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Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption by Stephen King
Rated: 4.48 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsAndy Dufresne, a banker, was convicted of killing his wife and her lover and sent to Shawshank Prison. He maintains his innocence over the decades he spends at Shawshank during which time he forms a friendship with "Red", a fellow inmate.Source: stephenking...Categorized as:
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Coffey's Hands by Stephen King
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsWelcome back to E Block, the deadliest place this side of the electric chair, where assaults are a daily grind and miracles are about to happen. Paul Edgecombe has become increasingly curious about John Coffey, the brutal killer of two girls. But Coffey is about to reveal something extraordinary, and life on the Green Mile may never be the same again...Categorized as:
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Coffey on the Mile by Stephen King
Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars · 35 ratingsCold Mountain Penitentiary has seen its share of death through the years. Now it's John Coffey's turn to take that final walk down the Green Mile. Yet prison guard Paul Edgecombe has uncovered a devastating truth, which means he could be too late to save both himself and Coffey. You see, death by execution may be the easy way out. It's living with the consequences that may last an eternity . . -
The Two Dead Girls by Stephen King
Rated: 4.52 of 5 stars · 42 ratingsThey were sisters, and the picture-perfect image of innocence. No one understood their brutal deaths, not even the man who killed them. But John Coffey is about to gain a new insight, about his life in prison, and about the one man who will walk him down that green mile . . . toward destiny.Prepare yourself for Stephen King's boldest exercise in nerve-twisting suspense... -
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Night Journey by Stephen King
Rated: 4.53 of 5 stars · 36 ratingsTruth time is approaching at Cold Mountain Penitentiary. Paul Edgecombe is taking a huge gamble, one where the stakes are high and the consequences deadly. He and his fellow guards take convicted killer John Coffey away from Death Row in the dead of night and bring him to the bedside of a woman weighing in torment... -
The Bad Death of Eduard Delacroix by Stephen King
Rated: 4.53 of 5 stars · 36 ratingsTime has run out for one of the inmates at Cold Mountain penitentiary. Eduard Delacroix is set to take that final walk down the Green Mile. But first he must say good-bye--to the guards, to his fellow inmates, and to a strange creature that forever changed his life. Little does he know of the terrible fate that awaits him, and of a devilish plan of revenge... -
Careful little eyes: An addictive, horrifying serial killer thriller by Willow Rose
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsASIN moved from less recent edition hereIan Marks is terrified of ghosts. Especially of the one that has just moved into his shed in the back yard of his house in New Orleans. Everyone else thinks he is just a drunk, but when his girlfriend is killed at night by a man with an axe, he knows he was right to be afraid... -
You Can't Hide by Willow Rose
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsASIN moved from less recent edition hereA new reign of terror has fallen on the unsuspecting residents of Cocoa Beach. They think their worst nightmare is the environmental catastrophe causing the thousands of dead fish in the river until the first body turns up among the dead fish.Young girls are being kidnapped.Behind these kidnappings stands a ghostly person who calls himself the Boxer... -
The Cabinet of Dr. Leng by Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsAgent Pendergast faces his latest challenge in this next installment of the #1 NYT bestselling series by acclaimed authors Preston and Child, the second in the Leng Trilogy.Following the events of Bloodless, FBI Special Agent A.X.L. Pendergast and Constance Greene return. Against all odds, Constance has found a way back to the place of her origins, New York City in the late 1800s...Categorized as:
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You Can Run by Willow Rose
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIt's not the kind of thing you'd expect to happen on an ordinary Saturday morning. Her kids are arguing and her husband is still sleeping. Lisa is tired and wonders why her husband keeps working late... -
Light Has Weight, but Darkness Does Not by Dean Koontz
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsInstinct and violent visions compel Nameless to embark on an unplanned mission to help a desperate mother and daughter on the run. Why is this rescue so strangely familiar to a man with no memories?Evie and her daughter, Asteria, are fleeing an abusive cult when they meet a stranger in an abandoned Arizona shopping mall. Fate hasn’t set Nameless on their trail... -
Gentle Is the Angel of Death by Dean Koontz
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsTo some he’s a medical genius. To others, a twisted angel of mercy with a necessary solution to what he sees as an ugly dilemma. Only one man can help Dr. Death face the evil of his ways.Henry Siphuncle has a selfless mission: releasing his patients forever from their distasteful imperfections. It’s for their own good. And the world’s. Even Henry’s own wife didn’t survive his disgust... -
The Last Christmas by F. Paul Wilson
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsJack is back.Wilson never said he was through with Repairman Jack. He said he was through turning in a new novel every year. He also said when a story came along that was right for Jack, he’d write it. The Last Christmas is that story. It’s late December between Ground Zero and Fatal Error, a winter of discontent for Jack who’s perhaps spending too much time hanging at Julio’s... -
Blood Infernal by James Rollins, Венцислав Божилов
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 31 ratingsIn a masterpiece of supernatural mystery and apocalyptic prophecy, New York Times bestselling authors James Rollins and Rebecca Cantrell bring to a thunderous conclusion their epic trilogy of novels set between the worlds of shadow and light, between salvation and damnation, where the very gates of Hell must be shattered to discover the true fate of humankind in.. -
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The Dark at the End by F. Paul Wilson
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsBound by his promise to Glaeken, Jack has refrained from making any direct moves against Rasalom. But things have changed so there's nothing holding Jack in check any longer. Other changes are occurring as well. Jack is healing at an accelerated rate--much like Glaeken did when he was immortal. This can only mean that Glaeken's time is almost up and when he dies, Jack takes his place...Categorized as:
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Koruna démonů by James Rollins
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 36 ratingsTo save mankind’s future, the members of Sigma Force must make a devil’s bargain as they join forces with their most hated enemy to stop an ancient threat in this gripping adventure from #1 New York Times bestselling author James Rollins...Categorized as:
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Odd Interlude #3 by Dean Koontz
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsLeading up to the highly anticipated arrival of "Odd Apocalypse "this summer, catch up with Odd Thomas in "Odd Interlude, " a special three-part eBook series by #1 bestselling master of suspense Dean Koontz Here is the spine-tingling 58-page third installment of this super-charged stand-alone Odd adventure. THERE'S ROOM AT THE INN. BUT YOU MIGHT NOT GET OUT... -
The Mercy of Snakes by Dean Koontz
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsA series of suspicious deaths in a retirement home draws Nameless into the confidence of a terrified former resident—and into the dark heart of a shocking conspiracy. In part five of the Nameless series, it’s time to hunt.Oakshore Park is Michigan’s most exclusive assisted-living community. Presided over by two killer angels of mercy, it’s also the go-to facility in assisted dying... -
The Judas Strain by James Rollins
Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars · 43 ratingsNew York Times bestselling author James Rollins returns with a terrifying story of an ancient menace reborn to plague the modern world . . . and of an impossible hope that lies hidden in the most shocking place imaginable: within the language of angels. ju·das strain, n. A scientific term for an organism that drives an entire species to extinction...Categorized as:
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Seven Shades of Evil by Robert McCammon
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe New York Times–bestselling author continues his colonial-era thriller series with eight tales of mystery, adventure, and supernatural suspense. From his first appearance in Speaks the Nightbird to his latest adventure in The King of Shadows, Matthew Corbett has faced enemies of all kinds, from serial killers to sorcerers... -
The Sun Rises Over Seven Sisters by M.L. Bullock
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe revelation that a significant, active curse rests on the Cottonwood family puts a damper on Carrie Jo’s excitement about her new baby. Worried about protecting the child and Ashland, she does all she can to help Ashland break the curse and keep their family safe from danger. When Hurricane Jasmine bears down on Mobile, everything goes wrong... -
Forgotten Men by Bill Thompson
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe once-famous Hotel Iberia was where society's finest gathered in the days before 1859 when Victory, Louisiana became a ghost town. A building where people had laughed, dined and passed the time among friends became something dark, sinister and evil. The town was dead, so no one complained when the Victory Institution for the Criminally Insane opened in the old hotel... -
Black Wind by F. Paul Wilson
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsComment from F.P. Wilson from his website:A strikingly beautiful edition of my "lost" novel, long out of print. After finishing THE TOUCH in 1985, the next story in line returned to WW2, but this time to the Pacific Theater...Categorized as:
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Fear City by F. Paul Wilson, Alexander Cendese
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsRage, terror, and redemption: these are the stones upon which F. Paul Wilson builds the concluding chapter of Repairman Jack: The Early Years, the prequel trilogy focusing on the formative years of Wilson's globally popular supernatural tropubleshooter.The strands of Jack's life, established in the first two books, Cold City and Dark City, are now woven into a complete pattern... -
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The Mountain by David L. Golemon
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIn 1863 a meeting takes place between legendary war leaders-a secret alliance that will never show up in any American history book. A clandestine arrangement has been struck for a single chance to heal a war-torn nation. The mission is to bring the greatest prize in the history of the world back to American soil-the remnants of pre-history's greatest ship and its most startling mystery... -
Legacy by David L. Golemon
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratings"Fans of Clive Cussler, Verne, X-Files, and military tactical thrillers will find much to enjoy in this increasingly clever series." -"Booklist" on "Leviathan"The "New York Times" bestselling author of "Leviathan" and "Primeval" is back at full throttle with an adrenaline-pumping addition to the Event Group Thriller Series...Categorized as:
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Dark City by F. Paul Wilson
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsDark City is the second of a new prequel trilogy, Repairman Jack: The Early Years by F. Paul Wilson.It's February 1992. Desert Storm is raging in Iraq but twenty-two-year-old Jack has more pressing matters at home. His favorite bar, The Spot, is about to be sold out from under Julio, Jack's friend... -
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... -
Lightning by Dean Koontz, Peter Marinker
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 32 ratingsA storm struck on the night Laura Shane was born, and there was a strangeness about the weather that people would remember for years. But even more mysterious was the blond-haired stranger who appeared out of nowhere – the man who saved Laura from a fatal delivery. Years later – another bolt of lightning – and the stranger returned, again to save Laura from tragedy...Categorized as:
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In the Heart of the Fire by Dean Koontz
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 31 ratingsA bloodthirsty sheriff is terrorizing a small Texas town where justice has been buried with his victims. Until Nameless arrives—a vigilante whose past is a mystery and whose future is written in blood.Anyone who crosses Sheriff Russell Soakes is dead, missing, or warned. One of them is a single mother trying to protect her children but bracing herself for the worst. Nameless fears the outcome...Categorized as:
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Fatal Error by F. Paul Wilson
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratings"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."--Charlaine Harris, creator of "True Blood" The End of the World is at hand!Munir Habib's life has become a nightmare. His tormentor has warned Munir not to report the kidnapping of his family, or else they will pay a terrible price... -
Bloodline by F. Paul Wilson
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsJack has been on hiatus since the events in Harbingers. With his lover Gia's encouragement he dips a toe back into the fix-it pool. Christy Pickering's eighteen-year-old daughter is dating Jerry Bethlehem, a man twice her age. Christy sensed something shady and sinister about him, so she hired a private investigator to look into his past. But the PI isn't returning her calls... -
Blood Brothers by James Rollins, Rebecca Cantrell
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsFrom New York Times bestselling authors James Rollins and Rebecca Cantrell comes a dark story of murder, mystery, and a brotherhood steeped in a bloody past.As a young reporter, Arthur Crane exposed the secrets behind the Orchid Killer, a cult murderer from the late '60s whose crimes blackened the end of the Summer of Love... -
Seize The Night by Dean Koontz
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsThere are no rules in the dark, no place to feel safe, no escape from the shadows. But to save the day, you must...Seize the Night.At no time does Moonlight Bay look more beautiful than at night. Yet it is precisely then that the secluded little town reveals its menace. Now children are disappearing. From their homes. From the streets. And there's nothing their families can do about it... -
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Fever Dream by Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 28 ratingsYesterday, Special Agent Pendergast still mourned the loss of his beloved wife, Helen, who died in a tragic accident in Africa twelve years ago. Today, he discovers she was murdered. Tomorrow, he will learn her most guarded secrets, leaving him to wonder: Who was the woman I married? Why was she murdered? And, above all . . . Who murdered her? FEVER DREAM Revenge is not sweet: It is essential... -
Thunderhead by Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 39 ratingsSince the days of Coronado, explorers have been captivated by the search for Quivira, the fabled Lost City of Gold. Now, guided by a mysterious letter, archaeologist Nora Kelly is about to remount an expedition her father conducted 16 years earlier -- before mysteriously vanishing in the remote canyon country of southeast Utah...Categorized as:
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Blue Labyrinth by Douglas Preston
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 39 ratingsSpecial Agent Pendergast-one of the most original, compelling characters in all of contemporary fiction-returns in Preston and Child's new exhilarating novel Blue Labyrinth.A long-buried family secret has come back to haunt Special Agent Aloysius Pendergast...It begins with murder. One of Pendergast's most implacable, most feared enemies is found on his doorstep, dead...Categorized as:
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The Patmos Enigma by Ken Fry
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA mysterious man walking the earth for millennia...And a discovery we might not be ready for...UK #1 BESTSELLING CHRISTIAN FANTASY, RELIGIOUS FANTASY & BIBLICAL FICTION.With the success of his UK bestselling and award winning religious mystery, The Lazarus Succession, Ken Fry once again crafts a cunning and explosive historical thriller unlike any you've read before.Tel Aviv, Israel...Categorized as:
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The Dismembered by Jonathan Janz
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIn the spring of 1912, American writer Arthur Pearce is reeling from the wounds inflicted by a disastrous marriage and the public humiliation that ensued. But his plans to travel abroad, write a new novel, and forget his ex-wife are interrupted by a lovely young woman he encounters on a London-bound train. Her name is Sarah Coyle, and the tale she tells him chills his blood... -
The Stars We Walked Upon by M.L. Bullock
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsCarrie Jo Stuart's dream catching has gotten out of control and threatens to wreck her happy home. She decides to tell her husband a secret that changes everything, but Ashland has ghosts of his own. Ashland's childhood friend Detra Ann Dowd battles a frightening supernatural being but travels across time to receive help from an unexpected ally... -
The Stars That Fell by M.L. Bullock, Emily Lawrence
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsSecrets Never Stay Hidden Just Ask Any Ghost When Carrie Jo and Ashland Stuart uncovered the truth about the ghosts of Seven Sisters, they were sure that the supernatural activity would end. When they return home to Mobile after their honeymoon, they soon realize they were wrong”"not everyone is at rest. Something or someone is reaching out to the dream catcher... -
Madness by Jason Brant
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAsher Benson has once again fled to a secluded cabin in the mountains outside of the sleepy town of Arthur's Creek, West Virginia. Government agents surround him day and night, blanketing his entire life in constant surveillance under the guise of keeping him safe.That facade is shattered when every cell phone in Arthur's Creek rings simultaneously... -
Peek A Boo, I See You by Willow Rose
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsASIN moved from less recent editionThe body of a woman found in front of Nordby City Hall has a message for Emma Frost carved into the skin. Behind this ruthless murder stands a ghostly figure that likes to play childish games. Soon, this killer brings a reign of terror to the small Danish Island and especially to the life of Emma Frost... -
Carpathian by David L. Golemon
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe Event Group tackles their most challenging mission yet in this no-holds-barred thrill ride from the New York Times bestselling author of Ripper and LegacyPerfect for fans of Clive Cussler, James Rollins, and Matthew Reilly, the latest gripping thriller from David L. Golemon takes the Event Group---the nation's most secret agency---to the brink in a heart-stopping race against time... -
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Reprisal by F. Paul Wilson
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIn Reborn (6/90), Jim discovered the ancient evil that lurked within his past. Now Jonah, his only son, is the bearer of the horror. Jonah is biding his time, keeping his true identity a secret and waiting for the time when he can carry out the mission he was born for: to bring about the end of the world... -
Seven, Eight... Gonna Stay Up Late by Willow Rose
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsShe thought she could keep it a secret. Just fourteen years old, Amalie thought she could take off and go to the festival with her best friend without anyone knowing it - without her parents finding out. She thought she was safe when she met a man offering her drugs. She thought she was safe when she went alone to her tent to take the pills... -
Miss Polly had a Dolly by Willow Rose
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsA bone-chilling tale from the Queen of Scream Not for the faint-hearted Miss Polly had a dolly. A beautiful daughter that she called her Baby Doll. Every day she dressed her in dresses and brushed her hair before they went outside to show off to the neighbors... -
City of Endless Night by Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child
Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsWhat begins as a manhunt for the missing daughter of a wealthy tech billionaire becomes something altogether different when the young woman's body is discovered in an abandoned warehouse in Kew Gardens, Queens, the head nowhere to be found. It appears there may be two killers on the loose--one responsible for the young woman's death, another responsible for the mutilation...Categorized as:
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Cold Vengeance by Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child
Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsDevastated by the discovery that his wife, Helen, was murdered, Special Agent Pendergast must have retribution. But revenge is not simple. As he stalks his wife's betrayers-- a chase that takes him from the wild moors of Scotland to the bustling streets of New York and the darkest bayous of Louisiana-- he is also forced to dig further into Helen's past...Categorized as:
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Old Bones by Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child
Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsThe first in the groundbreaking Nora Kelly series from #1 bestselling authors Preston & Child blends the legend of the Donner party with a riveting suspense tale, taking the dynamic duo's work to new heights...Categorized as:
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