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  • Dark Sky by C.J. Box

    Dark Sky by C.J. Box

    Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett must accompany a Silicon Valley CEO on a hunting trip--but soon learns that he himself may be the hunted--in the thrilling new novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author C. J. Box...
  • Hellbent by Gregg Hurwitz

    Hellbent by Gregg Hurwitz

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    To some he was Orphan X. Others knew him as the Nowhere Man. But to Jack Johns he was a boy named Evan Smoak. Taken from an orphanage, Evan was raised inside a top-secret government programme and trained to become a lethal weapon. By Jack. And yet for all the dangerous skill he instilled in his young charge, Jack Jones cared for Evan like a son...
  • All In by Jennifer Lynn Barnes

    All In by Jennifer Lynn Barnes

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Three casinos. Three bodies. Three days. After a string of brutal murders in Las Vegas, Cassie Hobbes and the Naturals are called in to investigate. But even with the team's unique profiling talents, these murders seem baffling: unlike many serial killers, this one uses different methods every time. All of the victims were killed in public, yet the killer does not show up on any tape...
  • Bad Blood by Jennifer Lynn Barnes

    Bad Blood by Jennifer Lynn Barnes

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    When Cassie Hobbes joined the FBI's Naturals program, she had one goal: uncover the truth about her mother's murder. But now, everything Cassie thought she knew about what happened that night has been called into question. Her mother is alive, and the people holding her captive are more powerful—and dangerous—than anything the Naturals have faced so far...
  • Dark Horse by Gregg Hurwitz

    Dark Horse by Gregg Hurwitz

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Gregg Hurwitz's New York Times bestselling series returns when Orphan X faces his most challenging mission ever in Dark Horse.Evan Smoak is a man with many identities and a challenging past. As Orphan X, he was a government assassin for the off-the-books Orphan Program...
  • The Night Window by Dean Koontz

    The Night Window by Dean Koontz

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    #1 New York Times bestselling author Dean Koontz brings Jane Hawk's one-woman war to an explosive climax as the rogue FBI agent wages her final battle against a terrifying conspiracy--for vengeance, for justice, and for humanity's freedom."Jane Hawk is arguably the best character Koontz has created. Simply put, wow...
  • Killer Instinct by Jennifer Lynn Barnes

    Killer Instinct by Jennifer Lynn Barnes

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Seventeen-year-old Cassie Hobbes has a gift for profiling people. Her talent has landed her a spot in an elite FBI program for teens with innate crime-solving abilities, and into some harrowing situations. After barely escaping a confrontation with an unbalanced killer obsessed with her mother's murder, Cassie hopes she and the rest of the team can stick to solving cold cases from a distance...
  • To Die For by David Baldacci

    To Die For by David Baldacci

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    From #1 New York Times bestselling author, David Baldacci, the 6:20 Man returns, this time sent to the Pacific Northwest to aid the FBI in a case that gets more complicated with the more questions Devine asks—and he’s about to come face-to-face with his nemesis, the girl on the train. Travis Devine has become a pro at adapting to any situation to accomplish the mission set in front of him...
  • The Final Hour by Andrew Klavan

    The Final Hour by Andrew Klavan

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    "You're not alone. You're never alone."Charlie West has held on to that belief, but now he's starting to wonder. He went to bed one night an ordinary high-school kid. When he woke up, he was wanted for murder and hunted by a ruthless band of terrorists. He's been on the run ever since...
  • Airliner Down by John Etzil

    Airliner Down by John Etzil

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Flight 2262 is bound for paradise, but a rogue terrorist could send it to the bottom of the ocean…Kevin can’t wait to land in Hawaii for a romantic getaway. But when the off-duty pilot takes a glance at his GPS, he’s in for a surprise: the plane is headed to the middle of the Pacific Ocean. And he’s the only one who knows it…Expecting the worst, Kevin heads to the cockpit...
  • A Minute to Midnight by David Baldacci

    A Minute to Midnight by David Baldacci

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    Atlee Pine has spent most of her life trying to find out what happened that fateful night in Andersonville, Georgia. Her six year old twin sister, Mercy, was taken and Atlee was left for dead while their parents were apparently partying downstairs. One person who continues to haunt her is notorious serial killer Daniel James Tor, locked away in a Colerado maximum security prison...
  • The Shadow Box by Luanne Rice

    The Shadow Box by Luanne Rice

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    An Amazon Charts bestseller.The Amazon Charts bestselling author of Last Day delivers a haunting thriller about how far one wife is willing to go to expose the truth—and the lengths someone will go to stop her.After artist Claire Beaudry Chase is attacked and left for dead in her home on the Connecticut coast, she doesn’t know who she can trust...
  • The Short Drop by Matthew FitzSimmons

    The Short Drop by Matthew FitzSimmons

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 31 ratings
    A decade ago, fourteen-year-old Suzanne Lombard, the daughter of Benjamin Lombard—then a senator, now a powerful vice president running for the presidency—disappeared in the most sensational missing-person case in the nation’s history. Still unsolved, the mystery remains a national obsession...
  • Home by Harlan Coben

    Home by Harlan Coben

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    Ten years after the high-profile kidnapping of two young boys, only one returns home in Harlan Coben’s gripping Myron Bolitar thriller.A decade ago, kidnappers grabbed two boys from wealthy families and demanded ransom, then went silent. No trace of the boys ever surfaced...
  • Stranded by Sarah Goodwin

    Stranded by Sarah Goodwin

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Eight strangers.One island.A secret you'd kill to keep.When eight people arrive on the beautiful but remote Buidseach Island, they are ready for the challenge of a lifetime: to live alone for one year.Eighteen months later, a woman is found in an isolated fishing village...
    Categorized as:
    crime  family  friendship  male-mc  survival  suspense  thriller  abuse
  • The Last Thing to Burn by Will Dean

    The Last Thing to Burn by Will Dean

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    A woman being held captive is willing to risk everything to save herself, her unborn child, and her captor’s latest victim in this claustrophobic thriller in the tradition of Misery and Room. On an isolated farm in the United Kingdom, a woman is trapped by the monster who kidnapped her seven years ago...
    Categorized as:
    crime  suspense  thriller  drama  survival  fiction  mystery  horror
  • The Face Changers by Thomas Perry

    The Face Changers by Thomas Perry

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Can a woman who's rescued countless victims now save herself from an unknown enemy? After over a decade as a guide who helped people in trouble disappear, Jane Whitefield has promised her new husband that she will never work again. But she is asked to perform her magic just one last time...
  • The Long Way Home by Andrew Klavan

    The Long Way Home by Andrew Klavan

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    Sometimes you have to go home to find out who you really are.Charlie West went to bed one night an ordinary high-school student. He woke up a hunted man. Terrorists are trying to kill him. The police want to arrest him for the stabbing death of his best friend. He doesn t know whose side he s on or who he can trust...
  • Gone for Good by Harlan Coben

    Gone for Good by Harlan Coben

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 33 ratings
    As a boy, Will Klein had a hero: his older brother, Ken. Then, on a warm suburban night in the Kleins' affluent New Jersey neighborhood, a young woman--a girl Will had once loved--was found brutally murdered in her family's basement. The prime suspect: Ken Klein. With the evidence against him overwhelming, Ken simply vanished...
  • Blood of My Blood by Barry Lyga

    Blood of My Blood by Barry Lyga

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    Jazz Dent has never been closer to catching his father.Jazz has been shot and left to die in New York. His girlfriend, Connie, is in the clutches of Jazz's monstrous father, Billy--the world's most notorious serial killer. And his best friend, Howie, is bleeding to death on the floor of Jazz's new home...
    Categorized as:
    crime  drama  family  friendship  male-mc  realistic  secrets  suspense
  • Never Tell by Lisa Gardner

    Never Tell by Lisa Gardner

    Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    #1 New York Times bestseller Lisa Gardner returns with an unpredictable thriller that puts fan favorites D. D. Warren and Flora Dane on a shocking new case that begins with a vicious murder and gets darker from there.A man is dead, shot three times in his home office. But his computer has been shot twelve times, and when the cops arrive, his pregnant wife is holding the gun.D. D...
  • The Naturals by Jennifer Lynn Barnes

    The Naturals by Jennifer Lynn Barnes

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 32 ratings
    Seventeen-year-old Cassie is a natural at reading people. Piecing together the tiniest details, she can tell you who you are and what you want. But it’s not a skill that she’s ever taken seriously. That is, until the FBI come knocking: they’ve begun a classified program that uses exceptional teenagers to crack infamous cold cases, and they need Cassie...
  • Running Cold by Susan Walter

    Running Cold by Susan Walter

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    In this heart-pounding story of deception, murder, and survival, a former Olympian retreats to the Canadian wilderness for a fresh start, only to find out that the past will always catch up to her.Julie Adler’s perfect facade is shattered by grief when her husband commits suicide...
  • The Silence Between Breaths by Cath Staincliffe

    The Silence Between Breaths by Cath Staincliffe

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Eight people, one deadly secret.Passengers boarding the 10.35 train from Manchester Piccadilly to London Euston are bound for work, assignations, reunions, holidays or new starts, with no idea that their journey is about to be brutally curtailed...
  • Dance for the Dead by Thomas Perry

    Dance for the Dead by Thomas Perry

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    "COMPELLING . . . NOBODY WRITES A CHASE BETTER THAN PERRY."  *The Washington Post Book WorldWhen eight-year-old Timothy Decker finds his parents brutally murdered, it's clear the Deckers weren't the intended victims: Timothy's own room—ransacked, all traces of his existence expertly obliterated *is the shocking evidence. Timothy's nanny, Mona, is certain about only one thing...
  • Boetedoening (O'Loughlin by Michael Robotham

    Boetedoening (O'Loughlin by Michael Robotham

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Ray Hegarty, a highly respected former detective, lies dead in his daughter Sienna's bedroom. She is found covered in his blood. Everything points to her guilt, but psychologist Joe O'Loughlin isn't convinced.Fourteen-year-old Sienna is Joe's daughter's best friend ? Joe has watched her grow up and seen the troubled look in her eyes...
  • True Evil by Greg Iles, Dick Hill

    True Evil by Greg Iles, Dick Hill

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Dr. Chris Shepard, a busy young doctor in Natchez, Mississippi, has never seen his new patient Alex Morse before. But the attractive young woman with the scarred face has come to Dr. Shepards office on a mission to catch a killer. This New York Times bestseller is available in a tall Premium Edition...
  • If I Run by Terri Blackstock

    If I Run by Terri Blackstock

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Casey Cox has blood on the bottom of her shoes, in her car, on her clothes. But there's no point in trying to defend herself. She just has to run. Casey didn't kill her friend Brent. She discovered his body, but she'd never try to hurt him. He's the only person she's ever trusted enough to tell the truth about what happened to her father . .
  • Rules of Prey by John Sandford

    Rules of Prey by John Sandford

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 41 ratings
    Welcome. You are about to meet Lucas Davenport, the police detective in Minneapolis, Minnesota, who does it his way. The "maddog" murderer who is terrorizing the Twin Cities is two things: insane and extremely intelligent. He kills for the pleasure of it and thoroughly enjoys placing elaborate obstacles to keep the police befuddled. Each clever move he makes is another point of pride...
  • Night Fall by Nelson DeMille

    Night Fall by Nelson DeMille

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    Based on true events, but unlike anything you've ever read before, #1 New York Times bestselling author Nelson DeMille has created what may be his finest work to date.It is dusk on July 17, 1996. A man and a woman who are married--but not to each other--make love on a Long Island beach as a video camera records their pleasure...and something more...
  • Touch & Go by Lisa Gardner, Elisabeth Rodgers

    Touch & Go by Lisa Gardner, Elisabeth Rodgers

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    #1 New York Times bestseller Lisa Gardner, author of  Catch Me  and  Love You More,  returns with a heart-thumping thriller about what lurks behind the facade of a perfect family.This is my family:  Vanished without a trace…Justin and Libby Denbe have the kind of life that looks good in the pages of a glossy magazine. A beautiful fifteen-year old daughter, Ashlyn...
  • The Camel Club by David Baldacci

    The Camel Club by David Baldacci

    Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars
    · 38 ratings
    Existing at the fringes of Washington D.C., the Club consists of four eccentric members. Led by a mysterious man know as "Oliver Stone," they study conspiracy theories, current events, and the machinations of government to discover the "truth" behind the country's actions. Their efforts bear little fruit --- until the group witnesses a shocking murder ..
  • The Last Flight by Julie Clark

    The Last Flight by Julie Clark

    Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars
    · 44 ratings
    Claire Cook has a perfect life. But behind closed doors, nothing is quite as it seems. That perfect husband has a temper that burns as bright as his promising political career, and he's not above using his staff to track Claire's every move. But what he doesn't know is that Claire has worked for months on a plan to vanish...
    Categorized as:
    crime  drama  family  friendship  secrets  survival  suspense  thriller
  • Don't Let Go by Harlan Coben

    Don't Let Go by Harlan Coben

    Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars
    · 33 ratings
    With unmatched suspense and emotional insight, Harlan Coben explores the big secrets and little lies that can destroy a relationship, a family, and even a town in this powerful new thriller...
  • The Rise by Shari King, Shari Low

    The Rise by Shari King, Shari Low

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    When we bury our secrets, they always come back to haunt us...Their rise was meteoric.Only a few years before, they had been three friends from Glasgow, just trying to survive tough lives of danger and dysfunction.But on one Hollywood evening in 1993, they were on the world’s biggest stage, accepting their Oscar in front of the watching world.That night was the beginning of their careers...
    Categorized as:
    suspense  drama  crime  family  realistic  friendship  romance  fiction
  • Shock Point by April Henry

    Shock Point by April Henry

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Cassie discovers that her stepfather, Rick, a teen psychiatrist, has been illegally prescribing a new behavioral drug to his patients— and three teens have died. Before she can report him, Rick commits Cassie to Peaceful Cove, a boot camp for troubled teens in Mexico. Cassie knows she has to get out now, before more teens die...
  • The Blue by Lucy Clarke

    The Blue by Lucy Clarke

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    In the tradition of Alex Garland’s The Beach, a spine-tingling adventure novel about a group of friends whose journey around the world on a yacht turns from a trip to paradise into a chilling nightmare when one of them disappears at sea.A group of friends. A yacht. And a disappearance-at-sea that turns paradise into a chilling nightmare...
  • The Last Second by Catherine Coulter, J.T. Ellison

    The Last Second by Catherine Coulter, J.T. Ellison

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    From New York Times bestselling authors Catherine Coulter and J.T. Ellison comes a riveting thriller pitting special agents Nicholas Drummond and Michaela Caine against a private French space agency that has the power to end the world as we know it...
  • The Private School Murders by James Patterson, Maxine Paetro

    The Private School Murders by James Patterson, Maxine Paetro

    Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    In the sequel to the #1 New York Times bestseller Confessions of a Murder Suspect, James Patterson keeps the confessions coming breathlessly as Tandy Angel delves deeper into her own tumultuous history-and proves that she can rise above the sordid Angel legacy...
  • Iron House by John Hart

    Iron House by John Hart

    Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    An old man is dying.          When the old man is dead they will come for him.          And they will come for her, to make him hurt. John Hart delivers his fourth novel -- a gut-wrenching, heart-stopping thriller no reader will soon forget.He would go to Hell     At the Iron Mountain Home for Boys, there was nothing but time...
  • The Girl Who Was Supposed to Die by April Henry

    The Girl Who Was Supposed to Die by April Henry

    Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    “Take her out back and finish her off.”She doesn’t know who she is. She doesn’t know where she is, or why. All she knows when she comes to in a ransacked cabin is that there are two men arguing over whether or not to kill her.And that she must run.In her riveting style, April Henry crafts a nail-biting thriller involving murder, identity theft, and biological warfare...
  • The Retreat by Mark Edwards

    The Retreat by Mark Edwards

    Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    A missing child. A desperate mother. And a house full of secrets. Two years ago, Julia lost her family in a tragic accident. Her husband drowned trying to save their daughter, Lily, in the river near their rural home. But the little girl’s body was never found—and Julia believes Lily is somehow still alive.Alone and broke, Julia opens her house as a writers’ retreat...
  • Dear Child: A Novel by Romy Hausmann

    Dear Child: A Novel by Romy Hausmann

    Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    A woman held captive finally escapes—but can she ever really get away?Gone Girl meets Room in this page-turning, #1 internationally bestselling thriller from one of Germany’s hottest new talentsA windowless shack in the woods. A dash to safety. But when a woman finally escapes her captor, the end of the story is only the beginning of her nightmare.She says her name is Lena...
    Categorized as:
    crime  drama  family  secrets  survival  suspense  thriller  abuse
  • The Wrong Daughter by Dandy Smith

    The Wrong Daughter by Dandy Smith

    Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    The phone starts vibrating in my hand. It's my father. He never calls. Pulse racing in trepidation, I sit up in bed and answer. 'Caitlin,' he says. 'You need to come to the house. Right now. It's Olivia. She's back.'On the night when Caitlin and Olivia's parents leave them to go to a dinner party both girls are full of excitement about being old enough to stay home alone...
    Categorized as:
    suspense  crime  drama  thriller  family  friendship  mystery  fiction
  • The Dry by Jane Harper

    The Dry by Jane Harper

    Rated: 4.01 of 5 stars
    · 42 ratings
    In the grip of the worst drought in a century, the farming community of Kiewarra is facing life and death choices daily when three members of a local family are found brutally slain.Federal Police investigator Aaron Falk reluctantly returns to his hometown for the funeral of his childhood friend, loath to face the townsfolk who turned their backs on him twenty years earlier...
    Categorized as:
    crime  drama  family  friendship  male-mc  realistic  secrets  suspense
  • The Stillwater Girls by Minka Kent

    The Stillwater Girls by Minka Kent

    Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    Two sisters raised in fear are about to find out why in a chilling novel of psychological suspense from the author of The Thinnest Air.Ignorant of civilization and cautioned against its evils, nineteen-year-old Wren and her two sisters, Sage and Evie, were raised in off-the-grid isolation in a primitive cabin in upstate New York...
  • The Rainmaker by John Grisham

    The Rainmaker by John Grisham

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 41 ratings
    InThe Rainmaker, John Grisham tells the story of a young man barely out of law school who finds himself taking on one of the most powerful, corrupt, and ruthless companies in America -- and exposing a complex, multibillion-dollar insurance scam...
  • Just One Look by Harlan Coben

    Just One Look by Harlan Coben

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    An ordinary snapshot causes a mother’s world to unravel in an instant. After picking up her two young children from school, Grace Lawson looks through a newly developed set of photographs. She finds an odd one in the pack: a mysterious picture from perhaps twenty years ago, showing four strangers she can’t identify...
  • Dear Wife by Kimberly Belle

    Dear Wife by Kimberly Belle

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    From the bestselling author of The Marriage Lie and Three Days Missing comes a riveting new novel of suspense about a woman who, in a fight for survival, must decide just how far she'll go to escape the person she once lovedBeth Murphy is on the run...For nearly a year, Beth has been planning for this day...
  • The Last Thing She Ever Did by Gregg Olsen

    The Last Thing She Ever Did by Gregg Olsen

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    From the #1 New York Times bestselling author comes a psychological thriller exploring the things we dare to do when no one is looking . . .The community along Oregon's Deschutes River is one of successful careers and perfect families. For years, up-and-comers Liz and Owen have admired their good friends and neighbors, Carole and David...
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