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  • Careful little eyes: An addictive, horrifying serial killer thriller by Willow Rose

    Careful little eyes: An addictive, horrifying serial killer thriller by Willow Rose

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    ASIN moved from less recent edition hereIan Marks is terrified of ghosts. Especially of the one that has just moved into his shed in the back yard of his house in New Orleans. Everyone else thinks he is just a drunk, but when his girlfriend is killed at night by a man with an axe, he knows he was right to be afraid...
  • Damned by Jana Deleon

    Damned by Jana Deleon

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    When young priest Nicolas Chatry took his vows, he thought the hardest thing he’d have to deal with was accomplishing his duties from a wheelchair. Until a murderer steps into the confessional. Unable to recognize the voice or maneuver quickly enough to get a look at the killer, Nicolas has no way of identifying who admitted to such a horrific deed...
  • Goodnight Lady by Martina Cole

    Goodnight Lady by Martina Cole

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    A tour-de-force thriller of corruption and violence.In the sixties, Briony Cavanagh ran a string of the most notorious brothels in London. Only Briony knew what went on behind those doors, and she never opened her mouth - unless she stood to benefit. Only Briony knew the painful road she'd travelled to get there...
  • The Fifth To Die by J.D. Barker

    The Fifth To Die by J.D. Barker

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    Alternate cover art can be found hereIn the thrilling sequel to The Fourth Monkey, a new serial killer stalks the streets of Chicago, while Detective Porter delves deeper into the dark past of the Four Monkey Killer.Detective Porter and the team have been pulled from the hunt for Anson Bishop, the Four Monkey Killer, by the feds...
  • The Poet by Michael Connelly

    The Poet by Michael Connelly

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 43 ratings
    Denver crime-beat reporter Jack McEvoy specializes in violent death. So when his homicide detective brother kills himself, McEvoy copes in the only way he knows how--he decides to write the story. But his research leads him to suspect a serial killer is at work--a devious murderer who's killing cops and leaving a trail of poetic clues...
  • The King by Steven James

    The King by Steven James

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    FBI Special Agent Patrick Bowers has matched wits with some of the most violent serial killers in history—and one of them has never forgiven him.... Patrick Bowers has pursued the nation’s fiercest serial killers—and now one elusive foe is back for revenge...
  • You Can't Hide by Willow Rose

    You Can't Hide by Willow Rose

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    ASIN moved from less recent edition hereA new reign of terror has fallen on the unsuspecting residents of Cocoa Beach. They think their worst nightmare is the environmental catastrophe causing the thousands of dead fish in the river until the first body turns up among the dead fish.Young girls are being kidnapped.Behind these kidnappings stands a ghostly person who calls himself the Boxer...
  • The Girl in the Sand by L.T. Vargus, Tim McBain

    The Girl in the Sand by L.T. Vargus, Tim McBain

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Shallow 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...
  • Cold Lake by Jeff Carson

    Cold Lake by Jeff Carson

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    The truth emerges one piece at a time. When a fisherman reels in a plastic bag containing a severed human head from the depths of Cold Lake, Colorado, Sheriff David Wolf and his deputies scramble to the scene, and quickly realize there are more surprises to be found below...
  • No Safe Place by Patricia Gibney

    No Safe Place by Patricia Gibney

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Listening Length: 12 hours and 4 minutesThere's nothing more dangerous than a familiar face...As funeral mourners stand in silence at Ragmullin cemetery, a deafening cry cuts through the air. Lying crumpled at the bottom of an open grave is the bloodied body of a young woman, and Detective Lottie Parker is called in to investigate...
  • Where the Wild Roses Grow by Willow Rose

    Where the Wild Roses Grow by Willow Rose

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    The Queen of scream novels does it again! - It's laced with a terrifying nail-biting tension and characters that make your skin crawl. With her blankly staring eyes seeming to gaze into the sky, he put a red rose between her teeth and then gently pushed her into the water. She slowly sank into the slow, flowing river...
  • The Watson Girl by Leslie Wolfe

    The Watson Girl by Leslie Wolfe

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    An entire family is murdered and, by a quirk, a young girl is left unharmed. For fifteen years, she believed the killer had been caught, and he’s now on death row, awaiting execution. While trying to be content with her adoptive family, she’s living in relentless uncertainty and the fear of remembering what really happened that night when she was five years old. She’s The Watson Girl...
  • Bad Blood by L.T. Vargus, Tim McBain

    Bad Blood by L.T. Vargus, Tim McBain

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    The body slumps over the steering wheel. Pools of blood going tacky on the dash. Two shots to the back of the head. A mafia-style hit in a small town.So Special Agent Violet Darger arrives in rural Michigan. She must make sense of this savagery. Figure out how something like this could happen in an idyllic town of just 5,000.The victim had been living the American dream...
  • There's No Place like Home by Willow Rose

    There's No Place like Home by Willow Rose

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    ASIN moved from less recent editionWhat is the worst that can happen?Maria and Jonas Boegh asked themselves that very question when deciding to sign the papers for their new house. It might be expensive. They might be in over their heads a little financially, but they were never happier than on the day they moved in. Everything was perfect. It was the house of their dreams...
  • Black Jack by Willow Rose

    Black Jack by Willow Rose

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Welcome to the Blackwood House. Enter if you dare.In Savannah lies a house about which is said that all who have ever lived there have gone insane. When Kimberly and Joseph inherit the house from an unknown aunt, they don’t know the house’s murderous history. They move in and soon a series of strange events occurs. It’s like the house doesn’t want them there...
  • Caleb by Jeff Menapace

    Caleb by Jeff Menapace

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Vengeance is therapy.Caleb Lambert kills people for a living. The money is nice, but it comes a distant second to his primary reason for choosing such a Caleb often calls it “scratching an itch.”Here’s the thing, Caleb won’t just accept any contract. He and his team thoroughly vet each and every prospective mark to make sure they deserve to be punished...
  • The Thirst by Jo Nesbø

    The Thirst by Jo Nesbø

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    Harry Hole returns in the eleventh installment of the author's best-selling, electrifying crime fiction series—published in 48 languages, more than 30 million copies sold worldwide. In Police—the last novel featuring Jo Nesbø's hard-bitten, maverick Oslo detective—a killer wreaking revenge on the police had Harry Hole fighting for the safety of the people closest to him...
  • The House that Jack Built by Willow Rose

    The House that Jack Built by Willow Rose

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Scott Kingston is afraid of monsters. He thinks they’re lurking outside his bedroom window at night when his mother tucks him in. He asks his mother to keep the light on to scare the monsters away. But that light is exactly what lures the kidnapper to his window and the next morning, Scott Kingston is gone...
  • Murder Theory by Andrew Mayne

    Murder Theory by Andrew Mayne

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    The desire to kill is becoming contagious in this riveting novel of conceivable mad science by the Wall Street Journal bestselling author of The Naturalist.Computational biologist and serial-killer hunter Dr. Theo Cray receives an off-the-record request from the FBI to investigate an inexplicable double homicide. It happened at the excavation site where a murderer had buried his victims’ remains...
  • Gia and the Forgotten Island by Kristi Belcamino

    Gia and the Forgotten Island by Kristi Belcamino

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    An exciting new series character ...Gia Santella is a fast-driving, hard-drinking, karate-trained free spirit, who is gorgeous, sexy, and a young heiress. She also has a fierce temper and zero tolerance for people in power preying on the vulnerable ... especially when the injustice takes place in her neighborhood...
  • Dead End Girl by L.T. Vargus, Tim McBain

    Dead End Girl by L.T. Vargus, Tim McBain

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Her body is broken. Wrapped in plastic. Dumped on the side of the road. She is the first. There will be more.The serial killer thriller that "refuses to let go until you've read the last sentence."The most recent body was discovered in the grease dumpster behind a Burger King. Dismembered. Shoved into two garbage bags and lowered into the murky oil...
  • Gone Daddy Gone by Cheryl Bradshaw

    Gone Daddy Gone by Cheryl Bradshaw

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    A single moment is about to change Sloane Monroe's life forever. On an early winter morning, college student Shelby McCoy walks the quiet, snowy path back home. A tree branch snaps in the distance. Then another. A man is there with her, following close behind, whispering her name. She looks back, sees him gaining on her, and runs...
  • All the Rage by F. Paul Wilson

    All the Rage by F. Paul Wilson

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    Can you imagine a new chemical compound, a non-addictive designer drug that heightens your assertiveness, opens the door to your primal self, giving you an edge wherever you compete? Whether on the street or the football field, in a classroom or a boardroom. Wouldn’t you be tempted to try it . .
  • Gateways by F. Paul Wilson

    Gateways by F. Paul Wilson

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    Following last year's successful The Haunted Air, F. Paul Wilson returns with another riveting episode in the saga of Repairman Jack, the secretive, ingenious, and heroic champion of those whose problems no one else can solve. As Dean Koontz says, "Repairman Jack is one of the most original and intriguing characters to arise out of contemporary fiction in ages...
  • The Haunted Air by F. Paul Wilson

    The Haunted Air by F. Paul Wilson

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    In the sequel to The Tomb, Repairman Jack returns in a chilling adventure set against the backdrop of a Queens house haunted by the ghost of a nine-year-old girl as Jack becomes embroiled in a terrifying struggle in which the forces of evil threat...
  • A Book of Bones by John Connolly

    A Book of Bones by John Connolly

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    The new thrilling installment of John Connolly's popular Charlie Parker series.He is our best hope.He is our last hope.On lonely moor in the northeast of England, the body of a young woman is discovered near the site of a vanished church. In the south, a girl lies buried beneath a Saxon mound. To the southeast, the ruins of a priory hide a human skull.Each is a sacrifice, a summons...
  • 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 .
  • 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...
  • What Hurts the Most by Willow Rose

    What Hurts the Most by Willow Rose

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    ASIN B018A097LO moved to the most recent edition hereYou will never guess the ending!Am I pretty? Imagine being asked that question standing face to face with a killer. What would you answer? While her life is going from bad to worse, journalist Mary Mills receives a phone call from her father telling her that her brother has been arrested for murder...
  • A Dance At The Slaughterhouse by Lawrence Block

    A Dance At The Slaughterhouse by Lawrence Block

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    In Matt Scudder's mind, money, power, and position elevate nobody above morality and the law. Now the ex-cop and unlicensed p.i. has been hired to prove that socialite Richard Thurman orchestrated the brutal murder of his beautiful, pregnant wife. During Scudder's hard drinking years, he left a piece of his soul on every seedy corner of the Big Apple...
  • The Dark Corners of the Night by Meg Gardiner, Hillary Huber

    The Dark Corners of the Night by Meg Gardiner, Hillary Huber

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Listening Length: 11 hours and 45 minutesI am the legion of the night …He appears in the darkness like a ghost, made of shadows and fear—the Midnight Man. He comes for the parents but leaves the children alive, tiny witnesses to unspeakable horror. The bedroom communities of Los Angeles are gripped with dread, and the attacks are escalating...
  • Crimson Rivers by Jean-Christophe Grangé

    Crimson Rivers by Jean-Christophe Grangé

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    A horrifically mutilated corpse is discovered wedged in an isolated crevice. The highly-regarded but unpredictable ex-commando Pierre NiTmans is sent from Paris to the French Alps to investigate. Meanwhile, Karim Abdouf, a young Arab policeman, is trying to find out why the tomb of a young child has been desecrated...
  • The Vanished Ones by Donato Carrisi

    The Vanished Ones by Donato Carrisi

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    We call them the sleepers...At the elite Missing Persons bureau of the Federal Police, Mila Vasquez is tasked with finding the hundreds of lost people who have vanished from their former lives. However, the longer they are gone, they more they are forgotten by the world. Now they are returning...
  • Harbingers by F. Paul Wilson

    Harbingers by F. Paul Wilson

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    It starts off so simply: Jack, still feeling down after the tragic events of Infernal, is hanging in Julio's when a regular named Timmy asks him for help. His teenage niece has been missing since this morning; the police say it's too early to worry, but Timmy knows something bad has happened. Jack says he'll put the word out on the street...
  • The Whisperer by Donato Carrisi

    The Whisperer by Donato Carrisi

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    A gripping literary thriller and smash bestseller that has taken Italy, France, Germany and the UK by storm.Six severed arms are discovered, arranged in a mysterious circle and buried in a clearing in the woods. Five of them appear to belong to missing girls between the ages of eight and eighteen. The sixth is yet to be identified...
  • Saint/Sinner by Sam Sisavath

    Saint/Sinner by Sam Sisavath

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    THERE IS NO REST FOR THE WICKED.After spending ten years of her life hunting her sister’s killer and barely surviving, Allie Krycek is ready to move on. She’s got a new job, in a new city, with a new man in her life. Things are finally looking up.Too bad there are people determined to ruin Allie’s second chance...
  • Steel Fear by Brandon Webb, John David Mann

    Steel Fear by Brandon Webb, John David Mann

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    An aircraft carrier adrift with a crew the size of a small town. A killer in their midst. And the disgraced Navy SEAL who must track him down . . . The high-octane debut thriller from New York Times bestselling writing team Webb & Mann--combat-decorated Navy SEAL Brandon Webb and award-winning author John David Mann...
  • Backwoods Ripper by Anna Willett

    Backwoods Ripper by Anna Willett

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    “If you like Stephen King’s Misery, you’ll love this book.” A country drive quickly turns into a nightmare for newly-weds Paige and Hal Loche When you are in the bush, pregnant, and your husband is hurt what do you do? Will you trust just about anyone? When their car gets a flat tire in the Australian outback, it should be a simple job for capable Hal to fix. His wife pregnant, he sets to it...
  • Easy as One Two Three by Willow Rose

    Easy as One Two Three by Willow Rose

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    ASIN moved from less recent editionMads and Signe are very young when they get married. They are ready to take on the world, starting with their honeymoon to Egypt. Two years later, Mads is in a coma, and Signe has vanished from the face of the earth.Meanwhile, Emma Frost is looking for her daughter whom the police believe is guilty of the hit and run that left Mads Schou brain dead...
  • Hunter/Prey by Sam Sisavath

    Hunter/Prey by Sam Sisavath

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    REVENGE MEANS CARRYING A LOADED SHOTGUN. She has been planning this for ten years. She’s thought of everything and trained for this one single night. Nothing could possibly go wrong. He’s a serial killer who has eluded the police for the last ten years. When his latest victim turns out to not be who she appears, the hunter will discover what it’s like to be the prey...
  • Gangland by Chuck Hogan

    Gangland by Chuck Hogan

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    From the acclaimed author of The Town, an epic thriller about the secret right‑hand man of one of the most infamous unprosecuted mob bosses in American history, and the hidden crime that will bring down an empire.In the late 1970s, The Outfit has the entire city of Chicago in its hands. Tony Accardo is its fearless leader...
  • Rum Runner by J.A. Konrath

    Rum Runner by J.A. Konrath

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    COULD YOUR MARRIAGE SURVIVE FIFTY KILLERS? Twenty years ago, a young cop named Jacqueline "Jack" Daniels arrested one of the most sadistic killers she'd ever encountered. She has since retired from the Chicago Police Department in order to raise her toddler daughter.But old grudges never die. They fester until the right opportunity comes along...
  • Bloodline by F. Paul Wilson

    Bloodline by F. Paul Wilson

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Jack has been on hiatus since the events in Harbingers. With his lover Gia's encouragement he dips a toe back into the fix-it pool. Christy Pickering's eighteen-year-old daughter is dating Jerry Bethlehem, a man twice her age. Christy sensed something shady and sinister about him, so she hired a private investigator to look into his past. But the PI isn't returning her calls...
  • Hosts by F. Paul Wilson

    Hosts by F. Paul Wilson

    Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    Repairman Jack returns in a sequel to the New York Times bestseller, The Tomb!Repairman Jack has been tearing up the urban adventure scene ever since he was introduced in the New York Times bestseller The Tomb. As his fans know, Repairman Jack doesn't deal with electronic appliances; he's a situation fixer, no matter how weird or deadly a situation may be...
  • 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...
  • Conspiracies by F. Paul Wilson

    Conspiracies by F. Paul Wilson

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    Repairman Jack, F. Paul Wilson's vigilante hero from 1984's New York Times bestseller The Tomb and 1998'2 Legacies, returns in a thriller that thrusts Jack back into the weird, supernatural world that he thrives in. Looking for clues to mysterious disappearance of leading conspiracy theorist Melanie Ehler. Jack attends a convention of bizarre and avid conspiracy theorist...
  • Legacies by F. Paul Wilson

    Legacies by F. Paul Wilson

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    Desperate to rid herself of a house she recently inherited, Alicia Clayton attempts to destroy it, but all the people she employs are suddenly found murdered, when Repairman Jack enters the scene and the mystery of the house begins to unfold...
  • Monkeewrench by P.J. Tracy

    Monkeewrench by P.J. Tracy

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    People are dying for the new computer game by the software company Monkeewrench. Literally. With Serial Killer Detective out in limited release, the real-life murders of a jogger and a young woman have already mimicked the first two scenarios in the game. But Grace McBride and her eccentric Monkeewrench partners are caught in a vise...
  • Eyes of Prey by John Sandford

    Eyes of Prey by John Sandford

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    Lieutenant Davenport's sanity was nearly shattered by two murder investigations. Now he faces something worse . . . Two killers. One hideously scarred. The other strikingly handsome, a master manipulator fascinated with all aspects of death. The dark mirror of Davenport's soul . . . This is the case that will bring Davenport back to life. Or push him over the edge...
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