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  • One Among Us by Paige Dearth

    One Among Us by Paige Dearth

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    A kidnapped girl is forced into human sex trafficking Eleven- year-old Maggie Clarke is abducted from her loving family and thrust into the indescribably horrific and largely unknown underworld of human sex trafficking. In captivity, Maggie's life turns into a nightmare most children couldn't imagine...
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    dark  realistic  abuse  book  child-abuse  contemporary  crime  drama
  • Never Be Alone by Paige Dearth

    Never Be Alone by Paige Dearth

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    A fatal car crash. A young orphan. Can she survive the harsh life of the seedy city streets?Eight-year-old Joon has no time to grieve her parents’ sudden death. Ripped from the security of a loving family, she endures horrific abuse in a system intended to protect her...
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    dark  realistic  abuse  adult  book  child-abuse  contemporary  fiction
  • The Good Sister by Sally Hepworth

    The Good Sister by Sally Hepworth

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 39 ratings
    Sally Hepworth, the author of The Mother-In-Law delivers a knock-out of a novel about the lies that bind two sisters in The Good Sister.There's only been one time that Rose couldn't stop me from doing the wrong thing and that was a mistake that will haunt me for the rest of my life.Fern Castle works in her local library. She has dinner with her twin sister Rose three nights a week...
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    dark  realistic  abuse  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary  crime
  • Thirteen by Steve Cavanagh

    Thirteen by Steve Cavanagh

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    The serial killer isn't on trial.He's on the jury.It’s the murder trial of the century. And Joshua Kane has killed to get the best seat in the house – and to be sure the wrong man goes down for the crime. Because this time, the killer isn’t on trial. He’s on the jury.But there’s someone on his tail...
  • The Grave Tender by Eliza Maxwell

    The Grave Tender by Eliza Maxwell

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    At ten years old, Hadley Dixon's life changed forever. Since those few tragic weeks, she's tried to keep the past buried, but old bones have a way of rising up.Hadley can't hide any longer...
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    dark  realistic  abuse  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary  crime
  • Of Foster Homes and Flies by Chad Lutzke, Alberto Plumed

    Of Foster Homes and Flies by Chad Lutzke, Alberto Plumed

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A neglected 12-year-old boy does nothing to report the death of his mother in order to compete in a spelling bee. A tragic coming-of-age tale of horror and drama in the setting of a hot New Orleans summer. "Original, touching coming of age." ~Jack Ketchum, author of THE GIRL NEXT DOOR "With OF FOSTER HOMES & FLIES, Lutzke is firing on all cylinders. It's a lean mean emotional machine...
  • Born Mobster by Paige Dearth

    Born Mobster by Paige Dearth

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Seven year old Tony has one...choice to live or to die.Tony Bruno just wants to fit in, but the bullies at his school are cruel and relentless. At home, he leans on his mother Teresa for strength and comfort, but she’s no match for his father, Carmen. His father, a fighter and bully himself, hates Tony. He is embarrassed by the child for not fighting back and wishes that Tony was never born...
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    dark  abuse  adult  book  bullying  contemporary  crime  domestic-drama
  • A Killer's Mind by Mike Omer

    A Killer's Mind by Mike Omer

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 32 ratings
    A chilling thriller of serial murder and dark secrets that will leave you wondering, is the past really in the past?Three Chicago women have been found strangled, embalmed, and posed as if still alive. Doubting the findings of the local PD’s profiler, The FBI calls on forensic psychologist Zoe Bentley to investigate...
  • The Perfect Child by Lucinda Berry

    The Perfect Child by Lucinda Berry

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 32 ratings
    A page-turning debut of suspense about a young couple desperate to have a child of their own—and the unsettling consequences of getting what they always wanted.Christopher and Hannah are a happily married surgeon and nurse with picture-perfect lives. All that’s missing is a child...
  • No Exit by Taylor Adams

    No Exit by Taylor Adams

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 44 ratings
    A brilliant, edgy thriller about four strangers, a blizzard, a kidnapped child, and a determined young woman desperate to unmask and outwit a vicious psychopath.A kidnapped little girl locked in a stranger’s van. No help for miles. What would you do?On her way to Utah to see her dying mother, college student Darby Thorne gets caught in a fierce blizzard in the mountains of Colorado...
  • Playing Nice by J.P. Delaney

    Playing Nice by J.P. Delaney

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    What if you found out that your family isn't yours at all? How far would you go to protect them? A gripping new psychological thriller from the bestselling author of The Girl Before. . . .Pete Riley answers the door one morning and lets in a parent's worst nightmare...
  • John Saul: Hellfire, The Unwanted, Sleepwalk by John Saul

    John Saul: Hellfire, The Unwanted, Sleepwalk by John Saul

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    New York Times bestselling author John Saul is a master at writing psychological terror, with fifteen novels on the bestseller lists. This first-ever hardcover edition of three of his most popular books features Hellfire, The Unwanted and Sleepwalk. All three stories explore supernatural mysteries of suspense and horror.Appearences are definitely deceiving in John Saul's world...
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    dark  adult  book  contemporary  crime  fiction  ghosts  horror
  • Wallflower by Chad Lutzke

    Wallflower by Chad Lutzke

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    After an encounter with a homeless man, a high school graduate becomes obsessed with the idea of doing heroin, challenging himself to try it just once. A bleak tale of addiction, delusion, and flowers."Bleak as hell and honestly horrific."~John Boden, author of JEDI SUMMER"Using his strong narrative, he (Lutzke) conveys the everyday realistic horror and pulls the reader right into the ugliness...
  • The Eyes Are the Best Part by Monika Kim

    The Eyes Are the Best Part by Monika Kim

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Feminist psychological horror about the making of a female serial killer from a Korean-American perspective.Ji-won’s life tumbles into disarray in the wake of her appa’s extramarital affair and subsequent departure. Her mother, distraught. Her younger sister, hurt and confused. Her college freshman grades, failing. Her dreams, horrifying… yet enticing...
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    dark  horror  fiction  contemporary  mystery  feminism  crime  thriller
  • A Faint Cold Fear by Karin Slaughter

    A Faint Cold Fear by Karin Slaughter

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    The third pulse-pounding novel in the Grant County series from New York Times bestselling author Karin Slaughter.Sara Linton, medical examiner in the small town of Heartsdale, Georgia, is called out to an apparent suicide on the local college campus...
  • If You Dare by A.R. Torre, Alessandra Torre

    If You Dare by A.R. Torre, Alessandra Torre

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    Equal parts Dexter and 50 Shades, this is the eagerly awaited new novel from A. R. Torre, author of the award winning erotic thriller, The Girl in 6E. The rules are the same. I can't open the door. I can't leave. I can't kill anyone. The only difference is, I don't set the rules anymore. Guards in grey uniforms do. It is everything I never wanted and everything I always deserved...
  • Because She Loves Me by Mark Edwards

    Because She Loves Me by Mark Edwards

    Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    A gripping tale of jealousy, obsession, and murder, from the #1 bestselling author of The Magpies . When Andrew Sumner meets beautiful, edgy Charlie, he is certain his run of bad luck has finally come to an end. But as the two of them embark on an intense affair, Andrew wonders if his grasp on reality is slipping. Items go missing in his apartment. Somebody appears to be following him...
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    dark  realistic  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary  crime  drama
  • Angry Candy by Harlan Ellison

    Angry Candy by Harlan Ellison

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    The Seattle Times said of Angry Candy: "Ellison's stories rattle the bars of complacency that people put around their souls . . . Razor sharp . . . piercingly profound." Once again, Ellison's writing defies all labels. These seventeen stories by a modern master are an "assembled artifact" of anger and faith - as bittersweet as a"jalapeno-laced cinnamon bear...
  • The Stillwater Girls by Minka Kent

    The Stillwater Girls by Minka Kent

    Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    Two sisters raised in fear are about to find out why in a chilling novel of psychological suspense from the author of The Thinnest Air.Ignorant of civilization and cautioned against its evils, nineteen-year-old Wren and her two sisters, Sage and Evie, were raised in off-the-grid isolation in a primitive cabin in upstate New York...
  • The Naturalist by Andrew Mayne

    The Naturalist by Andrew Mayne

    Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars
    · 45 ratings
    Professor Theo Cray is trained to see patterns where others see chaos. So when mutilated bodies found deep in the Montana woods leave the cops searching blindly for clues, Theo sees something they missed. Something unnatural. Something only he can stop.As a computational biologist, Theo is more familiar with digital code and microbes than the dark arts of forensic sleuthing...
  • I Can Be a Better You by Tarryn Fisher

    I Can Be a Better You by Tarryn Fisher

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    When Fig Coxbury buys a house on West Barrett Street, it's not because she likes the neighborhood, or even because she likes the house. It's because everything she desires is next door: The husband, the child, and the life that belongs to someone else...
  • This Impossible Light by Lily Myers

    This Impossible Light by Lily Myers

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Fifteen-year-old Ivy’s world is in flux. Her dad has moved out, her mother is withdrawn, her brother is off at college, and her best friend, Anna, has grown distant. Worst of all, Ivy’s body won’t stop expanding. She’s getting taller and curvier, with no end in sight. Even her beloved math class offers no clear solution to the imbalanced equation that has become Ivy’s life...
  • Sticky Fingers 2 by J.T. Lawrence

    Sticky Fingers 2 by J.T. Lawrence

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Diverse, dark-humoured, and deliciously bite-sized, this compelling collection of 12 short stories by JT Lawrence include:GATSBY'S DOUBLEAn artist's Pomeranian has been replaced by an imposter.COURT, MARRY, KILLWhose body ends up being unzipped by fish on the ocean floor?ROCKABYE BABYA female-only cult has a very dark side...
  • Rage by Kimberly A. Bettes

    Rage by Kimberly A. Bettes

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Brian Boozer is a good kid in a bad situation. At thirteen, he's already endured the pain of losing his father and the agony of living with a step-father who hates and abuses him. At school, Brian suffers even more torment, delivered by bullies who seem to enjoy making his life miserable. The only bright spot in Brian's life is Carly, the girl on whom he's had a crush for years...
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    dark  abuse  audiobook  book  bullying  contemporary  fiction  horror
  • Anatomy by Yolanda Olson

    Anatomy by Yolanda Olson

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    There's a monster before me that's killing everything I believe in. A villain that sees me for what I'm worth and wants the pound of flesh I've offered up as repayment for my sins. The burden I carry is heavy on my shoulders, but as pieces of me are stripped away to bare the horrors within, I can feel myself becoming worthy of the pain. I'm not a monster...
  • Kiss the Girls by James Patterson

    Kiss the Girls by James Patterson

    Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars
    · 45 ratings
    In Los Angeles, a reporter investigating a series of murders is killed. In Chapel Hill, North Carolina, a beautiful medical intern suddenly disappears. In Washington D.C. Alex Cross is back to solve the most baffling and terrifying murder case ever. Two clever pattern killers are collaborating, cooperating, competing - and they are working coast to coast...
  • The Girl Before by Rena Olsen

    The Girl Before by Rena Olsen

    Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    In this powerful psychological suspense debut, when a woman’s life is shattered, she is faced with a devastating question: What if everything she thought was normal and good and true . . . wasn’t? Clara Lawson is torn from her life in an instant. Without warning, her home is invaded by armed men, and she finds herself separated from her beloved husband and daughters...
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    dark  realistic  abuse  audiobook  book  contemporary  crime  cults
  • The Mary Shelley Club by Goldy Moldavsky, Голди Молдавски

    The Mary Shelley Club by Goldy Moldavsky, Голди Молдавски

    Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    New girl Rachel Chavez is eager to make a fresh start at Manchester Prep. But as one of the few scholarship kids, Rachel struggles to fit in, and when she gets caught up in a prank gone awry, she ends up with more enemies than friends...
  • Dead Girls Don't Lie by Jennifer Shaw Wolf

    Dead Girls Don't Lie by Jennifer Shaw Wolf

    Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Rachel died at two a.m . . . Three hours after Skyler kissed me for the first time. Forty-five minutes after she sent me her last text. Jaycee and Rachel were best friends. But that was before. . .before that terrible night at the old house. Before Rachel shut Jaycee out. Before Jaycee chose Skyler over Rachel. Then Rachel is found dead...
  • The Liar's Daughter by Megan Cooley Peterson

    The Liar's Daughter by Megan Cooley Peterson

    Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    Piper was raised in a cult. She just doesn't know it. Seventeen-year-old Piper knows that Father is a Prophet. Infallible. The chosen one.She would do anything for Father. That's why she takes care of all her little sisters. That's why she runs end-of-the-world drills. That's why she never asks questions. Because Father knows best.Until the day he doesn't...
  • Putney by Sofka Zinovieff

    Putney by Sofka Zinovieff

    Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    In the spirit of Notes on a Scandal and Zoe Whittall's The Best Kind of People, an explosive, powerful and timely novel about the far-reaching repercussions of an illicit relationship between a young girl and a man twenty years her senior...
  • Hydra by Matt Wesolowski

    Hydra by Matt Wesolowski

    Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Elusive online investigative journalist Scott King investigates the case of Arla Macleod, who bludgeoned her family to death, in another episode of the chilling, award-winning Six Stories series...
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    dark  realistic  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary  crime  fiction
  • Stained by Cheryl Rainfield

    Stained by Cheryl Rainfield

    Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    An intensely powerful account of a teen, bullied for her port-wine stain, who must summon her personal strength to survive abduction and horrific abuse at the hands of a deranged killer.Sixteen-year-old Sarah Meadows longs for "normal." Born with a port wine stain covering half her face, all her life she's been plagued by stares, giggles, bullying, and disgust...
  • Cut Me Free by J.R. Johansson

    Cut Me Free by J.R. Johansson

    Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Seventeen-year-old Charlotte barely escaped from her abusive parents. Her little brother, Sam, wasn't as lucky. Now she's trying to begin the new life she always dreamed of for them, but never thought she'd have to experience alone. She's hired a techie-genius with a knack for forgery to remove the last ties to her old life...
  • Secret Whispers by V.C. Andrews

    Secret Whispers by V.C. Andrews

    Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    There's no place like home...On the eve of her graduation from an exclusive private school, shy wallflower Semantha Heavenstone is caught in a whirl of scandal and betrayal. Now, she's returned to the grand Kentucky mansion where painful memories of her mother and her older sister, Cassie, are as potent as newly mown bluegrass...
  • The Kill Club by Wendy Heard

    The Kill Club by Wendy Heard

    Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Jazz will stop at nothing to save her brother.Their foster mother, Carol, has always been fanatical, but with Jazz grown up and out of the house, Carol takes a dangerous turn that threatens thirteen-year-old Joaquin’s life. Over and over, child services fails to intervene, and Joaquin is running out of time.Then Jazz gets a blocked call from someone offering a solution...
  • Silent Victim by Caroline Mitchell

    Silent Victim by Caroline Mitchell

    Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    Emma’s darkest secrets are buried in the past. But the truth can’t stay hidden for long.Emma is a loving wife, a devoted mother…and an involuntary killer. For years she’s been hiding the dead body of the teacher who seduced her as a teen.It’s a secret that might have stayed buried if only her life had been less perfect...
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    dark  realistic  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary  crime  drama
  • Before She Was Found by Heather Gudenkauf

    Before She Was Found by Heather Gudenkauf

    Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    A gripping thriller about three young girlfriends, a dark obsession and a chilling crime that shakes up a quiet Iowa town, from the New York Times bestselling author of The Weight of Silence .For twelve-year-old Cora Landry and her friends Violet and Jordyn, it was supposed to be an ordinary sleepover--movies and Ouija and talking about boys...
  • Shared by Two by Jon Athan

    Shared by Two by Jon Athan

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Nestor Castle—a bestselling, award-winning extreme horror author—has the perfect life, having transitioned from indie darling to mainstream success. Although he dislikes the limelight, he finds comfort cooped up in his lake house with his loving wife and healthy daughter...
  • The Breakdown by B.A. Paris

    The Breakdown by B.A. Paris

    Rated: 3.91 of 5 stars
    · 40 ratings
    Named One of the Most Anticipated Thriller Novels Of 2017 by Bustle!THE NEW CHILLING, PROPULSIVE NOVEL FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES AND USA TODAY BESTSELLING BEHIND CLOSED DOORS.If you can't trust yourself, who can you trust?Cass is having a hard time since the night she saw the car in the woods...
  • The Night She Disappeared by April Henry

    The Night She Disappeared by April Henry

    Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Gabie drives a Mini Cooper. She also works part-time as a delivery girl at Pete's Pizza. One night, Kayla—another delivery girl—goes missing. To her horror, Gabie learns that the supposed kidnapper had asked if the girl in the Mini Cooper was working.Gabie can't move beyond the fact that Kayla's fate was really meant for her...
  • Missing by Kelley Armstrong

    Missing by Kelley Armstrong

    Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Everyone knows they left. No one knows they're...m i s s i n gReeve's End is the kind of town every kid can't wait to escape. Each summer, a dozen kids leave, and at least a quarter never come back. I don't blame them - I'll do the same in another year. We thought it was just something that happened in town like ours.We were wrong...
  • Feuerschwester by Emiko Jean

    Feuerschwester by Emiko Jean

    Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Murder. Fire. Revenge. That’s all seventeen-year-old Alice Monroe thinks about. Committed to a mental ward at Savage Isle, Alice is haunted by memories of the fire that killed her boyfriend, Jason. A blaze her twin sister Cellie set. But when Chase, a mysterious, charismatic patient, agrees to help her seek vengeance, Alice begins to rethink everything...
  • The Best Girls by Min Jin Lee

    The Best Girls by Min Jin Lee

    Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Inspired by a true event, this powerful short story from the author of National Book Award finalist Pachinko explores the meaning of patriarchy and the cost of female silence through the eyes of a dutiful young girl.An excellent student from a poor, traditional family in Seoul, the narrator has absorbed the same message her whole life: Only a boy can provide the family with dignity and wealth...
  • Because You're Mine by Kristopher Triana

    Because You're Mine by Kristopher Triana

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Bryan’s elderly mother is terminally ill, and that’s the way he likes it. Mom comes from old money, making it easy for Bryan to hire an in-home nurse, but he’s looking for someone to provide a special kind of treatment, something he’s long fantasized about.Shelby is a nurse with a horrible secret...
  • A Simple Plan by Scott Smith

    A Simple Plan by Scott Smith

    Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    Two brothers and their friend stumble upon the wreckage of a plane–the pilot is dead and his duffle bag contains four million dollars in cash. In order to hide, keep, and share the fortune, these ordinary men all agree to a simple plan...
  • Midnight Is the Darkest Hour by Ashley Winstead

    Midnight Is the Darkest Hour by Ashley Winstead

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    From the critically acclaimed author of In My Dreams I Hold A Knife and The Last Housewife comes a gothic Southern thriller about a killer haunting a small Louisiana town, where two outcasts—the preacher's daughter and the boy from the wrong side of the tracks—hold the key to uncovering the truth...
  • Try Not to Breathe by Holly Seddon

    Try Not to Breathe by Holly Seddon

    Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    For fans of Lianne Moriarty, Paula Hawkins, and Tana French, an arresting debut novel of psychological suspense: a young journalist struggles to keep the demons of her alcoholism at bay as she finds her purpose again in tackling the mystery of a shocking headline-making crime, still unsolved after fifteen years.Amy Stevenson was the biggest news story of 1995...
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    dark  realistic  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary  crime  death
  • Penpal by Dathan Auerbach

    Penpal by Dathan Auerbach

    Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Penpal began as a series of short and interconnected stories posted on an online horror forum...
  • Amy Chelsea Stacie Dee by Mary G. Thompson

    Amy Chelsea Stacie Dee by Mary G. Thompson

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    A bittersweet homecoming holds dark secrets in this heart-wrenching story of loss, love, and survival for readers of Room. When sixteen-year-old Amy returns home, she can’t tell her family what’s happened to her. She can’t tell them where she’s been since she and her best friend, her cousin Dee, were kidnapped six years ago—who stole them from their families or what’s become of Dee...
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