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  • Night on Fire by L.T. Vargus, Tim McBain

    Night on Fire by L.T. Vargus, Tim McBain

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Fire crawls up the sides of the church. The orange glow thrashes. Blackens the siding. Climbs up onto the steeple. The flames close in on the wedding party trapped inside. When a serial arsonist terrorizes Los Angeles County, FBI profiler Violet Darger heads to California to investigate. The fires keep coming faster. The body count rises, and the threat hangs over the city as thick as the smog...
  • Here After by Sean Costello

    Here After by Sean Costello

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    LOVE. LOSS. OBSESSION. REDEMPTION.Following the death of his ten-year-old son, physician Peter Croft embarks on a desperate, seemingly random search for a missing child, risking his sanity, even his life in a grief-induced quest. His journey propels him into the darkest reaches of human suffering, and pits him squarely against an adversary whose own obsession defies all reason...
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    crime  paranormal  suspense  adult  book  fiction  horror  mystery
  • Spirit Caller by H.P. Bayne

    Spirit Caller by H.P. Bayne

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    One 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...
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    crime  paranormal  suspense  adult  book  fiction  ghosts  horror
  • The Dying Hour by Rick Mofina

    The Dying Hour by Rick Mofina

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    In Book 1, The Dying Hour introduces Jason Wade, a rookie crime reporter with The Seattle Mirror, a loner who grew up in the shadow of a brewery in one of the city's blue-collar neighborhoods. At The Seattle Mirror, he is competing for the single full-time job being offered through the paper's intense intern program...
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    crime  suspense  thriller  adult  audiobook  book  fiction  horror
  • Beyond Good & Evil by L.T. Vargus, Tim McBain

    Beyond Good & Evil by L.T. Vargus, Tim McBain

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    He slips through the unlocked window. Creeps down the hall. A shadow standing in the bedroom doorway. Will you wake when death comes ripping? A string of brutal home invasion murders terrifies Dade County Florida. The killer strikes in the dead of the night, savages innocent people in their beds, wipes out entire families. Skewering them with his blade. Butchering them beyond recognition. Raw...
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    crime  hard-boiled  suspense  thriller  adult  audiobook  book  fiction
  • 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 ratings
    This 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...
  • Psychopath by Jeff Menapace

    Psychopath by Jeff Menapace

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The final game is here… A decade has passed. The Lambert family is thriving. Amy Lambert is a successful entrepreneur and in a promising relationship with Allan Brown. Caleb Lambert is a respected member of the United States Marine Corps. Carrie Lambert is a flourishing college student. Or so they wish. Nothing could be further from the truth...
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    crime  suspense  thriller  adult  book  fiction  horror  murder
  • 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...
  • Quick Fixes: Tales of Repairman Jack by F. Paul Wilson

    Quick Fixes: Tales of Repairman Jack by F. Paul Wilson

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Who do the world’s most exciting authors turn to when they need a shot of adrenaline? F. Paul Wilson’s Repairman Jack! "One of the all-time great characters in one of the all-time great series." — Lee Child“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...
  • Drip Drop Dead by Willow Rose

    Drip Drop Dead by Willow Rose

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Emma Frost is chasing a killer that seems to bend the laws of physics.Things are going well for Emma Frost for once. She has a sweet boyfriend and has just finished a new book. Her daughter, Maya, is doing well in high school and even Victor is thriving and playing with his new best friend, the strange girl who fell from the sky...
  • Il était deux fois by Franck Thilliez

    Il était deux fois by Franck Thilliez

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    En 2008, Julie, dix-sept ans, disparaît en ne laissant comme trace que son vélo posé contre un arbre. Le drame agite Sagas, petite ville au cœur des montagnes, et percute de plein fouet le père de la jeune fille, le lieutenant de gendarmerie Gabriel Moscato. Ce dernier se lance alors dans une enquête aussi désespérée qu'effrénée.Jusqu'à ce jour où ses pas le mènent à l'hôtel de la Falaise..
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    crime  suspense  thriller  adult  audiobook  book  fiction  horror
  • 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 . .
  • Anatomy by Sebastian Fitzek, Michael Tsokos

    Anatomy by Sebastian Fitzek, Michael Tsokos

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    This is the autobiographic work by German inference fiction master according to his personal experience. Only the readers with high IQ can understand the ending...
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    crime  suspense  thriller  mystery  fiction  horror  audiobook  book
  • 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...
  • Evil Unveiled by Robert McCammon

    Evil Unveiled by Robert McCammon

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    "New York Times" bestselling author Robert McCammon continues his triumphant return with the conclusion of an epic tale of suspense that reinstates him as one of the great storytellers of our time....The Carolinas, 1699: After hearing damning testimony from the townspeople of Fount Royal, magistrate Isaac Woodward sentences the accused witch, Rachel Howarth, to death by burning...
  • The Victim by Jonas Saul

    The Victim by Jonas Saul

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    In Book Five, Sarah Roberts is The Victim.Sarah is killed in a horrible car accident, the DNA found in the car verified as hers. But the government men at the Sophia Project have faked her death to keep her to themselves.After her funeral, she shows up in the food court of a busy mall where a violent exchange takes place. Things go wrong fast...
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    paranormal  suspense  thriller  adult  book  fiction  horror  mystery
  • Vengeful Games by Jeff Menapace

    Vengeful Games by Jeff Menapace

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    PLAYTIME IS NOT OVER...In Autumn of 2008, the Lambert family headed to western Pennsylvania for a weekend getaway to the family cabin.They visited hell instead...The Fannelli brothers. Two psychopaths who believed themselves exceptional, put on this Earth for the soul purpose of tormenting others for their own amusement. To make people play their twisted games...
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    crime  suspense  thriller  adult  book  fiction  horror  murder
  • 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...
  • Le Manuscrit Inachevé by Franck Thilliez, Jean-Yves Berteloot

    Le Manuscrit Inachevé by Franck Thilliez, Jean-Yves Berteloot

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Aux alentours de Grenoble, un jeune a fini sa trajectoire dans un ravin après une course-poursuite avec la douane. Dans son coffre, le corps d’une femme, les orbites vides, les mains coupées et rassemblées dans un sac...
  • 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...
  • Cast Iron by Peter May

    Cast Iron by Peter May

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Unabridged AudiobookNarrated by Peter ForbesWest of France, 1989.A weeping killer deposits the unconscious body of nineteen year old Lucie Martin, her head wrapped in a blue plastic bag, into the water of a picturesque lake.Lot-et-Garonne, 2003.Fourteen years later a summer heatwave parches the earth, killing trees and bushes and drying out streams...
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    crime  forensics  suspense  thriller  adult  audiobook  book  fiction
  • The River by Noelle W. Ihli

    The River by Noelle W. Ihli

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    A short post-script to Ask for Andrea by Noelle W. Ihli. Learn what happened to April...
  • Lightning / The Face of Fear / The Vision by Dean Koontz

    Lightning / The Face of Fear / The Vision by Dean Koontz

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    CONTENTS: LIGHTNING THE FACE OF FEAR THE...
  • Touching the Dead by Wendy Cartmell

    Touching the Dead by Wendy Cartmell

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A 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...
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    crime  paranormal  suspense  adult  book  fiction  ghosts  horror
  • Good Neighbors by Russell C. Connor

    Good Neighbors by Russell C. Connor

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Winner 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...
  • Hideout by Jack Heath

    Hideout by Jack Heath

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A tense, unputdownable thriller from the author of Hangman.Timothy Blake has nothing to lose. He's headed to an isolated house in rural Texas with a hammer in his pocket and murder on his mind. His target is Fred, the ringleader of a criminal empire on the dark web. Once Fred is gone, Blake can disappear for good.But it turns out that Fred isn't alone. Five other psychopaths live in the house...
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    crime  suspense  thriller  adult  audiobook  book  fiction  horror
  • The Artifact by Brian Hill

    The Artifact by Brian Hill

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A 4000-year-old Egyptian artifact, pulled from a mythical pharaoh’s tomb.A British aristocrat with mysterious intentions.A young thief without a past.A shady spiritualist in hiding.A Native American private investigator, trying to keep his business afloat.Who is the victim?Who is the criminal?Who is the monster?It’s 1984, and Rev Parata is a hard-nosed, Native-American P.I...
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    paranormal  crime  thriller  suspense  horror  myths  mystery  fiction
  • Speak the Dead by Grant McKenzie

    Speak the Dead by Grant McKenzie

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    When Sally Blue was six years old, sleeping peacefully in her bed, a gunshot woke her up and subsequently ripped her world apart.Jolted awake by the scary noise, Sally ran to her parent's bedroom for comfort. Instead, she found her mother slumped against the headboard, her ravaged nightdress drenched from a double-barreled wound...
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    crime  paranormal  suspense  thriller  adult  book  fiction  horror
  • Darc Murders Collection by Carolyn McCray, Ben Hopkin

    Darc Murders Collection by Carolyn McCray, Ben Hopkin

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    If you are a fan of characters such as Alex Cross and Hannibal or movies like 7 and Saw, The Darc Murders Collection is sure to shock and satisfy...
  • The Cove by Malcolm Richards

    The Cove by Malcolm Richards

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Carrie thought her son was dead. She was wrong. She’d only taken her eyes off him for a second. But that was all it took for a perfect day at the beach to turn to horror. Cal disappeared beneath the waves. His body was never found. Seven years later, Carrie has a new family. But her life in the sleepy Cornish town of Devil's Cove is about to be torn apart again. A boy washes up on the shore...
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    crime  suspense  thriller  adult  book  evil-places  fiction  horror
  • Last Call by Sean Costello

    Last Call by Sean Costello

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    THIS BOOK is RATED-R FOR LANGUAGE by the publisher.In the space of a single day, twenty-year-old Trish West purchases her first car, gets accepted into veterinary college, and finds her rockstar father, Jim Gamble, a man who vanished into the streets before she was born and now clings to life in a Toronto intensive care unit.Eager to establish a relationship with Mr...
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    crime  suspense  thriller  adult  book  domestic-drama  fiction  horror
  • The Harbinger Collection: Hard-Boiled Mysteries Not for the Faint of Heart by Carolyn McCray

    The Harbinger Collection: Hard-Boiled Mysteries Not for the Faint of Heart by Carolyn McCray

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The Harbinger CollectionA Patterson-style set of thrillers with a dash of Hannibal..
  • The Neighbor by London Clarke

    The Neighbor by London Clarke

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Claire Vogel is a recently divorced mother of four girls and a successful counselor living in a planned and prestigious community. She knows all her neighbors, and they know her. But Claire has a secret. To cope with hidden, deep-rooted pain, she often participates in risky, reckless behavior...
  • 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...
  • Black for Remembrance by Carlene Thompson

    Black for Remembrance by Carlene Thompson

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Caroline Webb knows what it means to lose the person you love most. Twenty years ago, her five-year-old daughter, Hayley, was the light of her life, her treasure, her angle. Then came the terrible day when Hayley was kidnapped from her favorite swing. More than a month passed before her burned, lifeless body was found. All that remained was the silence of Caroline's heartache--and her guilt..
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    crime  suspense  thriller  adult  book  contemporary  fiction  horror
  • 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...
  • The List by Kiersten Modglin

    The List by Kiersten Modglin

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Ten years ago, the small town of Bates, South Carolina was changed forever with the appearance of a slip of paper.Six names.Six people set to die.Six months later, they were gone. But the list maker was far from done with their town.Like clockwork, new lists come out every six months. To keep their names off of them, the citizens go to extraordinary lengths and keep terrifying secrets...
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    crime  suspense  thriller  adult  book  fiction  horror  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...
  • The Midnight Man by Caroline Mitchell

    The Midnight Man by Caroline Mitchell

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    From 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...
  • The Sleepover by Keri Beevis

    The Sleepover by Keri Beevis

    Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    When you’re a kid, you imagine monsters to have horns and fangs. That they hide under the bed or in the wardrobe. And you believe they can only come after you when it’s dark.You don’t expect them to look like everyday people or that they may be someone you already know…The summer in question started out with hot, fun-filled days and new friendships...
  • La Ligne noire by Jean-Christophe Grangé

    La Ligne noire by Jean-Christophe Grangé

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Il existe, quelque part en Asie du Sud-Est, entre le tropique du Cancer et la ligne de l'Equateur, une autre ligne. Une ligne noire jalonnée de corps et d'effroi..
  • The Asylum Confessions: Merry with all that Murder by Jack Steen

    The Asylum Confessions: Merry with all that Murder by Jack Steen

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    They arrive alive. They always leave dead.But first, they give me their confessions, and this one has to everything to do with Christmas.Merry Ho-Ho and all that holiday cheer. This book has it the cozy, loving, gift-giving while chomping on cookies right before you die - type of feels you know you'll read with one of my confession books...
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    crime  thriller  suspense  horror  mystery  fiction  murder  holidays
  • The Devil's Work by Mark Edwards

    The Devil's Work by Mark Edwards

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    A gripping psychological thriller from the bestselling author of Follow You Home and The Magpies . It was the job she had dreamed of since childhood. But on her very first day, when an unnerving encounter drags up memories Sophie Greenwood would rather forget, she wonders if she has made a mistake. A fatal mistake...
  • The Mother by T.M. Logan, Gemma Whelan

    The Mother by T.M. Logan, Gemma Whelan

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Framed for murder. Now she's free . . .A woman attends a funeral, standing in the shadows and watching in agony as her sons grieve. But she is unable to comfort them - or reveal her secret.A decade earlier, Heather gets her children ready for bed and awaits the return of her husband Liam, little realising that this is the last night they will spend together as a family...
  • The Cross by Steve Cavanagh

    The Cross by Steve Cavanagh

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    An exclusive race against time ebook short thriller. **Contains an extract from Steve Cavanagh's brilliant debut novel, THE DEFENCE** Eddie Flynn, con-man turned criminal lawyer, has an impossible choice.He has damning evidence against a corrupt NYPD detective who stands accused of killing a suspect...
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    crime  thriller  suspense  fiction  mystery  legal  horror  book
  • ASBO by Iain Rob Wright

    ASBO by Iain Rob Wright

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    YOUR FEAR IS THEIR ENTERTAINMENT...Andrew’s life is one of bored contentedness: a teenage daughter, a faithful wife, and a middle-class job. He even has a Mercedes. His life is without drama, and the comfort of middle-age is setting in.That all changes when he refuses to buy a pack of cigarettes for the local gang of youths...
  • Tweedledum and Tweedledee by Willow Rose

    Tweedledum and Tweedledee by Willow Rose

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    ASIN moved from less recent editionIn the middle of the night, Alberto Alonzo sneaks out to play at the casino with his mother's credit card in his hand. The next morning he is gone, and no one knows where he is, and, for his family, a real-life nightmare unfolds.Emma Frost is with her family on a cruise in the Mediterranean Sea when the boy goes missing from the ship...
  • Petrified Women by Jeremy Ray

    Petrified Women by Jeremy Ray

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Some pranks go too far. This one could be deadly.Harley has the perfect boyfriend. Why can’t her best friend see that? He’s nothing like the others, especially the one who still haunts her memories. She’s finally picked a “keeper” with Aiden.Sure, he’s a bit eccentric. His wood carving hobby is a little odd. His need for isolation while he carves his life-size female figurines is strange...
  • The Crypt by Jonas Saul

    The Crypt by Jonas Saul

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    The Crypt, Sarah Roberts Book 3, opens with Sarah Roberts walking the streets of Budapest in search of a weapon.A strange man in a fedora has been following her. Before she can find out who he is she’s arrested and brought to a Hungarian jail. After her release, she’s ordered out of the country. The man in the fedora shows up at her hotel...
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    paranormal  suspense  thriller  adult  book  fiction  horror  mystery
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