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Desert Star by Michael Connelly
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 28 ratingsLAPD detective Renée Ballard and Harry Bosch team up to hunt the brutal killer who is Bosch’s “white whale”—a man responsible for the murder of an entire family. Discover more thrilling Bosch mysteries in the original Freevee series Bosch: Legacy. A year has passed since LAPD detective Renée Ballard quit the force in the face of misogyny, demoralization, and endless red tape... -
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Wrath by T.R. Ragan
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe follow-up to the Wall Street Journal bestseller Outrage.Those who hunt monsters must be careful not to become monsters themselves.In another life, before human traffickers murdered her husband and stole her children, Faith McMann was a wife, mother, and teacher. Now she has become Furious, a merciless avenger on a deadly mission to retrieve her young son and daughter, no matter the cost... -
![Blood Money: A Legal Thriller by Scott Pratt]()
Blood Money: A Legal Thriller by Scott Pratt
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsIn the sixth volume of the bestselling Joe Dillard series, Dillard does something he has never done before -- he hires a young associate. Her name is Charleston Story, she is bright and beautiful, and in her very first case, she winds up inheriting an item so valuable that it threatens to destroy her and everything she cares about... -
![Conflict of Interest by Scott Pratt]()
Conflict of Interest by Scott Pratt
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsA six-year-old girl is kidnapped from her bed in Tennessee's oldest town. The ransom note demands millions. In this fifth installment of the highly-acclaimed and bestselling Joe Dillard series, Dillard is hired to represent the parents of a child who has gone missing... -
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![Injustice For All by Scott Pratt]()
Injustice For All by Scott Pratt
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsA criminal court judge is found hanging from a tree. A young employee of the district attorney's office goes missing. In this third book of the best selling Joe Dillard series, Dillard finds himself in the middle of two volatile mysteries. The primary suspect in the judge's murder is Dillard's son's best friend, and Dillard's wife may have destroyed evidence... -
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Reasonable Fear by Scott Pratt
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsThree young women are found floating in a lake. The suspect is one of the richest and most powerful men in Tennessee. "Reasonable Fear" is the fourth of the bestselling Joe Dillard series offered by Scott Pratt. In this novel, Dillard has become the district attorney in Northeast Tennessee... -
![A Steep Price by Robert Dugoni]()
A Steep Price by Robert Dugoni
Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsNew York Times bestselling author Robert Dugoni’s thrilling series continues as Seattle homicide detective Tracy Crosswhite is plunged into a case of family secrets and murder… “Another outstanding novel from one of the best crime writers in the business... -
![Justice Redeemed by Scott Pratt]()
Justice Redeemed by Scott Pratt
Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsTwo years ago, Darren Street made a name for himself as the man who rooted out corruption in the district attorney’s office. Now the hotheaded young lawyer is in the public eye yet again—this time, accused of murder.Jalen Jordan retained Street for what seemed to be a minor traffic violation, but when evidence turned up linking Jordan to the death of two boys, Street wanted out of the case... -
![The Professor by Robert Bailey, Eric G. Dove]()
The Professor by Robert Bailey, Eric G. Dove
Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsLaw professor Thomas Jackson McMurtrie literally wrote the book on evidence in the state of Alabama. But when a power-hungry colleague uses a recent run-in between McMurtrie and headstrong student Rick Drake to end his career, he is left unsure what to do next.Meanwhile, a devastating trucking accident in Henshaw, Alabama, leaves a young family dead... -
![A Crime of Passion by Scott Pratt]()
A Crime of Passion by Scott Pratt
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsA beautiful, young, rising star in the country music world is found dead in a Nashville hotel room. The owner of her record company is charged with murder. In the seventh installment of Scott Pratt's bestselling Joe Dillard series, Dillard is hired to travel to Tennessee's capital city to defend Paul Milius, a record company baron accused of strangling Kasey Cartwright, his label's young star... -
![Dan Brown Inferno (Robert Langdon) Unofficial Guide by Stephen Eastment]()
Dan Brown Inferno (Robert Langdon) Unofficial Guide by Stephen Eastment
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsThe Dan Brown Inferno Unofficial Guide will allow you to decode the masterful and clever codes, symbols and art history of Dan Brown's fourth international blockbuster, Inferno and follow in the footsteps of the great puzzle solver Robert Langdon. Dan Brown's new international blockbuster, Inferno, will be his fourth book fusing history, art, codes and symbols... -
![Two Kinds of Truth by Michael Connelly]()
Two Kinds of Truth by Michael Connelly
Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars · 33 ratingsHarry Bosch, exiled from the LAPD, is working cold cases for the San Fernando Police Department when all hands are called out to a local drugstore, where two pharmacists have been murdered in a robbery. Bosch and the tiny town's three-person detective squad sift through the clues, which lead into the dangerous, big-business world of prescription drug abuse... -
![The Maid's Diary by Loreth Anne White]()
The Maid's Diary by Loreth Anne White
Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars · 19 ratingsKit Darling is a maid with a snooping problem. She’s the “invisible girl,” compelled to poke into her wealthy clients’ closely guarded lives. It’s a harmless hobby until Kit sees something she can’t unsee in the home of her brand-new clients: a secret so dark it could destroy the privileged couple expecting their first child. This makes Kit dangerous to the couple... -
![The Last Mile by David Baldacci, Orlagh Cassidy]()
The Last Mile by David Baldacci, Orlagh Cassidy
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 36 ratingsUnabridged, 1 audiobook sound file (10 parts), 11 hours 42 minutes_______________Convicted murderer Melvin Mars is counting down the last hours before his execution--for the violent killing of his parents twenty years earlier--when he's granted an unexpected reprieve. Another man has confessed to the crime... -
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![The Alchemy Fire Murder by Susan Rowland]()
The Alchemy Fire Murder by Susan Rowland
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsFormer Archivist Mary Wandwalker hates bringing bad news. Nevertheless, she confirms to her alma mater that their prized medieval alchemy scroll, is, in fact, a seventeenth century copy. She learns that the original vanished to colonial Connecticut with alchemist, Robert Le More. Later the genuine scroll surfaces in Los Angeles... -
![The Fifth Witness by Michael Connelly]()
The Fifth Witness by Michael Connelly
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 37 ratingsMickey Haller has fallen on tough times. He expands his business into foreclosure defense, only to see one of his clients accused of killing the banker she blames for trying to take away her home. Mickey puts his team into high gear to exonerate Lisa Trammel, even though the evidence and his own suspicions tell him his client is guilty... -
![The Lincoln Lawyer by Michael Connelly]()
The Lincoln Lawyer by Michael Connelly
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 44 ratingsMickey 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... -
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Angels Flight by Michael Connelly
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 35 ratingsAn activist attorney is killed in a cute little L.A. trolley called Angels Flight, far from Harry Bosch's Hollywood turf. But the case is so explosive--and the dead man's enemies inside the L.A.P.D. are so numerous--that it falls to Harry to solve it. Now the streets are superheating. Harry's year-old Vegas marriage is unraveling... -
![Field of Prey by John Sandford]()
Field of Prey by John Sandford
Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsThe night after the fourth of July, Layton Carlson Jr., of Red Wing, Minnesota, finally got lucky. And unlucky. He’d picked the perfect spot to lose his virginity to his girlfriend, an abandoned farmyard in the middle of cornfields: nice, private, and quiet. The only problem was . . . something smelled bad—like, really bad... -
![Gathering Prey by John Sandford]()
Gathering Prey by John Sandford
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsThe extraordinary new Lucas Davenport thriller from #1 New York Times–bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize–winner John Sandford. They call them Travelers. They move from city to city, panhandling, committing no crimes—they just like to stay on the move. And now somebody is killing them... -
![Dangerous Lady by Martina Cole]()
Dangerous Lady by Martina Cole
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsMartina's explosive first novel of corruption and... -
![Buried Prey by John Sandford]()
Buried Prey by John Sandford
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsA house demolition provides an unpleasant surprise for Minneapolis-the bodies of two girls, wrapped in plastic. It looks like they've been there a long time. Lucas Davenport knows exactly how long. In 1985, Davenport was a young cop with a reputation for recklessness, and the girls' disappearance was a big deal. His bosses ultimately declared the case closed, but he never agreed with that... -
![The Brass Verdict by Michael Connelly]()
The Brass Verdict by Michael Connelly
Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars · 36 ratingsThings are finally looking up for defense attorney Mickey Haller. After two years of wrong turns, Haller is back in the courtroom. When Hollywood lawyer Jerry Vincent is murdered, Haller inherits his biggest case yet: the defense of Walter Elliott, a prominent studio executive accused of murdering his wife and her lover... -
![Silken Prey by John Sandford]()
Silken Prey by John Sandford
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsVery early one morning, a Minnesota political fixer answers his doorbell. The next thing he knows, he’s waking up on the floor of a moving car, lying on a plastic sheet, his body wet with blood. When the car stops, a voice says, “Hey, I think he’s breathing,” and another voice says, “Yeah? Give me the bat.” And that’s the last thing he knows... -
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![The Guilty Ones by Joy Ellis]()
The Guilty Ones by Joy Ellis
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsTHE 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... -
![Malibu Burning by Lee Goldberg]()
Malibu Burning by Lee Goldberg
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsFor a professional criminal and a relentless arson investigator, fear and revenge spread like wildfire in a an incendiary thriller by #1 New York Times bestselling author Lee Goldberg.Hell comes to Southern California every October. It rides in on searing Santa Ana winds that blast at near hurricane force, igniting voracious wildfires. Master thief Danny Cole longs for the flames... -
![A Very Bad Thing by J.T. Ellison]()
A Very Bad Thing by J.T. Ellison
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsFrom New York Times bestselling author J.T. Ellison comes a taut thriller about one author at the pinnacle of her career, whose past threatens to destroy everything she has—and everyone she knows.A great writer knows when to deliver a juicy plot twist. But for one author, the biggest twist of all is her own murder... -
![An Innocent Client by Scott Pratt, Khaled Nokib]()
An Innocent Client by Scott Pratt, Khaled Nokib
Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars · 31 ratingsASIN moved from less recent editionA preacher is found brutally murdered in a Tennessee motel room. A beautiful, mysterious young girl is accused. In this Mystery Readers International finalist for "Best Debut Mystery," criminal defense lawyer Joe Dillard has become jaded over the years as he's tried to balance his career against his conscience... -
![Blueblood by Matthew Iden]()
Blueblood by Matthew Iden
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsFour unrelated murders. Nothing special in Washington DC. Not even good enough to make the evening news. But then a concerned police lieutenant approaches retired homicide detective Marty Singer with a simple fact that changes everything. They were all cops... -
![The Gods of Guilt by Michael Connelly]()
The Gods of Guilt by Michael Connelly
Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars · 34 ratingsMickey Haller gets the text, "Call me ASAP - 187," and the California penal code for murder immediately gets his attention. Murder cases have the highest stakes and the biggest paydays, and they always mean Haller has to be at the top of his game... -
![Dead Tomorrow by Peter James]()
Dead Tomorrow by Peter James
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 20 ratings*Lynn gripped the sides of the armchair, trying to put aside her own inner terror. 'I can't believe I'm thinking this, Ross. I'm not a violent person, even before Caitlin's influence, I never even liked killing flies in my kitchen. Now I'm sitting here actually willing some stranger to die... -
![Incriminating Evidence by Sheldon Siegel]()
Incriminating Evidence by Sheldon Siegel
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsWith his terrific first novel, Special Circumstances , Sheldon Siegel delivered legal fiction so exciting, it drew comparisons with the very top tier of courtroom thrillers. Now he has a new challenge for defense attorney Mike Daley--ex-priest, ex-husband, ex-public defender--and it’s a high-profile zinger: a case he doesn’t think he can win for a client he can’t stand... -
![In Good Faith by Scott Pratt]()
In Good Faith by Scott Pratt
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsA family is slaughtered in rural Tennessee. Two goth teens stand accused of the murders, and now it's up to prosecutor Joe Dillard to convict them. A former defense attorney who spent way too much time defending people he knew were guilty, Joe is determined to win this case to atone for his past... -
![Mad River by John Sandford]()
Mad River by John Sandford
Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsThey thought they were Bonnie and Clyde. And what's-his-name, the sidekick. Three teenagers with dead-end lives, chips on their shoulders, and guns. The first person they killed was a woman during a robbery. The second was incidental. Simply in the way... -
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![Fire with Fire by Candice Fox]()
Fire with Fire by Candice Fox
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsA pair of desperate parents. A man on the run. A rookie cop.Four people with everything on the line... -
![Storm Prey by John Sandford]()
Storm Prey by John Sandford
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsVery early, 4:45, on a bitterly cold Minnesota morning, three big men burst through the door of a hospital pharmacy, duct-tape the hands, feet, mouth, and eyes of two pharmacy workers, and clean the place out... -
![The Watchman by Robert Crais]()
The Watchman by Robert Crais
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsTo pay back an old debt, Pike is coerced into protecting Larkin Barkley, a hard-partying young heiress whose life is in danger after a "wrong place wrong time" encounter that quickly escalates and spins out of control. The enemy is shadowy, violent and relentless—but the fierce, focused Pike, one of the strongest characters in modern crime fiction, is equal to the challenge... -
![Total Control by David Baldacci]()
Total Control by David Baldacci
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 28 ratingsSidney Archer thought she had the perfect life - a great family and a great career. Then her husband is killed in a plane crash. But when the FBI think he is still alive, Sidney begins a desperate search for the truth... -
![The Winner by David Baldacci]()
The Winner by David Baldacci
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsFOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. A woman who gets rich after being forced to participate in a fixed lottery is wanted for murder... -
![Dare You by Jennifer Brown]()
Dare You by Jennifer Brown
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIn the second book of the suspenseful Shade Me trilogy, Nikki Kill becomes embroiled in another mystery where only her synesthesia can help her unravel the dark truth.Nikki Kill didn’t realize that trying to find out who killed Peyton Hollis would tangle her in a web of dangerous family secrets that would rock her identity to the core... -
![The Insider by Craig Schaefer]()
The Insider by Craig Schaefer
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsMove over, Jack Reacher and Kinsey Millhone: cast-iron bodyguard Charlie McCabe is back in Craig Schaefer’s gritty sequel to The Loot.Hard-bitten bodyguard Charlie McCabe is lucky to be alive after her recent foray into Boston's criminal underworld... -
![The Final Gambit by Jennifer Lynn Barnes]()
The Final Gambit by Jennifer Lynn Barnes
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAvery’s fortune, life, and loves are on the line in the game that everyone will be talking about.To inherit billions, all Avery Kylie Grambs has to do is survive a few more weeks living in Hawthorne House. The paparazzi are dogging her every step. Financial pressures are building. Danger is a fact of life. And the only thing getting Avery through it all is the Hawthorne brothers...Categorized as:
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![The Silence Between Breaths by Cath Staincliffe]()
The Silence Between Breaths by Cath Staincliffe
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsEight 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 Center Cannot Hold: A Ray Elkins Thriller by Aaron Stander]()
The Center Cannot Hold: A Ray Elkins Thriller by Aaron Stander
Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsIn the depths of winter, Cedar County is on occasion literally frozen in place. Roads are impassable; the area schools are closed for days at a time. And the bad guys and gals, they’re hunkered down like everyone else until the weather breaks. But this winter isn’t the usual. There’s arson and murder...Categorized as:
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![Leo by Deon Meyer]()
Leo by Deon Meyer
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIn a corrupt South Africa, the criminals are as likely to be in government—or even in the police—as on the streets. Two decorated detectives must put their careers on the line to find the link between three seemingly-unrelated homicides in the latest thriller in the #1 internationally bestselling seriesDetectives Benny Griessel and Vaughn Cupido are languishing in Stellenbosch... -
![Ultimatum by Simon Kernick]()
Ultimatum by Simon Kernick
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsTHE THREAT8 an explosion blasts through a cafe in Central London.THE ULTIMATUMMinutes later, a call from an unknown terror group warns that a far greater attack will be launched in 12 hours' time.THE PRISONERWilliam Garrett, AKA Fox, is awaiting trial for mass murder. He claims he can name the bombers. But only at a price...Categorized as:
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![Siege by Simon Kernick]()
Siege by Simon Kernick
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsLondon is under attack.People are dead. Many more lives hang in the balance as a group of highly trained gunmen storm the historic Stanhope Hotel on Park Lane.The gunmen have given the government just five hours to meet their demands before they blow up the building.Shots ring out. Some guests panic. Others text their loved ones. Still more try to escape... -
![The Vacation by John Marrs]()
The Vacation by John Marrs
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe 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 ratingsRay 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... -
![Not Dead Enough by Peter James]()
Not Dead Enough by Peter James
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsOn the night Brian Bishop murdered his wife, he was sixty miles away, asleep in bed at the time. At least, that’s the way it looks to Detective Superintendent Roy Grace who is called in to investigate the kinky slaying of beautiful young Brighton socialite, Katie Bishop...
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