge. It sharpens when she hears from her estranged family...
  • Smilin' Sam's Corn Maze by Stephanie Perry Scissom

    Smilin' Sam's Corn Maze by Stephanie Perry Scissom

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    When her seven-year-old daughter Lizzy disappeared into a corn maze on Halloween night in 1984, Catherine Bryant didn’t think she’d survive the loss.For nearly forty years, Catherine has struggled with her grief and guilt, so when her doctor delivers a fatal diagnosis, it’s almost a relief.But something is happening to Catherine...
  • Wonderland by Jennifer Hillier

    Wonderland by Jennifer Hillier

    Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    "Top of the line thriller writing...You better call in sick, because you're not going anywhere until you finish reading it. Oh, and you might want to lock the door, too. Just to be safe." --#1 bestselling author Jeffery Deaver Fans of Chelsea Cain and Lisa Gardner will devour this edgy thriller about the gruesome secrets hidden beneath a small-town amusement park...
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    crime  dark  spooky  thriller  adult  book  contemporary  drama
  • Viskningar i mörkret by Amanda Stevens

    Viskningar i mörkret by Amanda Stevens

    Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Work is a welcome refuge for New Orleans homicide detective Evangeline Theroux. Feeling suffocated by her new baby, in whose eyes she sees only her dead husband, she throws herself into a high-profile murder case. Reclusive writer Lena Saunders offers Evangeline a provocative theory about the crime: it is the work of a lunatic vigilante...
  • Denizen by James McKenzie Watson

    Denizen by James McKenzie Watson

    Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A gothic thriller exploring rural Australia’s simultaneous celebration of harsh country and stoic people – a tension that forces its inhabitants to dangerous breaking points.On a remote property in western NSW, nine-year-old Parker fears that something is wrong with his brain...
  • Observatory Mansions by Edward Carey, محمد غفوری

    Observatory Mansions by Edward Carey, محمد غفوری

    Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Once the Orme family’s magnificent ancestral estate, Observatory Mansions is now a crumbling apartment complex, home to an eccentric group of misfits. One of them is Francis Orme, who earns his livelihood as a living statue. When not practicing “inner and outer stillness,” Francis steals the cherished possessions of others to add to his private museum...
  • The Long Weekend by Savita Kalhan

    The Long Weekend by Savita Kalhan

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Sam knows that he and his friend Lloyd made a colossal mistake when they accepted the ride home. They have ended up in a dark mansion in the middle of nowhere with a man who means to harm them. But Sam doesn't know how to get them out. They were trapped, then separated. Now they are alone...
  • Sweetpea by C.J. Skuse

    Sweetpea by C.J. Skuse

    Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    ‘If you like your thrillers darkly comic and outrageous this ticks all the boxes’ The SunThe last person who called me ‘Sweetpea’ ended up dead…’I haven’t killed anyone for three years and I thought that when it happened again I’d feel bad. Like an alcoholic taking a sip of whisky. But no. Nothing. I had a blissful night’s sleep. Didn’t wake up at all. And for once, no bad dream either...
    Categorized as:
    crime  dark  thriller  humor  fiction  contemporary  mystery  horror
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