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  • Careful little eyes: An addictive, horrifying serial killer thriller by Willow Rose

    Careful little eyes: An addictive, horrifying serial killer thriller by Willow Rose

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    ASIN 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...
  • The Poet by Michael Connelly

    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...
  • You Can't Hide by Willow Rose

    You Can't Hide by Willow Rose

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    ASIN 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...
  • Where the Wild Roses Grow by Willow Rose

    Where the Wild Roses Grow by Willow Rose

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    The Queen of scream novels does it again! - It's laced with a terrifying nail-biting tension and characters that make your skin crawl. With her blankly staring eyes seeming to gaze into the sky, he put a red rose between her teeth and then gently pushed her into the water. She slowly sank into the slow, flowing river...
  • You Can Run by Willow Rose

    You Can Run by Willow Rose

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    It'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...
  • Bad Blood by L.T. Vargus, Tim McBain

    Bad Blood by L.T. Vargus, Tim McBain

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    The body slumps over the steering wheel. Pools of blood going tacky on the dash. Two shots to the back of the head. A mafia-style hit in a small town.So Special Agent Violet Darger arrives in rural Michigan. She must make sense of this savagery. Figure out how something like this could happen in an idyllic town of just 5,000.The victim had been living the American dream...
  • Rebekka Franck Series Box Set: Vol 1-5 by Willow Rose

    Rebekka Franck Series Box Set: Vol 1-5 by Willow Rose

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Five Amazon Bestselling Mystery Novels. The Queen of Scream Novels channels Wes Craven in this 5-in-1 boxed set! ˃˃˃ One, Two ... He is coming for you Set in the Danish coastal town of Karrebaeksminde, journalist Rebekka Franck returns to her hometown with her six-year-old daughter...
  • The First City by Joe Hart

    The First City by Joe Hart

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    In the thrilling conclusion to Joe Hart’s Dominion Trilogy, Zoey discovers who she truly is—and who she must become. Zoey has only ever known a world with few women and a society capable of unimaginable evil. Now she’s about to learn she may be the only hope it has for salvation...
  • There's No Place like Home by Willow Rose

    There's No Place like Home by Willow Rose

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    ASIN moved from less recent editionWhat is the worst that can happen?Maria and Jonas Boegh asked themselves that very question when deciding to sign the papers for their new house. It might be expensive. They might be in over their heads a little financially, but they were never happier than on the day they moved in. Everything was perfect. It was the house of their dreams...
  • The Killing Kind by John Connolly

    The Killing Kind by John Connolly

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    When the discovery of a mass grave in northern Maine reveals the grim truth behind the disappearance of a religious community, private detective Charlie Parker is drawn into a violent conflict with a group of zealots intent on tracking down a relic that could link them to the slaughter. Haunted by the ghost of a small boy and tormented by the demonic killer known as Mr...
  • Black Jack by Willow Rose

    Black Jack by Willow Rose

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Welcome to the Blackwood House. Enter if you dare.In Savannah lies a house about which is said that all who have ever lived there have gone insane. When Kimberly and Joseph inherit the house from an unknown aunt, they don’t know the house’s murderous history. They move in and soon a series of strange events occurs. It’s like the house doesn’t want them there...
  • Caleb by Jeff Menapace

    Caleb by Jeff Menapace

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Vengeance is therapy.Caleb Lambert kills people for a living. The money is nice, but it comes a distant second to his primary reason for choosing such a Caleb often calls it “scratching an itch.”Here’s the thing, Caleb won’t just accept any contract. He and his team thoroughly vet each and every prospective mark to make sure they deserve to be punished...
  • Gia and the Forgotten Island by Kristi Belcamino

    Gia and the Forgotten Island by Kristi Belcamino

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    An exciting new series character ...Gia Santella is a fast-driving, hard-drinking, karate-trained free spirit, who is gorgeous, sexy, and a young heiress. She also has a fierce temper and zero tolerance for people in power preying on the vulnerable ... especially when the injustice takes place in her neighborhood...
  • Dark Hollow by John Connolly

    Dark Hollow by John Connolly

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Dark Hollow is a masterful second novel from a young Irish writer whose storytelling skills were established with Every Dead Thing. Now his fiery, ingenious detective, Charlie Bird Parker, returns to uncover a legacy of evil that has haunted Maine citizens for decades...
  • Darkness, Take My Hand by Dennis Lehane

    Darkness, Take My Hand by Dennis Lehane

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    Master of new noir Dennis Lehane magnificently evokes the dignity and savagery of working-class Boston in Darkness, Take My Hand, a terrifying tale of redemption.Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro’s latest client is a prominent Boston psychiatrist, running scared from a vengeful Irish mob. The private investigators know about cold-blooded retribution...
  • Never Walk Alone by Willow Rose

    Never Walk Alone by Willow Rose

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    The world is on lockdown due to a virus that originated in Miami.A woman is kidnapped from her apartment, and Detective Harry Hunter is on the case.At the same time, his sister shows up after they haven't seen each other in a year.As it turns out, Harry's sister knows more about the virus than she lets on. Soon, he wonders if the virus is connected to the missing woman...
  • Their Last Words by Steve Parker

    Their Last Words by Steve Parker

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    A VICTIM. A MUTILATED BODY. A SINGLE WORD.A young woman is found dead on the streets of London. Her throat slashed, her body mutilated, and one word carved into her flesh: “DON’T.”Detective Superintendent Ray Paterson is assigned to the case. Young, handsome, and from a wealthy background, he’s tipped for the top. He joins a team based out of Bermondsey, South London...
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    crime  noir  action-adventure  adult  audiobook  book  fiction  heist
  • All the Rage by F. Paul Wilson

    All the Rage by F. Paul Wilson

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    Can you imagine a new chemical compound, a non-addictive designer drug that heightens your assertiveness, opens the door to your primal self, giving you an edge wherever you compete? Whether on the street or the football field, in a classroom or a boardroom. Wouldn’t you be tempted to try it . .
  • The Naming of the Beasts by Mike Carey

    The Naming of the Beasts by Mike Carey

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    They say the road to Hell is paved with good intentions, but if you ask Castor he'll tell you there's quite a bit of arrogance and reckless stupidity lining the streets as well. And he should know. There's only so many times you can play both sides against the middle and get away with it. Now, the inevitable moment of crisis has arrived and it's left Castor with blood on his hands...
  • Stranger in the Woods by Anni Taylor

    Stranger in the Woods by Anni Taylor

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Photographer Isla Wilson is thrilled she’s landed her dream job, but the clients who hired her are getting stranger by the day. It sounded so perfect - a month‘s assignment at the misty, sprawling Scottish Highlands property of brilliant architect Alban McGregor, and his wife, Jessica. But deep in the woods, there is a chilling playhouse...
  • A Dance At The Slaughterhouse by Lawrence Block

    A Dance At The Slaughterhouse by Lawrence Block

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    In Matt Scudder's mind, money, power, and position elevate nobody above morality and the law. Now the ex-cop and unlicensed p.i. has been hired to prove that socialite Richard Thurman orchestrated the brutal murder of his beautiful, pregnant wife. During Scudder's hard drinking years, he left a piece of his soul on every seedy corner of the Big Apple...
  • The Unquiet by John Connolly

    The Unquiet by John Connolly

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    "But that is the nature of revenge. It escalates. It cannot be controlled. One hurt invites another, on and on until the original injury is all but forgotten in the chaos of what follows."John Connolly's originality and talent for storytelling have quickly made him one of today's preeminent thriller writers...
  • The Final Trade by Joe Hart

    The Final Trade by Joe Hart

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    The thrilling sequel to the runaway bestseller The Last Girl.Zoey is not the woman she once was. She’s watched her friends die at the hands of their captors, been hunted, and returned from the brink of death. Now she must find the truth about who she is...
  • Harbingers by F. Paul Wilson

    Harbingers by F. Paul Wilson

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    It starts off so simply: Jack, still feeling down after the tragic events of Infernal, is hanging in Julio's when a regular named Timmy asks him for help. His teenage niece has been missing since this morning; the police say it's too early to worry, but Timmy knows something bad has happened. Jack says he'll put the word out on the street...
  • White Knight, Black Swan by Ross Harding, David Gemmell

    White Knight, Black Swan by Ross Harding, David Gemmell

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    David Gemmell was the UK's number one fantasy and historical novelist until his death in 2006. A regular Sunday Times bestseller, and international sensation, his legacy lives on through his novels, his influence on the genre, and through the David Gemmell Legend awards...
  • Saint/Sinner by Sam Sisavath

    Saint/Sinner by Sam Sisavath

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    THERE IS NO REST FOR THE WICKED.After spending ten years of her life hunting her sister’s killer and barely surviving, Allie Krycek is ready to move on. She’s got a new job, in a new city, with a new man in her life. Things are finally looking up.Too bad there are people determined to ruin Allie’s second chance...
  • Backwoods Ripper by Anna Willett

    Backwoods Ripper by Anna Willett

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    “If you like Stephen King’s Misery, you’ll love this book.” A country drive quickly turns into a nightmare for newly-weds Paige and Hal Loche When you are in the bush, pregnant, and your husband is hurt what do you do? Will you trust just about anyone? When their car gets a flat tire in the Australian outback, it should be a simple job for capable Hal to fix. His wife pregnant, he sets to it...
  • Easy as One Two Three by Willow Rose

    Easy as One Two Three by Willow Rose

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    ASIN 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...
  • Eleven, Twelve ... Dig and Delve by Willow Rose

    Eleven, Twelve ... Dig and Delve by Willow Rose

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    It's the stuff of a living nightmare... Another bone-chilling Mystery from Best selling Author Willow Rose. Everybody hates Mondays. This Monday is particularly bad for the residents on Blegevej in the Northern part of Denmark. Just before eight o'clock Monday morning, the entire neighborhood sinks into the ground in a matter of seconds when a giant sinkhole opens up underneath it...
  • Hunter/Prey by Sam Sisavath

    Hunter/Prey by Sam Sisavath

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    REVENGE MEANS CARRYING A LOADED SHOTGUN. She has been planning this for ten years. She’s thought of everything and trained for this one single night. Nothing could possibly go wrong. He’s a serial killer who has eluded the police for the last ten years. When his latest victim turns out to not be who she appears, the hunter will discover what it’s like to be the prey...
  • Gangland by Chuck Hogan

    Gangland by Chuck Hogan

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    From the acclaimed author of The Town, an epic thriller about the secret right‑hand man of one of the most infamous unprosecuted mob bosses in American history, and the hidden crime that will bring down an empire.In the late 1970s, The Outfit has the entire city of Chicago in its hands. Tony Accardo is its fearless leader...
    Categorized as:
    crime  noir  hard-boiled  north-america  usa  illinois  urban  fiction
  • Bloodline by F. Paul Wilson

    Bloodline by F. Paul Wilson

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Jack 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...
  • Hosts by F. Paul Wilson

    Hosts by F. Paul Wilson

    Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    Repairman Jack returns in a sequel to the New York Times bestseller, The Tomb!Repairman Jack has been tearing up the urban adventure scene ever since he was introduced in the New York Times bestseller The Tomb. As his fans know, Repairman Jack doesn't deal with electronic appliances; he's a situation fixer, no matter how weird or deadly a situation may be...
  • Thicker Than Water by Mike Carey

    Thicker Than Water by Mike Carey

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Felix Castor is a freelance exorcist, so dealing with the dead is his stock in trade. Between his private clients and some consulting for the Met, he thinks he's seen it all. But a late-night call out to a South London housing estate proves that he still has a few surprises left. After all, it's not every day you see your own name painted in blood at a a crime scene.But that's only the beginning...
  • Mucho Mojo by Joe R. Lansdale

    Mucho Mojo by Joe R. Lansdale

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Inheriting one hundred thousand dollars and a small hiccup of a house in a dilapidated district is not so bad, and Uncle Chester made a nice gift of it to his nephew Leonard... though the clean-up is intensive, the floor is Rotten, and the neighbors are something from a nightmare. It is one thing to renovate a house to sell it...
  • The Thicket by Joe R. Lansdale

    The Thicket by Joe R. Lansdale

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Love and vengeance at the dark dawn of the East Texas oil boom from Joe Lansdale, "a true American original" (Joe Hill, author of Heart-Shaped Box). Jack Parker thought he'd already seen his fair share of tragedy. His grandmother was killed in a farm accident when he was barely five years old...
  • The Two-Bear Mambo by Joe R. Lansdale

    The Two-Bear Mambo by Joe R. Lansdale

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Florida Grange, Leonard's drop-dead gorgeous lawyer and Hap's former lover, has vanished in Klan-infested Grovetown while in pursuit of the real story behind the jailhouse death of a legendary bluesman's blackguard son. Fearing the worst, Hap and Leonard set out to do the kind of investigating the good ole boy cops can't - or won't - do...
  • Legacies by F. Paul Wilson

    Legacies by F. Paul Wilson

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    Desperate to rid herself of a house she recently inherited, Alicia Clayton attempts to destroy it, but all the people she employs are suddenly found murdered, when Repairman Jack enters the scene and the mystery of the house begins to unfold...
  • Eyes of Prey by John Sandford

    Eyes of Prey by John Sandford

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    Lieutenant Davenport's sanity was nearly shattered by two murder investigations. Now he faces something worse . . . Two killers. One hideously scarred. The other strikingly handsome, a master manipulator fascinated with all aspects of death. The dark mirror of Davenport's soul . . . This is the case that will bring Davenport back to life. Or push him over the edge...
  • Ночь призывает Зелёного Сокола by Robert McCammon, Олег Воротилин

    Ночь призывает Зелёного Сокола by Robert McCammon, Олег Воротилин

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    In the 1950s, Cray Flint was the handsome, dashing star of the serial The Green Falcon. Now, decades later, he spends his days in his rundown apartment reminiscing about the time when he played a superhero. When Julie, Cray’s young neighbor, is killed by the infamous Fliptop Killer, Cray is propelled to don his green cape one more time...
  • Worse Angels by Laird Barron

    Worse Angels by Laird Barron

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Ex-mob enforcer-turned-private investigator Isaiah Coleridge pits himself against a rich and powerful foe when he digs into a possible murder and a sketchy real-estate deal worth billions.Ex-majordomo and bodyguard to an industrial tycoon-cum-U.S. senator, Badja Adeyemi is in hiding and shortly on his way to either a jail cell or a grave, depending on who finds him first...
  • Kissyman & the Gentleman by Scott Sigler

    Kissyman & the Gentleman by Scott Sigler

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    New York City, 1946. No one knows his real name, but when the job is too dirty, too dangerous, they call Kissyman. Once an elite Nazi SS commando, an honorable soldier, a taker of lives. When he was assigned to Dachau and saw what he was actually fighting for, he went AWOL and ran as far away as he could — to America. He still makes his living with a gun, but he no longer kills for his country...
  • Zero Saints by Gabino Iglesias

    Zero Saints by Gabino Iglesias

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Enforcer and drug dealer Fernando has seen better days. On his way home from work, some heavily-tattooed gangsters throw him in the back of a car and take him to an abandoned house, where they saw off his friend's head and feed the kid's fingers to...something. Their message is clear: this is their territory, now.But Fernando isn't put down that easily...
    Categorized as:
    crime  noir  action-adventure  adult  book  dark  fiction  historical
  • Peek A Boo, I See You by Willow Rose

    Peek A Boo, I See You by Willow Rose

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    ASIN 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...
  • Cross Your Heart and Hope to Die by Willow Rose

    Cross Your Heart and Hope to Die by Willow Rose

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    ASIN moved from less recent editionWe all know that high school reunions can be a daunting and sometimes horrifying experience. Well, for Emma Frost that is exactly what it becomes when she is invited to meet with all of her old class-mates at a desolated hotel in the most Northern part of Denmark...
  • Blood Brother by Jack Kerley

    Blood Brother by Jack Kerley

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Detective Carson Ryder's sworn duty is to track killers down. He's never revealed the fact that his brother, Jeremy, is one of America's most notorious killers - albeit imprisoned. Now though, his brother's escaped and is at large in New York. With Jeremy the chief suspect in a series of horrifying mutilation-murders, a mysterious video demands Ryder be brought into help...
  • Five, Six... Grab Your Crucifix by Willow Rose

    Five, Six... Grab Your Crucifix by Willow Rose

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    ASIN moved from less recent edition hereThe Priest is a man with a mission from God. He is to help those possessed by evil to finally become free from their stronghold. He has expelled demons for years and had great success.But there is one demon he never managed to cast out. And that demon has now come back to get him...
  • Tomorrow, the Killing by Daniel Polansky

    Tomorrow, the Killing by Daniel Polansky

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Once he was a hero of the Great War, and then a member of the dreaded Black House. Now he is the criminal linchpin of Low Town.His name is Warden.He thought he had left the war behind him, but a summons from up above brings the past sharply, uncomfortably, back into focus. General Montgomery's daughter is missing somewhere in Low Town, searching for clues about her brother's murder...
  • Seven, Eight... Gonna Stay Up Late by Willow Rose

    Seven, Eight... Gonna Stay Up Late by Willow Rose

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    She 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...
  • My Dead Body by Charlie Huston, Scott Brick

    My Dead Body by Charlie Huston, Scott Brick

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Private eye Joe Pitt has been in hiding since exposing the secret source of blood for half of Manhattans Vampyres. But now a Vampyre civil war threatens to drag the Clans into the sunlight once and for all. Then Joe is hired to find a missing girl who is carrying a baby that just might be the destiny of Vampyre-kind...
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