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  • Zero In by Dean Koontz

    Zero In by Dean Koontz

    Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    This could be the most important mission of Nameless’s life. Because it’s putting him on a collision course with his own past and the nation’s future.The target: a fortified redoubt in the golden hills of California, the hub of a new world order that’s unthinkably close at hand. The time has come for Nameless to face its designer: the nihilist mastermind behind the One Solution...
  • Something Wicked by Lily Morton

    Something Wicked by Lily Morton

    Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    After powerful psychic Blue Billings fell in love with Levi Black, he believed their biggest challenges would arise from Blue’s ability to see and speak to the dead. So it’s rather alarming when he and Levi are confronted with a spate of new—and frightening—problems that have to do with the realm of the living...
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    romance  paranormal  mlm  mystery  ghosts  fantasy  contemporary  lgbtq
  • Bloody Quarter by Brooklyn Cross

    Bloody Quarter by Brooklyn Cross

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    MF/Serial Killer/Captive/Don’t worry, Doll. You’ll taste heaven before you walk with the dead.Was I dead? I had wanted to die. I remembered deciding that I was done with this life and done with the memories and ghosts that haunted me. I’d looked at the darkness below and prayed for it to swallow me whole. Spreading my arms wide, I stepped off the ledge and woke up in hell...
  • MESSAGE in the BONES: A small town murder mystery with a psychic twist by Dawn Merriman

    MESSAGE in the BONES: A small town murder mystery with a psychic twist by Dawn Merriman

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Escape the usual small town murder story with this quirky, page turning mystery. With long-buried bones, psychic visions, a tattoo with messages from above, and a clown-masked murderer chasing through a corn maze, this story will keep you on edge until the very last word.
  • The Cabinet of Curiosities by Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child

    The Cabinet of Curiosities by Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    In downtown Manhattan, a gruesome discovery has just been made-an underground charnel house containing the bones of dozens of murder victims. Research reveals that a serial killer was at work in New York's notorious Five Points neighborhood in the 1880s, bent on prolonging his lifespan by any means...
  • Memories of Tomorrow by Dean Koontz

    Memories of Tomorrow by Dean Koontz

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    What strange science made Nameless who he is? What catastrophes have been erased from his memories? In the stunning conclusion of this series, the dark past comes flooding back, and Nameless must decide how much he really wants to know.In Indiana, a murderous psycho has kidnapped his own six-year-old stepson, Jamie, and secreted him away in a subterranean cave. It’s become their bunker...
  • 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...
  • Message in the Grave by Dawn Merriman

    Message in the Grave by Dawn Merriman

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A psychic suspense thriller The darker the secret, the harder it is to keep buried I’m finally accepting that my psychic talents serve a purpose, that I can use them to help people. But two mysteries plague me...
  • 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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    adult  amateur-sleuth  book  comedy  contemporary  cozy  crime  dark
  • Pretty Dead by Anne Frasier

    Pretty Dead by Anne Frasier

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    A serial killer stalks the streets of Savannah...Homicide detective Elise Sandburg and her partner, profiler David Gould, are all too familiar with the terrible costs of chasing evil. Despite their wounded psyches, the detectives delve into the deranged killer’s twisted mind, determined to unravel the clues in the taunts he leaves behind.A city gripped by fear..
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    adult  audiobook  book  crime  dark  female-mc  fiction  horror
  • Shadow Moon by Alexandra Sokoloff

    Shadow Moon by Alexandra Sokoloff

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    For thousands of years, women have been prey. This time, the predators lose.Does Fate connect us?Mass killer Cara Lindstrom is in the wind, after a deadly encounter which leaves FBI Special Agent Antara Singh questioning her own sanity and fitness to serve...
  • Bitter Moon by Alexandra Sokoloff

    Bitter Moon by Alexandra Sokoloff

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    FBI agent Matthew Roarke has been on leave, and in seclusion, since the capture of mass killer Cara Lindstrom—the victim turned avenger who preys on predators. Torn between devotion to the law and a powerful attraction to Cara and her lethal brand of justice, Roarke has retreated from both to search his soul...
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    adult  alpha-mc  audiobook  book  crime  dark  female-mc  fiction
  • Under the Bones: A Lou Thorne Thriller by Kory M. Shrum

    Under the Bones: A Lou Thorne Thriller by Kory M. Shrum

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Enemies make the best allies. Louie Thorne is good at only one thing. Killing. She knows peace only when she kills and this relentless thirst drives her to hunt the world's worst crime lords. But when her cancer-stricken aunt makes a dying wish, Louie is torn between her own dark nature and a promise made to the only family she has left...
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    action-adventure  adult  book  crime  dark  female-mc  fiction  horror
  • I Don't Want to Kill You by Dan Wells

    I Don't Want to Kill You by Dan Wells

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    John Cleaver has called a demon—literally called it, on the phone, and challenged it to a fight. He’s faced two of the monsters already, barely escaping with his life, and now he’s done running; he’s taking the fight to them...
  • Under Dark Skies by A.J. Scudiere

    Under Dark Skies by A.J. Scudiere

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    In NightShade nothing is as it seems . . . Eleri Eames didn’t think she’d ever be allowed to work for the FBI again, so the special FBI division of NightShade seems like an amazing opportunity. But all too soon, her chance to start over starts to disturb her...
  • Light Has Weight, but Darkness Does Not by Dean Koontz

    Light Has Weight, but Darkness Does Not by Dean Koontz

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Instinct and violent visions compel Nameless to embark on an unplanned mission to help a desperate mother and daughter on the run. Why is this rescue so strangely familiar to a man with no memories?Evie and her daughter, Asteria, are fleeing an abusive cult when they meet a stranger in an abandoned Arizona shopping mall. Fate hasn’t set Nameless on their trail...
  • Hunting Fear by Kay Hooper, Dick Hill

    Hunting Fear by Kay Hooper, Dick Hill

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    He's no ordinary kidnapper. Not only does he strike again and again, but he collects the ransom, gets away safely, and leaves his helpless hostages dead. Now, after months of eluding the best that law enforcement can put against him, this monster has left nothing in his wake but a cold trail of unconnected victims. He's no ordinary cop...
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    adult  audiobook  book  contemporary  crime  dark  fiction  ghosts
  • Touching Evil by Kay Hooper, Alyssa Bresnahan

    Touching Evil by Kay Hooper, Alyssa Bresnahan

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    This is the story of Seattle police artist Maggie Barnes, whose remarkable artistic talents are the focus of an even more extraordinary psychic gift that she is determined to keep secret: a gift that has allowed her to work with crime victims, to feel what they feel, to create perfect portraits of their attackers...
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    adult  audiobook  book  contemporary  crime  fiction  ghosts  horror
  • Out of the Shadows by Kay Hooper

    Out of the Shadows by Kay Hooper

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    To catch this killer, she must break every rule and cross every line.Out Of The ShadowsA picture-perfect Tennessee town has just become a monster's hunting ground. Two bodies are found tortured to death. A third person goes missing. What little evidence is left behind defies all explanation...
  • Rebekka Franck Series Box Set: Vol 1-5 by Willow Rose

    Rebekka Franck Series Box Set: Vol 1-5 by Willow Rose

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Five Amazon Bestselling Mystery Novels. The Queen of Scream Novels channels Wes Craven in this 5-in-1 boxed set! ˃˃˃ One, Two ... He is coming for you Set in the Danish coastal town of Karrebaeksminde, journalist Rebekka Franck returns to her hometown with her six-year-old daughter...
  • Spells by Kristen Proby

    Spells by Kristen Proby

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    From New York Times Bestselling Author, Kristen Proby, comes Spells, the next installment in her gripping Bayou Magic series…As a powerful hedgewitch and psychic, there isn’t much I can’t work to my advantage and finesse with a spell. Love, fortune, and even the perfect cup of coffee are all possible with the snap of my fingers.But some things are utterly beyond my control...
  • 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...
  • San Francisco Night by Stephen Leather

    San Francisco Night by Stephen Leather

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Jack Nightingale fights his battles in the shadows – in the grey areas where the real world meets the supernatural. But when he arrives in San Francisco to take on a group of Satanists bent on opening a doorway to Hell, the danger is out in the open and all too real...
    Categorized as:
    demons  adult  book  contemporary  crime  fiction  horror  magic
  • 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...
  • Whisper of Evil by Kay Hooper

    Whisper of Evil by Kay Hooper

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Someone is stalking the little town of Silence...Three victims have fallen to a killer’s savage vengeance. Each of the dead men was a successful and respected member of the community — yet each also harbored a dark secret discovered only after his murder...
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    adult  audiobook  book  contemporary  crime  fiction  ghosts  horror
  • Watchers by Dean Koontz

    Watchers by Dean Koontz

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 42 ratings
    On his thirty-sixth birthday, Travis Cornell hikes into the foothills of the Santa Ana Mountains. But his path is soon blocked by a bedraggled Golden Retriever who will let him go no further into the dark woods.That morning, Travis had been desperate to find some happiness in his lonely, seemingly cursed life...
  • Changeling by Matt Wesolowski

    Changeling by Matt Wesolowski

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    On Christmas Eve in 1988, seven-year-old Alfie Marsden vanished in the Wentshire Forest Pass, when a burst tyre forced his father, Sorrel, to stop the car. Leaving the car to summon the emergency services, Sorrel returned to find his son gone. No trace of the child, nor his remains, have ever been found. Alfie Marsden was declared officially dead in 1995...
  • Still Life With Crows by Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child

    Still Life With Crows by Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    A small Kansas town has turned into a killing ground.Is it a serial killer, a man with the need to destroy?Or is it a darker force, a curse upon the land?Amid golden cornfields, FBI Special Agent Pendergast discovers evil in the blood of America's heartland.No one is safe...
  • 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...
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    action-adventure  adult  audiobook  book  cozy  crime  drama  fiction
  • Slip Out the Back Jack by Willow Rose

    Slip Out the Back Jack by Willow Rose

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    They take turns with the knife, cutting their thumbs open. A drop of blood lands on the dark wooden table. Eyes meet across the room. All four thumbs are pressed against each other one by one. Blood is shared, secrets buried. Years later a brutal madman sprays bullets into a crowd at a movie theater in Miami and sends a chill through the entire nation...
  • Raphael by Tillie Cole

    Raphael by Tillie Cole

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    They are the Fallen. A brotherhood of murderers whose nature compels them to kill. But guided by their leader, Gabriel, the Fallen have learned to use their urges to rid the world of those it is better off without. For Raphael, sex and death are intertwined. Where there is one, there must be the other. He is a lust killer, luring his victims with the face of an angel and a body built for sin...
    Categorized as:
    abuse  adult  alpha-mc  angels  angst  anti-hero  book  captivity
  • Hunting Adeline by H.D. Carlton

    Hunting Adeline by H.D. Carlton

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 33 ratings
    The conclusion to the Cat and Mouse Duet is here...The DiamondDeath walks alongside me,But the reaper is no match for me.I'm trapped in a world full of monsters dressed as men, and those who aren't as they seem.They won't keep me forever.I no longer recognize the person I've become,And I'm fighting to find my way back to the beast who hunts me in the night...
    Categorized as:
    abuse  adult  alpha-mc  angst  anti-hero  book  captivity  conspiracies
  • Corkscrew by Dean Koontz

    Corkscrew by Dean Koontz

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    A terrorist attack in the news leaves Nameless reeling from a disturbing vision. But it’s not a glimpse of the future. It’s a recovered memory that’s opening a window into his mysterious past.Uncharacteristically forthcoming—and unexpectedly personal—Nameless’s handlers have no choice but to emerge from the shadows. The indoctrinating factions of his visions are growing in number...
  • Long Shadows by Jodi Taylor

    Long Shadows by Jodi Taylor

    Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    BOOK 3 IN THE GRIPPING SUPERNATURAL SERIES BY THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE CHRONICLES OF ST MARY'SI don't know who I am. I don't know what I am. The identity of Elizabeth Cage has always been a mystery. Even she doesn't know who, or what, she is. But she's learned to live with it...
  • Sleeping with Fear by Kay Hooper

    Sleeping with Fear by Kay Hooper

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Fear has never been so close...New York Times bestselling author Kay Hooper returns with a relentless thriller that brings her readers face-to-face with fear itself. In this terrifying new novel, a psychic special agent finds herself caught up in a tangled web of secrets, lies... and evil.Riley Crane woke up fully dressed, a gun under her pillow, and covered in blood...
    Categorized as:
    adult  audiobook  book  contemporary  crime  fiction  ghosts  horror
  • Blood Sins by Kay Hooper, Joyce Bean

    Blood Sins by Kay Hooper, Joyce Bean

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Young, vulnerable, attractive, Tessa Gray made the perfect victim. Which was why Noah Bishop of the FBI’s Special Crimes Unit recruited her to play the role of grieving widow. As the supposed new owner of property coveted by the Church of the Everlasting Sin, she’d be irresistible bait for the reclusive and charismatic Reverend Samuel...
  • 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...
  • Beware The Boogerman by D. Glenn Casey

    Beware The Boogerman by D. Glenn Casey

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The fine men and women of the Prattville Sheriff’s Department have a very specific job, one that most law enforcement officers would never have to deal with. Hopefully.They have to look after the peace and quiet in a small town that has the unfortunate nickname “Monster Town...
  • MARKED by DARKNESS: Gripping, psychological serial killer adventure thriller by Dawn Merriman

    MARKED by DARKNESS: Gripping, psychological serial killer adventure thriller by Dawn Merriman

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A gritty and raw serial killer thriller with hints of the supernatural. . Two years ago, Detective Maribeth Johansen’s family was murdered by the killer she hunted. Maribeth now lives alone in the woods with her grief, the ghosts of her family in her mind.
    Categorized as:
    amateur-sleuth  book  comedy  cozy  crime  female-mc  fiction  ghosts
  • Wuthering Frights by Elise Sax

    Wuthering Frights by Elise Sax

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Matilda Dare has a ring on her finger, a thriving business, a beautiful, historical home, two dogs, and an amazing group of friends. She should be happy. But her fiancé might be a serial killer, the sheriff’s dead wife is visiting her, and her husband has escaped from prison. All of that is throwing a wrench into Matilda’s celebrations...
  • Bits & Pieces by Dawn Hosmer, Diane Box-Worman

    Bits & Pieces by Dawn Hosmer, Diane Box-Worman

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A chance encounter with a stranger traps Tessa within the mind of a madman.Tessa was born with a gift. Through a simple touch she picks up pieces of others. A “flash” of color devours her—the only indication that she’s gained something new from another person. Red equals pain; purple, a talent; yellow, a premonition; orange, a painful memory; and blue, a pleasant one...
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