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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...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • The Surrogate's Gift by L.G. Davis

    The Surrogate's Gift by L.G. Davis

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Her one good deed is about to turn into her worst nightmare.Becoming a surrogate for Marcia and Travis Thorpe is Grace’s chance to overcome her inner demons.Nothing can go wrong. Her life depends on it.Determined to focus on the pregnancy, she drops everything and accepts the Thorpes’ offer to move in with them until the baby is born. A simple decision. One big mistake...
  • GUIDE STAR a gripping and emotional rollercoaster of a novel about love, life and not giving up by Joy Ellis

    GUIDE STAR a gripping and emotional rollercoaster of a novel about love, life and not giving up by Joy Ellis

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Do you love emotional and gripping fiction full of twists about people fighting back against what life throws at them? Then try this book by a #1 best-selling author now. You won't want to put it down. WHO DO YOU TURN TO WHEN LIFE GOES WRONG? WHO IS YOUR GUIDE STAR? What readers are saying about GUIDE STAR “ Loved this book...
  • 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...
  • None of This Is True by Lisa Jewell

    None of This Is True by Lisa Jewell

    Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    From the #1  New York Times  bestselling author known for her “superb pacing, twisted characters, and captivating prose” ( BuzzFeed ), Lisa Jewell returns with a scintillating new psychological thriller about a woman who finds herself the subject of her own popular true crime podcast...
  • The Girl Hunter by Leslie Wolfe

    The Girl Hunter by Leslie Wolfe

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    His pale skin is covered with the dirt I threw over his still-warm body. His hands, marked by a struggle that ended in blood, rest over his chest. His once vibrant, loving eyes are now forever closed. I am the one who consigned my husband to the damp earth of the Glades.Seven months ago, I lost everything.I used to have it all. A successful career in television...
  • 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...
  • Tell Me Your Secret by Dorothy Koomson

    Tell Me Your Secret by Dorothy Koomson

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    The gripping new emotional thriller from the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Ice Cream Girls, My Best Friend's Girl and The Brighton Mermaid. Pieta has a secretTen years ago, Pieta survived a weekend with a sadistic serial killer. She never told anyone what happened and instead moved on with her life...
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    crime  female-mc  suspense  thriller  adult  book  contemporary  drama
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • An FBI Murder Mystery Bundle by Ava Strong, Blake Pierce

    An FBI Murder Mystery Bundle by Ava Strong, Blake Pierce

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A two-book mystery bundle by debut author Ava Strong and #1 bestselling author Blake Pierce, author of ONCE GONE, a #1 bestseller on Amazon with over 1,000 five star reviews!Here is a bundle of the first books in two different series—the Ilse Beck FBI Suspense Thriller series by Ava Strong and the Adele Sharp Mystery series by Blake Pierce—all in one convenient place...
  • Notorious by Carey Baldwin

    Notorious by Carey Baldwin

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The woman everyone loves to hate is dead. Dallas socialite Cynthia Langhorne is infamous for her beauty, her philanthropy, and her home wrecking--until she's found shot through the heart and posed nude at a fundraising ball. The case is high profile, and there's a bigger problem: Cindy is the wife of a decorated FBI special agent--the prime suspect in her murder...
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    crime  female-mc  suspense  adult  book  contemporary  fiction  mystery
  • Only The Good Die Young : And I'm Not A Saint by Akash Verma

    Only The Good Die Young : And I'm Not A Saint by Akash Verma

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Sometimes when you're desperate to leave the past behind, the past is eager to catch up!Anuradha leaves Gurgaon when Dhruv chooses his family over her. She thinks that chapter of her life hasended, and starts afresh in Mumbai. But strangely, it seems her past is trying to catch up. Dhruv suddenlycomes back into her life...
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    crime  suspense  thriller  adult  book  contemporary  fiction  madness
  • The Woman on the Ledge by Ruth Mancini

    The Woman on the Ledge by Ruth Mancini

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Obsession. Intrigue. Revenge. Whose secrets are you keeping? And why?A woman falls to her death from a London bank’s twenty-fifth-floor roof terrace.You’re arrested for her murder.You tell the police that you had only met the victim the previous night at your office party. She was threatening to jump from the roof, but you had talked her down.You’ve got nothing to do with this tragedy...
  • Famous Last Words by Gillian McAllister

    Famous Last Words by Gillian McAllister

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    It is June 21, the longest day of the year, and the life of new mother Camilla is about to change forever. After months of maternity leave, she will drop off her infant daughter at daycare for the first time and return to her job as a literary agent. Finally. But when she wakes, her husband Luke isn’t there, and in his place is a cryptic note.Then it starts...
  • 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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    crime  female-mc  suspense  thriller  adult  book  contemporary  family
  • Juste une ombre by Karine Giébel

    Juste une ombre by Karine Giébel

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Cloé Beauchamp est une jeune femme à qui tout semble réussir; belle, brillante, sur le point d'être nommée à la tête d'une prestigieuse agence de publicité... Et amoureuse, depuis peu, d'un homme charmant. Elle cache à la perfection ses failles et les horreurs qui ont jalonné son passé. Mais lentement, sa vie va se transformer en cauchemar...
  • 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...
  • Sleep Tight by Anne Frasier

    Sleep Tight by Anne Frasier

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    WAKE UP, LITTLE DARLING. DO YOU LIKE WHAT YOU SEE?He's looking for the perfect woman. Someone who won't disappoint him, like so many have before. Someone who'll love him ... someone who won't have to die for her mistakes.GIVE UP, LITTLE DARLING....FBI agent Mary Cantrell has been called to Minneapolis to hunt down a killer...
  • You Need to Know by Nicola Moriarty

    You Need to Know by Nicola Moriarty

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    From the bestselling author of The Ex and Those Other Women comes a thrilling family drama about the secrets we keep, the lies we tell and the truths that won't stay hidden.The holidays are here. The extended family has gathered. The cars are packed and the convoy sets off.The cottage is a few hours' drive - but not everyone will live to see it ..
  • 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 Guilty Husband by Stephanie DeCarolis

    The Guilty Husband by Stephanie DeCarolis

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    It only takes one lie to destroy a marriage.THE PERFECT HUSBAND…Vince Taylor has everything he could dream of. He’s the CEO of a tech firm in New York City, owns a beautiful home, and most importantly, he is married to Nicole – the woman who stole his heart the first moment he set eyes on her. Together they have built the perfect life...
  • Dead in the Water by Britney King

    Dead in the Water by Britney King

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    THE PERFECT NEIGHBORS. THE PERFECT COVER. A GRIPPING ROMANTICS SUSPENSE THRILLER He’s a contract killer. She likes to even the score. Smack dab in the middle of suburbia, few married couples are as competitive as Jude and Kate. But then, most married couples don't keep score in the form of body counts. Each hell-bent on a silent pact to out-do the other, the games begin...
  • Vital Lies by Daniel Pyne

    Vital Lies by Daniel Pyne

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    From the author of spy thriller Water Memory comes a riveting installment in the Sentro series in which past and present collide.When a Canadian spy comes to ex–black ops specialist Aubrey Sentro for help tracking down notorious Cold War spymaster Günter Witt, she wants to say no. It’s been thirty years since Aubrey’s captivity in East Berlin, and she has no desire to return...
  • Three Strikes by Kate Kessler

    Three Strikes by Kate Kessler

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Three Strikes is the new novel in a thriller series where a criminal psychologist uses her own dark past to help law enforcement catch dangerous killers.Thanksgiving is approaching, and Audrey Harte has a lot to be thankful for -- her mother has recovered from surgery, her relationship with Jake is solid, her father is relatively sober, and her career is evolving in an exciting direction...
  • Black for Remembrance by Carlene Thompson

    Black for Remembrance by Carlene Thompson

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Caroline Webb knows what it means to lose the person you love most. Twenty years ago, her five-year-old daughter, Hayley, was the light of her life, her treasure, her angle. Then came the terrible day when Hayley was kidnapped from her favorite swing. More than a month passed before her burned, lifeless body was found. All that remained was the silence of Caroline's heartache--and her guilt..
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    crime  suspense  thriller  adult  book  contemporary  fiction  horror
  • 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...
  • 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 Closer You Get by Mary Torjussen

    The Closer You Get by Mary Torjussen

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    They promised to tell their spouses they were leaving and then meet to begin their new life together. But he never shows up.A new twisting novel of psychological suspense from the acclaimed author of Gone Without a Trace.Coworkers Ruby and Harry are in love--but they're married to other people. They decide to tell their spouses that their marriages are over and to start their new lives together...
  • 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...
  • Stimmen by Ursula Poznanski

    Stimmen by Ursula Poznanski

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Er 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...
  • The Running Girls by Matt Brolly

    The Running Girls by Matt Brolly

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    From the bestselling author of the Detective Louise Blackwell series comes a story of two murders, twenty years apart. There’s only one suspect. But what if he’s innocent?Twenty years ago, in the seaside town of Galveston, Texas, Annie Randall took her dog for a walk. The dog returned. Annie did not...
  • 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...
  • 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...
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    crime  female-mc  suspense  thriller  adult  book  contemporary  drama
  • 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...
  • Unmissing by Minka Kent

    Unmissing by Minka Kent

    Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    A return from the past knocks a family dangerously off-balance in a novel of spiraling suspense by Washington Post and Wall Street Journal bestselling author Minka Kent.Merritt Coletto and her husband, Luca, have the life they dreamed of: a coastal home, a promising future, and a growing family. That dream ends with a late-night knock on the door...
  • 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...
  • All the Lies by Nicola Sanders

    All the Lies by Nicola Sanders

    Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    She 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 Amendment by Kiersten Modglin

    The Amendment by Kiersten Modglin

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    The dark, scandalous, and completely twisted sequel to Kiersten Modglin’s #1 bestselling domestic thriller, THE ARRANGEMENT…First, there was the arrangement.A simple, yet salacious fix to the problems looming in their marriage.But when things took a tragic turn, Peter’s and Ainsley’s lives quickly fell into disarray. Now, their secrets have been exposed...
  • The Accident by Natalie Barelli

    The Accident by Natalie Barelli

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    If only she'd said no... Katherine knew she’d had too many drinks, but they were only going a short distance. And as Eve pointed out, it was late, there was no traffic anyway... Now, Katherine would do anything to turn back the clock. If anyone ever found out about the accident, it would ruin Katherine’s life...
  • Over Her Dead Body by Susan Walter

    Over Her Dead Body by Susan Walter

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    An inheritance that comes with a warning.Ashley Brooks’s life isn’t working out as planned. After years of struggling to make it in Hollywood, she’s still waiting for her big break. When fate leads her to the doorstep of legendary casting director Louisa Lake George, Ashley thinks her luck is about to change: the prickly old pro knows about a role she’s perfect for...
  • 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...
  • Widow Falls by Kiersten Modglin

    Widow Falls by Kiersten Modglin

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    The last girl went missing…Someone doesn’t want her to be found.When Sloane takes a job at the infamous whitewater rafting camp, Widow Falls, she quickly learns that the camp has a reputation for more than just summer fun.People go missing at Widow Falls.The guide she’s replacing was just one of many...
  • All the Lovely Pieces by J.M. Winchester

    All the Lovely Pieces by J.M. Winchester

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Motherly love can drive her to the absolute edge… For nine years, Drew Baker has been running from her brutal husband and the dark deeds of the night she left him. Focused on protecting her ten-year-old son, Drew reluctantly settles into a small town, eager to find proof of her husband’s true nature so she can stop looking over her shoulder...
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