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A Shameless Little Con by Meli Raine
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsI didn’t do it. I never betrayed my friend. Last year, I was kidnapped along with presidential candidate’s daughter Lindsay Bosworth, forced to help her assailants, my mother implicated in one of the biggest political scandals in American history. I've been cleared of any wrongdoing, but that doesn’t matter. Once you’re tried by the media, you’re guilty as sin... -
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One Among Us by Paige Dearth
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsA 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... -
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Negeri Para Bedebah by Tere Liye
Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsDi negeri para bedebah, kisah fiksi kalah seru dibanding kisah nyata.Di negeri para bedebah, musang berbulu domba berkeliaran di halaman rumah.Tetapi setidaknya, Kawan, di negeri para bedebah, petarung sejati tidak akan pernah berkhianat... -
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State of Alert by Marie Force, Eva Kaminsky
Rated: 4.69 of 5 stars · 16 ratings11 hours, 35 minutes The first couple is on full alert, deflecting new threats from near and far…Lieutenant Sam Holland has seen just about everything as a D.C. homicide detective, but she’s never been asked to lie to her closest colleagues and her husband—until now... -
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![The Tracker by Chad Zunker]()
The Tracker by Chad Zunker
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 25 ratingsTrust no one.Sam Callahan learned this lesson from a childhood spent in abusive foster care, on the streets, and locked in juvie. With the past behind him and his future staked on law school, he is moonlighting as a political tracker, paid to hide in crowds and shadow candidates, recording their missteps for use by their opponents... -
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A Gambler's Jury by Victor Methos
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsWhat they’re doing to her client is a crime. Attorney Dani Rollins is bullish in the courtroom—pushing judges and prosecutors to their limits in defense of the innocent. So when she meets Teddy Thorne, a mentally challenged teen accused of selling drugs, Dani knows she’s got this in the bag. She can easily settle the case with a couple of court appearances... -
![The Shotgun Lawyer by Victor Methos]()
The Shotgun Lawyer by Victor Methos
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsFrom the bestselling author of The Neon Lawyer comes a page-turning thriller about a scrappy lawyer and his fight for justice.Personal injury attorney Peter Game has a reputation: cynical, untroubled by ethics, and willing to take any case, anytime, in his pursuit of the win. He dreams of a sweetheart score that’ll make his name and net him millions... -
![The Flaw by Antonis Samarakis]()
The Flaw by Antonis Samarakis
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsA man is seized from his afternoon drink at the Café Sport by two agents of the Regime - though what exactly he is suspected of we do not know, and neither, apparently, does he.What follows is a journey by car toward Special Branch headquarters, and the interrogation that undoubtedly awaits him there... -
![The Liar by Steve Cavanagh]()
The Liar by Steve Cavanagh
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsIT TAKES ONE TO KNOW ONE...WHO IS DEADLIER ...Leonard Howell's worst nightmare has come true: his daughter Caroline has been kidnapped. Not content with relying on the cops, Howell calls the only man he trusts to get her back.... THE MAN WHO KNOWS THE TRUTH ...Eddie Flynn knows what it's like to lose a daughter and vows to bring Caroline home safe... -
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![Brownout - 666: or the Real Meaning of the Swastika by John Richard Spencer]()
Brownout - 666: or the Real Meaning of the Swastika by John Richard Spencer
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsIn the land of flaunted sex, money, and flexible rules, an ambitious but lonely Rick Daly faces his demons. Rick Daly has established a business in the exotic surroundings of the Philippines, while simultaneously discovering Marilyn Delgado, the woman of his dreams. However, a clash of cultures and his own naiveté lead to disaster... -
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Miami Requiem by J.B. Turner
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsA gripping race-against-time crime thriller for fans of Michael Connelly, James Lee Burke, Harlan Coben and Karin Slaughter.She wanted the truth. They wanted her dead.Since her first day on the Miami Herald, rookie reporter Deborah Jones has been agitating for a shot at one particular story. William Craig is on Death Row, convicted of killling Senator Jack O'Neill's only son... -
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The Bezzle by Cory Doctorow
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsNew York Times bestseller Cory Doctorow's The Bezzle is a high stakes thriller where the lives of the hundreds of thousands of inmates in California’s prisons are traded like stock shares.The year is 2006. Martin Hench is at the top of his game as a self-employed forensic accountant, a veteran of the long guerrilla war between people who want to hide money, and people who want to find it... -
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Extra Dirty by Mia Gold
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsEXTRA DIRTY is book #2 in the Ruby Steele Mystery, which begins with ON THE ROCKS (Book #1).Ruby Steele, 30, beautiful, fit, seems just like any other ex-pat hiding out in the Bahamas and playing local bartender. But unruly patrons find out the hard way: Ruby is a mixed-martial-arts pro, and not one you’d want to cross.A 40-something female tourist seeks out Ruby, desperate for her help... -
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![Three Witnesses by Rex Stout]()
Three Witnesses by Rex Stout
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIn three cases--a millionaire who writes his own death warrant, a dog who becomes a killer's worst enemy, and an answering service which refuses to talk about a murder--three witnesses hold the solution for detective Rex Stout... -
![Love in the Time of Serial Killers by Alicia Thompson]()
Love in the Time of Serial Killers by Alicia Thompson
Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsTurns out that reading nothing but true crime isn't exactly conducive to modern dating—and one woman is going to have to learn how to give love a chance when she's used to suspecting the worst. PhD candidate Phoebe Walsh has always been obsessed with true crime. She's even analyzing the genre in her dissertation—if she can manage to finish writing it... -
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Special Agent Murphy by Mimi Barbour
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIt's Christmas in Washington, but not for one heartsick family. Agent Shane Murphy has a hard time believing his life could get so crazy. Because of a choice – one he’d make again – he loses his superiority in the FBI. Now he’s forced to work surveillance with a rookie female yapper. And… gets caught up in the kidnapping of a sixteen-year-old that pulls at the heartstrings he keeps hidden... -
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Nearly Mine by Molly Black
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsWith a string of unsolved murders up and down the Mississippi River, the FBI assembles a task force, assigning their best Minnesota field agent, Grace Ford, to partner with an agent from their Louisiana office. Despite their culture clash, the two must work together to traverse the country, crack the hardest cases—and to stop the next killer before it’s too late... -
![Deliver Us From Evil by David Baldacci]()
Deliver Us From Evil by David Baldacci
Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars · 28 ratingsFrom David Baldacci-the #1 bestselling author of "The Whole Truth "and "First Family"-comes his most timely, surprising, and heart-stopping thriller, DELIVER US FROM EVIL.Evan Waller is a monster . . . He has built a fortune from his willingness to buy and sell anything . . . and anyone... -
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Music for Chameleons by Truman Capote
Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars · 32 ratingsAt the centre of Music for Chameleons is Handcarved Coffins, a ‘nonfiction novel’ based on the brutal crimes of a real-life murderer. Taking place in a small Midwestern town in America, it offers chilling insights into the mind of a killer and the obsession of the man bringing him to justice... -
![A Life to Kill (7) by M.R. Hall]()
A Life to Kill (7) by M.R. Hall
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe day they've all been waiting for is at hand. The last British combat soldiers in Helmand are counting the minutes until their departure for home. For their excited families in Highcliffe, it spells the end of an agonizing six month wait. But in the final hours, disaster strikes. Nineteen-year-old Private Pete "Skippy" Lyons is abducted and the patrol sent out to locate him is ambushed... -
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Mission: Saving Shayna by Elle Boon
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsMission: Saving Shayna An Omega Team and SEAL Team Phantom Crossover Blurb Professional violinist Shayna Macintyre has a problem. Her borrowed, multi-million dollar Stradivarius violin has been stolen—and someone is leaving her threatening messages to present herself to them, or else...Categorized as:
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Protect and Defend by Richard North Patterson
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsOn a cold day in January President Kerry Kilcannon takes the oath of office-- and within days makes his first, most important move: appointing a new Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. Kilcannon's choice is a female judge with a brilliant record. And a secret... -
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Finger Prints by Barbara Delinsky
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsNew York Times bestselling author Barbara Delinsky displays her deep understanding of the desires and fears that move us all in this poignant story, first published in 1984, of danger, love, and trust. Once upon a time she was Robyn Hart, a journalist whosaw too much and wasn't afraid to expose it. But that courage nearly cost Robyn her life... -
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![Who They Was by Gabriel Krauze]()
Who They Was by Gabriel Krauze
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsWho They Was is an electrifying autobiographical British novel: a debut that truly breaks new ground and shines a light on lives that run on parallel, but wildly different tracks.This life is like being in an ocean. Some people keep swimming towards the bottom... -
![Plague Maker by Tim Downs]()
Plague Maker by Tim Downs
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsJuly Fourth: New York CityHundreds of thousands line the banks of the East and Hudson Rivers awaiting the nation's largest fireworks display. Soon the sky will explode in cascading showers of silver and gold. Everywhere, faces will turn skyward in wide-eyed wonder.Then the sky will grow dark again--but it will not be empty... -
![A Perfect Lie by Lisa Renee Jones]()
A Perfect Lie by Lisa Renee Jones
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThey say that you are not a product of the environment that you’ve grown up in, that you create your own story, tell it your way. That you get to pick your own future. They lied. If you’re honest with yourself, you believed that lie, too, like I used to, because I wanted to, and even needed to believe that I had some semblance of control over my own self... -
![Drone State by Tom Hillenbrand]()
Drone State by Tom Hillenbrand
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsGlauser Award 2015 - Best German Crime NovelLasswitz Award 2015 - Best German SF NovelWhy interview witnesses when all their movements and conversations have already been archived on a hard disk? Why investigate crime scenes when police drones have already photographed them from all possible angles?A Brussels MP is found murdered near the EU capital... -
![Dead Reckoning by Linda Castillo]()
Dead Reckoning by Linda Castillo
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAssistant D.A. Kate Megason is about to prosecute the case of her career when someone starts sending her terrifying messages. Someone who obviously knows her deep, dark secret. Now, she needs the help of Frank Matrone--an investigator with his own shadowy past--or else Kate may have no chance of surviving a killer's brutal wrath... -
![Heart Seizure by Bill Fitzhugh]()
Heart Seizure by Bill Fitzhugh
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsSpence Tailor, a lawyer with an actual set of principles, loves his mama, Rose. Rose—with advanced cardiomyopathy and a rare blood type—is scheduled for a heart transplant. But when the president's heart craps out during a photo op three months before the national election, the White House chief of staff orders the FBI to seize the heart that was going to Rose—all in the name of democracy... -
![Beneath the Surface by Jo Spain]()
Beneath the Surface by Jo Spain
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsDid I know it would come to this? That I was playing Russian Roulette? I would give anything to turn back time and to be with my girls. There is no shot at redemption. I am going to die. The gun is in my eye-line as the second bullet is fired. That's the one that kills me. Late at night, two powerful men meet in a secret location to discuss a long nurtured plan about to come to fruition... -
![Trust by Pamela M. Kelley]()
Trust by Pamela M. Kelley
Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThree weeks before the wedding, your fiance becomes a person of interest in a murder investigation. What would you do? In TRUST, 36-year-old, high school teacher Lauren seems to have it all. She moved back to Waverly, a small seaside town, just north of Boston, MA several years ago. She has a great career, and has finally found true love... -
![Out of the Storm by JoAnn Ross]()
Out of the Storm by JoAnn Ross
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsSouthern hospitality can kill you.... There's no escaping the sweltering heat when White House correspondent Laurel Stewart arrives in Somersett, South Carolina, and discovers that her best friend -- the vice president's protocol advisor -- has disappeared... -
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Damnation by Raymond Benson
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTHE OFFICIAL, ALL-ORIGINAL, ALL-OUT THRILLING PREQUEL TO THE MUCH-ANTICIPATED NEW GAME HITMAN: ABSOLUTION Since the devastating conclusion of Hitman: Blood Money, Agent 47 has been MIA. Now fans awaiting the return of the blockbuster videogame and film phenomenon can pinpoint the location of the world’s most brutal and effective killer-for-hire before he reemerges in Hitman: Absolution... -
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![Son of a Gun by A.M. Riley]()
Son of a Gun by A.M. Riley
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsPolitics, drugs and secrets from the past collide in the town of Boerne Texas and end in a chase across the Devil's Backbone. Stefan Sanchez number one reason to leave Texas was closeted deputy Chet Blain... -
![The Second Life of Inspector Canessa by Roberto Perrone]()
The Second Life of Inspector Canessa by Roberto Perrone
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFamily secrets, terrorist plots and the return of a legendary cop: a ferociously paced noir thriller from one of Italy’s top crime writers, and the second book in Pushkin Press’s collaboration with Walter PresentsAnnibale Canessa didn’t want to go back to his old life. When everything went wrong in 1984, he traded his brutal, exciting career in the Carabinieri for paradise in San Fruttuoso...Categorized as:
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Resistant by Michael Palmer
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThey fight without conscience or remorse. Their only job is to kill. They are the most ruthless enemy we have ever faced.And they are one millionth our size. When Dr. Lou Welcome fills in last minute for his boss at a national conference in Atlanta he brings along his best friend, Cap Duncan. But an accident turns tragic when Cap injures his leg while running... -
![Invasion of Privacy by Christopher Reich]()
Invasion of Privacy by Christopher Reich
Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsOne woman's quest to discover the truth behind her husband's death will pit her against a new generation of cutting-edge surveillance technology and the most dangerous conspiracy in America—Invasion of Privacy is the riveting, new standalone suspense novel from New York Times bestselling author Christopher Reich... -
![Ghost by James Swallow]()
Ghost by James Swallow
Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsFrom the Sunday Times bestselling author of NOMAD and EXILE comes Marc Dane's most terrifying case yet. A terrible threat from the depths of the dark net. A devastating betrayal at the heart of a covert strike force. A deadly pursuit across a digital battlefield. A ruthless terrorist fuelled by revenge... -
![Down to the Wire by David Rosenfelt]()
Down to the Wire by David Rosenfelt
Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA reporter for the Bergen News, Chris Turley could never measure up to his father. Edward Turley, a combination of Bob Woodward and Ernie Pyle, was one of the last great investigative reporters and a difficult man to impress. While stuck covering press conferences and town hall meetings, Chris, his father's legend in mind, has always dreamed of his own Pulitzer, however unlikely it seems... -
![The Perfect Victim by Linda Castillo]()
The Perfect Victim by Linda Castillo
Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA woman searches for her birth mother-and discovers that she is the sole survivor of her bloodline. A line that a killer is determined to make extinct... -
![Assassins of Athens by Jeffrey Siger]()
Assassins of Athens by Jeffrey Siger
Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWhen the body of a boy from one of Greece’s most prominent families turns up in a dumpster in one of Athens’ worst neighborhoods, Chief Inspector Andreas Kaldis of the Greek Police’s Special Crimes Division is certain there’s a message in the murder...Categorized as:
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Pursuit by Karen Robards
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsWhen rookie lawyer Jessica Ford gets the call from her boss, John Davenport, the senior partner at the illustrious law firm for which she works, she can tell he is well on his way to being drunk. He needs Jess to meet First Lady Annette Cooper, for whom Davenport is a personal lawyer, at a Washington, D.C., hotel... -
![No Safe Place by Richard North Patterson]()
No Safe Place by Richard North Patterson
Rated: 3.81 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIn the high-stakes, high-pressure world of Presidential politics, where predators carry microphones and one misstep can savage a lifetime of achievement, Kerry Kilcannon is the rarest player of all. Kilcannon believes he can make the system work. And he just may die trying... -
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![The Southern Gentleman: Protective Instinct by Sweden Reese]()
The Southern Gentleman: Protective Instinct by Sweden Reese
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsENTER THE GLAM WORLD OF A CRISIS MANAGEMENT AGENCY SPECIALIZING IN CELEBRITY SCANDAL AND POLITICAL INTRIGUE...Sex. Politics. Scandal.When a shadowy group intent on stealing the U.S. presidential election targets a leading candidate’s daughter, jaded professional fixer Nolan Jackson is hired to safely escort her across the country to a star-studded Election Eve event... -
![Killer Story by Matt Witten]()
Killer Story by Matt Witten
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHow far will she go to catch the killer—and make her podcast a hit? Talented and idealistic young reporter Petra Kovach is on the brink of being laid off from her third failing newspaper in a row. To save her job, she pitches the launch of a true crime podcast about a sensational, unsolved murder. Years earlier, an alt-right YouTuber was killed in her Harvard dorm room, and the case went cold... -
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![Cyber China by Qiu Xiaolong]()
Cyber China by Qiu Xiaolong
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsChief Inspector Chen Cao of the Shanghai Police Department is in an unusual situation—a poet by training and inclination, he was assigned by the party to the Police Department after he graduated college, where he has continued to shine... -
![Night Heron by Adam Brookes]()
Night Heron by Adam Brookes
Rated: 3.79 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsSet in China, and ripped from today's headlines, comes a pulse-pounding debut that reinvents the spy thriller for the 21st century.A lone man, Peanut, escapes a labor camp in the dead of night, fleeing across the winter desert of north-west China.Two decades earlier, he was a spy for the British; now Peanut must disappear on Beijing's surveillance-blanketed streets... -
![Faces of the Gone by Brad Parks]()
Faces of the Gone by Brad Parks
Rated: 3.79 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsFour bodies, each with a single bullet wound in the back of the head, stacked like cord-wood in a weed-choked vacant lot: That's the front-page news facing Carter Ross, investigative reporter with the Newark Eagle-Examiner...
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