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  • Wild Side by Shayne Silvers

    Wild Side by Shayne Silvers

    Rated: 4.59 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    To become a Godkiller you have to awaken the monster inside you… Almost a year has passed since Nate’s ex-fiancée woke up a Greek god intent on world domination and war. The problem? He doesn’t know which god. And the promised war hasn’t started yet...
  • The Faceless Ones by Derek Landy

    The Faceless Ones by Derek Landy

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 39 ratings
    The third bone-breaking, belly-busting adventure in the series that puts the “funny” back in, um, funny series...
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    crime  dark  humor  action-adventure  audiobook  book  children  comedy
  • Tales from the Gas Station: Volume Two by Jack Townsend

    Tales from the Gas Station: Volume Two by Jack Townsend

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Nightshift clerk and high-functioning insomniac Jack is back to work, trying his best to keep out of trouble. But when his chain-smoking coworker discovers a mysterious radio signal revealing the guarded secrets of their town, Jack will learn that an annoying new dayshift manager is far from the worst of his problems...
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    dark  humor  suspense  action-adventure  adult  audiobook  book  comedy
  • Relight My Fire by C.K. McDonnell

    Relight My Fire by C.K. McDonnell

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Some comebacks can be murder . . .Stella is enjoying life as an almost student, or at least she is until a man falls from the sky right in front of her, leaving a big old hole in the pavement for Manchester Council to fill. The obvious question of how he ended up in the sky in the first place has no obvious answers, which is where The Stranger Times come in...
  • Witching on a Star by Amanda M. Lee

    Witching on a Star by Amanda M. Lee

    Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    When you're a witch, being wicked comes naturally. For the Winchester witches, though, being wicked is only half the fun. After a long winter, spring has finally hit Hemlock Cove and Bay Winchester thinks things are finally settling down in the town – and with her family. Unfortunately, just the opposite is true...
  • Resurrection by Derek Landy

    Resurrection by Derek Landy

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    The skeleton detective is coming back to life...again! It's the tenth, triumphant novel in the Skulduggery Pleasant series, and it will rearrange your world.Skulduggery and Valkyrie are back in the tenth instalment in the best-selling Skulduggery Pleasant series - an incredible and unexpected treat for the legions of fans around the world...
  • Message in the Fire by Dawn Merriman

    Message in the Fire by Dawn Merriman

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A daring escape, psychic visions, a terrifying cult and a burning ritual. . Blood stained her back and her hands were bound. She’d crumpled on her side under a tree, wrapped around her crying newborn. My psychic abilities would show me what happened to the young woman, but the horror can scar. Fear stopped me from touching her. I scooped the infant up and the young woman moved. She was alive.
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    crime  dark  humor  suspense  adult  amateur-sleuth  book  comedy
  • 死亡万花筒 Kaleidoscope of Death by Xi Zi Xu, 西子绪

    死亡万花筒 Kaleidoscope of Death by Xi Zi Xu, 西子绪

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    起初的异样,是家里的猫不让抱了。林秋石发现周围的一切都开始变得充满了不协调感。然后某一天,当他推开家中的门,却发现熟悉的楼道变成了长长的走廊。走廊的两头,是十二扇一模一样的铁门。故事由此开始。阮南烛对林秋石说,当你凝视深渊时,深渊也在凝视着你。林秋石听后陷入沉思,然后对着深渊拉下了裤子拉链……阮南烛:“……你把裤子给我好好穿上!”不皮会死病娇攻X一起皮的沉稳受,双皮奶组合,灵异风格升级流。"Kaleidoscope of Death"It started off peculiarly; first, his domestic cat refused to let him cuddle it...
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    dark  humor  suspense  romance  horror  fantasy  lgbtq  mystery
  • Monster Hunter Nemesis by Larry Correia

    Monster Hunter Nemesis by Larry Correia

    Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars
    · 32 ratings
    #5 in multiple New York Times bestseller Larry Correia's Monster Hunter series. Agent Franks of the U.S. Monster Control Bureau is a man of many parts—parts from other people, that is. Franks is nearly seven feet tall and all muscle. He's nearly indestructible. Plus he’s animated by a powerful alchemical substance and inhabited by a super-intelligent spirit more ancient than humanity itself...
  • One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey

    One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 88 ratings
    Boisterous, ribald, and ultimately shattering, Ken Kesey's 1962 novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest has left an indelible mark on the literature of our time. Here is the unforgettable story of a mental ward and its inhabitants, especially the tyrannical Big Nurse Ratched and Randle Patrick McMurphy, the brawling, fun-loving new inmate who resolves to oppose her...
  • Blood is Thicker by Orlando A. Sanchez

    Blood is Thicker by Orlando A. Sanchez

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    A Broken Pact. An Ancient Enemy. A Bitter Betrayal. What does a vampire fear more than sunlight? The Cazadoras Sangrientas-Blood Hunters. Michiko Nakatomi has led the Dark Council for over a century, maintaining the uneasy truce between humanity and the supernatural. But when an ancient enemy returns the delicate balance is shattered and vampires start dying...
  • 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...
  • A Mind Full of Murder by Derek Landy

    A Mind Full of Murder by Derek Landy

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A bone-shaking new trilogy begins – the latest adventure in the bestselling Skulduggery Pleasant seriesSIX YEARS AGO, THE UNIVERSE ENDED.When it restarted, blinking back into existence, it brought with it a darkness that remains hidden from the mortal population.A week ago – fuelled by unimaginable hatred and unstoppable rage – a masked sorcerer killed one of those mortals. Then he killed another...
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    crime  humor  dark  fantasy  mystery  young-adult  fiction  lgbtq
  • The Pillowman by Martin McDonagh

    The Pillowman by Martin McDonagh

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 35 ratings
    A writer in a totalitarian state is interrogated about the gruesome content of his short stories and their similarities to a number of child-murders that are happening in his town.'Sometimes you don't even know what you've been craving until the real thing comes along.' New York Times'McDonagh is more than just a very clever theatrical stylist. His tricks and turns have a purpose...
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    crime  dark  humor  21st-century  adult  book  classics  comedy
  • Working for Bigfoot by Jim Butcher

    Working for Bigfoot by Jim Butcher

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 33 ratings
    "B is for Bigfoot" takes place between Fool Moon and Grave Peril. "I Was a Teenage Bigfoot" takes place circa Deadbeat. "Bigfoot on Campus" takes place between Turn Coat and Changes.Chicago wizard-for-hire Harry Dresden is used to mysterious clients with long hair and legs up to here...
  • This Book Is Full of Spiders by David Wong, Jason Pargin

    This Book Is Full of Spiders by David Wong, Jason Pargin

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 38 ratings
    Originally released as an online serial where itreceivedmore than 70,000 downloads,John Dies at the End has been described as a"Horrortacular", an epic of "spectacular" horror that combines the laugh out loud humor of the best R-rated comedy, with the darkest terror of H.P. Lovecraft. The book went on to sell an additional60,000 copies in all formats...
  • Tales from the Gas Station, Vol. 1 by Jack Townsend

    Tales from the Gas Station, Vol. 1 by Jack Townsend

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Working at a dead-end retail job in the middle of nowhere can be hard. The long hours. The helpless customers. The enormous eldritch horror living deep below the building… As the only full-time employee at the twenty-four hour gas station at the edge of town, Jack has pretty much seen it all...
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    crime  dark  humor  adult  anthologies  audiobook  comedy  contemporary
  • The Penultimate Peril by Lemony Snicket

    The Penultimate Peril by Lemony Snicket

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 42 ratings
    Dear Reader, If this is the first book you found while searching for a book to read next, then the first thing you should know is that this next-to-last book is what you should put down first. Sadly, this book presents the next-to-last chronicle of the lives of the Baudelaire orphans, and it is next-to-first in its supply of misery, despair, and unpleasantness...
  • Dead Case in Deadwood by Ann Charles

    Dead Case in Deadwood by Ann Charles

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    "Nothing good ever happens at the butt-crack of dawn. No doubt, the headless corpse on the autopsy table in front of me would agree."-Violet Parker Real estate agent. Violet "Spooky" Parker stumbles upon a body-part theft ring at the local funeral parlor and suspects her caustic coworker has a hand in it or maybe a foot...
  • The Ersatz Elevator by Lemony Snicket

    The Ersatz Elevator by Lemony Snicket

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 43 ratings
    Dear Reader, If you have just picked up this book, then it is not too late to put it back down. Like the previous books in A SERIES OF UNFORTUNATE EVENTS, there is nothing to be found in these pages but misery, despair, and discomfort, and you still have time to choose something else to read...
  • Grave New World by John P. Logsdon

    Grave New World by John P. Logsdon

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The Council Gods Are Brutal. The Lesser Gods Are Worse. I'm All That Stands Between Them...You won't find me in the lore of the gods, but I'm there, hidden between the lines. Whenever the lesser gods torture humanity, creating armies of supernatural beasts to rain hell down on the innocent, it's my job to stand against the tidal wave of pain and death.I like my job...
  • Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh

    Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 40 ratings
    Brace yourself, America, for Irvine Welsh's Trainspotting—the novel and the film that became the cult sensations of Britain. Trainspotting is the novel that first launched Irvine Welsh's spectacular career—an authentic, unrelenting, and strangely exhilarating episodic group portrait of blasted lives. It accomplished for its own time and place what Hubert Selby, Jr...
  • Tales of the Unexpected by Roald Dahl

    Tales of the Unexpected by Roald Dahl

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 33 ratings
    A wine connoisseur with an infallible palate and a sinister taste in wagers. A decrepit old man with a masterpiece tattooed on his back. A voracious adventuress, a gentle cuckold, and a garden sculpture that becomes an instrument of sadistic vengeance. Social climbers who climb a bit too quickly. Philanderers whose deceptions are a trifle too ornate...
  • Unhinged Cain by Brooklyn Cross

    Unhinged Cain by Brooklyn Cross

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Contemporary/MF/Thriller-Horror/Serial Killer/Captive/DarkKirby wished for a new life, but the Devil sent her Cain.I knew what my calling in life was at a young age. I was the embodiment of death. The scent of blood and watching the life fade from something’s eyes was more delicious than any dessert...
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    crime  dark  humor  suspense  anti-hero  book  comedy  contemporary
  • What the Hell Did I Just Read by David Wong, Jason Pargin

    What the Hell Did I Just Read by David Wong, Jason Pargin

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    NYT bestselling author Wong takes readers to a whole new level with his latest dark comic sci-fi thriller, set in the world of John Dies at the End and This Book is Full of SpidersDave, John and Amy recount what seems like a fairly straightforward tale of a shape-shifting creature from another dimension that is stealing children and brainwashing their parents, but it eventually becomes clear...
  • Guns and Graveyards by Katie May

    Guns and Graveyards by Katie May

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    I have blood on my hands. Blood that isn't mine. I had thought I had escaped my past. I had thought I had finally freed myself. But can you really escape your monsters? With a gang war looming on the horizon, bodies piling up, and a strange new student claiming ties to the Shadow Man, I find myself looking into my past...
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    dark  crime  humor  romance  reverse-harem  paranormal  demons  horror
  • Tombyards & Butterflies by Orlando A. Sanchez

    Tombyards & Butterflies by Orlando A. Sanchez

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    A Missing Ferryman. An Undead Dilemma. An Immortal Detective. An emissary from the Dark Council has just materialized in the office of the Montague & Strong Detective Agency, and makes Simon Strong an offer he can’t refuse. Charon is missing. The legendary ferryman responsible for transporting sorcerer souls across the river Styx hasn’t been seen in days...
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    crime  dark  humor  suspense  action-adventure  adult  audiobook  book
  • Optical Delusions in Deadwood by Ann Charles, Caroline Shaffer

    Optical Delusions in Deadwood by Ann Charles, Caroline Shaffer

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Someone is spreading rumors around Deadwood that Violet Parker likes to chat with dead folks.With her reputation endangered, her bank account on the verge of extinction, and her career at risk of going up in flames, Violet is desperate...
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    crime  humor  suspense  adult  audiobook  book  comedy  contemporary
  • Mucho Mojo by Joe R. Lansdale

    Mucho Mojo by Joe R. Lansdale

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Inheriting one hundred thousand dollars and a small hiccup of a house in a dilapidated district is not so bad, and Uncle Chester made a nice gift of it to his nephew Leonard... though the clean-up is intensive, the floor is Rotten, and the neighbors are something from a nightmare. It is one thing to renovate a house to sell it...
  • The Two-Bear Mambo by Joe R. Lansdale

    The Two-Bear Mambo by Joe R. Lansdale

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Florida Grange, Leonard's drop-dead gorgeous lawyer and Hap's former lover, has vanished in Klan-infested Grovetown while in pursuit of the real story behind the jailhouse death of a legendary bluesman's blackguard son. Fearing the worst, Hap and Leonard set out to do the kind of investigating the good ole boy cops can't - or won't - do...
  • Dirty Martini by J.A. Konrath

    Dirty Martini by J.A. Konrath

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    It's another round of Jack Daniels - and this time the cocktail is of the deadly poisonous variety. Jack's got trouble on her hands, and not just because her boyfriend wants to get married before she is ready. A man in disguise has been visiting restaurants, grocery stores and fast food places, ingeniously spreading a deadly toxin...
  • Franz Kafka's The Castle  (Dramatization) by David Fishelson, Aaron Leichter

    Franz Kafka's The Castle (Dramatization) by David Fishelson, Aaron Leichter

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    Note - This is not the novel by Franz Kafka! For the novel see The...
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    dark  humor  suspense  20th-century  adult  audiobook  book  classics
  • The End by Lemony Snicket

    The End by Lemony Snicket

    Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars
    · 44 ratings
    The last volume of the fabulously popular A Series of Unfortunate Events series, in which the history of the Baudelaire orphans is brought to its end.You are presumably looking at the back of this book, or the end of the end...
  • The Austere Academy by Lemony Snicket

    The Austere Academy by Lemony Snicket

    Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars
    · 42 ratings
    Dear Reader, If you are looking for a story about cheerful youngsters spending a jolly time at boarding school, look elsewhere. Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire are intelligent and resourceful children, and you might expect that they would do very well at school. Don't. For the Baudelaires, school turns out to be another miserable episode in their unlucky lives...
  • Dead Head by C.J. Skuse

    Dead Head by C.J. Skuse

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Can a serial killer ever lose their taste for murder?Since confessing to her bloody murder spree Rhiannon Lewis, the now-notorious Sweetpea killer, has been feeling out-of-sorts.Having fled the UK on a cruise ship to start her new life, Rhiannon should be feeling happy. But it’s hard to turn over a new leaf when she’s stuck in an oversized floating tin can with the Gammonati and screaming kids...
  • The Bad Beginning by Lemony Snicket

    The Bad Beginning by Lemony Snicket

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 52 ratings
    Dear Reader,I'm sorry to say that the book you are holding in your hands is extremely unpleasant. It tells an unhappy tale about three very unlucky children. Even though they are charming and clever, the Baudelaire siblings lead lives filled with misery and woe...
  • Fallen Reign by Nazri Noor

    Fallen Reign by Nazri Noor

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Half human, half angel, 100% pissed off. Mason Albrecht’s life changed the day the angels tried to kill him. As the son of a fallen angel king, Mason is an abomination, one who can command the Vestments, divine arms and armor summoned from heaven’s own arsenals. And everybody wants a piece: death witches, demon princes, even deities of ancient myth...
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    humor  suspense  adult  angels  book  comedy  contemporary  fiction
  • Wake the Dead by Stacey Rourke

    Wake the Dead by Stacey Rourke

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    With a touch of her hand, Octavia Hollows can restore life. Yet, she couldn’t save the man she loved from the horrific accident that stole him from her. Octavia thought she could outrun the pain, but ghosts from the past refuse to be silenced. Out of options, she chooses to retrace her wayward journey across the country in search of answers...
  • The Thornthwaite Inheritance by Gareth P. Jones

    The Thornthwaite Inheritance by Gareth P. Jones

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Ovid and Lorelli Thornthwaite have been trying to kill each other for so long that neither twin can remember which act of attempted murder came first. But whoever struck first, trying to take each other's lives is simply what they do...
  • A Snowball in Hell by Christopher Brookmyre

    A Snowball in Hell by Christopher Brookmyre

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Each society gets the serial killers it deserves...How sick are you of our vapid celebrity culture, reality TV shows and tawdry talent contests? Not as sick as Simon Darcourt—but let’s face it, nobody is as sick as Simon Darcourt...
  • Be My Enemy by Christopher Brookmyre

    Be My Enemy by Christopher Brookmyre

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    It was a junket, a freebie. A 'team-building' weekend in the highlands for lawyers, advertising execs, businessmen, even the head of a charity. Oh, and a journalist, specially solicited for his renowned and voluble scepticism - Jack Parlabane...
  • Fuzzy Navel by J.A. Konrath

    Fuzzy Navel by J.A. Konrath

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Things are going well for Lieutenant Jacqueline "Jack" Daniels of the Chicago Police Department. She has solved some of the city's toughest and most high-profile homicides. Her personal life is finally in order. Her friends and family are safe and happy...
  • Cherry Bomb by J.A. Konrath

    Cherry Bomb by J.A. Konrath

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    At the end of Fuzzy Navel, J. A. Konrath surprised readers with an agonizing cliff-hanger: One of Lieutenant Jacqueline "Jack" Daniels's loved ones is dead. But who Readers were left clamoring to know more.Cherry Bomb, the sixth Jack Daniels mystery, opens at the funeral. While Jack stands graveside, tears in her eyes, her cell phone rings...
  • Boy Parts by Eliza Clark

    Boy Parts by Eliza Clark

    Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Irina obsessively takes explicit photographs of the average-looking men she persuades to model for her, scouted from the streets of Newcastle.Placed on sabbatical from her dead-end bar job, she is offered an exhibition at a fashionable London gallery, promising to revive her career in the art world and offering an escape from her rut of drugs, alcohol, and extreme cinema...
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    crime  dark  humor  suspense  21st-century  audiobook  book  comedy
  • The Slippery Slope by Lemony Snicket

    The Slippery Slope by Lemony Snicket

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 43 ratings
    Dear Reader, Like handshakes, house pets, or raw carrots, many things are preferable when not slippery. Unfortunately, in this miserable volume, I am afraid that Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire run into more than their fair share of slipperiness during their harrowing journey up--and down--a range of strange and distressing mountains...
  • Thorn In My Side by C.J. Skuse

    Thorn In My Side by C.J. Skuse

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Sometimes, you can be your own worst enemy…Rhiannon Lewis thought she finally had it all: thanks to the pandemic she’s had to keep a much lower profile but has found happiness with her fiancé Rafael and his family. For once, she is surrounded by people who love her for who she is (or who they think she is)...
  • Terms May Apply by Keith A. Pearson

    Terms May Apply by Keith A. Pearson

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    What would you give for a wish to come true? Your left arm? Your most cherished possession? Your last crumb of integrity?Kyle Hammond is suffering a surprise birthday party he really didn’t want. As he blows out the candles on his cake, he makes a token wish. Three days later, to his utter astonishment, that wish comes true...
  • Kiss Kiss by Roald Dahl

    Kiss Kiss by Roald Dahl

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 33 ratings
    In these dark, disturbing stories Roald Dahl explores the sinister side of human nature: the cunning, sly selfish part of each of us that leads into the territory of the unexpected and unsettling.Originally published in 1960, Kiss Kiss brings together 11 of Roald's macabre adult tales...
  • The Grim Grotto by Lemony Snicket

    The Grim Grotto by Lemony Snicket

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 43 ratings
    Dear Reader, Unless you are a slug, a sea anemone, or mildew, you probably prefer not to be damp. You might also prefer not to read this book, in which the Baudelaire siblings encounter an unpleasant amount of dampness as they descend into the depths of despair, underwater...
  • Deeply Odd by Dean Koontz

    Deeply Odd by Dean Koontz

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 38 ratings
    Following the explosive success of "Odd Apocalypse," here is the gripping new adventure of Odd Thomas, Dean Koontz's most celebrated character.In a sinister encounter with a rogue truck driver tricked up like a rhinestone cowboy, Odd has a disturbing vision of a shocking multiple homicide that has not yet been committed...
    Categorized as:
    crime  dark  humor  suspense  action-adventure  adult  audiobook  book
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