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  • The Light Through the Leaves by Glendy Vanderah

    The Light Through the Leaves by Glendy Vanderah

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    One unbearable mistake at the edge of the forest.In a moment of crisis, Ellis Abbey leaves her daughter, Viola, unattended—for just a few minutes. But when she returns, Viola is gone. A breaking point in an already fractured marriage, Viola’s abduction causes Ellis to disappear as well—into grief, guilt, and addiction...
  • Sinister by Jana Deleon

    Sinister by Jana Deleon

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Street kids are disappearing, but how do you report that to the police when, from their standpoint, the missing people didn’t exist to begin with? Hustle is certain that something bad has happened to his friend Jinx, and the only person he can turn to for help is private investigator Shaye Archer...
  • Little Lost Secrets by Cheryl Bradshaw

    Little Lost Secrets by Cheryl Bradshaw

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    When a dead body is found in the walls during a home renovation, detective Georgiana Germaine gets swept into a cold case murder...
  • What She Saw by Wendy Clarke

    What She Saw by Wendy Clarke

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    She lied to her daughter to save her family. Everyone knows Leona would do anything for her daughter Beth: she moved to Church Langdon to send Beth to the best school, worked hard to build a successful business to support them and found them the perfect little cottage to call home. Leona and Beth hike together, shop together, share their hopes and fears with one another...
  • The Secret Child by Kerry Fisher

    The Secret Child by Kerry Fisher

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Just for a moment, I was young and invincible again, back before I made the decision that changed the rest of my life…   Susie did something that she knows she will always regret: giving her baby son up for adoption, to keep her infidelity secret from her family...
  • The Perfect Block by Blake Pierce

    The Perfect Block by Blake Pierce

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    In THE PERFECT BLOCK (Book #2), rookie criminal profiler Jessie Hunt, 29, picks up the pieces of her broken life and leaves suburbia to start a new life in downtown Los Angeles. But when a wealthy socialite is murdered, Jessie, assigned the case, finds herself back in the world of picture-perfect suburbia, hunting a deranged killer amidst the false facades of normalcy and sociopathic women...
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    north-america  suspense  urban  usa  thriller  adult  audiobook  book
  • Absolute Fear by Lisa Jackson

    Absolute Fear by Lisa Jackson

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Every Serial Killer... A serial killer is stalking the streets of New Orleans. The victims are killed in a ritual fashion, a series of numbers tattooed into their bodies. There are no clues, no connections except one: a crumbling old asylum that was once the scene of unspeakable madness--and is now the calling card of a new kind of fear. Is Searching For..
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    north-america  suspense  urban  usa  thriller  adult  audiobook  book
  • What's Left Unsaid by Emily Bleeker

    What's Left Unsaid by Emily Bleeker

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    An enthralling novel of secrets, second chances, and confronting the past by the Wall Street Journal bestselling author of When I’m Gone.After a series of devastating losses, Chicago journalist Hannah Williamson has landed in Senatobia, Mississippi, to care for her bedridden grandmother and endure grunt work at a small newspaper...
  • Good as Dead by Susan Walter

    Good as Dead by Susan Walter

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    It all starts with a promise from a stranger: We’ll take care of everything.Holly Kendrick’s husband is dead. Holly saw it all. In one violent moment, a hit-and-run accident turns Holly’s life upside down. Then a fixer for the high-powered guilty party approaches Holly with an offer she is in no position to refuse...
  • Notes on an Execution by Danya Kukafka

    Notes on an Execution by Danya Kukafka

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    9 hours, 42 minutes In the tradition of 'Long Bright River' and 'The Mars Room', a gripping and atmospheric work of literary suspense that deconstructs the story of a serial killer on death row, told primarily through the eyes of the women in his life - from the best-selling author of 'Girl in Snow'.Ansel Packer is scheduled to die in twelve hours...
  • No More Lies by Kerry Lonsdale

    No More Lies by Kerry Lonsdale

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Secrets and lies shadow a woman on the run in the second novel in the No More trilogy by Amazon Charts and Wall Street Journal bestselling author Kerry Lonsdale.Jenna Mason’s life seems perfect: a successful career as an animator, a town house near the beach, and an adoring son, Josh, whose artistic talent looks as promising as his mother’s. But there’s something nobody realizes about Jenna...
  • Who's Lying Now by Susan Lewis

    Who's Lying Now by Susan Lewis

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    You think you’re safe.You think you know your neighbours.But can you ever really know who’s telling the truth? Jeannie Symonds is a force to be reckoned with – an eccentric, award-winning publisher, spending lockdown with her husband in a house near Kesterly-on-Sea. She seems to have it all: a high-flying career, a happy marriage, a niece she adores. And then one day, she vanishes...
  • Tiffany Lynn Is Missing by Dan Alatorre

    Tiffany Lynn Is Missing by Dan Alatorre

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A young Florida woman goes missing; everybody believes she is dead. They even have a body at the morgue that her mother identified as her.But the mother keeps getting letters from the daughter saying “Don’t worry, and don’t look for me.” They are in the deceased girl’s handwriting and there’s even a DNA match - but the body at the morgue is definitely her...
  • The Thorn Girl by Laura Elliot

    The Thorn Girl by Laura Elliot

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    A swallow flutters its wings into a dimly lit attic as Adele Foyle stumbles across the secret diary of the mother she has never met, and a shocking account of a crime committed over twenty-five years ago...
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    family  female-mc  suspense  thriller  adult  book  contemporary  crime
  • No More Words by Kerry Lonsdale

    No More Words by Kerry Lonsdale

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    From the Amazon Charts and Wall Street Journal bestselling author comes the first book in a trilogy about love, betrayal, and the secrets families keep.Forced to choose between abortion or adoption, Olivia Carson’s younger sister, Lily, runs away from home. Sixteen and pregnant, she never returns. But she writes...
  • The Stepdaughter by Georgina Cross

    The Stepdaughter by Georgina Cross

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    It’s a normal afternoon when I walk out the patio doors of our kitchen to check on Mia, my stepdaughter, who is swimming in our backyard pool. But she’s gone. My heart stops when I see the back gate is open, her pink, fluffy towel lying folded on a chair. I was just feet away...
  • The Lodger by Valerie Keogh

    The Lodger by Valerie Keogh

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    She’s in your home…Leigh Simons can’t say for sure what made her do it. A moment of madness, perhaps, but when the young, loud and gorgeous waitress at her favorite coffee shop reveals she is homeless, Leigh offers her the empty room in her house.In your head…Gina is the perfect lodger; Leigh, lonely and frustrated with her life, becomes infatuated with the woman – her boldness, her zeal...
  • The Silent Wife by Kerry Fisher

    The Silent Wife by Kerry Fisher

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    Would you risk everything for the man you loved? Even if you knew he'd done something terrible? Lara’s life looks perfect on the surface. Gorgeous doting husband Massimo, sweet little son Sandro and the perfect home. Lara knows something about Massimo. Something she can’t tell anyone else or everything Massimo has worked so hard for will be destroyed: his job, their reputation, their son...
  • The Last Flight by Julie Clark

    The Last Flight by Julie Clark

    Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars
    · 44 ratings
    Claire Cook has a perfect life. But behind closed doors, nothing is quite as it seems. That perfect husband has a temper that burns as bright as his promising political career, and he's not above using his staff to track Claire's every move. But what he doesn't know is that Claire has worked for months on a plan to vanish...
  • This Book Will Bury Me by Ashley Winstead

    This Book Will Bury Me by Ashley Winstead

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    From the bestselling author of In My Dreams I Hold a Knife and Midnight is the Darkest Hour comes a chilling, compulsive story of five amateur sleuths, whose hunt for an elusive killer catapults them into danger as the world watches.It's the most famous crime in modern history. But only she knows the true story...
  • Watching Glass Shatter by James J. Cudney

    Watching Glass Shatter by James J. Cudney

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    After 40 years of marriage, Olivia's husband unexpectedly passes away. But when Ben’s will reveals a life-altering secret, she suffers a blow no widow should ever experience. As Olivia visits each of her sons to share a final connection before facing a truth that will change their family, she discovers that each has been harboring a painful secret, just like his father...
  • Things We Never Say by Caitlin Weaver

    Things We Never Say by Caitlin Weaver

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Three mothers. Three secrets. One devastating scandal.Anna has always been the quiet one, the soft-spoken mother who kept her head down and her secrets close. But when she's thrown together with Maggie and Rhea on a PTA project, they begin to bond over wine and gossip, and slowly share the truths behind their picture-perfect lives...
  • The Perfect Family Man by M.M. DeLuca

    The Perfect Family Man by M.M. DeLuca

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Five years ago, my little boy went missing. Now my husband’s vanished, too.I wish I could say that the tragedy of little Jack disappearing brought me and Nate closer together. But my husband is more distant from me now than he’s ever been. Perhaps that’s why I don’t ask him exactly where he’s going when he sets off on another business trip...
  • Closet Full of Bones by A.J. Aalto

    Closet Full of Bones by A.J. Aalto

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Ever since they were children, Gillian Hearth has been her sister Frankie’s guardian, her sounding board, and her best friend. Together, the Hearth sisters quietly bury their secrets and form a formidable team during any crisis. Purchasing the old Blymhill house with the hopes of turning it into an artists’ retreat, the sisters are finally living their dream...
  • Don't Scream by Wendy Corsi Staub

    Don't Scream by Wendy Corsi Staub

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Don't Tell A Soul. . . In a remote, heavily wooded area near the Berkshires of Massachusetts, Rachel Lorant died on her birthday. But she didn't die alone. That night, her four sorority sisters make a solemn, trembling pledge. They will never reveal what has just happened in those woods--ever. Instead, they will take their terrible secret to their graves. . . Don't Think About The Past. .
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    family  female-mc  north-america  suspense  usa  thriller  adult  book
  • Exquisite by Sarah Stovell

    Exquisite by Sarah Stovell

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Bo Luxton has it all - a loving family, a beautiful home in the Lake District, and a clutch of bestselling books to her name. Enter Alice Dark, an aspiring writer who is drifting through life, with a series of dead-end jobs and a freeloading boyfriend. When they meet at a writers' retreat, the chemistry is instant, and a sinister relationship develops ..
  • The Lies We Hide by S.E. Lynes

    The Lies We Hide by S.E. Lynes

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Thirty years ago, Nicola Watson lived with her parents and older brother in a respectable suburb...
  • Hurt Mountain by Angela Crook

    Hurt Mountain by Angela Crook

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    An estranged mother and father join forces to uncover the truth about their missing daughter in a haunting novel about trauma, loss, family, and hope. When patrolman Brandon Hall comes upon a broken-down car on a Colorado highway, he finds a young girl in a bloodied nightgown at the wheel. In the back seat, the brutalized body of a teenage boy. The girl will say only one Hurt...
  • One Little Mistake by Emma Curtis

    One Little Mistake by Emma Curtis

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Vicky Seagrave is blessed: three beautiful children, a successful, doting husband, great friends and a job she loves. She should be perfectly happy. When she risks everything she holds dear on a whim, there's only person she trusts enough to turn to. But Vicky is about to learn that one mistake is all it takes; that if you're careless with those you love, you don't deserve to keep them . .
  • The Third Grave by Lisa Jackson

    The Third Grave by Lisa Jackson

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    A thrilling new crime novel from the bestselling author of You Betrayed Me, perfect for fans of Sandra Brown and Iris Johansen! Return to the dark side of Savanna, Georgia where a crime writer and her detective husband are working a cold case, and hot on the trail of a killer who’s work isn’t done...
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    north-america  suspense  urban  usa  thriller  adult  audiobook  book
  • Deliver Me by Karen Cole

    Deliver Me by Karen Cole

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    THE NIGHT SHE DOESN'T REMEMBER WILL BE THE ONE SHE CAN'T FORGETWhen Abby's doctor tells her she's two months pregnant she doesn't believe him. She can't be - she hasn't had sex for over a year. But to her astonishment and dismay, multiple tests confirm it's true...
  • My Little Girl by Shalini Boland

    My Little Girl by Shalini Boland

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    ‘I’m sorry. Your daughter is missing…’Claire Nolan receives a panicked phone call, telling her that her seven-year-old daughter Beatrice has gone missing on a trip to the local fair.It’s every mother’s worst nightmare. And it’s happening to her...
  • Never Far Away by Michael Koryta

    Never Far Away by Michael Koryta

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Once a wife, mother, and witness to a gruesome crime, Nina Morgan has been in hiding for a decade as Leah Trenton. She left behind her Midwestern roots to move to the northernmost tip of Maine. She also left behind a family...
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    north-america  usa  suspense  thriller  family  maine  mystery  fiction
  • Dear Mother by Angela Marsons

    Dear Mother by Angela Marsons

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    A story about three sisters brought together by the death of their cruel and abusive mother. Alex, the youngest, is a bitter, unforgiving woman who refuses to face the events of her childhood. She hides in a bottle and destroys any chance of happiness that comes her way. Her life is spiralling dangerously out of control but she doesn't have the strength to stop it...
  • The Halo Effect by Anne D. LeClaire

    The Halo Effect by Anne D. LeClaire

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    In this tour de force, a father, shaken by tragedy, tries to avenge his daughter’s murder—and restore his family’s shattered life. It was supposed to be a typical October evening for renowned portrait artist Will Light...
    Categorized as:
    family  female-mc  suspense  thriller  adult  book  contemporary  crime
  • In Her Eyes by Sarah Alderson

    In Her Eyes by Sarah Alderson

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    You're at home with your family. You think you're safe. You're wrong... Ava's life is the kind other people envy: loving husband; great kids; beautiful house. Until the night a violent home invasion turns the dream into a nightmare, and leaves her beautiful daughter fighting to survive.And then things get worse. Ava realises that the attack wasn't random. Someone is targeting her family...
  • Sister Sister by Sue Fortin

    Sister Sister by Sue Fortin

    Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Alice: Beautiful, kind, manipulative, liar.Clare: Intelligent, loyal, paranoid, jealous.Clare thinks Alice is a manipulative liar who is trying to steal her life.Alice thinks Clare is jealous of her long-lost return and place in their family.One of them is telling the truth. The other is a maniac.Two sisters. One truth...
  • The Golden Couple by Greer Hendricks, Sarah Pekkanen

    The Golden Couple by Greer Hendricks, Sarah Pekkanen

    Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    The Golden Couple is an addictive page-turning psychological thriller from Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen, the authors of the bestselling The Wife Between Us and An Anonymous Girl, that will keep you guessing to the very end.Marissa and Mathew Bishop seem like the golden couple . . . until Marissa cheats...
  • Last Night by Luanne Rice

    Last Night by Luanne Rice

    Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    From the Amazon Charts and New York Times bestselling author of The Shadow Box and Last Day comes a breathtaking thriller about a family shaken by lies, vengeance, and a cold-blooded crime.A fierce blizzard is burying the eastern seaboard, but on the icy Rhode Island shore renowned artist Maddie Morrison finds warm sanctuary from a contentious divorce at the legendary Ocean House...
  • Family Money by Chad Zunker, Kris Koscheski

    Family Money by Chad Zunker, Kris Koscheski

    Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    * Duration: 7 hours and 24 minutes *A dead man’s secrets put a family in peril in a twisting novel of suspense by the Amazon Charts best-selling author of the David Adams series.Alex Mahan is married to his high school sweetheart, Taylor...
  • The Secret Mother by Shalini Boland

    The Secret Mother by Shalini Boland

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Are you my mommy?Tessa Markham returns home to find a child in her kitchen. He thinks she is his mother. But Tessa doesn't have any children.Not anymore.She doesn't know who the little boy is or how he got there. After contacting the police, Tessa is suspected of kidnapping the mystery child. Her whole life is turned upside down. And then her husband reveals a secret of his own..
  • The Promise by Teresa Driscoll

    The Promise by Teresa Driscoll

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    The chilling new psychological thriller from the #1 bestselling author of I Am Watching You. It was their darkest secret. Three schoolgirls made a promise – to take the horrible truth of what they did to the grave.Thirty years later, Beth and Sally have tried to put the trauma behind them...
  • Three Mothers by Hannah Beckerman, Kristin Atherton

    Three Mothers by Hannah Beckerman, Kristin Atherton

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    From the bestselling author of The Forgetting : a tense, character-driven suspense with a final twist that will make you gaspA heartbroken motherWhen seventeen-year-old Isla Richardson is killed in a hit-and-run incident, a community’s lives are thrown into disarray. For Isla’s mum, Abby, it is her second devastating bereavement, having lost her husband five years ago...
  • The Widow by Valerie Keogh

    The Widow by Valerie Keogh

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Grieving or guilty?When Allison’s wealthy and charming husband Peter is found dead, she appears distraught, devastated….delighted?Because despite an apparently picture-perfect marriage, Allison knows it was all built on a bed of lies.And as the truth regarding Peter’s life and death are revealed, Alison must try to keep her own dark past buried...
  • The Other Daughter by Shalini Boland

    The Other Daughter by Shalini Boland

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Nine years ago her daughter was taken. And now she’s back. Two-and-a-half-year-old Holly is playing happily in a pink plastic playhouse, while her mother Rachel sips coffee and chats with a friend nearby. It should be an ordinary day for all of them. But, in the blink of an eye, it turns into every family’s worst nightmare. Holly is taken by a stranger and never found...
  • What It Seems by Emily Bleeker

    What It Seems by Emily Bleeker

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    A page-turning novel of suspense about the perfect family, and the perfect lies, by the bestselling author of When I’m Gone and The Waiting Room.Adopted by her controlling foster mother at the age of eight, twenty-year-old Tara has seen little of the outside world. Lonely, punished for the slightest offense, her only distraction comes from watching the Feely family’s online videos...
  • Gone, But Not Forgotten by Phillip Margolin

    Gone, But Not Forgotten by Phillip Margolin

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Darkness has fallen on the city of Portland, Oregon. One by one, the wives of affluent and respected men are vanishing from their homes. The only clues to their disappearance are a single black rose and a note that reads, "Gone, But Not Forgotten...
  • Home Fires by Luanne Rice

    Home Fires by Luanne Rice

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Anne Davis has returned to the house where she grew up, trading her glamorous Manhattan lifestyle for a harsh winter on a wind-whipped New England island. Her marriage has crumbled in the wake of a tragic accident. Now she has returned to the home on Salt Whistle Raod that has always meant shelter, security, family and love...
  • The Family by Martina Cole

    The Family by Martina Cole

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Phillip Murphy is a family man. He worships his old mum; he takes care of his siblings who help run his business empire; he dotes on his two young sons who will one day take over. And then there's his wife and saviour Christine, whom he loves with a vengeance. To Phillip Murphy, family is everything.Christine has always understood this about her husband...
    Categorized as:
    family  female-mc  suspense  urban  thriller  book  contemporary  crime
  • Little Friends by Jane Shemilt

    Little Friends by Jane Shemilt

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    THE STUNNING NEW PSYCHOLOGICAL SUSPENSE FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF RICHARD & JUDY BOOK CLUB SENSATION DAUGHTERTheir children are friends first. They hit it off immediately, as kids do. And so the parents are forced to get to know each other. Three wildly different couples. Three marriages, floundering.There are barbecues, dinner parties, a holiday in Greece...
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