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Clue Krewe by Jana Deleon
Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsBeckett Rousseau is the firstborn son of one of New Orleans’ most prominent families. He’s the quintessential golden boy—great looks, money, and a political career in his future—until his wife murders him. Or at least that’s what everyone thinks.Athena Durand is still reeling from her murder conviction but now that it’s overturned, she’s at a loss on how to proceed with her life... -
Clint Wolf Boxed Set: Books 4 - 6 by BJ Bourg
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsBooks 4-6 (But Not Forever, But Not For Naught, and But Not Forbidden) of the Clint Wolf Mystery Series by award-winning author BJ Bourg now available as a boxed set! BUT NOT FOREVER After a year of working as a tour guide in the swamps of Louisiana--and the day after a man’s body is found in a canal--former Police Chief Clint Wolf realizes he can’t stay away from law enforcement work... -
The Recipient by Audrey J. Cole
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsSergeant Wade McKinnon knows who killed Samantha the moment he arrives at her crime scene. Problem is, he watched her killer die a year ago.A year after serial killer Michael Rhodes is executed and allowed to donate part of his brain as an organ transplant, Wade gets called to a murder scene that shares uncanny similarities to those of the late Michael Rhodes... -
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Master Of My Mind by Jenna Jacob
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe Biggest Club Genesis Book Yet! After the shocking death of my Master left me stunned, the revenge his ex-wife and daughter sought was almost as devastating. Seeking refuge at Club Genesis, my one safe haven, I returned to heal and get back on my own two feet. But I soon learned that fate had other plans for Leagh Bennett... -
No Good Reason by Cari Hunter
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratings“I can’t do this. I can’t do any of this without her.” Detective Sanne Jensen (not blonde, not tall, definitely not Scandinavian) and Dr. Meg Fielding (scruffy, scatterbrained, prone to swearing at patients) are lifelong best friends, sharing the same deprived background and occasionally the same bed... -
Purppuraverkko by Carmen Mola
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsSatoja tuhansia myynyt Espanjan Varistyttö.Kesän viimeisinä päivinä rikostutkija Elena Blanco ryhmineen tekee rynnäkön Madridin laitamilla sijaitsevaan taloon. He syöksyvät suoraan perheen teinipojan huoneeseen, jossa tietokoneen näytöllä kaksi huppupäistä miestä kiduttaa nuorta tyttöä suorassa lähetyksessä. Poliisit joutuvat todistamaan ruudun välityksellä tytön kuolemaa... -
Bună seara, Melania! by Rodica Ojog-Braşoveanu
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsRodica Ojog-Braşoveanu a publicat romane poliţiste, istorice şi alte povestiri. Maestră in arta suspansului, Rodica Ojog-Brasoveanu se arată o fină cunoscătoare a maștilor dincolo de care se ascund întotdeauna oamenii și în literatura, și în viata. Această carte o dovedește din plin.Despre "Ciclul Melaniei": Melania este cheia întregii serii, prin unicitatea ei... -
ISOLATION by Cj Lyons
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThis New Year’s resolution? Stay alive... “Harrowing…irresistible.” ~New York Times bestselling author Susan Wiggs Click to start reading the exhilarating Angels of Mercy finale! With Pittsburgh snarled by a New Year’s Eve blizzard and Angels of Mercy Hospital cut off from the outside world, staff and patients are at the mercy of armed gunmen. Their target is Dr... -
Drip Drop Dead by Willow Rose
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsEmma Frost is chasing a killer that seems to bend the laws of physics.Things are going well for Emma Frost for once. She has a sweet boyfriend and has just finished a new book. Her daughter, Maya, is doing well in high school and even Victor is thriving and playing with his new best friend, the strange girl who fell from the sky... -
Free to Deceive by Julie Mellon
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsSpecial Agent Katie Freeman and her partner, Michael Powell, step in to assist the local authorities after the discovery of thirteen bodies buried in a small park. The chilling pose of each body and the gruesome manner in which they died indicate a particularly sadistic killer... -
Second Chances: PAVAD Duet by Calle J. Brookes
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsREUNITING Dan Reynolds spent every spare minute he could searching for his three missing daughters, taken from him by his malicious ex-wife years ago. When not searching for his girls, he excelled at his role as second-in-command of the CCU. He loved his team, loved them like family... -
Le ossa parlano by Antonio Manzini
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsMentre Rocco Schiavone affronta a Roma i suoi fantasmi con la sensazione che a quella città non abbia più niente da dire, ad Aosta nei boschi vicino Saint-Nicolas, vengono rinvenute alcune minuscole ossa umane. Sono di Mirko Sensini, un bimbo di 8 anni strangolato dopo aver subito violenza sessuale. Rocco stavolta dovrà scavare nel terreno più torbido della psicopatologia la pedofilia... -
Vecchie conoscenze by Antonio Manzini
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsRocco Schiavone indaga sull’omicidio di una professoressa in pensione. E intanto l’ombra del passato si fa pressante: la pena per Sebastiano, l’amico fraterno che non ha mai smesso di dare la caccia a Enzo Baiocchi, che gli ha assassinato la moglie, lo rende inquieto e gli ruba il sonno... -
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Under a Black Sky by Inger Wolf
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThrilling Scandinavian mystery From an international best-selling author Anchorage, Alaska: A prominent Danish volcano scientist, Asger Vad and his wife and son, are found shot on the outskirts of the city.The killer has placed the victims around a table on which there is a doll house with four small dolls and a pile of volcano ashes. However, one person is missing at the table... -
Certain Blindness by Roy Lewis
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThings other than beauty are in the eye of the beholder. In the eyes of solicitor Eric Ward there was something odd abut Arthur Egan's life and death. But Ward was a former police inspector, and trained to be suspicious. And he could no longer trust his eyesight, since it was a serious eye condition that had led to his resignation from the Force... -
Exiles by Jane Harper
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsAt a busy festival site on a warm spring night, a baby lies alone in her pram, her mother vanishing into the crowds.A year on, Kim Gillespie’s absence casts a long shadow as her friends and loved ones gather deep in the heart of South Australian wine country to welcome a new addition to the family.Joining the celebrations is federal investigator Aaron Falk... -
La nena by Carmen Mola
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsSIN LÍMITES Vuelve Carmen Mola, el último fenómeno de la novela negra española (150.000 lectores) y su autora más audaz y enigmática, con una entrega aún más revulsiva, violenta y sorprendente. «Nadie regresa del infierno indemne.» Es la noche del fin de año chino, empieza el año del cerdo... -
La casa delle voci by Donato Carrisi
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsPietro Gerber non è uno psicologo come gli altri. La sua specializzazione è l'ipnosi e i suoi pazienti hanno una cosa in comune: sono bambini. Pietro è il migliore di tutta Firenze, dove è conosciuto come l'addormentatore di bambini. Ma quando riceve una telefonata da parte di una collega australiana che gli raccomanda una paziente, Pietro reagisce con perplessità e diffidenza... -
Pressure Point by Ted Tayler
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsGus Freeman’s Crime Review Team has two successful cold case investigations behind them. Will it be third time lucky? The victim’s profession might make it hard to find someone to talk. ‘Pressure Point’ has a wide array of characters, and offers action, romance, humour and drama. In their most recent case, DS Neil Davis’s father, Terry, came under the microscope... -
Everybody Knows by Jordan Harper
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsEverybody Knows is a propulsive LA crime thriller about Mae Pruett, a "black-bag publicist" - she doesn't get the good news out, she keeps the bad news in – who works for “The Beast,” her name for the loose collection of lawyers, publicists and private security firms who protect and serve the wealthy and depraved of Los Angeles... -
Trust Nobody by June Hampson
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIt is 1962 and Daisy Lane, whose husband Kenny is in jail for robbery, runs and lives over the family's cafe in Gosport with Kenny's older brother Eddie. Daisy looks out for pretty, vulnerable, 16-year-old Suze, who works in the cafe and, along with prostitute Vera, who also shares the house, the women form a strong and lasting bond... -
Urgent Care by C.J. Lyons
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsCJ Lyons returns to the front lines of the ER and the lives and loves of four very special women. Angels of Mercy Hospital charge nurse Nora Halloran has been living with a painful secret for two long years. When a coworker is assaulted and killed, Nora must face her deepest fears and reveal all her secrets to the man she loves to stop the killer from striking again... -
Breathe by Cari Hunter
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsJemima Pardon, a paramedic with a daft name and chronic asthma, has never had much in the way of good luck. The only things she attracts are traumatic jobs, and no one wants to work with her for long. But when Jem bumps into devil-may-care police officer Rosie Jones, her fortunes seem to be changing. Rosie is bright and funny, and she doesn’t mind that Jem can’t go far without her inhaler... -
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Sapphire Falls by Fleur McDonald
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFiona Forrest is devastated when her husband Charlie commits suicide after the accidental shooting of his mate, Eddie. Though Fiona decides to keep farming their successful property, rumours that she intends to sell keep circulating. When Detective Dave Burrows arrives to sign off on the investigation into Eddie's death his suspicions are aroused by some strange anomalies at the scene... -
Over the Edge by Brandilyn Collins
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratings"Janessa McNeil's husband, Dr. Brock McNeil, a researcher and professor at Stanford University's Department of Medicine, specializes in tick-borne diseases--especially Lyme. For years he has insisted that Chronic Lyme Disease doesn't exist... -
The Firm / The Pelican Brief by John Grisham
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsTHE FIRMThe law student He was young and had dreams. He'd qualified third in his class at Harvard, now offers poured in from every law firm in America The Firm They were small , but well -respected. They we prepared to match, and then exceed Mitch's wildest dreams - eighty thousand a year, a BMW and a low interest mortgage. Soon the house, the car and the job are his... -
Dr. Vigilante by Alberto Hazan
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsDoctor by day.Vigilante by night.Robert lives a double life in New York City. He spends his days treating patients at the St. Jude’s Hospital ER and his nights going after the psychopaths who wrong them: the child molesters, wife beaters, and rapists... -
Playdate by Alex Dahl
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsIt was meant to be your daughter's first sleepover. Now it's an abduction.Lucia Blix went home from school for a playdate with her new friend Josie. Later that evening, Lucia's mother Elisa dropped her overnight things round and kissed her little girl goodnight.That was the last time she saw her daughter.The next morning, when Lucia's dad arrived to pick her up, the house was empty... -
The Perfect Husband/The Other Daughter by Lisa Gardner
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe Perfect HusbandWhat would you do if the man of your dreams hides the soul of a killer?Jim Beckett was everything she'd ever dreamed of...But two years after Tess married the decorated cop and bore his child, she helped put him behind bars for savagely murdering ten women. Even locked up in a maximum security prison, he vowed he would come after her and make her pay... -
Redemption Lake by Susan Clayton-Goldner
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsTucson, Arizona – Eighteen-year-old Matt Garrison is harboring two terrible secrets: his involvement in the drowning death of his 12-year-old cousin, and a night of drunken sex with his best friend’s mother, Crystal, whom he finds dead in a bathtub of blood. Guilt forces Matt to act on impulse and hide his involvement with Crystal.Detective Winston Radhauser knows Matt is hiding something... -
Bloodletting by Michael McBride
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe butchered remains of twelve year-old Jasmine Rivers are discovered in the cellar of an abandoned farmhouse on the desolate eastern plains of Colorado, the fourth mutilated body found in the last two months. The FBI is still searching for the missing parts of the previous three.Hundreds of miles away in Arizona, eleven corpses are exhumed from the Sonoran Desert... -
White Death by Ken McClure
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhite Death is the seventh thriller by Ken McClure to feature the ex-special forces medic Steven Dunbar. The governments of the western world know a terrorist biological attack will happen sooner rather than later... -
Raney & Levine by J.A. Schneider
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAnother doctors-&-cops adrenalin-packed thriller: A murderous religious zealot threatens women ("sinners!"), a little baby, and a hospital. First, tension enters Jill Raney's and David Levine's relationship over what to do about newborn Jesse. They both love him, but David feels he'd be safer adopted anonymously... -
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Dust To Dust by Ken McClure
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsJohn Motram, a cell biologist at Newcastle University firmly believes that Black Death was not caused by bubonic plague but by an unknown virus. He is excited when Oxford University tell him that they have come into possession of information suggesting there might be preserved bodies of victims from the time of Black Death hidden under Dryburgh Abbey... -
Mary Higgins Clark eBook Sampler by Mary Higgins Clark
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFeaturing an exclusive introduction from the beloved, bestselling “Queen of Suspense,” the Mary Higgins Clark Sampler includes bonus original pieces and 10 excerpts from reader favorites, such as Where Are The Children, Daddy's Little Girl, Two Little Girls In Blue, All Around the Town, and Pretend You Don't See Her, plus an extended excerpt from her new book, Daddy's Gone A Hunting... -
The Face of Evil by Debra Webb
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsDepraved is the tenth book in the bestselling, critically acclaimed Faces of Evil series. The finale is coming! Are you ready? Have you ordered Heinous, book 9? Don't miss a single book in this terrifyingly fast paced series! The serial killer obsessed with Deputy Chief Jess Harris has finally been cornered but the body count is still rising... -
All I'll Ever Need by Harry Kraus
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe grueling past months finally seem about to blossom into a happy future together for Dr. Claire McCall and her fiance, John Cerelli. But their wedding plans are interrupted by circumstances so devastating they threaten everything Claire holds dear: her medical career, her relationship with John, and quite possibly her freedom... -
Proof by Jordyn Redwood
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsDr. Lilly Reeves is a young, accomplished ER physician with her whole life ahead of her. But that life instantly changes when she becomes the fifth victim of a serial rapist. Believing it’s the only way to recover her reputation and secure peace for herself, Lilly sets out to find--and punish--her assailant... -
Delayed Diagnosis by Gwen Hunter
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsDr. Rhea Lynch left a suffocating life in Charleston to practice medicine in the ER of a small South Carolina hospital. Now Dawkins County is her home, a place that holds the only real family she's ever known.But when she returns from vacation, Rhea is shocked to discover her best friend, Marisa, near death and unable to communicate. The official diagnosis: a paralyzing stroke... -
Blood Ties by Jo Nesbø, Robert Ferguson
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIn many ways, the brothers Carl and Roy Opgard have succeeded in life. Or at least they’ve had as much success as is possible in a small town like Os where they've had to kill their way to the top. Carl manages the area’s swanky spa hotel, while Roy has made ambitious plans for an amusement park complete with a roller coaster. The only way is up for the two brothers... -
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Trust No One by Keri Beevis
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 24 ratings‘A long, long time ago, you did a bad, bad thing, Now it’s time to pay...’ When I first found the note, I assumed it was a prank.But then I am lured to a house where I witness a gruesome murder, and I realise the threat is real.But who is tormenting me though, and why? Noah Keen, my boyfriend, is determined to get to the bottom of things, and soon other familiar faces appear from my past... -
The Legacy of the Bones by Dolores Redondo
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsThe second book in Dolores Redondo’s atmospheric Baztan trilogy, featuring Inspector Amaia Salazar. With masterful storytelling and a detective to rival Sarah Lund, this Spanish bestselling series has taken Europe by storm... -
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The Bones of Amoret by Arthur Herbert
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsIn this enigmatic follow up to his critically acclaimed debut novel The Cuts that Cure, Arthur Herbert returns to the Texas-Mexico border with this saga of a small town’s bloody loss of innocence.Amoret, Texas, 1982. Life along the border is harsh, but in a world where cultures work together to carve a living from the desert landscape, Blaine Beckett lives a life of isolation... -
The Other You by J.S. Monroe
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIs he who you think he is?Kate used to be good at recognising people. So good, she worked for the police, identifying criminals in crowds of thousands. But six months ago, a devastating car accident led to a brain injury. Now the woman who never forgot a face can barely recognise herself in the mirror.At least she has Rob... -
Il maestro delle ombre by Donato Carrisi
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsUna tempesta senza precedenti si abbatte sulla capitale con ferocia inaudita. Quando un fulmine colpisce una delle centrali elettriche, alle autorità non resta che imporre un blackout totale di ventiquattro ore, per riparare l’avaria. Le ombre tornano a invadere Roma... -
Death on a Galician Shore by Domingo Villar
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsOne misty autumn dawn in a quiet fishing port in northwest Spain, the body of a sailor washes up in the harbour. Detective Inspector Leo Caldas is called in from police headquarters in the nearby city of Vigo to sign off on what appears to be a suicide. But details soon come to light that turn this routine matter into a complex murder investigation... -
The Other End of the Line by Andrea Camilleri
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsA wave of refugees has arrived on the Sicilian coast, and Inspector Montalbano and his team have been stationed at port, alongside countless volunteers, to receive and assist the newcomers. Meanwhile, Livia has promised their presence at a friend's wedding, and the inspector, agreeing to get a new suit tailored, meets the charming master seamstress Elena Biasini... -
Death Deserved by Jørn Lier Horst, Thomas Enger
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsPolice officer Alexander Blix and celebrity blogger Emma Ramm join forces to track down a serial killer with a thirst for attention and high-profile murders, in the first episode of a gripping new Nordic Noir series…Oslo, 2018. Former long-distance runner Sonja Nordstrøm never shows at the launch of her controversial autobiography, Always Number One...
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