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  • The Plea by Steve Cavanagh

    The Plea by Steve Cavanagh

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    When David Child, a major client of a corrupt New York law firm, is arrested for murder, the FBI ask con-artist-turned-lawyer Eddie Flynn to secure Child as his client and force him to testify against the firm.Eddie's not a man to be coerced into representing a guilty client, but the FBI have incriminating files on Eddie's wife, and if Eddie won't play ball, she'll pay the price...
  • After the Fire by Will Hill

    After the Fire by Will Hill

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    The things I've seen are burned into me, like scars that refuse to fade.Before, she lived inside the fence. Before, she was never allowed to leave the property, never allowed to talk to Outsiders, never allowed to speak her mind. Because Father John controlled everything—and Father John liked rules. Disobeying Father John came with terrible consequences...
  • Little Secrets by Jennifer Hillier

    Little Secrets by Jennifer Hillier

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 31 ratings
    Marin had the perfect life. Married to her college sweetheart, she owns a chain of upscale hair salons, and Derek runs his own company. They're admired in their community and are a loving family—until their world falls apart the day their son Sebastian is taken.A year later, Marin is a shadow of herself. The FBI search has gone cold. The publicity has faded. She and her husband rarely speak...
    Categorized as:
    crime  family  grief  secrets  suspense  adult  audiobook  book
  • A Gathering of Secrets by Linda Castillo

    A Gathering of Secrets by Linda Castillo

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    A deadly fire exposes the dark side of Amish life in this harrowing new thriller in the New York Times bestselling series.When a historic barn burns to the ground in the middle of the night, Chief of Police Kate Burkholder is called in to investigate. At first, it looks like an accident, but when the body of eighteen-year-old Daniel Gingerich is found inside—burned alive—Kate suspects murder...
  • Flesh & Bone by Jonathan Maberry

    Flesh & Bone by Jonathan Maberry

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Reeling from the tragic events of Dust & Decay, Benny Imura and his friends plunge deep into the zombie-infested wastelands of the great Rot & Ruin. Benny, Nix, Lilah and Chong journey through a fierce wilderness that was once America, searching for the jet they saw in the skies months ago. If that jet exists then humanity itself must have survived…somewhere...
  • A Deadly Influence by Mike Omer

    A Deadly Influence by Mike Omer

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Lieutenant Abby Mullen is no stranger to crisis. As the hostage negotiation instructor for the NYPD, she deals with worst-case scenarios every day. Nothing fazes her anymore.That all changes when she gets a call from Eden Fletcher, a fellow survivor of the infamous Wilcox cult. The two haven’t spoken since the night of a tragic, fiery massacre, when their paths diverged...
  • The Souls of Lost Lake by Jaime Jo Wright

    The Souls of Lost Lake by Jaime Jo Wright

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Wren Blythe has long enjoyed being among the Northwoods, helping her father with programming at a youth camp. But when a little girl in the area goes missing, an all-out search ensues, reviving the decades-old campfire story of Ava Coons, the murderess, who still roams the woods. Joining the search, Wren stumbles upon the Coons cabin ruins and a rotting porcelain doll...
  • Seven by Anthony Bruno

    Seven by Anthony Bruno

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Mismatched partner cops Somerset and Mills are on the trail of a psychotic murderer who intends to avenge the seven deadly sins, starting with gluttony...
  • Crisscross by F. Paul Wilson

    Crisscross by F. Paul Wilson

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    Repairman Jack is back! An anonymous mercenary, with no last name and no social security number, Jack has thrilled a veritable army of readers ever since his bestselling debut in The Tomb. Jack can fix any problem, supernatural or otherwise, for a price. Now, in his latest gripping adventure, he takes on two cases at once...
  • Stolen Children by Peg Kehret

    Stolen Children by Peg Kehret

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    Amy learned a lot in her babysitting course, but not what to do if two thugs show up, intent on kidnapping. Armed with misinformation and a weapon, the men take Amy and little Kendra to a remote cabin in the woods. There they make videos of the girls and mail them to Kendra’s wealthy parents in an effort to get ransom money...
  • Hurt by Travis Thrasher

    Hurt by Travis Thrasher

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    His Rebellion Will Soon Turn to Hope When Chris Buckley first encountered the mysteries of creepy Solitary, North Carolina, he had little idea how far he would fall into the town’s shadows. After losing the love of his life, Chris tried to do things his way. He hunted answers. Then he gave up trying to find them.  But now Chris comes back to Solitary knowing there’s a purpose for his being there...
  • Gravestone by Travis Thrasher, Kirby Heyborne

    Gravestone by Travis Thrasher, Kirby Heyborne

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    His fear will soon turn to anger…. At first, Chris Buckley was simply warned. And watched. But as Chris unravels the haunting riddles of the town of Solitary, he finds that much more than the life of a town is at stake. Whether facing a pastor with a house full of skeletons or a cousin he never knew existed, Chris is forced to choose between light and darkness, life and nightmarish death...
  • All of Us Are Broken by Fiona Cummins

    All of Us Are Broken by Fiona Cummins

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    It’s been a long time since the Hardwicke family has been on holiday. But thirteen-year-old Galen has wanted to see the wild dolphins at Scotland’s Chanonry Point for as long as she can remember, and her mother Christine – a lone parent since her beloved husband left – is determined she gets her wish. But their serene trip is about to be interrupted...
  • By the Sword by F. Paul Wilson

    By the Sword by F. Paul Wilson

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    The 12th book in F. Paul Wilson's acclaimed Repairman Jack series, this is a signed limited hardcover edition...
  • Temptation by Travis Thrasher

    Temptation by Travis Thrasher

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The third book in the Solitary Tales series for young adults, Temptation follows the soul-wrenching twists of Chris Buckley’s journey as he heads deeper into a darkness that threatens all he loves best.  As a reluctant student at Harrington High’s summer school, Chris meets a fun-loving senior girl who offers a welcome diversion from Chris’s past...
  • The Occupied by Craig Parshall

    The Occupied by Craig Parshall

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    As a youth, Trevor Black unleashed spiritual forces he couldn t comprehend. Years later, Trevor is a high-flying criminal defense lawyer in New York City, with a six-figure Aston Martin and a trophy wife. But in an extraordinary turn of events, he receives a burdensome gift: the ability to perceive the invisible. And the dark forces he now sees are all gunning for him...
  • A Child for the Devil by Conrad Jones

    A Child for the Devil by Conrad Jones

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A Child for the Devil is a full length dark thriller based on the novella 'Nine Angels'. When the author Conrad Jones was asked to help the police with the investigation into a double murder by identifying occult symbols, which had been carved into the victims, he is plunged into a nightmare and forced to go on the run...
  • Count All Her Bones by April Henry

    Count All Her Bones by April Henry

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Cheyenne sets out to save her former captor in this much-anticipated sequel to Girl, Stolen.Six months ago, Griffin Sawyer meant to steal a car, but he never meant to steal the girl asleep in the backseat. Panicked, he took her home. His father, Roy, decided to hold Cheyenne―who is blind―for ransom. Griffin helped her escape, and now Roy is awaiting trial...
  • Pretend She's Here by Luanne Rice

    Pretend She's Here by Luanne Rice

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Emily Lonergan's best friend died last year.And Emily hasn't stopped grieving. Lizzie Porter was lively, loud, and fun -- Emily's better half. Emily can't accept that she's gone.When Lizzie's parents and her sister come back to town to visit, Emily's heartened to see them. The Porters understand her pain. They miss Lizzie desperately, too.Desperately enough to do something crazy...
    Categorized as:
    crime  family  friendship  grief  realistic  suspense  abuse  animals
  • You're Family Now by Jack Stainton

    You're Family Now by Jack Stainton

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘ EPIC!! EPIC!! EPIC!! This book had EVERYTHING I love in a book!! ' Goodreads ReviewerHe only had to do one thing. Love her family…Matt Walker was a chancer; he’d spent his entire profession chasing the next job. His personal life took on a similar mantra; a succession of one-night stands and brief relationships. Life was slowly drifting him by...
  • No One Saw a Thing by Andrea Mara

    No One Saw a Thing by Andrea Mara

    Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Two children get on the train. Only one gets off...No one saw it happen.You stand on a crowded tube platform in London. Your two little girls jump on the train ahead of you. As you try to join them, the doors slide shut and the train moves away, leaving you behind.Everyone is lying.By the time you get to the next stop, you've convinced yourself that everything will be fine...
  • Angel Eyes: The Haunting of January House by A.N. Willis

    Angel Eyes: The Haunting of January House by A.N. Willis

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Everyone in Ashton, Colorado, knows that January House is haunted. Tucked away on an isolated hillside, the place has seen grisly murders and unsolved disappearances. An artists’ commune took up residence there in the 1970s, creating a controversy that still divides the town. Now, a reclusive painter has died in the crumbling house. The police say it’s natural causes...
  • One Door Away from Heaven by Dean Koontz

    One Door Away from Heaven by Dean Koontz

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    Michelina Bellsong is on a mission. She is following a missing family to the edge of America...to a place she never knew existed--a place of terror, wonder, and shattering revelation.What awaits her there will change her life and the life of everyone she knows--if she can find the key to survival...
  • Eight Days To Live by Iris Johansen, Jennifer Van Dyck

    Eight Days To Live by Iris Johansen, Jennifer Van Dyck

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Eve Duncan and her adopted daughter, Jane Macguire, are pitted against the members of a secretive cult who have targeted Jane and have decided that she will be their ultimate sacrifice. In eight days they will come for her. In eight days, what Jane fears the most will become a reality. In eight days, she will die...
  • Right Behind You by Gail Giles

    Right Behind You by Gail Giles

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    When he was nine, Kip set another child on fire. Now, after years in a juvenile ward, he is ready for a fresh start. But the ghosts of his past soon demand justice, and he must reveal his painful secret...
  • Looking for Smoke by K.A. Cobell

    Looking for Smoke by K.A. Cobell

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    A REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICKIn her powerful debut novel, Looking for Smoke, author K. A. Cobell (Blackfeet) weaves loss, betrayal, and complex characters into a thriller that will illuminate, surprise, and engage readers until the final word...
  • Teen Killers Club by Lily Sparks

    Teen Killers Club by Lily Sparks

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Seventeen-year-old Signal Deere has raised eyebrows for years as an unhappy Goth misfit from the trailer park. When she's convicted of her best friend Rose's brutal murder, she's designated a Class A--the most dangerous and manipulative criminal profile...
  • Get Dirty by Gretchen McNeil

    Get Dirty by Gretchen McNeil

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    The members of Don’t Get Mad aren’t just mad anymore . . . they’re afraid. And with Margot in a coma and Bree stuck in juvie, it’s up to Olivia and Kitty to try to catch their deadly tormentor. But just as the girls are about to go on the offensive, Ed the Head reveals a shocking secret that turns all their theories upside down...
  • Aviva vs. the Dybbuk by Mari Lowe

    Aviva vs. the Dybbuk by Mari Lowe

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    2023 SYDNEY TAYLOR BOOK AWARD WINNERA long ago "accident." An isolated girl named Aviva. A community that wants to help, but doesn't know how. And a ghostly dybbuk, that no one but Aviva can see, causing mayhem and mischief that everyone blames on her...
  • The Nightmare Girl by Jonathan Janz

    The Nightmare Girl by Jonathan Janz

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    When family man Joe Crawford confronts a young mother abusing her toddler, he has no idea of the chain reaction he's setting in motion. How could he suspect the young mother is part of an ancient fire cult, a sinister group of killers that will destroy anyone who threatens one of its members? When the little boy is placed in a foster home, the fanatics begin their mission of terror...
  • The Night Visitor by Dianne Emley

    The Night Visitor by Dianne Emley

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    In bestselling author Dianne Emley’s chilling new paranormal thriller, a beautiful woman’s romantic past comes back to haunt her in the form of an otherworldly visitor seeking justice.   Gorgeous and successful, Rory Langtry seemed to have it all. Daughter of a movie star and sister of a supermodel, Rory was engaged to sexy artist, Junior Lara...
    Categorized as:
    crime  family  suspense  adult  book  contemporary  drama  fiction
  • Wrong Place, Wrong Time by Tilia Klebenov Jacobs

    Wrong Place, Wrong Time by Tilia Klebenov Jacobs

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    When Tsara Adelman leaves her husband and two young children for a weekend to visit her estranged uncle, she little dreams he is holding several local children captive on his lavish estate. Mike Westbrook, father of one of the boys, kidnaps her to trade her life for the children's...
  • The Sacred Lies of Minnow Bly by Stephanie Oakes

    The Sacred Lies of Minnow Bly by Stephanie Oakes

    Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    A hard-hitting and hopeful story about the dangers of blind faith—and the power of having faith in yourself The Kevinian cult has taken everything from seventeen-year-old Minnow: twelve years of her life, her family, her ability to trust. And when she rebelled, they took away her hands, too...
  • The Girl Before by Rena Olsen

    The Girl Before by Rena Olsen

    Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    In this powerful psychological suspense debut, when a woman’s life is shattered, she is faced with a devastating question: What if everything she thought was normal and good and true . . . wasn’t? Clara Lawson is torn from her life in an instant. Without warning, her home is invaded by armed men, and she finds herself separated from her beloved husband and daughters...
  • The Liar's Daughter by Megan Cooley Peterson

    The Liar's Daughter by Megan Cooley Peterson

    Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    Piper was raised in a cult. She just doesn't know it. Seventeen-year-old Piper knows that Father is a Prophet. Infallible. The chosen one.She would do anything for Father. That's why she takes care of all her little sisters. That's why she runs end-of-the-world drills. That's why she never asks questions. Because Father knows best.Until the day he doesn't...
  • Danger in Numbers by Heather Graham

    Danger in Numbers by Heather Graham

    Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    On the edge of the Everglades, an eerie crime scene sets off an investigation that sends two agents deep into a world of corrupted faith, greed and deadly secretsA ritualistic murder on the side of a remote road brings in the Florida state police. Special Agent Amy Larson has never seen worse, and there are indications that this killing could be just the beginning...
    Categorized as:
    crime  cults  religion  spirituality  suspense  adult  audiobook  book
  • Just Like the Other Girls by Claire Douglas

    Just Like the Other Girls by Claire Douglas

    Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    An electrifying tale of psychological suspense in which an unsuspecting young woman finds herself trapped in an increasingly sinister web of mystery and lies.CARER/COMPANION WANTED FOR ELDERLY LADYYOUNG FEMALE PREFERRED COMPETITIVE SALARYROOM AND BOARD INCLUDEDShe thought she was safe. So did the others . .
  • The Ghostwriter by Julie Clark

    The Ghostwriter by Julie Clark

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Ghostwriter Olivia Dumont has spent her entire professional life hiding the fact that she is the only child of legendary horror author Vincent Taylor, famous not only for his novels but for being the prime suspect in the brutal slaying of his siblings...
  • The Kill Club by Wendy Heard

    The Kill Club by Wendy Heard

    Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Jazz will stop at nothing to save her brother.Their foster mother, Carol, has always been fanatical, but with Jazz grown up and out of the house, Carol takes a dangerous turn that threatens thirteen-year-old Joaquin’s life. Over and over, child services fails to intervene, and Joaquin is running out of time.Then Jazz gets a blocked call from someone offering a solution...
  • The Quiet Ones by Brandon Massey

    The Quiet Ones by Brandon Massey

    Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    From award-winning suspense author Brandon Massey comes a thrilling novel of buried secrets and stunning revelations... LOST Twenty-five years ago, a jealous ex-boyfriend murdered Mallory Steele's mother. With no close family to take in Mallory and her older sister, the girls became wards of the state--and were soon ripped apart, sent to live with different foster families...
  • Gated: Sie sind überall by Amy Christine Parker

    Gated: Sie sind überall by Amy Christine Parker

    Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Lyla Hamilton almost died escaping the Community. In her new life, the outsiders call the Community a cult. They don’t understand how easy it was to believe. How good it felt to belong. “Normal” life—high school and dating—is harder than Lyla expected.The Community is willing to do terrible things to bring her back to the fold...
  • Escape from Eden by Elisa Nader

    Escape from Eden by Elisa Nader

    Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Since the age of ten, Mia has lived under the iron fist of the fundamentalist preacher who lured her mother away to join his fanatical family of followers. In Edenton, a supposed “Garden of Eden” deep in the South American jungle, everyone follows the Reverend’s strict but arbitrary rules—even the mandate of whom they can marry...
  • Sundial by Catriona Ward

    Sundial by Catriona Ward

    Rated: 3.99 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    All Rob ever wanted was a normal life.Nothing like her childhood, growing up in the lonely, wild Mojave Desert on her family's ranch, Sundial. Surrounded by dogs, coyotes, and research assistants.For a while, it seemed like Rob got her wish: A husband, two daughters, the white picket fence, and margaritas with the neighbors...
  • Before She Was Found by Heather Gudenkauf

    Before She Was Found by Heather Gudenkauf

    Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    A gripping thriller about three young girlfriends, a dark obsession and a chilling crime that shakes up a quiet Iowa town, from the New York Times bestselling author of The Weight of Silence .For twelve-year-old Cora Landry and her friends Violet and Jordyn, it was supposed to be an ordinary sleepover--movies and Ouija and talking about boys...
  • The Sleeping Doll by Jeffery Deaver

    The Sleeping Doll by Jeffery Deaver

    Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    When Special Agent Kathryn Dance -- a brilliant interrogator and kinesics expert with the California Bureau of Investigation -- is sent to question the convicted killer Daniel "Son of Manson" Pell as a suspect in a newly unearthed crime, she feels both trepidation and electrifying intrigue...
  • Just Like Mother by Anne Heltzel

    Just Like Mother by Anne Heltzel

    Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A girl would be such a blessing...The last time Maeve saw her cousin was the night she escaped the cult they were raised in. For the past two decades, Maeve has worked hard to build a normal life in New York City, where she keeps everything—and everyone—at a safe distance.When Andrea suddenly reappears, Maeve regains the only true friend she’s ever had...
  • Father of Lies by Brian Evenson

    Father of Lies by Brian Evenson

    Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    At the urging of his wife, Provost Fochs reluctantly agrees to see a therapist, Dr. Feshtig. Through the therapist's detailed notes, correspondence from the church, and the provost himself, the provost's sickness emerges and the reader is drawn into the disturbing inner workings of a violent pedophile.The provost relays his crimes in excruciating detail...
  • The Half Truth by Sue Fortin

    The Half Truth by Sue Fortin

    Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Every marriage has its secrets… Tina Bolotnikov, widowed after her husband, Sasha, is killed in a car accident, relocates back to her hometown on the south coast of the UK, to bring up her young son. Her life back in London with her adored husband is now nothing but a memory; a history to pass onto her son...
    Categorized as:
    crime  family  suspense  adult  book  contemporary  female-mc  fiction
  • Mister Magic by Kiersten White

    Mister Magic by Kiersten White

    Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Who is Mister Magic? Former child stars reunite to uncover the tragedy that ended their show -and discover the secret of its enigmatic host -in this dark supernatural thriller from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Hide.Thirty years after a tragic accident shut down production of the classic children's program Mister Magic, the five surviving cast members have done their best to move on...
  • The Clinic by Cate Quinn

    The Clinic by Cate Quinn

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    From the critically acclaimed author of Black Widows comes a thriller set in a remote rehab clinic on the Pacific Northwest coast, in which the death of a woman inside prompts her sister to enter the clinic as a patient in order to find the truth...
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