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  • The Millennium Trilogy  (Millennium Trilogy, #1-3) by Stieg Larsson

    The Millennium Trilogy (Millennium Trilogy, #1-3) by Stieg Larsson

    Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars
    · 50 ratings
    Stieg Larsson’s Millennium Trilogy is now available in a complete hardcover set. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Harriet Vanger, a scion of one of Sweden’s wealthiest families disappeared without a trace more than forty years ago. All these years later, her aged uncle continues to try to discover what happened to her...
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    classics  crime  dark  drama  female-mc  realistic  suspense  thriller
  • The Record Keeper by Charles Martin

    The Record Keeper by Charles Martin

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    With gripping action and heart-wrenching emotion, Charles Martin continues to explore the true power of sacrificial love.Murphy Shepherd's last rescue mission very nearly cost him his life. He'd like nothing more than to stay close to his wife and daughters for a while. But Bones's brother must be stopped, and there are so many who need to know that they are worth rescuing...
  • Wrath by T.R. Ragan

    Wrath by T.R. Ragan

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    The 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...
  • Outrage by T.R. Ragan

    Outrage by T.R. Ragan

    Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    A Wall Street Journal bestseller. The happy life Faith McMann knew as a wife, mother, and teacher was destroyed when vicious criminals murdered her husband, kidnapped her children, and left her for dead. After paralyzing grief, fear, and despair, there was nothing left for her to feel…except fury...
  • Bad Blood by Jennifer Lynn Barnes

    Bad Blood by Jennifer Lynn Barnes

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    When Cassie Hobbes joined the FBI's Naturals program, she had one goal: uncover the truth about her mother's murder. But now, everything Cassie thought she knew about what happened that night has been called into question. Her mother is alive, and the people holding her captive are more powerful—and dangerous—than anything the Naturals have faced so far...
    Categorized as:
    crime  dark  drama  female-mc  friendship  lgbtq  realistic  suspense
  • Bitter Pill by Fern Michaels

    Bitter Pill by Fern Michaels

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    No one weaves a story as well as beloved New York Times bestselling author Fern Michaels. In the latest in the Sisterhood series, a team of unscrupulous doctors is profiting from others’ distress—but these loyal friends know just the cure . . .   For the Sisterhood, there’s a special satisfaction that comes with helping a friend in need, especially when it’s someone as dear as Charlotte Hansen...
  • 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 ratings
    The 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...
  • Martin Swans Diary: Black Water Crossing by Kyle Keyes

    Martin Swans Diary: Black Water Crossing by Kyle Keyes

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Martin Swan was not a terrorist, nor a truck driver. He only replied to the want-ad because the wording linked Florida with Washington DC and wanted someone who could speak Arabic. The year was 2008. Jobs were scarce, gas prices high. The back page ad called for a big rig driver with a clean record, who could be at Black Water Crossing the day before Halloween...
  • Cowboy in the Crosshairs by Em Petrova

    Cowboy in the Crosshairs by Em Petrova

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    They’re total opposites. That doesn’t mean he won’t lay down his life for her.Silas Shanie is ready for action. Now that his medical leave is over, he’s more than capable of being back on the WEST Protection team. His first assignment? Easy. His new ward? Not at all. But he’ll keep the gorgeous, shallow heiress safe because it’s his job. He doesn’t have to like her. Except…he does. Maybe too much...
  • Furious by T.R. Ragan

    Furious by T.R. Ragan

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Schoolteacher Faith McCann, the heroine of this searing first in a new crime series from Ragan (Evil Never Dies), returns one afternoon to her Sacramento, Calif., home to discover the members of her family bound and gagged: her husband, Craig, and their children, 10-year-old Lara and nine-year-old Hudson...
  • The Maid's Diary by Loreth Anne White

    The Maid's Diary by Loreth Anne White

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    Kit 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 Alchemy Fire Murder by Susan Rowland

    The Alchemy Fire Murder by Susan Rowland

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Former 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...
  • A Grave Denied by Dana Stabenow

    A Grave Denied by Dana Stabenow

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Everyone knew Len Dreyer, a handyman for hire in the Park near Niniltna, Alaska, but no one knew anything else about him. Even Kate Shugak, who was planning to ask him to help build a small second cabin on her property, knew him. But she, the Park's unofficial P.I., seems to have known less about him than anyone...
  • Dangerous Lady by Martina Cole

    Dangerous Lady by Martina Cole

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Martina's explosive first novel of corruption and...
  • Free Fall by Fern Michaels

    Free Fall by Fern Michaels

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    The bestselling Revenge of the Sisterhood series concludes -Yoko Akia has been hungering for revenge all her life, and now, finally, it is time. Yoko's mother was just fifteen when a rich American deceived her into a life of degradation in a twisted prostitution ring. She died aged seventeen after bearing her baby girl. Now a great movie star, he is long overdue some justice...
  • The Inheritance Games by Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Veronika Volhejnová

    The Inheritance Games by Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Veronika Volhejnová

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 51 ratings
    A Cinderella story with deadly stakes and thrilling twists, perfect for fans of One of Us is Lying and Knives Out. Avery Grambs has a plan for a better future: survive high school, win a scholarship, and get out. But her fortunes change in an instant when billionaire Tobias Hawthorne dies and leaves Avery virtually his entire fortune...
  • Darker: The Novice by M. S. Parker

    Darker: The Novice by M. S. Parker

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    I don’t date, ever. Casual sex is all I need.Relationships? Well, my dark past crushed that fairytale fantasy for me. Instead, I’m all into my PI firm. After a snail’s pace start, I have my first big client. There’s just one snag, I have to do research in my hometown, a place I never wanted to see again in my life...
  • A Very Bad Thing by J.T. Ellison

    A Very Bad Thing by J.T. Ellison

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    From 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...
  • Breaking Silence by Elle James

    Breaking Silence by Elle James

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Rucker Sloan thinks all he’s good for is a fighting, killing machine. Long-term relationships are out of the question. Until he meets a nurse who’d risk her life for someone she doesn’t know…After her mother died of a broken heart, nurse Nora Michaels joined the Army to do something to help others and to escape her sad memories...
  • A Killer's Mind by Mike Omer

    A Killer's Mind by Mike Omer

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 32 ratings
    A chilling thriller of serial murder and dark secrets that will leave you wondering, is the past really in the past?Three Chicago women have been found strangled, embalmed, and posed as if still alive. Doubting the findings of the local PD’s profiler, The FBI calls on forensic psychologist Zoe Bentley to investigate...
  • Final Justice by Fern Michaels

    Final Justice by Fern Michaels

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    The Sisterhood - Myra, Annie, Kathryn, Alexis, Yoko, Nikki, and Isabelle - have risked everything in the name of justice, including their own freedom. Their most recent mission promised to reward them with the ultimate prize - a presidential pardon and a chance to leave their enforced exile. But as they've learned too many times before, life doesn't always turn out as planned...
  • Deadly Deals by Fern Michaels

    Deadly Deals by Fern Michaels

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    After years of trying to become pregnant without success, Rachel Dawson and her husband Thomas felt their dreams had finally come true the day they brought home their newly adopted twin babies. Though the lawyer Baron Bell who arranged for the surrogate mother charged a hefty six-figure fee, one glance into the eyes of their precious children told them it was all worth it...
  • Home Free by Fern Michaels

    Home Free by Fern Michaels

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    United by a desire to overcome their personal misfortunes, seven very different women formed an indelible bond and vowed to right wrongs wherever they found them. They’ve succeeded beyond their wildest dreams. After years known as the Vigilantes, Myra, Annie, Kathryn, Alexis, Yoko, Nikki, and Isabelle are enjoying their hard-won freedom and the chance at a normal life...
  • Hide and Seek by Fern Michaels

    Hide and Seek by Fern Michaels

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Whoever said living well is the best revenge never met the Sisterhood... Together, the seven fearless friends known as the Sisterhood have served sweet justice to villians who thought they were above the law. But paycheck has its price, and the Sisterhood's last assignment almost landed them in jail...
  • Sweet Revenge by Fern Michaels

    Sweet Revenge by Fern Michaels

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    PULL A FAST ONE? NOT ON THE SISTERHOOD'S WATCH ... There are some things that a group of gracious ladies just can't overlook --- and doing one of their friends dirty is at the top of the list. That's the mission of the Sisterhood, seven women who would do anything to help out one of their clan, especially when it means righting a wrong. And Isabelle Flanders has definitely been done wrong...
  • Vendetta: Lucky's Revenge by Jackie Collins

    Vendetta: Lucky's Revenge by Jackie Collins

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Lucky Santangelo is back—with a vengance! Dangerously sensual, breathtakingly beautiful, and utterly unforgettable, she is Lucky Santangelo, the sizzling star of Chances, Lucky, and Lady Boss. With Vendetta: Lucky's Revenge, Jackie Collins continues the saga of Lucky Santangelo in a nonstop, action-packed tale of sex, betrayal, drugs, intrigue, and murder...
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    crime  dark  drama  female-mc  suspense  action-adventure  adult  book
  • Hokus Pokus by Fern Michaels

    Hokus Pokus by Fern Michaels

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    There is no match for the Sisterhood the seven friends who have taken vigilante justice to a new level not even the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Although the women foiled former FBI director Mitch Riley’s plot to frame their friends Judge Nellie Easter and lawyer Lizzie Fox, now they must remain in exile or risk capture...
  • Fast Track by Fern Michaels

    Fast Track by Fern Michaels

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    It’s been years since the members of the Sisterhood first banded together, with the help of their mentor Charles Martin, to exact their own form of justice on those whose crimes had gone unpunished by the legal system...
  • 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...
  • Reaper's Till Death by Glenna Maynard

    Reaper's Till Death by Glenna Maynard

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    She’s forbidden and too damn young for him, but he’ll have her until death do them part. Reaper The moment she steps off the bus wearing a belly top showing off her navel ring, I know she is pure trouble. Harley is a brat who needs a real man to put her in line. My Prez has decided I’m just the man for the job...
  • The Last Thing to Burn by Will Dean

    The Last Thing to Burn by Will Dean

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    A woman being held captive is willing to risk everything to save herself, her unborn child, and her captor’s latest victim in this claustrophobic thriller in the tradition of Misery and Room. On an isolated farm in the United Kingdom, a woman is trapped by the monster who kidnapped her seven years ago...
    Categorized as:
    crime  suspense  dark  thriller  drama  fiction  mystery  horror
  • The Summer Children The Collector, Book 3 by Dot Hutchison

    The Summer Children The Collector, Book 3 by Dot Hutchison

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    Series including The Butterfly...
    Categorized as:
    crime  dark  drama  female-mc  friendship  lgbtq  suspense  thriller
  • Snow Blind by Lori G. Armstrong

    Snow Blind by Lori G. Armstrong

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The frigid winter months are mighty slow in the PI biz for Julie Collins and her partner, Kevin Wells—until the duo is hired by a young woman to investigate problems at her grandfather’s assisted living facility, where they encounter lax security, unqualified healthcare personnel, and a shady senior volunteer organization...
  • Saving Mitch by Emily Matthews

    Saving Mitch by Emily Matthews

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Do opposites always attract? Will sweet, clumsy Maggie and troubled, bad-boy Mitch find love amidst the danger that surrounds them? Find out in this romantic, suspenseful, sometimes funny debut novel by Emily Matthews. Tormented police officer Mitch MacDonald will stop at nothing to find a killer, and his obsession is about to cost him his job...
  • A Prisoner of Birth by Jeffrey Archer

    A Prisoner of Birth by Jeffrey Archer

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    International bestseller and master storyteller Jeffrey Archer is at the very top of his game in this story of fate and fortune, redemption and revenge.If Danny Cartwright had proposed to Beth Wilson the day before, or the day after, he would not have been arrested and charged with the murder of his best friend...
  • Love You To Death by Caroline Mitchell

    Love You To Death by Caroline Mitchell

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    An alternate cover for this ASIN can be found here.‘I’m not your mother. You’re a monster. I don’t want you’Women who gave a child up for adoption are being killed. A knock at their front door begins a nightmare from which they will never wake up.For Detective Ruby Preston and her team, it is a race against time to connect the dots before the killer can strike again...
  • Small Spaces by Sarah Epstein

    Small Spaces by Sarah Epstein

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    We don’t pick and choose what to be afraid of. Our fears pick us.Tash Carmody has been traumatised since childhood, when she witnessed her gruesome imaginary friend Sparrow lure young Mallory Fisher away from a carnival. At the time nobody believed Tash, and she has since come to accept that Sparrow wasn’t real. Now fifteen and mute, Mallory’s never spoken about the week she went missing...
  • The Lost Girls by Allison Brennan

    The Lost Girls by Allison Brennan

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Photojournalist Siobhan Walsh has been searching for two sisters who disappeared two years ago in Mexico, so when she receives a call from a priest in Texas about an abandoned baby holding a locket with her name, she calls her friends in the FBI for help...
  • Blaze by L. Wilder

    Blaze by L. Wilder

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    She was the light to my darkness. New York Times and USA Today Best Seller L. Wilder brings readers a new Satan's Fury series that is guaranteed to keep you on the edge of your seat. Blaze: In Memphis, Tennessee, Satan's Fury MC had become the most notorious MC in the city. That recognition hadn't come easy...
  • In Plain Sight by Fern Michaels

    In Plain Sight by Fern Michaels

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    THE BOND OF SISTERHOOD For years Myra Rutledge and Annie de Silva, founding members of the Sisterhood, have funded an underground network run by former Supreme Court Justice Pearl Barnes to help women escape abusive relationships...
  • Kiss and Tell by Fern Michaels

    Kiss and Tell by Fern Michaels

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Putting justice in the bank… Life comes in stages. Even the Sisterhood has been content to let their gold shields gather a little dust while they enjoy their friends and family...
  • The Swimmer by Loreth Anne White

    The Swimmer by Loreth Anne White

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    A deviously twisty novel of psychological suspense about secrets, neighbors, a need to belong, and murder by the award-winning author of The Maid’s Diary. Socially awkward Chloe Cooper divides her time between dog walking, bartending, caring for her ailing mother, and at a safe distance, watching people and inventing the stories of their lives...
  • Erebos by Ursula Poznanski, Judith Pattinson

    Erebos by Ursula Poznanski, Judith Pattinson

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    An intelligent computer game with a disturbing agenda.When 16-year-old Nick receives a package containing the mysterious computer game Erebos, he wonders if it will explain the behavior of his classmates, who have been secretive lately. Players of the game must obey strict rules: always play alone, never talk about the game, and never tell anyone your nickname...
    Categorized as:
    crime  dark  drama  dystopia  friendship  realistic  suspense  thriller
  • The Fixer by Jennifer Lynn Barnes

    The Fixer by Jennifer Lynn Barnes

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    This thriller YA is Scandal meets Veronica Mars.Sixteen-year-old Tess Kendrick has spent her entire life on her grandfather's ranch. But when her estranged sister Ivy uproots her to D.C., Tess is thrown into a world that revolves around politics and power. She also starts at Hardwicke Academy, the D.C...
  • Someone Else's Daughter by Linsey Lanier

    Someone Else's Daughter by Linsey Lanier

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Full-length novel. Thirteen years ago, Miranda Steele's abusive husband stole her baby and gave it up for adoption, then kicked Miranda out of his house. So she remade herself. Now, the smart-talking, hot pepper-eating loner has a letter from a thirteen-year-old girl in a mansion in Georgia, who claims she's adopted. Could this be her long lost child? She's determined to find out...
    Categorized as:
    crime  dark  drama  female-mc  suspense  abuse  action-adventure  adult
  • The Bachman Books by Richard Bachman, Stephen King

    The Bachman Books by Richard Bachman, Stephen King

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 57 ratings
    Omnibus collection of four early Bachman novels (Rage, The Long Walk, Roadwork, The Running Man) and the essay "Why I Was...
  • 15th Affair by James Patterson, Maxine Paetro

    15th Affair by James Patterson, Maxine Paetro

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    When an alluring blonde with ties to the CIA disappears from a murder scene, Detective Lindsay Boxer turns to the Women's Murder Club to help her track down an elusive suspect: her husband.As she settles into motherhood and a happy marriage, Lindsay Boxer thinks she has found domestic bliss...
  • 10th Anniversary by James Patterson, Maxine Paetro

    10th Anniversary by James Patterson, Maxine Paetro

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    Detective Lindsay Boxer's long-awaited wedding celebration becomes a distant memory when she is called to investigate a horrendous crime: a badly injured teenage girl is left for dead, and her newborn baby is nowhere to be found. Lindsay discovers that not only is there no trace of the criminals - but that the victim may be keeping secrets...
  • Conscience by Cecilia London

    Conscience by Cecilia London

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    An escape plan foiled…A determined woman…One last tiny sliver of hope...Jack will find me.The Fed wants answers. And Caroline is determined not to provide them. They pull out all the stops, testing her sanity, testing her strength, testing her humanity.Jack will find me...
  • Retaliation by Mimi Barbour

    Retaliation by Mimi Barbour

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A virgin librarian with hot-chick potential, the conflicts in her story won’t let you put the book down. Be prepared for an all-nighter… She watches the mob kill her twin and is too frozen with fear to stop them. How can she live with that cowardice eating away at her self-respect? Revenge claws at her sheltered existence until she can’t breathe. Though she’s naïve, she isn’t stupid...
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