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The Last Remains by Elly Griffiths
Rated: 4.64 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe discovery of a missing woman's bones forces Ruth and Nelson to finally confront their feelings for each other as they desperately work to exonerate one of their own.When builders discover a human skeleton while renovating a café, they call in archaeologist Dr... -
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Loyalty by Martina Cole
Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsSHE'S BACK. Don't miss the brand new novel from legendary author Martina Cole. 'The queen of crime' Woman & HomeIf you want to survive in this world, there's one thing you should value above all LOYALTY.Dara Tailor has had to grow up fast. With a mother addicted to cocaine, Dara must look after her seven younger siblings, until social services split them up for ever... -
![Mercy by Victor Methos]()
Mercy by Victor Methos
Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsBrigham Theodore is a courtroom brawler, a criminal defense attorney who spends his time slugging it out with the government in court. A year after winning his biggest case, he finds himself at a new firm defending clients of every kind. Drug dealers, gangsters, con men and thugs are the people he defends every day. For him, the fight is what matters... -
![The Game by Linda Calvey]()
The Game by Linda Calvey
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsPerfect for fans of Kimberley Chambers and Jessie Keane, this gangland thriller shows how far one woman will go to protect her family's empire.___________She built an empire. Now she needs to protect it.From the dark underbelly of London to the scorching Spanish riviera, Ruby Murphy has built a crime syndicate to be feared.When her husband is murdered in cold blood, she is devastated... -
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![Body In The Woods by Behcet Kaya]()
Body In The Woods by Behcet Kaya
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsAward-winning author Behcet Kaya has once again brought his PI protagonist Jack Ludefance to life in a novel of suspense and mystery, filled with indelible characters, and laced with threads of credible circumstances, in his latest book titled Body in the Woods... -
![Billie Jo by Kimberley Chambers]()
Billie Jo by Kimberley Chambers
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsHer dad’s a villain. She’s his princess.And their world is about to crash. For Terry, family is everything. But it’s far from perfect… Billie Jo is the adored only child of wealthy villain, Terry, and Michelle, the drunken wife he hates... -
![The Know by Martina Cole]()
The Know by Martina Cole
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsJoanie Brewer' s children meant the world to her. She'd do anything to protect them, even resorting to prostitution and petty crime in order to feed and clothe them. So when her beautiful teenage daughter is raped and murdered, only one thing will stop Joanie's pain - seeing her daughter's killer brought to justice. Joanie knows who he is and she'll do whatever it takes to nail him.. -
![UNDER THE BUS by Kyle Keyes]()
UNDER THE BUS by Kyle Keyes
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsHomicide detectives, Donde Clark and Juanito Lewis moved to Hobbs Creek just days before banker, Richard Ghetti was gunned down in the front room of his Lake Powhattan, water front cabin.Barbershop talk had it that divine providence played some part in transferring the two NYC lawmen from the Big Apple to this backwater town in South Jersey... -
![A Dark Sin by J.M. Dalgliesh]()
A Dark Sin by J.M. Dalgliesh
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsOur darkest secrets are best left buried...When a local journalist is found dead in an isolated spot on Roydon Common, lying beneath a hangman's noose on the anniversary of a teenager's suicide, DI Tom Janssen is asked to take on the investigation as a favour to local colleagues and must unpick the deceased man's life to discover how he came to be there... -
![The Million Dollar Divorce by R.M. Johnson, Kevin R. Free]()
The Million Dollar Divorce by R.M. Johnson, Kevin R. Free
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsRM Johnson, the Essence bestselling author of Dating Games and The Harris Family, delivers an absorbing and provocative new novel about the lowdown schemes and broken dreams that follow a fractured marriage... -
![A Cross to Bear by Vince Vogel]()
A Cross to Bear by Vince Vogel
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 19 ratings"They burned it down once…They should burn it down again." Once the star of Scotland Yard, burnt out East London detective Jack Sheridan is now a washed up cop working a low end station, estranged from his family and haunted by his past... -
![Ramonst by A.F. Knott]()
Ramonst by A.F. Knott
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHidden in the mountains of East Tennessee, an eleven-year old goes about the business of being a boy during the summer of 1970. Within a balance of terror and innocence, he bears silent witness to ghosts of the dead and the cruelties of a teenage killer while local justice plays out in a community carved from legacies of coal mining and religion... -
![Ice Into Ashes by John Carson]()
Ice Into Ashes by John Carson
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTime is a healer….unless you’re the one doing the killing…DCI James Craig is heading home to Fife for a family funeral after the discovery of his wife's uncle's lifeless body at home, having fallen down the stairs. The incident was classified as a Sudden Death, attributing it to the man's advanced age and fragility. Case officially closed... -
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![ISOLATION by Cj Lyons]()
ISOLATION by Cj Lyons
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThis New Year’s resolution? Stay alive... “Harrowing…irresistible.” ~New York Times bestselling author Susan Wiggs Click to start reading the exhilarating Angels of Mercy finale! With Pittsburgh snarled by a New Year’s Eve blizzard and Angels of Mercy Hospital cut off from the outside world, staff and patients are at the mercy of armed gunmen. Their target is Dr... -
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Trigger by Jessica L. Webb
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsDr. Kate Morrison doesn’t know how or why someone would create human bombs that are triggered by touch. But when Sergeant Andy Wyles blocks Kate from touching the patient who collapses in her Vancouver ER, Kate joins the investigation to demand answers, regardless of the danger... -
![Treacherous Estate: Crime Story by Behcet Kaya]()
Treacherous Estate: Crime Story by Behcet Kaya
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsPrivate Investigator... -
![The Jump by Martina Cole]()
The Jump by Martina Cole
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsDonna Brunos worships her husband and is devastated when he is jailed for armed robbery. Georgio swears he's been set up and persuades Donna to help him escape.Implementing 'the jump' takes Donna into a twilight world she never believed existed - a world of brutal sex and casual violence... -
![خرائط التيه by بثينة العيسى]()
خرائط التيه by بثينة العيسى
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 24 ratings"تعتبر رواية خرائط التّيه الرواية السادسة ل بثينة العيسى جاءتها بأسلوب و أفكار مختلفة عما سبق .قد يوحي عنوان الرواية خرائط التيه بأنّه يحاكي التيه العربي بشكل عام في ظلّ أحداثٍ مدوّخة تُذهب العقل. لكنّ سرعان ما يتبدّد هذا الانطباع أمام معنى أكبر تطرحه بثينة حين تضع القارئ في مواجهة التيه الإنساني داخل عالمٍ مشوّه تغدو الحياة فيه أشبه بمتاهة لا خلاص منها... -
![Evanesce by Cassia Brightmore]()
Evanesce by Cassia Brightmore
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIf your soul has been plunged into the dark depths of despair, how hard would you fight to claw your way back to the surface? Can the life you lost be restored, or is it destined to be forever phased out of existence? Fated to dissolve into a distant memory. The Black Market—a ferocious, starving beast. An endless sinkhole of precious valuables; the playground for blood-thirsty power seekers... -
![Irresistible at Christmas by Tamara Ferguson, Natalie Ann]()
Irresistible at Christmas by Tamara Ferguson, Natalie Ann
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsCelebrate The Heart of The Season With EIGHT BRAND-NEW, NEVER BEFORE PUBLISHED CHRISTMAS STORIES From Nine New York Times & USA Today Bestselling, Award Winning Authors.Ranging from fun and flirty romantic comedy to poignant holiday romance, this collection of semi-sweet and steamy stories will have you crying one moment while laughing the next... -
![Gold Star Chance by C.J. Murphy]()
Gold Star Chance by C.J. Murphy
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHigh in the Appalachian Mountains, Sheriff Chance Fitzsimmons, frequently puts her specialized rescue training to use. The retired smoke jumper, turned law enforcement officer, is dedicated to the protection of all those who live in or visit Tucker County, West Virginia. With her K9 partner, Zeus, she maintains the peace even as it eludes her off-duty life... -
![Trust Nobody by June Hampson]()
Trust Nobody by June Hampson
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIt is 1962 and Daisy Lane, whose husband Kenny is in jail for robbery, runs and lives over the family's cafe in Gosport with Kenny's older brother Eddie. Daisy looks out for pretty, vulnerable, 16-year-old Suze, who works in the cafe and, along with prostitute Vera, who also shares the house, the women form a strong and lasting bond... -
![Missing by Erin Kinsley]()
Missing by Erin Kinsley
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA MOTHER WALKS INTO THE SEA . . . AND NEVER COMES BACK. WHY?One perfect summer day, mother of two Alice walks into the sea . . . and never comes back.Her daughters - loyal but fragile Lily, and headstrong, long-absent Marietta - are forcibly reunited by her disappearance.Meanwhile, with retirement looming, DI Fox investigates cold cases long since forgotten... -
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![Life Support by Candace Calvert]()
Life Support by Candace Calvert
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsNurse Lauren Barclay put her life on hold to keep a watchful eye on her troubled sister. It's why she's back in Houston. But that means confronting the brooding physician assistant who caused painful turmoil in her family--and left Lauren with memories her heart can't forgive... -
![Secrets Mothers Keep by Anya Mora]()
Secrets Mothers Keep by Anya Mora
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsOn Friday night in the clay fields of Bethel Creek, seventeen-year-old Daniel Reyes is found brutally attacked and left for dead. On Saturday morning, Cora Maxwell finds her teenage son’s clothes covered in blood. A small town torn apart by a horrific hate crime. An investigative reporter hell bent on finding the truth. A mother’s worst nightmare... -
![Deserve To Die by Miranda Rijks]()
Deserve To Die by Miranda Rijks
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsDom and Stacey have the perfect life. Until they meet Tamara. Brilliant, beautiful, she hides a horrifying secret. One that may destroy them all.Happily married with two wonderful children, Dom and Stacey are living the dream. He runs a successful design agency, she is finding fame as an author of children’s books.Everything is perfect... -
![Forgotten by Mariah Stewart]()
Forgotten by Mariah Stewart
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsFrom New York Times bestselling author Mariah Stewart comes a novel of sexy romantic suspense for fans of Nora Roberts, Catherine Coulter, and Karen Robards... -
![The Advocate's Conviction by Teresa Burrell]()
The Advocate's Conviction by Teresa Burrell
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsSabre Orin Brown's clients keep disappearing. With seemingly no connection between the cases, Sabre enlists the help of her southern PI friend, JP, and her best friend, Bob, to find each of them--before it's too late.In her race against the clock, Sabre must determine whether contemporary horrors are being buried in the shadow of dark traditions--or if it's something else at work... -
![Lesser Evil by Lesley Pearse]()
Lesser Evil by Lesley Pearse
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsWould you cross the street if wickedness lived there? When Fifi moves to London with her bricklayer boyfriend Dan, her mother is outraged. Despite initial feelings of horror at her new surroundings, Fifi finds the freedom from her middle-class family background exhilarating... -
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![When I Was Invisible by Dorothy Koomson]()
When I Was Invisible by Dorothy Koomson
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 16 ratings'Do you ever wonder if you've lived the life you were meant to?' I ask her. She sighs, and dips her head. 'Even if I do, what difference will it make?' In 1988, two eight-year-old girls with almost identical names and the same love of ballet meet for the first time. They seem destined to be best friends forever and to become professional dancers... -
![The Guilty Girl by Ruth Harrow]()
The Guilty Girl by Ruth Harrow
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsChloe is serving a life sentence. In her own home.Ever since the horrific day her mother died, Chloe's life has been anything but normal - more like a carefully constructed prison. Her father hasn’t let her go to school, have friends or leave the house alone.As she grows up, Chloe begins to question the motives behind her dad's obsessive control... -
![The Child Taker & Slow Burn by Conrad Jones]()
The Child Taker & Slow Burn by Conrad Jones
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 18 ratings2 top ten 'unputdownable' thrillers in one special edition download. How far would you go to get your children back......?A stand alone novel based on high profile child abductions, which have been followed by millions of concerned parents on the news. 5 year old twins are abducted from a tent in the Lake District and the hunt for a dangerous paedophile ring begins... -
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![The Crooked Branch by Jeanine Cummins]()
The Crooked Branch by Jeanine Cummins
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsFrom the national bestselling and highly acclaimed author of The Outside Boy comes the deeply moving story of two mothers—witty, self-deprecating Majella, who is shocked by her entry into motherhood in modern-day New York, and her ancestor, tough and terrified Ginny Doyle, whose battles are more fundamental: she must keep her young family alive during Ireland’s Great Famine... -
![The Ex-Wife by Jess Ryder]()
The Ex-Wife by Jess Ryder
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsYou’ve got everything she wants …Newly married Natasha has the perfect house, a loving husband and a beautiful little girl called Emily. She’d have it all if it wasn’t for Jen, her husband’s ex-wife who just won’t leave them alone …Then Natasha returns home one day to find her husband and Emily gone without trace... -
![Bad Things by Tamara Thorne]()
Bad Things by Tamara Thorne
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe house has been in his family for generations. But it really belongs to them…The Piper clan emigrated from Scotland and founded the town of Santo Verde, California. The Gothic Victorian estate built there has housed the family for generations, and has also become home to an ancient evil forever linked to the Piper name…As a boy, Rick Piper discovered he had “the sight... -
![White Death by Ken McClure]()
White Death by Ken McClure
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhite Death is the seventh thriller by Ken McClure to feature the ex-special forces medic Steven Dunbar. The governments of the western world know a terrorist biological attack will happen sooner rather than later... -
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Wildcard by Ken McClure
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA traveler dies a horrifying death on a flight from Africa to London. The Ebola virus is suspected, but Steven Dunbar of the Sci-Med Directorate discovers the more frightening truth, and must act quickly before the outbreak achieves its sinister purpose... -
![Dust To Dust by Ken McClure]()
Dust To Dust by Ken McClure
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsJohn Motram, a cell biologist at Newcastle University firmly believes that Black Death was not caused by bubonic plague but by an unknown virus. He is excited when Oxford University tell him that they have come into possession of information suggesting there might be preserved bodies of victims from the time of Black Death hidden under Dryburgh Abbey... -
![APB: Baby by Julie Miller]()
APB: Baby by Julie Miller
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsUSA TODAY bestselling author Julie Miller's new series launches with a lawman and social worker who team up to safeguard a baby After a near-fatal shootout at his sister's wedding, third-generation lawman Niall Watson comes home to a baby in distress. The abandoned newborn in his neighbor's apartment sends the Kansas City PD criminologist into rescue mode once again... -
![Zwei Leben in einer Nacht by Carolin Wahl]()
Zwei Leben in einer Nacht by Carolin Wahl
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsEine Challenge, eine Nacht, (k)ein Ausweg. Freitag, der 13., Mitternacht. Caspar beobachtet, wie Sams blaues Haar im Wind flattert, als der Zug vorbeirast. Eigentlich weiß er nichts über sie, nur, dass sie beide von Ghost für diese Challenge ausgewählt worden sind. Gemeinsam warten sie auf die erste Nachricht. Die Anweisungen für eine von fünf Aufgaben in dieser Nacht... -
![With Song by Dorothy Garlock]()
With Song by Dorothy Garlock
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsMolly barely noticed the sedan that pulled up in front of her family's store. Minutes later, a hail of bullets rained down on her parents. Hod Dolan, the federal agent knows she can identify the gunmen, and soon proposes a trap that uses Molly as bait... -
![Delayed Diagnosis by Gwen Hunter]()
Delayed Diagnosis by Gwen Hunter
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsDr. Rhea Lynch left a suffocating life in Charleston to practice medicine in the ER of a small South Carolina hospital. Now Dawkins County is her home, a place that holds the only real family she's ever known.But when she returns from vacation, Rhea is shocked to discover her best friend, Marisa, near death and unable to communicate. The official diagnosis: a paralyzing stroke... -
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![The Life by Martina Cole]()
The Life by Martina Cole
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe most authentic novel of gangster family life ever written, from the No. 1 bestselling author.The Bailey brothers are gangsters determined to make their mark in the world. Peter and Daniel are chalk and cheese in many ways - Peter's calm exterior belies his ruthless nature, while Daniel's penchant for spectacular violence is legendary - but together they are unstoppable... -
![A Family of Strangers by Emilie Richards]()
A Family of Strangers by Emilie Richards
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsAll her life Ryan Gracey watched her perfect older sister from afar. Knowing she could never top Wendy’s achievements, she didn’t even try. Instead Ryan forged her own path while her family barely seemed to notice.Now Wendy shares two little girls with her perfect husband while Ryan mourns the man she lost after a nearly fatal mistake in judgment... -
![The Scarlet Ruse by John D. MacDonald]()
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... -
![When He Vanished by T.J. Brearton]()
When He Vanished by T.J. Brearton
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsWHAT IF YOUR HUSBAND DISAPPEARED AND THE POLICE THOUGHT YOU MIGHT HAVE KILLED HIM?Jane Gable returns from her shift at the hospital one night to find her two children asleep in bed and her husband gone, his phone and wallet left behind.John has long been a responsible and dependable man, maintaining a predictable schedule... -
![Close by Martina Cole]()
Close by Martina Cole
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe #1 bestselling novelist in the UK makes her U.S. debut with a hard-hitting story that combines the brutality and deep family ties of The Sopranos with an unparalleled look at the underbelly of London's gang land. Patrick Brodie is on the way up. He is a risk-taker like his alcoholic father, and knows exactly how far he is prepared to go to get what he wants... -
![Next of Kin by John Boyne]()
Next of Kin by John Boyne
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsJohn Boyne has been heralded as "one of the most imaginative and adventurous of the young Irish novelists working today" by the Irish Independent. He achieved bestseller status and won numerous awards worldwide for The Boy in the Striped Pajamas...
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