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In Cold Blood by Caroline Mitchell
Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsWHEN THE HUNTER BECOMES THE HUNTED…DI Amy Winter faces her toughest case yet as a serial killer couple kidnap and hunt their prey. After capture, the victims are released from an unknown location each day. But freedom does not come easily as the victim’s injuries become more severe, and if they haven’t escaped by day four, they won’t live to see the fifth...Categorized as:
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![The Llangollen Killings: A Snowdonia Murder Mystery by Simon McCleave]()
The Llangollen Killings: A Snowdonia Murder Mystery by Simon McCleave
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsDI Ruth Hunter and the Llancastell CID team investigate a murder in... -
![Bury Them Deep: Inspector McLean Book 10 by James Oswald]()
Bury Them Deep: Inspector McLean Book 10 by James Oswald
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe tenth book in the Sunday Times-bestselling Inspector McLean series, from one of Scotland's most celebrated crime writers When a member of the Police Scotland team fails to clock-in for work, concern for her whereabouts is immediate... and the discovery of her burnt-out car in remote woodland to the south of Edinburgh sets off a desperate search for the missing woman... -
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![Dead and Buried: A Scottish Detective Mystery by John Carson]()
Dead and Buried: A Scottish Detective Mystery by John Carson
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSometimes, the past is better left behind...Detective Chief Inspector Harry McNeil had found himself back in CID after a leave of absence saw his team disbanded. Now he's been temporarily assigned to an existing Major Investigation team, working alongside his old friend, Detective Inspector Frank Miller, after Miller's DCI dies suddenly.A body is found in the city centre, torn to pieces... -
![The Pain of Strangers: Killing Them Since 1987 by Andrew Barrett]()
The Pain of Strangers: Killing Them Since 1987 by Andrew Barrett
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhen damaged people reach positions of power, there is no hope for the innocent. In 1987, Norton Bailey became known as the Madman of Mabgate. A damaged person in a position of power, he built a machine to take care of his problems and used money as bait. CSI Eddie Collins is feeling alone and adrift. Even work is unreliable and tense, and brings conflict with bad people... -
![The End of the Line by L.M. Krier]()
The End of the Line by L.M. Krier
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHolidays are never guaranteed for Detective Chief Inspector Ted Darling. Crime has a way of intervening.He’s hoping for a relaxing time in Wales with his partner Trevor, who’s had a difficult week. Instead he finds himself confronted by a sudden death, possibly suspicious, which threatens to leave his mother, Annie, homeless.Ted’s determined to find out what really went on... -
![Bună seara, Melania! by Rodica Ojog-Braşoveanu]()
Bună seara, Melania! by Rodica Ojog-Braşoveanu
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsRodica Ojog-Braşoveanu a publicat romane poliţiste, istorice şi alte povestiri. Maestră in arta suspansului, Rodica Ojog-Brasoveanu se arată o fină cunoscătoare a maștilor dincolo de care se ascund întotdeauna oamenii și în literatura, și în viata. Această carte o dovedește din plin.Despre "Ciclul Melaniei": Melania este cheia întregii serii, prin unicitatea ei... -
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![Murder in an Irish Bog by David Pearson]()
Murder in an Irish Bog by David Pearson
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsToo late to find a missing man, are Irish detectives in time to catch his killer?It is only a passing comment in the post office in a remote part of Western Ireland that alerts police to the disappearance of Davin Faherty.But foul play is established when his unceremoniously wrapped corpse turns up in a bog... -
![Last Dance by Sheldon Siegel]()
Last Dance by Sheldon Siegel
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAmid the pulsating beats of an upscale strip club in San Francisco's historic North Beach, a chilling crime unfolds. Ex-cop César Ochoa stands accused of brutally stabbing the club's star dancer, Chloe Carson. The evidence is damning, but César maintains his innocence.In a desperate bid for justice, César turns to Public Defenders Mike Daley and Rosie Fernandez... -
![Jo Nesbø Collection 3 Books Set: The Redbreast, Nemesis, The Devil's Star by Jo Nesbø]()
Jo Nesbø Collection 3 Books Set: The Redbreast, Nemesis, The Devil's Star by Jo Nesbø
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsTitle In This SetThe SnowmanThe RedbreastThe Devil's StarThe SnowmanThe night the first snow falls a young boy wakes to find his mother gone. He walks through the silent house, but finds only wet footprints on the stairs. In the garden looms a solitary figure: a snowman bathed in cold moonlight, its black eyes glaring up at the bedroom windows. Round its neck is his mother's pink scarf... -
![Le ossa parlano by Antonio Manzini]()
Le ossa parlano by Antonio Manzini
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsMentre Rocco Schiavone affronta a Roma i suoi fantasmi con la sensazione che a quella città non abbia più niente da dire, ad Aosta nei boschi vicino Saint-Nicolas, vengono rinvenute alcune minuscole ossa umane. Sono di Mirko Sensini, un bimbo di 8 anni strangolato dopo aver subito violenza sessuale. Rocco stavolta dovrà scavare nel terreno più torbido della psicopatologia la pedofilia... -
![Vecchie conoscenze by Antonio Manzini]()
Vecchie conoscenze by Antonio Manzini
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsRocco Schiavone indaga sull’omicidio di una professoressa in pensione. E intanto l’ombra del passato si fa pressante: la pena per Sebastiano, l’amico fraterno che non ha mai smesso di dare la caccia a Enzo Baiocchi, che gli ha assassinato la moglie, lo rende inquieto e gli ruba il sonno... -
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![Killing Moon by Jo Nesbø]()
Killing Moon by Jo Nesbø
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIn the thirteenth novel in the New York Times best-selling series, brilliant rogue police investigator Harry Hole is back, this time as an outsider assembling his own team to help find a serial killer.Harry has gone to Los Angeles to drink himself to death, in the wake of his life back in Oslo falling to pieces... -
![Perdition by Pete Brassett]()
Perdition by Pete Brassett
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA drug-induced suicide, misadventure, or a cleverly calculated murder? London detective Charlotte West takes on Scotland. An employee of an investment bank is found dead in his car by a freshwater loch in Ayrshire, Scotland, but there are few signs of foul play... -
![L'ultimo traghetto by Domingo Villar, Federico Zanandrea]()
L'ultimo traghetto by Domingo Villar, Federico Zanandrea
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsMónica Andrade è sparita da qualche giorno, e il caso non meriterebbe particolari attenzioni se non si trattasse della figlia di un celebre cardiochirurgo con cui mezza città (incluso il commissario Soto, diretto superiore dell'ispettore Leo Caldas) pare sentirsi in debito... -
![Wicked Secret by Valerie Keogh]()
Wicked Secret by Valerie Keogh
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsNicola Connolly's dreams have started again but this time she is the target. Deciding to investigate, to hunt rather than be hunted, she makes a startling discovery. Tom Hudson, meanwhile, has troubles of his own - Sean White is missing and one of his colleagues has been brutally murdered. Is there a link between the two? Reluctantly, Tom decides to ask Nicola for help... -
![Ο λαβύρινθος των πνευμάτων - τόμος 2 by Carlos Ruiz Zafón]()
Ο λαβύρινθος των πνευμάτων - τόμος 2 by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsΗ Αλίθια έβρεξε την πένα στο μελανοδοχείο και την άφησε να γλιστρήσει πάνω στο χαρτί, χαράζοντας μια γραμμή σε μπλε γυαλιστερό χρώμα. Έγραψε το όνομά της κι έμεινε να κοιτάζει το μελάνι που στέγνωνε σιγά σιγά. Η απόλαυση της λευκής σελίδας, που πάντα στην αρχή ανάδινε ένα άρωμα μυστηρίου γεμάτο υποσχέσεις, χάθηκε μεμιάς... -
![La nena by Carmen Mola]()
La nena by Carmen Mola
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsSIN LÍMITES Vuelve Carmen Mola, el último fenómeno de la novela negra española (150.000 lectores) y su autora más audaz y enigmática, con una entrega aún más revulsiva, violenta y sorprendente. «Nadie regresa del infierno indemne.» Es la noche del fin de año chino, empieza el año del cerdo... -
![La casa delle voci by Donato Carrisi]()
La casa delle voci by Donato Carrisi
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsPietro Gerber non è uno psicologo come gli altri. La sua specializzazione è l'ipnosi e i suoi pazienti hanno una cosa in comune: sono bambini. Pietro è il migliore di tutta Firenze, dove è conosciuto come l'addormentatore di bambini. Ma quando riceve una telefonata da parte di una collega australiana che gli raccomanda una paziente, Pietro reagisce con perplessità e diffidenza... -
![Everybody Knows by Jordan Harper]()
Everybody Knows by Jordan Harper
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsEverybody Knows is a propulsive LA crime thriller about Mae Pruett, a "black-bag publicist" - she doesn't get the good news out, she keeps the bad news in – who works for “The Beast,” her name for the loose collection of lawyers, publicists and private security firms who protect and serve the wealthy and depraved of Los Angeles... -
![Club Mafia - The Boss: A Dark Mafia Romance by Stella Andrews]()
Club Mafia - The Boss: A Dark Mafia Romance by Stella Andrews
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratings★★★★★ The dark was never so goodI am The BossI make the rules and punish those who break them.I am good at my job.I arranged a marriage of the darkest kind.A business deal to align myself with a powerful family to start a war.The contract is clear. Be my wife in public and strangers in private.And then I met her.Jasmine Rossi.Reluctant mafia princess and rebel without a cause... -
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Trust Nobody by June Hampson
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIt is 1962 and Daisy Lane, whose husband Kenny is in jail for robbery, runs and lives over the family's cafe in Gosport with Kenny's older brother Eddie. Daisy looks out for pretty, vulnerable, 16-year-old Suze, who works in the cafe and, along with prostitute Vera, who also shares the house, the women form a strong and lasting bond... -
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![The Moving Blade by Michael Pronko]()
The Moving Blade by Michael Pronko
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWhen the top American diplomat in Tokyo, Bernard Mattson, is killed, he leaves more than a lifetime of successful Japan-American negotiations. He leaves a missing manuscript, boxes of research, a lost keynote speech and a tangled web of relations... -
![Murder in a Safe Haven by David Pearson]()
Murder in a Safe Haven by David Pearson
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIrish detectives struggle to make sense of the evidence in this mystery that keeps you guessing.A relaxing sailing trip on his day off becomes anything but for DSI Mick Hays when a body is found at sea.The coastguard pluck the corpse from the ocean with ease, but establishing the dead man’s identity won’t be straightforward... -
![Kamer 19 by Marc Raabe]()
Kamer 19 by Marc Raabe
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsOp het openingsevenement van de Berlinale zorgt een snuff-movie voor een massale schok. Ruim 1800 sterren en beroemdheden zien hoe een gruwelijke moord op camera is vastgelegd. Het slachtoffer is de dochter van burgemeester Otto Keller. De dader dreigt dat het niet bij deze moord zal blijven. Rechercheur Tom Babylon en psychologe Sita Johanns staan met hun onderzoek naar de moord onder hoge druk... -
![Schatten by Ursula Poznanski, Andrea Sawatzki]()
Schatten by Ursula Poznanski, Andrea Sawatzki
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsDer vierte Fall für das Salzburger Ermittlerduo Beatrice Kaspary und Florin Wenninger: Anspruchsvolle Thrillerkost auf höchstem NiveauEine Entführung. Drei Morde. Und ein Täter aus der Vergangenheit...Ein Mann, grausam zugerichtet in seiner Wohnung. Eine Hebamme, ertränkt in einem Bach - zwei Fälle, die Beatrice Kaspary als Ermittlerin im Dezernat Leib und Leben der Polizei Salzburg lösen muss... -
![The Secret Fear by Solomon Carter]()
The Secret Fear by Solomon Carter
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsDETECTIVE JOE HOGARTH IS CALLED TO A BRUTAL MURDER AT A TURKISH TAKEAWAY. THE TELL-TALE MARK OF A ONCE NOTORIOUS LONDON CRIME FAMILY IS FOUND ON THE VICTIM’S BODY. HOGARTH FEARS THE NEW CASE COULD OPEN A PANDORA'S BOX. BUT HE HAS NO CHOICE.HOGARTH MUST FIND THE KILLER AND TAKE ON THE DEADLIEST RISKSMurdered kebab shop owner Baba Sen was beloved by his clientele... -
![Secrets Girls Keep by John Ellsworth]()
Secrets Girls Keep by John Ellsworth
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsGOT A KILLER IN YOUR GUEST ROOM? Michael Gresham is a criminal attorney whose priest has fathered a son. The boy is now seventeen, acting-out, and arrested for first-degree murder. The priest asks Michael to take his son into his home so he can be released on bail. Michael and his wife agree and the boy, with his snake and mice, moves in... -
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By the Time We Leave Here, We'll Be Friends by J. David Osborne
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsBy the Time We Leave Here, We'll Be Friends is the story of four prisoners who must escape from a Siberian gulag overrun by violent gangsters circa 1952. In order to successfully make it across the tundra, they must trick a fellow prisoner into following them, so that they can cannibalize him when they run out of food... -
![I'm Watching You by Amanda Brittany]()
I'm Watching You by Amanda Brittany
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsRiona is spending her last summer in her home town of Ensley before heading to university. She can’t wait to leave for pastures new.Nothing ever happens in pretty but boring Ensley. Until a young woman is viciously attacked down by Quarry Lake. Then another. And another. One of them survives, one of them is in a coma — and one of them is dead... -
![Meat and Salt and Sparks by Rich Larson]()
Meat and Salt and Sparks by Rich Larson
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsA futuristic murder mystery about detective partners—a human and an enhanced chimpanzee—who are investigating why a woman murdered an apparently random stranger on the subway.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied... -
![The Black Lizard Big Book of Pulps: The Best Crime Stories from the Pulps During Their Golden Age - The '20s, '30s & '40s by Otto Penzler]()
The Black Lizard Big Book of Pulps: The Best Crime Stories from the Pulps During Their Golden Age - The '20s, '30s & '40s by Otto Penzler
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe biggest, the boldest, the most comprehensive collection of Pulp writing ever assembled. Weighing in at over a thousand pages, containing over forty-seven stories and two novels, this book is big baby, bigger and more powerful than a freight train—a bullet couldn’t pass through it... -
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![The Perfect Housemate by Lorna Dounaeva]()
The Perfect Housemate by Lorna Dounaeva
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsYou let her in. You shouldn’t have…I was so nervous about someone new joining our house share; after everything that happened with my parents, my friends are like my family. Our imperfect but well-loved house is the only place where I can be myself. But when Poppy knocks on our door, blonde hair, wide eyes and a friendly smile, we all agree she’s a perfect fit... -
![Tell Tale by Mark Sennen]()
Tell Tale by Mark Sennen
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratings`A wonderfully twisty maze' JAMES OSWALDDI CHARLOTTE SAVAGE KNOWS WHO KILLED HER DAUGHTER But before Charlotte can get her revenge, disturbing events start to unfold on Dartmoor...A woman's naked body is found near an isolated reservoir on the bleak winter moors. When the woman's housemate also goes missing, Charlotte knows she must move fast... -
![Shella by Andrew Vachss]()
Shella by Andrew Vachss
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsFrom the author of the acclaimed Burke private-eye series comes an ambitious and chilling novel that shows us not only what evil is, but where it comes from. For Shella is nothing less than a tour of evil's spawning ground, conducted by one of its natural predators... -
![Missing in Malmö by Torquil MacLeod]()
Missing in Malmö by Torquil MacLeod
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsWhen a British heir hunter fails to return home after a trip to Malmö, Inspector Anita Sundström doesn’t want to get entangled in a simple missing persons case. She shows a similar reluctance when her ex-husband begs her to find his girlfriend, who seems to have disappeared... -
![Blood Ties by Jo Nesbø, Robert Ferguson]()
Blood Ties by Jo Nesbø, Robert Ferguson
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIn many ways, the brothers Carl and Roy Opgard have succeeded in life. Or at least they’ve had as much success as is possible in a small town like Os where they've had to kill their way to the top. Carl manages the area’s swanky spa hotel, while Roy has made ambitious plans for an amusement park complete with a roller coaster. The only way is up for the two brothers... -
![Dies irae by César Pérez Gellida]()
Dies irae by César Pérez Gellida
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsDespués de Memento mori... ha llegado el día de la ira.La acción de este thriller implacable arranca en la peculiar ciudad italiana de Trieste, frontera entre dos mundos. Augusto Ledesma elige el que fuera hogar de James Joyce como primer escenario para continuar su siniestra obra, que alimenta del aliento de sus víctimas y de la humillación de sus perseguidores... -
![Terminus by Pete Brassett]()
Terminus by Pete Brassett
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsDetective Munro is on the back foot when a dangerous killer always seems to be one step ahead. Having been the victim of a hit and run accident, and despite being black and blue, DI Munro wastes no time in trying to find out the identity of the perpetrator... -
![Calculated Risk by G.K. Parks]()
Calculated Risk by G.K. Parks
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA client’s secret puts Lucien Cross on a collision course with ruthless gangsters…Being a private eye isn’t easy. That’s one thing Lucien Cross is about to find out the hard way. Ever since he opened Cross Security and Investigations, it’s been one blunder after another. And his latest mistake might mean his death.As a businessman, Cross is all about the bottom line... -
![Il maestro delle ombre by Donato Carrisi]()
Il maestro delle ombre by Donato Carrisi
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsUna tempesta senza precedenti si abbatte sulla capitale con ferocia inaudita. Quando un fulmine colpisce una delle centrali elettriche, alle autorità non resta che imporre un blackout totale di ventiquattro ore, per riparare l’avaria. Le ombre tornano a invadere Roma... -
![Death on a Galician Shore by Domingo Villar]()
Death on a Galician Shore by Domingo Villar
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsOne misty autumn dawn in a quiet fishing port in northwest Spain, the body of a sailor washes up in the harbour. Detective Inspector Leo Caldas is called in from police headquarters in the nearby city of Vigo to sign off on what appears to be a suicide. But details soon come to light that turn this routine matter into a complex murder investigation... -
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![Death Deserved by Jørn Lier Horst, Thomas Enger]()
Death Deserved by Jørn Lier Horst, Thomas Enger
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsPolice officer Alexander Blix and celebrity blogger Emma Ramm join forces to track down a serial killer with a thirst for attention and high-profile murders, in the first episode of a gripping new Nordic Noir series…Oslo, 2018. Former long-distance runner Sonja Nordstrøm never shows at the launch of her controversial autobiography, Always Number One... -
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Sort morgen by Cilla Börjlind
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsSverige står foran et supervalgår, fremmedfjendtlige grupperinger vinder frem og vold med racistiske fortegn finder sted i hele landet. Olivia har efter et sabbatår valgt at gå tilbage til politiet og har slået sig ned i den skånske by Höganas. Sammen med Tom Stilton stilles hun over for en makaber mordsag, der viser sig at have tråde tilbage i tiden... -
![Memento mori by César Pérez Gellida]()
Memento mori by César Pérez Gellida
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsVersos, canciones y trocitos de carneSeptiembre de 2010. Aquella mañana de domingo nada le hacía presagiar al inspector de homicidios de Valladolid Ramiro Sancho que acababa de dar comienzo una pesadilla que lo dejaría marcado para el resto de sus días... -
![When He Finds You by Sadie Ryan]()
When He Finds You by Sadie Ryan
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 14 ratings“Her life was in danger and she didn’t know it. He felt a thrill just knowing that simple thing …”Gemma’s business is on the brink of collapse, and there’s a real chance that she and her husband could lose everything they’ve worked so hard for.So when a stranger offers financial help, Gemma ignores the red flags and accepts out of desperation... -
![Hard Fall by P.T. Reade]()
Hard Fall by P.T. Reade
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsEx-New York detective Thomas Blume hunts the streets of London for the killers that tore his family apart. For justice, for closure, for revenge.But when Blume stumbles across a case that baffled local police, he unwittingly joins a world of criminals, corruption, and cops that will do anything to stop him... -
![Little Boy Blue by Edward Bunker]()
Little Boy Blue by Edward Bunker
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsRaised within the confines of a system that has done nothing but provide him with pain, Alex Hamilton's frustration and anger are completely natural--and inherently dangerous.Since his parents split up, Alex has been constantly running from foster homes and institutions, yearning to be with his father, a broken man who cannot give his son the home he desperately needs...
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