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The Girl and the Dragon's Island by A.J. Rivers
Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsA lifeless body, brought onto shore by the shifting tides.A tranquil setting disguising the darkness behind a puzzling death.While the nature of the world seems undisturbed.And billions continue living.There is one that carries with her the memory of the dead.She has no choice but to replay the very beginning... -
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Triple Cross by James Patterson
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsDetective Alex Cross hunts down a serial killer who’s murdering entire families—and who will next be coming for Cross.A methodical killer is targeting multigenerational families in and around Washington, DC—striking under cover of darkness, triggering no alarms, leaving no physical evidence of any kind. Alex isn’t the only one investigating... -
![The Housemaid's Secret by Freida McFadden]()
The Housemaid's Secret by Freida McFadden
Rated: 4.55 of 5 stars · 11 ratings“Don’t go in the guest bedroom.” A shadow falls on Douglas Garrick’s face as he touches the door with his fingertips. “My wife… she’s very ill.” As he continues showing me their incredible penthouse apartment, I have a terrible feeling about the woman behind closed doors... -
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Left For Dead by Caroline Mitchell
Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsA victim on display. A detective on the rails.Shopping with her sister, DI Amy Winter is admiring a Valentine’s Day window display of a perfect bride encrusted in diamonds and resplendent in lace—until she notices blood oozing from the mannequin’s mouth.This is no stunt. A post-mortem reveals the victim was left to die on her macabre throne for all to see... -
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![One of Us Is Dead by Peter James]()
One of Us Is Dead by Peter James
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe latest race-against-time instalment of the award-winning Grace series, now a major ITV show.Hunting him would be murder . . .When James Taylor arrives late for a funeral, he has to stand at the back of the small church. But, as the service progresses, Taylor notices a man six rows in front of him... -
![Perfect Kill by Helen Sarah Fields, Robin Laing]()
Perfect Kill by Helen Sarah Fields, Robin Laing
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsAlone, trapped in the darkness and with no way out, Bart Campbell knows that his chances of being found alive are slim. Drugged and kidnapped, the realization soon dawns that he's been locked inside a shipping container far from his Edinburgh home. But what Bart doesn't yet know is that he's now heading for France where his unspeakable fate is already sealed .. -
![Bedlam by L.J. Ross]()
Bedlam by L.J. Ross
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsFrom the international best-selling author of the DCI Ryan mysteries.In a world gone mad, who can you trust?Fresh from a high-profile case in the Paris fashion world, elite forensic psychologist and criminal profiler Dr Alexander Gregory receives a call from the New York State Homicide Squad... -
![Murder at St Anne's by J.R. Ellis]()
Murder at St Anne's by J.R. Ellis
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsWinter, snow, murder—and a centuries-dead suspect.In the chilly depths of a Yorkshire winter, a well-liked rector is found bludgeoned to death in her own church... -
![Cross Out by James Patterson]()
Cross Out by James Patterson
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsDetectives Cross and Sampson are tracking a serial killer who's fatally ambushing young men in the “Dead Hours” murders. They don't hear the machine gun fire. At first. “Drop whatever you're doing, Dr. Cross, and head to Reagan Airport,” DC Metro Police dispatch says. “A plane just crashed and exploded on the runway. The chief and the FBI want you and John Sampson there pronto... -
![Come A Little Closer by Rachel Abbott]()
Come A Little Closer by Rachel Abbott
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsThey will be coming soon. They come every night. Snow is falling softly as a young woman takes her last breath. Fifteen miles away, two women sit silently in a dark kitchen. They don’t speak, because there is nothing left to be said. Another woman boards a plane to escape the man who is trying to steal her life. But she will have to return, sooner or later... -
![Naked Prey by John Sandford]()
Naked Prey by John Sandford
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsLucas Davenport finds some changes — and some nasty surprises — in store, in the chilling new novel by the number-one-bestselling author.After thirteen years and thirteen Prey novels, John Sandford's writing is as fresh as ever. His last book, Mortal Prey, was "a model of the genre" (People) and "the cop novel of the year" (Kirkus Reviews)... -
![City of The Dead by Jonathan Kellerman]()
City of The Dead by Jonathan Kellerman
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsThe past comes back to haunt psychologist Alex Delaware and Detective Milo Sturgis when they investigate a grisly double homicide and uncover an even more unspeakable motive in this riveting thriller from the #1 New York Times bestselling master of suspense.Los Angeles is a city of sunlight, celebrity, and possibility. The L.A. often experienced by Homicide Lt... -
![One Left Alive by Helen Phifer]()
One Left Alive by Helen Phifer
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratings‘One of those rare books that really is unputdownable . A must read.’ NetGalley reviewer ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐A gentle breeze blew her blonde hair across her face, her glazed eyes staring blankly into the sunset. Her small frame looked lost hanging from the large oak tree. On the branch next to her was a worn child’s rope swing. She looked too young and beautiful to be dead... -
![Hysteria by L.J. Ross]()
Hysteria by L.J. Ross
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsFROM THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE DCI RYAN MYSTERIES In a beautiful world, murder is always ugly… Recently returned from his last case in Ireland, elite forensic psychologist and criminal profiler Dr Alexander Gregory receives a call from the French police that he can’t ignore... -
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![Serpentine by Jonathan Kellerman, John Rubinstein]()
Serpentine by Jonathan Kellerman, John Rubinstein
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsPsychologist Alex Delaware and detective Milo Sturgis search for answers to a brutal, decades-old crime in this electrifying psychological thriller from the #1 'New York Times' bestselling master of suspense.LAPD homicide lieutenant Milo Sturgis is a master detective. He has a near-perfect solve rate and he's written his own rulebook... -
![Where Are the Children Now? by Mary Higgins Clark, Alafair Burke]()
Where Are the Children Now? by Mary Higgins Clark, Alafair Burke
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe legacy of the “Queen of Suspense” continues with the highly anticipated follow-up to Mary Higgins Clark’s iconic novel Where Are The Children?, featuring the children of Nancy Harmon, facing peril once again as adults... -
![You Were Gone by Tim Weaver]()
You Were Gone by Tim Weaver
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsAvailable to PRE-ORDER NOW. The sinister, chilling new thriller from the Sunday Times bestselling author. I buried you. I mourned you . . . But now you're back. Three days after Christmas, a woman walks into a police station. She has no phone and no ID, just a piece of paper with the name of missing persons investigator David Raker on it. She tells officers that Raker is her husband... -
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Victim by Casey Hill
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe USA Today bestselling forensic mystery series Read the clues. Decode the science. Reveal the murderer. That's Reilly Steel's mantra. Find the answers, solve the crime. But the Quantico-trained forensic investigator is finding her skills aren't enough when a ferociously intelligent killer strikes Dublin. The modus operandi is as perplexing as it is macabre... -
![The Edge by Lucy Goacher]()
The Edge by Lucy Goacher
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsSometimes it’s easier to believe the lie. But is the truth right in front of you?Everyone says Poppy jumped. My beautiful, creative sister, with her paint-splattered dresses and sunshine smile, took her own life. And I think they’re right. Until the day I speak to Daniel.Everyone says his sister jumped too. But he has proof that she was pushed... -
![Into the Labyrinth by Donato Carrisi]()
Into the Labyrinth by Donato Carrisi
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsAs dark and gripping as ever, this is Donato Carrisi's latest thriller.A young woman wakes up in a hospital bed, disoriented and with a broken leg. The room she is in has no windows, only a huge mirror lining one wall, although she can't see her reflection in it. With her is a man who introduces himself as Dr White, a criminal profiler... -
![The Perfect House by Blake Pierce]()
The Perfect House by Blake Pierce
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsIn THE PERFECT HOUSE (Book #3), criminal profiler Jessie Hunt, 29, fresh from the FBI Academy, returns to find herself hunted by her murderous father, locked in a dangerous game of cat and mouse. Meanwhile, she must race to stop a killer in a new case that leads her deep into suburbia—and to the brink of her own psyche... -
![Black Widow by Christopher Brookmyre]()
Black Widow by Christopher Brookmyre
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThere is no perfect marriage. There is no perfect murder.Diana Jager is clever, strong and successful, a skilled surgeon and fierce campaigner via her blog about sexism. Yet it takes only hours for her life to crumble when her personal details are released on the internet as revenge for her writing.Then she meets Peter... -
![Every Pretty Thing by Chris Mooney]()
Every Pretty Thing by Chris Mooney
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIn Every Pretty Thing serial killer hunter Darby McCormick finds herself in Montana, looking for a friend. Little does she realise that a murderer is waiting for her . . .She came to find her friend.Instead she found a killer.Serial killer expert Darby McCormick gets a call from FBI Agent Jackson Cooper, who has been contacted by a woman who's been in hiding for twenty years... -
![The Cut by Chris Brookmyre]()
The Cut by Chris Brookmyre
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsA BBC Radio 2 Book Club pick'Strikingly original and definitively Brookmyre - there's nothing he can't do'Mick Herron'I recommend The Cut SO HIGHLY! A fast-paced thriller, lovely characters, [and] it kept me guessing'Marian KeyesThe supremely entertaining, moving, and unpredictable new thriller from multi-award-winning bestseller Chris Brookmyre is a wholly original masterpiece and the best... -
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![Butterfly Kisses by Patrick Logan]()
Butterfly Kisses by Patrick Logan
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsHis hands are bound behind him, a crude butterfly drawn in blood on his bare back. He isn’t the first. When a drug addict finds the body of a man in the basement of an abandoned warehouse in New York City, Detective Damien Drake is called in to lead the murder investigation... -
![Show Me by Nick Pirog]()
Show Me by Nick Pirog
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsThomas Prescott must prove a horrific crime in a small town is tied to Big Biotech in the new thriller from #1 Amazon bestselling author Nick Pirog. When retired homicide detective Thomas Prescott learns he's inherited a 250-acre farm in Tarrin, Missouri (pop. 2,100), he can't get there fast enough... -
![The Perfect Lie by Blake Pierce]()
The Perfect Lie by Blake Pierce
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsTHE PERFECT LIE is book #5 in a new psychological suspense series by bestselling author Blake Pierce, whose #1 bestseller Once Gone (a free download) has over 1,000 five-star reviews.When a gorgeous, popular gym trainer is found murdered in a wealthy suburban town, criminal profiler and FBI agent Jessie Hunt, 29, is called in to find out who killed her... -
![Entre los muertos by Mikel Santiago]()
Entre los muertos by Mikel Santiago
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsDespués del éxito de El mentiroso y En plena noche, llega el esperado cierre de la Trilogía de Illumbe: un thriller magistral, lleno de misterios y giros sorprendentes cuya clave podría estar en la pregunta que late en el alma de esta historia: ¿Es posible enterrar un secreto para siempre?Hay muertos que nunca descansan, y tal vez no deban hacerlo hasta que se les haga justicia... -
![Their Little Secret by Mark Billingham]()
Their Little Secret by Mark Billingham
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsWhen DI Tom Thorne is called to conduct a routine assessment at the site of a suicide, he expects to be in and out in no time. But when he arrives at the metro station, where a woman named Philippa Goodwin threw herself in front of an underground train, Thorne inexplicably senses something awry and feels compelled to dig deeper... -
![The Picture on the Fridge by Ian W. Sainsbury, Matthew Lloyd Davies]()
The Picture on the Fridge by Ian W. Sainsbury, Matthew Lloyd Davies
Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars · 19 ratingsMags Barkworth still suffers the effects of a life-changing tragedy over a decade ago. She knows her husband loves her. She knows he would never do anything to hurt her, or their daughter... -
![The Serpent Woman by S.Z. Estavillo]()
The Serpent Woman by S.Z. Estavillo
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe exciting sequel to The Serpent's Bridge...A serial killer is on the loose. With her insidious tattoo and venomous killer strike, they're calling her the serpent woman.Two of the best in their field, LAPD Detective Anaya Nazario and FBI Supervising Special Agent Blake Huxley are forced to work together yet again, despite their strained romantic history and a baby on the way... -
![The Perfect Scandal: A Jessie Hunt Psychological Suspense Thriller,Book 23 by Blake Pierce]()
The Perfect Scandal: A Jessie Hunt Psychological Suspense Thriller,Book 23 by Blake Pierce
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsJessie, taken hostage, is in the fight of her life. So used to saving others, she finds the table turned, and at the mercy of her colleagues to find her in time—while at the same time, murders pile up on the outside world, offering her colleagues a grisly trail to her... -
![Perfect Girls by Alison James]()
Perfect Girls by Alison James
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsPhoebe. Tiffany. Melissa. They all made one little mistake... When twenty-five-year-old Phoebe Stiles opens the door to her perfect apartment she doesn’t realise it’s the mistake that will kill her… The body of the beautiful English girl is discovered months later - dumped behind the back of a department store... -
![The Perfect Mistress by Blake Pierce]()
The Perfect Mistress by Blake Pierce
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsWhen wealthy suburban women are found murdered in their small town without rhyme or reason, Jessie soon realizes she is up against no ordinary killer. He is an unpredictable psychopath, beyond anyone she’s ever been up against—and she will have to enter the dark canals of his twisted mind if she has any chance of saving the next woman on his list... -
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![The Perfect Neighbor by Blake Pierce, Ulka Mohanty]()
The Perfect Neighbor by Blake Pierce, Ulka Mohanty
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe Perfect Neighbor is book number nine in a new psychological suspense series by best-selling author Blake Pierce, which begins with The Perfect Wife, a number one best seller!In an exclusive and wealthy neighborhood in Manhattan Beach, a new neighbor moves into a luxury home - only to be found dead soon thereafter... -
![The Missing Family by Tim Weaver]()
The Missing Family by Tim Weaver
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsOne family...On a beautiful summer's day, at a remote lake in the middle of Dartmoor, three members of the Fowler family take a dinghy out onto the water, leaving mother Sarah at the shore.Less than sixty seconds later, she checks to see where they are.The boat is drifting in the middle of the lake. It's empty.Sarah's family have completely vanished.One killer.. -
![You Killed Me First by John Marrs]()
You Killed Me First by John Marrs
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsThree women. Three smouldering secrets. Who will make it out alive?It’s 5 November, and a woman awakens to a nightmare. Bound and gagged, she lies trapped in the heart of a towering bonfire. As the smoke thickens, panic sets in – she’s moments away from being engulfed in flames... -
![The Best Lies by David Ellis]()
The Best Lies by David Ellis
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsBestselling and award-winning author David Ellis delivers a fast-paced, twisty thriller that will surprise readers at every turn.Leo Balanoff is a diagnosed pathological liar with unthinkable skeletons in his family's closet. He's also a crusading attorney who seeks justice at all costs... -
![You Are Fatally Invited by Ande Pliego]()
You Are Fatally Invited by Ande Pliego
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAn exclusive thriller writer’s retreat hosted on a private island turns lethal when one of the authors is found murdered in this twisty locked room mystery.When renowned anonymous author J. R... -
![Heartbreaker by Tania Carver]()
Heartbreaker by Tania Carver
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAfter years of abuse, Gemma Adderley has finally found the courage to leave her violent husband. She has taken one debilitating beating too many, endured one esteem-destroying insult too much. Taking her seven-year-old daughter Carly, she leaves the house, determined to salvage what she can of her life... -
![A Child Is Torn: Innocence Lost by Dawn Kopman Whidden]()
A Child Is Torn: Innocence Lost by Dawn Kopman Whidden
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWhen Evan Madison fails to show up for work, police go to his home where his ten-year-old son, Brad, is found, unharmed and alone. He is stoic, sitting in front of the TV playing a video game, and covered in blood. In the upstairs bedroom, lie his parents bludgeoned to death. Brad confesses to killing them, but it makes no sense. Is Brad covering some someone else or the evil seed born to kill... -
![Don't Let Him In by Lisa Jewell]()
Don't Let Him In by Lisa Jewell
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFrom #1 New York Times bestseller Lisa Jewell—three women are connected by one man in this kaleidoscopic thriller.Restauranteur Paddy Swann was the life of the party until the day a man pushed him in the path of an oncoming train, leaving his twenty-something daughter Ash and wife Nina devastated... -
![Chasing Darkness by Danielle Girard]()
Chasing Darkness by Danielle Girard
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe most dangerous place to hide is in the dark...A tough special-agent with the Department of Justice, and a dedicated single mother to her orphaned nephews, Samantha Chase is unbreakable. Until two women, both from the shadows of Sam's past, are discovered strangled... -
![Stimmen by Ursula Poznanski]()
Stimmen by Ursula Poznanski
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsEr hatte die Zeichen gesehen. Er sah sie seit Jahren schon, und hatte immer wieder versucht, die Menschen zu warnen, doch nie wollte jemand ihm glauben.Sie hatten ein Opfer dargebracht. Auf keinen Fall durften sie ihn hören. Sie wissen, wer du bist.Menschen, die wirr vor sich hinmurmeln... -
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![Face of Death by Stella Gold, Blake Pierce]()
Face of Death by Stella Gold, Blake Pierce
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsFBI Special Agent Zoe Prime suffers from a rare condition which also gives her a unique talent—she views the world through a lens of numbers. The numbers torment her, make her unable to relate to people, and give her a failed romantic life—yet they also allow her to see patterns that no other FBI agent can see. Zoe keeps her condition a secret, ashamed, in fear her colleagues may find out... -
![The Day I Disappeared by Brandi Reeds]()
The Day I Disappeared by Brandi Reeds
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsA terrifying crime reunites a mother and daughter in a novel of psychological suspense by the Amazon Charts bestselling author of Trespassing.Three months after four-year-old Holly Gebhardt was kidnapped, she was inexplicably returned to the same park from which she’d vanished…with no memory of the ordeal... -
![The Perfect Neighbour by Susanna Beard]()
The Perfect Neighbour by Susanna Beard
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsBeth wants to love her new home on a quiet suburban street. She wishes she could make friends with her beautiful neighbour Oksana. She longs for a new group of friends. Welcoming neighbours to visit. Coffee dates and dinner parties.But life here feels so closed... -
![The Dark Room by Lisa Gray, Michael Orenstein]()
The Dark Room by Lisa Gray, Michael Orenstein
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsAll’s fair in love and revenge in this taut thriller from bestselling author Lisa Gray. Ex–crime reporter Leonard Blaylock spends his days on an unusual hobby, developing strangers’ forgotten and discarded rolls of film. He loves the small mysteries the photographs reveal to him. Then Leonard finds something no one would ever expect, or want, to see captured on film―the murder of a young woman... -
![All the Lies by Nicola Sanders]()
All the Lies by Nicola Sanders
Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsShe thought he was the perfect husband. Now she’s running for her life.On the surface, Amy and Jason have the perfect marriage, but Amy is trapped in a nightmare with a controlling, violent husband. Then on a short cruise without Jason, Amy befriends Liz, a young woman travelling alone on her way to meet her birth mother for the first time. Liz looks so much like Amy that they could be sisters... -
![The Perfect Alibi by Blake Pierce, Abigail Reno]()
The Perfect Alibi by Blake Pierce, Abigail Reno
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsA suburban wife and mom escapes from the grasp of a psychotic serial killer—only to wind up murdered weeks later...
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