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The Rescue by A.J. Rivers
Rated: 4.64 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA dream trip to Prague for two girls turned into their parents’ worst nightmare,when the girls were taken in plain sight...FBI Agent Ava James has had her fair share of nightmare scenarios.From being hunted by psychopaths to fighting serial killers.But it pales in comparison to the trauma she had from losing her best friend, Molly.While on vacation in Prague she and her best friend were kidnapped... -
The Girl and the Field of Bones by A.J. Rivers
Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThere are secrets only the dead can tell.And some of these secrets refuse to remain buried.Since the death of her mother, FBI agent Emma Griffin has devoted her life to uncover the truth behind even the most shocking mysteries.Now Emma must confront the dangerous, but unavoidable truth behind what she witnessed in the temple. The people behind this secret society call themselves the Order... -
The Girl and the Dragon's Island by A.J. Rivers
Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsA lifeless body, brought onto shore by the shifting tides.A tranquil setting disguising the darkness behind a puzzling death.While the nature of the world seems undisturbed.And billions continue living.There is one that carries with her the memory of the dead.She has no choice but to replay the very beginning... -
The Girl and the Twisted End by A.J. Rivers
Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA horrific beginning.Ends with the most unexpected twist...Marie was young, beautiful, and vibrant.Her life was cruelly taken from her.Her murderer still roams this world, potentially looking for a new prey... -
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Stolen Angels by Rita Herron
Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsTwisting her hands together, she bites back a sob. She only turned her back for a second, and then her daughter was gone. Every mother in town would be hugging their children tighter tonight.Lara is baking cupcakes when her daughter Ava runs to catch the school bus just one block away. Chasing after her, Lara sees the bus tumbling past, and waves. But Ava never turns up at school... -
The Girl on the Road by A.J. Rivers
Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars · 14 ratings“You’re going on a date with someone you’ve just met online?There are a bunch of crazies out there. You need to be careful!”After multiple assassination attempts, FBI agent Emma Griffin is on the road to recovery.At times though, her dreams and reality seem to blur together. Leaving her to question aspects of her life...Categorized as:
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The Girl and the Secret Society by A.J. Rivers
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsEvil has many faces. This one you will never see coming.This is the bizarre and shocking case of Lakyn Monroe.In the midst of filming her show, Lakyn vanished without a trace.Four months have passed, and the unusual disappearance of the internet celebrity has garnered nationwide attention... -
The Blossom Twins by Carol Wyer
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsTheir parents thought they were hiding… One beautiful summer’s evening, thirteen-year-old twins Ivy and Erin Westmore snuggle down in a tent in their back garden, giggling and sharing secrets. When their mother goes to wake the girls the next morning, their tent is empty. The alarm is raised and Detective Natalie Ward is put onto the case... -
The Girl and the Deadly End by A.J. Rivers
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsSmall towns have secrets. The dark mysteries of Emma's life are ready to be told.It has been more than a year since Emma Griffin stumbled upon a clue behind the dangerous secrets of her past. Now, she has the answers at her fingertips.The only question is will she survive long enough to find them?As Greg struggles to recover, Emma keeps watch over him... -
Child's Play by Angela Marsons
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsFinally we’re playing a game. A game that I have chosen. I give one last push of the roundabout and stand back. 'You really should have played with me,’ I tell her again although I know she can no longer hear... -
The Devil's Cliff Killings by Simon McCleave
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsA missing teenager. A web of prison corruption and human trafficking. Can DI Ruth Hunter blow the lid off the case in time to save a sixteen year old girl?Detective Inspector Ruth Hunter has resolved to put the grief of her missing partner behind her and continue to make a life away from London in Snowdonia...Categorized as:
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The Girl and the 7 Deadly Sins by A.J. Rivers
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsPride. Greed. Lust. Envy. Gluttony. Wrath. Sloth.The sins that make us our own worst enemy.And at any given time, we all could fall victim to them.Fighting those demons at times seems impossible.Especially when they come to life…FBI agent Emma Griffin has seen her share of dark and twisted murders.When she's called onto a new case, Emma finds herself baffled and horrified by the crime scene... -
The Killing House by Claire McGowan
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsLong-buried secrets are being unearthed. And they're very close to home...Forensic psychologist Paula Maguire returns yet again to her hometown to investigate a spine-chilling case in THE KILLING HOUSE, the sixth novel in Claire McGowan's series. The Paula Maguire series is the perfect read for fans of Michael Connelly and Peter May... -
The Girl and the Deadly Secrets by A.J. Rivers
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsAfter a home invasion landed Emma in a comatose state. Sam faces another shocking event as he finds himself fighting off an assassin in Emma’s hospital room. Someone obviously wanted to keep Emma quiet forever. But the question is, why?Now, after weeks of being in a coma, FBI agent Emma Griffin is finally awake.Xavier gets Emma, and the gang to join a charity organization that he’s a part of... -
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Lie to Her by Melinda Leigh, Christina Traister
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 16 ratings10 hours Lies from the heart lead to a dangerously intimate case for Sheriff Bree Taggert in #1 Amazon Charts and Wall Street Journal bestselling author Melinda Leigh’s novel of revenge and fatal deceptions.When a digital marketer is found murdered in his backyard—hands bound and face smothered by plastic wrap—Sheriff Bree Taggert and criminal investigator Matt Flynn respond to the call... -
The Girl and the Midnight Murder by A.J. Rivers
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIt was just another ordinary night.And an ordinary meal to accompany it.A glass of wine, a plate of chicken.And the sound of the ticking clock. But then, the unexpected feeling of disorientation seeps in.Cheryl suddenly felt dizzy and nauseous...Then something far more unexpected happened.And in an instant an ordinary night turned into a night full of incomprehensible mysteries... -
The Girl in the Woods by A.J. Rivers
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsI’m all alone now… But I just have to make it there.I need to keep going… Keep…A beautiful woman's body is found frozen on the ground.And many questions that no one can answer arises.When Emma Griffin joined the FBI, she had hopes that she could find out the truth about her own past. But over time she realized that it was more than just herself. She wanted to be a voice for the victims... -
The Girl and the Cursed Lake by A.J. Rivers
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThere are nightmares in this world you cannot escape.For Dean, the haunting of his past is one he cannot leave behind…How much of the past do you carry with you?It's a question FBI Agent Emma Griffin has dealt with throughout her career.This time is different...Categorized as:
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The Lullaby Man by Anni Taylor
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsA decade ago, The Lullaby Man preyed upon young girls in Tallman's Valley. He stole into their lives, whispered in their ears, spoke of love...But only the girls themselves ever knew about him. Abby Wakeland was fourteen then. Now twenty-four, she's found the courage to tell her mother--Senior Detective Kate Wakeland--about what happened... -
The Sixth Precept by J.M. Dalgliesh
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsA serial-killer thriller from the acclaimed author of the #1 bestselling Dark Yorkshire Series. A killer stalks his prey. The five precepts are laid down. The sixth will be his own... DI Nathaniel Caslin has earned the freedom to run his case load as he sees fit, bypassing the hierarchical constraints with his specialist unit...Categorized as:
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The Silent Wife by Andy Maslen
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsHer career on the line and an innocent woman charged with murder. Can she save them both?As bogus corruption charges loom over her, DS Kat Ballantyne finds herself deskbound and stuck with cold cases. Her hated boss, DI Carver, has given her just one week to explain how £50,000 found its way into her bank account. If she can’t, she’ll be lucky to have a desk at all...Categorized as:
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Where Secrets Lie by D.S. Butler
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsBeneath a quiet village, dark crimes lie buried. When decomposed human remains are discovered in a suitcase behind a locked door in the home of an elderly man, Detective Karen Hart thinks the facts speak for themselves. That is, until she finds the warning: It’s time to pay for your crime.The body belongs to a former teacher, Oliver Fox, who vanished from the village thirty years earlier...Categorized as:
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A Narrow Margin of Error by Faith Martin
Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsEx-DI Hilary Green, now working as a civilian consultant to her former Thames Valley bosses, is happy to be handed another cold case murder file... -
Silenced Girls: An absolutely addictive mystery thriller by Roger Stelljes
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsShe moved far away to try and forget her past. A past that would seep back in when she least expected it and crushed her soul over and over. She tried to keep the evidence packed away in boxes high up on a closet shelf like carefully packing away a tragic part of her life. As if sealing the boxes, was sealing away a time in her life she desperately wanted to go back and change... -
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Stolen Children by Michael Wood
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA gripping and addictive new crime thriller you need to read in 2020 ‘She is the perfect heroine’ Elly Griffiths The addictive new crime thriller featuring DCI Matilda Darke. Perfect for fans of Angela Marsons. ‘DCI Matilda Darke is going places’ James Oswald Some cases won’t die.A young boy walks into a police station in France... -
Shadow's Secret by Mary Stone, Lori Rhodes
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsHidden secrets lead to deadly lies...Following the incident that brought justice to her parents’ killers but ended her career, former FBI Special Agent Rebecca West needs a fresh start. Hoping to find peace, she decides to spend a few months in the sleepy beach town of Shadow Island, where she spent idyllic summers as a kid... -
No Going Back by T.R. Ragan
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe biggest story of a crime reporter’s career could be her last as fury, vengeance, and justice collide in this breathtaking thriller by New York Times bestselling author T.R. Ragan.Some call it murder. Others, karma. The female vigilantes dubbed The Black Wigs call it justice. The victims? Sexual predators who never paid for their sins... -
Perfect Kill by Helen Sarah Fields, Robin Laing
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsAlone, trapped in the darkness and with no way out, Bart Campbell knows that his chances of being found alive are slim. Drugged and kidnapped, the realization soon dawns that he's been locked inside a shipping container far from his Edinburgh home. But what Bart doesn't yet know is that he's now heading for France where his unspeakable fate is already sealed .. -
The Solace Farm Killings by Simon McCleave
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsA fanatical religious cult. A growing list of missing teenagers... -
Blake Pierce Mystery Bundle: Cause to Kill / Once Gone / Before He Kills / Trace of Death by Blake Pierce
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsA six book mystery bundle by #1 bestselling author Blake Pierce, author of ONCE GONE, a #1 bestseller on Amazon with over 1,000 five star reviews!Here is a bundle of the first books in six Blake Pierce series—The Mackenzie White, The Avery Black, The Riley Paige, The Keri Locke series, The Making of Riley Paige, and The Chloe Fine Psychological Suspense series—all here in one convenient place...Categorized as:
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Dawn Girl by Leslie Wolfe
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsA GRIPPING SERIAL KILLER THRILLERHer blue eyes wide open, glossed over. A few specks of sand clung to her long, dark lashes. Her beautiful face, immobile, covered in sparkling flecks of sand. Her lips slightly parted as if to let a last breath escape...Categorized as:
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What You Did by Willow Rose
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsFormer FBI-profiler Eva Rae Thomas faces the most personal case in her career, as bestselling author Willow Rose’s new hit-series continues. Three girls disappear on prom night at the local high school. One of them is the prom queen...Categorized as:
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The Girl in the Sand by L.T. Vargus, Tim McBain
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsShallow graves scar the desert landscape. A cemetery in the sand. Some of the lost are never found. Thousands of girls go missing every year in Las Vegas. Taken. Bought and sold. Or worse. And now the dead are calling. These lost girls summon FBI Profiler Violet Darger to Sin City -- a new case...Categorized as:
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The Girl in the Manor by A.J. Rivers
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe sound of a blood curdling scream echoed through the manor. Her pleas ignored, her screams unheard... -
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The 7 She Saw by Elle Gray
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThroughout history and in just about every religion the number 7 has held significance.And in the small town of Briar Glen the secret of the 7 will forever haunt you. Blake Wilder is plagued with nightmares from her dark and twisted past.Fourteen years ago, her entire family was taken from her.Her parents murdered, and her sister taken...Categorized as:
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Into the Darkness by Sibel Hodge
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe Missing… In a hidden basement, eighteen-year-old Toni is held captive and no one can hear her screams. She’s been abducted after investigating unspeakable things in the darkest corners of the Internet. The Vigilante… Fearing the worst, Toni’s mother turns to ex-SAS operative Mitchell to help find her missing daughter...Categorized as:
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The Dee Valley Killings by Simon McCleave
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsA twisted serial killer. A deadly game of cat and mouse. Can DI Ruth Hunter catch a crazed psychopath who seems intent on destroying her life? DI Ruth Hunter hopes that settling in Snowdonia with will melt away the grief of a missing partner. Burying herself in her work, she senses that her current missing persons case isn't all that it seems...Categorized as:
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Their Last Breath by Sibel Hodge
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsDetective Carter knows all about torture – but he’s never known a case as dark as this one. The Six… An abandoned building goes up in flames. Six women are chained inside and left to die – the truth is left to burn with them...Categorized as:
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Left You Dead by Peter James
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsNO BODY. NO TRACE.NO CRIME?Niall and Eden Paternoster start their Sunday the same way they always do – with a long drive, a visit to a country house and a quick stop at the local supermarket on the way home.But this Sunday ends differently – because while Niall waits and waits in the car park for Eden to pick up supplies, Eden never returns... -
Desert Heat by L.T. Vargus, E.M. Smith
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe desert holds its kill up to the sun. A human body draped over the limbs of a cactus. Sand scouring the naked flesh every time the wind blows.A shocking death launches Special Agent Victor Loshak on a new investigation with an ominous message: They know everything... -
The Hidden One by Linda Castillo
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe discovery of an Amish bishop's remains leads chief of police Kate Burkholder to unearth a chilling secret in The Hidden One, a new thriller from bestselling author Linda Castillo.Over a decade ago, beloved Amish bishop Ananias Stoltzfus disappeared without a trace. When skeletal remains showing evidence of foul play are unearthed, his disappearance becomes even more sinister...Categorized as:
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The Girl and the Christmas Past by A.J. Rivers
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratings‘Twas the night before Christmas, while all of Sherwood were asleep, something sinister and unexpected came out to play... The most wonderful time of the year is here!And at Trinity Pointe Amusement Park all are welcomed.From Santa’s Village to the dazzling lights, and the smell of the delicious holiday treats emanating through the air.The merry and festive spirit could be felt at every turn...Categorized as:
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The Lake House by A.J. Rivers
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWhen a group of friends arrive at their remote Lake House rental, all is seemingly serene.But when one friend turns up missing and another is found dead.The group’s getaway takes the most horrifying turn.And by the time FBI Agent Ava James arrives on the case, a gruesome and traumatizing scene is the only remnants of the once perfectly planned getaway...Categorized as:
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Nowhere Child by Rachel Abbott, Lisa Coleman
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsA stand-alone novella featuring the same characters as Rachel Abbott's best-selling novel, Stranger Child.Someone is looking for Tasha. But does she want to be found?Eight months ago Tasha Joseph ran away, and her stepmother, Emma, has been searching for her ever since. She is desperate to give Tasha the home and security she deserves. The problem is, Emma isn't the only one looking for Tasha... -
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The Couple Next Door by A.J. Rivers
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsKara Davis had the perfect life. A doting husband, a beautiful home, and everything she could have ever wanted. But in an instant her source of happiness was tragically taken from her.Since then, nothing has ever been the same, and the paralyzing sadness within her followed her everywhere she went...Unbeknownst to Kara, her life was once again about to face another change...Categorized as:
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The Girl That Vanished by A.J. Rivers
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsRing...Ring...One call from her past was all it took to change everything.A ten-year-old girl has vanished on her way home from camp.And things took a turn for the worse when another child, a child that Emma knows, goes missing.Disappearances, death, and tragedies has followed Emma Griffin throughout her childhood... -
Shadow's Force by Mary Stone
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhich is more dangerous...Mother or Human Nature?Twelve hours earlier, Interim Sheriff Rebecca West was enjoying a casual lunchtime burger. Now she’s preparing for a hurricane headed straight for Shadow Island. While hauling sandbags and calming town officials, the last thing she needs is a stunned man stumbling into the sheriff’s department.Covered in blood... -
Killer Encore by Mary Stone
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratings𝐈𝐧 𝐚 𝐩𝐬𝐲𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐩𝐚𝐭𝐡’𝐬 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞, 𝐫𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐠𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐨𝐫𝐞.Moments after FBI Special Agent Stella Knox briefs the Nashville Violent Crime Unit on her father’s murder, the teams’ supportive camaraderie is replaced with horror when a stranger calls to tell Agent Martin Lin he’ll never see his sister again... -
Dangerous Waters by A.J. Rivers
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsShe was terrorized, afraid, and desperate for help.But her hopeless pleas would never be answered. No one would come to her rescue.Now her body lays lifeless, floating in the water.The girl could not escape the deadly and sinister secrets that Windsor Island holds…It’s been a year since the body of FBI agent Emma Griffin's ex-boyfriend was found on the beach... -
Lonely Hearts by Lisa Gray
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsShe found love on Death Row with her prison pen pal. She’s been missing ever since. Can Jessica Shaw track her down?A missing persons case should be pretty straightforward for private investigator Jessica Shaw. After all, it’s what she does best. But this latest case proves to be anything but straightforward.Christine Ryan is desperate to find her childhood friend Veronica Lowe...Categorized as:
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