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  • The Last Remains by Elly Griffiths

    The Last Remains by Elly Griffiths

    Rated: 4.64 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    The discovery of a missing woman's bones forces Ruth and Nelson to finally confront their feelings for each other as they desperately work to exonerate one of their own.When builders discover a human skeleton while renovating a café, they call in archaeologist Dr...
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    crime  suspense  adult  book  family  female-author  fiction  mystery
  • First Degree by Robin James

    First Degree by Robin James

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    This lawyer is her client’s last hope, and her town’s worst nightmare.When a popular cheerleader winds up dead in a ditch, the case lands in defense attorney Cass Leary’s own backyard. Her niece’s boyfriend Cole is charged with first degree murder and the whole Leary family jumps to his defense. The evidence against him is as thin as the ice on Finn Lake...
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    crime  justice  suspense  vigilante  adult  book  conspiracies  drama
  • 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...
  • Divided Sky by Jeff Carson

    Divided Sky by Jeff Carson

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    One dead. One missing. Loyalty pulls Wolf into the case. Getting back out alive will be another matter. One man is dead and another is missing down south near Ridgway, Colorado. When the local law enforcement reaches out to Chief Detective David Wolf's department, his task is to check on former-sheriff Harold "Hal" Burton...
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    crime  justice  suspense  vigilante  adult  audiobook  book  fiction
  • Bad Blood by Angela Marsons

    Bad Blood by Angela Marsons

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    The victim is lying under the trees, arms lifted above his head, unnaturally still. His muscles are slack. His eyes are empty. There are no signs of life. But he is not quite dead…When Detective Kim Stone races to the crime scene, there is no body waiting for the paramedics are desperately trying to save the victim’s life...
  • 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...
  • Lethal Defense by Michael Stagg

    Lethal Defense by Michael Stagg

    Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    A client savagely kills a man to protect a friend. A lawyer with secrets must prove it was justified.Attorney Nate Shepherd left a big firm to go out on his own. He sees nothing but opportunity when an out-of-town lawyer wants to hire him as local counsel on a high-profile murder case. Though his family worries that the case hits too close to home, Nate joins the defense team...
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    crime  justice  suspense  vigilante  adult  audiobook  book  fiction
  • Stone Cold Dead by Alex Smith

    Stone Cold Dead by Alex Smith

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Getting blood from these stones will be all too easy.In the middle of one of Norfolk’s most brutal winters a frozen body is discovered on the legendary Stone of Ling. With Robert Kett out of action the case falls to DC Kate Savage and DI Pete Porter, and it quickly becomes clear to them that the young man wasn’t just killed, he was sacrificed.And he isn’t alone...
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    crime  justice  suspense  vigilante  adult  book  fiction  kidnapping
  • Rising Water by Wayne Stinnett

    Rising Water by Wayne Stinnett

    Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    When a group of strangers purchase land on Tortola and Norman Island to set up a commune, the locals simply write them off as an odd sort—until one of their bloated bodies washes up on the shore of a nearby resort island. As luck would have it, Jesse McDermitt is visiting a friend on Norman Island after tracking a terrorist submarine from the Windward Islands...
  • The Girl and the Deadly End by A.J. Rivers

    The Girl and the Deadly End by A.J. Rivers

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Small 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...
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    crime  justice  suspense  vigilante  adult  book  female-mc  fiction
  • Three Little Pigs by Alex Smith

    Three Little Pigs by Alex Smith

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    He will find the truth. Even if it kills him. Five months ago, DCI Robert Kett’s wife Billie was snatched from a London street. Five months of no leads, no evidence, and no suspects. Until now...
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    crime  justice  suspense  vigilante  adult  audiobook  book  fiction
  • Whisper of Bones by L.T. Ryan, K.M. Rought

    Whisper of Bones by L.T. Ryan, K.M. Rought

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    A suspicious death mirrors a serial killer signatureA ghostly visitor might hold the answerCassie must decipher the cryptic messageWhispered in the bones of the deadIf she hopes to help solve the crime and save herself in the processThe latest installment from USA Today bestselling author L.T. Ryan & K.M. Rought in the Cassie Quinn Series...
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    crime  justice  suspense  vigilante  adult  book  female-mc  fiction
  • The Girl in the Woods by A.J. Rivers

    The Girl in the Woods by A.J. Rivers

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    I’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...
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    crime  justice  suspense  vigilante  adult  book  female-mc  fiction
  • The Partnership: A Reed & Billie Novel by Dustin Stevens

    The Partnership: A Reed & Billie Novel by Dustin Stevens

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Less than a week before Christmas, Columbus Detective Reed Mattox and his K-9 partner receive a call from dispatch.The body of a young woman has been found floating in the Olentangy River, her teeth forcibly removed, her fingerprints obliterated, any chance at a positive identification residing only within the string of inexplicable tattoos inked across the bottom of her feet...
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    crime  justice  suspense  vigilante  adult  animals  book  cozy
  • Divided Loyalties by Heather Atkinson

    Divided Loyalties by Heather Atkinson

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Rachel Maguire finally has it all. Matriarch of the powerful Maguire family, whose name is feared and revered throughout the city of Manchester, she is wealthy, contented and more in love than ever with her husband Danny. Working in conjunction with their one time arch enemies, the Law Family, life for the Maguires has never been more peaceful...
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    crime  justice  vigilante  adult  book  contemporary  fiction  murder
  • Guilty Mothers by Angela Marsons

    Guilty Mothers by Angela Marsons

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    She lies on the floor, her blue eyes wide and unseeing, arms outstretched as if begging for help. Kneeling next to her, wearing a purple sequinned ballgown and holding a knife in shaking hands, is her daughter… In a quiet kitchen, where two mugs wait by the kettle to be filled, Sheryl Hawne lies in a pool of blood...
  • The Housemaid's Secret by Freida McFadden

    The Housemaid's Secret by Freida McFadden

    Rated: 4.55 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    “Don’t go in the guest bedroom.” A shadow falls on Douglas Garrick’s face as he touches the door with his fingertips. “My wife… she’s very ill.” As he continues showing me their incredible penthouse apartment, I have a terrible feeling about the woman behind closed doors...
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    crime  suspense  adult  book  fiction  mystery  psychological  thriller
  • Best Served Cold by David J. Gatward, Aubrey Parsons

    Best Served Cold by David J. Gatward, Aubrey Parsons

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    *Duration: 7 hours and 17 minutes *What started in the playground will finish in blood. When a tragic farm accident turns out to be foul play, DCI Harry Grimm finds himself up against a murderer years in the making and out for revenge...
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    crime  justice  suspense  vigilante  adult  audiobook  book  fiction
  • Out of Her Mind by T.R. Ragan

    Out of Her Mind by T.R. Ragan

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Crime reporter Sawyer Brooks still grieves for the family she and her two sisters never had. Raised in a house of horrors, they continue to fight through the trauma—releasing their rage by seeking justice for those who are just as vulnerable as they were...
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    crime  justice  suspense  vigilante  adult  audiobook  book  family
  • Proving Grounds by B.J. Bourg

    Proving Grounds by B.J. Bourg

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    When the sniper-style murder of an alligator poacher puts two rival families on edge, Police Sniper London Carter and Detective Sergeant Dawn Luke join forces to solve the case. But they'll have their work cut out for them as the two families recruit small armies to fight each other...
  • Freedom of the Mask by Robert McCammon

    Freedom of the Mask by Robert McCammon

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    The year is 1703, and Matthew Corbett, professional “problem solver,” is missing. Last seen by his friends in New York before he departed on a lucrative, seemingly straightforward mission for the Herrald Agency in Charles Town, he's been too long absent. His comrade-in-arms Hudson Greathouse has an increasing sense the young friend he thinks of as a son must have met with some unexpected peril...
  • The Crying Season by D.K. Hood

    The Crying Season by D.K. Hood

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    The light fades as she runs for her life, the forest now becoming quieter around her. The only noise she hears is the sound of footsteps following her... It’s hiking season in Black Rock Falls and the small town in Montana is flooded with visitors. But when a hiker finds a human skull on a deserted trail in the woods that surround the town, Detective Jenna Alton is called in to investigate...
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    crime  justice  suspense  vigilante  adult  book  female-mc  fiction
  • Her Broken Wings by D.K. Hood

    Her Broken Wings by D.K. Hood

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    The sound that wakes her from sleep is unmistakable—someone is in their house...
  • Hunted by Heather Atkinson

    Hunted by Heather Atkinson

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Ryan and Rachel’s dreams of finally moving back into their family home in Devon after it was devastated by fire are doused by the discovery of a body buried on their land. Ryan, as ever highly dubious of the abilities of the police, decides to look into the matter personally, with the help of the ever-loyal Battler and Bruiser...
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    crime  justice  vigilante  adult  book  contemporary  fiction  mystery
  • No Going Back by T.R. Ragan

    No Going Back by T.R. Ragan

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    The 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...
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    crime  justice  suspense  vigilante  adult  audiobook  book  family
  • Jack Frost by Christopher Greyson

    Jack Frost by Christopher Greyson

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    What do you get when you mix Agatha Christie's masterpiece And Then There Were None with the blockbuster television show Survivor? JACK FROST! Jack has a new assignment: to investigate the suspicious death of a soundman on the hit TV show Planet Survival. Jack goes undercover as a security agent where the show is filming on nearby Mount Minuit...
  • Final Verdict by Sheldon Siegel

    Final Verdict by Sheldon Siegel

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Fate throws a curveball at the San Francisco ex-husband-and-wife legal team of Mike Daley and Rosie Fernandez, when Mike picks up the phone and hears the voice of Leon Walker. This is not good news-because Walker was the one who ruined their marriage. Years ago, he and his brother participated in a stickup that left a man dead...
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    crime  suspense  adult  book  fiction  legal  mystery  poc-mc
  • Bad Dog by Alex Smith

    Bad Dog by Alex Smith

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Some legends can kill you. When a young woman is brutally murdered in the Norfolk countryside, the locals blame Black Shuck—a legendary wild dog. There’s only one problem: the wounds weren’t made by an animal. DCI Robert Kett is battling a black dog of his own...
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    crime  justice  suspense  vigilante  adult  book  fiction  horror
  • Desert Heat by L.T. Vargus, E.M. Smith

    Desert Heat by L.T. Vargus, E.M. Smith

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The 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...
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    crime  justice  suspense  vigilante  adult  book  conspiracies  fiction
  • Clint Wolf Boxed Set: Books 4 - 6 by BJ Bourg

    Clint Wolf Boxed Set: Books 4 - 6 by BJ Bourg

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Books 4-6 (But Not Forever, But Not For Naught, and But Not Forbidden) of the Clint Wolf Mystery Series by award-winning author BJ Bourg now available as a boxed set! BUT NOT FOREVER After a year of working as a tour guide in the swamps of Louisiana--and the day after a man’s body is found in a canal--former Police Chief Clint Wolf realizes he can’t stay away from law enforcement work...
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    crime  suspense  adult  book  fiction  hard-boiled  mystery
  • Dark Lies by Elliot York

    Dark Lies by Elliot York

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Relax, this won’t be so bad.After all, this isn’t the first time you’ve died.She was the girl everyone wanted but no one could have—no one but him. They’d loved each other. Becca’s suicide at age 18 broke Logan. The heartache never fully healed. But nothing could have prepared him for the shock of what came next.At age 39, Logan Cooper’s hard-earned detective career is hanging on by a mere thread...
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    crime  suspense  audiobook  fiction  mystery  thriller  book  adult
  • Triplets Rise by K.L. Savage

    Triplets Rise by K.L. Savage

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Daddy's little girl is all grown up.Things are about to change around here.If there is one thing I won't allow, it's having my dad's MC ran into the ground.Everyone expects my brothers to take charge, but there is one thing no one knows.I'm the one that runs this club.A woman.And according to men, a woman's place is in bed not at the head of the table...
  • Perfect Silence by Helen Sarah Fields

    Perfect Silence by Helen Sarah Fields

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    'Relentless pace, devilish cleverness and a laser-sharp focus on plot.' Chris BrookmyreWhen silence falls, who will hear their cries?The body of a young girl is found dumped on the roadside on the outskirts of Edinburgh. When pathologists examine the remains, they make a gruesome discovery: the silhouette of a doll carved in the victim's skin...
  • Gray After Dark by Noelle W. Ihli

    Gray After Dark by Noelle W. Ihli

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    A merciless wilderness. A harrowing attack. A desperate escape.When a tragic accident sidelines Miley's dreams of Olympic gold, she takes a summer job at a mountain guest lodge.The Frank Church Wilderness is remote, but it’s the perfect place to train and recover. Local lore about a staffer who died years ago doesn’t scare her. But it should...
  • Lost in the Wind by Calle J. Brookes

    Lost in the Wind by Calle J. Brookes

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    She had survived. She could survive. She would survive again. After a brutal assault and cancer as a teenager, Dr. Nikkie Jean Netorre wouldn’t let herself be called a victim. Nikkie Jean wasn’t a victim. She was a survivor. Now a pediatric surgical resident at the best teaching hospital in Texas, Nikkie Jean knows there’s nothing she can’t make it through if she just keeps going...
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    crime  suspense  contemporary  mystery  fiction  book  adult  romance
  • Slow Down by Lee Matthew Goldberg

    Slow Down by Lee Matthew Goldberg

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    How far would you go to make your dreams come true? For budding writer and filmmaker Noah Spaeth, being a Production Assistant in director Dominick's Bambach's new avant-garde film isn't enough. Neither is watching Dominick have an affair with the lead actress, the gorgeous but troubled Nevie Wyeth. For Noah's dream is to get both the film and Nevie in the end, whatever the cost...
  • Unholy Bonds : A Dark Serial Killer Romantic Suspense by Maya Raine

    Unholy Bonds : A Dark Serial Killer Romantic Suspense by Maya Raine

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Three serial killers connected by an unholy thread, tangled in a twisted chase for revenge and blood. In this game of hunters, who will become the ultimate prey?***He is every sin she wants to commit. Yara West spends her day as a Medical Examiner. At nights, she dons the mask of a twisted killer to satiate the demons in her head...
  • The Handler by L.T. Ryan, C.R. Gray

    The Handler by L.T. Ryan, C.R. Gray

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A dead police officer...A department desperate for answers...Maddie Castle must take on the role that nearly took her life...She must once again become The Handler.NEW from Wall Street Journal and USA Today bestselling author L.T. Ryan with C.R. Gray!Wounded in the line of duty, former K9 Handler Maddie Castle finds herself back to square one...
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    crime  justice  vigilante  adult  book  female-mc  fiction  murder
  • The Betrayal by S.R. Jones

    The Betrayal by S.R. Jones

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    If you find out your whole existence, everything you ever knew is a lie, where does that leave you? I am Star and I'm a sacrificial offering for my people. A thing to be sold to the highest bidder. Then I'm bought and nothing is as it seems. Up is down, and good is bad. My new master is a hardened mafia soldier named Markos. He wants to save me. I don't want to be saved...
  • Drive Thru Murder by Colleen Mooney

    Drive Thru Murder by Colleen Mooney

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Colleen Mooney keeps the twists coming as fast as the laughs in her third THIRD funny cozy starring Brandy Alexander, everybody’s idea of the perfect chick lit heroine. Brandy’s blonde, adorable, has a good job, two guys to choose from, and very possibly the poor judgment to pick the wrong one. (Half the fun’s watching to see if she’s ever going to wise up)...
  • The Pledge by S.R. Jones

    The Pledge by S.R. Jones

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    In my world, you take what you want, and rules are made to be broken. In her world, people are good, kind, and honorable. When our worlds collide, the fallout will burn us both. Stella - her name means star, and for me she burns brighter than any other woman. I've watched her from afar, telling myself she deserves better than me. When she gets taken, all bets are off, and I make my move...
  • None Left to Tell by Noelle W. Ihli

    None Left to Tell by Noelle W. Ihli

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Three women, connected by one of the most brutal mass slayings in US history.Lucy is sick of turning the other cheek. Ten years ago, an anti-Mormon mob drove her family and friends from their homes in Illinois. But now, the tables have turned. Rumor has it, some of those same men are traveling through Utah on their way to California. And this time, Lucy won’t run...
  • The Pilot's Daughter by Audrey J. Cole

    The Pilot's Daughter by Audrey J. Cole

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Welcome aboard Pacific Air Flight 385, with nonstop service from Seattle to Honolulu.Cora is scared to fly again after her husband died in a recent helicopter crash in Pago Pago.A thousand times she has told herself to turn around, not get on the flight, go back to her young children...
  • Run For Your Life by C.M. Sutter

    Run For Your Life by C.M. Sutter

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    With the weekend right around the corner, Homicide Detective Mitch Cannon is looking forward to Saturday night. It isn’t often he has a date, and this one will be particularly interesting. His new friend Liza is beautiful, edgy, outspoken, and somewhat odd.But Mitch’s usual Friday-morning phone call to his mom sets the wheels in motion for five days of pure hell...
  • Las Vegas Girl by Leslie Wolfe

    Las Vegas Girl by Leslie Wolfe

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Detectives Laura Baxter and Jack Holt are members of the elite: Las Vegas Metro PD, one of the toughest and most respected law enforcement agencies in the United States. In the middle of a city with two million residents and 43 million annual visitors, they’re hunting for a killer...
  • Serenity Engulfed by Craig A. Hart

    Serenity Engulfed by Craig A. Hart

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Familiar enemies resurface in this blazing new thriller that finds Shelby racing against time to save the most important person in his life: his own child. When Shelby's daughter, Leslie, fails to show up at his cabin for her long-planned visit to northern Michigan, he's concerned, but makes excuses. When her car is found abandoned by the side of a tree-lined highway, he fears the worst...
  • Lucas by Lane Hart, D.B. West

    Lucas by Lane Hart, D.B. West

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Lucas Bennett hasn’t been able to catch a break lately.At the top of his growing list of disasters is the ongoing feud with Jake, his former best friend. It hasn’t helped that the two are also prospects competing against each other for the single spot with the Savage Kings MC...
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    crime  justice  vigilante  adult  book  fiction  kidnapping  murder
  • Manhunt by Remington Kane

    Manhunt by Remington Kane

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    From REMINGTON KANE, the author of the Taken! SeriesMANHUNT - A Tanner Novel - Book 46Tanner works with Team Predator...
  • The Last Orphan by Gregg Hurwitz

    The Last Orphan by Gregg Hurwitz

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Evan Smoak returns in The Last Orphan, the latest New York Times bestselling Orphan X thriller--when everything changes and everything is at risk.As a child, Evan Smoak was plucked out of a group home, raised and trained as an off-the-books assassin for the government as part of the Orphan program...
  • Hard Escape by Debra Kayn

    Hard Escape by Debra Kayn

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A sexy, gripping romantic suspense… He leads. She follows. She might have Stockholm Syndrome. Heidi Lundin has lost her name, her identity, and her past. She's just another homeless person trying to make it through the night. Until the biker from Notus Motorcycle Club keeps saving her and won't let her drift back into the shadows...
    Categorized as:
    crime  justice  suspense  vigilante  adult  book  fiction  mystery
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