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An Unreliable Truth by Victor Methos
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsFrom the bestselling author of A Killer’s Wife, Victor Methos’s acclaimed Desert Plains series continues with the saga of two brilliant defense attorneys and a client whose confession may not be what it seems.Two couples cut to bits near a canyon close to the Nevada border... -
Rogue Lies by Kathleen Brooks
Rated: 4.70 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe web has begun to untangle. Elizabeth James has been working in the shadows to take down the group that has quietly snatched power in nearly every part of society. But now, Elizabeth is no longer alone. Tate Carlisle was a respected television journalist until an investigation of the wrong person cut her career short. She may be off the air, but she’s not off the job... -
Breaking Free by Adrienne Giordano
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAs the black sheep of the Steele brood, Micki Steele craves one thing: the love of her family. Working as a hacker for a ruthless fixer, Micki has done things she'll never be proud of. When she flees Vegas and returns to her hometown, she brings along her boss’s secrets and plenty of danger... -
The Girl That Vanished by A.J. Rivers
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsRing...Ring...One call from her past was all it took to change everything.A ten-year-old girl has vanished on her way home from camp.And things took a turn for the worse when another child, a child that Emma knows, goes missing.Disappearances, death, and tragedies has followed Emma Griffin throughout her childhood... -
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Where The Truth Lies by M.J. Lee
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsA 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... -
The Judge's List by John Grisham
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 35 ratingsListening Length 11 hours and 36 minutesFrom the #1 New York Times bestselling author, a new legal thriller about a man who might be the most criminal sitting judge in American history As an investigator for the Florida Board on Judicial Conduct, Lacy Stoltz sees plenty of corruption among the men and women elected to the bench... -
Blood Brothers: A gritty, unforgettable gangland thriller from bestseller Heather Atkinson by Heather Atkinson
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWhen you’re running the streets, loyalty is everything…Gangs rule the streets of the rough Gallowburn Estate in Glasgow, but the deepest rivalry of all is between Jamie Gray and his friends, known as the Blood Brothers, and their enemies, the Lawsons... -
Never Goodbye by Adam Mitzner
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA thriller of murder, redemption, and breakneck twists by the Amazon Charts bestselling author of Dead Certain. After her sister was murdered, Ella Broden meted out her own punishment, then abandoned her career to pursue her passion as a singer. But another murder that hits close to home draws her back to seek justice... -
Hidden Obsession by Maddie Wade, India Kells
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsOn the hot streets of Miami, someone is watching, waiting for the perfect moment to strike at a team member of the Alliance Agency. Cleo Darwin is the stunning violet-haired office manager of the Alliance Agency. She is capable, controlled and respected by the people she works with. But the woman who has such complete control has a secret...Categorized as:
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Hysteria by L.J. Ross
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsFROM THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE DCI RYAN MYSTERIES In a beautiful world, murder is always ugly… Recently returned from his last case in Ireland, elite forensic psychologist and criminal profiler Dr Alexander Gregory receives a call from the French police that he can’t ignore... -
And So It Begins by Rachel Abbott
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsMark and Evie had a whirlwind romance. Evie brought Mark back to life after the sudden death of his first wife. Cleo, Mark's sister, knows she should be happy for him. But Cleo doesn't trust Evie...When Evie starts having accidents at home, her friends grow concerned... -
A Just Deception by Adrienne Giordano
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe protector: Peter Jessup, former Navy SEAL, currently employed by Taylor Security. He likes being the hero--in charge and in control. His client: Lawyer Isabelle DeRosa. The sexy brunette is the personification of Peter's fantasies. She's willing to get physical but nothing more serious... -
Found by Erin Kinsley
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsWhen 11 year old Evan vanishes without trace, his parents are plunged into their worst nightmare.Especially as the police, under massive pressure, have no answers. But months later Evan is unexpectedly found, frightened and refusing to speak. His loving family realise life will never be the same again.DI Naylor knows that unless those who took Evan are caught, other children are in danger... -
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When A Snail Falls in Love 1 如果蜗牛有爱情 (典藏版) - 上 by Ding Mo, 丁墨
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratings某天,例行谈完工作,季白话锋一转:“追了你这么久,有什么想法?” 许诩诧异,“你在追我?” 季白隐忍地点了根烟,黑眸紧盯着她,“每天陪你晨练、手把手教你射击、整个警队的人叫你嫂子……你以为我在干什么?” 许诩沉默片刻,“哦……不用追。” 季白心头一沉,语气冷下来:“什么意思?” “我也喜欢你,所以不用追。” “……” 他是深沉冷酷的资深神探,她是研究犯罪心理的天才新人,他们是关系冷淡的师徒,也是生死相依的战友。 在联手破获一系列大案后,他对这个单纯睿智的“爱徒”渐生好感,奈何无论他如何明追暗夺,这个如“蜗牛”般迟钝的女孩,就是收不到爱的信号。... -
Inadvertent Disclosure by Melissa F. Miller
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsASIN B0075ZWQ3M moved to the most recent edition hereTiny dynamo Sasha McCandless returns in Inadvertent Disclosure.It's been six months since an airplane crash altered the course of attorney Sasha McCandless's professional and personal life. She's busy building her solo law practice and tending her budding relationship with federal air marshal Leo Connelly, who helped her stop a madman... -
Closer Than You Know by Brad Parks
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsBrad Parks delivers another riveting, emotionally powerful stand-alone domestic suspense thriller perfect for fans of The Couple Next Door and What She Knew.Disaster, Melanie Barrick was once told, is always closer than you know.It was a lesson she learned the hard way growing up in the constant upheaval of foster care... -
A Conflict of Interest by Adam Mitzner
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsAlex Miller is a criminal defense attorney and, at thirty-five, the youngest partner in one of the most powerful law firms in New York City. He's a man at the top of his game with the life he's always dreamed of, complete with a devoted wife, who remains patient with his long hours and high-stakes cases, and the love of a beautiful young daughter... -
Betrayal: by John Lescroart
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsWhen Dismas Hardy agrees to clean up the caseload of recently disappeared attorney Charlie Bowen, he thinks it will be easy. But one of the cases is far from small-time - the sensational clash between National Guard reservist Evan Scholler and an ex-Navy SEAL and private contractor named Ron Nolan... -
The Betrayal by Terry Lynn Thomas
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsAttorney Olivia Sinclair is shocked when she receives an anonymous video showing her husband Richard sleeping with someone else. After years of handling other people’s divorces, she thought she could recognise a marriage in trouble.She angrily throws Richard out of the home they share. But days later she’s arrested—for the murder of his mistress... -
Damaged Goods by Helen Black
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsTerrified. Abused. Who do you trust when the world is against you? Hope is in short supply for Kelsey Brand! Abandoned by her mother and placed in care, 14-year-old Kelsey - along with her younger sisters - is just another forgotten child of the state. Unable to cope with the care home's harsh regimes, Kelsey attempts to take her own life, leaving her horrifically scarred - and mute... -
Into the Devil's Underground by Stacy Green
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFormerly published as Into the Dark , heavily edited with NEW SCENES. "Why are you here?" Butterflies swarmed in her stomach. Sweat rolled down her forehead and stung her eyes. Laugh lines appeared at the corners of the man's eyes. "You don't know, Miss Emilie?" Her heart skidded to a stop. How does he know my name? Throat constricted, she shook her head. "For you, Miss Emilie... -
The Wife – Part Three: In Sickness and In Health by M.L. Roberts
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIf you can’t stop watching Doctor Foster and The Affair , you won’t be able to put down this chilling new four-part series. Michael and Ellie are that couple. The ones who have it all. Success, charm, trust…but no relationship is perfect and the events of the past cast a shadow over their charmed life together...Categorized as:
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The Wife – Part Four: Till Death Do Us Part by M.L. Roberts
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIf you can’t stop watching Doctor Foster and The Affair , you won’t be able to put down this chilling new four-part series. Michael and Ellie are that couple. The ones who have it all. Success, charm, trust…but no relationship is perfect and the events of the past cast a shadow over their charmed life together...Categorized as:
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The Trial by James Patterson, Maxine Paetro
Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars · 24 ratings"I'm not on trial. San Francisco is."An accused murderer called Kingfisher is about to go on trial for his life. Or is he? By unleashing unexpected violence on the lawyers, jurors, and police involved in the case, he has paralyzed the city. Detective Lindsay Boxer and the Women's Murder Club are caught in the eye of the storm.Now comes a courtroom shocker you will never see coming... -
Three Seconds To Rush by Danielle Stewart
Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsTara Shiloh knows she’s not a drug addict. She’s positive she’s a good mother and hard worker. So why is she in an alley with a needle in her arm? Waking up in the hospital without her son is terrifying. Being told she can’t have him back nearly crushes her... -
With Open Eyes by Iris Johansen, Roy Johansen
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsAn original short story from The New York Times bestselling duo, Iris Johansen and Roy Johansen.Blind for the first twenty years of her life, Kendra Michaels learned at an early age to become hyper-aware of her surroundings, perfecting the art of picking up the most subtle audio, olfactory, and tactile cues in the world around her... -
Choked by Tania Carver
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsChoked is the fourth high concept thriller from Tania Carver, the international bestselling author of The Surrogate, The Creeper and Cage Of Bones.Detective Inspector Phil Brennan and criminal psychologist Marina Esposito have just returned from their honeymoon and are spending the Easter weekend in Suffolk with their baby daughter Josephina and Phil's adoptive parents... -
Innocent by Scott Turow, Edward Hermann
Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars · 25 ratingsIn 2008, 22 years after the events of the earlier book, former lawyer Rusty Sabich, now a Kindle County, Ill., chief appellate judge, is again suspected of murdering a woman close to him... -
A Dozen Deadly Roses by Kathy Bennett
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsLos Angeles Police Officer Jade Donovan is being hunted. There’s the lieutenant who’s out to get her, the psycho who’s stalking her and leaving dead roses at her door, but most frightening of all, she’s been assigned to partner with her son’s father, Mac Stryker. Mac doesn’t know he’s Donnie’s dad, and Jade will stop at nothing to prevent him from finding out and possibly taking away her son... -
Local Gone Missing by Fiona Barton
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsElise King is a successful and ambitious detective - or she was, before medical leave left her unsure if she'd ever return to work. She now spends most days watching the growing tensions in her small seaside town of Ebbing: the weekenders in their fancy clothes, renovating old bungalows into luxury homes, and the locals resentful of the changes... -
Keep No Secrets by Julie Compton
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAfter the ultimate betrayal, which is more important: trust or forgiveness? In KEEP NO SECRETS, the controversial follow-up to Compton's debut legal thriller TELL NO LIES, a district attorney struggles to redeem himself after a one-night stand damaged his marriage and professional reputation. After surviving the private and public fallout from a one-night stand four years before, St... -
The Wife – Part Two: For Better, For Worse by M.L. Roberts
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIf you can’t stop watching Doctor Foster and The Affair , you won’t be able to put down this chilling new four-part series. Michael and Ellie are that couple. The ones who have it all. Success, charm, trust…but no relationship is perfect and the events of the past cast a shadow over their charmed life together...Categorized as:
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When A Snail Falls in Love 1-2 by Ding Mo, 丁墨
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsXu Xu thought she knew it all. As a no-nonsense top-of-class police academy graduate, she was certain that she was ready for whatever the world threw at her. However, when she was paired with the world-famous detective, Ji Bai, she quickly learned that theory and reality were not always the same... -
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Twisted by Steve Cavanagh
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsBEFORE YOU READ THIS BOOK I WANT YOU TO KNOW THREE THINGS:1. The police are looking to charge me with murder.2. No one knows who I am. Or how I did it.3. If you think you've found me. I'm coming for you next.After you've read this book, you'll know: the truth is far more twisted.. -
A Terrible Country by Keith Gessen
Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsA New York Times Editors' Choice Named a Best Book of 2018 by Bookforum, Nylon, Esquire, and Vulture"This artful and autumnal novel, published in high summer, is a gift to those who wish to receive it."--Dwight Garner, The New York Times"Hilarious, heartbreaking . . . A Terrible Country may be one of the best books you'll read this year... -
Her Deadly Secret by Chris Curran
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA FAMILY BUILT ON LIES…A dark and twisty psychological thriller, in which a young girl is abducted and her family is confronted with a horror from deep in their past. Perfect for fans of BA Paris and Sue Fortin.A young girl has been taken. Abducted, never to be seen again.Joe and Hannah, her traumatized parents, are consumed by grief... -
The Big Law by Chuck Logan
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAn emerging master of the thriller pits brooding hero Phil Broker against the legendary Witness Protection Program, which has unwittingly hidden his ex-wife's killer. In The Big Law , Logan unfurls a sublime premise-- The Fugitive in reverse--and graces it with ingenious plotting and fascinating explorations of the forces that drive men both to selfless heroism and murderous greed... -
The Burning Man by Phillip Margolin
Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsPeter Hale is a young attorney with a lot to prove. Crossing his father, one of Portland's most powerful lawyers, was a costly mistake. Now, cut loose from his job and from his inheritance, Peter's landed in the public defender's office of a small Oregon town --- and in the middle of a high-profile case that could make or break his career... -
Her, Too by Bonnie Kistler
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsDefending an accused rapist, a high-powered lawyer learns firsthand the terrible truth about her client . . . a discovery that propels her on a quest for justice and revenge in this addictive thriller from the author of The Cage.Kelly McCann is a fighter. She’s fought to build a successful legal career, fought for the special needs of her family, and tirelessly fought for her clients... -
La cría by Pablo Rivero
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 16 ratings¿HASTA DÓNDE LLEGA EL AMOR DE UNA MADRE?Ha desaparecido Lucas, el niño más famoso de España. Con más de un millón de seguidores en redes sociales, protagoniza un popular anuncio de galletas junto a Sweet Bunny, un enorme y enigmático conejo de peluche blanco... -
I Heard You Scream by Emerald O'Brien
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFive can keep a secret if four are dead.On a cold fall night in a small Canadian town, four of Chelsea’s friends are found dead, victims of a brutal stabbing—a selfish act of revenge.The only witness, Chelsea spends the next five years struggling to bury her trauma. The victims’ families call her a hero. Her fiancé calls her the love of his life... -
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The Street Lawyer by John Grisham
Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars · 40 ratingsMichael was in a hurry. He was scrambling up the ladder at Drake & Sweeney, a giant D.C. law firm with eight hundred lawyers. The money was good and getting better; a partnership was three years away. He was a rising star with no time to waste, no time to stop, no time to toss a few coins into the cups of panhandlers. No time for a conscience...Categorized as:
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Nightmare by Joan Lowery Nixon
Rated: 3.70 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFor fans of Gillian Flynn, Caroline Cooney, and R.L. Stine comes Nightmare from four-time Edgar Allen Poe Young Adult Mystery Award winner Joan Lowery Nixon. Emily has never fit in with her overachieving family. Instead of getting straight As, she sits in the back row and hides behind her hair... -
Last Breath by Karin Slaughter
Rated: 3.79 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsProtecting someone always comes at a cost.At the age of thirteen, Charlie Quinn’s childhood came to an abrupt and devastating end. Two men, with a grudge against her lawyer father, broke into her home—and after that shocking night, Charlie’s world was never the same.Now a lawyer herself, Charlie has made it her mission to defend those with no one else to turn to... -
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The Festival by Sarah J. Naughton
Rated: 3.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFROM THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLING AUTHOR'Dazzlingly inventive'Sunday Times'Gripping and powerful'Cara Hunter********** FOUR WOMEN.Orly, Lenny, Mel and Thea have been best friends since school. But now it is 20 years later and inevitably they have drifted apart.ONE WEEKEND.It is Lenny's 40th birthday, plus Orly and Mel need cheering up, so Thea suggests a weekend away at a festival in their hometown...Categorized as:
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Lost Lake by Phillip Margolin, Deborah Hazlett
Rated: 3.69 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIt's a beautiful summer night in Portland, Oregon. Ami Vergano, a young attorney and single mother, arrives at her son Ryan's little league game with their tenant and new friend, Dan Morelli. When the assistant coach calls in sick, Morelli seems happy to help out.But then one player roughly blocks another and a fight erupts... -
Fall From Grace by Richard North Patterson
Rated: 3.69 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe mysteriously violent death of a prominent New England patriarch exposes a nest of dark family secrets in bestselling author Richard North Patterson’s twentieth page-turning novel.The mysterious, violent death of a prominent New England patriarch exposes a nest of dark family secrets in bestselling author Richard North Patterson’s twentieth compelling novel...
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