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The Magnus Archives: Season 4 by NOT A BOOK
Rated: 4.88 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe Magnus Archives is a horror audiobook written by Jonathan Sims, directed by Alexander J. Newall and distributed by Rusty Quill. Sims narrates the stories in-character as the main character, Jonathan Sims, the newly-appointed head archivist of the fictional Magnus Institute; an institution based in London centred on research into the paranormal... -
![Winter's Gamble by Mary Stone]()
Winter's Gamble by Mary Stone
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsSwipe right for love. Swipe left for death.In the aftermath of another harrowing case, FBI agent turned private investigator Winter Black is battling personal demons: guilt, her grandmother’s failing health, a strained alliance with a key detective, and the eerie knowledge that someone has been spying on her family... -
![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... -
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Fire by John Boyne
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsOn the face of it, Freya lives a gilded existence, dancing solely to her own tune. She has all the trappings of wealth and privilege, a responsible job as a surgeon specialising in skin grafts, a beautiful flat in a sought-after development, and a flash car. But it wasn’t always like this. Hers is a life founded on darkness... -
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![Anita by Max Ellendale]()
Anita by Max Ellendale
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsDoctor Anita Oliver is steadfast in her support of her patients and friends. Always reliable, always there when they need her. After a lifetime spent consulting with the FBI and working for the Seattle Police Department, Anita tumbled onto the front line of the Four Point Killer case. During those years, she helped the people she cared about through endless emotional and physical pain... -
![The Perfect Nanny by D.L. Fisher]()
The Perfect Nanny by D.L. Fisher
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsLucinda and Andrew Douglass are settling into life with their newborn baby, Delilah. Only four weeks in, much to Andrew’s dismay, Lucinda is planning her return to a high-powered job at the New York Stock Exchange, causing a major rift in their already volatile marriage.On the bright side, Lucinda has found the perfect nanny to care for their precious baby... -
![Most Cunning Workmen by Roy Lewis]()
Most Cunning Workmen by Roy Lewis
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsYOUR NEW CRIME FICTION OBSESSION STARTS HERE.Are you seeking an enticing new mystery series, filled with first-rate characters, and breathtaking twists and turns?Then meet Arnold Landon, mild-mannered history buff turned amateur sleuth.“The skilful Mr Lewis has made Arnold Landon an unforgettable character.” New York Times____________________Originally published as Most Cunning Workmen... -
![Into The Woods by Lorraine Murphy]()
Into The Woods by Lorraine Murphy
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA lost child. A broken marriage. A ticking time bomb.Karen will do anything for her eight-year-old daughter, Scarlett. Even holding together a marriage that is way past broken.So when Scarlett disappears from their rural home, Karen is one hundred percent focused on a single goal – finding her little girl as soon as possible.And time is of the essence... -
![Justice Served by Radclyffe]()
Justice Served by Radclyffe
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe hunt for an informant in the ranks draws Lieutenant Rebecca Frye, her lover Doctor Catherine Rawlings, and Officer Dellon Mitchell into a deadly game of hide and seek with an underworld kingpin who traffics in human souls... -
![Appalachian Justice by Melinda Clayton]()
Appalachian Justice by Melinda Clayton
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsBilly May Platte is a half Irish, half Cherokee Appalachian woman who learned the hard way that 1940s West Virginia was no place to be different.As Billy May explains, “We was sheltered in them hills. We didn’t know much of nothin’ about life outside of them mountains. I did not know the word lesbian; to us, gay meant havin’ fun and queer meant somethin’ strange... -
![Frozen Statues by L.E. Fraser]()
Frozen Statues by L.E. Fraser
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsA gripping psychological thriller with shocking twistsIn the bitter cold of a Canadian winter, seven university freshmen vanish without a trace. Soon afterwards, police discover a ghastly crime scene—the victim is frozen solid and his eyes are missing, replaced with black stones. A week later, they find a second frozen statue at an identical crime scene... -
![Fever of the Bone by Val McDermid]()
Fever of the Bone by Val McDermid
Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsMeet Tony Hill's most twisted adversary - a killer with a shopping list of victims, a killer unmoved by youth and innocence, a killer driven by the most perverted desires ...When teenager Jennifer Maidment's murdered and mutilated body is discovered, it is clear that there is a dangerous psychopath on the loose... -
![Lady Killer by Cara Malone]()
Lady Killer by Cara Malone
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsOpposites attract when a forensic investigator dying to fit in teams up with a detective with a major case of wanderlust.Maya Ross has worked hard to cultivate a tough, no-nonsense reputation as ‘one of the guys’ in a male-dominated field. As lead investigator, she’s at the peak of her career – and she can’t admit to anyone that it’s making her deeply unhappy... -
![The Cherry Robbers by Sarai Walker]()
The Cherry Robbers by Sarai Walker
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsSarai Walker has done it again. With The Cherry Robbers she upends the Gothic ghost story with a fiery feminist zeal. --Maria SempleThe highly anticipated second novel from Sarai Walker, following her "slyly subversive" (EW) cult-hit Dietland--a feminist gothic about the lone survivor of a cursed family of sisters, whose time may finally be up... -
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![Dreams of the Dying by Nicolas Lietzau]()
Dreams of the Dying by Nicolas Lietzau
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIf your mind is the enemy, where do you run?Years after a harrowing war experience, ex-mercenary Jespar Dal'Varek has taken to drifting. It's a lonely existence, but, barring the occasional bout of melancholia, he has found the closest thing to peace a man like him deserves. Life is "all right."Or so he believes... -
![Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield]()
Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsLeah is changed. Months earlier, she left for a routine expedition, only this time her submarine sank to the sea floor. When she finally surfaces and returns home, her wife Miri knows that something is wrong. Barely eating and lost in her thoughts, Leah rotates between rooms in their apartment, running the taps morning and night...Categorized as:
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![Pretty Evil by Zoe Rosi]()
Pretty Evil by Zoe Rosi
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsRevised edition: Previously published as Predator, this edition of Pretty Evil includes editorial revisions... -
![Bloodsport by Yves Olade]()
Bloodsport by Yves Olade
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingswe say sacrifice / we mean murder / our lips are red for a... -
![Mad Girl by A.A. Dark, Alaska Angelini]()
Mad Girl by A.A. Dark, Alaska Angelini
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratings**CAUTION-------PITCH BLACK READ** My mother was the Madison Ridge Killer … and I helped her. At nine, I was given a new start—a new life. My adoptive parents did everything they could to help me forget my past, and for a while, they succeeded. But I was never normal. I never truly forgot all I saw or did.Now, twenty years later, I work in the billing department for a small city newspaper... -
![The Domme Tamer by Kat Evans]()
The Domme Tamer by Kat Evans
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratings#1 BEST SELLERHow far would you go?The victims were as different as night and day: an exotic dancer, a beloved teacher, and a promising law student. What was the one thing they had incommon? A fetish for breath play...Homicide Detective Jillian Robichaux is smart and persistent... -
![The Haunting of Thackery School by Skylar Finn]()
The Haunting of Thackery School by Skylar Finn
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsFrances Teller has been running from the past since the tragic fire that killed two of her friends as a teenager. When Frances Teller accepts a job teaching at the prestigious Thackeray School in Vermont, she learns that the ghosts who haunt the hallways have adirect connection to her dangerous past... -
![Not What It Seems by Nicky James]()
Not What It Seems by Nicky James
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThey say I killed them. They say I’m sick. They’re wrong. Nothing is as it seems. Renowned psychiatrist Dr. Cyrus Irvine takes his job and his life very seriously. He is well-respected in his field and has worked hard to get where he is. But he’s lonely. When called in to do a mental health evaluation on a murder suspect, the last thing he expects to find is the man he slept with a few months ago... -
![The Favorite Girl: A gripping psychological thriller by Monica Arya]()
The Favorite Girl: A gripping psychological thriller by Monica Arya
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsFor fans of Gillian Flynn's Sharp Objects and Karin Slaughter's Pretty Girls...Every family has secrets—dark ones, twisted ones, ones they hide. The Ivory family is no different. From the outside of their gated estate, one would see a beautiful, wealthy family. But the more perfect they seem, it only shows how many imperfections they are trying to bury... -
![Exquisite by Sarah Stovell]()
Exquisite by Sarah Stovell
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsBo Luxton has it all - a loving family, a beautiful home in the Lake District, and a clutch of bestselling books to her name. Enter Alice Dark, an aspiring writer who is drifting through life, with a series of dead-end jobs and a freeloading boyfriend. When they meet at a writers' retreat, the chemistry is instant, and a sinister relationship develops .. -
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![The Marriage Act by John Marrs]()
The Marriage Act by John Marrs
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsWhat if marriage was the law? Dare you disobey?Britain. The near-future. A right-wing government believes it has the answer to society’s ills — the Sanctity of Marriage Act, which actively encourages marriage as the norm, punishing those who choose to remain single... -
![Dear Vicky by Octavia Grant]()
Dear Vicky by Octavia Grant
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsDelusional /dəˈlo͞oZH(ə)nəl/ (adjective) - characterized by or holding false beliefs or judgments about external reality that are held despite incontrovertible evidence to the contrary, typically as a symptom of a mental conditionGrocery store bag boy, Andrew, hates his job. No career growth, rude customers, and the forced customer appreciation greeting have taken a toll on his mental stability... -
![Knock Knock, Open Wide by Neil Sharpson]()
Knock Knock, Open Wide by Neil Sharpson
Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsKnock Knock, Open Wide weaves horror and Celtic myth into a terrifying, heartbreaking supernatural tale of fractured family bonds, the secrets we carry, and the veiled forces that guide Irish life.Driving home late one night, Etain Larkin finds a corpse on a pitch-black country road deep in the Irish countryside. She takes the corpse to a remote farmhouse... -
![I'm a Therapist, and My Patient is a Vegan Terrorist: 6 Deadly Social Media Influencers by Dr. Harper]()
I'm a Therapist, and My Patient is a Vegan Terrorist: 6 Deadly Social Media Influencers by Dr. Harper
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe Explosive Conclusion to the Dr. Harper Therapy seriesI'm a therapist, and I've worked with the wildest internet celebrities… A vigilante who treated humans as factory farm animals. A germaphobe who warned of the next major plague. My own best friend. A rapist who got cancelled online — and in real life. A psychic medium with a disturbing prediction... -
![Timber Falls by Gerri Hill]()
Timber Falls by Gerri Hill
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsThe isolated, sleepy little village of Timber Falls—built on the bend of a swift mountain river—swells during the summer months as tourists flock to town to run the river, lured there by the Class V rapids. Haley Martin used to be what the locals called a “river rat”, back during the days of her college years... -
![We Used to Live Here by Marcus Kliewer]()
We Used to Live Here by Marcus Kliewer
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsThe Turn of the Key meets Parasite in this eerily haunting debut and Reddit hit—soon to be a Netflix original movie starring Blake Lively—about two homeowners whose lives are turned upside down when the house’s previous residents unexpectedly visit... -
![Good Girls Die Last by Natali Simmonds]()
Good Girls Die Last by Natali Simmonds
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsToday, nothing is going right for Em. And it's about to get much worse.Heartbroken by a recent split, with her 30th birthday looming, she loses her job and her home in the same morning because of two swaggering, dishonest men - the boss who sexually harassed her and the flatmate sleeping with her behind his fiancée's back... -
![The Doll Maker by Claire Highton-Stevenson]()
The Doll Maker by Claire Highton-Stevenson
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsLife is messy for Detective Sophie Whitton, but one thing she is clear about, is the pursuit of justice - and when another body is found that she knows to be the victim of The Doll Maker, her determination to hunt him down leads her on a journey that is as much about finding herself as it is about finding him... -
![The Understory by Pamela Erens]()
The Understory by Pamela Erens
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWinner of the Ironweed Press Fiction Prize... -
![Lilith by J.R. Salamanca]()
Lilith by J.R. Salamanca
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsLilith was the most exquisitely beautiful woman Vincent had ever seen. She had created her own world of utter sensuous ecstasy, and irresistibly she drew him into it, leading him to intensities of rapture he had never known existed... -
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![Something about Eve by Jourdyn Kelly]()
Something about Eve by Jourdyn Kelly
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratings"Something About Eve" is a story about Eve, a woman haunted by her past whose path crosses with a married woman afraid of her future. As they set out to help each other, an unsuspected and passionate friendship evolves between them. When Eve's past catches up to her, she finds herself having to save the lives of those she loves or lose everything she has worked so hard to achieve... -
![Speak of the Devil by Britney King]()
Speak of the Devil by Britney King
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn the upscale suburb where Vanessa Bolton lives, she's your average suburban housewife.She does her grocery shopping on Tuesday, Thursday mornings are reserved for Pilates, Sundays for church. At home, she's an impeccable housekeeper and a mother with a mediocre track record...Categorized as:
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![Coming to Terms by K.A. Moll]()
Coming to Terms by K.A. Moll
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsComing to Terms tells the story of Sawyer James, a cop, angry and alone, an alcoholic. Sexually abused by her father when she was a child, she keeps secrets with her twin sister and numbs past trauma with the bottle. When her twin is psychiatrically hospitalized, she’ll work with the hospital social worker, and in doing so, will be offered no choice but to deal with past horrors... -
![Suddenly Last Summer by Tennessee Williams]()
Suddenly Last Summer by Tennessee Williams
Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsKerr, in the NY Herald-Tribune, describes: "This, says Mr. Williams through the most sympathetic voice among his characters, 'is a true story about the time and the world we live in.' He has made it seem true-or at least curiously and suspensefully possible-by the extraordinary skill with which he has wrung detail after detail out of a young woman who has lived with horror... -
![The Last Place You Look by Kristen Lepionka]()
The Last Place You Look by Kristen Lepionka
Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsSarah Cook, a beautiful blonde teenager, disappeared fifteen years ago, the same night her parents were brutally murdered in their suburban Ohio home. Her boyfriend Brad Stockton - black and from the wrong side of the tracks - was convicted of the murders and sits on death row, though he always maintained his innocence... -
![The Kill Club by Wendy Heard]()
The Kill Club by Wendy Heard
Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsJazz will stop at nothing to save her brother.Their foster mother, Carol, has always been fanatical, but with Jazz grown up and out of the house, Carol takes a dangerous turn that threatens thirteen-year-old Joaquin’s life. Over and over, child services fails to intervene, and Joaquin is running out of time.Then Jazz gets a blocked call from someone offering a solution... -
![To Be Devoured by Sara Tantlinger]()
To Be Devoured by Sara Tantlinger
Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsWhat does carrion taste like? Andi has to know. The vultures circling outside her home taunt and invite her to come understand the secrets hiding in their banquet of decay. Fascination morphs into an obsessive need to know what the vultures know. Andi turns to Dr. Fawning, but even the therapist cannot help her comprehend the secrets she’s buried beneath anger-induced blackouts... -
![Third Girl From The Left by Martha Southgate]()
Third Girl From The Left by Martha Southgate
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAt the center of this dazzling novel is Angela, a twenty-year-old beauty who leaves the stifling conformity of Oklahoma to search for fame during the rise of blaxploitation cinema in Los Angeles. But for her mother, Mildred, a strait-laced survivor of the 1921 Tulsa race riots, Angela's acting career is unforgivable, and the distance between them grows into a silence that lasts for years... -
![Night by Night by Jack Jordan]()
Night by Night by Jack Jordan
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratings'Wow, it grabs you in the gut from the first few pages and doesn't let go!' Jo Spain, author of The Confession_________________________If you're reading this, I'm dead.Rejected by her family and plagued by insomnia, Rose Shaw is on the brink. But one dark evening she collides with a man running through the streets, who quickly vanishes... -
![Inside Her: The must-read LGBTQ+ novel of 2024 by Lisa J. Evans]()
Inside Her: The must-read LGBTQ+ novel of 2024 by Lisa J. Evans
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe must-read LGBTQ+ novel of 2024.Achingly tender, powerfully erotic, and disturbingly dark, INSIDE HER follows closeted Jess as she escapes an abusive fiancé to find love with a woman – only to have her newfound bliss shattered beyond repair... -
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![Nettleblack by Nat Reeve]()
Nettleblack by Nat Reeve
Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsSubversive and playful, Nettleblack is a neo-Victorian queer farce that follows a runaway heir/ess and an organisation of crime-fighting misfits as they struggle with the misdeeds besieging a rural English town. The year is 1893...Categorized as:
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![Black Orchid Blues by Persia Walker]()
Black Orchid Blues by Persia Walker
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsLanie Price, a 1920s Harlem society columnist, witnesses the brutal nightclub kidnapping of the "Black Orchid," a sultry, seductive singer with a mysterious past. When hours pass without a word from the kidnapper, puzzlement grows as to his motive. After a gruesome package arrives at Price’s doorstep, the questions change... -
![The Case Of The Puppy Academy: A Samantha Rain Mysteries Short Story by Arizona Tape]()
The Case Of The Puppy Academy: A Samantha Rain Mysteries Short Story by Arizona Tape
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsEven hellhounds need training. When Samantha Rain takes her hellhound to school, she hoped to be surrounded by adorable magical puppies. Instead, she finds herself at the heart of a mystery and she's forced to investigate a jewellery thief. With all the important people at the Puppy Academy, she can't afford to step on any toes… or paws... -
![Punk Like Me by J.D. Glass]()
Punk Like Me by J.D. Glass
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA coming of age story, a love story…a brave, brilliant story of strength and seldiscovery. Twenty-one year old Nina writes lyrics and plays guitar in the rock band, Adam’s Rib, and she doesn’t always play by the rules. And, oh yeah—she has a way with the girls. Even her brother Nicky’s girlfriends think she’s hot... -
![Don't Open The Door: An Unputdownable Gripping Psychological Thriller With A Breathtaking Twist by Cole Baxter]()
Don't Open The Door: An Unputdownable Gripping Psychological Thriller With A Breathtaking Twist by Cole Baxter
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsBe careful when you open the door to strangers...Successful, happily married former military contractor Samson Chase is spending his time alone while his wife Teresa is on a business trip enjoying beer, takeout, and terrible movies while he works on his latest psychological horror novel... -
![Just Married by Kiersten Modglin]()
Just Married by Kiersten Modglin
Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsWhen my husband found this perfect little cabin in the woods for our honeymoon, I couldn’t wait to get away. Just us in the middle of the forest, waking up every day in the trees, ending each night in the hot tub under the stars. But now I’m not sure that I know my husband at all…I just wish we’d gone to the police when someone left a note on the doormat saying: She’s dead, you’re next...Categorized as:
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