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  • First Degree by Robin James

    First Degree by Robin James

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    This lawyer is her client’s last hope, and her town’s worst nightmare.When a popular cheerleader winds up dead in a ditch, the case lands in defense attorney Cass Leary’s own backyard. Her niece’s boyfriend Cole is charged with first degree murder and the whole Leary family jumps to his defense. The evidence against him is as thin as the ice on Finn Lake...
  • Mania by Victor Methos

    Mania by Victor Methos

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Jon Stanton finds his life unraveling. His fiancé has left him. His panic attacks are growing more acute. He's attacking his job with ferocity and violence. After nearly killing a human trafficker after he had surrendered, Stanton realizes he's losing control. And knows it all stems from one incident: the disappearance of his sister Elizabeth twenty-seven years ago...
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    crime  suspense  adult  book  fiction  hard-boiled  murder  mystery
  • The Crooked Street by Brian Freeman

    The Crooked Street by Brian Freeman

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    The hunt for a killer in San Francisco becomes a dizzying game of cat and mouse in a thrilling novel of psychological suspense.“Lombard is your Moriarty, Frost. Taking him down will be the most dangerous thing you’ve ever done.”San Francisco homicide detective Frost Easton hadn’t seen his estranged friend Denny in years...
  • Whip Crack by Alex Smith

    Whip Crack by Alex Smith

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Every time you hear his voice, another child will die.DCI Robert Kett’s family may be whole again, but he is a broken man.Suspended from duty, he takes his girls out of the city for a much-needed holiday on the Norfolk Coast.Instead of the peace he desperately needs, however, Kett finds a community in chaos. Four teenagers are missing, and time is running out before they meet a horrific fate...
  • The Devil's Advocate by Steve Cavanagh

    The Devil's Advocate by Steve Cavanagh

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    A deadly prosecutorThey call him the King of Death Row. Randal Korn has sent more men to their deaths than any district attorney in the history of the United States.A twisted ritualistic killingWhen a young woman, Skylar Edwards, is found murdered in Buckstown, Alabama, a corrupt sheriff arrests the last person to see her alive, Andy Dubois...
  • Time of Justice by Robin James

    Time of Justice by Robin James

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    This trial should be a slam-dunk. A faceless powerbroker has other ideas… Small-town prosecutor Mara Brent must be tough as nails to succeed in her male-dominated profession. But she harbors a soft spot for the victims who rely on her courtroom skill, especially the wheelchair-bound rape survivor she’s known for twenty years...
  • The Hallows by Victor Methos, Alexander Cendese

    The Hallows by Victor Methos, Alexander Cendese

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Listening length: 7 hours, 52 minutesA ruthless lawyer cross-examines his life after a guilty client walks free in this sharp legal thriller from the bestselling author of The Neon Lawyer.Ruthless defense attorney Tatum Graham has been living large in Miami, but when his recently acquitted client claims another victim, Tatum has a crisis of conscience...
  • Justice Lost by Scott Pratt

    Justice Lost by Scott Pratt

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    In the Wall Street Journal bestseller, lawyer turned rogue Darren Street faces the most personal and ruthless vendetta of his life.After forfeiting years serving time for a false murder conviction, former criminal defense attorney Darren Street finally got his freedom back and is trying to build a regular life...
  • The Woman Behind the Door by Elle Gray, K.S. Gray

    The Woman Behind the Door by Elle Gray, K.S. Gray

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    “YOU ARE LIVING A LIE. Everything about you is a lie…”This is a story about an ordinary woman, a mother of two.To most women, to most mothers, her life is relatable in every way.Except behind closed doors her truth comes with unimaginable consequences.Amid a night of fun and festivities, Isabella Walker found herself alone with a bold masked man at her front door...
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    crime  suspense  adult  book  fiction  kidnapping  murder  mystery
  • Body Count by Jodi Burnett

    Body Count by Jodi Burnett

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Abducted and hidden away deep in the Rocky Mountains, Susan Bell is frantic to escape her murderous captor.Freshman Special Agent Burke Cameron is straight laced, traditionally minded, and comes with a hefty set of old-fashioned values. Burke doesn’t know what to do with the free spirited, progressive woman he’s falling for...
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    crime  suspense  adult  animals  audiobook  book  fiction  murder
  • Cold Crash by Mary Stone

    Cold Crash by Mary Stone

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    On a crash course with death.Ellie Kline’s return to the world of crime investigation is heralded by two unexpected texts. The first bears unsettling news from her mother...a family friend has been found dead under mysterious circumstances. Was it an accident, suicide, or foul play?Before Ellie can process this family tragedy, the second text arrives, jolting her back into professional mode...
  • Only the Lonely by L.M. Krier

    Only the Lonely by L.M. Krier

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    'Blind dates end in bleeding hearts'Ted Darling is back and his boss has news for him. He'll be taking on more responsibility over an expanded area, with a bigger team. Before he even has chance to take stock, he's facing his first body in what could be the most cynical murder he's ever encountered...
  • The Vecellio Connection by Estelle Ryan

    The Vecellio Connection by Estelle Ryan

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Sadistic smugglers. Hacked cars. The ultimate revenge. Nonverbal communications expert Doctor Genevieve Lenard and her team have spent the last year tracking Marcus Gallo, a disgraced Brazilian business tycoon and ruthless killer. Then a hacked car transporting artwork brings a teammate’s past back to distract and haunt them all...
  • Her Name Is Knight by Yasmin Angoe

    Her Name Is Knight by Yasmin Angoe

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    Her Name Is Knight revolves around Nena Knight, codename Echo, a highly trained assassin for The Tribe – a clandestine international organization dedicated to the protection and advancement of the peoples and countries of Africa around the world...
  • The Flinck Connection by Estelle Ryan

    The Flinck Connection by Estelle Ryan

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    A murdered politician. An unsolved art heist. An international conspiracy. A cryptic online message leads nonverbal communications expert Doctor Genevieve Lenard to the body of a brutally murdered politician. Despite being ordered not to investigate, Genevieve and her team look into this vicious crime...
  • The Morisot Connection by Estelle Ryan

    The Morisot Connection by Estelle Ryan

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Murdered criminals. Flawless forgeries. Encrypted operas.The murder of an opera house director forces world-renowned nonverbal communications expert Doctor Genevieve Lenard and her team into an impossible position: protecting notorious criminals--from what appears to be a serial killer...
  • The Russian by James Patterson, James O. Born

    The Russian by James Patterson, James O. Born

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    A killer crashes Detective Michael Bennett's wedding. A series of gruesome murders in New York City has Michael Bennett angry -- but when he identifies similar cases in Atlanta and San Francisco, his feelings escalate into all-out alarm. All of the victims are young women. And each one is killed in a horrifyingly distinct fashion...
  • Code Name: Cowboy by Heather Slade

    Code Name: Cowboy by Heather Slade

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Code Garrison “Cowboy” Cassidy Winslow Greer Take the ski champion to new peaks.COWBOYBeing quiet and reserved makes cracking cases and taking down enemies—one vile and malicious criminal at a time—easy for a stealthy agent like me. But when I meet Winslow, it requires every bit of my reserve to take it slow...
  • Cruel Acts by Jane Casey

    Cruel Acts by Jane Casey

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    From award-winning author Jane Casey comes another powerful Maeve Kerrigan crime thriller which will keep you on the edge of your seat until the final page! Leo Stone is a killer. A year ago, he was convicted of murdering two women and sentenced to life without parole. But now, a juror from his trial has revealed the jury was prejudiced, and a retrial is called...
  • The Terminal List by Jack Carr

    The Terminal List by Jack Carr

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    A Navy SEAL has nothing left to live for and everything to kill for after he discovers that the American government is behind the deaths of his team in this ripped-from-the-headlines political thriller.On his last combat deployment, Lieutenant Commander James Reece’s entire team was killed in a catastrophic ambush that also claimed the lives of the aircrew sent in to rescue them...
  • Chiefs by Stuart Woods

    Chiefs by Stuart Woods

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    In the bitter winter of 1920, the first body is found in Delano, Georgia; the naked corpse of an unidentified teenager. There is no direct evidence of murder, but the body bears marks of what seems to be a ritual beating. The investigation falls to Will Henry Lee, a failed cotton farmer newly appointed as Delano's first chief of police...
  • The Criminal Lawyer by Thomas Benigno

    The Criminal Lawyer by Thomas Benigno

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Inspired by real crimes. From the author of the number-one best-seller, The Good Lawyer.A serial killer is littering the south shore beach of Long Island with the bones of his female victims stuffed into burlap bags...
  • A Cold Killing by Anna Smith

    A Cold Killing by Anna Smith

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Crime reporter Rosie Gilmour returns from hiding in Bosnia to a story of a brutal execution. University lecturer Tom Mahoney was shot at point blank range, the killing has all the signs of a hit. But who would want to kill a retired lecturer? Rosie throws herself into the investigation, looking for a witness that has gone missing. A witness that might hold the key to the story...
  • Mercurial Dreams by Hadena James

    Mercurial Dreams by Hadena James

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Aislinn Cain and the Serial Crimes Tracking Unit are being sent to the hottest place in North America to investigate mummified remains that were found in Death Valley. When Xavier Reece uncovers elemental mercury in the heart of one of the mummies, they discover there is more than Mother Nature at work...
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    crime  suspense  adult  book  contemporary  fiction  horror  murder
  • Explosive Dreams by Hadena James

    Explosive Dreams by Hadena James

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Bright midways, rides with loud music and flashing lights, barkers trying to get people to spend money on rigged games; the normal sounds of county fairs everywhere until an explosion rips through the tinny music of the carnival rides. Now the screams are not squeals of delight but the terrified shrieks of the dying.The danger is no longer imaginary, something to shrug off when the ride is over...
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    crime  suspense  adult  book  contemporary  fiction  horror  murder
  • The Judge's List by John Grisham

    The Judge's List by John Grisham

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 35 ratings
    Listening Length 11 hours and 36 minutesFrom the #1 New York Times bestselling author, a new legal thriller about a man who might be the most criminal sitting judge in American history As an investigator for the Florida Board on Judicial Conduct, Lacy Stoltz sees plenty of corruption among the men and women elected to the bench...
  • Vile by Debra Webb

    Vile by Debra Webb

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Deputy Chief Jess Harris knows her time is running out. Somehow she must protect the people she loves and any more innocent victims from the serial killer obsessed with her...
  • Vicious by Debra Webb

    Vicious by Debra Webb

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Book 7 in the Faces of Evil series. Serial killer Eric Spears is far from done. He has chosen his next victim and Deputy Chief Jess Harris knows it's only a matter of time until he comes for her. The murders are vicious, the killer relentless...
  • Heinous by Debra Webb

    Heinous by Debra Webb

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The body count is rising. The serial killer obsessed with Birmingham’s Deputy Chief Jess Harris is getting closer, and he knows Jess’s secret. Can she protect the child she carries and the people she loves from Eric Spears and his followers? The body farm discovered in a small Alabama town has many buried secrets...
  • When I'm Old and Grey by L.M. Krier

    When I'm Old and Grey by L.M. Krier

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    DI Ted Darling doesn't like coincidences. There are too many for comfort surrounding his latest case. They're spilling over into his private life, too, when some toxic family secrets are uncovered. A serial killer appears to be targeting vulnerable elderly people in care homes and despatching them in the most cynical way. Ted and his team are struggling to get a lead on who the killer really is...
  • The Locked Door by Freida McFadden

    The Locked Door by Freida McFadden

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    Some doors are locked for a reason…While eleven-year-old Nora Davis was up in her bedroom doing homework, she had no idea her father was killing women in the basement.Until the day the police arrived at their front door.Decades later, Nora’s father is spending his life behind bars, and Nora is a successful surgeon with a quiet, solitary existence...
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    crime  suspense  adult  audiobook  book  fiction  killer  mystery
  • Dark Lava by Toby Neal

    Dark Lava by Toby Neal

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Paradise is threatened by a fight for sacred artifacts.She just wants to disarm the IED.Newly assigned to the bomb squad, Detective Lei Texeira struggles with skills that may be dangerously out of reach, even as a heinous crime strikes close to home and catches her husband in the crossfire.The woman is his. And if he can’t have her, she’ll have to die...
  • End of Days by Brad Taylor

    End of Days by Brad Taylor

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Pike Logan must stop a deranged fanatic bent on igniting an international conflagration in this explosive, action-packed thriller from New York Times bestselling author and former special forces officer, Brad Taylor...
  • Burnout by Larry A. Winters

    Burnout by Larry A. Winters

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Jessie Black is a rising star at the Philadelphia District Attorney's Office. But all of her abilities will be put to the test when Frank Ramsey, a brutal serial murderer and rapist she successfully prosecuted over a year ago, petitions the court for a new trial.Public defender Jack Ackerman represented Ramsey at his first trial. Beating him had not been easy...
  • A Stranger in the Family by Jane Casey

    A Stranger in the Family by Jane Casey

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    The gripping new thriller featuring DS Maeve Kerrigan and DI Josh Derwent from the Top Ten Sunday Times bestselling authorEvery mother's worst nightmare . . .When nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall vanished from her bed one summer night, her disappearance tore her family apart.Now, sixteen years later, her mother Helena is found dead, her husband by her side...
  • The Sixth Man by David Baldacci

    The Sixth Man by David Baldacci

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    After the #1 New York Times bestsellers Split Second, Hour Game, Simple Genius, and First Family, Sean King and Michelle Maxwell return in their most shocking case: a high stakes struggle where the relentless needs of national security run up against the absolute limits of the human mind...
  • Threat Warning by John Gilstrap

    Threat Warning by John Gilstrap

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Jonathan Grave, my favorite freelance peacemaker, problem-solver, and tough-guy hero, is back--and in particularly fine form. --Jeffery DeaverIn his most terrifying thriller yet, New York Times bestselling author John Gilstrap exposes the darkest threat to America's freedom, a secret society of merciless killers, watching and waiting to strike. . .The first victims are random...
  • Alter Ego by Brian Freeman

    Alter Ego by Brian Freeman

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    When a freak auto accident kills a driver on the remote roads outside Duluth, Jonathan Stride is disturbed to discover that the victim appears to be a "ghost," with a false identity and no evidence to suggest who he really was. Alarmingly, a gun is found in the car--and the gun has recently been fired...
  • Silent Scream by Karen Rose

    Silent Scream by Karen Rose

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    When a teenage girl dies in a suspicious fire, Detective Olivia Sutherland is assigned to track down the arsonist. Then she discovers something more sinister: a vicious blackmailer who preys on young people and murders without hesitation. Making her work even harder is sexy firefighter David Hunter...
  • Lethal Lines by Paige Black

    Lethal Lines by Paige Black

    Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    For fans of gripping thrillers and intense police procedurals comes a chilling tale that will keep you on the edge of your seat.Eden Mercer, a determined young officer in Nightfall, Oregon, is making strides to overcome her traumatic past in a fundamentalist cult. With her loyal K-9 partner, Shadow, at her side, she's ready to tackle any challenge...
  • Psychopath by Jeff Menapace

    Psychopath by Jeff Menapace

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The final game is here… A decade has passed. The Lambert family is thriving. Amy Lambert is a successful entrepreneur and in a promising relationship with Allan Brown. Caleb Lambert is a respected member of the United States Marine Corps. Carrie Lambert is a flourishing college student. Or so they wish. Nothing could be further from the truth...
    Categorized as:
    crime  suspense  adult  book  fiction  horror  murder  mystery
  • Profile of Terror by Alexa Grace

    Profile of Terror by Alexa Grace

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A missing coed named Abby Reece. Two clever thrill killers are committing the most brutal, public, and horrifying abductions and murders in the county’s history. The killers, known as the Gamers, have done this before, and are now upping their evil game to a new level. The question is — can they be stopped before they kill again? Things get complicated...
    Categorized as:
    crime  suspense  adult  book  contemporary  fiction  killer  mystery
  • Senseless & Merciless Bundle by Mary Burton

    Senseless & Merciless Bundle by Mary Burton

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Senseless & Merciless Bundle Senseless Every Serial Killer Knows. . . The vicious burns scarring the victims' flesh reveal the agony of their last moments. Each woman was branded with a star, then stabbed through the heart. With every death, a vengeful killer finds a brief, blissful moment of calm. But soon it's time for the bloodshed to start again. . . The Perfect Time. .
  • Whiplash by Catherine Coulter

    Whiplash by Catherine Coulter

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Yale professor Dr. Edward Kender’s father is undergoing chemotherapy when the supply of a critical accompanying drug, Culovort, suddenly runs out. Unwilling to accept the drug manufacturer’s disingenuous excuse of production line problems, Dr. Kender hires private investigator Erin Pulaski to prove that something more sinister is going on at Schiffer Hartwin...
  • His Garden of Bones by Vickie McKeehan

    His Garden of Bones by Vickie McKeehan

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Not all flowers are grown with love. Years earlier, teenage girls began to vanish off the streets of Seattle. Now, they're turning up dead, their mutilated bodies left in prominent locations around the city. Skye Cree suspects there are more...
  • Reckoning by Jeff Menapace

    Reckoning by Jeff Menapace

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Life in the swamp just got wilder… “The Swamp Massacre.” That’s what the media dubbed it. A family on a boat tour through the Florida Everglades. Abducted by the infamous Roy family. Forced to endure hell. Five years later, an aspiring filmmaker and her friends are keen on making a documentary about the incident...
  • I Kill Killers by S.T. Ashman

    I Kill Killers by S.T. Ashman

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    When a genius pianist turned hunter of serial killers finds herself connected to her latest victim by an eerie twist of fate, her world spirals into dark chaos. Caught in a relentless game of cat-and-mouse with a tenacious FBI agent, she is also thrust into a dangerous face-off with a serial killer whose lethal cunning could rival her own...
  • Elysium Dreams by Hadena James

    Elysium Dreams by Hadena James

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    He skins his victims alive, taking pleasure from their pain. In the cold, dark nights of Alaska, a hunter is stalking his prey. Once found, he takes them into the woods and skins them alive, prolonging the experience as much as he can, but the satisfaction always wanes.Aislinn Cain and the Serial Crimes Tracking Unit have just finished up another case when they get the call...
    Categorized as:
    crime  suspense  adult  book  contemporary  fiction  horror  murder
  • Girl, Expendable by Blake Pierce

    Girl, Expendable by Blake Pierce

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    FBI Agent Ella Dark has studied serial killers from the time she could read, devastated by the murder of her own sister, and has gained an encyclopedic knowledge of murderers. A murderer obsessed with past serial killers seems to be copycatting their work—but with one curious difference...
  • The Runaway by Nick Petrie

    The Runaway by Nick Petrie

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Petrie has a preternatural talent for ratcheting up suspense.--New York Times Book Review When Peter Ash rescues a stranded woman, he finds she's in far deeper trouble than he could ever imagine in the powerful new thriller in this bestselling and award-winning series...
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