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Longstone by L.J. Ross
Rated: 4.54 of 5 stars
· 24 ratings
Between the devil and the deep blue sea… Viking treasure is discovered beneath the icy waters of the North Sea and local historian Doctor Anna Taylor is called in to help catalogue the most exciting hoard in living memory. But when a shipwreck diver washes up dead, she’s soon out of her depth...

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Desert Star by Michael Connelly
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
· 28 ratings
LAPD detective Renée Ballard and Harry Bosch team up to hunt the brutal killer who is Bosch’s “white whale”—a man responsible for the murder of an entire family. Discover more thrilling Bosch mysteries in the original Freevee series Bosch: Legacy. A year has passed since LAPD detective Renée Ballard quit the force in the face of misogyny, demoralization, and endless red tape...

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Cuthbert's Way: A DCI Ryan Mystery by L.J. Ross
Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars
· 24 ratings
A SECRET KEPT FOR A THOUSAND YEARS...After the dramatic theft of a priceless artefact from Durham Cathedral, the rest of the world believes that DCI Ryan and his team were able to recover and return St. Cuthbert’s cross to its rightful home...

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Hidden on the Fens by Joy Ellis
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
· 18 ratings
A derelict cottage hidden in a copse of trees.A missing girl whose body was never found.Has her killer returned?Detective Joseph Easter’s daughter discovers a cottage hidden in some trees on a large fenland farm. Someone has been living there.The farm-owner’s wife has been receiving sinister pagan artefacts, including a witch’s knife...

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The Infirmary by L.J. Ross, Jonathan Keeble
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
· 24 ratings
Introducing the new, unabridged version of The Infirmary by LJ Ross, the author of the international number one best-selling series, the DCI Ryan Mysteries.There's a serial killer targeting the streets of Newcastle, seemingly picking his victims at random but subjecting them all to the same torturous end...

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Black Coral by Andrew Mayne
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
· 24 ratings
For a police diver in Florida, solving a cold-case mystery brings a serial killer out of hiding...Sloan McPherson and the Underwater Investigation Unit have discovered a van at the bottom of a murky Florida pond. Sealed inside the watery tomb are the bodies of four teenagers who disappeared thirty years ago after leaving a rock concert. To authorities, it looks like a tragic accident...

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In the Darkness by Mike Omer
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
· 24 ratings
A forensic psychologist fights a mental war against two serial killers in this disturbing thriller from Mike Omer, Washington Post and Amazon Charts bestselling author of A Killer’s Mind.An online video of a girl clawing at the ceiling of her own grave could be the worst thing FBI forensic psychologist Zoe Bentley has ever seen...

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The Hangman by Mary Burton
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
· 20 ratings
Julia Vargas is a cop with a mission. When she’s not chasing down bad guys, Julia dedicates her time to investigating the Hangman serial killer…the same unsolved case that her father, Jim Vargas, was working on when he supposedly shot and killed himself three decades before. While rumors continue to swirl around her father’s death, Julia attempts to hunt down the truth...

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The Dead Call by J.M. Dalgliesh
Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
· 18 ratings
When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time..

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The Poet by Michael Connelly
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
· 43 ratings
Denver crime-beat reporter Jack McEvoy specializes in violent death. So when his homicide detective brother kills himself, McEvoy copes in the only way he knows how--he decides to write the story. But his research leads him to suspect a serial killer is at work--a devious murderer who's killing cops and leaving a trail of poetic clues...

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The Roubaud Connection by Estelle Ryan
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
· 12 ratings
Brutal murders. An ancient treasure. A rogue state.A young acquaintance of nonverbal communications expert Doctor Genevieve Lenard begs her to look into the disappearance of his friend...

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crime thriller law-enforcement police-procedural mystery fiction social-commentary action-adventure
Borderlands: A DCI Ryan Mystery by LJ Ross
Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
· 20 ratings
FROM THE #1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF HOLY ISLAND AND PENSHAW When the gods made man, they made a weapon... After uncovering a fresh wave of corruption within the ranks of Northumbria CID, Detective Chief Inspector Ryan was looking forward to an uneventful summer...

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Hunted on the Fens by Joy Ellis
Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
· 20 ratings
A VICIOUS CRIMINAL IS TARGETING DI NIKKI GALENA AND HER TEAM. ONE BY ONE HE WILL HUNT THEM DOWN AND DESTROY THEIR LIVES, UNLESS SHE CAN STOP HIM FIRST DI Nikki Galena faces her toughest challenge yet...

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crime law-enforcement police-procedural suspense thriller action-adventure adult audiobook
Mania: An Alexander Gregory Thriller by LJ Ross
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
· 14 ratings
FROM THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE DCI RYAN MYSTERIESYou can’t run from the past…Back in London after a dramatic trip to North America, Doctor Alexander Gregory finds himself without an occupation while he awaits the all-important decision of the disciplinary panel at Southmoor Hospital...

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crime law-enforcement police-procedural suspense whodunit action-adventure adult audiobook
Fear No Evil by James Patterson
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
· 24 ratings
Alex Cross enters the final showdown with the relentless killer who has stalked him and his family for years.Dr. Alex Cross and Detective John Sampson venture into the rugged Montana wilderness—where they will be the prey. They’re not on the job, but on a personal mission...

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crime law-enforcement police-procedural suspense thriller action-adventure adult assassinations
The Ladykiller by Martina Cole
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
· 18 ratings
George Markham has a nasty little hobby, one that erupts into an orgy of vicious sexual depravity.Patrick Kelly is a hard man. His one soft spot is his daughter, and when she falls victim to the Grantley Ripper, Kelly wants revenge.The DI in charge of the case is Kate Burrows. She feels for Kelly but her growing involvement with a known villain is putting her career at risk . .

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crime hard-boiled law-enforcement police-procedural suspense thriller action-adventure adult
Darkness on the Fens by Joy Ellis
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
· 18 ratings
A SERIAL KILLER ON A POISONOUS MISSION PUSHES NIKKI AND HER TEAM TO BREAKING POINTRevellers are flocking into Greenborough for the yearly Dark Greenborough Festival, a three-day event celebrating local folklore, superstition and the darker side of life...

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Cold Justice Series Box Set: Volume I: Books 1-3 by Toni Anderson
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
· 10 ratings
Now you can get the first three books of the Cold Justice Series in one bundle! Justice isn’t always black or white. Sometimes it’s cold and dark. A Cold Dark Place: Former CIA assassin Alex Parker works for The Gateway Project, a clandestine government organization hell-bent on taking out serial killers and pedophiles before they enter the justice system...

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Gallery of the Dead by Chris Carter
Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
· 19 ratings
‘Thirty-seven years in the force, and if I was allowed to choose just one thing to erase from my mind, what’s inside that room would be it.'That’s what a LAPD Lieutenant tells Detectives Hunter and Garcia of the Ultra Violent Crimes Unit as they arrive at one of the most shocking crime scenes they have ever attended...

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crime law-enforcement police-procedural suspense thriller action-adventure adult audiobook
Shadow Over the Fens by Joy Ellis
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
· 20 ratings
TWO BRUTAL KILLERS ARE LOOSE ON THE FENS BUT WHO CAN DI NIKKI GALENA TRUST? Detective Nikki Galena’s friend and neighbour meets a tragic end but there’s more to his death than meets the eye . . . And someone terrible from DS Joseph Easter’s past is back . .

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crime law-enforcement police-procedural suspense thriller action-adventure adult audiobook
Impostor by L.J. Ross
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
· 24 ratings
FROM THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE DCI RYAN MYSTERIES There’s a killer inside all of us… After an elite criminal profiling unit is shut down amidst a storm of scandal and mismanagement, only one person emerges unscathed...

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crime law-enforcement police-procedural suspense thriller action-adventure adult audiobook
The Night Thief by Joy Ellis
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
· 24 ratings
When everyone is sleeping, he comes into their houses.He takes one thing. A photo of their child.A thief on a power trip or something even darker and more sinister?Detectives Jackman and Evans find themselves on the hunt for a highly unusual burglar who seemingly only steals photographs. But then, late one night, an elderly woman falls to her death after seeing someone in her home...

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crime suspense law-enforcement police-procedural thriller whodunit mystery audiobook
Fatal Intrusion by Jeffery Deaver, Isabella Maldonado
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
· 24 ratings
As a wave of murders grips Southern California, an unlikely pair must untangle the mysterious patterns of an elusive killer. A propulsive new series by New York Times bestselling author Jeffery Deaver and Wall Street Journal bestselling author Isabella Maldonado.Carmen Sanchez is a tough Homeland Security agent who plays by the rules...

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Unbound Ties: When the past unravels, all that’s left is death ... by Liz Mistry
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
· 6 ratings
When the past unravels, all that’s left is death.Lavender’s blue, dilly dilly,When DI Gus McGuire is called out to the murder of a pregnant woman, the crime scene tells him that this killer is not only taunting them … he’s also just getting started.Lavender’s green,With ritualistic precision, the killer has placed a series of clues beneath the victim’s feet...

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A L'ombre Du Mal by Robert Crais, Hubert Tézenas
Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
· 25 ratings
Elvis Cole is Back--In a Desperate Fight to Clear his Name... It's fire season, and the hills of Los Angeles are burning. When police and fire department personnel rush door to door in a frenzied evacuation effort, they discover the week-old corpse of an apparent suicide...

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The Fallen by David Baldacci, Orlagh Cassidy
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
· 32 ratings
Amos Decker is the Memory Man. Following a football-related head injury that altered his personality, Decker is now unable to forget even the smallest detail - as much a curse as it is a blessing. And in The Fallen, Decker's life might be about to change again....Something sinister is going on in Baronville. The rust belt town has seen four bizarre murders in the space of two weeks...

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crime law-enforcement police-procedural suspense whodunit thriller action-adventure adult
Cross Justice by James Patterson
Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
· 26 ratings
For Alex Cross, the toughest cases hit close to home-and in this deadly thrill ride, he's trying to solve the most personal mystery of his life.When his cousin is accused of a heinous crime, Alex Cross returns to his North Carolina hometown for the first time in over three decades...

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crime law-enforcement police-procedural suspense thriller action-adventure adult audiobook
Field of Prey by John Sandford
Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
· 26 ratings
The night after the fourth of July, Layton Carlson Jr., of Red Wing, Minnesota, finally got lucky. And unlucky. He’d picked the perfect spot to lose his virginity to his girlfriend, an abandoned farmyard in the middle of cornfields: nice, private, and quiet. The only problem was . . . something smelled bad—like, really bad...

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The Silence of the White City by Eva García Sáenz de Urturi, Eva García Sáenz
Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
· 26 ratings
A madman is holding Vitoria hostage, killing its citizens in brutal ways and staging the bodies. The city's only hope is a brilliant detective struggling to battle his own demons.Inspector Unai López de Ayala, known as "Kraken", is charged with investigating a series of ritualistic murders. The killings are eerily similar to ones that terrorized the citizens of Vitoria twenty years earlier...

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crime law-enforcement police-procedural suspense thriller 21st-century action-adventure adult
The Concrete Blonde by Michael Connelly, Dick Hill
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
· 34 ratings
Detective Harry Bosch was sure he'd shot the serial killer responsible for a string of murders in LA . . . but now, a new crime makes him question his convictions.The Dollmaker was the name of the serial killer who had stalked Los Angeles ruthlessly, leaving grisly calling cards on the faces of his female victims...

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crime hard-boiled law-enforcement police-procedural suspense whodunit thriller action-adventure
Gathering Prey by John Sandford
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
· 27 ratings
The extraordinary new Lucas Davenport thriller from #1 New York Times–bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize–winner John Sandford. They call them Travelers. They move from city to city, panhandling, committing no crimes—they just like to stay on the move. And now somebody is killing them...

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crime law-enforcement police-procedural suspense thriller action-adventure adult audiobook
Dark is the Grave by T.G. Reid
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
· 18 ratings
A dead cop. A damaged detective. A copycat killer on the loose.When the chief suspect in the notorious Peek-a-boo cop killer case blew himself up, almost taking lead investigator DCI Duncan Bone with him, the psychologically damaged detective thought his days on the force were over...

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crime suspense law-enforcement police-procedural thriller mystery fiction contemporary
Where The Truth Lies by M.J. Lee
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
· 18 ratings
A killer in total control. A detective on the edge. A mystery that HAS to be solved. DI Thomas Ridpath was on the up in the Manchester CID: a promising young detective whose first case involved capturing a notorious serial killer. But ten years later he’s recovering from a serious illness and on the brink of being forced out of the police...

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crime law-enforcement suspense police-procedural thriller hard-boiled fiction mystery
Buried Prey by John Sandford
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
· 29 ratings
A house demolition provides an unpleasant surprise for Minneapolis-the bodies of two girls, wrapped in plastic. It looks like they've been there a long time. Lucas Davenport knows exactly how long. In 1985, Davenport was a young cop with a reputation for recklessness, and the girls' disappearance was a big deal. His bosses ultimately declared the case closed, but he never agreed with that...

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Final Breath by Robert F. Barker
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
· 10 ratings
A monstrous killer, safely behind bars – But just how safe is, ‘safe’? An archive of debauchery and murder, poised to ruin reputations, careers, lives A detective running out of time to find what he seeks Eighteen months on from the case that nearly cost him his life, only DCI Jamie Carver knows the incredible extent of the Worshipper Killer’s network of depravity – and the storm that will...

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Blood Work by Michael Connelly
Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
· 35 ratings
New York Times bestselling author Michael Connelly presents his most ambitious, most gripping achievement to date--a novel of masterly suspense and righteous obsession that will never let you go.When Graciella Rivers steps onto his boat, ex-FBI agent Terrell McCaleb has no idea he's about to come out of retirement. He's recuperating from a heart transplant and avoiding anything stressful...

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crime hard-boiled law-enforcement police-procedural suspense whodunit thriller 20th-century
Gone by Lisa Gardner, Anna Fields
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
· 31 ratings
From New York Times bestseller Lisa Gardner, author of Alone and The Killing Hour, comes a thriller that goes from heartbreaking to heartstopping in the blink of an eye...

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crime law-enforcement police-procedural suspense whodunit thriller action-adventure adult
The Narrows by Michael Connelly
Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
· 34 ratings
FBI agent Rachel Walling finally gets the call she's dreaded for years, the one that tells her the Poet has surfaced. She has never forgotten the serial killer who wove lines of poetry in his hideous crimes--and apparently he has not forgotten her.Former LAPD detective Harry Bosch gets a call, too--from the widow of an old friend...

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crime hard-boiled law-enforcement police-procedural suspense whodunit thriller 21st-century
The Guilty Ones by Joy Ellis
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
· 24 ratings
THE MOST DIFFICULT CASE OF DETECTIVE JACKMAN’S LIFE. WHO ARE THE GUILTY ONES AND IS ANYONE REALLY INNOCENT? THIS TIME IT’S VERY PERSONAL FOR JACKMAN. Jackman’s sister-in-law Sarah disappears to London and throws herself into the river. What drove her to this? She was a woman with a seemingly happy home life and two beloved sons. DI Jackman and DI Evans dig into Sarah’s life...

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crime law-enforcement police-procedural suspense thriller action-adventure adult audiobook
Neon Prey by John Sandford, Richard Ferrone
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
· 25 ratings
Listening length: 11 hours and 17 minutesClayton Deese looks like a small-time criminal, muscle for hire when his loan shark boss needs to teach someone a lesson. Now, seven months after a job that went south and landed him in jail, Deese has skipped out on bail, and the U.S. Marshals come looking for him...

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crime law-enforcement police-procedural suspense thriller action-adventure adult audiobook
A Darkness More Than Night by Michael Connelly
Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
· 35 ratings
Terry McCaleb, the retired FBI agent who starred in the bestseller "Blood Work," is asked by the LAPD to help them investigate aseries of murders that have them baffled. They are the kind of ritualized killings McCaleb specialized in solving with the FBI, and he is reluctantly drawn from his peaceful new life back into the horror and excitement of tracking down a terrifying homicidal maniac...

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crime hard-boiled law-enforcement police-procedural suspense thriller action-adventure adult
Echo Park by Michael Connelly
Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
· 35 ratings
More than a decade ago, Harry Bosch worked on the case of Marie Gesto, a twenty-two-year-old who went missing but was never found. Now, with the Gesto file still on his desk, Bosch gets a call from the District Attorney: A serial killer has confessed. Did Harry miss a key clue? Or is something more going on here?In 1993 Marie Gesto disappeared after walking out of a supermarket...

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crime law-enforcement police-procedural suspense whodunit thriller 21st-century action-adventure
The Creek Killer by Dominika Best
Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
· 15 ratings
How would you prove you weren’t dead? Jane Smith has been running from danger her whole life. That danger followed her everywhere, leaving a trail of death in its wake. When the mummified bodies of six girls are discovered in the wetlands of Los Angeles, Jane is surprised to learn one of the dead girls bears her name—the name she abandoned twenty-five years ago to go into hiding...

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crime law-enforcement thriller police-procedural mystery fiction contemporary action-adventure
YOU DID THIS by Jamie Millen
Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
· 15 ratings
A sister’s worst nightmare. A homicide detective’s destiny.Everybody loves Claire’s little sister, Tina. But only Claire sees the twisted psychopath hiding behind her sister’s angelic face. When Tina is brutally murdered on her fourteenth birthday, the day Claire failed to walk her home from school, Claire never forgives herself. And neither does their mother...

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crime law-enforcement suspense thriller police-procedural mystery audiobook fiction
Bring Me Flowers by D.K. Hood
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
· 16 ratings
She didn’t know he was watching. Until it was too late.She’d walked this path hundreds of times before, she knew every twist and turn. But today was different. She didn’t know someone was waiting for her, hidden away from view. She didn’t know this was the last time she’d walk this path...

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crime law-enforcement police-procedural suspense thriller action-adventure adult audiobook
Dark Sacred Night by Michael Connelly
Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
· 34 ratings
LAPD Detective Renée Ballard teams up with Harry Bosch in the new thriller from #1 NYT bestselling author Michael Connelly.Renée Ballard is working the night beat again, and returns to Hollywood Station in the early hours only to find a stranger rifling through old file cabinets. The intruder is retired detective Harry Bosch, working a cold case that has gotten under his skin...

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crime law-enforcement police-procedural suspense whodunit thriller 21st-century action-adventure
Mastermind by Andrew Mayne
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
· 27 ratings
A mysterious electrical storm plunges Manhattan into darkness. As a strange, smothering fog rolls in, all communication crashes. In the blink of an eye, the island seems to vanish into a void.FBI special agent Jessica Blackwood and brilliant scientist Dr. Theo Cray know this isn’t a freak accident. It’s a sinister sleight of hand...

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crime law-enforcement police-procedural suspense thriller action-adventure adult amateur-sleuth
The Shrine by L.J. Ross
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
· 20 ratings
A murder for the history books…After a long and eventful winter, DCI Ryan and his team are looking forward to the joys of spring. But, when one of their colleagues is shot dead on her own doorstep and the brass think it’s an inside job, Ryan finds himself drafted in to investigate.He’s barely scratched the surface when reports flood in of a terror explosion at Durham Cathedral...

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crime law-enforcement police-procedural suspense whodunit action-adventure adult audiobook
The Trapped Ones by Stacy Green
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
· 6 ratings
She raced across the woods. Cold wind hit her face, and her heart pounded so fast she could almost feel the panic rushing through her veins. She knocked on the door knowing she didn’t have much time. Fear gripped her. “Please, help,” she whispered.Rushing to the scene of a homicide at a farmhouse surrounded by thick, dark woodland, Special Agent Nikki Hunt is shocked to find four victims...

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crime law-enforcement police-procedural suspense thriller action-adventure adult alpha-mc
Dead to Me by J.M. Dalgliesh
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
· 6 ratings
Let go of your past... or it will be the death of you...When a man's body is discovered crammed into the boot of an abandoned car in a remote location, DI Tom Janssen and his team must unpick his life to find out how he came to be there.The victim was a local man, popular with some although hated by others, and he had a habit of making enemies, enemies that any sane man would seek to avoid...

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