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  • Due Process by Scott Pratt

    Due Process by Scott Pratt

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    An Amazon Top 30 bestseller.A young exotic dancer claims she was sexually assaulted at a party thrown by a university football team.Three players stand accused.In the ninth installment of the bestselling Joe Dillard series, Dillard finds himself defending one of the players accused of assaulting the young woman...
  • Never Cry Mercy by L.T. Ryan

    Never Cry Mercy by L.T. Ryan

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Even a drifter has to stop once in a while... Jack Noble has crossed the country, never staying too long in one spot. He's not running or hiding. He's buying time. Simply living until the day he can disappear and provide his daughter with a normal life. But when his Jeep dies outside a small Texas town, he finds a reason to stick around for a couple days. An old friend...
  • Midnight Reckoning by Rebecca Deel

    Midnight Reckoning by Rebecca Deel

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Her sister was a world-class jewel thief. But she crossed the wrong person and now Sophie's baby may pay the price. Sophie Valero has spent her life living down her last name. In a family of murderers, thieves, and con artists, she's the black sheep...
  • Triplets Rise by K.L. Savage

    Triplets Rise by K.L. Savage

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Daddy's little girl is all grown up.Things are about to change around here.If there is one thing I won't allow, it's having my dad's MC ran into the ground.Everyone expects my brothers to take charge, but there is one thing no one knows.I'm the one that runs this club.A woman.And according to men, a woman's place is in bed not at the head of the table...
  • The Depth of Darkness by L.T. Ryan, Sean Patrick Hopkins

    The Depth of Darkness by L.T. Ryan, Sean Patrick Hopkins

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Detective Mitch Tanner's life hangs in the balance. He clings to the daughter in his care. He agonizes over the disappearance of his son and estranged wife. Twelve months has yet to turn up a solid lead.While investigating the apparent accidental death of Dusty Anne Miller, Mitch and his partner Sam Foster find themselves in the middle of a fiendish plan that strikes too close to home...
  • Tell No One / Gone For Good by Harlan Coben

    Tell No One / Gone For Good by Harlan Coben

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    From New York Times bestselling author Harlan Coben comes an unforgettable duet of classic novels—two top-notch thrillers filled with the author’s signature storytelling genius.TELL NO ONEFor Dr. David Beck, the loss was shattering. And every day for the past eight years, he has relived the horror of what happened. The gleaming lake. The pale moonlight. The piercing screams...
  • Bone's Destiny by Naomi Porter

    Bone's Destiny by Naomi Porter

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    They say don’t drink too much tequila... Funny, I can’t remember why.Oh, right… Or we’ll wake up chained to a wall.The scary-ass biker staring at me says I’m paying for my father’s debt.I’m devastated and scared.Utterly clueless about my dad’s dirty dealings.The tattooed, brooding biker isn’t helpful or friendly.He just watches me with those laser-gray eyes...
  • Locked In by Lori Matthews

    Locked In by Lori Matthews

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    In the quaint town of Cedar Bluff Maine lies a mystery that even the most secure locks can't contain.Flynn O'Connor, a top-tier operative from the Lock and Key Society, is dispatched to the enigmatic Everlasting Manor—a property whispered to be haunted. Guests report unsettling voices and inexplicable disappearances...
  • An Honest Man by Michael Koryta

    An Honest Man by Michael Koryta

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    From the New York Times bestselling author of Those Who Wish Me The murder of several politicians at sea has shattering implications for a local lobsterman and a young boy in this action-packed thriller. Israel Pike was a killer, and he was an honest man. They were not mutually exclusive...
  • The Perk by Mark Gimenez

    The Perk by Mark Gimenez

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Beck Hardin returns to his Texas hometown - and his estranged father - after the death of his wife leaves him with two children to raise. The town is still reeling from the murder of sixteen-year-old Heidi, whose father - Beck's old college friend - asks Beck to help him find Heidi's killer before the statute of limitations runs out...
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    crime  suspense  action-adventure  adult  book  fiction  legal  mystery
  • Dark Guardian: A New Dawn by Ammar Habib

    Dark Guardian: A New Dawn by Ammar Habib

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Following the events of DARK GUARDIAN, Ethan Daniels has fully embraced his alter ego of The Guardian. His mantle has become a symbol of hope for his nation. After two years of spearheading his mission against the corruption and injustice that has ruled over Crown City for so long, his mission is finally nearing its end...
  • Lost Charity: A Charity Styles Novel by Wayne Stinnett

    Lost Charity: A Charity Styles Novel by Wayne Stinnett

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    After a long hiatus, Charity Styles is itching to get back into the fray. She’s had a succession of minor assignments, none of which provided her with the action she craves.After months of recharging and rethinking her position in the Armstrong organization, she’s on the verge of walking away, returning to what could be a more normal life...
  • Mary Higgins Clark  Carol Higgins Clark Ebook Christmas Set: Christmas Thief, Deck the Halls, Dashing Through the Snow by Mary Higgins Clark, Carol Higgins Clark

    Mary Higgins Clark Carol Higgins Clark Ebook Christmas Set: Christmas Thief, Deck the Halls, Dashing Through the Snow by Mary Higgins Clark, Carol Higgins Clark

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Now, in one eBook boxed set, a collection of suspenseful and humorous holiday stories by Mary Higgins Clark, America’s Queen of Suspense, and her daughter, bestselling mystery writer Carol Higgins Clark...
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    crime  suspense  action-adventure  adult  book  cozy  fiction  heist
  • Tango One by Stephen Leather

    Tango One by Stephen Leather

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    ***Now a motion picture, out 5th March 2018*** In different parts of London, three recruits prepare for their first day at the Metropolitan Police's training centre at Hendon. All three had succeeded in getting into the police in spite of weaknesses. But on their first day, the assistant commissioner announces that he wants them to join a team of undercover detectives...
  • Catherine Coulter - FBI Thriller Series: Books 3-4: The Edge, The Target by Catherine Coulter, Robert Lawrence

    Catherine Coulter - FBI Thriller Series: Books 3-4: The Edge, The Target by Catherine Coulter, Robert Lawrence

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    THE EDGE Baffled by a seemingly supernatural connection to his critically injured sister, an FBI special agent heads to the Oregon coast in search of a more plausible explanation for his sudden ESP, only to discover more puzzling mysteries. FBI agent Ford MacDougal?"Mac"?is recovering from a terrorist car bombing when his sister appears to purposely drive her Porsche off an Oregon cliff...
  • The Contract: Kill Jessica White by Remington Kane

    The Contract: Kill Jessica White by Remington Kane

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    After Jessica's husband learns that a relentless hit man named Tanner was offered the contract to kill his wife, he goes in search of Tanner, which leads to a showdown between the two deadly men...
  • Prepare by Geoffrey Germann

    Prepare by Geoffrey Germann

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    "... cutting-edge......skillful......high-octane....." Kirkus ReviewsAs a small boy, Darren Kiel was witness to his father's corruption and contemptible misconduct. As he grew, that experience gave rise to a seething need to atone for his father's crimes, to set the world aright, to enforce order...
  • What She Saw by Mark Roberts

    What She Saw by Mark Roberts

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The second DCI Rosen novel finds dark forces at work among the children of the estate—serial killer thriller meets occult thriller in a roller-coaster readWhen a nine-year-old boy is left to die inside a burning car on a sink estate in Peckham, DCI David Rosen is drafted in to investigate. The young boy has been severely burned, and is now fighting for his life...
  • Thread of Hope by Jeff Shelby

    Thread of Hope by Jeff Shelby

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    If someone took your child, how soon would you stop looking for her? If someone accused your best friend of a terrible crime, when would you stop defending him?Seven years after Joe Tyler’s daughter Elizabeth was abducted, he hasn’t stopped looking for answers, and he hasn’t forgotten the friend who stood by him as he lost his wife, his home, and his career in his search...
  • All In by Joel Goldman, Lisa Klink

    All In by Joel Goldman, Lisa Klink

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Cassie Ireland works as a modern-day Robin Hood for people who have nowhere else to turn, not even to the police. Jake Carter is a roguish high roller traveling the world to play—and win—big-money poker...
  • Stay Alive by Simon Kernick

    Stay Alive by Simon Kernick

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    ONE WITNESSYou’re on a trip with your family, miles from anywhere. A shot rings out – and your whole life changes in an instant.ONE SECRETA woman is racing towards you, chased by three gunmen. Although you don’t know it, she harbours a deadly secret. She’s in terrible danger. And now you are too.NO ESCAPEYou’re running, terrified, desperate to find safety...
  • Faking a Murderer by Kathy Reichs, Lee Child

    Faking a Murderer by Kathy Reichs, Lee Child

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Jack Reacher walked out of the Baltimore bust depot into a world of frozen streets and dirty snow… In this short story from the thrilling anthology MatchUp, bestselling authors Kathy Reichs and Lee Child—along with their popular series characters Temperance Brennan and Jack Reacher—team up for the first time ever...
  • Bitch Creek by William G. Tapply

    Bitch Creek by William G. Tapply

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    William G. Tapply has created a fresh new world in BITCH CREEK, a steamy, perfectly crafted mystery introducing Stoney Calhoun, an unlikely hero. Stoney is a man without a past. A lightning strike obliterated his memory, and, as so many might like to do, he was given a chance to completely reinvent himself. That's not an easy task when a man doesn't know the slightest thing about himself...
  • Storm File by C.B. Samet

    Storm File by C.B. Samet

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    She's a professional bodyguard who leaves nothing to chance. He’s a rockstar who stands to lose everything.Billy Jean Parrish is a marine turned professional bodyguard. She thrives on discipline and order, and she’s never lost a client. But when she takes an investigative role in the attempted assassination of devilishly handsome rockstar, Ethan Storm, she’s out of her depth—in more ways than one...
  • The Water Rat of Wanchai + The Dragon Head King of Hong Kong by Ian Hamilton

    The Water Rat of Wanchai + The Dragon Head King of Hong Kong by Ian Hamilton

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    Get the very first book in the wildly popular Ava Lee series, which includes the prequel — The Dragon Head of Hong KongIn the first electrifying book of the series, Ian Hamilton introduces us to Ava Lee — the smartest, most stylish heroine in crime fiction since Lisbeth Salandar...
  • Run by Jeremy Bates

    Run by Jeremy Bates

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    YOU CAN RUN BUT YOU CAN'T HIDEDuring a camping trip to the Catskill Mountains, Charlotte's boyfriend Luke, a former soldier suffering PTSD, goes on a rampage, nearly killing Charlotte and her two friends. A year later Charlotte is a graduate student in the small college town of Ashenville, North Carolina...
  • Cross Current by Christine Kling

    Cross Current by Christine Kling

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Christine Kling’s first novel, Surface Tension, introduced a remarkable sleuth in Seychelle Sullivan. Now, in Kling’s electrifying new book, Sullivan returns–a tall, strong, beautiful woman in a man’s world, caught up in a complex drama set on the South Florida seacoast, where the crimes, hopes, and follies of dreamers and con artists all come washing ashore...
  • Killing Kelly by Heather Graham

    Killing Kelly by Heather Graham

    Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Playing a malicious diva on a popular daytime soap, actress Kelly Trent has garnered more than her fair share of hate mail. She doesn't believe anyone would really confuse her with her character, but when an accident on the set hits too close for the producers' comfort, Kelly is unceremoniously put on hiatus...
  • The Bone Orchard by Daniel Judson

    The Bone Orchard by Daniel Judson

    Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    A TOWN GETTING AWAY WITH MURDERBeneath the glamour of a trendy Hamptons summer town lies another world–one of dark lives and desperate secrets. And when Labor Day arrives and the beautiful people depart, locals like Declan MacManus are left behind to make a living out of just surviving. A sometime P.I...
  • Hear No Evil by James Grippando

    Hear No Evil by James Grippando

    Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Miami attorney Jack Swyteck is involved in the most explosive criminal trial of his career -- a case that starts with a murder on a military base and concludes with a shocking surprise that will change Jack's life forever.A beautiful woman comes to see Jack and begs him to represent her. She says she's about to be arrested for the murder of her husband, an officer stationed at Guantanamo Bay...
  • The Rabbit Skinners by John Eidswick

    The Rabbit Skinners by John Eidswick

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Silver Medal Winner of the 2020 Readers' Favorite International Book Awards for General Mystery Fiction!FBI special agent James Strait, hailed as a national hero for stopping a major terrorist attack, is disabled by a rare disease. Until a child asks him to use his skills to find her missing friend...
  • Dead Man Running by Theresa Ragan

    Dead Man Running by Theresa Ragan

    Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    NYT bestselling author Theresa Ragan’s newest suspense, DEAD MAN RUNNING, is set in motion when an accused murderer escapes prison in a body bag and sets out to prove his innocence...
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    crime  suspense  action-adventure  adult  book  drama  fiction  mystery
  • Shipkiller-C by Bernard Scott

    Shipkiller-C by Bernard Scott

    Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    It was the largest moving object on the face of the earth, but for Carolyn and Peter Hardin it was a towering wall of steel bursting out of a squall at full speed, bearing down on their ketch Siren. In a few dramatic moments, Siren was shattered by the indifferent juggernaut...
  • Kiss & Die by Lee Weeks

    Kiss & Die by Lee Weeks

    Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Ruby is looking for love- but her kiss is deadly... A serial killer is on the loose and it appears to be a woman-her target, adulterous businessmen. After picking them up in bars, she brutally tortures her victims before decapitating them. Meanwhile, Hong Kong detective Johnny Mann is still struggling to deal with his dead father's legacy of corruption and triad involvement...
  • The Source by Michael Cordy

    The Source by Michael Cordy

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    It’s not a myth. It exists. Find it. Geologist Ross Kelly has it all: a lucrative career searching for oil across the world and a beautiful, brilliant wife, Lauren, pregnant with their fist child. But when Lauren, a Yale academic, deciphers the university’s mysterious Voynich manuscript, which has confounded experts for centuries, everything changes...
  • Vertical Burn by Earl Emerson

    Vertical Burn by Earl Emerson

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Six months after firefighter John Finney fought his way out of a burning Seattle warehouse to get help, no one remembers him giving the directions that pinpointed his partner’s position inside. No one can remember anything about Finney except that he left his friend to die. But Finney doesn’t believe the fire was an accident. And he doesn’t believe the campaign against him is one either...
  • Dark Tiger by William G. Tapply

    Dark Tiger by William G. Tapply

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Seven years ago, Stoney Calhoun woke up in a VA hospital with no memories and a series of unexplained talents (language ability, weapons expertise, etc.). Since then he’s been living quietly, working as a part time fishing guide and co-owner of a local bait shop—with an unnamed visitor coming around occasionally to see if he’s regained any memories...
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    crime  suspense  action-adventure  adult  book  cozy  fiction  mystery
  • Ferris' Bluff by Fred Limberg

    Ferris' Bluff by Fred Limberg

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Ace is on the run from everyone! The feds want him back in the Witness Protection Program. An international collection of gangsters and arms-merchants he pissed off working undercover are still looking for him. And worst of all-his own scarred self-image and terrifying nightmares haunt him almost every damn day...
  • Nick of Time by John Gilstrap

    Nick of Time by John Gilstrap

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    John Gilstrap's pulse-pounding serial together in one book for the first time!“A page-turning thriller with strong characters, exciting action, and a big heart.” —Heather GrahamA pulse-pounding novel of two young lovers on the ultimate joyride—racing against the clock and against the law . . .SHE’S RUNNING OUT OF TIMENicki Janssen’s days are numbered, but she refuses to accept her fate lying down...
  • Murder Island by James Patterson, Brian Sitts

    Murder Island by James Patterson, Brian Sitts

    Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Prof. Brandt Savage—grandson of the legendary hero Doc Savage—is back in a new action-adventure thriller!    They thought they found heaven on earth. But their paradise becomes a nightmare when Professor Brandt Savage and his girlfriend Kira Sunlight stumble on a terrifying conspiracy​...
  • Predatory Kill by Kenneth Eade

    Predatory Kill by Kenneth Eade

    Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Live the mystery and suspense of the best selling legal thrillerCan too big to fail get away with murder?#1 best selling financial thriller and #1 best selling political thriller. A compelling legal novel by the best selling author of "An Involuntary Spy"...
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    crime  suspense  action-adventure  adult  book  fiction  legal  mystery
  • No Human Involved by Barbara Seranella

    No Human Involved by Barbara Seranella

    Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Munch Mancini wants a new life. To make ends meet, she is working as an auto mechanic in Venice, California, and trying to lose old habits. But she has more to kick than a heroin addiction--she's wanted for murder. As usual, there's no one to turn to for help, so it's up to Munch alone to clean up her act, clear her name, and save her life...
  • Tiger by Wesley Robert Lowe

    Tiger by Wesley Robert Lowe

    Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    This is an alternate title/cover edition for B06VX5FB2J Is the girl of his dreams worth the nightmare of life?Meet Noah Reid. Born to American missionaries in Shanghai. Mentored by Shaolin grandmaster in Hong Kong. That makes him Yin and Yang: compassionate, yet lethal; ferocious, yet charming; serious, yet sexy. He's a special kind of action hero...
  • Perilous by Tamara Hart Heiner

    Perilous by Tamara Hart Heiner

    Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Detective Carl Hamilton is called out on a homicide case, where the partially decayed body of an unidentified teenage girl is found along a remote highway. . . . Weeks before, Jaci Rivera join her best friends Callie, Sara and Amanda for a night of pizza and shopping...
  • A WALK IN THE RAIN: A journey of love and redemption by Udai Yadla

    A WALK IN THE RAIN: A journey of love and redemption by Udai Yadla

    Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Love is poison that kills you. Love is elixir that keeps you alive. An unreciprocated love keeps you alive, but kills every day. Heartbroken Sunny lives a reclusive life, trapped in the past, living in his memories. He has no complaints about his life, but refuses to embrace the present. Saloni is a prostitute who is desperate to earn money by any means...
  • Vegas Moon by John Locke

    Vegas Moon by John Locke

    Rated: 3.79 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    In order to save his own life, Donovan Creed signs on as bodyguard to the most famous gambler in Las Vegas history, Jim “Lucky” Peters. Lucky, worth millions, has hit a losing streak and must raise a lot of cash in a short period of time from some of the world’s creepiest people...
  • Hell Is Always Today by Harry Patterson, Jack Higgins

    Hell Is Always Today by Harry Patterson, Jack Higgins

    Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    When the body of a young woman --- the fifth to die in as many weeks --- is found in a rain-soaked alley, the city is gripped with mortal fear. A mad killer known as the Rainlover walks among them, and no one, not even the police, know when he will strike again.But Detective Sergeant Dick Miller has more than the Rainlover on his mind --- the boxer-turned-expert-cat-burglar Gunner Sean Doyle...
  • Never Go Back by Robert Goddard

    Never Go Back by Robert Goddard

    Rated: 3.79 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    In the spellbinding new mystery by the master of “the clever twist,” a group of ex-RAF comrades journey to a Scottish castle for a reunion. But by the time they reach their destination, two of them are dead.Harry Barnett is leading a contented life in Vancouver with his wife and daughter when he is brought back to England by the death of his mother...
  • The Eden Prophecy by Graham Brown

    The Eden Prophecy by Graham Brown

    Rated: 3.70 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    From Graham Brown, co-author of the New York Times bestselling thriller Devil's Gate with Clive Cussler, comes The Eden Prophecy . . .The wisdom of faith. The power of science. The evil of man.In the U.N. building in New York City, a U.S. Ambassador contracts an unknown virus after opening a threatening letter. In a slum near Paris, a rogue geneticist is found dead, tortured and defiled...
  • Thirst by L.A. Larkin

    Thirst by L.A. Larkin

    Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    'The best Antarctic thriller since Ice Station.' James PhelanAntarctica is the coldest, most isolated place on earth. Luke Searle, maverick glaciologist, has made it his home. But soon his survival skills will be tested to the limit by a ruthless mercenary who must win at any cost. The white continent is under attack. The Australian team is being hunted down...
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