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  • Here After by Sean Costello

    Here After by Sean Costello

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    LOVE. LOSS. OBSESSION. REDEMPTION.Following the death of his ten-year-old son, physician Peter Croft embarks on a desperate, seemingly random search for a missing child, risking his sanity, even his life in a grief-induced quest. His journey propels him into the darkest reaches of human suffering, and pits him squarely against an adversary whose own obsession defies all reason...
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    crime  suspense  adult  book  fiction  horror  mystery  paranormal
  • Therapy by Sebastian Fitzek

    Therapy by Sebastian Fitzek

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    No witnesses, no evidence, no body: Star psychologist Viktor Larenz’s twelve-year-old daughter, Josy, who had suffered from an inexplicable illness, has vanished under mysterious circumstances during a visit to her doctor, and the investigation into her disappearance has brought no results. Four years later, Viktor remains a man shattered by this tragedy...
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    crime  drama  medical  suspense  21st-century  adult  audiobook  book
  • If Angels Fall by Rick Mofina

    If Angels Fall by Rick Mofina

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    In the bestselling tradition of Jonathan Kellerman and Mary Higgins Clark, comes this powerful psychological thriller from newcomer Rick Mofina. "If Angels Fall" is the story of a man beset by tragedy, who moves from mourning...to madness...to murder.There are some horrors a man can never forget. Sounds so chilling that they can never be silenced. The frantic screams of drowning children...
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    crime  drama  suspense  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary  fiction
  • Remember Me by Lynda Renham

    Remember Me by Lynda Renham

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    A new neighbour becomes a new friend. She looks up to you. She admires you, but is it you she wants? You begin to wonder if she wants your husband, or even your child. But then you realise, she wants your life. When Sharni and Tom move into 24 The Pines, it seems like Clare and Chris have the perfect neighbours...
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    crime  drama  family  suspense  adult  audiobook  book  domestic-drama
  • Love, Mom by Iliana Xander

    Love, Mom by Iliana Xander

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 34 ratings
    A best-selling author. A mother. A murderer…Mackenzie Casper is a brilliant student. But she is best known for her mother, a best-selling author whose dark, twisted thrillers have a dedicated worldwide fanbase...
  • Frozen Statues by L.E. Fraser

    Frozen Statues by L.E. Fraser

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    A gripping psychological thriller with shocking twistsIn the bitter cold of a Canadian winter, seven university freshmen vanish without a trace. Soon afterwards, police discover a ghastly crime scene—the victim is frozen solid and his eyes are missing, replaced with black stones. A week later, they find a second frozen statue at an identical crime scene...
  • Witness by Caroline Mitchell

    Witness by Caroline Mitchell

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    To Rebecca it was a brave decision that led to her freedom from domestic abuse. To Solomon it was the ultimate betrayal.It’s been ten years since Rebecca’s testimony saw Solomon locked away. Enough time for the nightmares to recede, the nerves to relax; enough time to rebuild her life and put the past behind her.Then one day a phone rings in her bedroom—but it’s not her phone...
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    crime  family  suspense  abuse  adult  audiobook  book  dark
  • See No Evil by Allison Brennan

    See No Evil by Allison Brennan

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    A cunning killer hides in plain sight.A troubled teenage girl has been charged with the grisly murder of her stepfather. The evidence is damning: Emily was found alone at the scene with blood on her hands, and an incriminating e-mail she wrote outlines a murder plot identical to the method of the brutal slaying...
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    crime  drama  suspense  abuse  adult  book  contemporary  fiction
  • The Caretakers by Eliza Maxwell

    The Caretakers by Eliza Maxwell

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    In the isolated estate she’s found the perfect getaway. But there’s no escaping the past in this chilling novel from the bestselling author of The Unremembered Girl. Filmmaker Tessa Shepherd helped free a man she believed was wrongly imprisoned for murder. When he kills again, Tessa’s life is upended.She’s reeling with guilt, her reputation destroyed...
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    crime  drama  family  suspense  adult  audiobook  book  female-mc
  • The Mercy of Snakes by Dean Koontz

    The Mercy of Snakes by Dean Koontz

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    A series of suspicious deaths in a retirement home draws Nameless into the confidence of a terrified former resident—and into the dark heart of a shocking conspiracy. In part five of the Nameless series, it’s time to hunt.Oakshore Park is Michigan’s most exclusive assisted-living community. Presided over by two killer angels of mercy, it’s also the go-to facility in assisted dying...
  • Wall of Silence by Tracy Buchanan

    Wall of Silence by Tracy Buchanan

    Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    Her children have a deadly secret. Can she uncover it before the police do?Melissa Byatt’s life in Forest Grove seems as perfect as can be: a doting husband, three loving children and a beautiful house in a close-knit community. But appearances can be deceiving...
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    crime  drama  family  suspense  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary
  • Paranoid by Lisa Jackson

    Paranoid by Lisa Jackson

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    From #1 New York Times bestselling author Lisa Jackson comes a new novel of nerve-jangling suspense as a woman haunted by guilt realizes that nothing can be trusted—not even her own memory … There are people in Edgewater, Oregon, who think that twenty years ago, Rachel Gaston got away with murder...
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    crime  drama  family  suspense  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary
  • Last of the Magpies by Mark Edwards

    Last of the Magpies by Mark Edwards

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    The chilling conclusion to the #1 bestseller The Magpies. Twelve months ago, Jamie Knight walked straight into Lucy Newton’s trap. Both Jamie and his ex-wife Kirsty barely survived. Now, with the police investigation into Lucy’s disappearance going nowhere, Jamie teams up with a true crime podcaster to track down his nemesis...
  • The Cabin in the Woods by Sarah Alderson

    The Cabin in the Woods by Sarah Alderson

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    The unmissable new thriller from the bestselling author and screenwriter of Netflix movie, The Weekend Away.In a cabin in a wood,A woman by the window stood.Glancing out, she thought she heardFootsteps, whistling, something stirred.Hiding here, she fears the night,For what’s done in the dark will come to light...
  • True Evil by Greg Iles, Dick Hill

    True Evil by Greg Iles, Dick Hill

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Dr. Chris Shepard, a busy young doctor in Natchez, Mississippi, has never seen his new patient Alex Morse before. But the attractive young woman with the scarred face has come to Dr. Shepards office on a mission to catch a killer. This New York Times bestseller is available in a tall Premium Edition...
  • Rubbernecker by Belinda Bauer

    Rubbernecker by Belinda Bauer

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    The dead can't speak to us, Professor Madoc had said. But that was a lie. The body Patrick Fort is examining in anatomy class is trying to tell him all kinds of things. But no one hears what he does, and no one understands when he tries to tell them. Life is already strange enough for Patrick - being a medical student with Asperger's Syndrome doesn't come without its challenges...
  • Trespassing by Brandi Reeds

    Trespassing by Brandi Reeds

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    In a novel of mounting psychological suspense, a young mother follows a dangerous path to find her missing husband.Veronica Cavanaugh’s grasp on the world is slipping. Her latest round of fertility treatments not only failed but left her on edge and unbalanced. And her three-year-old daughter, Elizabella, has a new imaginary friend, who seems much more devilish than playful...
  • 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...
  • The Ridealong: A Suspense Thriller by Michaelbrent Collings

    The Ridealong: A Suspense Thriller by Michaelbrent Collings

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    "I've left clues for you, and clues for the police. They'll be searching for you. The evidence at the scene of Officer Knight's death is enough to send you both to jail." "Who am I searching for?" The Voice laughs. That strange, dangerous laugh. "Me, of course." *** It was supposed to be just one more ridealong, a night when high schooler Melissa Latham accompanies her father on his patrol...
  • No One Can Hear You Scream by A.B. Whelan

    No One Can Hear You Scream by A.B. Whelan

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A ruthlessly addicting and terrifyingly twisted story of a family stuck on a secluded mountain at the mercy of an obsessed fan of the woman.It started as a vacation of a lifetime.Jennifer Parker is a successful YouTube influencer living in a beautiful home outside Los Angeles with her three children...
  • 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  suspense  adult  book  contemporary  fiction  horror  mystery
  • আমি এবং আমরা by Humayun Ahmed

    আমি এবং আমরা by Humayun Ahmed

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
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    crime  drama  suspense  adult  book  dark  fiction  horror
  • Keep It In The Family by John Marrs

    Keep It In The Family by John Marrs

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    In this chilling novel from bestselling author John Marrs, a young couple’s house hides terrible secrets—and not all of them are confined to the past.Mia and Finn are busy turning a derelict house into their dream home when Mia unexpectedly falls pregnant. But just when they think the house is ready, Mia discovers a chilling message scored into a skirting board: I WILL SAVE THEM FROM THE ATTIC...
  • You're Family Now by Jack Stainton

    You're Family Now by Jack Stainton

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘ EPIC!! EPIC!! EPIC!! This book had EVERYTHING I love in a book!! ' Goodreads ReviewerHe only had to do one thing. Love her family…Matt Walker was a chancer; he’d spent his entire profession chasing the next job. His personal life took on a similar mantra; a succession of one-night stands and brief relationships. Life was slowly drifting him by...
  • My Perfect Daughter by Sarah A. Denzil

    My Perfect Daughter by Sarah A. Denzil

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Most mothers hope their little girl turns out like their dad, but not Zoe. She hopes the apple falls far from the tree.Zoe didn't meet her daughter the way most mothers do. She finds five-year-old Maddie alone and dirty on a countryside road. Frightened for Maddie's safety, she picks her up and takes her back to her father, not knowing what she's about to step into...
  • You Let Me In by Lucy Clarke

    You Let Me In by Lucy Clarke

    Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Spine-tingling, chilling, and utterly compulsive, YOU LET ME IN is the stunning new novel from Richard & Judy Book Club author, Lucy Clarke Nothing has felt right since Elle rented out her house . . . I’M IN YOUR HOUSE There’s a new coldness. A shift in the atmosphere. The prickling feeling that someone is watching her every move from the shadows...
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    crime  drama  family  suspense  21st-century  adult  audiobook  book
  • No One Saw a Thing by Andrea Mara

    No One Saw a Thing by Andrea Mara

    Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Two children get on the train. Only one gets off...No one saw it happen.You stand on a crowded tube platform in London. Your two little girls jump on the train ahead of you. As you try to join them, the doors slide shut and the train moves away, leaving you behind.Everyone is lying.By the time you get to the next stop, you've convinced yourself that everything will be fine...
  • 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...
  • Only the Innocent by Rachel Abbott

    Only the Innocent by Rachel Abbott

    Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    Every moment of Sir Hugo Fletcher’s life has been chronicled in the British press: his privileged upbringing, his high-profile charity work to end human trafficking, even his two marriages. But when the billionaire philanthropist is discovered murdered in his London home, tied naked to a bed, the scandal is only a shadow of the darkness lurking off-camera...
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    crime  drama  family  suspense  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary
  • 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  drama  family  suspense  abuse  adult  audiobook  book
  • I Am Watching You by Teresa Driscoll

    I Am Watching You by Teresa Driscoll

    Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars
    · 41 ratings
    When Ella Longfield overhears two attractive young men flirting with teenage girls on a train, she thinks nothing of it—until she realises they are fresh out of prison and her maternal instinct is put on high alert. But just as she’s decided to call for help, something stops her. The next day, she wakes up to the news that one of the girls—beautiful, green-eyed Anna Ballard—has disappeared...
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    crime  drama  family  suspense  audiobook  book  contemporary  dark
  • Cross by James Patterson

    Cross by James Patterson

    Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars
    · 34 ratings
    Alex Cross was a rising star in the Washington, DC, Police Department when an unknown shooter gunned down his wife, Maria, in front of him. The killer was never found, and the case turned cold, filed among the unsolved drive-bys in D.C.'s rough neighborhoods.Years later, still haunted by his wife's death, Cross is making a bold move in his life...
  • Here To Stay by Mark Edwards

    Here To Stay by Mark Edwards

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    A beautiful home. A loving wife. And in-laws to die for.Gemma Robinson comes into Elliot’s life like a whirlwind, and they marry and settle into his home. When she asks him if her parents can come to stay for a couple of weeks, he is keen to oblige – he just doesn’t quite know what he’s signing up for...
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    crime  drama  family  suspense  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary
  • The Other Daughter by Lisa Gardner

    The Other Daughter by Lisa Gardner

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    Twenty years ago, Melanie Stokes was abandoned in a Boston hospital, then adopted by a wealthy young couple. Gifted with loving parents, a doting brother, and an indulgent uncle, Melanie has always considered herself lucky. Until the first cryptic, threatening note arrives: “You Get What You Deserve.”Melanie has no memory of her life before the adoption...
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    crime  drama  family  suspense  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary
  • The Devil's Work by Mark Edwards

    The Devil's Work by Mark Edwards

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    A gripping psychological thriller from the bestselling author of Follow You Home and The Magpies . It was the job she had dreamed of since childhood. But on her very first day, when an unnerving encounter drags up memories Sophie Greenwood would rather forget, she wonders if she has made a mistake. A fatal mistake...
  • The Mother by T.M. Logan, Gemma Whelan

    The Mother by T.M. Logan, Gemma Whelan

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Framed for murder. Now she's free . . .A woman attends a funeral, standing in the shadows and watching in agony as her sons grieve. But she is unable to comfort them - or reveal her secret.A decade earlier, Heather gets her children ready for bed and awaits the return of her husband Liam, little realising that this is the last night they will spend together as a family...
  • Dying to Tell by Rita Herron

    Dying to Tell by Rita Herron

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    What happened to Sadie Nettleton’s twin sister at the psychiatric hospital all those years ago? Sadie Nettleton fled Slaughter Creek ten years ago, leaving behind the only home she’d ever known—and the only man she ever loved. Unable to cope with her sister's madness, or the terrible secret she and her sister share, Sadie swore never to return...
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    crime  drama  family  suspense  abuse  adult  audiobook  book
  • Day of the Accident by Nuala Ellwood

    Day of the Accident by Nuala Ellwood

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Sixty seconds after she wakes from a coma, Maggie's world is torn apart.The police tell her that her daughter Elspeth is dead. That she drowned when the car Maggie had been driving plunged into the river. Maggie remembers nothing.When Maggie begs to see her husband Sean, the police tell her that he has disappeared. He was last seen on the day of her daughter's funeral...
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    crime  drama  family  suspense  adult  audiobook  book  cozy
  • The Stalker by Sarah Alderson

    The Stalker by Sarah Alderson

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Newly-weds Liam and Laura are spending their honeymoon in paradise: just the two of them on a remote island off the coast of Scotland. But they soon discover that all is not as it seems, and the island has a tragic past. And they can’t shake the feeling of being watched…When one morning, they wake to find a message scratched into the window, their worst fears are confirmed...
  • Flashback by Michael Palmer

    Flashback by Michael Palmer

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Toby is eight years old. He had a routine operation. It was fine. Now he's gone home to terror. Months have passed. But Toby still bursts into tortured screams. Because something is very wrong. Toby can remember evey moment of the operation. All the trauma. All the pain. He relives evrey horrifying detail of surgery while he's awake...
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    crime  medical  suspense  adult  book  fiction  horror  murder
  • These Cold Strangers by J.T. Ellison

    These Cold Strangers by J.T. Ellison

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    From New York Times bestselling author J.T. Ellison comes a chilling tale about how a reporter’s deep dive into a viral video challenges her preconceived notions of what being a hero really means.When she recognizes the heroic stranger in a sensationalized news video, Addison Blake plans to use the information to her career’s advantage...
  • 13:24: A Story of Faith and Obsession by M. Dolon Hickmon

    13:24: A Story of Faith and Obsession by M. Dolon Hickmon

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    THE HEART-POUNDING, RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES THRILLER HONORED WITH A STARRED REVIEW IN PUBLISHERS WEEKLY'S BEST BOOKS OF 2014 SPECIAL ISSUEDetective William Hursel has worked countless murder cases, staring down the cruelest deeds humanity has to offer...
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    crime  drama  family  suspense  abuse  adult  book  dark
  • Alchemist by Peter James

    Alchemist by Peter James

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    As chilling as Stephen King as credible as Michael Crichton - a gripping novel of terror and...
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    crime  medical  suspense  adult  book  fiction  horror  mystery
  • The Off Season by Colleen Thompson

    The Off Season by Colleen Thompson

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Winter winds off the Atlantic have turned the tourist mecca of Seaside Creek, New Jersey, into a ghost town. Dr. Christina Paxton, however, is growing accustomed to living with ghosts. Recently widowed, the emergency room physician has returned to the shore with her young daughter, house-sitting a sprawling beachside Victorian home...
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    crime  drama  suspense  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary  fiction
  • First Night of Summer by Landon Parham

    First Night of Summer by Landon Parham

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    WHEN TRAGEDY STRIKES, a father discovers that a journey of misfortune is sometimes the path to deliverance. The quaint mountain town of Ruidoso, New Mexico, is the perfect place for Isaac Snow to raise his family. But when eight-year-old daughters, Caroline and Josie, commit an innocent act of heroism, media coverage attracts the wrong kind of attention...
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    crime  suspense  adult  book  fiction  horror  mystery  psychological
  • Wrong Place, Wrong Time by Tilia Klebenov Jacobs

    Wrong Place, Wrong Time by Tilia Klebenov Jacobs

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    When Tsara Adelman leaves her husband and two young children for a weekend to visit her estranged uncle, she little dreams he is holding several local children captive on his lavish estate. Mike Westbrook, father of one of the boys, kidnaps her to trade her life for the children's...
  • Ward D by Freida McFadden

    Ward D by Freida McFadden

    Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars
    · 33 ratings
    Medical student Amy Brenner is spending the night on a locked psychiatric ward.Amy has been dreading her evening working on Ward D, the hospital’s inpatient mental health unit. There are very specific reasons why she never wanted to do this required overnight rotation. Reasons nobody can ever find out...
  • Imaginary Strangers by Minka Kent

    Imaginary Strangers by Minka Kent

    Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    A woman must keep her family―and her terrifying secrets―safe in a twisting thriller by Washington Post and Wall Street Journal bestselling author Minka Kent.Camille Prescott has it all. A doting husband, two children, a charming home in a seaside enclave, and a beautiful, fixed smile that exudes normalcy...
  • Nobody Knows You're Here by Bryn Greenwood

    Nobody Knows You're Here by Bryn Greenwood

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    A desperate woman fights to escape captivity in this gripping thriller from the New York Times -bestselling author of All the Ugly and Wonderful Things. Beatrice is about to lose everything when a kind stranger offers her a cup of coffee and a job. It seems like a promise of a better life . . . until she wakes up under lock and key in an isolated mansion in the woods...
  • I Kill by Giorgio Faletti

    I Kill by Giorgio Faletti

    Rated: 3.95 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    The voice on the radio. The writing, red as blood. I kill ...A detective and an FBI agent embark upon the most harrowing case of their careers as they attempt to track down an enigmatic killer in this relentlessly suspenseful thriller...
    Categorized as:
    crime  drama  suspense  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary  fiction
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