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  • Shattered / Whispers / Watchers by Dean Koontz

    Shattered / Whispers / Watchers by Dean Koontz

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Three more electrifying thrillers by the new king of the genre. The New York Times #1 bestselling author's terrifying masterpieces: Watchers (his personal favorite), Whispers and Shattered, now for the first time in one hardcover edition...
  • The Dying Hour by Rick Mofina

    The Dying Hour by Rick Mofina

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    In Book 1, The Dying Hour introduces Jason Wade, a rookie crime reporter with The Seattle Mirror, a loner who grew up in the shadow of a brewery in one of the city's blue-collar neighborhoods. At The Seattle Mirror, he is competing for the single full-time job being offered through the paper's intense intern program...
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    suspense  thriller  adult  audiobook  book  crime  fiction  horror
  • Eden Rising by Brett Battles

    Eden Rising by Brett Battles

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    From thriller and suspense master Brett Battles comes Eden Rising, the fifth book in the continuing Project Eden saga.The Sage Flu pandemic is sweeping across the globe, killing almost everyone in its path. Those who have so far avoided its deathly grip struggle to remain among the living...
  • Ebola K 2 by Bobby Adair

    Ebola K 2 by Bobby Adair

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Ebola, Terrorism, and Hope The Ebola virus in Kapchorwa has mutated into an airborne strain. Terrorists have infected themselves with this new strain and are making their escape from Uganda, bent on spreading the deadly disease to western countries. The CIA is fighting to stop them while the Department of Homeland Security prepares a country for the coming pestilence...
  • Feral Outbreak by Sean Liscom

    Feral Outbreak by Sean Liscom

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    POST-APOCALYPTIC FICTION by Sean LiscomIn the wake of the cataclysmic events that reshaped our world in 2020, a sense of relief washed over us all. By late 2023, I think we were ready to just live life again. I know I was. It was a time to make new friends and put the past to rest. Rayne and I hadn’t known each other long, but we were building a solid friendship, nothing more...
  • Anatomy by Sebastian Fitzek, Michael Tsokos

    Anatomy by Sebastian Fitzek, Michael Tsokos

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    This is the autobiographic work by German inference fiction master according to his personal experience. Only the readers with high IQ can understand the ending...
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    suspense  thriller  crime  mystery  fiction  horror  audiobook  book
  • The Forbidden Door by Dean Koontz

    The Forbidden Door by Dean Koontz

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 33 ratings
    Jane Hawk—rogue FBI agent and the country's #1 fugitive--confronts her worst nightmare when her enemies strike shockingly close to home in the explosive new thriller from Dean Koontz, bestselling author of The Silent Corner.Jane Hawk thinks her precious five-year-old son is hidden safely away, with vigilant, indomitable friends...
  • Home Is Where the Bodies Are by Jeneva Rose

    Home Is Where the Bodies Are by Jeneva Rose

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    From New York Times bestselling author of The Perfect Marriage and You Shouldn't Have Come Here, comes a chilling family thriller about the (sometimes literal) skeletons in the closet. After their mother passes, three estranged siblings reunite to sort out her estate. Beth, the oldest, never left home. She stayed with her mom, caring for her until the very end...
  • Evil Unveiled by Robert McCammon

    Evil Unveiled by Robert McCammon

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    "New York Times" bestselling author Robert McCammon continues his triumphant return with the conclusion of an epic tale of suspense that reinstates him as one of the great storytellers of our time....The Carolinas, 1699: After hearing damning testimony from the townspeople of Fount Royal, magistrate Isaac Woodward sentences the accused witch, Rachel Howarth, to death by burning...
  • The Victim by Jonas Saul

    The Victim by Jonas Saul

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    In Book Five, Sarah Roberts is The Victim.Sarah is killed in a horrible car accident, the DNA found in the car verified as hers. But the government men at the Sophia Project have faked her death to keep her to themselves.After her funeral, she shows up in the food court of a busy mall where a violent exchange takes place. Things go wrong fast...
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    suspense  thriller  adult  book  fiction  horror  mystery  paranormal
  • Widow Town by Joe Hart

    Widow Town by Joe Hart

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    In the future there is no such thing as a serial killer.A breakthrough research project has detected an active gene present in all known psychopaths and developed a vaccine to make it completely dormant. People are inoculated at birth. Society has rejoiced the extinction of the sociopathic mind. There hasn’t been a serial killing in America in over forty years...
  • Le Manuscrit Inachevé by Franck Thilliez, Jean-Yves Berteloot

    Le Manuscrit Inachevé by Franck Thilliez, Jean-Yves Berteloot

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Aux alentours de Grenoble, un jeune a fini sa trajectoire dans un ravin après une course-poursuite avec la douane. Dans son coffre, le corps d’une femme, les orbites vides, les mains coupées et rassemblées dans un sac...
  • Long After Midnight by Iris Johansen

    Long After Midnight by Iris Johansen

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    She wanted to save lives.  The killer wanted to end hers.The first warning was triggered hundreds of miles away.  The second warning exploded only yards from where she and her son stood.  Now Kate Denby realizes the frightening truth:  She is somebody's target.Danger has arrived in Kate's backyard with a vengeance...
  • Whispers of the Dead by Simon Beckett

    Whispers of the Dead by Simon Beckett

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    In plain black letters were the words Anthropological Research Facility,' but it was better known but another, less formal name. Most people just called it The Body Farm.The victim has been bound and torturer, the body decomposed beyond recognition...A second body is found...
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    medical  suspense  thriller  adult  audiobook  book  crime  fiction
  • Never Lie by Freida McFadden

    Never Lie by Freida McFadden

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 40 ratings
    Newlyweds Tricia and Ethan are searching for the house of their dreams.But when they visit the remote manor that once belonged to Dr. Adrienne Hale, a renowned psychiatrist who vanished without a trace four years earlier, a violent winter storm traps them at the estate… with no chance of escape until the blizzard comes to an end...
  • The Reaper's Game by Layton Green

    The Reaper's Game by Layton Green

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Is it murder from beyond the grave . . . or the final ruse of a twisted serial killer?Three years ago, a deranged murderer dubbed the Halloween Killer butchered half a dozen people in New Orleans. He was caught and sentenced to die. Just before his execution, the Halloween Killer vowed to take revenge on the district attorney who put him behind bars...
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    suspense  thriller  adult  book  fiction  horror  investigator  mystery
  • The Rage Colony by Shanon Hunt

    The Rage Colony by Shanon Hunt

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    They promised purification.They delivered poison.One that hijacks the mind. A plague that will change humanity forever.From the author of The Pain Colony comes the highly anticipated second book in The Colony series.Investigative reporter Nick Slater could have been the best in the business if only he hadn’t gone off the rails chasing a conspiracy theory...
  • Class of 1989: A Post Viral Apocalyptic Story by Jack Hunt

    Class of 1989: A Post Viral Apocalyptic Story by Jack Hunt

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Graduating was tough, the 30-year reunion will be deadly. A group of estranged friends, now in their forties, reunite in Gerlach, Nevada for their 30-year high school reunion at the time of the annual Burning Man Festival. They soon find themselves at the heart of a viral apocalypse and are forced to rely on the very people they were at odds with to survive...
  • Hideout by Jack Heath

    Hideout by Jack Heath

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A tense, unputdownable thriller from the author of Hangman.Timothy Blake has nothing to lose. He's headed to an isolated house in rural Texas with a hammer in his pocket and murder on his mind. His target is Fred, the ringleader of a criminal empire on the dark web. Once Fred is gone, Blake can disappear for good.But it turns out that Fred isn't alone. Five other psychopaths live in the house...
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    suspense  thriller  adult  audiobook  book  crime  fiction  horror
  • Psychosis by Tony Marturano

    Psychosis by Tony Marturano

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    “Police, what is your emergency?” “They’re in the house and they’re going to kill me…” “My name is Marco and I am flawed. I know that. And I was fine with it until it cost me my family. Now, I’ll do anything to get them back – even see a therapist. Which is a joke, because I am a therapist. At least I was before I was fired...
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    suspense  thriller  adult  audiobook  book  fiction  horror  mystery
  • Speak the Dead by Grant McKenzie

    Speak the Dead by Grant McKenzie

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    When Sally Blue was six years old, sleeping peacefully in her bed, a gunshot woke her up and subsequently ripped her world apart.Jolted awake by the scary noise, Sally ran to her parent's bedroom for comfort. Instead, she found her mother slumped against the headboard, her ravaged nightdress drenched from a double-barreled wound...
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    suspense  thriller  adult  book  crime  fiction  horror  mystery
  • Last Call by Sean Costello

    Last Call by Sean Costello

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    THIS BOOK is RATED-R FOR LANGUAGE by the publisher.In the space of a single day, twenty-year-old Trish West purchases her first car, gets accepted into veterinary college, and finds her rockstar father, Jim Gamble, a man who vanished into the streets before she was born and now clings to life in a Toronto intensive care unit.Eager to establish a relationship with Mr...
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    suspense  thriller  adult  book  crime  domestic-drama  fiction  horror
  • Ashes to Ashes:  The Dragon's Flame by John Saul

    Ashes to Ashes: The Dragon's Flame by John Saul

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    When library assistant Rebecca Morrison comes across a beautifully ornate cigarette lighter in the shape of a fire breathing dragon, she gives it to her cousin, unwittingly igniting an evil that can only originate from the terrifying Blackstone Asylum. This is third installment in "The Blackstone Chronicles", Saul's serial novel about the horrors that plague a small New England town...
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    suspense  thriller  adult  book  fiction  horror  mystery  pulp
  • Asylum by John Saul

    Asylum by John Saul

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Editor Oliver Metcalf has written a provocative article on the Asylum that implies there may be a curse on the town. The community is outraged, charging him with inflaming hysteria. More urgent is the mysterious disappearance of Rebecca Morrison. As Blackstone rallies to find the missing woman, a mysterious package arrives on Harvey Connally’s front porch...
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    suspense  thriller  adult  book  fiction  horror  mystery  pulp
  • Black for Remembrance by Carlene Thompson

    Black for Remembrance by Carlene Thompson

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Caroline Webb knows what it means to lose the person you love most. Twenty years ago, her five-year-old daughter, Hayley, was the light of her life, her treasure, her angle. Then came the terrible day when Hayley was kidnapped from her favorite swing. More than a month passed before her burned, lifeless body was found. All that remained was the silence of Caroline's heartache--and her guilt..
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    suspense  thriller  adult  book  contemporary  crime  fiction  horror
  • Twist of Fate: The Locket by John Saul

    Twist of Fate: The Locket by John Saul

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Jules Hartwick should be on top of the world. He has a distinguished career as president of the First National Bank of Blackstone, and his lovely daughter will soon be married. But his contentment is shattered: he's under investigation by the Federal Reserve--and that frightening audit threatens the financing of the Blackstone Center, which is slated to rise on the site of the old Asylum...
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    suspense  thriller  adult  book  fiction  horror  mystery  pulp
  • In the Shadow of Evil: The Handkerchief by John Saul

    In the Shadow of Evil: The Handkerchief by John Saul

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    While researching an historical piece on the Asylum for the town’s newspaper, editor Oliver Metcalf digs through the attic that once belonged to his father, the last superintendent of the facility. There, among the dusty medical records, Oliver discovers a beautifully embroidered linen handkerchief with an ornate “R” in one corner...
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    suspense  thriller  adult  book  fiction  horror  mystery  pulp
  • Under the Dome: Part Two by Stephen King

    Under the Dome: Part Two by Stephen King

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    All hell has broken loose in Chester's Mill after an invisible force field suddenly and inexplicably descends on the small Maine town, isolating all within it from the outside world. As the grim reality of the situation dawns and panic sets in, each other town's denizens reveals their true nature in the face of shortages, rationing, lawlessness, and uncertainty...
  • La Ligne noire by Jean-Christophe Grangé

    La Ligne noire by Jean-Christophe Grangé

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Il existe, quelque part en Asie du Sud-Est, entre le tropique du Cancer et la ligne de l'Equateur, une autre ligne. Une ligne noire jalonnée de corps et d'effroi..
  • Exit 9 by Brett Battles

    Exit 9 by Brett Battles

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    From thriller and suspense master Brett Battles comes Exit Nine, the second book in the Project Eden thriller series.Before, it was just a test, a little demonstration to see if the virus worked. It did, and so much better than its creators could have ever hoped.But the testing phase is over. It’s time for Project Eden to take the next step...
  • Pale Horse by Brett Battles

    Pale Horse by Brett Battles

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    A simple push of a button and the world will never be the same.Martina Gable returns home from college to spend Christmas break with her family, but the relaxing vacation she expects is not even close to what she'll get. Sanjay, a young man in Mumbai who knows more than he should about Project Eden’s plan, will do whatever he can to keep Kusum, the girl he loves, alive and safe...
  • A Single Light by Tosca Lee

    A Single Light by Tosca Lee

    Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    In this sequel to The Line Between, cult escapee Wynter Roth and ex-soldier Chase Miller emerge from their bunker to find a country ravaged by disease, and Wynter is the only one who can save it. Six months after vanishing into an underground silo with sixty others, Wynter and Chase emerge to find the area abandoned...
  • The Cross by Steve Cavanagh

    The Cross by Steve Cavanagh

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    An exclusive race against time ebook short thriller. **Contains an extract from Steve Cavanagh's brilliant debut novel, THE DEFENCE** Eddie Flynn, con-man turned criminal lawyer, has an impossible choice.He has damning evidence against a corrupt NYPD detective who stands accused of killing a suspect...
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    thriller  suspense  crime  fiction  mystery  legal  horror  book
  • ASBO by Iain Rob Wright

    ASBO by Iain Rob Wright

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    YOUR FEAR IS THEIR ENTERTAINMENT...Andrew’s life is one of bored contentedness: a teenage daughter, a faithful wife, and a middle-class job. He even has a Mercedes. His life is without drama, and the comfort of middle-age is setting in.That all changes when he refuses to buy a pack of cigarettes for the local gang of youths...
  • Flashback by Michael Palmer

    Flashback by Michael Palmer

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Toby is eight years old. He had a routine operation. It was fine. Now he's gone home to terror. Months have passed. But Toby still bursts into tortured screams. Because something is very wrong. Toby can remember evey moment of the operation. All the trauma. All the pain. He relives evrey horrifying detail of surgery while he's awake...
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    medical  suspense  thriller  adult  book  crime  fiction  horror
  • Vertige by Franck Thilliez

    Vertige by Franck Thilliez

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
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  • The Crypt by Jonas Saul

    The Crypt by Jonas Saul

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    The Crypt, Sarah Roberts Book 3, opens with Sarah Roberts walking the streets of Budapest in search of a weapon.A strange man in a fedora has been following her. Before she can find out who he is she’s arrested and brought to a Hungarian jail. After her release, she’s ordered out of the country. The man in the fedora shows up at her hotel...
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    suspense  thriller  adult  book  fiction  horror  mystery  paranormal
  • Deuils de miel by Franck Thilliez

    Deuils de miel by Franck Thilliez

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Meurtre dans une église ... Une femme nue, rasée, intérieurement explosée...Sur son crane, des papillons, vivants... un message codé, gravé dans la pierre ... la menace de fléaux... Le mythe de l apocalypse et ses multitudes de victimes deviendra-t-il réalité ? C est ce que le commissaire Sharko tentera d empêcher, par tous les moyens, au cours d une enquête plus qu éprouvante...
  • Outbreak by Robert Tine

    Outbreak by Robert Tine

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Based on the film of the same name starring Dustin Hoffman, this is the story of a doctor fighting a virus created by the British secret service in Africa. He begins to notice that people in the US are dying of a similar mysterious illness. As he begins to investigate he uncovers foul play...
  • The Island by Adrian McKinty

    The Island by Adrian McKinty

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    IT WAS JUST SUPPOSED TO BE A FAMILY VACATION.A TERRIBLE ACCIDENT CHANGED EVERYTHING.YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU'RE CAPABLE OF UNTIL THEY COME FOR YOUR FAMILY.After moving from a small country town to Seattle, Heather Baxter marries Tom, a widowed doctor with a young son and teenage daughter...
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    suspense  thriller  adult  audiobook  book  crime  fiction  horror
  • Alchemist by Peter James

    Alchemist by Peter James

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    As chilling as Stephen King as credible as Michael Crichton - a gripping novel of terror and...
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    medical  suspense  thriller  adult  book  crime  fiction  horror
  • The Pain Colony by Shanon Hunt

    The Pain Colony by Shanon Hunt

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Six dead bodies with one disturbing similarity. An illicit genetic experiment. A secret society of true believers willing to do whatever it takes to become Pure.And this is only the beginning.DEA Special Agent Peter Malloy is no stranger to the devastating impact of drugs. So when six bodies turn up with surgical ports implanted in their spines, he's sure a potent new opioid is the culprit...
  • From Black Rooms by Stephen Woodworth

    From Black Rooms by Stephen Woodworth

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Natalie Lindstrom has finally left the underworld behind for a new career in the art world. But there's one world she can't escape: the Other world of the dead. As a former Violet, an elite crime-fighter with the power to channel murder victims, Natalie is now using her paranormal gift to summon the spirits of legendary painters...
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    suspense  thriller  adult  book  fiction  horror  mystery  paranormal
  • The Last Whisper in the Dark by Tom Piccirilli

    The Last Whisper in the Dark by Tom Piccirilli

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Professional thief Terrier Rand hasn’t gotten caught yet. It’s only his conscience chasing at his heels. In the follow-up to Tom Piccirilli’s acclaimed novel The Last Kind Words, prodigal thief Terrier Rand has come home to the family that has lawbreaking in its blood...
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    suspense  thriller  adult  book  crime  fiction  horror  mystery
  • The Specimen by Jaima Fixsen

    The Specimen by Jaima Fixsen

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Walk carefully, lest you become a part of Dr. Burnett's collection…1826. Isobel Tait finds herself, by chance, staring at a tiny human heart floating in a jar. It should be of little consequence; Dr. Burnett is renowned for his collection of oddities and medical specimens, and this, a juvenile heart with a damaged mitral valve, is not the strangest thing on display...
  • The Soul Hunter by Melanie Wells

    The Soul Hunter by Melanie Wells

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Peter Terry Returns A knock at her door. A bloody axe. A murder weapon in her own living room. The elusive white man with the slash on his back is out hunting again, chasing souls. Peter Terry is haunting minds, invading dreams, and wrecking lives. As Dylan Foster searches for answers, she stumbles upon a dark cult of angel worship...
  • Lincoln Hospital by Cassia Brightmore

    Lincoln Hospital by Cassia Brightmore

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    On the twenty-third day—he hunts, bringing the scum of the earth to justice; his justice. Ending up as a patient on Dr. O’Reilly’s table could either save your life or end it in the most horrific way. New York City. The infamous city that never sleeps; the place where dreams either shine brightly or shatter into razor sharp pieces of metal. For Dr...
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    medical  suspense  thriller  adult  book  contemporary  crime  dark
  • Upon A Pale Horse by Russell Blake

    Upon A Pale Horse by Russell Blake

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A controversial, frightening bio-thriller that blurs the line between truth and fiction, Upon A Pale Horse raises disturbing questions about the man-made origin of nightmare epidemics, and posits a conspiracy so plausible that it will linger long after the novel's shocking conclusion...
  • First Night of Summer by Landon Parham

    First Night of Summer by Landon Parham

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

    Fatal Trauma by Richard L. Mabry

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A gunman who has nothing to lose faces a doctor who could lose it all to prove his innocence...
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