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  • In an Instant by Suzanne Redfearn

    In an Instant by Suzanne Redfearn

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 61 ratings
    Life is over in an instant for sixteen-year-old Finn Miller when a devastating car accident tumbles her and ten others over the side of a mountain. Suspended between worlds, she watches helplessly as those she loves struggle to survive.Impossible choices are made, decisions that leave the survivors tormented with grief and regret...
  • Bad Blood by Jennifer Lynn Barnes

    Bad Blood by Jennifer Lynn Barnes

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    When Cassie Hobbes joined the FBI's Naturals program, she had one goal: uncover the truth about her mother's murder. But now, everything Cassie thought she knew about what happened that night has been called into question. Her mother is alive, and the people holding her captive are more powerful—and dangerous—than anything the Naturals have faced so far...
  • Mercy by David Baldacci

    Mercy by David Baldacci

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    FBI Agent Atlee Pine’s harrowing search for her long-lost sister Mercy reaches a boiling point in this breakneck thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author David Baldacci.   For her entire life, FBI agent Atlee Pine has been searching for her twin sister, Mercy, who was abducted at the age of six and never seen again...
  • The Night Window by Dean Koontz

    The Night Window by Dean Koontz

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    #1 New York Times bestselling author Dean Koontz brings Jane Hawk's one-woman war to an explosive climax as the rogue FBI agent wages her final battle against a terrifying conspiracy--for vengeance, for justice, and for humanity's freedom."Jane Hawk is arguably the best character Koontz has created. Simply put, wow...
  • Our Stolen Pieces by James Hunt

    Our Stolen Pieces by James Hunt

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    When the morning after a slumber party reveals two missing girls, a newly minted Detective and a young veteran are assigned the case. Recently partnered, the pair of detectives must set aside their troubled pasts to recover the pair of girls who may have been coerced by a stranger who had kidnapped before...
  • Little Broken Things by Cheryl Bradshaw

    Little Broken Things by Cheryl Bradshaw

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Detective Georgiana Germaine is back on the trail of a cold-blooded killer, and once again, the case hits close to home.Twenty-year-old Olivia Spencer sits at her desk in her mother's bookshop, dreaming about her upcoming wedding. The shop may be closed, but Olivia's not alone, and her dream is about to become her worst nightmare...
  • The Madness of Crowds by Louise Penny

    The Madness of Crowds by Louise Penny

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    You’re a coward.Time and again, as the New Year approaches, that charge is leveled against Armand Gamache.It starts innocently enough.While the residents of the Québec village of Three Pines take advantage of the deep snow to ski and toboggan, to drink hot chocolate in the bistro and share meals together, the Chief Inspector finds his holiday with his family interrupted by a simple request...
  • The Lincoln Lawyer by Michael Connelly

    The Lincoln Lawyer by Michael Connelly

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 44 ratings
    Mickey Haller has spent all his professional life afraid that he wouldn’t recognize innocence if it stood right in front of him. But what he should have been on the watch for was evil.Haller is a Lincoln Lawyer, a criminal defense attorney who operates out of the back seat of his Lincoln Town Car, traveling between the far-flung courthouses of Los Angeles to defend clients of every kind...
  • The Black Book by James Patterson, David Ellis

    The Black Book by James Patterson, David Ellis

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    The Instant #1 New York Times and USA Today BestsellerThree bodies in a beautiful and luxurious bedroom.Billy Harney was born to be a cop. The son of Chicago's chief of detectives, whose twin sister is also on the force, Billy plays it by the book. Alongside Detective Kate Fenton, Billy's tempestuous, adrenaline-junkie partner, there's nothing he wouldn't sacrifice for his job...
  • Their Lost Daughters by Joy Ellis

    Their Lost Daughters by Joy Ellis

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    TWO GIRLS GO TO A PARTY, ONLY ONE RETURNS ALIVEToni, the surviving teenager, is found delirious, wandering the muddy fields. She has been drugged and it’s uncertain whether she’ll survive. She says she saw her friend Emily being dragged away from the party. But no one knows who Emily is or even if she’s still alive. . .Meanwhile the drowned body of another girl has been found on an isolated beach...
  • The Shadow Box by Luanne Rice

    The Shadow Box by Luanne Rice

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    An Amazon Charts bestseller.The Amazon Charts bestselling author of Last Day delivers a haunting thriller about how far one wife is willing to go to expose the truth—and the lengths someone will go to stop her.After artist Claire Beaudry Chase is attacked and left for dead in her home on the Connecticut coast, she doesn’t know who she can trust...
  • The Moonlight Child by Karen McQuestion

    The Moonlight Child by Karen McQuestion

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 33 ratings
    A gripping and emotional novel that will leave you wondering about the neighbors next door...On a cold January night, Sharon Lemke heads outside to see a lunar eclipse when she notices something odd at the house behind her backyard. Through her neighbor's kitchen window, she sees what appears to be a little girl washing dishes late at night...
  • The Guilty Ones by Joy Ellis

    The Guilty Ones by Joy Ellis

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    THE MOST DIFFICULT CASE OF DETECTIVE JACKMAN’S LIFE. WHO ARE THE GUILTY ONES AND IS ANYONE REALLY INNOCENT? THIS TIME IT’S VERY PERSONAL FOR JACKMAN. Jackman’s sister-in-law Sarah disappears to London and throws herself into the river. What drove her to this? She was a woman with a seemingly happy home life and two beloved sons. DI Jackman and DI Evans dig into Sarah’s life...
  • Home by Harlan Coben

    Home by Harlan Coben

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    Ten years after the high-profile kidnapping of two young boys, only one returns home in Harlan Coben’s gripping Myron Bolitar thriller.A decade ago, kidnappers grabbed two boys from wealthy families and demanded ransom, then went silent. No trace of the boys ever surfaced...
  • The Lost Man by Jane Harper

    The Lost Man by Jane Harper

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 37 ratings
    Two brothers meet in the remote Australian outback when the third brother is found dead, in this stunning new standalone novel from New York Times bestseller Jane HarperTwo brothers meet at the remote fence line separating their cattle ranches in the lonely outback. In an isolated belt of Western Australia, they are each other’s nearest neighbor, their homes four hours’ drive apart...
  • A Stranger in the Family by Jane Casey

    A Stranger in the Family by Jane Casey

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    The gripping new thriller featuring DS Maeve Kerrigan and DI Josh Derwent from the Top Ten Sunday Times bestselling authorEvery mother's worst nightmare . . .When nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall vanished from her bed one summer night, her disappearance tore her family apart.Now, sixteen years later, her mother Helena is found dead, her husband by her side...
  • Missed Connections by Alexandria Clarke

    Missed Connections by Alexandria Clarke

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    How far would you go for revenge? Veronica Bauer isn’t above homicide. Twelve years after a ruthless attack killed her mother and put her father in prison, she embarks on a mission to bring the real culprits to justice. As bodies start to drop, Detective Sheila Arden is assigned to the gruesome case, but she soon discovers that the truth is more complicated than she thought...
  • Hide by Lisa Gardner

    Hide by Lisa Gardner

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    You have good reason to be afraid. . . . It was a case that haunts Bobby Dodge to this day—the case that nearly killed him and changed his life forever. Now, in an underground chamber on the grounds of an abandoned Massachusetts mental hospital, the gruesome discovery of six mummified corpses resurrects his worst nightmare: the return of a killer he thought dead and buried...
  • The Last Thing to Burn by Will Dean

    The Last Thing to Burn by Will Dean

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    A woman being held captive is willing to risk everything to save herself, her unborn child, and her captor’s latest victim in this claustrophobic thriller in the tradition of Misery and Room. On an isolated farm in the United Kingdom, a woman is trapped by the monster who kidnapped her seven years ago...
  • The Girl in the Snow by Alexandria Clarke

    The Girl in the Snow by Alexandria Clarke

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A retired FBI agent. A heartstopping tragedy. Carolina Caccia, a divorced mother of two, confronts her worst fears when her son goes missing during a family ski trip. As she discovers her son has been taken, she must revisit her dark past to rescue her child...
  • Keep Her Quiet by Emma Curtis

    Keep Her Quiet by Emma Curtis

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    'This is grip-lit at its best' Fanny BlakeJenny has just given birth to the baby she’s always wanted. She’s never been this happy.Her husband, Leo, knows this baby girl can’t be his. He’s never felt so betrayed.The same night, a vulnerable young woman, Hannah, wakes to find her newborn lifeless beside her. She’s crazed with grief...
  • The Long Way Home by Andrew Klavan

    The Long Way Home by Andrew Klavan

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    Sometimes you have to go home to find out who you really are.Charlie West went to bed one night an ordinary high-school student. He woke up a hunted man. Terrorists are trying to kill him. The police want to arrest him for the stabbing death of his best friend. He doesn t know whose side he s on or who he can trust...
  • Gone for Good by Harlan Coben

    Gone for Good by Harlan Coben

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 33 ratings
    As a boy, Will Klein had a hero: his older brother, Ken. Then, on a warm suburban night in the Kleins' affluent New Jersey neighborhood, a young woman--a girl Will had once loved--was found brutally murdered in her family's basement. The prime suspect: Ken Klein. With the evidence against him overwhelming, Ken simply vanished...
  • Memory Man by David Baldacci

    Memory Man by David Baldacci

    Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars
    · 41 ratings
    Amos Decker's life changed forever--twice.The first time was on the gridiron. A big, towering athlete, he was the only person from his hometown of Burlington ever to go pro. But his career ended before it had a chance to begin. On his very first play, a violent helmet-to-helmet collision knocked him off the field for good, and left him with an improbable side effect--he can never forget anything...
  • Good Girl, Bad Girl by Michael Robotham

    Good Girl, Bad Girl by Michael Robotham

    Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    A girl is discovered hiding in a secret room in the aftermath of a terrible crime. Half-starved and filthy, she won’t tell anyone her name, or her age, or where she came from. Maybe she is twelve, maybe fifteen. She doesn’t appear in any missing persons file, and her DNA can’t be matched to an identity...
  • The Last Child by John Hart

    The Last Child by John Hart

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    Thirteen year-old Johnny Merrimon had the perfect life: a warm home and loving parents; a twin sister, Alyssa, with whom he shared an irreplaceable bond. He knew nothing of loss, until the day Alyssa vanished from the side of a lonely street. Now, a year later, Johnny finds himself isolated and alone, failed by the people he'd been taught since birth to trust...
  • Curves Ahead by Andi Jaxon

    Curves Ahead by Andi Jaxon

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Everyone knows appearances can be deceiving, and in my case, even I’ve been fooled. The last thing I need is immature man-child, Alexander Bennet, trying to smile his way into my pants. I hate everything about him; his stupid smirk, his rumbling chuckle, and the way butterflies riot in my stomach when he aims them at me...
  • The Silence Between Breaths by Cath Staincliffe

    The Silence Between Breaths by Cath Staincliffe

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Eight people, one deadly secret.Passengers boarding the 10.35 train from Manchester Piccadilly to London Euston are bound for work, assignations, reunions, holidays or new starts, with no idea that their journey is about to be brutally curtailed...
  • The Elephant Tree by R.D. Ronald

    The Elephant Tree by R.D. Ronald

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 31 ratings
    Mark Fallon is an overworked detective investigating a spate of attacks at a string of high profile city centre nightclubs. Scott is a dejected 24 year old struggling to make ends meet working for his brother and supplementing his income with a small-scale drug dealing operation...
  • The Woodcutter by Reginald Hill

    The Woodcutter by Reginald Hill

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    "Thefertility of Hill's imagination, the range of his power, the sheer quality ofhis literary style never ceases to delight." —Val McDermid,author of Fever of the BoneIn a stand-alone psychological thrillerfrom acclaimed mystery master Reginald Hill, a mysterious ex-con returns to hisremote childhood home on a deadly hunt for revenge...
  • Chasing River by K.A. Tucker

    Chasing River by K.A. Tucker

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Armed with two years' worth of savings and the need to experience life outside the bubble of her Oregon small town, twenty-five-year old Amber Welles is prepared for anything. Except dying in Dublin. Had it not been for the bravery of a stranger, she might have. But he takes off before she has the chance to offer her gratitude. Twenty-four-year-old River Delaney is rattled...
  • The Vacation by John Marrs

    The Vacation by John Marrs

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    The Vacation is a compulsive, holiday-set thriller from John Marrs, the author of The One, now a Netflix Original Series.How far would you run to escape your past?Venice Beach, Los Angeles. A paradise on earth.Tourists flock to the golden coast and the promise of Hollywood.But for eight strangers at a beach front hostel, there is far more on their mind than an extended vacation...
  • Boetedoening (O'Loughlin by Michael Robotham

    Boetedoening (O'Loughlin by Michael Robotham

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Ray Hegarty, a highly respected former detective, lies dead in his daughter Sienna's bedroom. She is found covered in his blood. Everything points to her guilt, but psychologist Joe O'Loughlin isn't convinced.Fourteen-year-old Sienna is Joe's daughter's best friend ? Joe has watched her grow up and seen the troubled look in her eyes...
  • Out of Bounds by Val McDermid

    Out of Bounds by Val McDermid

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Internationally bestselling author Val McDermid is one of our finest crime writers, whose gripping, impeccably plotted novels have garnered millions of readers worldwide. In her latest, Out of Bounds, she delivers a riveting cold case novel featuring detective Karen Pirie...
  • If I Run by Terri Blackstock

    If I Run by Terri Blackstock

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Casey Cox has blood on the bottom of her shoes, in her car, on her clothes. But there's no point in trying to defend herself. She just has to run. Casey didn't kill her friend Brent. She discovered his body, but she'd never try to hurt him. He's the only person she's ever trusted enough to tell the truth about what happened to her father . .
  • Trespassing by Brandi Reeds

    Trespassing by Brandi Reeds

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    In a novel of mounting psychological suspense, a young mother follows a dangerous path to find her missing husband.Veronica Cavanaugh’s grasp on the world is slipping. Her latest round of fertility treatments not only failed but left her on edge and unbalanced. And her three-year-old daughter, Elizabella, has a new imaginary friend, who seems much more devilish than playful...
  • Turning Angel by Greg Iles

    Turning Angel by Greg Iles

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    After winning the most dangerous case of his career, prosecutor Penn Cage decides to remain in his Southern hometown to raise his young daughter in a safe haven. But nowhere is truly safe -- not from long-buried secrets, or murder....When the nude body of prep school student Kate Townsend is found near the Mississippi River, Penn's best friend, Drew Elliott, is desperate for his counsel...
  • Alex Cross, Run by James Patterson

    Alex Cross, Run by James Patterson

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    Detective Alex Cross arrests renowned plastic surgeon Elijah Creem for sleeping with teenage girls. Now, his life ruined, Creem is out of jail, and he's made sure that no one will recognize him--by giving himself a new face.A young woman is found hanging from a sixth-floor window, and Alex is called to the scene. The victim recently gave birth, but the baby is nowhere to be found...
  • The Face of Deception by Iris Johansen

    The Face of Deception by Iris Johansen

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    An unidentified skull...A trail of terrifying secrets...And a woman whose talented hands could reveal the shocking truth...As a forensic sculptor, Eve Duncan helps identify the dead from their skulls. Her own daughter murdered and her body never found, the job is Eve's way of coming to terms with her personal nightmare. But more terror lies ahead when she accepts work from billionaire John Logan...
  • Night Fall by Nelson DeMille

    Night Fall by Nelson DeMille

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    Based on true events, but unlike anything you've ever read before, #1 New York Times bestselling author Nelson DeMille has created what may be his finest work to date.It is dusk on July 17, 1996. A man and a woman who are married--but not to each other--make love on a Long Island beach as a video camera records their pleasure...and something more...
  • Touch & Go by Lisa Gardner, Elisabeth Rodgers

    Touch & Go by Lisa Gardner, Elisabeth Rodgers

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    #1 New York Times bestseller Lisa Gardner, author of  Catch Me  and  Love You More,  returns with a heart-thumping thriller about what lurks behind the facade of a perfect family.This is my family:  Vanished without a trace…Justin and Libby Denbe have the kind of life that looks good in the pages of a glossy magazine. A beautiful fifteen-year old daughter, Ashlyn...
  • 2nd Chance by James Patterson, Andrew Gross

    2nd Chance by James Patterson, Andrew Gross

    Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars
    · 41 ratings
    The Women's Murder Club returns for another thrilling crime investigation. Will their skills be enough to take down a brutal madman?A brutal madman sprays bullets into a crowd of children leaving a San Francisco church. Miraculously-or was it intentionally?-only one person dies. Then an elderly black woman is hung...
  • The Last Flight by Julie Clark

    The Last Flight by Julie Clark

    Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars
    · 44 ratings
    Claire Cook has a perfect life. But behind closed doors, nothing is quite as it seems. That perfect husband has a temper that burns as bright as his promising political career, and he's not above using his staff to track Claire's every move. But what he doesn't know is that Claire has worked for months on a plan to vanish...
  • The Rise by Shari King, Shari Low

    The Rise by Shari King, Shari Low

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    When we bury our secrets, they always come back to haunt us...Their rise was meteoric.Only a few years before, they had been three friends from Glasgow, just trying to survive tough lives of danger and dysfunction.But on one Hollywood evening in 1993, they were on the world’s biggest stage, accepting their Oscar in front of the watching world.That night was the beginning of their careers...
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  • The Princess of Greektown by Suzanne Jenkins

    The Princess of Greektown by Suzanne Jenkins

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Thirty years ago, Terry Smith was Detroit’s top news anchor. She set the standard for excellence in investigative journalism, staying at the news desk long after her time should have been over. Just as Terry’s son-in-law is murdered in the city, Detective Jill Zannos faces upheaval in her own life...
  • Girls In White Dresses by Alex Gates

    Girls In White Dresses by Alex Gates

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    From Book 1: The streets are too dangerous a place for a runaway girl. That’s why we take her in. That’s why we feed her, teach her, transform her from a little girl… Into a bride. Detective London McKenna investigates a horrifying conspiracy, but every uncovered secret only spills more blood. Runaway girls are kidnapped and groomed to become child brides...
  • The Blue by Lucy Clarke

    The Blue by Lucy Clarke

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    In the tradition of Alex Garland’s The Beach, a spine-tingling adventure novel about a group of friends whose journey around the world on a yacht turns from a trip to paradise into a chilling nightmare when one of them disappears at sea.A group of friends. A yacht. And a disappearance-at-sea that turns paradise into a chilling nightmare...
  • Redemption Road by John Hart

    Redemption Road by John Hart

    Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Now at NYT Besteller Over 2 million copies of his books in print. The first and only author to win back-to-back Edgars for Best Novel. Every book a New York Times bestseller. After five years, John Hart is back. Since his debut bestseller, The King of Lies, reviewers across the country have heaped praise on John Hart, comparing his writing to that of Pat Conroy, Cormac McCarthy and Scott Turow...
  • Iron House by John Hart

    Iron House by John Hart

    Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    An old man is dying.          When the old man is dead they will come for him.          And they will come for her, to make him hurt. John Hart delivers his fourth novel -- a gut-wrenching, heart-stopping thriller no reader will soon forget.He would go to Hell     At the Iron Mountain Home for Boys, there was nothing but time...
  • The Girl Who Was Supposed to Die by April Henry

    The Girl Who Was Supposed to Die by April Henry

    Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    “Take her out back and finish her off.”She doesn’t know who she is. She doesn’t know where she is, or why. All she knows when she comes to in a ransacked cabin is that there are two men arguing over whether or not to kill her.And that she must run.In her riveting style, April Henry crafts a nail-biting thriller involving murder, identity theft, and biological warfare...
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