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Gia and the Forgotten Island by Kristi Belcamino
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAn exciting new series character ...Gia Santella is a fast-driving, hard-drinking, karate-trained free spirit, who is gorgeous, sexy, and a young heiress. She also has a fierce temper and zero tolerance for people in power preying on the vulnerable ... especially when the injustice takes place in her neighborhood... -
![Quick Fixes: Tales of Repairman Jack by F. Paul Wilson]()
Quick Fixes: Tales of Repairman Jack by F. Paul Wilson
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWho do the world’s most exciting authors turn to when they need a shot of adrenaline? F. Paul Wilson’s Repairman Jack! "One of the all-time great characters in one of the all-time great series." — Lee Child“Repairman Jack is one of my favorite characters—I’m full of happy anticipation every time I hold a new RJ novel in my hands... -
![The Wolf in Winter by John Connolly]()
The Wolf in Winter by John Connolly
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsProsperous, and the secret that it hides beneath its ruins . . .The community of Prosperous, Maine has always thrived when others have suffered. Its inhabitants are wealthy, its children's future secure. It shuns outsiders. It guards its own. And at the heart of Prosperous lie the ruins of an ancient church, transported stone by stone from England centuries earlier by the founders of the town . -
![The Wrath of Angels by John Connolly]()
The Wrath of Angels by John Connolly
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsIn the depths of the Maine woods, the wreckage of an aeroplane is discovered. There are no bodies, and no such plane has ever been reported missing, but men both good and evil have been seeking it for a long, long time. What the wreckage conceals is more important than money: it is power. Hidden in the plane is a list of names, a record of those who have struck a deal with the Devil... -
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![Stranger in the Woods by Anni Taylor]()
Stranger in the Woods by Anni Taylor
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsPhotographer Isla Wilson is thrilled she’s landed her dream job, but the clients who hired her are getting stranger by the day. It sounded so perfect - a month‘s assignment at the misty, sprawling Scottish Highlands property of brilliant architect Alban McGregor, and his wife, Jessica. But deep in the woods, there is a chilling playhouse... -
![A Dance At The Slaughterhouse by Lawrence Block]()
A Dance At The Slaughterhouse by Lawrence Block
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsIn Matt Scudder's mind, money, power, and position elevate nobody above morality and the law. Now the ex-cop and unlicensed p.i. has been hired to prove that socialite Richard Thurman orchestrated the brutal murder of his beautiful, pregnant wife. During Scudder's hard drinking years, he left a piece of his soul on every seedy corner of the Big Apple... -
![White Knight, Black Swan by Ross Harding, David Gemmell]()
White Knight, Black Swan by Ross Harding, David Gemmell
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsDavid Gemmell was the UK's number one fantasy and historical novelist until his death in 2006. A regular Sunday Times bestseller, and international sensation, his legacy lives on through his novels, his influence on the genre, and through the David Gemmell Legend awards... -
![Easy as One Two Three by Willow Rose]()
Easy as One Two Three by Willow Rose
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsASIN moved from less recent editionMads and Signe are very young when they get married. They are ready to take on the world, starting with their honeymoon to Egypt. Two years later, Mads is in a coma, and Signe has vanished from the face of the earth.Meanwhile, Emma Frost is looking for her daughter whom the police believe is guilty of the hit and run that left Mads Schou brain dead... -
![The Stretch by Stephen Leather]()
The Stretch by Stephen Leather
Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsAs a big player in the London underworld in the 1990s, Terry Greene has always made a priority of taking care of business personally. Preston Snow was out of line, so the up-close-and-personal visit was in no way out of character... -
![Rum Runner by J.A. Konrath]()
Rum Runner by J.A. Konrath
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsCOULD YOUR MARRIAGE SURVIVE FIFTY KILLERS? Twenty years ago, a young cop named Jacqueline "Jack" Daniels arrested one of the most sadistic killers she'd ever encountered. She has since retired from the Chicago Police Department in order to raise her toddler daughter.But old grudges never die. They fester until the right opportunity comes along... -
![Mucho Mojo by Joe R. Lansdale]()
Mucho Mojo by Joe R. Lansdale
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsInheriting one hundred thousand dollars and a small hiccup of a house in a dilapidated district is not so bad, and Uncle Chester made a nice gift of it to his nephew Leonard... though the clean-up is intensive, the floor is Rotten, and the neighbors are something from a nightmare. It is one thing to renovate a house to sell it... -
![The Two-Bear Mambo by Joe R. Lansdale]()
The Two-Bear Mambo by Joe R. Lansdale
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsFlorida Grange, Leonard's drop-dead gorgeous lawyer and Hap's former lover, has vanished in Klan-infested Grovetown while in pursuit of the real story behind the jailhouse death of a legendary bluesman's blackguard son. Fearing the worst, Hap and Leonard set out to do the kind of investigating the good ole boy cops can't - or won't - do... -
![Eyes of Prey by John Sandford]()
Eyes of Prey by John Sandford
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsLieutenant Davenport's sanity was nearly shattered by two murder investigations. Now he faces something worse . . . Two killers. One hideously scarred. The other strikingly handsome, a master manipulator fascinated with all aspects of death. The dark mirror of Davenport's soul . . . This is the case that will bring Davenport back to life. Or push him over the edge... -
![Kissyman & the Gentleman by Scott Sigler]()
Kissyman & the Gentleman by Scott Sigler
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsNew York City, 1946. No one knows his real name, but when the job is too dirty, too dangerous, they call Kissyman. Once an elite Nazi SS commando, an honorable soldier, a taker of lives. When he was assigned to Dachau and saw what he was actually fighting for, he went AWOL and ran as far away as he could — to America. He still makes his living with a gun, but he no longer kills for his country... -
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![Casket for Sale by Jeff Strand]()
Casket for Sale by Jeff Strand
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsMeet the new, improved Andrew Mayhem. He has a real job. He's a better father and husband. And he's vowed to quit accepting money from strange women in coffee shops to perform tasks that go terribly, terribly wrong. This time he's just taking a relaxing camping trip with his family and best friend. No shortcuts. The gas tank is full. The sinister warning of the crazy old man is taken seriously... -
![#NoEscape (Volume 3) by Gretchen McNeil]()
#NoEscape (Volume 3) by Gretchen McNeil
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe #murder and mayhem continue in this prequel companion novel to the grisly, campy social media insanity that is #MurderTrending and #MurderFunding. Gretchen McNeil brings her signature wit and merciless kills to this gruesome yet hilarious, wildly topical young adult novel.Twenty years before Dee Guerra and the Death Row Breakfast Club took down The Postman and Alcatraz 2... -
![Five, Six... Grab Your Crucifix by Willow Rose]()
Five, Six... Grab Your Crucifix by Willow Rose
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsASIN moved from less recent edition hereThe Priest is a man with a mission from God. He is to help those possessed by evil to finally become free from their stronghold. He has expelled demons for years and had great success.But there is one demon he never managed to cast out. And that demon has now come back to get him... -
![Be My Enemy by Christopher Brookmyre]()
Be My Enemy by Christopher Brookmyre
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIt was a junket, a freebie. A 'team-building' weekend in the highlands for lawyers, advertising execs, businessmen, even the head of a charity. Oh, and a journalist, specially solicited for his renowned and voluble scepticism - Jack Parlabane... -
![Flight of the Storks by Jean-Christophe Grangé]()
Flight of the Storks by Jean-Christophe Grangé
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsEvery year the storks set off on their miraculous 12,000-mile migration from Northern Europe to Central Africa. Then one year, inexplicably, they do not return. At the invitation of the wealthy Swiss ornithologist Max Boehm, a young French academic, Louis Antioch, agrees to undertake a journey tracing the flight of the storks in an attempt to solve the mystery of the birds' disappearance... -
![Devil's Peak by Deon Meyer]()
Devil's Peak by Deon Meyer
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsFrom rising South African thriller writer Deon Meyer, a gripping suspense novel about revenge, forgiveness, and the race to catch a trained killer. A young woman makes a terrible confession to a priest. An honorable man takes his own revenge for an unspeakable tragedy. An aging inspector tries to get himself sober while taking on the most difficult case of his career... -
![Resurrection Men by Ian Rankin]()
Resurrection Men by Ian Rankin
Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsInspector John Rebus has messed up badly this time, so badly that he's been sent to a kind of reform school for damaged cops. While there among the last-chancers known as "resurrection men," he joins a covert mission to gain evidence of a drug heist orchestrated by three of his classmates. But the group has been assigned an unsolved murder that may have resulted from Rebus's own mistake... -
![The Rabbit Hunter by Lars Kepler]()
The Rabbit Hunter by Lars Kepler
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsThe latest internationally best-selling installment in the Joona Linna series sees him temporarily called back to the police force to solve a series of bizarre and increasingly horrifying murders. Detective Joona Linna is finishing out a sentence at Kumla prison for assaulting an officer in the course of his last investigation when he is summoned to a meeting with the Swedish Prime Minister... -
![Bad Chili by Joe R. Lansdale]()
Bad Chili by Joe R. Lansdale
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsWith his trademark knack for gut-busting laughter and head-splitting action, Joe R. Lansdale serves up a bubbling cauldron of murder and mayhem that only he could create.Hap Collins has just returned home from a gig working on an off shore oil rig. With a new perspective on life, Hap wants to change the way he's living, and shoot the straight and narrow... -
![Rumble Tumble by Joe R. Lansdale]()
Rumble Tumble by Joe R. Lansdale
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsHap Collins and Leonard Pine are in for an action-packed adventure when they cross paths with a towering Pentecostal preacher, a midget with a giant attitude, and a gang of bikers turned soldiers of fortune... -
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![The Girl, the Gold Watch & Everything by John D. MacDonald, Dean Koontz]()
The Girl, the Gold Watch & Everything by John D. MacDonald, Dean Koontz
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsFrom John D. MacDonald, one of the enduring American novelists of the twentieth century, comes a science fiction classic with a timeless premise. An aimless young man discovers a way to stop the world in its tracks—and that’s when his life truly begins... -
![Vanilla Ride by Joe R. Lansdale]()
Vanilla Ride by Joe R. Lansdale
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 14 ratings"There's no bullshit in a Joe Lansdale book. There's everything a good story needs, and nothing it doesn't. Joe pulls up the truck, says, 'Get in the back, we're going for a ride.'You know it might get a little scary and it might get a little crazy, but you get in, because you know in the end, it's going to be a fun ride... -
![Tweedledum and Tweedledee by Willow Rose]()
Tweedledum and Tweedledee by Willow Rose
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsASIN moved from less recent editionIn the middle of the night, Alberto Alonzo sneaks out to play at the casino with his mother's credit card in his hand. The next morning he is gone, and no one knows where he is, and, for his family, a real-life nightmare unfolds.Emma Frost is with her family on a cruise in the Mediterranean Sea when the boy goes missing from the ship... -
![Rogue by Mark T. Sullivan]()
Rogue by Mark T. Sullivan
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsMark Sullivan has created a propulsive, compelling new thriller. Rogue, is one part Bourne Identity and one part Mission: Impossible, but readers will also love the nod to Hitchcock’s It Takes a Thief. Two years ago, Robin Monarch was a top level CIA operative—perhaps the best they had when it came to black bag operations... -
![The Blurred Man by Anthony Horowitz]()
The Blurred Man by Anthony Horowitz
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe man in the photo is so blurry, it's impossible to make out what he really looks like... -
![Strawberries by Casey Bartsch]()
Strawberries by Casey Bartsch
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsStrawberries is the name he has been given. When they let him out, they had no way of knowing what he was. A psychopath. A killer. The body count is at twenty already, and there doesn’t seem to be an end in sight. Agent Harry Bland can’t see one anyway. He doesn’t have a single clue to go on. It doesn’t help that his mind won’t focus. His heart just isn’t in it anymore... -
![Double Vision by Fleur T. Bradley]()
Double Vision by Fleur T. Bradley
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsFans of 39 Clues and Artemis Fowl will enjoy the fun, fresh thrill ride through this humorous, action-packed adventure from debut author F. T. Bradley.In the trilogy opener, twelve-year-old Lincoln Baker finds himself in a world of trouble! First, Linc’s seemingly harmless prank on a school field trip ends in expulsion and a lawsuit... -
![Single White Psychopath Seeks Same by Jeff Strand]()
Single White Psychopath Seeks Same by Jeff Strand
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe second book in the wildly popular series of horror/comedy novels featuring Andrew Mayhem!"Sometimes you wake up in the morning and you just know it’s going to be the kind of day where you end up tied to a chair in a filthy garage while a pair of tooth-deprived lunatics torment you with a chainsaw. So as I struggled against the ropes, I can’t say I was all that surprised... -
![Nothing Good Happens After Midnight: A Suspense Magazine Anthology by Jeffery Deaver, Heather Graham]()
Nothing Good Happens After Midnight: A Suspense Magazine Anthology by Jeffery Deaver, Heather Graham
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe sun sets. The moon takes its place, illuminating the most evil corners of the planet. What twisted fear dwells in that blackness? What legends attach to those of sound mind and make them go crazy in the bright light of day? Only Suspense Magazine knows.. -
![Mannheim Rex by Robert Pobi]()
Mannheim Rex by Robert Pobi
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsRecently widowered and grieving, Gavin flees New York City for the quiet of the country. His new home on Lake Caldasac has surprisingly few visitors, and the author soon learns why: a suspiciously high number of people have gone missing in the small town. The deaths have all been ruled accidents, but Finn Horn, a handicapped boy obsessed with fishing, knows the truth... -
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![Soft Target by Iain Rob Wright]()
Soft Target by Iain Rob Wright
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsNowhere is safe from evil...When an elderly suicide bomber strikes a quiet English village, a once proud nation is brought to its knees. Yet this first attack is just the start of something far greater and much much worse. The days to follow will determine if the United Kingdom has a future, or if it will be reduced to anarchy and ashes... -
![Untouchable by Gerald Seymour]()
Untouchable by Gerald Seymour
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAlbert William Packer is the supreme baron of London crime. He rules his manor with a cruel, ruthless fist. To those around him, on whatever side of the law, he is the Untouchable.When another criminal case against him collapses, Packer turns his attention to expanding his heroin empire abroad... -
![Eyeshot by Taylor Adams]()
Eyeshot by Taylor Adams
Rated: 3.95 of 5 stars · 19 ratingsJames and Elle Eversman are a young couple travelling through the Mojave desert on their way to a new life. When their car mysteriously breaks down they are stranded in the middle of nowhere without much water and no cell-phone reception.A mile away a deadly sniper has them in his cross-hairs. They are pinned down behind their broken-down car, surrounded by open ground in all directions... -
![Captains Outrageous by Joe R. Lansdale]()
Captains Outrageous by Joe R. Lansdale
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsHapless chicken-plant guard Hap Collins gets into trouble when he takes his best friend Leonard on a Caribbean cruise. The two find themselves abandoned in Mexico, saved from armed attackers by a geriatric fisherman and his lovely daughter, who's currently having to fend off a Mexican mobster who is also a practising nudist.. -
![Cold in July by Joe R. Lansdale]()
Cold in July by Joe R. Lansdale
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsRichard Dane shoots and kills a gun-wielding burglar in his living room. It's clearly a case of self-defense, but the dead man’s father, Ben Russel, doesn't see it that way. Russel wants to extract Old Testament-style justice: an eye-for-an-eye, a son-for-a-son... -
![Watch Me by James Carol]()
Watch Me by James Carol
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA Dead LawyerEagle Creek, Louisiana. Lawyer Sam Galloway is burned alive in an apparently motiveless attack. The local sheriff's department calls in former FBI profiler Jefferson Winter to consult on the case.A Serial KillerSo far there's just one body, but there are going to be more... -
![Graverobbers Wanted: No Experience Necessary by Jeff Strand]()
Graverobbers Wanted: No Experience Necessary by Jeff Strand
Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsWhen you're desperate for money, searching for a little adventure, and aren't the most responsible person in the world, you can end up doing some outrageous things. Which is how Andrew Mayhem, an extremely married father of two, ends up accepting $20,000 to find a key ... a key buried with a body in a shallow grave... -
![Valentine by Tom Savage]()
Valentine by Tom Savage
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsBestselling author Jillian Talbot has it all--a fabulously successful career, a handsome and attentive lover, lots of friends, and a secret admirer. He calls himself Valentine, but behind his cryptic words hides the twisted mind of a killer. Now this faceless madman is writing the final scene for Jill. It is almost Valentine's Day--almost time to die. HC: Little, Brown... -
![Finders Keepers by Sean Costello]()
Finders Keepers by Sean Costello
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsEver dreamed of winning the lottery? One of those massive, life-altering purses? Join Keith Whipple and his daughter Kate as they do just that, netting ten million dollars in a single-winner draw. Share in their excitement, the dreams that leap into their lives fully-formed, suddenly within easy reach. But that kind of money, the heady sense of power it brings.. -
![Hyenas by Joe R. Lansdale]()
Hyenas by Joe R. Lansdale
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsHyenas marks the always-welcome return of Joe R. Lansdale’s most indelible fictional creations: Hap Collins and Leonard Pine. Once again, the embattled but resilient duo find themselves enmeshed in a web of danger, duplicity, and escalating mayhem. The result is a tightly compressed novella that is at once harrowing, hilarious, and utterly impossible to put down... -
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![City of the Lost by Stephen Blackmoore]()
City of the Lost by Stephen Blackmoore
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsReturning as a zombie after being bumped off by a rival crime boss, Joe Sunday tries to locate a talisman that can grant immortality before every other thug in Los Angeles can find it... -
![King of Swords by Nick Stone]()
King of Swords by Nick Stone
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsSuch was the acclaim that greeted Nick Stone's amazing debut novel, Mr Clarinet, that a curious syndrome soon developed: if you hadn't read the novel (and claimed to have any interest in the crime genre), you had to say (to all who would listen) 'I really must read Mr Clarinet -- I've heard so much about it!' (preferably said with a pronounced guilty note in the voice)... -
![The Cold Spot by Tom Piccirilli]()
The Cold Spot by Tom Piccirilli
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsChase was raised as a getaway driver by his grandfather, Jonah, a con man feared by even the hardened career criminals who make up his crew. But when Jonah crosses the line and murders one of his own, Chase goes solo, stealing cars and pulling scores across the country….And then he meets Lila, a strong-willed deputy sheriff with a beguiling smile who shows him what love can be... -
![Gone South by Robert McCammon]()
Gone South by Robert McCammon
Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsFlooded by memories, poisoned by the deadly fallout of Agent Orange, and desperate for work, Dan Lambert kills a man in a moment of blind fear and fury. It is an act he cannot excuse--a mistake that will change his life forever. Now Dan is on the run, heading south toward the Louisiana bayous... -
![Disturbia by Christopher Fowler]()
Disturbia by Christopher Fowler
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAn assignment brings Vincent - permanent student and budding young writer - into the world of Sebastian Wells and the Prometheus League. Under the guise of a Victorian gaming society it operates extremist and covert activities. Threatening exposure, Vincent is thrown into a game of life or death... -
![Stalking You Now by Jeff Strand]()
Stalking You Now by Jeff Strand
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAdapted into the feature film MINDY HAS TO DIE, premiering October 4th 2018 at the Yellow Fever Independent Film Festival! From the Bram Stoker Award-nominated author of PRESSURE, BLISTER, and WOLF HUNT. The reprehensible man sits in the restaurant. Laughing with his friends. Entertaining them with a story about his wretched behavior...
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