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Ahead of the Game by J.D. Kirk
Rated: 4.55 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsWhen a body is discovered at a popular Highland landmark, it seems like just another day on the job for DCI Jack Logan and his team.Except this body is missing a very vital component, and given its location - The Well of Seven Heads - it seems like someone is trying to send a message... -
![The Accomplice by Steve Cavanagh]()
The Accomplice by Steve Cavanagh
Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsTHE MOST HATED WOMAN IN AMERICAThe Sandman killings have been solved. Daniel Miller murdered fourteen people before he vanished. His wife, Carrie, now faces trial as his accomplice. The FBI, the District Attorney, the media and everyone in America believe she knew and helped cover up her husband's crimes.THE LAWYEREddie Flynn won't take a case unless his client is innocent... -
![Reasonable Fear by Scott Pratt]()
Reasonable Fear by Scott Pratt
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsThree young women are found floating in a lake. The suspect is one of the richest and most powerful men in Tennessee. "Reasonable Fear" is the fourth of the bestselling Joe Dillard series offered by Scott Pratt. In this novel, Dillard has become the district attorney in Northeast Tennessee... -
![The Housemaid's Secret by Freida McFadden]()
The Housemaid's Secret by Freida McFadden
Rated: 4.55 of 5 stars · 11 ratings“Don’t go in the guest bedroom.” A shadow falls on Douglas Garrick’s face as he touches the door with his fingertips. “My wife… she’s very ill.” As he continues showing me their incredible penthouse apartment, I have a terrible feeling about the woman behind closed doors... -
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![Fifty-Fifty by Steve Cavanagh]()
Fifty-Fifty by Steve Cavanagh
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsAlexandra Avellino has just found her father's mutilated body, and needs the police right away. She believes her sister killed him, and that she is still in the house with a knife. Sofia Avellino has just found her father's mutilated body and needs the police right away. She believes her sister, Alexandra did it, and that she is still in the house, locked in the bathroom... -
![Autumn's Game by Mary Stone]()
Autumn's Game by Mary Stone
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 21 ratings‘Till death do us part’ has never been so true...Armed with a slew of advanced degrees and powerful intuition, forensic psychologist Dr. Autumn Trent is ready to conquer the world and touch the lives of its seven billion inhabitants. She’s prepared to fight for justice, right the wrongs...because she knows what it’s like to be wronged... -
![Here After by Sean Costello]()
Here After by Sean Costello
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsLOVE. 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... -
![Witness 8 by Steve Cavanagh]()
Witness 8 by Steve Cavanagh
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThis riveting psychological thriller from master of twists Steve Cavanagh, author of the “unguessable and unputdownable” (Alex Michaelides, #1 New York Times bestselling author) Kill For Me, Kill for You, What if the witness was more twisted than the killer?Something is wrong with Ruby Johnson... -
![It Happened in Silence by Karla M. Jay]()
It Happened in Silence by Karla M. Jay
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsHonorable Mention in the 2022 Eric Hoffer Book Award Historical Fiction Category2021 Benjamin Franklin Silver Award 2021 Finalist Wishing Shelf Book AwardRiveting Southern Fiction by the award-winning author of When We Were Brave. ~Set in a world where women of the KKK betray their neighbors, horrors of unscrupulous foundling homes come to light, and buried mysteries are not all that hidden... -
![Coma Girl: Part 5 by Stephanie Bond]()
Coma Girl: Part 5 by Stephanie Bond
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsNEW! An Amazon exclusive! From the international bestselling author of STOP THE WEDDING! and the BODY MOVERS mystery series comes a new story of family drama, suspense, comedy, and romance. In COMA GIRL, a victim of a tragic event lies in a hospital bed, at the mercy of friends and relatives who think she can't hear them. But she SO can. COMA GIRL is a daily serial available on stephaniebond... -
![Coma Girl: part 3 by Stephanie Bond]()
Coma Girl: part 3 by Stephanie Bond
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsNEW! An Amazon exclusive! From the international bestselling author of STOP THE WEDDING! and the BODY MOVERS mystery series comes a new story of family drama, suspense, comedy, and romance. In COMA GIRL, a victim of a tragic event lies in a hospital bed, at the mercy of friends and relatives who think she can't hear them. But she SO can... -
![Coma Girl: part 2 by Stephanie Bond]()
Coma Girl: part 2 by Stephanie Bond
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsNEW! An Amazon exclusive!From the international bestselling author of STOP THE WEDDING! and the BODY MOVERS mystery series comes a new story of family drama, suspense, comedy, and romance.In COMA GIRL, a victim of a tragic event lies in a hospital bed, at the mercy of friends and relatives who think she can't hear them. But she SO can.The COMA GIRL daily serial is available on stephaniebond... -
![Slow Down by Lee Matthew Goldberg]()
Slow Down by Lee Matthew Goldberg
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHow far would you go to make your dreams come true? For budding writer and filmmaker Noah Spaeth, being a Production Assistant in director Dominick's Bambach's new avant-garde film isn't enough. Neither is watching Dominick have an affair with the lead actress, the gorgeous but troubled Nevie Wyeth. For Noah's dream is to get both the film and Nevie in the end, whatever the cost... -
![Kray: Broken Deeds MC by Esther E. Schmidt]()
Kray: Broken Deeds MC by Esther E. Schmidt
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsKray and North are like a unit, where there's one, there's the other. When the both of them take a case involving a missing agent, they become more involved than they bargained for. Vienna is willing to do anything to find her sister and bring her home safe. Anything except shacking up with the two bikers who are dead set on solving this case... -
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![Paper Roses by Karen Ann Hopkins, Brittany Pressley]()
Paper Roses by Karen Ann Hopkins, Brittany Pressley
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsSome Amish communities aren’t so cozy. Paper Roses is the electrifying new addition to the Serenity’s Plain Secrets’ mystery/crime thriller series. While an archeological team digs up Blood Rock’s sinister past, a forbidden romance begins, and Serenity races to stop a serial killer before he strikes again... -
![Coma Girl: Part 4 by Stephanie Bond]()
Coma Girl: Part 4 by Stephanie Bond
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsFrom the international bestselling author of STOP THE WEDDING! and the BODY MOVERS mystery series comes a new story of family drama, suspense, comedy, and romance. In COMA GIRL, a victim of a tragic event lies in a hospital bed, at the mercy of friends and relatives who think she can't hear them. But she SO can. COMA GIRL is a daily serial available on stephaniebond... -
![Brain Damage by Freida McFadden]()
Brain Damage by Freida McFadden
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 26 ratings"I couldn't put it down!" --Readers' FavoriteAfter years of hard work, Dr. Charly McKenna finally has it all. Prosperous career as a dermatologist? Check. Spacious apartment overlooking Central Park? Check. Handsome lawyer husband? Double check.Then one night, a bullet rips through the right side of her skull and she loses everything... -
![The Advocate's Felony by Teresa Burrell]()
The Advocate's Felony by Teresa Burrell
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsSabre Brown’s phone rings at 2 a.m. It’s her brother Ron. After seven years in the Witness Protection Program, someone has discovered his whereabouts, and has tried to kill him. He’s called to warn Sabre that she is in imminent danger. Sabre and her private investigator, J.P., leave sunny San Diego to search for her brother in the cold, wintry Northwest... -
![Black Widow by Victor Methos]()
Black Widow by Victor Methos
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsMurders With No Motive…Two men are found killed one month apart in luxurious Honolulu hotels. The Honolulu Police Department finds the cases unsolvable. With no discernible motive, and a brutality no one on the force has ever seen, the killings appear to be the work of an intensely deranged mind. A mind the police feel is one step ahead of their investigation... -
![Last Light by Dean Koontz]()
Last Light by Dean Koontz
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsWith 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... -
![Sin City Homicide by Victor Methos]()
Sin City Homicide by Victor Methos
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsA BILLIONAIRE MURDERED . . .The rape-homicide of a prominent Las Vegas couple sends shock waves through the community. With no active leads, the LVPD Homicide Unit is growing desperate.A DETECTIVE WITH A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE . . .Brought in as a consultant, Detective Jon Stanton discovers that there's more to this case than anyone is revealing to him... -
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AF MC Ohio Book Three by Esther E. Schmidt
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsOne nameless encounter six years ago leaves both C.Rash and Magnolia with scorching memories. After all these years they both would like to find the one they shared a one-night stand with, though both for different reasons. Memories can either haunt you or give you the strength to hold on and pull yourself through dark moments. Magnolia experienced both... -
![The Perfect Divorce by Jeneva Rose]()
The Perfect Divorce by Jeneva Rose
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsFrom the author of the multimillion-copy bestselling thriller The Perfect MarriageTill death do us part. Yours. Not Mine. It’s been eleven years since high-powered attorney Sarah Morgan defended her husband, Adam, against the charge of murdering his mistress. Sarah has long since moved on, starting a family with her new husband, Bob Miller, and changing careers... -
![The Juror by George Dawes Green]()
The Juror by George Dawes Green
Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars · 25 ratingsThis is a psychological thriller about a young woman threatened by the Mafia who must return a verdict of 'not guilty' to ensure the safety of her son. The book has been turned into a movie, featuring Alec Baldwin and Demi Moore... -
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![The Edge by Lucy Goacher]()
The Edge by Lucy Goacher
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsSometimes it’s easier to believe the lie. But is the truth right in front of you?Everyone says Poppy jumped. My beautiful, creative sister, with her paint-splattered dresses and sunshine smile, took her own life. And I think they’re right. Until the day I speak to Daniel.Everyone says his sister jumped too. But he has proof that she was pushed... -
![The Abduction by Mark Gimenez]()
The Abduction by Mark Gimenez
Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars · 19 ratingsBen Brice lives alone in the New Mexico wilderness where he battles memories of Vietnam with oceans of Jim Beam. Miles away in Texas, his estranged son, John, an Internet geek-turned-billionaire, half watches his daughter Gracie's soccer game while conducting business on his cell phone. When her mother Elizabeth arrives, the coach reports that her uncle has already collected Gracie... -
![City Dark by Roger A. Canaff]()
City Dark by Roger A. Canaff
Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsA vanished mother, the grip of darkness, a lifelong mystery. Forty years later, a prosecutor faces them all again, this time as a murder suspect in a pulse-pounding legal thriller of psychological suspense.On a steaming night in 1977, New York City is plunged into darkness and two boys, Joe and Robbie, are abandoned by their mother, Lois... -
![Last Patient of the Night by Gary Gerlacher]()
Last Patient of the Night by Gary Gerlacher
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 28 ratings"Last Patient of the Night is M*A*S*H* meets Detective Harry Bosch. It's a thriller that won't disappoint." –Gregory D. Lee, author of An International ThrillerThe death of a nameless young woman in his emergency room spurs physician AJ Docker to seek answers... -
![Little Sister by Gytha Lodge]()
Little Sister by Gytha Lodge
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratings"Detective Jonah Sheens is enjoying a moment of peace in a pub garden on his day off when a teenage girl wanders out of the woods. She's striking, with flame-red hair and a pale complexion. She's also covered in blood. When Jonah races to help, the girl insists she's fine. Then she smiles. It's her sister he needs to worry about... -
![The Perfect Getaway by Elle Gray, K.S. Gray]()
The Perfect Getaway by Elle Gray, K.S. Gray
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsOne by one the guests at the Misty Pines Ski Lodge are dropping dead…After an action-packed year of fighting crime, FBI Agent Olivia Knight is ready for a relaxing getaway with her partner Brock.But trouble has a way of finding her everywhere...Her arrival at the ski lodge is welcomed by chaos with the death of a female guest... -
![A Critical Tangent by Reily Garrett]()
A Critical Tangent by Reily Garrett
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratings“Reily has a way of combining murder, intrigue, twists and turns with just the right amount of romance…” – J. George, VINE VOICEShe doesn’t trust cops.Can the detective trust his instincts?Keiki Tallerman’s life shatters on a remote mountaintop in Pennsylvania after witnessing her best friend’s bizarre execution... -
![Every Pretty Thing by Chris Mooney]()
Every Pretty Thing by Chris Mooney
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIn Every Pretty Thing serial killer hunter Darby McCormick finds herself in Montana, looking for a friend. Little does she realise that a murderer is waiting for her . . .She came to find her friend.Instead she found a killer.Serial killer expert Darby McCormick gets a call from FBI Agent Jackson Cooper, who has been contacted by a woman who's been in hiding for twenty years... -
![The Woman on the Ledge by Ruth Mancini]()
The Woman on the Ledge by Ruth Mancini
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsObsession. Intrigue. Revenge. Whose secrets are you keeping? And why?A woman falls to her death from a London bank’s twenty-fifth-floor roof terrace.You’re arrested for her murder.You tell the police that you had only met the victim the previous night at your office party. She was threatening to jump from the roof, but you had talked her down.You’ve got nothing to do with this tragedy... -
![Underneath by Andie M. Long, Michelle Dunbar]()
Underneath by Andie M. Long, Michelle Dunbar
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFrom the Author of The Alphabet Game comes a tale of drama and suspense. LAUREN LAWLER’s life is visually perfect. However husband Niall seems to have forgotten she exists. Running a Vintage shop on Ebay and meeting her best friend Monique for coffee and shopping, Lauren feels settled but bored... -
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![What Lies Hidden by Fran McDonnell]()
What Lies Hidden by Fran McDonnell
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIsobel McKenzie is an experienced and intuitive psychotherapist who is on sabbatical while recovering from illness. Reluctantly she goes to London to help out an old friend, solicitor Paul Wright, who is uneasy about the partisan nature of a proposed divorce settlement. He asks her to meet the couple, Thomas and Anne Banks, to assess the situation... -
![The Cut by Chris Brookmyre]()
The Cut by Chris Brookmyre
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsA BBC Radio 2 Book Club pick'Strikingly original and definitively Brookmyre - there's nothing he can't do'Mick Herron'I recommend The Cut SO HIGHLY! A fast-paced thriller, lovely characters, [and] it kept me guessing'Marian KeyesThe supremely entertaining, moving, and unpredictable new thriller from multi-award-winning bestseller Chris Brookmyre is a wholly original masterpiece and the best... -
![The Picture on the Fridge by Ian W. Sainsbury, Matthew Lloyd Davies]()
The Picture on the Fridge by Ian W. Sainsbury, Matthew Lloyd Davies
Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars · 19 ratingsMags Barkworth still suffers the effects of a life-changing tragedy over a decade ago. She knows her husband loves her. She knows he would never do anything to hurt her, or their daughter... -
![The Serpent Woman by S.Z. Estavillo]()
The Serpent Woman by S.Z. Estavillo
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe exciting sequel to The Serpent's Bridge...A serial killer is on the loose. With her insidious tattoo and venomous killer strike, they're calling her the serpent woman.Two of the best in their field, LAPD Detective Anaya Nazario and FBI Supervising Special Agent Blake Huxley are forced to work together yet again, despite their strained romantic history and a baby on the way... -
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Raney & Levine by J.A. Schneider
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAnother doctors-&-cops adrenalin-packed thriller: A murderous religious zealot threatens women ("sinners!"), a little baby, and a hospital. First, tension enters Jill Raney's and David Levine's relationship over what to do about newborn Jesse. They both love him, but David feels he'd be safer adopted anonymously... -
![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... -
![Heartbreaker by Tania Carver]()
Heartbreaker by Tania Carver
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAfter years of abuse, Gemma Adderley has finally found the courage to leave her violent husband. She has taken one debilitating beating too many, endured one esteem-destroying insult too much. Taking her seven-year-old daughter Carly, she leaves the house, determined to salvage what she can of her life... -
![Veil of Doubt by Sharon Virts]()
Veil of Doubt by Sharon Virts
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWhen a mother is charged with murder in a town already convinced of her guilt, can defense attorney Powell Harrison find truth and justice in a legal system where innocence is not presumed? Emily Lloyd, a young widow in Reconstruction-era Virginia, is accused of poisoning her three-year-old daughter, Maud... -
![Bird of Prey by Lee Alan]()
Bird of Prey by Lee Alan
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsShe seeks love. He seeks revenge. With Corey fighting for his life and an uncertain future for her unborn child, newly married Anna must face the aftermath of her big day and protect those who need her. But that’s not all. Something is about to happen that will shatter her fragile peace and turn her world upside down once more. An event that will test her and her young family to the limit... -
![Miserable Lies by Nolon King]()
Miserable Lies by Nolon King
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsHow many wrongs make a right?Deputy Chief Quentin “Port” Porter is famous for catching the infamous Magistrate Killer, Linus Cole, whose murder spree included his best friend and partner, Miles Tate.Port’s heroics caught the nation’s imagination, inspiring film and television, and skyrocketing his career while making him famous and wealthy... -
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![One of the Girls by Lucy Clarke]()
One of the Girls by Lucy Clarke
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsFrom the international bestselling author comes a twisty psychological thriller set on a stunning Greek island, One of the Girls tells the delicious story of a bachelorette trip that ends in murder. Perfect for fans of Liane Moriarty and Lucy Foley.It was supposed to be the perfect weekend away... -
![FORTUNE by Erica Spindler]()
FORTUNE by Erica Spindler
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsA mother's ultimate sacrifice... A brother's dark obsession... And one woman's desperate fight for survival... Something dark and dangerous had long shadowed Skye Dearborn's life. She had seen the fear of it in her mother's eyes. It was there, locked in her memories of blood spilling across a gleaming floor. In the sound of her own screams... -
![On My Life by Angela Clarke]()
On My Life by Angela Clarke
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsFramed. Imprisoned. Pregnant.Jenna thought she had the perfect life: a loving fiancé, a great job, a beautiful home. Then she finds her stepdaughter murdered; her partner missing.And the police think she did it...Locked up to await trial, surrounded by prisoners who'd hurt her if they knew what she's accused of, certain someone close to her has framed.. -
![The District Attorney by John Ellsworth]()
The District Attorney by John Ellsworth
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsHave you ever tried to outrun a past that was always ahead of you?Meet Assistant District Attorney Lettie Portman, a prosecutor whose past tries to run her todays. The sex crimes prosecutor didn't get into sex crimes by accident: her own past demanded it. When a fourteen-year-old girl is savagely attacked by mother's live-in boyfriend, Lettie is called to the hospital... -
![Don't Tell Me How to Die by Marshall Karp]()
Don't Tell Me How to Die by Marshall Karp
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsI have one thing to do before I die.And time is running out.I had it all: a fantastic husband, two great kids, an exciting career. And then, at the age of forty-three, I found out I would be dead before my next birthday.My mother also died at forty-three. I was seventeen, and she warned me that women would flock to my suddenly single father like stray cats to an overturned milk truck. They did... -
![The Devil You Know by Freida McFadden]()
The Devil You Know by Freida McFadden
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsDr. Jane McGill is in heaven.She’s got a great job at a VA Hospital, an adorable daughter, and a loving husband. Granted, it would be wonderful if her preschooler wouldn’t wake her up at three in the morning, and it would be a miracle if her husband would change the toilet paper roll once every millennium. Still, in most ways, she has the ideal life she’d always imagined...
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