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The Ship of the Dead by Rick Riordan
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 69 ratingsMagnus Chase, a once-homeless teen, is a resident of the Hotel Valhalla and one of Odin's chosen warriors. As the son of Frey, the god of summer, fertility, and health, Magnus isn't naturally inclined to fighting... -
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Long Shadows by Jodi Taylor
Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsBOOK 3 IN THE GRIPPING SUPERNATURAL SERIES BY THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE CHRONICLES OF ST MARY'SI don't know who I am. I don't know what I am. The identity of Elizabeth Cage has always been a mystery. Even she doesn't know who, or what, she is. But she's learned to live with it... -
![Wuthering Frights by Elise Sax]()
Wuthering Frights by Elise Sax
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsMatilda Dare has a ring on her finger, a thriving business, a beautiful, historical home, two dogs, and an amazing group of friends. She should be happy. But her fiancé might be a serial killer, the sheriff’s dead wife is visiting her, and her husband has escaped from prison. All of that is throwing a wrench into Matilda’s celebrations... -
![Aura of Night by Heather Graham]()
Aura of Night by Heather Graham
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsTrue evil never dies. It only waits in the dark. All book editor Megan Law wants is to bury the memory of her brutal kidnapping and move on with her life. So when her publisher asks her to spin her hellish experience into the next bestseller, Megan agrees only because it might help keep other women safe...Categorized as:
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![Seven Shades of Evil by Robert McCammon]()
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... -
![Firstborn: A Progeny Novel by Tosca Lee]()
Firstborn: A Progeny Novel by Tosca Lee
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFrom New York Times bestselling author Tosca Lee comes the much-anticipated, high-speed sequel to The Progeny.Face-to-face with her past, Audra Ellison now knows the secret she gave up everything—including her memory—to protect. A secret made vulnerable by her rediscovery, and so powerful neither the Historian nor the traitor Prince Nikola will ever let her live to keep it...Categorized as:
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![Quicksilver by Amanda Quick, Anne Flosnik]()
Quicksilver by Amanda Quick, Anne Flosnik
Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsVirginia Dean wakes at midnight beside a dead body, with a bloody knife in her hand and no memory of the evening’s events. Dark energy, emanating from the mirrors lining the room, overpowers her senses. With no apparent way in or out, she’s rescued by a man she’s met only once before, but won’t soon forget…...Categorized as:
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![The Third Circle by Amanda Quick, Jayne Ann Krentz]()
The Third Circle by Amanda Quick, Jayne Ann Krentz
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsCalled “supremely addictive” by Booklist, the Arcane Society novels, written under both the Amanda Quick and Jayne Ann Krentz names, have pulled readers into a saga filled with steamy romance, drama, and dark intrigue. Her newest novel promises to mesmerize as well...Categorized as:
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![The Lost Girls of Rome by Donato Carrisi]()
The Lost Girls of Rome by Donato Carrisi
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsA grieving young widow, seeking answers to her husband's death, becomes entangled in an investigation steeped in the darkest mysteries of Rome.Sandra Vega, a forensic analyst with the Roman police department, mourns deeply for a marriage that ended too soon... -
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Close Up by Amanda Quick
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsWelcome to Burning Cove, California where 1930s Hollywood glamour conceals a ruthless killer… Vivian Brazier never thought life as an art photographer would include nightly wake-up calls to snap photos of grisly crime scenes or headshots for aspiring male actors. Although she is set on a career of transforming photography into a new art form, she knows her current work is what’s paying the bills...Categorized as:
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![The History of Things to Come by Duncan Simpson]()
The History of Things to Come by Duncan Simpson
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe mind of a genius can hold the darkest of secrets A razor-sharp thriller A Bosnian gangster is gunned down in a packed London restaurant. In his possession is a notebook once belonging to Isaac Newton. This is just the latest in a series of shocking crimes connected to objects once belonging to the famous scientist. The police are stumped and the pressure for an arrest is mounting... -
![The Jekyll Revelation by Robert Masello]()
The Jekyll Revelation by Robert Masello
Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsWhile on routine patrol in the tinder-dry Topanga Canyon, environmental scientist Rafael Salazar expects to find animal poachers, not a dilapidated antique steamer trunk. Inside the peculiar case, he discovers a journal, written by the renowned Robert Louis Stevenson, which divulges ominous particulars about his creation of The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde...Categorized as:
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![Savage by Richard Laymon, Peter Bishop]()
Savage by Richard Laymon, Peter Bishop
Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars · 17 ratings"If you've missed Laymon, you've missed a treat." —Stephen KingWhitechapel, November 1888: Jack the Ripper is committing his last known murder and beneath the bed on which he's butchering his victim cowers a fifteen-year-old boy...Categorized as:
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![The Angel Gateway by Jane A. Adams, Carolyn Oldershaw]()
The Angel Gateway by Jane A. Adams, Carolyn Oldershaw
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsSix months after a petrol bomb attack left him severely burned, Detective Sergeant Ray Flowers moves to his late aunt's cottage, but soon the past darkens his stay. According to his aunt's diaries, the cottage is frequented by a mysterious woman referred to only as 'Kitty', but this is no ordinary visitor, for Katherine Hallam was tried as a witch in 1643 ..Categorized as:
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![Dangerous Women by Mark de Castrique]()
Dangerous Women by Mark de Castrique
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratings"A bewitching political thriller."—Publishers Weekly, Starred Review"Ethel looks like Marple but acts like Marlow." —Kirkus Reviews?In a case deciding the future of clean energy, everything hinges on how the chief justice of Supreme Court will lean... -
![Obsessed by Ted Dekker, Rob Lamont]()
Obsessed by Ted Dekker, Rob Lamont
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 21 ratingsA deadly tale of ultimate obsession. Stephen Friedman is making a good living in good times. He’s just an ordinary guy. Or so he thinks. But one day an extraordinary piece of information tells him differently. It’s a clue from the grave of a Holocaust survivor. A clue that makes him heir to an incredible fortune . . . a clue that only he and one other man can possibly understand... -
![Sherlock Holmes vs. Dracula: The Adventure of the Sanguinary Count by Loren D. Estleman]()
Sherlock Holmes vs. Dracula: The Adventure of the Sanguinary Count by Loren D. Estleman
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsAfter a mysterious schooner runs aground in an English harbor with no human passengers--only the dead captain, drained of blood--a series of bizarre nocturnal crimes takes place in London. It can only be the work of Count Dracula, and only one man can save the city: the great Sherlock Holmes...Categorized as:
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![James Penney's New Identity by Lee Child]()
James Penney's New Identity by Lee Child
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsOriginally published in THRILLER (2006),edited by #1 New York Times bestselling author James Patterson.Before Jack Reacher became the seminal, nomadic hero he is today and #1 New York Times bestselling writer Lee Child reached his current iconic literary stature, there was James Penney, who we meet in this intense Thriller Short... -
![Agent of Chaos by Kami Garcia]()
Agent of Chaos by Kami Garcia
Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsHow did Fox Mulder become a believer? How did Dana Scully become a skeptic? The X-Files Origins has the answers.The X-Files Origins: Agent of Chaos explores the teen years of Fox Mulder, the beloved character depicted in the cult-favorite TV show The X-Files. His story is set in the spring of 1979, when serial murder, the occult, and government conspiracy were highlighted in the news...Categorized as:
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![The Dark Farewell by Josh Lanyon]()
The Dark Farewell by Josh Lanyon
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsIt’s the Roaring Twenties. Skirts are short, crime is rampant, and booze is in short supply. Prohibition has hit Little Egypt where newspaper man David Flynn has come to do a follow-up story on the Herrin Massacre. But the massacre isn’t the only news in town. Spiritualist Medium Julian Devereux claims to speak to the dead--and he charges a pretty penny for it... -
![The Purification Ceremony by Mark T. Sullivan]()
The Purification Ceremony by Mark T. Sullivan
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsAn LA Times Best Book of the Year The product of a long line of hunters, shamans, and healers, Diana Jackman grew up surrounded by wilderness. A natural-born tracker, she and seven other hunters have gathered in the remote and treacherous snow-covered tundra of northern British Columbia in pursuit of white-tail deer. And while the group may be isolated, they are not alone... -
![Secret of the Seventh Son by Glenn Cooper]()
Secret of the Seventh Son by Glenn Cooper
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsThere are secrets that must remain buried . . .Nine people have been slain in New York City—nine strangers with nothing in common—the apparent victims of a frighteningly elusive serial killer. Only one thing links the dead: postcards they received, mailed from Las Vegas, announcing the day they would die...Categorized as:
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![The Shimmer: A Novel by Carsten Stroud]()
The Shimmer: A Novel by Carsten Stroud
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsHow do you hunt a killer who can go back in time and make sure you're never born?A police pursuit kicks Sergeant Jack Redding of the Florida Highway Patrol and his trainee, Julie Karras, into a shoot-out that ends with one girl dead and another in cuffs, and the driver of the SUV fleeing into the Intracoastal Waterway... -
![Acquainted With the Night by Piper Maitland, Justine Eyre]()
Acquainted With the Night by Piper Maitland, Justine Eyre
Rated: 3.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsCaroline Clifford’s bland life as a London tour guide flips upside down when her beloved uncle is brutally murdered at a Bulgarian archaeological site. While traveling to recover his remains, she meets a man who corresponded with her uncle... -
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![Complication by Isaac Adamson]()
Complication by Isaac Adamson
Rated: 3.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSearching for his missing brother in Prague, an American encounters a world of killers, gangsters, and ancient mysteries in a "satisfyingly twisted tale" (Publishers Weekly).When American collections agent Lee Holloway receives a letter from a mysterious woman named Vera concerning his missing brother Paul, curiosity takes him to Prague in search of answers... -
![A Murder in Time by Julie McElwain]()
A Murder in Time by Julie McElwain
Rated: 3.68 of 5 stars · 25 ratingsBeautiful and brilliant, Kendra Donovan is a rising star at the FBI. Yet her path to professional success hits a speed bump during a disastrous raid where half her team is murdered, a mole in the FBI is uncovered and she herself is severely wounded. As soon as she recovers, she goes rogue and travels to England to assassinate the man responsible for the deaths of her teammates... -
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Mayhem by Sarah Pinborough
Rated: 3.56 of 5 stars · 16 ratings"A compulsively readable story that starts as a conventional murder mystery and morphs, by degrees, into a horrifying supernatural thriller," The Guardian said of Mayhem. A virtuoso fantasy writer, Sarah Pinborough has won numerous awards including the British Fantasy Award for Best Short Story...Categorized as:
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![The Buried Life by Carrie Patel]()
The Buried Life by Carrie Patel
Rated: 3.29 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe gaslight and shadows of the underground city of Recoletta hide secrets and lies. When Inspector Liesl Malone investigates the murder of a renowned historian, she finds herself stonewalled by the all-powerful Directorate of Preservation – Recoletta’s top-secret historical research facility...Categorized as:
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![Roosevelt's Beast by Louis Bayard]()
Roosevelt's Beast by Louis Bayard
Rated: 3.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratings1914. Brazil’s Rio da Duvida, the River of Doubt. Plagued by hunger and suffering the lingering effects of malaria, Theodore Roosevelt, his son Kermit, and the other members of the now-ravaged Roosevelt-Rondon scientific expedition are traveling deeper and deeper into the jungle...Categorized as:
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![The Diogenes Trilogy: Brimstone, Dance of Death, and The Book of the Dead by Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child]()
The Diogenes Trilogy: Brimstone, Dance of Death, and The Book of the Dead by Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child
Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsNow, available for the first time together in a single volume: a digital-only, value-priced omnibus edition of the "Diogenes Trilogy": Brimstone, Dance of Death, and The Book of the Dead--featuring Pendergast's mysterious brother--by #1 New York Times bestselling authors Preston & Child. BRIMSTONE:A body is found in the attic of a fabulous Long Island estate...
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