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  • The One Who Eats Monsters by Casey Matthews

    The One Who Eats Monsters by Casey Matthews

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Long ago, before history broke in half, elder gods exiled the vengeful deity Erynis to a far corner of Earth. When Ryn is found weakened after saving the life of an innocent villager, the U.S. military mistakes the battered immortal for a feral teenager and places her in New Petersburg, a decaying city full of monsters...
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    crime  dark  gods  lgbtq  action-adventure  age-gap  book  contemporary
  • Bedlam by Derek Landy

    Bedlam by Derek Landy

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    The 12th explosive novel in the internationally bestselling Skulduggery Pleasant series, BEDLAM will blow your mind – and change everything…On a desperate journey to recover her sister's lost soul, Valkyrie Cain goes up against the High Sanctuary itself, and there's nothing Skulduggery Pleasant can do to stop her...
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    crime  dark  humor  lgbtq  action-adventure  audiobook  book  children
  • Kaleidoscope by Dean Koontz

    Kaleidoscope by Dean Koontz

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Nameless is wrestling with more violent visions of the future when his next mission comes with the assurance, This one will be easy. It’s a promise that leaves Nameless dangerously unprepared.It seems straightforward enough: Get a foot in the door by posing as a potential investor in a lucrative underground business—then bring the place down from the inside. There’s more here than meets the eye...
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    crime  drama  dark  fiction  mystery  audiobook  suspense  horror
  • Lover Revealed by J.R. Ward

    Lover Revealed by J.R. Ward

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 71 ratings
    Butch O'Neal is a fighter by nature. A hard-living ex-homicide cop, he's the only human ever to be allowed in the inner circle of the Black Dagger Brotherhood. And he wants to go even deeper into the vampire world—to engage in the turf war with the lessers. He's got nothing to lose. His heart belongs to a female vampire, an aristocratic beauty who's way out of his league...
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    crime  dark  drama  humor  action-adventure  adult  alpha-mc  audiobook
  • The End of the World by Derek Landy

    The End of the World by Derek Landy

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Skulduggery and Valkyrie are back, in an exclusive World Book Day novelette, set after the momentous events of Death Bringer…Hey, punks! Skulduggery and Valkyrie are about to make your day…15-year-old Ryan is running away from home, looking for escape and adventure. But unfortunately, sometimes people DO get what they wish for...
  • The Killing Kind by John Connolly

    The Killing Kind by John Connolly

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    When the discovery of a mass grave in northern Maine reveals the grim truth behind the disappearance of a religious community, private detective Charlie Parker is drawn into a violent conflict with a group of zealots intent on tracking down a relic that could link them to the slaughter. Haunted by the ghost of a small boy and tormented by the demonic killer known as Mr...
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    crime  dark  drama  thriller  action-adventure  adult  audiobook  book
  • Gentle Is the Angel of Death by Dean Koontz

    Gentle Is the Angel of Death by Dean Koontz

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    To some he’s a medical genius. To others, a twisted angel of mercy with a necessary solution to what he sees as an ugly dilemma. Only one man can help Dr. Death face the evil of his ways.Henry Siphuncle has a selfless mission: releasing his patients forever from their distasteful imperfections. It’s for their own good. And the world’s. Even Henry’s own wife didn’t survive his disgust...
  • Midnight by Derek Landy

    Midnight by Derek Landy

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    Skulduggery Pleasant and Valkyrie Cain are back in their most gripping story yet, as book 11, Midnight, picks up where Resurrection left off – and runs.For years, Valkyrie Cain has struggled to keep her loved ones safe from harm, plunging into battle – time and time again – by Skulduggery Pleasant’s side, and always emerging triumphant...
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    crime  dark  humor  lgbtq  action-adventure  audiobook  book  children
  • Dark Hollow by John Connolly

    Dark Hollow by John Connolly

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Dark Hollow is a masterful second novel from a young Irish writer whose storytelling skills were established with Every Dead Thing. Now his fiery, ingenious detective, Charlie Bird Parker, returns to uncover a legacy of evil that has haunted Maine citizens for decades...
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    crime  dark  drama  thriller  action-adventure  adult  audiobook  book
  • Wander by Orlando A. Sanchez

    Wander by Orlando A. Sanchez

    Rated: 4.52 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    He’s not the hero you want. He’s the monster you need. When a new strain of the deadly drug, Redrum creates UV resistant vampires, the streets of New York City are flooded with the mindless creatures searching for blood—human blood. The NYTF and Dark Council refuse to deal with menace and contact the Night Wardens expecting results. What they get is a dark mage with nothing to lose...
  • Ghost's Whisper by Ella Summers

    Ghost's Whisper by Ella Summers

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    The enemy isn’t a monster or a demon this time. It is fear, the destroyer of worlds.Life has never been better for Leda Pandora, the Angel of Chaos. She is married to the archangel Nero Windstriker, the love of her life. And she commands a vast territory, surrounded by her closest friends and family.Everything is perfect—until the Earth’s magic goes haywire...
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    crime  dark  gods  humor  action-adventure  adult  alpha-mc  angels
  • The Kill Society by Richard Kadrey

    The Kill Society by Richard Kadrey

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    Sandman Slim has been to Heaven and Hell and many places in between, but now he finds himself in an unknown land: the far, far edge of the Tenebrae, the desolate home of the lost dead. Making his way inland with nothing but his unerring instinct for trouble to guide him, he collides with a caravan of the damned on a mysterious crusade, led by the ruthless Magistrate...
  • The Wolf in Winter by John Connolly

    The Wolf in Winter by John Connolly

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Prosperous, and the secret that it hides beneath its ruins . . .The community of Prosperous, Maine has always thrived when others have suffered. Its inhabitants are wealthy, its children's future secure. It shuns outsiders. It guards its own. And at the heart of Prosperous lie the ruins of an ancient church, transported stone by stone from England centuries earlier by the founders of the town .
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    crime  dark  humor  thriller  action-adventure  adult  audiobook  book
  • The Wrath of Angels by John Connolly

    The Wrath of Angels by John Connolly

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    In the depths of the Maine woods, the wreckage of an aeroplane is discovered. There are no bodies, and no such plane has ever been reported missing, but men both good and evil have been seeking it for a long, long time. What the wreckage conceals is more important than money: it is power. Hidden in the plane is a list of names, a record of those who have struck a deal with the Devil...
  • The Lovers by John Connolly

    The Lovers by John Connolly

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Charlie Parker is a lost soul. Deprived of his private investigator's license and under scrutiny by the police, Parker takes a job in a Portland bar. But he uses his enforced retirement to begin a different kind of investigation: an examination of his own past and an inquiry into the death of his father, who took his own life after apparently shooting dead two unarmed teenagers...
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    crime  dark  drama  thriller  action-adventure  adult  audiobook  book
  • Saint Odd by Dean Koontz

    Saint Odd by Dean Koontz

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    The future is haunting Odd Thomas.The carnival has returned to Pico Mundo, the same one that came to town when Odd was just sixteen. Odd is drawn to an arcade tent where he discovers Gypsy Mummy, the fortune-telling machine that told him that he and Stormy Llewellyn were destined to be together forever.But Stormy is dead and Pico Mundo is under threat once more...
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    crime  dark  drama  humor  action-adventure  adult  audiobook  book
  • Dark City by F. Paul Wilson

    Dark City by F. Paul Wilson

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Dark City is the second of a new prequel trilogy, Repairman Jack: The Early Years by F. Paul Wilson.It's February 1992. Desert Storm is raging in Iraq but twenty-two-year-old Jack has more pressing matters at home. His favorite bar, The Spot, is about to be sold out from under Julio, Jack's friend...
  • Veiled by Benedict Jacka

    Veiled by Benedict Jacka

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 34 ratings
    REBEL NO MOREAlex Verus is a mage who can see the future, but even he couldn't have seen this day coming. Alex has agreed to join the Keepers, the magical police force, to protect his friends from his old master, the Dark Mage Richard Drakh.Going legit was always going to be difficult for an outcast like Alex, and there are those in the Keepers who aren't keen to see an ex-Dark mage succeed...
  • The Eye of the Moon by Anonymous

    The Eye of the Moon by Anonymous

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Following a massive rampage that left the streets of Santa Mondega soaked with blood, the elusive supernatural serial killer known only as the Bourbon Kid is now himself being haunted. Hot on his heels are several vampire gangs, the Secret Service, a couple of werewolves, corrupt cops, and the Dark Lord himself, and none will rest until he is dead...
  • The Bride Wore Black Leather by Simon R. Green

    The Bride Wore Black Leather by Simon R. Green

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    John Taylor is marrying the love of his life, Suzie Shooter, the Nightside’s most fearsome bounty hunter. But before he can walk down the aisle he has one more case to solve as a private eye — a case that has him on the run from friends and enemies both, with his bride-to-be looking to collect the bounty on his head..
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    crime  dark  gods  humor  action-adventure  adult  aliens  anti-hero
  • Just Another Judgement Day by Simon R. Green

    Just Another Judgement Day by Simon R. Green

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 34 ratings
    God's own enforcer, the righteous engine of destruction known as the Walking Man, has come to the Nightside. His sole purpose is the elimination of the wicked and the guilty, which means no one will be left in the Nightside once he gets started. So the Authorities have hired P.I. John Taylor to stop him. Legend has it that he can't be killed. Taylor is very much hoping that the legend isn't true...
  • Gray's Shadow by K.A. Merikan

    Gray's Shadow by K.A. Merikan

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    --- There can be no shadow without the man to cast it. --- Gray. Lost his twin. Will never be complete. Works alone. Shadow. Monster? Human? Exists to be Gray’s one true companion. After losing his twin brother, Gray has devoted his life to the Kings of Hell MC. He will do anything to protect his family and that means anything. Even sell his own shadow to the devil...
  • The Wonderful Adventures of Geoffrey Scrutinous by Derek Landy

    The Wonderful Adventures of Geoffrey Scrutinous by Derek Landy

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A short story written by Derek Landy dedicated to the winner of the character competition, Charlie Smith, containing the winning entry of "Geoffrey Scrutinous"...
  • The Whisperers by John Connolly

    The Whisperers by John Connolly

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    ""'Oh, little one, ' he whispered, as he gently stroked her cheek, the first time he had touched her in fifteen years. 'What have they done to you? What have they done to us all?' ""In his latest dark and chilling Charlie Parker thriller, New York Times bestselling author John Connolly takes us to the border between Maine and Canada...
  • Finders Keepers by Stephen King

    Finders Keepers by Stephen King

    Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars
    · 66 ratings
    Wake up, genius. The genius is John Rothstein, an iconic author who created a famous character, Jimmy Gold, but who hasn’t published a book for decades. Morris Bellamy is livid, not just because Rothstein has stopped providing books, but because the nonconformist Jimmy Gold has sold out for a career in advertising...
  • The Good, the Bad, and the Uncanny by Simon R. Green

    The Good, the Bad, and the Uncanny by Simon R. Green

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    John Taylor, the PI with a knack for finding things, gets a visit from Walker-the powerful, never-to-be-trusted agent who runs the Nightside on behalf of The Authorities. He tells John he's dying, and wants to offer him an important job: "His...
  • Gold, Babies and the Brothers Muldoon by Derek Landy

    Gold, Babies and the Brothers Muldoon by Derek Landy

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    A jolt of Skulduggery Pleasant action for free.Midnight. Valkyrie Cain approaches an old, ramshackle church to make a delicate deal with a trio of ugly, hairy goblins. To her absolute non-surprise, the goblins have no intention of honouring that deal- but not to worry. Skulduggery Pleasant is standing by to deliver a surprise of their own.Things, however, don’t go exactly according to plan...
  • Hex and the City by Simon R. Green

    Hex and the City by Simon R. Green

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 37 ratings
    Lady Luck has hired John Taylor to investigate the origins of the Nightside--the dark heart of London where it's always 3 A.M. But when he starts to uncover facts about his long-vanished mother, the Nightside--and all of existence-- could be snuffed out...
  • Hell to Pay by Simon R. Green

    Hell to Pay by Simon R. Green

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 33 ratings
    In the wake of the war that left the Nightside leaderless, Jeremiah Griffin-one of the last of the immortal human families-plans to fill the power vacuum. But his granddaughter has disappeared, and he wants John Taylor to use his special abilities to find her. Except someone-or something-is blocking Taylor's abilities...
  • The Furies by John Connolly

    The Furies by John Connolly

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    The Furies: mythological snake-haired goddesses of vengeance, pursuers of those who have committed unavenged crimes. Now, private investigator C harlie Parker is drawn into a world of modern furies...
  • Devil Said Bang by Richard Kadrey

    Devil Said Bang by Richard Kadrey

    Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    Richard Kadrey’s Sandman Slim—aka James Stark—is, quite simply, one of the most outrageous uber-anti-heroes ever to kick serious butt on this or any other world or dimension...
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    crime  dark  gods  humor  action-adventure  adult  angels  anti-hero
  • The Unnatural Inquirer by Simon R. Green

    The Unnatural Inquirer by Simon R. Green

    Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars
    · 34 ratings
    John Taylor's the name. I'm a PI, working that small slice of mystical real estate in the hidden centre of London that's called the Nightside. It's a place where the sun refuses to rise, where monsters and men walk side by side, and where you can fulfill your every dark and depraved desire...
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    crime  dark  gods  humor  pulp  action-adventure  aliens  angels
  • Dominion by Peter McLean

    Dominion by Peter McLean

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    In the tunnels deep under London, the Earth elementals are dying. Hunted by something they know only as the Rotman, the elementals have no one trustworthy they can turn to. Enter Don Drake, diabolist and semi-reformed hitman, and an almost-fallen angel called Trixie. When the Matriarch tells Don that Rotman is actually the archdemon Bianakith, he knows this is going to be a tough job...
  • Brother Odd by Dean Koontz

    Brother Odd by Dean Koontz

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 54 ratings
    Loop me in, odd one.The words, spoken in the deep of night by a sleeping child, chill the young man watching over her. For this was a favorite phrase of Stormy Llewellyn, his lost love, and Stormy is dead, gone forever from this world. In the haunted halls of the isolated monastery where he had sought peace, Odd Thomas is stalking spirits of an infinitely darker nature...
  • Agents of Light and Darkness by Simon R. Green

    Agents of Light and Darkness by Simon R. Green

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 37 ratings
    The New York Times bestselling author takes readers back to the Nightside.A quest for the Unholy Grail-the goblet from which Judas drank at the Last Supper-takes private eye John Taylor deep into the secret, magical heart of London...called the Nightside...
  • Phantoms by Dean Koontz

    Phantoms by Dean Koontz

    Rated: 3.95 of 5 stars
    · 34 ratings
    They found the town silent, apparently abandoned. Then they found the first body, strangely swollen and still warm. One hundred fifty were dead, 350 missing. But the terror had only begun in the tiny mountain town of Snowfield, California.At first they thought it was the work of a maniac. Or terrorists. Or toxic contamination. Or a bizarre new disease.But then they found the truth...
  • Odd Thomas by Dean Koontz

    Odd Thomas by Dean Koontz

    Rated: 3.97 of 5 stars
    · 73 ratings
    The dead don't talk. I don't know why. But they do try to communicate, with a short-order cook in a small desert town serving as their reluctant confidant. Sometimes the silent souls who seek out Odd want justice. Occasionally their otherworldly tips help him prevent a crime. But this time it’s different...
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    crime  dark  drama  humor  action-adventure  audiobook  book  comedy
  • Every Last Drop by Charlie Huston

    Every Last Drop by Charlie Huston

    Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    It’s like this: a series of bullet-riddled bad breaks has seen rogue Vampyre and terminal tough guy Joe Pitt go from PI for hire to Clan-connected enforcer to dead man walking in a New York minute...
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    crime  dark  humor  pulp  action-adventure  adult  anti-hero  audiobook
  • The Touch by F. Paul Wilson

    The Touch by F. Paul Wilson

    Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Suddenly, a family physician can heal any illness with a simple touch.After a dozen years of practicing medicine as a family physician, Dr. Alan Bulmer discovers one day that he can cure any illness with the mere touch of his hand. At first his scientific nature refuses to accept what is happening to him, but there is no rational explanation to be found...
  • Terminal by Brian Keene

    Terminal by Brian Keene

    Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    From award-winning author Brian Keene comes a darkly suspenseful tale of crime and the common man--with a surprising jolt of the supernatural . . . Tommy O'Brien once hoped to leave his run-down industrial hometown. But marriage and fatherhood have kept him running in place, working a job that doesn't even pay the bills. And now he seems fated to stay for the rest of his life...
  • Forever Odd by Dean Koontz

    Forever Odd by Dean Koontz

    Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars
    · 58 ratings
    I see dead people. But then, by God, I do something about it.Odd Thomas never asked for his special ability. He's just an ordinary guy trying to live a quiet life in the small desert town of Pico Mundo. Yet he feels an obligation to do right by his otherworldly confidants, and that's why he's won hearts on both sides of the divide between life and death...
  • Haunted by Tamara Thorne

    Haunted by Tamara Thorne

    Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Its violent, sordid past is what draws bestselling author David Masters to the infamous Vicorian mansion called Baudey House. Its shrouded history of madness and murder is just the inspiration he needs to wriote his ultimate masterpiece of horror. But what waits for David and his sixteen-year-old daughter, Amber, at Baudey House, is more terrifying than any legend..
  • Odd Hours by Dean Koontz

    Odd Hours by Dean Koontz

    Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars
    · 45 ratings
    Only a handful of fictional characters are recognized by first name alone. Dean Koontz's Odd Thomas is one such literary hero who has come alive in listeners' imaginations as he explores the greatest mysteries of this world and the next with his inimitable wit, heart, and quiet gallantry.Now Koontz follows Odd as he is irresistibly drawn onward, to a destiny he cannot imagine...
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    crime  dark  drama  humor  thriller  action-adventure  audiobook  book
  • Indexing by Seanan McGuire

    Indexing by Seanan McGuire

    Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    “Never underestimate the power of a good story.”Good advice...especially when a story can kill you.For most people, the story of their lives is just that: the accumulation of time, encounters, and actions into a cohesive whole...
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    crime  dark  humor  lgbtq  action-adventure  adult  alpha-mc  audiobook
  • Twilight Eyes by Dean Koontz

    Twilight Eyes by Dean Koontz

    Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    Slim MacKenzie is both hunter and hunted. Sought by police for murder, Slim also stalks the diabolical Others, genetically engineered demons from a prior Earth civilization. A masterpiece of terror from the bestselling author of Midnight and Lightning...
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    crime  dark  pulp  thriller  action-adventure  adult  audiobook  book
  • The Troubles Keeper by Susan May

    The Troubles Keeper by Susan May

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    To enjoy a Susan May starter library of two free books, join her reader's club at susanmaywriter.net/free-books HE SAVES OTHERS FROM THEIR TROUBLES. WHO WILL SAVE HIM? Bus driver Rory Fine has a gift. He can take troubles from others with merely a touch. On a rain-swept night he asks his glum passengers to leave their worrisome emotions in his palm...
  • Two Serpents Rise by Max Gladstone

    Two Serpents Rise by Max Gladstone

    Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    The new novel set in the addictive and compelling fantasy world of Three Parts DeadShadow demons plague the city reservoir, and Red King Consolidated has sent in Caleb Altemoc — casual gambler and professional risk manager — to cleanse the water for the sixteen million people of Dresediel Lex...
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    crime  dark  gods  lgbtq  action-adventure  adult  audiobook  book
  • The Clown Service by Guy Adams

    The Clown Service by Guy Adams

    Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Toby Greene has been reassigned. The Department: Section 37 Station Office, Wood Green.The Boss: August Shining, an ex-Cambridge, Cold War-era spy.The Mission: Charged with protecting Great Britain and its interests from paranormal terrorism.The Threat: An old enemy has returned, and with him Operation Black Earth, a Soviet plan to create the ultimate insurgents by re-animating the dead...
  • Rogues by George R.R. Martin, Joe Abercrombie

    Rogues by George R.R. Martin, Joe Abercrombie

    Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars
    · 38 ratings
    If you’re a fan of fiction that is more than just black and white, this latest story collection from #1 New York Times bestselling author George R.R. Martin and award-winning editor Gardner Dozois is filled with subtle shades of gray...
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