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  • MESSAGE in the BONES: A small town murder mystery with a psychic twist by Dawn Merriman

    MESSAGE in the BONES: A small town murder mystery with a psychic twist by Dawn Merriman

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Escape the usual small town murder story with this quirky, page turning mystery. With long-buried bones, psychic visions, a tattoo with messages from above, and a clown-masked murderer chasing through a corn maze, this story will keep you on edge until the very last word.
  • Message in the Grave by Dawn Merriman

    Message in the Grave by Dawn Merriman

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A psychic suspense thriller The darker the secret, the harder it is to keep buried I’m finally accepting that my psychic talents serve a purpose, that I can use them to help people. But two mysteries plague me...
  • Message in the Fire by Dawn Merriman

    Message in the Fire by Dawn Merriman

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A daring escape, psychic visions, a terrifying cult and a burning ritual. . Blood stained her back and her hands were bound. She’d crumpled on her side under a tree, wrapped around her crying newborn. My psychic abilities would show me what happened to the young woman, but the horror can scar. Fear stopped me from touching her. I scooped the infant up and the young woman moved. She was alive.
  • Simon Says... Hide by Dale Mayer, Kristi Alsip

    Simon Says... Hide by Dale Mayer, Kristi Alsip

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Simon Says... Hide, a brand new thriller series from USA Today best-selling author Dale Mayer.Newly promoted detective Kate Morgan stands up for the victims in the world, never backing down or giving up. From a family of victims, Kate will not tolerate those who take advantage of others. The worst ones prey on the hopes of desperate people to line their own pockets...
  • Deadly Recall by T.R. Ragan

    Deadly Recall by T.R. Ragan

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    PI Jessie Cole is about to discover that there’s no revenge too wicked as New York Times bestselling author T.R. Ragan’s gripping series continues.When you search for the missing, there’s no telling what you’ll find. PI Jessie Cole learned that painful truth firsthand when her sister disappeared. Now a new case will test Jessie and Ben once again...
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    crime  ghosts  suspense  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary  cozy
  • Light Has Weight, but Darkness Does Not by Dean Koontz

    Light Has Weight, but Darkness Does Not by Dean Koontz

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Instinct and violent visions compel Nameless to embark on an unplanned mission to help a desperate mother and daughter on the run. Why is this rescue so strangely familiar to a man with no memories?Evie and her daughter, Asteria, are fleeing an abusive cult when they meet a stranger in an abandoned Arizona shopping mall. Fate hasn’t set Nameless on their trail...
  • Touching Evil by Kay Hooper, Alyssa Bresnahan

    Touching Evil by Kay Hooper, Alyssa Bresnahan

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    This is the story of Seattle police artist Maggie Barnes, whose remarkable artistic talents are the focus of an even more extraordinary psychic gift that she is determined to keep secret: a gift that has allowed her to work with crime victims, to feel what they feel, to create perfect portraits of their attackers...
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    crime  ghosts  suspense  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary  fiction
  • Sense of Evil by Kay Hooper

    Sense of Evil by Kay Hooper

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Kay Hooper is the brightest new star of suspense fiction. Now the New York Times bestselling author who's built a reputation for keeping her readers' pulse in the red zone delivers a thriller that will stun the senses -- all six of them. This time a psychic special agent and a gritty cop must stop a brutal killer with a chilling M.O. and an unstoppable...Sense of Evil...
  • Legacy Of Hunters Ridge by Sarah Barrie

    Legacy Of Hunters Ridge by Sarah Barrie

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    She dazzled with Secrets of Whitewater Creek, now Sarah Barrie kicks off a brand-new trilogy about small towns, secrets, and the love that saves lives. Successful horse trainer Alissa Morgan-Jones has the world at her feet, until a tragic fire destroys everything. Widowed, in debt and under suspicion for arson, Alissa’s life is in tatters...
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    crime  suspense  adult  book  contemporary  female-mc  fiction  murder
  • Rebekka Franck Series Box Set: Vol 1-5 by Willow Rose

    Rebekka Franck Series Box Set: Vol 1-5 by Willow Rose

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Five Amazon Bestselling Mystery Novels. The Queen of Scream Novels channels Wes Craven in this 5-in-1 boxed set! ˃˃˃ One, Two ... He is coming for you Set in the Danish coastal town of Karrebaeksminde, journalist Rebekka Franck returns to her hometown with her six-year-old daughter...
  • First Cut by J.T. Bishop

    First Cut by J.T. Bishop

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A serial killer returns to taunt the woman once determined to catch him.In this gripping thriller, former detective Jill Jacobs must confront the Makeup Artist, an elusive psychopath whose trail of terror left seven dead and whose obsession almost destroyed her...
  • There's No Place like Home by Willow Rose

    There's No Place like Home by Willow Rose

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    ASIN moved from less recent editionWhat is the worst that can happen?Maria and Jonas Boegh asked themselves that very question when deciding to sign the papers for their new house. It might be expensive. They might be in over their heads a little financially, but they were never happier than on the day they moved in. Everything was perfect. It was the house of their dreams...
  • San Francisco Night by Stephen Leather

    San Francisco Night by Stephen Leather

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Jack Nightingale fights his battles in the shadows – in the grey areas where the real world meets the supernatural. But when he arrives in San Francisco to take on a group of Satanists bent on opening a doorway to Hell, the danger is out in the open and all too real...
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    crime  suspense  adult  book  contemporary  demons  fiction  horror
  • Whisper of Evil by Kay Hooper

    Whisper of Evil by Kay Hooper

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Someone is stalking the little town of Silence...Three victims have fallen to a killer’s savage vengeance. Each of the dead men was a successful and respected member of the community — yet each also harbored a dark secret discovered only after his murder...
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    crime  ghosts  suspense  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary  fiction
  • End of Days by Brad Taylor

    End of Days by Brad Taylor

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Pike Logan must stop a deranged fanatic bent on igniting an international conflagration in this explosive, action-packed thriller from New York Times bestselling author and former special forces officer, Brad Taylor...
  • Sleeping with Fear by Kay Hooper

    Sleeping with Fear by Kay Hooper

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Fear has never been so close...New York Times bestselling author Kay Hooper returns with a relentless thriller that brings her readers face-to-face with fear itself. In this terrifying new novel, a psychic special agent finds herself caught up in a tangled web of secrets, lies... and evil.Riley Crane woke up fully dressed, a gun under her pillow, and covered in blood...
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    crime  ghosts  suspense  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary  fiction
  • MARKED by DARKNESS: Gripping, psychological serial killer adventure thriller by Dawn Merriman

    MARKED by DARKNESS: Gripping, psychological serial killer adventure thriller by Dawn Merriman

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A gritty and raw serial killer thriller with hints of the supernatural. . Two years ago, Detective Maribeth Johansen’s family was murdered by the killer she hunted. Maribeth now lives alone in the woods with her grief, the ghosts of her family in her mind.
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    crime  ghosts  suspense  amateur-sleuth  book  comedy  cozy  female-mc
  • Wuthering Frights by Elise Sax

    Wuthering Frights by Elise Sax

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Matilda Dare has a ring on her finger, a thriving business, a beautiful, historical home, two dogs, and an amazing group of friends. She should be happy. But her fiancé might be a serial killer, the sheriff’s dead wife is visiting her, and her husband has escaped from prison. All of that is throwing a wrench into Matilda’s celebrations...
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    crime  ghosts  suspense  paranormal  female-mc  humor  mystery  cozy
  • In the Lawman's Protection by Janie Crouch

    In the Lawman's Protection by Janie Crouch

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    An agent will do anything to take down a terrorist.Even if that means using a woman as his weapon.To locate a terrorist, Ren McClement must find the criminal’s “dead” wife Natalie. His plan: use the innocent beauty as bait. But when his duplicity leads them into grave danger, Ren reveals his secret to Natalie...and his passion for her...
  • A Doom with a View by Elise Sax

    A Doom with a View by Elise Sax

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Matilda Dare still can’t sleep. Since she’s arrived in Goodnight, New Mexico, she’s solved one murder and had more than one conversation with a dead woman. Obsessed with finding the woman’s killer, she has to put that on hold when her newspaper receives a mysterious, coded letter. When the author of the letter winds up dead, Matilda is thrust into a mystery that puts her new friends into danger...
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    crime  ghosts  suspense  adult  amateur-sleuth  book  cozy  female-mc
  • The Evil That Was Done by Michele Pariza Wacek

    The Evil That Was Done by Michele Pariza Wacek

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The shocking conclusion to the award-winning Secrets of Redemption series. It’s happening again—people are disappearing. And just like before, the finger is pointed at Becca. She knows how it looks … and that she’s being set up. Someone is following her. Sneaking into her house. Planting evidence to make her look guilty. The problem is, she has no idea why...
  • Whiplash by Catherine Coulter

    Whiplash by Catherine Coulter

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Yale professor Dr. Edward Kender’s father is undergoing chemotherapy when the supply of a critical accompanying drug, Culovort, suddenly runs out. Unwilling to accept the drug manufacturer’s disingenuous excuse of production line problems, Dr. Kender hires private investigator Erin Pulaski to prove that something more sinister is going on at Schiffer Hartwin...
  • His Garden of Bones by Vickie McKeehan

    His Garden of Bones by Vickie McKeehan

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Not all flowers are grown with love. Years earlier, teenage girls began to vanish off the streets of Seattle. Now, they're turning up dead, their mutilated bodies left in prominent locations around the city. Skye Cree suspects there are more...
  • The Secrets of the Shadows by Helen Phifer

    The Secrets of the Shadows by Helen Phifer

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Sophie was afraid of the man in the shadows. He terrified her, but he would always disappear when someone else came. But one day in June 1984, she didn't escape. He took her. When a young woman is found draped over a gravestone in a chilling murder, police officer Annie Graham experiences a familiar sense of dread...
  • The Forgotten Cottage by Helen Phifer

    The Forgotten Cottage by Helen Phifer

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The Forgotten Cottage, the eagerly-awaited and chillingly terrifying new book in Helen Phifer’s best-selling ‘Annie Graham’ series. Annie Graham has fought her demons, and is ready to leave them behind. Her new cottage seems like the new start she’s craved: quiet and quaint, it’s empty of the memories which have haunted her for so long...
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    crime  ghosts  suspense  adult  book  contemporary  female-mc  fiction
  • Spider's Truth by Christa Yelich-Koth

    Spider's Truth by Christa Yelich-Koth

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    A psychological detective thriller.Some people can’t let go of a grudge. Homicide Detective Sean Trann is learning this the hard way. He made the mistake of interrupting the killing spree of Boston’s most notorious serial killer, Spider. Intent on finishing what he started and infuriated at Sean’s previous involvement, Spider has decided to use those closest to Sean as pieces in his twisted game...
  • Voice of Fear by Heather Graham

    Voice of Fear by Heather Graham

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    A killer is looking to silence them, once and for all.FBI agent Jordan Wallace is close to cracking the human trafficking case she’s been working, when she does the one thing she should never do: let her guard down. The botched undercover mission is semi-salvaged by the last-minute appearance of criminal psychologist Patrick Law, but Jordan can’t imagine making a worse first impression...
  • Dreaming Death by Heather Graham

    Dreaming Death by Heather Graham

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    SWEET DREAMS AREN’T MADE OF THISEver since she was a child, Stacey Hanson has had strange dreams—and sometimes they come true. Her skills and experience led her straight to the FBI’s Krewe of Hunters. Now a serial killer is stalking Washington, DC, and people are scared. And it will be Stacey’s first case...
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    crime  ghosts  suspense  adult  audiobook  book  dark  fiction
  • Aura of Night by Heather Graham

    Aura of Night by Heather Graham

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    True evil never dies. It only waits in the dark. All book editor Megan Law wants is to bury the memory of her brutal kidnapping and move on with her life. So when her publisher asks her to spin her hellish experience into the next bestseller, Megan agrees only because it might help keep other women safe...
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    crime  ghosts  suspense  action-adventure  adult  audiobook  book  dark
  • Chill of Fear by Kay Hooper, Dick Hill

    Chill of Fear by Kay Hooper, Dick Hill

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    For twenty years FBI agent Quentin Hayes has been haunted by an unsolved murder that took place at a secluded Victorian-era resort in Tennessee when he was little more than a boy. Now part of Noah Bishop's Special Crimes Unit, he's returned to the scene of that long-ago crime to find answers.Diana Brisco has come to The Lodge hoping to unlock the mystery of her own troubled past...
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    crime  ghosts  suspense  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary  fiction
  • Blood Ties by Kay Hooper

    Blood Ties by Kay Hooper

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    A series of grisly murders has left a trail of blood across three states, bringing the Special Crimes Unit to a small Tennessee town. There, two more brutal killings lure Noah Bishop and the SCU into what may be the ultimate trap, and lead Special Agent Hollis Templeton into a dangerous attraction—and a serial murder investigation that turns very, very personal...
    Categorized as:
    crime  ghosts  suspense  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary  fiction
  • Anika Rising by Christopher Coleman

    Anika Rising by Christopher Coleman

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    From the bottom of a lake, deep in the Back Country, death takes a turn. Within a day of being struck down by Hansel, Anika has risen. The cruel, addictive infection of Marlene's poison has protected Anika from the finality of death. But the resurrection is not without a price. She has a new hunger, and its lure is irresistible...
  • Stalked Justice by Kate Allenton

    Stalked Justice by Kate Allenton

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Three years ago, working for a covert supernatural military operation, Lucy Bray took justice into her own hands and paid the ultimate price for stopping a killer who kidnapped her sister. She sits in a psychiatric ward for the criminally insane, and her therapist believes she’s as dangerous as the predator she stopped...
    Categorized as:
    crime  suspense  adult  book  female-mc  fiction  justice  military
  • The Institution by Helen Sarah Fields

    The Institution by Helen Sarah Fields

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    To beat them, she’ll have to join them…On a locked ward in the world’s highest-security prison hospital for the criminally insane, a nurse has been murdered and her newborn baby kidnapped. A ransom must be paid, and the clock is ticking.Forensic profiler Dr Connie Woolwine is renowned for her ability to get inside the mind of a murderer...
    Categorized as:
    crime  ghosts  suspense  abuse  adult  amateur-sleuth  audiobook  book
  • What If... by Dale Mayer

    What If... by Dale Mayer

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Book 20 in the Psychic Vision series.What If …Detective Abigail Cartwright has earned a reputation for solving weird homicide cases, but, when she’s called to a lecture hall at the local university, she faces the oddest one yet. During a What If … lecture, run by soon-to-be-retired Professor Gertrude Milligan, two students died. Without any signs of how or why...
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    crime  ghosts  suspense  action-adventure  adult  book  cozy  family
  • Jurassic Dark by Elise Sax

    Jurassic Dark by Elise Sax

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Matilda Dare might be in a new relationship, but she’s not sure. Ever since Boone kissed her, it’s been up in the air if they’re an item or not. Either way, she can’t focus on romance for very long because one of her best friends has been accused of murder, and Matilda is bound and determined to prove her innocence...
    Categorized as:
    crime  ghosts  suspense  paranormal  female-mc  humor  mystery  cozy
  • Mean Spirit by Will Kingdom

    Mean Spirit by Will Kingdom

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Suddenly a victim of her own remarkable gifts, Seffi Callard, the world's best known spiritual medium, has been forced to back away from the glamour and the glow of public adulation, becoming a paranoid recluse at her father's home in the Cotswolds...
  • The Haunting of Rachel Harroway by J.S. Donovan

    The Haunting of Rachel Harroway by J.S. Donovan

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    In 1983, a family of four was murdered in their nineteenth century Queen Anne manse. There were no witnesses, no real investigation, and no survivors. The discovery of a serial killer's burial ground rocks the peaceful town of Highlands, North Carolina. Rachel Harroway, a tragic detective with the ability to see the dead, and her brilliant atheistic partner, Jenson Peak, are put on the case...
  • Unquiet Spirits: Whisky, Ghosts, Murder by Bonnie MacBird

    Unquiet Spirits: Whisky, Ghosts, Murder by Bonnie MacBird

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    The new novel from the author of Art in the Blood. December 1889. Fresh from debunking a "ghostly" hound in Dartmoor, Sherlock Holmes has returned to London, only to find himself the target of a deadly vendetta. A beautiful client arrives with a tale of ghosts, kidnapping and dynamite on a whisky estate in Scotland, but brother Mycroft trumps all with an urgent assignment in the South of France...
  • Eleven, Twelve ... Dig and Delve by Willow Rose

    Eleven, Twelve ... Dig and Delve by Willow Rose

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    It's the stuff of a living nightmare... Another bone-chilling Mystery from Best selling Author Willow Rose. Everybody hates Mondays. This Monday is particularly bad for the residents on Blegevej in the Northern part of Denmark. Just before eight o'clock Monday morning, the entire neighborhood sinks into the ground in a matter of seconds when a giant sinkhole opens up underneath it...
  • Deity by Matt Wesolowski

    Deity by Matt Wesolowski

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    A shamed pop starA devastating fireSix witnessesSix storiesWhich one is true?When pop megastar Zach Crystal dies in a fire at his remote mansion, his mysterious demise rips open the bitter divide between those who adored his music and his endless charity work, and those who viewed him as a despicable predator, who manipulated and abused young and vulnerable girls...
  • Chinese Whispers by Peter May

    Chinese Whispers by Peter May

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    GRUESOME MURDERSHis victims are young, beautiful and coldly mutilated. He calls himself the Beijing Ripper. Li Yan, head of Beijing's serious crime squad, must stop him.FEARSOME LETTERSJust as pathologist Margaret Campbell finds an insight into the killer's cruel signature, Li receives a letter from the killer, betraying his cruel intentions...
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    crime  ghosts  suspense  adult  audiobook  book  conspiracies  family
  • The Lost Children by Helen Phifer

    The Lost Children by Helen Phifer

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Lizzy pulled the covers over her head. Then she realised what was being dragged behind the person with the torch. She rammed her fist into her mouth to stop herself from screaming…For decades, The Moore Asylum was home to the forgotten children of Brooklyn Bay. But ever since a scandal forced its closure, the abandoned building has cast an imposing shadow...
  • Dying Breath by Heather Graham

    Dying Breath by Heather Graham

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Buried alive... As a teenager, Vickie Preston survived an attack by a serial killer. That was the first time she saw a ghost. Now the city of Boston is being terrorized—someone is kidnapping women and burying them alive, but cruelly leaving a glimmer of hope for the authorities by sending a clue about their location...
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    crime  ghosts  suspense  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary  dark
  • Blood Game by Iris Johansen

    Blood Game by Iris Johansen

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    In New York Times-bestselling author Johansen's latest work, Eve Duncan returns in this thriller that pits her against the most evil mind she has ever encountered--a ruthless killer who taunts her with his every move and who has a special affinity for blood...
  • Blood Dreams by Kay Hooper

    Blood Dreams by Kay Hooper

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    THIS KILLER DREAMS IN SHADES OF DEATH... He’s the kind of killer we instinctively fear the most. A killer without boundaries, without conscience, without any fear of being caught. And his latest victim is terrifying proof that no one is safe: the daughter of a powerful U.S. senator...
  • Mirror by Adam Southward

    Mirror by Adam Southward

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    She has a dangerous gift. And they’ll stop at nothing to take it.A young psychiatric patient disappears from her ward in the dead of night. Eva Jansen’s medical records have been wiped, her history buried. Somebody wanted all trace of her extinguished forever—and fast...
    Categorized as:
    crime  suspense  adult  book  fiction  medical  multi-pov  murder
  • Fool's Ride by John L. Monk

    Fool's Ride by John L. Monk

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Dan Jenkins is back, body hopping a scumbag at a time in his quest for the perfect ride. He doesn’t need much. Premium cable TV, good books, a well-stocked pantry, and he's set. But the Great Whomever has other plans.After six months waiting in limbo, Dan catches a ride as a horror novelist whose gruesome stories aren’t just fiction. Later, he hunts a man who’s escaped justice for far too long...
    Categorized as:
    crime  ghosts  suspense  adult  book  cheating  dark  dark-fantasy
  • The Traveller and Other Stories by Stuart Neville

    The Traveller and Other Stories by Stuart Neville

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A darkly glittering collection of Northern Irish noir by Stuart Neville, Los Angeles Times Book Prize–winning author Since his debut novel, the modern classic The Ghosts of Belfast, was published a decade ago, Stuart Neville has published eight other critically acclaimed novels and achieved international recognition as one of crime fiction’s great living writers...
  • Take You Apart by T.J. Spade

    Take You Apart by T.J. Spade

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    *** 2016 Global Ebook Awards Nominee ***A woman - so young and ripe - lies amid a detritus of pine needles and dirt. Her hair is matted to her face with a mixture of blood and tears and she screams again before subsiding into body wrenching sobs. Her voice is slightly slurred as she begs, "Please, stop. Please, I want to go home. Please don't do it again...
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