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St. Benet's by David Blake
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsA girl thrown from a church tower, a man sacrificed to Satan, and a priest murdered at the hands of the Devil. When the body of an old man is found lying in the ruins of St Benet’s Abbey, his throat cut, a knife resting in his open hand, DI John Tanner and DC Jenny Evans are given no choice but to accept a ruling of death by misadventure... -
![Horsey Mere: A chilling Norfolk Broads crime thriller by David Blake]()
Horsey Mere: A chilling Norfolk Broads crime thriller by David Blake
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsTHE DEBUT CRIME THRILLER SERIES OF THE YEAR!The remains of a 17th Century witch, an MP found hanging above a five-pointed star, and three girls with powers they struggle to control... -
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Code Zero by Jonathan Maberry
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsFor years the Department of Military Sciences has fought to stop terrorists from using radical bioweapons—designer plagues, weaponized pathogens, genetically modified viruses, and even the zombie plague that first brought Ledger into the DMS. These terrible weapons have been locked away in the world’s most secure facility. Until now...Categorized as:
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![Where the Wild Roses Grow by Willow Rose]()
Where the Wild Roses Grow by Willow Rose
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe 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... -
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![Shadow Moon by Alexandra Sokoloff]()
Shadow Moon by Alexandra Sokoloff
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsFor thousands of years, women have been prey. This time, the predators lose.Does Fate connect us?Mass killer Cara Lindstrom is in the wind, after a deadly encounter which leaves FBI Special Agent Antara Singh questioning her own sanity and fitness to serve... -
![Spirit Caller by H.P. Bayne]()
Spirit Caller by H.P. Bayne
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsOne night. One last enemy. One chance to stop him forever. It’s all come down to this. More than two years after Sully took desperate measures to escape his enemies, he finds himself headed for an inevitable showdown with the most dangerous of them. Years of murder and deceit are catching up to Lowell, and the ghosts of those he killed are not about to rest until they’ve watched him fall... -
![Detached by Elicia Hyder]()
Detached by Elicia Hyder
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsShe robbed her brother of his destiny. Now she’s stuck with a dangerous power she can’t ignore, can’t control, and frighteningly—can’t resist.I was born on the wrong side of the law—literally delivered on the floor of the state women’s prison.My mother sees spirits. My father could become one at will. Together, they were among the most dangerous crime couples in history...Categorized as:
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![Cold As The Grave: Inspector McLean Book 9 by James Oswald]()
Cold As The Grave: Inspector McLean Book 9 by James Oswald
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe ninth book in the Sunday Times-bestselling phenomenon that is the Inspector McLean series, from one of Scotland's most celebrated crime writers . Her lifeless body is hidden in the dark corner of a basement room, a room which seems to have been left untouched for decades. A room which feels as cold as the grave...Categorized as:
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![Rage by Jonathan Maberry]()
Rage by Jonathan Maberry
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsRage is the first title in Jonathan Maberry's brand new Joe Ledger spin-off series of international weird science thrillers.A small island off the coast of Japan is torn apart by a bioweapon that drives everyone—men, women, and children—insane with murderous rage. The people behind that attack want Korea united or destroyed. No middle ground. No mercy... -
![The Pendergast Files: (Relic, Reliquary) by Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child]()
The Pendergast Files: (Relic, Reliquary) by Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThis discounted ebundle includes: Relic, ReliquaryThe books that introduced the world to Douglas Preston’s and Lincoln Child’s FBI Special Agent Pendergast. Hidden deep beneath Manhattan lies a warren of tunnels, sewers, and galleries, mostly forgotten by those who walk the streets above. There lies the ultimate secret of the Museum Beat... -
![Extinction Machine by Jonathan Maberry]()
Extinction Machine by Jonathan Maberry
Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsThe President of the United States vanishes from the White House.A top-secret prototype stealth fighter is destroyed during a test flight. Witnesses on the ground say that it was shot down by a craft that immediately vanished at impossible speeds.All over the world reports of UFOs are increasing at an alarming rate...Categorized as:
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![Fracture Five by A.J. Scudiere]()
Fracture Five by A.J. Scudiere
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsEleri and Donovan are back! NightShade's newest agents are in L.A. to bring down a burgeoning terrorist cell. To make things worse, it's not just one terrorist cell, it's two. Or is it three? There is little to go on, only links between missing Army munitions and a veteran named Cooper Rollins... -
![The Haunting of Saxton Mansion by Roger Hayden]()
The Haunting of Saxton Mansion by Roger Hayden
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe complicated history of the Saxton house has been long forgotten. Few in the town of Cypress Creek even remember the house and what had occurred inside its walls decades before. In the present time, author Rob Hooper and his wife, Janet, are looking for a quiet place to live. The grandiose, isolated Victorian-style relic is everything they could want... -
![The Forgotten Cottage by Helen Phifer]()
The Forgotten Cottage by Helen Phifer
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe Forgotten Cottage, the eagerly-awaited and chillingly terrifying new book in Helen Phifer’s best-selling ‘Annie Graham’ series. Annie Graham has fought her demons, and is ready to leave them behind. Her new cottage seems like the new start she’s craved: quiet and quaint, it’s empty of the memories which have haunted her for so long... -
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![Nightmare by Stephen Leather]()
Nightmare by Stephen Leather
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe last case of police negotiator Jack Nightingale’s career ended in the death of nine-year-old Sophie Underwood. Since then, he’s saved his own soul from the devil...but now he is haunted by Sophie’s cries for help... -
![Dreaming Death by Heather Graham]()
Dreaming Death by Heather Graham
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsSWEET DREAMS AREN’T MADE OF THISEver since she was a child, Stacey Hanson has had strange dreams—and sometimes they come true. Her skills and experience led her straight to the FBI’s Krewe of Hunters. Now a serial killer is stalking Washington, DC, and people are scared. And it will be Stacey’s first case... -
![The Dirty South by John Connolly]()
The Dirty South by John Connolly
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsIn an Arkansas jail cell sits a former NYPD detective, stricken by grief. He is mourning the death of his wife and child, and searching in vain for their killer. Obsessed with avenging his lost family, his life is about to take a shocking turn...Categorized as:
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![Blood Ties by Kay Hooper]()
Blood Ties by Kay Hooper
Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsA series of grisly murders has left a trail of blood across three states, bringing the Special Crimes Unit to a small Tennessee town. There, two more brutal killings lure Noah Bishop and the SCU into what may be the ultimate trap, and lead Special Agent Hollis Templeton into a dangerous attraction—and a serial murder investigation that turns very, very personal... -
![Gates of Hell by J.F. Penn]()
Gates of Hell by J.F. Penn
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFor millennia, they have held the gates of Hell shut against the darkness. But now they’re gone… and the gates are swinging wide. When Morgan Sierra receives a package with a note from her father — murdered in a suicide bombing years ago — she goes on high alert...Categorized as:
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![The Gwendy Collection: Gwendy's Button Box / Gwendy's Magic Feather / Gwendy's Final Task by Stephen King, Richard Chizmar]()
The Gwendy Collection: Gwendy's Button Box / Gwendy's Magic Feather / Gwendy's Final Task by Stephen King, Richard Chizmar
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe complete collection of the New York Times bestselling trilogy from Stephen King and Richard Chizmar!In Gwendy's Button Box, twelve-year-old Gwendy Peterson's life is forever changed when she is given a mysterious wooden box by a stranger for safekeeping...Categorized as:
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![A Ghost in the Glamour by Elizabeth Hunter]()
A Ghost in the Glamour by Elizabeth Hunter
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsLiving. With ghosts.Linx Maxwell is on the verge of greatness. She’s finally graduated from street fairs and hopping chain-link to making art that pays the bills. Her family life is… not dull. And it looks like her van might just be able to exist on hope and duct tape.If only she could get rid of the ghost who’s plagued her since the eighth grade... -
![The Unknown by Heather Graham]()
The Unknown by Heather Graham
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsSomeone wants to watch the city burn…Sienna Murray was only fourteen when she pulled her neighbors out of a raging house fire... -
![The Haunting of Abram Mansion by Alexandria Clarke]()
The Haunting of Abram Mansion by Alexandria Clarke
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsA riveting new haunted house mystery that will keep you guessing until the end!When Peyton and Benjamin Fletcher inherit a dilapidated house in the quiet town of Falconwood, Connecticut from Peyton's grandfather, all they want to do is get rid of it. Unfortunately, the will stipulates that the couple must live in the house for a minimum of six months before they sell it... -
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Leslie by Omar Tyree
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe New York Times bestselling novel about a beautiful young woman with a dangerous secret At the historically black Dillard University in the lush city of New Orleans, Leslie Beaudet struggles with a dark secret of power in a world that is pulling her in many different directions... -
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![Fatal Error by F. Paul Wilson]()
Fatal Error by F. Paul Wilson
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratings"Repairman Jack is one of my favorite characters--I'm full of happy anticipation every time I hold a new RJ novel in my hands."--Charlaine Harris, creator of "True Blood" The End of the World is at hand!Munir Habib's life has become a nightmare. His tormentor has warned Munir not to report the kidnapping of his family, or else they will pay a terrible price... -
![Ground Zero by F. Paul Wilson]()
Ground Zero by F. Paul Wilson
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsOn September 11, 2001, a man drifts in a boat off lower Manhattan as the towers burn. He removes a small box from his pocket and presses a button. As he waits for the south tower to collapse, he thinks: The vast majority will blame the collapse on the crazy Arabs who hijacked the planes and the Islamic extremists who funded them--the obvious choice...Categorized as:
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![The Runner by Peter May]()
The Runner by Peter May
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA top Chinese swimmer kills himself of the eve of an international event - shattering his country's hopes of victory against the Americans. An Olympic weightlifter dies in the arms of his Beijing mistress - a scandal to be hushed up at the highest level... -
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Chinese Whispers by Peter May
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsGRUESOME MURDERSHis victims are young, beautiful and coldly mutilated. He calls himself the Beijing Ripper. Li Yan, head of Beijing's serious crime squad, must stop him.FEARSOME LETTERSJust as pathologist Margaret Campbell finds an insight into the killer's cruel signature, Li receives a letter from the killer, betraying his cruel intentions... -
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Bloodline by F. Paul Wilson
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsJack 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... -
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Infernal by F. Paul Wilson
Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsThe ninth Repairman Jack novel begins with a tragedy that throws Jack together with his brother Tom, a judge from Philadelphia. They've never been close and Jack, the career criminal, soon finds that he adheres to a higher ethical standard than his brother the judge. Determined to get to know his brother better, Tom convinces Jack to go on a wild treasure hunt together...Categorized as:
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![Conspiracies by F. Paul Wilson]()
Conspiracies by F. Paul Wilson
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 19 ratingsRepairman Jack, F. Paul Wilson's vigilante hero from 1984's New York Times bestseller The Tomb and 1998'2 Legacies, returns in a thriller that thrusts Jack back into the weird, supernatural world that he thrives in. Looking for clues to mysterious disappearance of leading conspiracy theorist Melanie Ehler. Jack attends a convention of bizarre and avid conspiracy theorist...Categorized as:
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![Double Take: An FBI Thriller by Catherine Coulter]()
Double Take: An FBI Thriller by Catherine Coulter
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsIt's been more than six months since her husband's brutal death, and Julia Ransom is just beginning to breathe again. She loved her husband, renowned psychic August Ransom, but the media frenzy that followed his murder sapped what little strength she had left. Now, after dinner with friends, strolling along San Francisco's Pier 39, she realizes that she's happy...Categorized as:
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![Seize The Night by Dean Koontz]()
Seize The Night by Dean Koontz
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsThere are no rules in the dark, no place to feel safe, no escape from the shadows. But to save the day, you must...Seize the Night.At no time does Moonlight Bay look more beautiful than at night. Yet it is precisely then that the secluded little town reveals its menace. Now children are disappearing. From their homes. From the streets. And there's nothing their families can do about it...Categorized as:
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![Fever Dream by Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child]()
Fever Dream by Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 28 ratingsYesterday, Special Agent Pendergast still mourned the loss of his beloved wife, Helen, who died in a tragic accident in Africa twelve years ago. Today, he discovers she was murdered. Tomorrow, he will learn her most guarded secrets, leaving him to wonder: Who was the woman I married? Why was she murdered? And, above all . . . Who murdered her? FEVER DREAM Revenge is not sweet: It is essential...Categorized as:
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![Touching the Dead by Wendy Cartmell]()
Touching the Dead by Wendy Cartmell
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA mummified body washed up on a beach near Chichester.A tormented detective cursed with a gift she didn't want. When the autopsy reveals the victim's heart was torn from her body, Detective Inspector Jo Wolfe and her team wonder if someone is continuing the work of Anubis, the Egyptian God of Death. With the body count rising, Jo must touch the dead, to help her solve the case... -
![Ghostly Murders by Paul Doherty]()
Ghostly Murders by Paul Doherty
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsPilgrim Poor Parson tells the tale of Brothers Philip and Edmund, who are appointed priests of the small Kentish village of Scawsby, where they quickly decide to build a new church and graveyard for the town. When the two relocate the graves to the new site, some coffins are uncovered empty and others with the remains of townsfolk buried alive... -
![Twisted Love by Wally Runnels]()
Twisted Love by Wally Runnels
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsRoiling in political corruption and the raging violence of drug cartels in the California/Mexico borderlands, Twisted Love explores the redemptive power of love even amidst the most brutal and privileged echelons of contemporary society... -
![Good Neighbors by Russell C. Connor]()
Good Neighbors by Russell C. Connor
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWinner of the Silver Medal for Horror in the 2016 Independent Publishing Awards HOW WELL DO YOU KNOW YOUR NEIGHBORS? Elliot Jefferson moved to the isolated Estates of North Hills to work on his sobriety and avoid other people at all costs. But when the electric transformers around the complex begin emitting a horrible buzz that he calls ‘the Squall,’ neither is easy to achieve... -
![Within the Shadows by Brandon Massey]()
Within the Shadows by Brandon Massey
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsBe Careful What You Wish For At just thirty-one, Andrew Wilson has it all: close friends, a great house in an Atlanta suburb, and a successful career as a mystery writer. Only one thing is missinga special person to share it with. Then one day he meets someone new, a woman who seems almost too good to be true... -
![The Curse of the House on Cypress Lane by James Hunt]()
The Curse of the House on Cypress Lane by James Hunt
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIn the hot, muddy swamps of Louisiana there is a creature that resides on haunted land inside a cursed house. The small town of Ocoee has forgotten much about what happened at that house so many years ago, its true past fading like ink on the brittle pages of history. But you know how the old saying goes... History likes to repeat itself... -
![We Sang in the Dark by Joe Hart]()
We Sang in the Dark by Joe Hart
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsEighteen years ago tragedy struck The Refuge cult in northern Minnesota. Forty people committed suicide and the entire compound burned to the ground. At just thirteen, Clare was the sole survivor found wandering miles from the encampment, hands blistered, memories of the horrific event wiped from her mind... -
![The Sense of Death by Matty Dalrymple, Sarah E. Purdum]()
The Sense of Death by Matty Dalrymple, Sarah E. Purdum
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAnn Kinnear has created a peaceful existence at her cabin in the Adirondack woods. But the calm is shattered after Philadelphia socialite Elizabeth Firth is reported missing. With few clues and fewer options, detective Joe Booth calls upon Ann's spirit sensing abilities to help solve the mystery... -
![Seeking darkness by Heather Graham]()
Seeking darkness by Heather Graham
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsPsychics in Salem seek help from a ghost to find a serial... -
![Time to Die by Caroline Mitchell]()
Time to Die by Caroline Mitchell
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsHe will predict your life… and your death.Don’t ever cross his palm with silver. He will reveal your most shameful secrets. He will predict your death. He is hiding a secret. He is hiding a monster. And all his predictions come true.Investigating a series of chilling murders, Detective Jennifer Knight finds herself tracking a mysterious tarot card reader known only as The Raven... -
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![The Reapers by John Connolly]()
The Reapers by John Connolly
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThey are the Reapers, the elite among killers. Men so terrifying that their names are mentioned only in whispers. The assassin Louis is one of them. But now Louis and his partner, Angel, are themselves targets - and there is no shortage of suspects...Categorized as:
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![The Mirror Man by Lars Kepler]()
The Mirror Man by Lars Kepler
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsSeventeen-year-old Jenny is abducted in broad daylight and taken to a dilapidated, isolated house where she is chained and caged along with several other girls. Their captor is unpredictable, and as wily as he is cruel: he foils every one of their desperate attempts to escape . . . and once caught they rarely survive their punishment... -
![The Midnight Man by Caroline Mitchell]()
The Midnight Man by Caroline Mitchell
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsFrom number one bestselling author Caroline Mitchell, comes the first chilling Slayton thriller for fans of C. J. Tudor and Stephen King.If you open your door to the Midnight Man, hide with a candle wherever you can. Try not to scream as he draws near, because one of you won't be leaving here...On Halloween night in Slayton, five girls go to Blackhall Manor to play the Midnight Game... -
![Nocturnal by Scott Sigler]()
Nocturnal by Scott Sigler
Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars · 19 ratingsScott Sigler reinvented the alien-invasion story in his bestselling novels Infected and Contagious … rebooted the biotech thriller in Ancestor …now, in his most ambitious, sweeping novel to date, he works his magic on the paranormal thriller, taking us inside a terrifying underworld of subterranean predators that only his twisted mind could invent...Categorized as:
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![City of Endless Night by Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child]()
City of Endless Night by Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child
Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsWhat begins as a manhunt for the missing daughter of a wealthy tech billionaire becomes something altogether different when the young woman's body is discovered in an abandoned warehouse in Kew Gardens, Queens, the head nowhere to be found. It appears there may be two killers on the loose--one responsible for the young woman's death, another responsible for the mutilation...Categorized as:
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![The Asylum Confessions: Cults by Jack Steen]()
The Asylum Confessions: Cults by Jack Steen
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThey arrive alive. They leave dead.But first, they give me their deathbed confessions and this time - it's all about those involved in cults.There will be 5 confessions within this book, and trust me...it's going to be a wild ride:PATIENT 983 - thought she gave birth to the antichrist.PATIENT 962 - his nickname was the Candyman..
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