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  • The Accomplice by Steve Cavanagh

    The Accomplice by Steve Cavanagh

    Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    THE MOST HATED WOMAN IN AMERICAThe Sandman killings have been solved. Daniel Miller murdered fourteen people before he vanished. His wife, Carrie, now faces trial as his accomplice. The FBI, the District Attorney, the media and everyone in America believe she knew and helped cover up her husband's crimes.THE LAWYEREddie Flynn won't take a case unless his client is innocent...
  • Rogue Lies by Kathleen Brooks

    Rogue Lies by Kathleen Brooks

    Rated: 4.70 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The web has begun to untangle. Elizabeth James has been working in the shadows to take down the group that has quietly snatched power in nearly every part of society. But now, Elizabeth is no longer alone. Tate Carlisle was a respected television journalist until an investigation of the wrong person cut her career short. She may be off the air, but she’s not off the job...
  • Phoenix by Teagan Brooks

    Phoenix by Teagan Brooks

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Phoenix I met the love of my life when I was 17 years old. She was my best friend, my love, my soulmate. Even at such a young age, we had a solid plan for our future. I would join the Marines after graduation. We would get married after my first deployment. When my time with Marines was up, we would start a family. But that’s not what happened...
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    crime  dark  justice  sad  action-adventure  adult  alpha-mc  audiobook
  • Reasonable Fear by Scott Pratt

    Reasonable Fear by Scott Pratt

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Three young women are found floating in a lake. The suspect is one of the richest and most powerful men in Tennessee. "Reasonable Fear" is the fourth of the bestselling Joe Dillard series offered by Scott Pratt. In this novel, Dillard has become the district attorney in Northeast Tennessee...
  • One Among Us by Paige Dearth

    One Among Us by Paige Dearth

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    A kidnapped girl is forced into human sex trafficking Eleven- year-old Maggie Clarke is abducted from her loving family and thrust into the indescribably horrific and largely unknown underworld of human sex trafficking. In captivity, Maggie's life turns into a nightmare most children couldn't imagine...
  • Strange Sally Diamond by Liz Nugent

    Strange Sally Diamond by Liz Nugent

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Sally Diamond cannot understand why what she did was so strange. She was only doing what her father told her to do, to put him out with the rubbish when he died.Now Sally is the centre of attention, not only from the hungry media and worried police, but also a sinister voice from a past she has no memory of...
  • Fifty-Fifty by Steve Cavanagh

    Fifty-Fifty by Steve Cavanagh

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    Alexandra Avellino has just found her father's mutilated body, and needs the police right away. She believes her sister killed him, and that she is still in the house with a knife. Sofia Avellino has just found her father's mutilated body and needs the police right away. She believes her sister, Alexandra did it, and that she is still in the house, locked in the bathroom...
  • Evil Never Dies by T.R. Ragan

    Evil Never Dies by T.R. Ragan

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Private investigator Lizzy Gardner believed in law and order once. But after losing a loved one to a killer and watching too many vicious predators game the system and walk free, she’s traded flawed justice for perfect vengeance.Together with her tough and trusted assistants, Lizzy is tracking down a list of Sacramento’s worst offenders and dealing out the payback they deserve...
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    crime  dark  justice  adult  alpha-mc  audiobook  book  contemporary
  • The Good Lie by A.R. Torre

    The Good Lie by A.R. Torre

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    Six teens murdered. A suspect behind bars. A desperate father. In a case this shadowy, the truth is easy to hide.Six teenagers dead. Finally, the killer behind bars. But are the games just beginning?Psychiatrist Dr. Gwen Moore is an expert on killers...
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    crime  dark  legal  abuse  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary
  • The Boy Under the Table by Nicole Trope

    The Boy Under the Table by Nicole Trope

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Tina is a young woman hiding from her grief on the streets of the Cross. On a cold night in the middle of winter she breaks all her own rules when she agrees to go home with a customer.What she finds in his house will change her life forever.Across the country Sarah and Doug are trapped in limbo, struggling to accept the loss that now governs their lives...
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    crime  dark  abuse  adult  book  contemporary  family  fiction
  • The Judge's List by John Grisham

    The Judge's List by John Grisham

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 35 ratings
    Listening Length 11 hours and 36 minutesFrom the #1 New York Times bestselling author, a new legal thriller about a man who might be the most criminal sitting judge in American history As an investigator for the Florida Board on Judicial Conduct, Lacy Stoltz sees plenty of corruption among the men and women elected to the bench...
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    crime  legal  politics  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary  drama
  • Degrees of Guilt by H.S. Chandler

    Degrees of Guilt by H.S. Chandler

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    When you read this book, you will think you know every twist in the tale. Maria is on trial for attempted murder. She has confessed to the crime and wanted her husband dead. Lottie is on the jury, trying to decide her fate. She embarks on an illicit affair with a stranger, and her husband can never find out. You will think you know who is guilty and who is innocent. You will be wrong...
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    crime  justice  legal  abuse  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary
  • Primal Fear by William Diehl

    Primal Fear by William Diehl

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    Martin Vail, the brilliant "bad-boy" lawyer every prosecutor and politician love to hate, is defending Aaron Stampler, a man found holding a bloody butcher's knife near a murdered archbishop...
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    crime  dark  legal  adult  book  contemporary  drama  fiction
  • Good Little Girls by Rita Herron

    Good Little Girls by Rita Herron

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Fear becomes a woman’s greatest weapon in a heart-pounding novel of suspense from the USA Today bestselling author of Pretty Little Killers. Tinsley Jensen survived the torturous clutches of an elusive masked killer dubbed the Skull, only to be held hostage by her nightmares. She’s terrified of leaving her cottage on Seahawk Island, knowing that the madman is still out there...
  • The Stepchild by Nicole Trope

    The Stepchild by Nicole Trope

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Three-year-old Millie Everleigh disappears on a crisp winter’s day, and nothing is as it seems…It’s the phone call every mother dreads.I’m climbing into the car after a trip to the grocery store. As the engine starts, my phone rings. It’s my stepdaughter, Shelby, who is babysitting my three-year-old little girl Millie.‘I only went upstairs for a second,’ she says through her sobs. ‘She’s gone...
  • Gone by Elisabeth Naughton

    Gone by Elisabeth Naughton

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Three years ago, Alec and Raegan McClane lived every parent’s worst nightmare: their one-year-old daughter, Emma, was abducted from a park when Alec turned his back for just a moment. Emma was never found, and presumed dead. The crushing trauma, plus Alec’s unbearable guilt, ended the couple’s marriage. Now a four-year-old girl matching Emma’s profile is found wandering a local park...
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    crime  dark  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary  fiction  kidnapping
  • My Little Brother by Diane Saxon

    My Little Brother by Diane Saxon

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Two siblings, both missing for 20 years turn up within one day of each other. One dead. One alive.It was an ordinary school day, the day I lost my little brother.One moment he was on the roundabout and then was gone. Gone. Missing.They all blamed me. I was in charge. Even though I was only ten years old.They sent me away. The hurt, the shame, the questions. The not knowing.I tried to move on...
  • Miami Ripper by Stacy M. Jones

    Miami Ripper by Stacy M. Jones

    Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    A killer is stalking high-priced escorts and leaving a trail of bodies in empty mansions along Miami Beach’s intercoastal waterway. When the crimes become too much for the locals to handle, FBI Agents Kate Walsh and Declan James must find a killer walking among the city’s elite.Amid the glamour and money is a seedy underbelly that runs through the city like an electrical current...
  • Sul lato selvaggio by Tiffany McDaniel

    Sul lato selvaggio by Tiffany McDaniel

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Six women—mothers, daughters, sisters—gone missing. Inspired by the unsolved murders of the Chillicothe Six, this harrowing novel tells the story of two sisters, both of whom could be the next victims, from the internationally best-selling author of Betty."Capture[s] what goes horribly wrong when women don’t fit a customary victim profile..
  • What Unbreakable Looks Like by Kate McLaughlin

    What Unbreakable Looks Like by Kate McLaughlin

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Lex was taken – trafficked - and now she’s Poppy. Kept in a hotel with other girls, her old life is a distant memory. But when the girls are rescued, she doesn’t quite know how to be Lex again. After she moves in with her aunt and uncle, for the first time in a long time, she knows what it is to feel truly safe. Except, she doesn’t trust it. Doesn't trust her new home...
  • Next of Kin by Kia Abdullah

    Next of Kin by Kia Abdullah

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    “Abdullah’s legal thrillers make John Grisham seem like a maiden aunt.” Sunday Times Crime Club “An enthralling, heartbreaking and thrilling courtroom drama that had me shouting out loud and gripped until the last page.” Nadine Matheson, author of The Jigsaw Man“Brilliantly tense, this is another clever page turner from Kia Abdullah that I couldn’t put down. Just superb...
  • Cold Moon by Alexandra Sokoloff

    Cold Moon by Alexandra Sokoloff

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    The hunt for mass murderer Cara Lindstrom is over. FBI Special Agent Matthew Roarke has been working for this moment: the capture of a killer who savagely hunts the worst of humanity. But Roarke remains traumatized by his own near-death at the hands of the serial killer who slaughtered Cara’s family…and haunted by the enigmatic woman who saved his life...
  • Indefensible by Pamela Callow

    Indefensible by Pamela Callow

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Lawyer Kate Lange takes on an unwinnable case in the second book of the bestselling legal thriller series. When Elise Vanderzell plummets from her bedroom balcony one gorgeous summer night, her children awaken to a nightmare. Their mother is dead. Their father is charged with her murder. Lawyer Kate Lange knows all about nightmares...
  • A Stranger at the Door by Jason Pinter

    A Stranger at the Door by Jason Pinter

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Rachel Marin is in a good place. After years of struggle, the single mother has found both a stable, loving relationship and a new purpose: putting her investigative skills to work solving crimes for the local PD...
  • Saving Noah by Lucinda Berry

    Saving Noah by Lucinda Berry

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    We forgive murderers, not pedophiles. Not since Lionel Shriver brought us We Need to Talk About Kevin has a writer delved into the complexities of a disturbed mother/son relationship. Until now. Meet Noah—an A-honor roll student, award-winning swimmer, and small-town star destined for greatness...
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    crime  dark  justice  sad  abuse  adult  audiobook  book
  • John Saul: Hellfire, The Unwanted, Sleepwalk by John Saul

    John Saul: Hellfire, The Unwanted, Sleepwalk by John Saul

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    New York Times bestselling author John Saul is a master at writing psychological terror, with fifteen novels on the bestseller lists. This first-ever hardcover edition of three of his most popular books features Hellfire, The Unwanted and Sleepwalk. All three stories explore supernatural mysteries of suspense and horror.Appearences are definitely deceiving in John Saul's world...
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    crime  dark  adult  book  contemporary  fiction  ghosts  horror
  • A Just Deception by Adrienne Giordano

    A Just Deception by Adrienne Giordano

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The protector: Peter Jessup, former Navy SEAL, currently employed by Taylor Security. He likes being the hero--in charge and in control. His client: Lawyer Isabelle DeRosa. The sexy brunette is the personification of Peter's fantasies. She's willing to get physical but nothing more serious...
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    crime  legal  politics  abuse  action-adventure  adult  audiobook  book
  • Close Encounter, Part 1 by Stephanie St. Klaire

    Close Encounter, Part 1 by Stephanie St. Klaire

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Alternate cover edition of ASIN B07QMDN765 What happens in the city of sin during a total blackout? EVERYTHING...Cane O'Reilly has one job, keep Charlie Adams alive. When witness protection fails, more than once, he's the only one who can protect her.As the only surviving victim of an international serial killer, she comes with a hell of a lot of baggage and...other needs Cane is happy to fulfill...
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    crime  justice  dark  romance  mystery  contemporary  suspense  fiction
  • The Woman on the Ledge by Ruth Mancini

    The Woman on the Ledge by Ruth Mancini

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Obsession. Intrigue. Revenge. Whose secrets are you keeping? And why?A woman falls to her death from a London bank’s twenty-fifth-floor roof terrace.You’re arrested for her murder.You tell the police that you had only met the victim the previous night at your office party. She was threatening to jump from the roof, but you had talked her down.You’ve got nothing to do with this tragedy...
  • The Eyes Are the Best Part by Monika Kim

    The Eyes Are the Best Part by Monika Kim

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Feminist psychological horror about the making of a female serial killer from a Korean-American perspective.Ji-won’s life tumbles into disarray in the wake of her appa’s extramarital affair and subsequent departure. Her mother, distraught. Her younger sister, hurt and confused. Her college freshman grades, failing. Her dreams, horrifying… yet enticing...
    Categorized as:
    dark  crime  horror  fiction  contemporary  mystery  feminism  thriller
  • A Deeper Grave by Debra Webb

    A Deeper Grave by Debra Webb

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    When the hunter becomes the hunted…   Serial-killer hunter Nick Shade built his legendary career chasing monsters—sadistic criminals with a gruesome thirst for death. When he rescued Montgomery detective Bobbie Gentry from horrific captivity and helped her reclaim her life, he didn't intend to be a hero. Or a target...
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    crime  dark  justice  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary  female-mc
  • Underneath by Andie M. Long, Michelle Dunbar

    Underneath by Andie M. Long, Michelle Dunbar

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    From the Author of The Alphabet Game comes a tale of drama and suspense. LAUREN LAWLER’s life is visually perfect. However husband Niall seems to have forgotten she exists. Running a Vintage shop on Ebay and meeting her best friend Monique for coffee and shopping, Lauren feels settled but bored...
    Categorized as:
    crime  dark  adult  book  contemporary  female-mc  fiction  kidnapping
  • Demon by Matt Wesolowski

    Demon by Matt Wesolowski

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Scott King’s podcast investigates the 1995 cold case of a demon possession in a rural Yorkshire village, where a 12-year-old boy was murdered in cold blood by two children. Book six in the chilling, award-winning Six Stories series.In 1995, the picture-perfect village of Ussalthwaite was the site of one of the most heinous crimes imaginable, in a case that shocked the world...
  • The Trap by Ava Glass

    The Trap by Ava Glass

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    British spy Emma Makepeace races against the clock to stop the Russians from carrying out a high-profile assassination in this gripping thriller from the author of Alias Emma.“Emma Makepeace is a worthy heir to the James Bond mantle.”—JAMES PATTERSONShe has just one week to stop a killer...
  • All the Little Raindrops by Mia Sheridan

    All the Little Raindrops by Mia Sheridan

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    The chilling story of the abduction of two teenagers, their escape, and the dark secrets that, years later, bring them back to the scene of the crime.It’s senior-year spring break, and Noelle Meyer and Evan Sinclair have been kidnapped...
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    dark  crime  romance  mystery  fiction  suspense  contemporary  abuse
  • Turning Angel by Greg Iles

    Turning Angel by Greg Iles

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    After winning the most dangerous case of his career, prosecutor Penn Cage decides to remain in his Southern hometown to raise his young daughter in a safe haven. But nowhere is truly safe -- not from long-buried secrets, or murder....When the nude body of prep school student Kate Townsend is found near the Mississippi River, Penn's best friend, Drew Elliott, is desperate for his counsel...
  • 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 ..
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    crime  dark  legal  politics  action-adventure  adult  audiobook  book
  • Malady by Trisha Wolfe

    Malady by Trisha Wolfe

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    From USA Today bestselling author Trisha Wolfe comes the dark and twisted finale of the duet that will leave you breathless.Blakely Vaughn is no longer shrouded from a world of feeling. She’s been thrust into the light, emotions assailing her and making her question her sanity as she hunts the man responsible—the bastard who made her feel.When Dr...
  • Inadvertent Disclosure by Melissa F. Miller

    Inadvertent Disclosure by Melissa F. Miller

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    ASIN B0075ZWQ3M moved to the most recent edition hereTiny dynamo Sasha McCandless returns in Inadvertent Disclosure.It's been six months since an airplane crash altered the course of attorney Sasha McCandless's professional and personal life. She's busy building her solo law practice and tending her budding relationship with federal air marshal Leo Connelly, who helped her stop a madman...
  • Her Husband's Secret by Janice Frost

    Her Husband's Secret by Janice Frost

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Imagine your husband was murdered. Imagine everything you thought you knew about the past was a lie. Two children sneak out on a freezing winter night, hoping to see a ghost. But instead they witness something far more terrifying. A man dumping a body . . .DS Ava Merry and DI Jim Neal are called in to investigate this perplexing murder. Eventually the dead man’s wife is identified...
  • Closer Than You Know by Brad Parks

    Closer Than You Know by Brad Parks

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Brad Parks delivers another riveting, emotionally powerful stand-alone domestic suspense thriller perfect for fans of The Couple Next Door and What She Knew.Disaster, Melanie Barrick was once told, is always closer than you know.It was a lesson she learned the hard way growing up in the constant upheaval of foster care...
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    crime  legal  politics  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary  drama
  • I'm a Therapist, and My Patient is In Love with a Pedophile: 6 Patient Files From Prison by Dr. Harper

    I'm a Therapist, and My Patient is In Love with a Pedophile: 6 Patient Files From Prison by Dr. Harper

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    The highly anticipated sequel to I'm a Therapist, and My Patient is Going to be the Next School ShooterI've counseled the most chilling criminals... A young inmate who fell in love with a pedophile. A man who intentionally infected strangers with HIV. A patient with an extremely unusual addiction. A sociopath who wanted to have a conscience...
  • The Runaway Jury by John Grisham

    The Runaway Jury by John Grisham

    Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars
    · 44 ratings
    Every jury has a leader, and the verdict belongs to him. In Biloxi, Mississippi, a landmark tobacco trial with hundreds of millions of dollars at stake begins routinely, then swerves mysteriously off course. The jury is behaving strangely, and at least one juror is convinced he's being watched. Soon they have to be sequestered...
  • Behind the Shadows by J.A. Owenby

    Behind the Shadows by J.A. Owenby

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Some of us were born into darkness. Others were shackled.They drugged me.Chained me.Tore apart my mind until the pieces didn’t fit anymore.Then they gave me a name.Cleaner. K!ller. Son.Monster.Told me the blood on my hands was hers.Then they smiled and made me k!ll again.And they told me she never existed.But I’ve seen her.In dreams. In flashes of red hair and blood...
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    dark  sad  crime  steamy  suspense  romance  stalking  anti-hero
  • Trapped by Greg Iles

    Trapped by Greg Iles

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    24 HOURS --- that's how long it takes a madman to pull off the perfect crime. He's done it before, he'll do it again, and no one can stop him.But this time, he's just picked the wrong family to terrorize. Because Will and Karen Jennings aren't going to watch helplessly as he victimizes them. And they aren't going to let him get away with it...
  • A Conflict of Interest by Adam Mitzner

    A Conflict of Interest by Adam Mitzner

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Alex Miller is a criminal defense attorney and, at thirty-five, the youngest partner in one of the most powerful law firms in New York City. He's a man at the top of his game with the life he's always dreamed of, complete with a devoted wife, who remains patient with his long hours and high-stakes cases, and the love of a beautiful young daughter...
    Categorized as:
    crime  legal  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary  drama  fiction
  • Betrayal: by John Lescroart

    Betrayal: by John Lescroart

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    When Dismas Hardy agrees to clean up the caseload of recently disappeared attorney Charlie Bowen, he thinks it will be easy. But one of the cases is far from small-time - the sensational clash between National Guard reservist Evan Scholler and an ex-Navy SEAL and private contractor named Ron Nolan...
    Categorized as:
    crime  legal  politics  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary  fiction
  • What Goes Around by Julie Corbin

    What Goes Around by Julie Corbin

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Mulholland Books 1st Edition Paper Back(April...
  • The Betrayal by Terry Lynn Thomas

    The Betrayal by Terry Lynn Thomas

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Attorney Olivia Sinclair is shocked when she receives an anonymous video showing her husband Richard sleeping with someone else. After years of handling other people’s divorces, she thought she could recognise a marriage in trouble.She angrily throws Richard out of the home they share. But days later she’s arrested—for the murder of his mistress...
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