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  • Zero In by Dean Koontz

    Zero In by Dean Koontz

    Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    This could be the most important mission of Nameless’s life. Because it’s putting him on a collision course with his own past and the nation’s future.The target: a fortified redoubt in the golden hills of California, the hub of a new world order that’s unthinkably close at hand. The time has come for Nameless to face its designer: the nihilist mastermind behind the One Solution...
  • She Has a Broken Thing Where Her Heart Should Be by J.D. Barker

    She Has a Broken Thing Where Her Heart Should Be by J.D. Barker

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    A haunting tale of suspense, rendered with the masterful skill only Barker could muster. After the loss of his parents, young Jack Thatch first met Stella as a child—this cryptic little girl of eight with dark hair and darker eyes, sitting alone on a bench in the cemetery clutching her favorite book. Gone moments later, the brief encounter would spark an obsession...
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    crime  suspense  adult  audiobook  book  dark-fantasy  fiction  horror
  • Memories of Tomorrow by Dean Koontz

    Memories of Tomorrow by Dean Koontz

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    What strange science made Nameless who he is? What catastrophes have been erased from his memories? In the stunning conclusion of this series, the dark past comes flooding back, and Nameless must decide how much he really wants to know.In Indiana, a murderous psycho has kidnapped his own six-year-old stepson, Jamie, and secreted him away in a subterranean cave. It’s become their bunker...
  • The Cabinet of Dr. Leng by Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child

    The Cabinet of Dr. Leng by Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Agent Pendergast faces his latest challenge in this next installment of the #1 NYT bestselling series by acclaimed authors Preston and Child, the second in the Leng Trilogy.Following the events of Bloodless, FBI Special Agent A.X.L. Pendergast and Constance Greene return. Against all odds, Constance has found a way back to the place of her origins, New York City in the late 1800s...
  • Where the Wild Roses Grow by Willow Rose

    Where the Wild Roses Grow by Willow Rose

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    The Queen of scream novels does it again! - It's laced with a terrifying nail-biting tension and characters that make your skin crawl. With her blankly staring eyes seeming to gaze into the sky, he put a red rose between her teeth and then gently pushed her into the water. She slowly sank into the slow, flowing river...
  • You Can Run by Willow Rose

    You Can Run by Willow Rose

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    It's not the kind of thing you'd expect to happen on an ordinary Saturday morning. Her kids are arguing and her husband is still sleeping. Lisa is tired and wonders why her husband keeps working late...
  • Light Has Weight, but Darkness Does Not by Dean Koontz

    Light Has Weight, but Darkness Does Not by Dean Koontz

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Instinct and violent visions compel Nameless to embark on an unplanned mission to help a desperate mother and daughter on the run. Why is this rescue so strangely familiar to a man with no memories?Evie and her daughter, Asteria, are fleeing an abusive cult when they meet a stranger in an abandoned Arizona shopping mall. Fate hasn’t set Nameless on their trail...
  • Rebekka Franck Series Box Set: Vol 1-5 by Willow Rose

    Rebekka Franck Series Box Set: Vol 1-5 by Willow Rose

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Five Amazon Bestselling Mystery Novels. The Queen of Scream Novels channels Wes Craven in this 5-in-1 boxed set! ˃˃˃ One, Two ... He is coming for you Set in the Danish coastal town of Karrebaeksminde, journalist Rebekka Franck returns to her hometown with her six-year-old daughter...
  • Last Light by Dean Koontz

    Last Light by Dean Koontz

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    With just a touch, Makani Hisoka-O’Brien can see the deepest secrets that others conceal—and it frightens her. There’s danger in the terrible knowledge that floods her mind and haunts her conscience.With just a touch, Rainer Sparks can learn the biggest problems that others bear—and it thrills him. There’s profit to be made making problems go away, by any means . . . including murder...
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    crime  suspense  action-adventure  adult  book  fiction  horror  humor
  • Corkscrew by Dean Koontz

    Corkscrew by Dean Koontz

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    A terrorist attack in the news leaves Nameless reeling from a disturbing vision. But it’s not a glimpse of the future. It’s a recovered memory that’s opening a window into his mysterious past.Uncharacteristically forthcoming—and unexpectedly personal—Nameless’s handlers have no choice but to emerge from the shadows. The indoctrinating factions of his visions are growing in number...
  • Gentle Is the Angel of Death by Dean Koontz

    Gentle Is the Angel of Death by Dean Koontz

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    To some he’s a medical genius. To others, a twisted angel of mercy with a necessary solution to what he sees as an ugly dilemma. Only one man can help Dr. Death face the evil of his ways.Henry Siphuncle has a selfless mission: releasing his patients forever from their distasteful imperfections. It’s for their own good. And the world’s. Even Henry’s own wife didn’t survive his disgust...
  • Bits & Pieces by Dawn Hosmer, Diane Box-Worman

    Bits & Pieces by Dawn Hosmer, Diane Box-Worman

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A chance encounter with a stranger traps Tessa within the mind of a madman.Tessa was born with a gift. Through a simple touch she picks up pieces of others. A “flash” of color devours her—the only indication that she’s gained something new from another person. Red equals pain; purple, a talent; yellow, a premonition; orange, a painful memory; and blue, a pleasant one...
  • The Evil That Was Done by Michele Pariza Wacek

    The Evil That Was Done by Michele Pariza Wacek

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The shocking conclusion to the award-winning Secrets of Redemption series. It’s happening again—people are disappearing. And just like before, the finger is pointed at Becca. She knows how it looks … and that she’s being set up. Someone is following her. Sneaking into her house. Planting evidence to make her look guilty. The problem is, she has no idea why...
  • This Happened to Jessica by Michele Pariza Wacek

    This Happened to Jessica by Michele Pariza Wacek

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    How many more are going to die because you refuse to remember? Becca would like nothing better than to put the past behind her and focus on making Redemption her home. But what do you do when the past refuses to stay buried? Becca still can't remember the night sixteen-year-old Jessica disappeared from a party, never to be seen again...
  • The Lost Soul of the City by Dean Koontz

    The Lost Soul of the City by Dean Koontz

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    A gun. A mission. No memories. Nameless is back to hunt down an architect of chaos in #1 New York Times bestselling author Dean Koontz’s return to a landscape of hard-won justice.In a forgotten Cold War bunker, a cold-blooded arms dealer counts his cash and watches from a distance as cities collapse into violence...
  • 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...
  • Belle Manor Haunting by Cheryl Bradshaw

    Belle Manor Haunting by Cheryl Bradshaw

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The door to Addison Lockhart's room opens. Five-year-old Sara Belle walks in. The child seems lost and confused. Addison reaches out, grabs Sara's hand, and the room goes black.Addison's eyes open to find she's been transported several decades into the past. She's sitting in the back seat of a car. Sara is beside her. The car stops at an intersection...
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    crime  suspense  adult  book  contemporary  female-mc  fiction  ghosts
  • Trouble's Child by Terry Goodkind

    Trouble's Child by Terry Goodkind

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Releasing as a short-lengthed teaser to the forthcoming novel The Girl in the Moon, a new novella from #1 New York Times bestselling author Terry Goodkind. Wandering through the snowy woods in the mountains near her home, Angela Constantine stumbles upon a wolf feeding on the body of a murdered young woman. That discovery is only the start of her problems...
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    crime  suspense  audiobook  book  contemporary  fiction  horror  murder
  • Mourning Gloria by Andrew Downs

    Mourning Gloria by Andrew Downs

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    When a murder suspect escapes indictment on a technicality, Agent Leah Hudson is forced to shift her focus to a new task, a cold case. Five years after Gloria Stone disappears, Hudson must piece together the final days of her life, but Gloria was no ordinary girl...
  • Easy as One Two Three by Willow Rose

    Easy as One Two Three by Willow Rose

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    ASIN moved from less recent editionMads and Signe are very young when they get married. They are ready to take on the world, starting with their honeymoon to Egypt. Two years later, Mads is in a coma, and Signe has vanished from the face of the earth.Meanwhile, Emma Frost is looking for her daughter whom the police believe is guilty of the hit and run that left Mads Schou brain dead...
  • Leslie by Omar Tyree

    Leslie by Omar Tyree

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    The New York Times bestselling novel about a beautiful young woman with a dangerous secret At the historically black Dillard University in the lush city of New Orleans, Leslie Beaudet struggles with a dark secret of power in a world that is pulling her in many different directions...
  • Thunderbird by Chuck Wendig

    Thunderbird by Chuck Wendig

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    In the fourth installment of the Miriam Black series, Miriam heads to the southwest in search of another psychic who may be able to help her understand her curse, but instead finds a cult of domestic terrorists and the worst vision of death she’s had yet. Miriam Black is being developed as a TV series by Starz with the producers of Breaking Bad...
    Categorized as:
    crime  suspense  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary  dark  fiction
  • The River by Noelle W. Ihli

    The River by Noelle W. Ihli

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    A short post-script to Ask for Andrea by Noelle W. Ihli. Learn what happened to April...
  • City of Ghosts by J.H. Moncrieff

    City of Ghosts by J.H. Moncrieff

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Winner of the 2018 Kindle Book Review Award for best Horror/Suspense.On the day the villagers were forced to flee Hensu, not everyone got out alive. Jackson Stone is touring the abandoned Chinese city when he slips away from the group to spend the night, determined to publish an account of his ghostly experiences there...
    Categorized as:
    crime  suspense  adult  book  conspiracies  demons  fiction  ghosts
  • The Keeper by T.F. Allen

    The Keeper by T.F. Allen

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    When a famous artist is kidnapped, the only one who can save him has a body no one can see, and a voice few can hear.Angel, spirit, or ghost—the Keeper doesn’t know exactly what he is. But he knows he needs to protect Michael Delacroix, a famous artist who is kidnapped and locked in a windowless room deep beneath a Napa Valley vineyard...
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    crime  suspense  action-adventure  adult  audiobook  book  dark  drama
  • The Artifact by Brian Hill

    The Artifact by Brian Hill

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A 4000-year-old Egyptian artifact, pulled from a mythical pharaoh’s tomb.A British aristocrat with mysterious intentions.A young thief without a past.A shady spiritualist in hiding.A Native American private investigator, trying to keep his business afloat.Who is the victim?Who is the criminal?Who is the monster?It’s 1984, and Rev Parata is a hard-nosed, Native-American P.I...
  • Nightcrawlers Stories from the Blue World by Robert McCammon, William Windom

    Nightcrawlers Stories from the Blue World by Robert McCammon, William Windom

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Pocket Books' bestselling horror author makes his audio debut with stories unavailable from Pocket until October 1989, when Blue World will be published. Coincides with the release of The Wolf's Hour.Read by William Windom.2 audiocassettes (3 hr...
    Categorized as:
    crime  suspense  adult  anthologies  audiobook  fiction  ghosts  horror
  • The Sense of Death by Matty Dalrymple, Sarah E. Purdum

    The Sense of Death by Matty Dalrymple, Sarah E. Purdum

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Ann Kinnear has created a peaceful existence at her cabin in the Adirondack woods. But the calm is shattered after Philadelphia socialite Elizabeth Firth is reported missing. With few clues and fewer options, detective Joe Booth calls upon Ann's spirit sensing abilities to help solve the mystery...
  • What Lies Below by Barbara Taylor Sissel

    What Lies Below by Barbara Taylor Sissel

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Everyone has nightmares. One woman is living hers… Gilly O’Connell’s nightmares aren’t just bad dreams; they’re glimpses of terrifying realities to come. Gilly has spent her entire life trying to suppress the foreboding visions. So when a dismissed premonition leads to her husband’s murder, she buries the guilt and pain of the unsolved crime in the only way she knows how—she runs from it...
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    crime  suspense  adult  audiobook  book  family  female-mc  fiction
  • The Neighbor by London Clarke

    The Neighbor by London Clarke

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Claire Vogel is a recently divorced mother of four girls and a successful counselor living in a planned and prestigious community. She knows all her neighbors, and they know her. But Claire has a secret. To cope with hidden, deep-rooted pain, she often participates in risky, reckless behavior...
  • Peek A Boo, I See You by Willow Rose

    Peek A Boo, I See You by Willow Rose

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    ASIN moved from less recent editionThe body of a woman found in front of Nordby City Hall has a message for Emma Frost carved into the skin. Behind this ruthless murder stands a ghostly figure that likes to play childish games. Soon, this killer brings a reign of terror to the small Danish Island and especially to the life of Emma Frost...
  • Cross Your Heart and Hope to Die by Willow Rose

    Cross Your Heart and Hope to Die by Willow Rose

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    ASIN moved from less recent editionWe all know that high school reunions can be a daunting and sometimes horrifying experience. Well, for Emma Frost that is exactly what it becomes when she is invited to meet with all of her old class-mates at a desolated hotel in the most Northern part of Denmark...
  • Midnight by Stephen Leather

    Midnight by Stephen Leather

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Jack Nightingale is on the hunt for the sister he never knew he had. Just three days ago he did a deal with a devil to save his soul from burning in hell. Now he's determined to rescue the only family he has from the same fate...
    Categorized as:
    crime  suspense  adult  audiobook  book  demons  fiction  horror
  • Five, Six... Grab Your Crucifix by Willow Rose

    Five, Six... Grab Your Crucifix by Willow Rose

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    ASIN moved from less recent edition hereThe Priest is a man with a mission from God. He is to help those possessed by evil to finally become free from their stronghold. He has expelled demons for years and had great success.But there is one demon he never managed to cast out. And that demon has now come back to get him...
  • Time to Die by Caroline Mitchell

    Time to Die by Caroline Mitchell

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    He will predict your life… and your death.Don’t ever cross his palm with silver. He will reveal your most shameful secrets. He will predict your death. He is hiding a secret. He is hiding a monster. And all his predictions come true.Investigating a series of chilling murders, Detective Jennifer Knight finds herself tracking a mysterious tarot card reader known only as The Raven...
    Categorized as:
    crime  suspense  adult  audiobook  book  female-mc  fiction  horror
  • Miss Polly had a Dolly by Willow Rose

    Miss Polly had a Dolly by Willow Rose

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    A bone-chilling tale from the Queen of Scream Not for the faint-hearted Miss Polly had a dolly. A beautiful daughter that she called her Baby Doll. Every day she dressed her in dresses and brushed her hair before they went outside to show off to the neighbors...
  • Let Me In by Claire McGowan

    Let Me In by Claire McGowan

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    From the bestselling author of What You Did comes the story of a young couple who are about to discover that in a house full of secrets there’s nowhere to hide…For Helen and George, the remote fixer-upper in Cornwall was supposed to be a dream home, and a way to leave behind the problems they’re both running from. But something about the place feels wrong from day one...
  • The Mirror Man by Lars Kepler

    The Mirror Man by Lars Kepler

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Seventeen-year-old Jenny is abducted in broad daylight and taken to a dilapidated, isolated house where she is chained and caged along with several other girls. Their captor is unpredictable, and as wily as he is cruel: he foils every one of their desperate attempts to escape . . . and once caught they rarely survive their punishment...
    Categorized as:
    crime  suspense  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary  fiction  horror
  • The Midnight Man by Caroline Mitchell

    The Midnight Man by Caroline Mitchell

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    From number one bestselling author Caroline Mitchell, comes the first chilling Slayton thriller for fans of C. J. Tudor and Stephen King.If you open your door to the Midnight Man, hide with a candle wherever you can. Try not to scream as he draws near, because one of you won't be leaving here...On Halloween night in Slayton, five girls go to Blackhall Manor to play the Midnight Game...
  • Red Rain by Dean Koontz

    Red Rain by Dean Koontz

    Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    In a town where the corrupt are protected, a bereaved mother seeks retribution for an arsonist’s deadly crimes. Only Nameless can help ease the burden of her grief—and satisfy her rage—in part four of this thrilling series.After a suspicious house fire, Regina Belmont lost her two children, was left disfigured, and was abandoned by her gutless husband...
  • Salem's Fall by Rektok Ross

    Salem's Fall by Rektok Ross

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A hotshot young attorney. An enigmatic billionaire accused of murder. To uncover the truth, she’ll have to play his game—and try not to fall in love with the devil. James Woodsen is used to being underestimated. Top of her class at Harvard Law, she’s brilliant, beautiful, and now the youngest female associate at Boston’s most elite criminal defense firm...
  • Angel Eyes: The Haunting of January House by A.N. Willis

    Angel Eyes: The Haunting of January House by A.N. Willis

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Everyone in Ashton, Colorado, knows that January House is haunted. Tucked away on an isolated hillside, the place has seen grisly murders and unsolved disappearances. An artists’ commune took up residence there in the 1970s, creating a controversy that still divides the town. Now, a reclusive painter has died in the crumbling house. The police say it’s natural causes...
  • 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...
    Categorized as:
    crime  suspense  adult  audiobook  book  cozy  drama  family
  • Wicked Lies by Lisa Jackson, Nancy Bush

    Wicked Lies by Lisa Jackson, Nancy Bush

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    If At First You Don't SucceedFor two years, Justice Turnbull has paced his room at Halo Valley Security Hospital, planning to escape. Justice has a mission-one that began with a vicious murder two decades ago. And there are so many others who must be sent back to the hell that spawned them. . .Kill. .
    Categorized as:
    crime  suspense  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary  fiction  horror
  • Don't Look Back by Ben Cheetham

    Don't Look Back by Ben Cheetham

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Adam’s eyes swelled in horror at the sight that confronted him. Henry was standing with his back against the front door, pale and rigid, his left hand pressed to his neck. Blood was seeping between his fingers, running down his wrist and dripping from his elbow onto the back of Jacob’s head...
    Categorized as:
    crime  suspense  adult  audiobook  book  fiction  ghosts  gothic
  • The Intruders by Louise Jensen

    The Intruders by Louise Jensen

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    It should be the perfect a manor house available rent free in exchange for a bit of housesitting. But when Cass and James dig deeper, they find the place has been abandoned since a robbery left almost all the inhabitants dead almost thirty years ago. But they’ve got to save for a deposit somehow, so they move in, and things quickly take a strange turn...
  • 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...
    Categorized as:
    crime  suspense  adult  book  fiction  horror  medical  murder
  • Love the Way You Lie by Lisa Unger

    Love the Way You Lie by Lisa Unger

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    What's drawn four damaged people back to haunted land? The answer could destroy them all in a gripping short story about trapped memories and the lies we tell ourselves.Matthew, Claire, and Mason haven't been back to Merle House since the summer they were sixteen. They tried for years to put their history behind them, to forget the mystery of the girl who vanished so long ago...
  • Strangers by Michaelbrent Collings

    Strangers by Michaelbrent Collings

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    You wake up in the morning to discover that you have been sealed into your home. The doors are locked, the windows are barred. THERE'S NO WAY OUT.A madman is playing a deadly game with you and your family. A game with no rules, only consequences...
  • 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...
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