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  • Hello Again by Brenda Novak

    Hello Again by Brenda Novak

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    From NYT bestseller Brenda Novak comes the next installment of Dr. Evelyn Talbot and her murderous home for psychopaths in Hello Again. SHE CAN MAKE SENSE OF A COMPLEX CRIMINAL MIND. Evelyn Talbot, a psychiatrist at a maximum-security prison in Alaska, studies some of the world's worst serial killers. But she’s about to meet her most elusive patient at Hanover House yet: Dr...
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    crime  female-mc  suspense  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary  dark
  • Twisted Lies by Angela Marsons

    Twisted Lies by Angela Marsons

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Her stomach lurches as she sits in the windowless room. He throws her phone to the ground, grinds it against the floor with the heel of his shoe and brings his face closer to hers. There was no turning back now, her life as she knew it was gone...
  • Stolen Ones by Angela Marsons, Ángela Marsons

    Stolen Ones by Angela Marsons, Ángela Marsons

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Kim felt sickness sweep over her as she watched little Grace dust off her dirty hands. Blonde curls tumbled around her face. Then, Grace disappeared into the crowd. Kim wanted to pause the recording, run outside, and grab her to stop what was about to happen.One August afternoon, eight-year-old Grace Lennard skips into the garden of the childcare center she attends and vanishes into thin air...
  • The Moor: A DCI Ryan Mystery by LJ Ross

    The Moor: A DCI Ryan Mystery by LJ Ross

    Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    FROM THE #1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF HOLY ISLAND and LONGSTONE The circus is in town… When a ten-year-old girl turns up on DCI Ryan’s doorstep to tell him she’s witnessed a murder, he has no idea he’s about to step into his most spellbinding case yet...
  • Bamburgh by L.J. Ross

    Bamburgh by L.J. Ross

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    When a cantankerous old woman dies at her home in the sleepy, picturesque village of Bamburgh, DCI Ryan doesn’t think much of it—except, that is, for the small matter of it having been his wife who happened to find her body...
  • Find Her Alive by Lisa Regan

    Find Her Alive by Lisa Regan

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Detective Josie Quinn hasn’t heard from her sister since Trinity stormed out of the house in the heat of an argument three weeks ago. So, when human remains are found at the remote hunting cabin where Trinity was last seen, Josie can only assume the worst...
  • The Infirmary by L.J. Ross, Jonathan Keeble

    The Infirmary by L.J. Ross, Jonathan Keeble

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Introducing the new, unabridged version of The Infirmary by LJ Ross, the author of the international number one best-selling series, the DCI Ryan Mysteries.There's a serial killer targeting the streets of Newcastle, seemingly picking his victims at random but subjecting them all to the same torturous end...
  • Face Off by Brenda Novak

    Face Off by Brenda Novak

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Tortured and left for dead at sixteen, Evelyn Talbot turned her personal nightmare into her life’s work—studying the disturbing psychopathy of some of the world’s most vicious serial killers...
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    crime  female-mc  suspense  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary  dark
  • Missing Angel by Roger Stelljes

    Missing Angel by Roger Stelljes

    Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Isabella pedals her bright red bike on the familiar route home, admiring her charm bracelet catching the light. But half an hour later, she is nowhere to be seen. All her frantic parents find is an angel-shaped charm discarded on the sidewalk…When twelve-year-old Isabella Farner disappears, Agent Tori Hunter races to the scene...
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    crime  female-mc  noir  suspense  adult  book  contemporary  fiction
  • The Girl in the River by Rita Herron

    The Girl in the River by Rita Herron

    Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    The body lay in the river, arms outstretched. Long brown hair swirled in all directions, flowing with the current of the water. Her eyes were wide open in death, pale pink lips parted in a scream.Detective Ellie Reeves should be enjoying the wedding of her dear friend Mia Norman. But instead of celebrating, she is frantically searching for the missing bride...
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    crime  female-mc  noir  suspense  adult  animals  book  contemporary
  • First Blood by Angela Marsons

    First Blood by Angela Marsons

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    With this installment exploring an utterly chilling case following a disturbing killer, USA Today bestselling author Angela Marsons delivers the prequel to the internationally bestselling DI Kim Stone thrillers.In the darkness of a cold December morning, Detective Kim Stone steps through the doors of Halesowen Police Station. She’s about to meet her team for the first time...
  • Child's Play by Angela Marsons

    Child's Play by Angela Marsons

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Finally we’re playing a game. A game that I have chosen. I give one last push of the roundabout and stand back. 'You really should have played with me,’ I tell her again although I know she can no longer hear...
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    crime  female-mc  noir  suspense  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary
  • Deadly Cry by Angela Marsons

    Deadly Cry by Angela Marsons

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    You have to stop me from hurting anyone else. I don’t want to do these horrible things. Help me before I’m forced to do it again. And I will do it again because I have no choice. I’ve never had a choice.In a busy shopping centre, a little girl clutches a teddy bear, clinging to it in the absence of her mother, Katrina. Hours later, Katrina’s body is discovered in an abandoned building...
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    crime  female-mc  noir  suspense  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary
  • Lost Angels by Stacy Green

    Lost Angels by Stacy Green

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    When Special Agent Nikki Hunt is called to the Boundary Waters near Stillwater, Minnesota, it’s not just the cold that shocks her to her core: the body of a young woman has been found frozen beside a remote lake...
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    crime  noir  suspense  adult  book  contemporary  dark  family
  • Such a Good Girl by Willow Rose

    Such a Good Girl by Willow Rose

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    FBI-profiler Eva Rae Thomas faces a devious plan in bestselling author Willow Rose’s blood-rushing thriller of murder and revenge.A girl falls from the penthouse floor of an apartment in Washington, D.C.Media Mogul Richard Wanton owns the apartment and is seen standing on the balcony when the girl falls...
  • The Bones She Buried by Lisa Regan

    The Bones She Buried by Lisa Regan

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Josie works until her arms ache, until the paramedics arrive and pull her gently away from the woman’s cold, fragile body. Noah’s voice cracks beside her as he calls the time of death for his own, beloved mother...
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    crime  noir  suspense  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary  fiction
  • Play Dead by Angela Marsons

    Play Dead by Angela Marsons

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    The dead don't tell secrets... unless you listen. The girl's smashed-in face stared unseeing up to the blue sky, soil spilling out of her mouth. A hundred flies hovered above the bloodied mess. Westerley research facility is not for the faint-hearted. A 'body farm' investigating human decomposition, its inhabitants are corpses in various states of decay...
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    crime  female-mc  noir  suspense  abuse  adult  audiobook  book
  • Dirty Dozen by Liliana Hart

    Dirty Dozen by Liliana Hart

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    In the twelfth installment of the J.J. Graves mystery series from New York Times Bestselling Author Liliana Hart, winter has moved into Bloody Mary with a vengeance. But so has a killer who's bringing a modern flair in his imitation of Jack the Ripper. It's up to J.J. and her husband, Sheriff Jack Lawson, to hunt the hunter and bring justice to the victims...
  • Evil Never Dies by T.R. Ragan

    Evil Never Dies by T.R. Ragan

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Private investigator Lizzy Gardner believed in law and order once. But after losing a loved one to a killer and watching too many vicious predators game the system and walk free, she’s traded flawed justice for perfect vengeance.Together with her tough and trusted assistants, Lizzy is tracking down a list of Sacramento’s worst offenders and dealing out the payback they deserve...
  • Mania: An Alexander Gregory Thriller by LJ Ross

    Mania: An Alexander Gregory Thriller by LJ Ross

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    FROM THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE DCI RYAN MYSTERIESYou can’t run from the past…Back in London after a dramatic trip to North America, Doctor Alexander Gregory finds himself without an occupation while he awaits the all-important decision of the disciplinary panel at Southmoor Hospital...
  • Silenced Girls: An absolutely addictive mystery thriller by Roger Stelljes

    Silenced Girls: An absolutely addictive mystery thriller by Roger Stelljes

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    She moved far away to try and forget her past. A past that would seep back in when she least expected it and crushed her soul over and over. She tried to keep the evidence packed away in boxes high up on a closet shelf like carefully packing away a tragic part of her life. As if sealing the boxes, was sealing away a time in her life she desperately wanted to go back and change...
  • Trapper Road by Rachel Caine, Carrie Ryan

    Trapper Road by Rachel Caine, Carrie Ryan

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Sometimes danger comes from the most unexpected places.Gwen Proctor has always been willing to do anything it takes to protect her kids. But there are some things even she can’t protect them from. When a violent incident at Connor’s school brings the press to Gwen’s doorstep, she agrees to take a case out of town hoping to keep her family out of the crushing media spotlight...
  • Hide Away by Jason Pinter

    Hide Away by Jason Pinter

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    From the bestselling author of the Henry Parker series comes a page-turning thriller about a vigilante who’s desperate to protect her secrets—and bring a killer to justice.On the surface, Rachel Marin is an ordinary single mother; on the inside, she’s a fierce, brilliant vigilante...
  • What You Did by Willow Rose

    What You Did by Willow Rose

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Former FBI-profiler Eva Rae Thomas faces the most personal case in her career, as bestselling author Willow Rose’s new hit-series continues. Three girls disappear on prom night at the local high school. One of them is the prom queen...
  • You Can Run by Rebecca Zanetti

    You Can Run by Rebecca Zanetti

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Fans of Laura Griffin and Jayne Ann Krentz won’t want to miss this brand new thriller series by New York Times bestselling author Rebecca Zanetti, as FBI Special Agent Laurel Snow, a rising star profiler, strives to stay one step ahead of the criminal mind—and discovers that her own demons may be the hardest to outrun… Laurel Snow wouldn’t call hunting a serial killer a vacation, but with a pile...
  • The Silence by Kendra Elliot

    The Silence by Kendra Elliot

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    A dead conspiracy theorist. A mass murderer. Two cases collide for Callahan and McLane in a pulse-pounding thriller by Wall Street Journal and Amazon Charts bestselling author Kendra Elliot.A man is savagely murdered outside Portland, and Detective Mason Callahan finds blood-spatter evidence that tells a troubling story. Files reveal the murder victim, Reuben Braswell, was a radical conspiracist...
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    crime  female-mc  suspense  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary  death
  • The Girl With No Name by Lisa Regan

    The Girl With No Name by Lisa Regan

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Detective Josie Quinn is horrified when she’s called to the house of a mother who had her newborn baby snatched from her arms...
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    crime  noir  suspense  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary  fiction
  • The Night Thief by Joy Ellis

    The Night Thief by Joy Ellis

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    When everyone is sleeping, he comes into their houses.He takes one thing. A photo of their child.A thief on a power trip or something even darker and more sinister?Detectives Jackman and Evans find themselves on the hunt for a highly unusual burglar who seemingly only steals photographs. But then, late one night, an elderly woman falls to her death after seeing someone in her home...
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    crime  suspense  whodunit  female-mc  noir  mystery  audiobook  fiction
  • Stranger Danger by Michaelbrent Collings

    Stranger Danger by Michaelbrent Collings

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    He will teach you the lesson...... he knows you’re dying to learn.Legion is a teacher. An avenging angel. A murderer.A madman.Raised in the underground hideout of an insane father, he searches for those who keep secrets and sins. Then he teaches them how to leave those mistakes behind. Even if it means killing them to do it.Because sometimes murder is the cost of a proper education...
  • Unfinished Business by J.A. Jance

    Unfinished Business by J.A. Jance

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    In this heart-pounding and sharply written thriller from J.A. Jance, the “grand master of the genre” (The Providence Journal), Ali Reynolds’s personal life is thrown into turmoil just as two men show up on the scene—a former employee of her husband’s who has just been released from prison and a serial killer who sets his sights a little too close to home...
  • Wired In by Toby Neal

    Wired In by Toby Neal

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Paradise has no protection from a hacker with a hidden agenda.Do you love a woman sleuth with a dark past, a great dog, and a complicated romantic life?Meet tech agent Sophie Ang.Sophie’s emotions are battered by a child kidnapping case, and in tracking the criminal ring, her rogue data analysis program D.A.V.I.D...
  • Follow Me Home by D.K. Hood

    Follow Me Home by D.K. Hood

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    ‘Don’t you agree Detective? That some people deserve to die? I’ve killed the first. I’ve killed the second. Now will you catch the others, or do I have to kill them too?’ The body of Amos Price lies in a pool of blood on the polished floor of an otherwise empty house. With no signs of a break in, and no clues left at the scene, Detective Jenna Alton is at a loss...
  • Shattered by Allison Brennan

    Shattered by Allison Brennan

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    Over a span of twenty years, four boys have been kidnapped from their bedrooms, suffocated, and buried nearby in a shallow grave. Serial killer or coincidence?That’s the question investigative reporter Maxine Revere sets out to answer when an old friend begs her to help exonerate his wife, who has been charged with their son’s recent murder. But Max can do little to help because the police and D...
  • A Minute to Midnight by David Baldacci

    A Minute to Midnight by David Baldacci

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    Atlee Pine has spent most of her life trying to find out what happened that fateful night in Andersonville, Georgia. Her six year old twin sister, Mercy, was taken and Atlee was left for dead while their parents were apparently partying downstairs. One person who continues to haunt her is notorious serial killer Daniel James Tor, locked away in a Colerado maximum security prison...
  • Seven Days by Alex Lake

    Seven Days by Alex Lake

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    The twisty new psychological thriller from the USA Today bestselling author Maggie Taylor’s son is a week away from his third birthday, and she is terrified. Because in her world, third birthdays are the day on which the worst possible thing happens…She loses her child.For the last decade, Maggie has been imprisoned in a basement. Kidnapped aged sixteen, she has not seen a sunrise for ten years...
  • The Stolen Boys by Joy Ellis

    The Stolen Boys by Joy Ellis

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    From #1 best-selling author Joy Ellis, a totally absorbing mystery full of stunning twists and turns. Discover the author everyone’s talking about. A MYSTERY WHICH WILL CAPTIVATE YOU TILL THE STUNNING ENDING A crime wave has hit town. The target is a highly sought-after brand of streetwear called Hybird X, clothing that costs a fortune and resells for unbelievable prices...
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    crime  noir  suspense  whodunit  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary
  • Tell Me by Anne Frasier, Erin Bennett

    Tell Me by Anne Frasier, Erin Bennett

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    What really happened in the forest? Hidden crimes and secrets of the past converge in a riveting thriller by Anne Frasier, the New York Times bestselling author of Find Me.No strangers to evil, criminal profiler Reni Fisher and detective Daniel Ellis both still grapple with traumatizing pasts. It unites them. So has a crime they must solve before someone else dies...
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    crime  female-mc  suspense  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary  dark
  • Obsessed by T.R. Ragan

    Obsessed by T.R. Ragan

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Lizzy Gardner is a one-million copy bestselling series.Desperate for better ratings, radio psychologist Madeline Blair tells her listeners she’s being stalked, unaware that her long-time listener and biggest fan, Seth Brown, will do anything to protect her. When her publicity stunt is revealed, Seth becomes enraged by her deceit and dangerously unhinged...
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    crime  female-mc  justice  suspense  vigilante  adult  audiobook  book
  • Legacy Of Hunters Ridge by Sarah Barrie

    Legacy Of Hunters Ridge by Sarah Barrie

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    She dazzled with Secrets of Whitewater Creek, now Sarah Barrie kicks off a brand-new trilogy about small towns, secrets, and the love that saves lives. Successful horse trainer Alissa Morgan-Jones has the world at her feet, until a tragic fire destroys everything. Widowed, in debt and under suspicion for arson, Alissa’s life is in tatters...
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    crime  female-mc  suspense  adult  book  contemporary  fiction  murder
  • Avenging Adam by Jodi Burnett

    Avenging Adam by Jodi Burnett

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    While hiking in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains, FBI Special Agent Kendra Dean and her K9 partner, Baxter, stumble upon a dead body stashed in the woods. The discovery changes both of their lives forever.Special Agent Rick Sanchez hunts a serial murderer who is targeting women on a multi-state killing spree...
  • Blood Moon by Alexandra Sokoloff

    Blood Moon by Alexandra Sokoloff

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    Book II in the Thriller Award-nominated Huntress/FBI seriesTwenty-five years have passed since a savage killer terrorized California, massacring three ordinary families before disappearing without a trace...
  • The House of Cross by James Patterson

    The House of Cross by James Patterson

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    The thirty-second instalment in James Patterson's globally bestselling Alex Cross series. It’s time to put the guns down, Detective Cross. Even if you knew the way out of this place, we would catch you.A serial killer is taking out America’s finest legal minds, and Alex Cross is called to investigate their brutal murders...
  • So Close the Hand of Death by J.T. Ellison

    So Close the Hand of Death by J.T. Ellison

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Talent borrows. Genius steals. Evil delegates. It's a hideous echo of a violent past. Across America, murders are being committed with all the twisted hallmarks of the Boston Strangler, the Zodiac Killer and Son of Sam. The media frenzy explodes and Nashville homicide lieutenant Taylor Jackson knows instantly that The Pretender is back…and he's got helpers...
  • All the Dead Girls by Rita Herron

    All the Dead Girls by Rita Herron

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    When a violent storm hits Graveyard Falls, it unearths the unimaginable: skeletons of teenage girls, each dressed in white and holding a candle. It’s clear to FBI agent Beth Fields that this is the work of a long-standing killer—but could it be the one she escaped years ago? She has no memory of the man who held her captive and murdered her friend...
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    crime  female-mc  suspense  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary  dark
  • Good Little Girls by Rita Herron

    Good Little Girls by Rita Herron

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Fear becomes a woman’s greatest weapon in a heart-pounding novel of suspense from the USA Today bestselling author of Pretty Little Killers. Tinsley Jensen survived the torturous clutches of an elusive masked killer dubbed the Skull, only to be held hostage by her nightmares. She’s terrified of leaving her cottage on Seahawk Island, knowing that the madman is still out there...
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    crime  female-mc  justice  suspense  vigilante  adult  audiobook  book
  • The Innocent Girls by B.R. Spangler

    The Innocent Girls by B.R. Spangler

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Tears stream down her face as she feels the cold blade press against her neck. The sweet scent of her daughter’s favorite strawberry pancakes all around, her last thought is for her beautiful girl. Please, please let Lisa have escaped...
  • YOU DID THIS by Jamie Millen

    YOU DID THIS by Jamie Millen

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    A sister’s worst nightmare. A homicide detective’s destiny.Everybody loves Claire’s little sister, Tina. But only Claire sees the twisted psychopath hiding behind her sister’s angelic face. When Tina is brutally murdered on her fourteenth birthday, the day Claire failed to walk her home from school, Claire never forgives herself. And neither does their mother...
  • The Stolen Hours by Allen Eskens

    The Stolen Hours by Allen Eskens

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    A woman finds herself in a race not only for justice but for her life in this "riveting, hold-your-breath" new mystery from the bestselling author of The Life We Bury (Karin Slaughter, New York Times bestselling author).Lila Nash is on the verge of landing her dream job—working as a prosecutor under the Hennepin County Attorney—and has settled into a happy life with her boyfriend, Joe Talbert...
  • Run For Your Life by C.M. Sutter

    Run For Your Life by C.M. Sutter

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    With the weekend right around the corner, Homicide Detective Mitch Cannon is looking forward to Saturday night. It isn’t often he has a date, and this one will be particularly interesting. His new friend Liza is beautiful, edgy, outspoken, and somewhat odd.But Mitch’s usual Friday-morning phone call to his mom sets the wheels in motion for five days of pure hell...
  • Almost Dead by T.R. Ragan

    Almost Dead by T.R. Ragan

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Life for private investigator Lizzy Gardner will never be the same. It’s been three weeks since her fiancé, Jared, was shot on what was supposed to be their wedding day. He’s in a coma now, and Lizzy is being forced to make a decision she might not be able to live with.But a string of deaths has forced her to get back to work...
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