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  • Gray After Dark by Noelle W. Ihli

    Gray After Dark by Noelle W. Ihli

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    A merciless wilderness. A harrowing attack. A desperate escape.When a tragic accident sidelines Miley's dreams of Olympic gold, she takes a summer job at a mountain guest lodge.The Frank Church Wilderness is remote, but it’s the perfect place to train and recover. Local lore about a staffer who died years ago doesn’t scare her. But it should...
  • Dead Center by Dawn Lee McKenna, Axel Blackwell

    Dead Center by Dawn Lee McKenna, Axel Blackwell

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    The quaint coastal town of Port St. Joe, FL isn’t the kind of place where people go around getting stabbed to death.  So, when Jake Bellamy – an insurance agent and beloved father – is found murdered in the dewy grass of a local park, it comes as a bit of a shock. Now it’s up to Evan Caldwell, the new Sheriff and recent transplant, to solve the case...
  • Dark Rivers of the Heart / Sole Survivor / Intensity by Dean Koontz

    Dark Rivers of the Heart / Sole Survivor / Intensity by Dean Koontz

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Dean Koontz is one of the world's top-selling authors with total worldwide sales of his novels at 225 million copies! He achieves what few writers can: he creates books that consistently jump to the top of the bestseller lists in both hardcover and paper...
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    crime  survival  suspense  action-adventure  adult  book  dark  fiction
  • One By One by Freida McFadden

    One By One by Freida McFadden

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    One by one, they will get what they deserve...A night spent sleeping on dirt and leaves is not how Claire Matchett expected to spend her vacation.She thought this would be a break from the stresses of work and raising her young children. A chance to repair her damaged marriage. A week of hiking and hot tubs with two other couple friends. It sounded like heaven...
  • Last Light by Dean Koontz

    Last Light by Dean Koontz

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    With just a touch, Makani Hisoka-O’Brien can see the deepest secrets that others conceal—and it frightens her. There’s danger in the terrible knowledge that floods her mind and haunts her conscience.With just a touch, Rainer Sparks can learn the biggest problems that others bear—and it thrills him. There’s profit to be made making problems go away, by any means . . . including murder...
    Categorized as:
    crime  suspense  action-adventure  adult  book  fiction  horror  humor
  • 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...
  • The Last Thing to Burn by Will Dean

    The Last Thing to Burn by Will Dean

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    A woman being held captive is willing to risk everything to save herself, her unborn child, and her captor’s latest victim in this claustrophobic thriller in the tradition of Misery and Room. On an isolated farm in the United Kingdom, a woman is trapped by the monster who kidnapped her seven years ago...
  • Some Shall Break by Ellie Marney

    Some Shall Break by Ellie Marney

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    This sequel to the New York Times bestselling None Shall Sleep is an equally electrifying, chilling thriller that brings us back into the lives of junior FBI consultants Travis Bell and Emma Lewis with a new case that may unravel everything they’ve been working for...
  • A Caller's Game by J.D. Barker

    A Caller's Game by J.D. Barker

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    DIE HARD meets TALK RADIO in this heart-pounding, relentlessly fast-paced thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of The Fourth Monkey—master of suspense, J.D. Barker. "I'm going to offer you a choice." Controversial satellite radio talk show host, Jordan Briggs, has clawed her way to the top of the broadcast world...
  • The Haunting of Riley Watson by Alexandria Clarke

    The Haunting of Riley Watson by Alexandria Clarke

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Trapped in a haunted ski lodge by the season's worst snowstorm, Lucia deals with the consequences of a mysterious murder. When Lucia Star, a fake psychic and desperate for cash, takes a job at a ski lodge in the mountains of Vermont, she ends up in the middle of a real-life haunting...
  • 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...
  • Last of the Magpies by Mark Edwards

    Last of the Magpies by Mark Edwards

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    The chilling conclusion to the #1 bestseller The Magpies. Twelve months ago, Jamie Knight walked straight into Lucy Newton’s trap. Both Jamie and his ex-wife Kirsty barely survived. Now, with the police investigation into Lucy’s disappearance going nowhere, Jamie teams up with a true crime podcaster to track down his nemesis...
  • Devil Dog by Boyd Craven, Kevin Pierce

    Devil Dog by Boyd Craven, Kevin Pierce

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Dick, AKA Devil Dog's world changes drastically when the EMP takes out the power grid. The loss of electricity brings out the darker side of human nature across the city. A homeless Marine veteran living in the abandoned tunnels beneath Chicago, he's far better prepared than most people. Good folk have survived, but they are often outnumbered and outgunned...
  • Bloodletting by Michael McBride

    Bloodletting by Michael McBride

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The butchered remains of twelve year-old Jasmine Rivers are discovered in the cellar of an abandoned farmhouse on the desolate eastern plains of Colorado, the fourth mutilated body found in the last two months. The FBI is still searching for the missing parts of the previous three.Hundreds of miles away in Arizona, eleven corpses are exhumed from the Sonoran Desert...
  • Good Neighbors by Russell C. Connor

    Good Neighbors by Russell C. Connor

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Winner of the Silver Medal for Horror in the 2016 Independent Publishing Awards HOW WELL DO YOU KNOW YOUR NEIGHBORS? Elliot Jefferson moved to the isolated Estates of North Hills to work on his sobriety and avoid other people at all costs. But when the electric transformers around the complex begin emitting a horrible buzz that he calls ‘the Squall,’ neither is easy to achieve...
  • American Survivor by A.J. Newman

    American Survivor by A.J. Newman

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    American Apocalypse: American Survivor This is Book I in the American Apocalypse series. The North Koreans launch a surprise Nuclear EMP attack on the USA. Our hero, Joe doesn’t care about politics or what happened, he just knows his world went to Hell. Planes fell out of the sky, people went nuts looting and killing as he scrambled to hide from all of the craziness...
  • Holes in the Ground by J.A. Konrath, Iain Rob Wright

    Holes in the Ground by J.A. Konrath, Iain Rob Wright

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Monsters exist. Linguist Andy Dennison-Jones knows this all too well. He and his veterinarian wife, Sun, have been chased by them before, and barely escaped from a secret underground government facility with their lives. Now they once again find themselves trapped alongside a collection of creatures straight out of hell...
  • #NoEscape  (Volume 3) by Gretchen McNeil

    #NoEscape (Volume 3) by Gretchen McNeil

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The #murder and mayhem continue in this prequel companion novel to the grisly, campy social media insanity that is #MurderTrending and #MurderFunding. Gretchen McNeil brings her signature wit and merciless kills to this gruesome yet hilarious, wildly topical young adult novel.Twenty years before Dee Guerra and the Death Row Breakfast Club took down The Postman and Alcatraz 2...
  • Dying is a Wild Night by Edward Fallon

    Dying is a Wild Night by Edward Fallon

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    THEY SEE WHAT NO ONE ELSE SEESEvery crime scene has a smell. A look. A trail of DNA.It also has a feel. An emotional residue that lingers... floating unseen, like bacteria in the air, just waiting to be absorbed. To be experienced.To be interpreted.And only the man and the boy know this...
  • Let's Hear It for the Deaf Man by Ed McBain

    Let's Hear It for the Deaf Man by Ed McBain

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    The criminals who invade the 87th Precinct aren't particularly known for their intelligence. Their crimes are usually brutal, stupid, and rash. But every once in a while, the 87th gets a good bad guy to hunt down."WITH YOUR ASSISTANCE, I'M GOING TO STEAL $500,000 ON THE LAST DAY OF APRIL." So wrote the Deaf Man, the 87th Precinct's own private nemesis...
  • Blood Brother by Jack Kerley

    Blood Brother by Jack Kerley

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Detective Carson Ryder's sworn duty is to track killers down. He's never revealed the fact that his brother, Jeremy, is one of America's most notorious killers - albeit imprisoned. Now though, his brother's escaped and is at large in New York. With Jeremy the chief suspect in a series of horrifying mutilation-murders, a mysterious video demands Ryder be brought into help...
  • My Brother's Destroyer by Clayton Lindemuth

    My Brother's Destroyer by Clayton Lindemuth

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    A ᴍᴏᴏɴsʜɪɴᴇʀ ᴡɪᴛʜ ᴀ sᴜʀʀᴇᴀʟ ɢɪꜰᴛ, ᴀ ᴄᴏᴜɴᴛʀʏ sᴛʀᴏɴɢᴍᴀɴ, ᴀɴᴅ ᴀ ᴛᴀʟᴋɪɴɢ ᴅᴏɢ.Yᴏᴜ'ʟʟ ʟᴀᴜɢʜ ᴏᴜᴛ ʟᴏᴜᴅ ᴀɴᴅ ʙᴜʀɴ ᴛʜʀᴏᴜɢʜ ᴛʜᴇ ᴘᴀɢᴇs.Baer Creighton is a gifted distiller of fruited moonshine, capable of detecting even the subtlest lies. He lives in the woods next to his house, philosophizes with his dog Fred, and writes letters to his high school love Ruth--who long ago chose Baer's brother...
  • Flight of the Storks by Jean-Christophe Grangé

    Flight of the Storks by Jean-Christophe Grangé

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Every year the storks set off on their miraculous 12,000-mile migration from Northern Europe to Central Africa. Then one year, inexplicably, they do not return. At the invitation of the wealthy Swiss ornithologist Max Boehm, a young French academic, Louis Antioch, agrees to undertake a journey tracing the flight of the storks in an attempt to solve the mystery of the birds' disappearance...
  • The Old Lady by Kristopher Triana

    The Old Lady by Kristopher Triana

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    She never wanted to come home.After the death of her estranged father, Tracey returns to the remote cabin she grew up in. As a traumatized veteran of the Vietnam War, Tracey’s father subjected her to rigorous survival training under brutal conditions, believing it was for her own good. She escaped and never looked back...
  • Dead of Winter by Darcy Coates

    Dead of Winter by Darcy Coates

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    From bestselling author Darcy Coates comes Dead of Winter, a remote cabin in the snowy wilderness thriller that will teach you to trust no one. There are eight strangers. One killer. Nowhere left to run.When Christa joins a tour group heading deep into the snowy expanse of the Rocky Mountains, she's hopeful this will be her chance to put the ghosts of her past to rest...
  • Rogue by Mark T. Sullivan

    Rogue by Mark T. Sullivan

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Mark Sullivan has created a propulsive, compelling new thriller. Rogue, is one part Bourne Identity and one part Mission: Impossible, but readers will also love the nod to Hitchcock’s It Takes a Thief. Two years ago, Robin Monarch was a top level CIA operative—perhaps the best they had when it came to black bag operations...
  • Cold War, A by Alan Russell

    Cold War, A by Alan Russell

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Nina Granville believes her business trip to Alaska will give her a short respite from the merry-go-round that came with her engagement to Congressman Terrence Donnelly. But instead of allowing her the peace she craves, Nina’s getaway from the public eye means that no one witnesses her abduction into a very cold hell...
  • The Loch Ness Legacy by Boyd Morrison

    The Loch Ness Legacy by Boyd Morrison

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    During a trek to Loch Ness, Scotland, a young Charles Darwin encounters a mysterious and terrifying creature that provides a spark for his evolutionary theory.Almost two hundred years later and across the Channel in Paris, the Eiffel Tower is under attack...
  • Island of the Dolls by Jeremy Bates

    Island of the Dolls by Jeremy Bates

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    THE CREEPIEST ISLAND ON EARTHDeep within an ancient Aztec canal system on the outskirts of Mexico City lies Isla de las Munecas...a reportedly haunted island infested with thousands of decrepit dolls.While there to film a television documentary, several friends discover a brutal murder...
  • D.O.G.S by M.A. Bennett

    D.O.G.S by M.A. Bennett

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    After the dramatic events of the last few weeks, Greer Macdonald is trying to concentrate on her A levels. Stuck for a play to direct for her drama exam, she gets help from an unexpected quarter . . .A priceless lost play, buried by time, is pushed under her door. It is Ben Jonson's The Isle of Dogs, a play considered so dangerous in Elizabethan times that every copy was burned . . . except one...
  • The Fear Trials by Lindsay Cummings

    The Fear Trials by Lindsay Cummings

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Meadow Woodson has been trained to survive. This is a prequel to The Murder Complex, by Lindsay Cummings, and it is set in a blood-soaked world where the murder rate is higher than the birth rate. For fans of Moira Young's Dust Lands series, La Femme Nikita, and the movie Hanna.Meadow Woodson's father calls it The Fear Trials, and it is a rite of passage in their family...
  • Scavenger Hunt by Michaelbrent Collings

    Scavenger Hunt by Michaelbrent Collings

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    “I already know all your names. As for me... you can call me Mr. Do-Good.”Five strangers have woken up in a white room. A room with no doors, no windows. A room with no hope.Because these strangers have been kidnapped, drugged... and brought here as the newest contestants in the world’s most high-stakes scavenger hunt. Run by a madman named Mr...
  • This Time You Lose by Chris Stralyn

    This Time You Lose by Chris Stralyn

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    What would you do if street thugs invaded your home? What if you're a daycare provider, caring for a dozen children at the time? Lisa Kaamp, a most unlikely heroine, faces just such a nightmare in This Time You Lose , the suspense driven story of one woman's struggle to survive when she and the children she cares for become victims of a home invasion gone terribly wrong...
  • Nothing Good Happens After Midnight: A Suspense Magazine Anthology by Jeffery Deaver, Heather Graham

    Nothing Good Happens After Midnight: A Suspense Magazine Anthology by Jeffery Deaver, Heather Graham

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The sun sets. The moon takes its place, illuminating the most evil corners of the planet. What twisted fear dwells in that blackness? What legends attach to those of sound mind and make them go crazy in the bright light of day? Only Suspense Magazine knows..
  • Blood on the Motorway by Paul Stephenson

    Blood on the Motorway by Paul Stephenson

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    After a mysterious storm lays waste to humanity, a disparate group of survivors try to find their feet while the world around them falls apart. Two hapless stoners fall under the control of a deranged mercenary. A young woman finds herself trying to keep two lovestruck teenagers alive. A detective must track down a killer who sees the apocalypse as an opportunity...
  • The White South by Hammond Innes

    The White South by Hammond Innes

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Human conflict lies behind the tragedy unfolded in this epic story of the indomitable courage and endurance of a handful of English and Norwegians plunged through unforeseen circumstances into a fight with the pitiless forces of nature...
  • Soft Target by Iain Rob Wright

    Soft Target by Iain Rob Wright

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Nowhere is safe from evil...When an elderly suicide bomber strikes a quiet English village, a once proud nation is brought to its knees. Yet this first attack is just the start of something far greater and much much worse. The days to follow will determine if the United Kingdom has a future, or if it will be reduced to anarchy and ashes...
  • Untouchable by Gerald Seymour

    Untouchable by Gerald Seymour

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Albert William Packer is the supreme baron of London crime. He rules his manor with a cruel, ruthless fist. To those around him, on whatever side of the law, he is the Untouchable.When another criminal case against him collapses, Packer turns his attention to expanding his heroin empire abroad...
  • Run by Jeremy Bates

    Run by Jeremy Bates

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    YOU CAN RUN BUT YOU CAN'T HIDEDuring a camping trip to the Catskill Mountains, Charlotte's boyfriend Luke, a former soldier suffering PTSD, goes on a rampage, nearly killing Charlotte and her two friends. A year later Charlotte is a graduate student in the small college town of Ashenville, North Carolina...
  • The Final Scene by Steph Nelson

    The Final Scene by Steph Nelson

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The cabin is unlocked, but there’s no escape. When Brooke was kidnapped on her way home from work, she thought her life was over.That was ten years ago.She’s been held captive in an isolated cabin on the Oregon coast ever since, scrambling to follow her kidnappers’ twisted instructions to the letter. Because the price of a mistake is death.But when a new victim shows up, everything changes...
  • All Shall Mourn by Ellie Marney

    All Shall Mourn by Ellie Marney

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    The third and final book in the None Shall Sleep Sequence.Simon Gutmunsson is on the loose... Since the disastrous events of the College Killer case, the FBI is coming to terms with the fact that while catching one sociopath, they've released another. Chillingly manipulative, frighteningly intelligent, and wholly insane, Simon Gutmunsson is the worst of the worst...
  • Eyeshot by Taylor Adams

    Eyeshot by Taylor Adams

    Rated: 3.95 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    James and Elle Eversman are a young couple travelling through the Mojave desert on their way to a new life. When their car mysteriously breaks down they are stranded in the middle of nowhere without much water and no cell-phone reception.A mile away a deadly sniper has them in his cross-hairs. They are pinned down behind their broken-down car, surrounded by open ground in all directions...
  • Silent Treatment by Michael Palmer

    Silent Treatment by Michael Palmer

    Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    In his five bestselling novels, from The Sisterhood to Natural Causes, physician Michael Palmer has drawn on years of firsthand emergency-room experience to create the drama of a frighteningly authentic world--a world where the line between medicine and murder is scalpel-thin.  Now, in his most harrowing suspense novel yet, Palmer reveals how the power to heal can become a license to kill...
  • ভেন্ট্রিলোকুইস্ট by মাশুদুল হক

    ভেন্ট্রিলোকুইস্ট by মাশুদুল হক

    Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    বিয়ের অনুষ্ঠানে অনেকদিন পর দেখা হয়ে যায় পুরনো বন্ধুদের, দুই বন্ধু--নৃতাত্ত্বিক মারুফ এবং পত্রিকার ফিচার এডিটর রুমি কথা প্রসঙ্গে জানতে পারে তাদেরই আরেক বন্ধু পেশা হিসেবে বেছে নিয়েছে ভেন্ট্রিলোকুইজম। কৌতুহলী হয়ে সেটার কারণ অনুসন্ধান করতে গিয়ে ওরা জড়িয়ে পড়ে দারুণ রহস্যময় এক অনুসন্ধানে, বেরিয়ে আসে ভয়ঙ্কর আর শিউরে ওঠার মত সব সত্য, সাধারণ মানুষকে কখনই জানতে দেয়া হয় না এমন সব...
  • The Manhattan Hunt Club by John Saul

    The Manhattan Hunt Club by John Saul

    Rated: 3.98 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    In Manhattan Hunt Club John Saul plumbs the depths of the Manhattan underground--the network of subway tunnels and secret caverns and chambers where the homeless denizens of the city have created their own society...
  • The Unknown  (The Unknown, #1) by J.W. Lynne, Jenny Lynne

    The Unknown (The Unknown, #1) by J.W. Lynne, Jenny Lynne

    Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    EIGHT CHILDREN WERE KIDNAPPED.BUT WHY?Eight kids, ages nine to seventeen, awaken to find that almost everything they have ever known has been stolen from them. They were ripped from their beds in the middle of the night and transported to an unfamiliar and unforgiving new world where there are strict rules, and they are punished if they refuse to obey...
  • Valentine by Tom Savage

    Valentine by Tom Savage

    Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Bestselling author Jillian Talbot has it all--a fabulously successful career, a handsome and attentive lover, lots of friends, and a secret admirer. He calls himself Valentine, but behind his cryptic words hides the twisted mind of a killer. Now this faceless madman is writing the final scene for Jill. It is almost Valentine's Day--almost time to die. HC: Little, Brown...
    Categorized as:
    crime  suspense  action-adventure  adult  book  fiction  horror  murder
  • Finders Keepers by Sean Costello

    Finders Keepers by Sean Costello

    Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Ever dreamed of winning the lottery? One of those massive, life-altering purses? Join Keith Whipple and his daughter Kate as they do just that, netting ten million dollars in a single-winner draw. Share in their excitement, the dreams that leap into their lives fully-formed, suddenly within easy reach. But that kind of money, the heady sense of power it brings..
    Categorized as:
    crime  suspense  action-adventure  adult  book  canada  fiction  horror
  • Black Canyon by Jeremy Bates

    Black Canyon by Jeremy Bates

    Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    THE NEW FACE OF EVILBlack Canyon of the Gunnison National Park in Colorado boasts one of the most beautiful and deepest canyons in the United States. For twelve-year-old Brian Garrett, a weekend camping trip in the park promises to be an opportunity to bond with his aloof parents...
    Categorized as:
    crime  survival  horror  mystery  fiction  contemporary  rural  slasher
  • Only One Survives by Hannah Mary McKinnon

    Only One Survives by Hannah Mary McKinnon

    Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    "Rock'n'roll with a dash or two of murder...
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