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Damned by Jana Deleon
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsWhen young priest Nicolas Chatry took his vows, he thought the hardest thing he’d have to deal with was accomplishing his duties from a wheelchair. Until a murderer steps into the confessional. Unable to recognize the voice or maneuver quickly enough to get a look at the killer, Nicolas has no way of identifying who admitted to such a horrific deed... -
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Memories of Tomorrow by Dean Koontz
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsWhat strange science made Nameless who he is? What catastrophes have been erased from his memories? In the stunning conclusion of this series, the dark past comes flooding back, and Nameless must decide how much he really wants to know.In Indiana, a murderous psycho has kidnapped his own six-year-old stepson, Jamie, and secreted him away in a subterranean cave. It’s become their bunker... -
![Drift by L.T. Ryan, Brian Christopher Shea]()
Drift by L.T. Ryan, Brian Christopher Shea
Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsThey killed the wrong girl. Rachel Hatch will make them pay. New from USA Today & Amazon two-million copy bestselling author L.T. Ryan with Brian Shea. Ex-Army criminal investigator Rachel Hatch is a drifter. No home. No commitments. Until her sister's drowning drags her back to the town she left fifteen years ago... -
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Cold Lake by Jeff Carson
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe truth emerges one piece at a time. When a fisherman reels in a plastic bag containing a severed human head from the depths of Cold Lake, Colorado, Sheriff David Wolf and his deputies scramble to the scene, and quickly realize there are more surprises to be found below... -
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![The Silence of the White City by Eva García Sáenz de Urturi, Eva García Sáenz]()
The Silence of the White City by Eva García Sáenz de Urturi, Eva García Sáenz
Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsA madman is holding Vitoria hostage, killing its citizens in brutal ways and staging the bodies. The city's only hope is a brilliant detective struggling to battle his own demons.Inspector Unai López de Ayala, known as "Kraken", is charged with investigating a series of ritualistic murders. The killings are eerily similar to ones that terrorized the citizens of Vitoria twenty years earlier... -
![One By One by Freida McFadden]()
One By One by Freida McFadden
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsOne by one, they will get what they deserve...A night spent sleeping on dirt and leaves is not how Claire Matchett expected to spend her vacation.She thought this would be a break from the stresses of work and raising her young children. A chance to repair her damaged marriage. A week of hiking and hot tubs with two other couple friends. It sounded like heaven... -
![Gia and the Forgotten Island by Kristi Belcamino]()
Gia and the Forgotten Island by Kristi Belcamino
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAn 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... -
![I Know a Secret by Tess Gerritsen]()
I Know a Secret by Tess Gerritsen
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsIn the twelfth gripping novel featuring Jane Rizzoli and Maura Isles, the crime-solving duo—featured in the smash-hit TNT series Rizzoli & Isles—are faced with the gruesomely staged murder of a horror film producer.The crime scene is unlike any that Detective Rizzoli and medical examiner Maura Isles have ever before encountered... -
![The Last Thing to Burn by Will Dean]()
The Last Thing to Burn by Will Dean
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsA 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... -
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A Caller's Game by J.D. Barker
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsDIE HARD meets TALK RADIO in this heart-pounding, relentlessly fast-paced thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of The Fourth Monkey—master of suspense, J.D. Barker. "I'm going to offer you a choice." Controversial satellite radio talk show host, Jordan Briggs, has clawed her way to the top of the broadcast world... -
![The Analyst by John Katzenbach]()
The Analyst by John Katzenbach
Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars · 30 ratings'Happy fifty-third birthday, Doctor. Welcome to the first day of your death. You ruined my life. And now I fully intend to ruin yours.'You have exactly one fortnight, starting tomorrow morning at 6 a.m., to discover who I am. When you succeed you must purchase one of those tiny ads at the bottom of the New York Times front page, and print my name there.'If you do not succeed, then .. -
![The Kept Woman by Karin Slaughter]()
The Kept Woman by Karin Slaughter
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 33 ratingsHusbands and wives. Mothers and daughters. The past and the future. Secrets bind them. And secrets can destroy them. The author of Pretty Girls returns with an electrifying, emotionally complex thriller that plunges its fascinating protagonist into the darkest depths of a mystery that just might destroy him... -
![The Mercy of Snakes by Dean Koontz]()
The Mercy of Snakes by Dean Koontz
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsA series of suspicious deaths in a retirement home draws Nameless into the confidence of a terrified former resident—and into the dark heart of a shocking conspiracy. In part five of the Nameless series, it’s time to hunt.Oakshore Park is Michigan’s most exclusive assisted-living community. Presided over by two killer angels of mercy, it’s also the go-to facility in assisted dying... -
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Trophy Hunt by C.J. Box
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsIt's an idyllic late-summer day in Saddlestring, Wyoming, and game warden Joe Pickett is fly-fishing with his two daughters when he stumbles upon the mutilated body of a moose. Whatever - or whoever - attacked the animal was ruthless: half the animal's face has been sliced away, the skin peeled back from the flesh... -
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![Invisible by James Patterson, David Ellis]()
Invisible by James Patterson, David Ellis
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 28 ratingsEveryone thinks Emmy Dockery is crazy. Obsessed with finding the link between hundreds of unsolved cases, Emmy has taken leave from her job as an FBI researcher. Now all she has are the newspaper clippings that wallpaper her bedroom, and her recurring nightmares of an all-consuming fire... -
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The Loner by J.A. Johnstone
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsMost people have no idea that successful young businessman Conrad Browning is the son of legendary gunfighter Frank Morgan. And that's one secret he plans to keep--until his beautiful wife, Rebel, was kidnapped by a group of deadly bandits... -
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Gangland by Chuck Hogan
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsFrom the acclaimed author of The Town, an epic thriller about the secret right‑hand man of one of the most infamous unprosecuted mob bosses in American history, and the hidden crime that will bring down an empire.In the late 1970s, The Outfit has the entire city of Chicago in its hands. Tony Accardo is its fearless leader... -
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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... -
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Dirty Martini by J.A. Konrath
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsIt's another round of Jack Daniels - and this time the cocktail is of the deadly poisonous variety. Jack's got trouble on her hands, and not just because her boyfriend wants to get married before she is ready. A man in disguise has been visiting restaurants, grocery stores and fast food places, ingeniously spreading a deadly toxin... -
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Last of the Magpies by Mark Edwards
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe chilling conclusion to the #1 bestseller The Magpies. Twelve months ago, Jamie Knight walked straight into Lucy Newton’s trap. Both Jamie and his ex-wife Kirsty barely survived. Now, with the police investigation into Lucy’s disappearance going nowhere, Jamie teams up with a true crime podcaster to track down his nemesis... -
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Long After Midnight by Iris Johansen
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsShe wanted to save lives. The killer wanted to end hers.The first warning was triggered hundreds of miles away. The second warning exploded only yards from where she and her son stood. Now Kate Denby realizes the frightening truth: She is somebody's target.Danger has arrived in Kate's backyard with a vengeance... -
![The Ugly Duckling by Iris Johansen]()
The Ugly Duckling by Iris Johansen
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsIf fate suddenly made you more beautiful than you ever dreamed possible, would it be the beginning of a fairy tale, or your worst nightmare?The brutal attack should have killed anybody, but Nell Calder did more than survive. She emerged a woman transformed, with an exquisite beauty found only in fairy tales. Nell Calder deserved a happy ending. Instead, her descent into terror has just begun... -
![Ghost Ship by Clive Cussler, Graham Brown]()
Ghost Ship by Clive Cussler, Graham Brown
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsThe dazzling new novel in the #1 New York Times-bestselling series from the grand master of adventure. When Kurt Austin is injured attempting to rescue the passengers and crew from a sinking yacht, he wakes with fragmented and conflicted memories... -
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Wounds by Alton Gansky
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA man’s lifeless body is found in the fresh soil of San Diego’s botanical garden. Cause of death is asphyxiation, an easy call for the medical examiner. More mysterious, however, are the tiny drops of blood on the victim’s skin, resulting from hundreds of punctures.A rabbi leaving his house for work expects a regular day at the synagogue... -
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![Mountain Home by Bracken MacLeod]()
Mountain Home by Bracken MacLeod
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsLyn works at an isolated roadside diner. When a retired combat veteran stages an assault there her world is turned upside down. Surviving the sniper’s bullets is only the beginning of Lyn's nightmare. Navigating hostilities, she establishes herself as the disputed leader of a diverse group of people that are at odds with the situation and each other... -
![Let's Hear It for the Deaf Man by Ed McBain]()
Let's Hear It for the Deaf Man by Ed McBain
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe criminals who invade the 87th Precinct aren't particularly known for their intelligence. Their crimes are usually brutal, stupid, and rash. But every once in a while, the 87th gets a good bad guy to hunt down."WITH YOUR ASSISTANCE, I'M GOING TO STEAL $500,000 ON THE LAST DAY OF APRIL." So wrote the Deaf Man, the 87th Precinct's own private nemesis... -
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Blood Brother by Jack Kerley
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsDetective 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... -
![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 ratingsShe 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... -
![Miss Polly had a Dolly by Willow Rose]()
Miss Polly had a Dolly by Willow Rose
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsA bone-chilling tale from the Queen of Scream Not for the faint-hearted Miss Polly had a dolly. A beautiful daughter that she called her Baby Doll. Every day she dressed her in dresses and brushed her hair before they went outside to show off to the neighbors... -
![Fuzzy Navel by J.A. Konrath]()
Fuzzy Navel by J.A. Konrath
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThings are going well for Lieutenant Jacqueline "Jack" Daniels of the Chicago Police Department. She has solved some of the city's toughest and most high-profile homicides. Her personal life is finally in order. Her friends and family are safe and happy... -
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Cherry Bomb by J.A. Konrath
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsAt the end of Fuzzy Navel, J. A. Konrath surprised readers with an agonizing cliff-hanger: One of Lieutenant Jacqueline "Jack" Daniels's loved ones is dead. But who Readers were left clamoring to know more.Cherry Bomb, the sixth Jack Daniels mystery, opens at the funeral. While Jack stands graveside, tears in her eyes, her cell phone rings... -
![Flight of the Storks by Jean-Christophe Grangé]()
Flight of the Storks by Jean-Christophe Grangé
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsEvery year the storks set off on their miraculous 12,000-mile migration from Northern Europe to Central Africa. Then one year, inexplicably, they do not return. At the invitation of the wealthy Swiss ornithologist Max Boehm, a young French academic, Louis Antioch, agrees to undertake a journey tracing the flight of the storks in an attempt to solve the mystery of the birds' disappearance... -
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Devil's Peak by Deon Meyer
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsFrom rising South African thriller writer Deon Meyer, a gripping suspense novel about revenge, forgiveness, and the race to catch a trained killer. A young woman makes a terrible confession to a priest. An honorable man takes his own revenge for an unspeakable tragedy. An aging inspector tries to get himself sober while taking on the most difficult case of his career... -
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Red Rain by Dean Koontz
Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsIn a town where the corrupt are protected, a bereaved mother seeks retribution for an arsonist’s deadly crimes. Only Nameless can help ease the burden of her grief—and satisfy her rage—in part four of this thrilling series.After a suspicious house fire, Regina Belmont lost her two children, was left disfigured, and was abandoned by her gutless husband... -
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![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... -
![The Praying Mantis Bride by Dean Koontz]()
The Praying Mantis Bride by Dean Koontz
Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsA deadly black widow has eliminated three husbands and counting. But Nameless knows her one weakness. To bring truth and its consequences to her crimes, the vigilante must spin a web of his own in part three of the Nameless series.Lucia—current last name, Rickenbah—has made a fortune by marrying rich men who tend to drop dead. But the superstitious blonde believes in more than money and murder... -
![The Bone Garden by Tess Gerritsen]()
The Bone Garden by Tess Gerritsen
Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsPresent day: Julia Hamill has made a horrifying discovery on the grounds of her new home in rural Massachusetts: a skull buried in the rocky soil–human, female, and, according to the trained eye of Boston medical examiner Maura Isles, scarred with the unmistakable marks of murder. But whoever this nameless woman was, and whatever befell her, is knowledge lost to another time. . . -
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The Passengers by John Marrs
Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars · 40 ratingsYou're riding in your self-driving car when suddenly the doors lock, the route changes and you have lost all control. Then, a mysterious voice tells you, "You are going to die... -
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The Rabbit Hunter by Lars Kepler
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsThe latest internationally best-selling installment in the Joona Linna series sees him temporarily called back to the police force to solve a series of bizarre and increasingly horrifying murders. Detective Joona Linna is finishing out a sentence at Kumla prison for assaulting an officer in the course of his last investigation when he is summoned to a meeting with the Swedish Prime Minister... -
![Shaken by J.A. Konrath, Angela Dawe]()
Shaken by J.A. Konrath, Angela Dawe
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsChicago cop Jacqueline "Jack" Daniels has chased, and caught, dozens of dangerous criminals over the course of her career. But she's about to meet her match. When Jack wakes up in a storage locker, bound and gagged, she knows with chilling certainty who her abductor is. He's called "Mr. K." More than two hundred homicides have been attributed to him... -
![Deep Shadow by Randy Wayne White]()
Deep Shadow by Randy Wayne White
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsDoc Ford wrestles more than one kind of demon, in the stunning novel from the "New York Times"-bestselling author. Many dangers lurk in the deep-the worst of them are human. Thirty minutes into what should have been an easy, beginner-level dive in a remote Florida lake, the rim of a cave collapses, trapping two of Doc Ford's friends... -
![Shot of Tequila by J.A. Konrath]()
Shot of Tequila by J.A. Konrath
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsA GUTSY ROBBERYSeveral million bucks, stolen from the mob...A PERFECT FRAMEAll caught on video, with no chance of redemption...A RED HOT RECIPE FOR RAMPAGING REVENGENow one man must face the entire Chicago Outfit, a group of hardened Mafia enforcers, a psychotic bookie, the most dangerous hitman on earth, and Detective Jacqueline Daniels...His name is Tequila. And he likes those odds... -
![Tweedledum and Tweedledee by Willow Rose]()
Tweedledum and Tweedledee by Willow Rose
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsASIN 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... -
![Rogue by Mark T. Sullivan]()
Rogue by Mark T. Sullivan
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsMark Sullivan has created a propulsive, compelling new thriller. Rogue, is one part Bourne Identity and one part Mission: Impossible, but readers will also love the nod to Hitchcock’s It Takes a Thief. Two years ago, Robin Monarch was a top level CIA operative—perhaps the best they had when it came to black bag operations... -
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![The Loch Ness Legacy by Boyd Morrison]()
The Loch Ness Legacy by Boyd Morrison
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsDuring a trek to Loch Ness, Scotland, a young Charles Darwin encounters a mysterious and terrifying creature that provides a spark for his evolutionary theory.Almost two hundred years later and across the Channel in Paris, the Eiffel Tower is under attack... -
![Outbreak by Robert Tine]()
Outbreak by Robert Tine
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsBased on the film of the same name starring Dustin Hoffman, this is the story of a doctor fighting a virus created by the British secret service in Africa. He begins to notice that people in the US are dying of a similar mysterious illness. As he begins to investigate he uncovers foul play... -
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Annabel Lee by Mike Nappa
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFourteen miles east of Peachtree, Alabama, a secret is hidden. That secret's name is Annabel Lee Truckson, and even she doesn't know why her mysterious uncle has stowed her deep underground in a military-style bunker. He's left her with a few German words, a barely-controlled guard dog, and a single command: "Don't open that door for anybody, you got it? Not even me... -
![This Time You Lose by Chris Stralyn]()
This Time You Lose by Chris Stralyn
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWhat would you do if street thugs invaded your home? What if you're a daycare provider, caring for a dozen children at the time? Lisa Kaamp, a most unlikely heroine, faces just such a nightmare in This Time You Lose , the suspense driven story of one woman's struggle to survive when she and the children she cares for become victims of a home invasion gone terribly wrong... -
![Nothing Good Happens After Midnight: A Suspense Magazine Anthology by Jeffery Deaver, Heather Graham]()
Nothing Good Happens After Midnight: A Suspense Magazine Anthology by Jeffery Deaver, Heather Graham
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe sun sets. The moon takes its place, illuminating the most evil corners of the planet. What twisted fear dwells in that blackness? What legends attach to those of sound mind and make them go crazy in the bright light of day? Only Suspense Magazine knows.. -
![Soft Target by Iain Rob Wright]()
Soft Target by Iain Rob Wright
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsNowhere is safe from evil...When an elderly suicide bomber strikes a quiet English village, a once proud nation is brought to its knees. Yet this first attack is just the start of something far greater and much much worse. The days to follow will determine if the United Kingdom has a future, or if it will be reduced to anarchy and ashes...
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